Reasonable Doubt by Xanthé Mallett
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
We all put our faith in the criminal justice system. We trust the professionals: the police, the lawyers, the judges, the expert witnesses. But what happens when the process lets us down and the wrong person ends up in jail? Henry Keogh spent almost twenty years locked away for a murder that never even ...Show more
Mal Walden's Crazy Crims by Mal Walden
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
We are fascinated by true crime stories.Psychologists say one of the main reasons for our obsession is that it gives us an opportunity to feel relieved when we discover someone else is the victim! But while living in a world of rapid social, political, economic, and technological change, true crime can ...Show more
Chasing Phil: The Adventures of Two Undercover FBI Agents with the World's Most Charming Con Man by David Howard
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
`Christ! You guys look like a couple of Feds.' 1977, the Thunderbird Motel. J.J. Wedick and Jack Brennan - Two fresh-faced FBI agents were about to go undercover. Their target: the charismatic, globe-trotting con man Phil Kitzer, who was responsible for swindling (and spending) millions of dollars and w ...Show more
Once a Copper The Life and Times of Brian ‘The Skull’ Murphy by Vikki Petraitis
$29.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
Petraitis explores the many facets of The Skull's story. Starting on the mean streets of South Melbourne, to his early years as a policeman, then his fight against police corruption. Dodging crooks and corruption on both sides of the thin blue line, The Skull carefully cultivated a reputation for being ...Show more
Midnight In Sicily by Robb , Peter
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
"Cola Pesce was always playing in the sea and one day his mother said in exasperation she hoped he'd turn into a fish..."Peter Robb, who lived in southern Italy for 15 years, tells the story of Sicily, its opulent coasts, its stark interior, its extraordinary art and rich food, and its layers of culture ...Show more
Smuggler: A True Story of Marijuana, the Hippie Mafia and One of America's Most Wanted International Drug Traffickers by Richard Stratton
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of drug kingpins. He was a clean-cut college student who fell in love with the adrenaline high of cross-border drug trafficking after bringing two kilos of marijuana across the US border from a trip to Mexico. He never looked back. Stratton became a member of the hip ...Show more
Certain Admissions: A Beach, A Body and a Lifetime of Secrets by Gideon Haigh
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Who killed Beth Williams? On a warm evening in December 1949, two young people met by chance under the clocks at Flinders Street railway station. They decided to have a night on the town. The next morning, one of them, twenty-year-old typist Beth Williams, was found dead on Middle Park Beach. When polic ...Show more
Sins of the Brother by Les Kennedy, Mark Whittaker
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'Sins of the Brother exposes the dark underbelly of the Australian dream' - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Seven young backpackers brutally murdered. A nationwide police hunt spanning three years and thousands of hours of forensic investigation. And finally, the capture and conviction of one man. Sins of the Bro ...Show more
Problem Solved: True Stories from a Blind Private Eye by Andy Chambers
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Problem Solved is a true crime memoir following the life of Andrew Chambers, who at the end of his career was known as ''the blind private eye'. The book is based on true stories that reveal the clandestine, funny, and often confronting world of private investigations. Andrew worked in Australia and ac ...Show more
Electric Blue by Paul F. Verhoeven
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Paul Verhoeven's ex-cop dad, John, spent years embroiled in some of the seediest, scariest intrigue and escapades imaginable. One day John offered Paul the chance of a lifetime- he'd spill his guts on tape. What unfolded in Loose Units was a goldmine of true-crime stories, showcasing John's dramatic exp ...Show more
The Missing Cryptoqueen by Jamie Bartlett
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
'The largest financial scam ever' - Fortune 'The bizarre case of OneCoin illustrates how easily a classic scam could be reinvented for the digital age' - Financial Times 'The story of OneCoin stands out even among the outlandish capers of the cryptocurrency era' - Wall Street Journal ___________________ ...Show more
City of Evil: The Truth About Adelaide's Strange and Violent Underbelly by Sean Fewster
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
They call Adelaide the City of Churches. What they forget is that every church has a graveyard and every graveyard is full of skeletons. Welcome to Adelaide, a city where transvestite, pro-wrestling truck drivers are beheaded and dismembered by lesbian prostitutes; where husbands stab and mutilate their ...Show more