The Real Chopper: The Man Behind the Legend Inside and Out by Adam Shand
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
"Criminal, murderer, raconteur, author ...mythmaker? Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read is undoubtedly Australia's best-known criminal. Author of many bestselling books about the underworld he inhabited, and subject of a smash-hit film, his story has become part of the country's culture. And Read certainly kne ...Show more
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Ann Rule was working on the biggest story of her career, tracking the trail of victims left by a brutal serial-killer. Little did this future bestselling author know that the savage slayer she was hunting was the young man she counted among her closest friends. Everyone's picture of a natural winner ...Show more
Loose Units by Paul F. Verhoeven
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Paul Verhoeven's father, John, is a cop. Well, an ex-cop. Long since retired, John spent years embroiled in some of the seediest, scariest intrigue and escapades imaginable. Paul, however, is something of an artsy, sensitive soul who can't understand why he doesn't have the same heroism and courage as h ...Show more
Australia's Toughest Prisons: Inmates by James Phelps
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Porky Pig' stalks the yard, snorting and grunting as he stares down the prison guard.'Whatcha looking at,' yells Martin Bryant, Australia?s worst serial killer.The guard stays silent. Says nothing. He simply takes one step towards the monster, now fat, bald and broken.'Leave me alone,' he screams.He the ...Show more
A House in the Sky : A Memoir of a Kidnapping That Changed Everything by Amanda Lindhout; Sara Corbett
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The inspiring story of a woman who survived kidnap and being held captive for a year in war-torn Somalia . . . Amanda Lindhout loved to travel. She backpacked around the world, crossing borders, enthralled by what she encountered. This led her to becoming a reporter, working in war-ridden Afghanistan an ...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
Lillian Armfield: How Australia's first female detective took on Tilly Devine and the Razor Gangs and changed the face of the force by Leigh Straw
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
An engaging account of an extraordinary, trailblazing woman - Australia's first female detective - LILLIAN ARMFIELD is also the vivid and gripping story of the origins of Sydney's organised crime underbelly. 'Special Constable' Lillian Armfield was policing Sydney's mean streets during some of the most ...Show more
The Crime Book (Big Ideas Simply Explained) by .
$39.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
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Black Dahlia, Red Rose - The Crime, Corruption, and Cover-Up of America's Greatest Unsolved Murder by Piu Eatwell
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
******* A TIMES 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' ******* ***Shortlisted for the CWA Dagger for non-fiction*** 'A magnificent, meticulous and startling re-examination of a crime that haunts the world's imagination' Geoffrey Wansell, author of An Evil Love: The Life of Frederick West 'Eatwell writes brilliantly . . . [ ...Show more
Rex V Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders by Laura Thompson
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'Another dark parable of society's vilification of women. Intelligent ... A tantalizing investigation' Kate Colquhoun. On the night of 3 October 1922, in the quiet suburb of Ilford, Edith Thompson and her husband Percy were walking home after an evening spent at a London theatre, when a man sprang out ...Show more
The Old Man and the Gun (FTI) And Other Tales of True Crime by David Grann
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Now a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, The Old Man and the Gun is here joined by two other riveting true-crime tales. "The Old Man and the Gun" is the incredible story of a bank robber and prison escape artist who modeled himself after figures like Pretty Boy Floyd and ...Show more
The Last Stone by Mark Bowden
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The true story of a cold case, a compulsive liar, and five determined detectives, from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author and "master journalist" (The Wall Street Journal). On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, ages ten and twelve, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washi ...Show more