Naked City by John Silvester
$0.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
John Silvester has been reporting on crime from the cop stations, courthouses, back alleys and gangster mansions of Melbourne for forty years. His contact book is a who's who of both sides of criminal justice, and the shadowy worlds between. He is the trusted confidante of cops, criminals, lawyers and j ...Show more
Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students - had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a mas ...Show more
I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective by Jubelin, Gary
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of a homicide detective. Here I am: tall and broad, shaved head, had my nose broken three times fighting. Black suit, white shirt, the big city homicide detective. I've led investigations into serial killing ...Show more
Reckless by Marele Day
$39.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Jean Kay, my skipper, fellow adventurer, my friend. My brother. Jean Kay, soldier-of-fortune, opportunist, embezzler, hijacker. In her youth, amidst the throes of a reckless grief, aspiring Australian writer Marele Day is caught up in a shipwreck adventure and forges an unlikely bond with an internatio ...Show more
The Good Cop by Justine Ford
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'A - Assume nothing. B - Believe nothing. C - Check everything.' - Ron IddlesIn an incredible 25 year career as a homicide detective, Ron Iddles's conviction rate was 99 percent. Yet that only partly explains why Iddles is known to cops and crims alike as 'The Great Man'.Tough, inventive and incorruptib ...Show more
Roger Rogerson: From hero cop to convicted murderer by Duncan McNab
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The verdict is guilty. On 20 May 2014, former New South Wales police officers Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara murdered student Jamie Gao in cold blood. Both have been found guilty of murder and possession of 2.78 kilograms of methamphetamine, and sentenced to life imprisonment. But this wasn't Rogers ...Show more
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
______________________________ A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories about the FBI's involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation of one of the most infamous cases in American history. Twenty years ago, reporting for a routine magazine p ...Show more
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
$18.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
A New York Times bestseller to be adapted into a film with Jennifer Lawrence to star. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup 'unicorn' promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would ...Show more
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe
$36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: near fine
In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's Chinatown, managed a multimillion-dollar business smuggling people.
The Prez:The Inside Story of the Birth and Evolution of an Outlaw Motorcycle Club by David Spiteri
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The true story of forty years inside one of Australia's first outlaw motorcycle clubs as told by its one-time president. With previously unrevealed insights into the outlaw world of extreme violence, drugs, corruption, sex, treachery and retribution. All names have been changed, and identities and event ...Show more
Blood Vows by Helen Cummings
$32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
In 1970, a pretty young woman called Helen Cummings married a handsome doctor called Stuart Wynter. But instead of being a marriage made in heaven, it was the beginning of a hellish existence of spiralling abuse that ended six years later when she escaped with her two young children. Except it wasn't th ...Show more
Underbelly Squizzy by Andy Muir
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In the 1920s, the notorious gangster Squizzy Taylor, one of Melbourne's most colourful underworld figures, evaded imprisonment by witness intimidation and jury fixing. Renowned for dressing loudly, the diminutive criminal was also a pickpocket, pimp, armed robber, fraudster, extortionist, race fixer, sl ...Show more