Suburban Noir: Crime and Mishap in 1950s and 1960s Sydney - Shortlisted for The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year Awards 2023 by Peter Doyle
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Nothing in the post-war decades reveals the underbelly of Australian life the way police records do.Small time heists. Failed robberies. Runs of bad luck. Payback. Love gone wrong. Drink, drugs and late-night assignations. Cops doing their job well. And badly. Plausible lies, unlikely truths. Murder and ...Show more
The Night was a Bright Moonlight and I Could See a Man Quite Plain: An Edwardian Cricket Murder by Gideon Haigh
$20.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Gideon Haigh has written numerous acclaimed books on both cricket and true-crime - now he's unearthed a gripping story that combines the two, in a masterpiece of historical detective work that ties back to the origin of the Ashes ... On the night of 23 September 1910, on a station 500km west of Brisbane ...Show more
We Carry Their Bones: The Investigation of the Notorious Dozier School for Boys by Erin Kimmerle
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
"With We Carry Their Bones, Erin Kimmerle continues to unearth the true story of the Dozier School, a tale more frightening than any fiction. In a corrupt world, her unflinching revelations are as close as we'll come to justice." –Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer-Prize Winning author of The Nickel Boys and Th ...Show more
Badness: From the author of the number one bestselling crime book I CATCH KILLERS by Gary Jubelin
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
The sequel to the #1 Bestseller, I Catch Killers In the cops we call it Badness, for the evil that we cannot understand. And yet I have to face it. Over 34 years in the police, I grew used to sitting on one side of the interview room table, facing murderers, child abductors and rapists. Now I have ...Show more
The Ballroom Murder by Leigh Straw
$33.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Ballroom Murder is a true crime story that gripped Perth nearly 100 years ago, and demonstrates the power of the press and privilege in an extraordinary judicial outcome.In August 1925, Audrey Jacob shot dead her former fiance, Cyril Gidley, in full view of hundreds of guests at a charity ball in Pe ...Show more
Murder on Easey Street: Melbourne's Most Notorious Cold Case by Helen Thomas
$25.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
A gripping account of Melbourne's unsolved Easey Street murders, now updated with new interviews and insightsSummer in Melbourne, 1977. Two young women are viciously murdered. The killer has never been found. Forty-five years ago, Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were fatally stabbed in their home o ...Show more
Huckstepp - A Dangerous Life (updated edition) by John Dale
$30.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Missing Cryptoqueen by Jamie Bartlett
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
'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
Betrayed: The incredible untold inside story of the two most unlikely drug-running grannies in Australian history by Sandi Logan
$33.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
The relentlessly fascinating, sometimes hilarious and often jaw-dropping true story of two American women who became unwitting drug mules by driving a hashish-laden campervan from Stuttgart to Bombay, then later to Australia, where they were arrested and jailed. Think of the two most unlikely drug deale ...Show more
Don't Make a Fuss: It's Only the Claremont Serial Killer by Wendy Davis
$30.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Wendy Davis was attacked by the Claremont Serial Killer and survived. This is her story.In 2020, after the longest and most expensive trial in Western Australian history, Bradley Robert Edwards was convicted of two of the Claremont Serial Killings, a series of unsolved murders that had haunted the state ...Show more
Widow of Walcha by Emma Partridge
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Widow of Walcha is a shocking true story that involves a mysterious death, love and lies in the small NSW town of Walcha. In 2017 locals were rocked by the mysterious death of a wealthy and much-loved sheep farmer, Mathew Dunbar, who signed over his multimillion-dollar property to his new partner, N ...Show more
Very Bad People: The Inside Story of the Fight Against the World's Network of Corruption by Patrick Alley
$33.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
*** "Part true crime tale, part investigative procedural, this is the account of the brilliant and necessary superheroes of Global Witness, whose superpower is the truth." - Edward Zwick, Director of Blood DiamondArms trafficking, offshore accounts and luxury property deals. Super-yachts, private jets a ...Show more