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
Murder in Mississippi by John Safran
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'One of the best pieces of sustained, rigorous journalism I've read in twenty years. It is absolutely magnificent - smart, and wry, and emotional too.' Caroline Overington When filming his TV series Race Relations, John Safran spent an uneasy couple of days with one of Mississippi's most notorious whit ...Show more
The Waterlow Killings by Burton Pamela
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Anthony Waterlow left his decrepit room in a run-down boarding house at 4.45 p.m on Monday 9 November 2009. By 6 p.m, the 42-year-old was seen leaving another home: his sister Chloe's in Randwick. He left behind her slaughtered body and that of their father; celebrated art curator Nick Waterlow. The pai ...Show more
Murder in Mississippi by John Safran
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
This is a dazzling adventure in crime, race and genre. Funny and frightening, challenging and bizarre, Safran has written exactly the sort of idiosyncratic book one would have hoped, and revealed himself as a talented prose writer in the process.
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
Unsolved Australia by Justine Ford
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Australia's most baffling homicides and mysterious missing persons' cases are uniquely explored in this stunning true-crime book in which you the reader are invited to play armchair detective. Featuring 18 infamous cases, Unsolved Australia unearths a host of jaw-dropping new evidence via in-depth inter ...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.
Fallen: The inside story of the secret trial and conviction of Cardinal George Pell by Lucie Morris-Marr
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
The dramatic story of the extraordinary trial of the third most senior Catholic cleric in the world for child sex abuse, and the conviction that sent ripples around the world.
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 Lady Vanishes (PB) by Alison Sandy, Bryan Seymour, Sally Eeles, Marc Wright
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A much-loved mother, teacher and friend steps on a plane for an overseas adventure and is never seen again. Australia's most extraordinary missing persons case is examined by the journalists who created the global hit podcast into the disappearance of Marion Barter, a mother of two who simply vanished. ...Show more
The Holiday Murders by Robert Gott
$29.95 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: The\Murders Ser.
On Christmas Eve, 1943, the newly formed but undermanned Homicide division of the Melbourne police force is called to investigate the vicious double murder of a father and son. When Military Intelligence becomes involved, Homicide's Inspector Titus Lambert must unravel the personal from the political. ...Show more
Last King of the Cross by John Ibrahim
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
John Ibrahim's incredible life story told in his own words.Last King of the Cross lays bare Australia's most notorious underworld figure.In the mongrel tongue of the streets, John writes of fleeing war-torn Tripoli with his family and growing up in Sydney's rough and tumble west - before establishing hi ...Show more