Cocaina: A Book on Those Who Made it by Magnus Linton
$29.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
When the world's greatest 'King of Cocaine', Pablo Escobar, was killed in 1993 in a joint military operation undertaken by the CIA, the Colombian military, and Escobar's enemies, the entire world celebrated the event, thinking that cocaine production would fall rapidly. But twenty years later, Colombia ...Show more
Underbelly: Mokbelly by Andrew Rule & John Silvester
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Underbelly: Mokbelly is the final chapter in the biggest crime saga in Australian history - the true story of the life and crimes of Tony Mokbel, who graduated from a suburban pizza shop to be one of the biggest drug dealers on Earth. Underbelly reveals every detail of Mokbel's brazen and brilliant esca ...Show more
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
"The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the most spectacular the world has ever seen. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked, and architect and a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the chief builder of ...Show more
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost h ...Show more
Most Dangerous Animal of All (Zodiac Killer) by Gary L. Stewart
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious-and still at large-serial killers in America. Soon after his birthmother contacte ...Show more
This House of Grief - The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way ...Show more
Behind the Gates of Gomorrah Life Inside One of America's Largest Hospitals for the Criminally Insane, Treating the Real Hannibal Lecters of This World by Stephen Seager
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Psychiatrist Stephen Seager was no stranger to locked psych wards when he accepted a job at California's Gorman State hospital, known locally as 'Gomorrah,' but nothing could have prepared him for what he encountered when he stepped through its gates, a triple sally port behind the twenty-foot walls top ...Show more
Australia's Most Murderous Prison: Behind the Walls of Goulburn Jail by James Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
BEHIND THE WALLS OF GOULBURN JAIL An unprecedented spate of murders in the 1990s seven in just three years earned Goulburn Jail the ominous name of The Killing Fields'. Inmates who were sentenced or transferred to the 130-year-old towering sandstone menace declared they had been given a death sentence. ...Show more
Write about Me by Melissa Jane Pouliot
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A #1 Bestseller on Amazon that gets readers hooked from the first page and leaves them wanting more long after they've finished. A heartbreaking cold case mystery. The year is 1988 and 16-year old Annabelle Brown from northern Queensland runs away from her family and friends for the bright lights of som ...Show more
Solomon's Noose: True Story of Her Majesty's Hangman of Hobart by Steve Harris
$29.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
The story of a young convict, Solomon Blay, who became Her Majesty's hangman in Van Diemen's Land; the man who personally had to deliver an Empire's judgment on 200 men and women, and endured his own noose of personal demons and demonisation in order to "survive"; all in the context of the great struggl ...Show more
Orange is the New Black: My Time in a Women's Prison by Piper Kerman
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
With her career, live-in boyfriend and loving family, Piper Kerman barely resembles the rebellious young woman who got mixed up with drug runners and delivered a suitcase of drug money to Europe over a decade ago. But when she least expects it, her reckless past catches up with her; convicted and senten ...Show more
Kidnapped by Mark Tedeschi
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Kidnapped is about Stephen Bradley, who perpetrated the 1960 kidnapping for ransom and murder of eight-year-old Sydney schoolboy, Graeme Thorne. This was not only a vivid example of murder for greed, but also marked the beginning in Australia of modern forensic science as a tool in the investigation of ...Show more