Murder by the Book - A Sensational Chapter in Victorian Crime by Claire Harman
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Religion, Politics and Society in Britain Ser.
One of the Guardian's '50 Biggest Books of Autumn 2018' Early in the morning of 6 May 1840, on an ultra-respectable Mayfair street, a footman answered the door to a panic-stricken maid from a nearby house. Her elderly master, Lord William Russell, was lying in bed with his throat cut so deeply that the ...Show more
Poached - Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking by Rachel Love Nuwer
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Journalist Rachel Love Nuwer plunges the reader into the underground of global wildlife trafficking, a topic she has been investigating for nearly a decade. Our insatiable demand for animals - for jewellery, pets, medicine, meat, trophies, and fur - is driving a worldwide poaching epidemic, threatening ...Show more
Wedderburn: A true tale of blood and dust by Maryrose Cuskelly
$30.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
The story of a grisly triple murder in Central Victoria in October 2014 - contemporary Australian true crime at its best. An ugly story told beautifully. WEDDERBURN will hold you tightly in its grip, and leave an imprint when it lets you go.' Myfanwy Jones'In WEDDERBURN, we see the trauma caused by the ...Show more
The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara - Film Tie-In by David I. Kertzer
$19.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Now filmed by Steven Spielberg, starring Mark Rylance as the Pope.The extraordinary story of how the Vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy helped to bring about the collapse of the popes' worldly power in Italy.Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchan ...Show more
Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
$20.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
The gripping, fascinating account of a shocking murder case that sent late Victorian Britain into a frenzy, by the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher 'Her research is needle-sharp and her period detail richly atmospheric, but what is most heartening about ...Show more
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as fire ...Show more
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon; Richard Price
$21.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Canons Ser.
From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide un ...Show more
Loose Units by Paul F. Verhoeven
$35.00 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
Gangland - The Great Escapes by James Morton; Susanna Lobez
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Since the arrival of the First Fleet, thousands of prisoners have escaped from prison, police stations, courts, prison vans and hospitals-even dentists' chairs. They have driven, walked, pedalled, swum or sailed away from custody. Some have killed or been killed in the process; a few have gone overseas ...Show more
Deal with the Devil by Grace Tobin
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
What Mark and Faye Leveson have endured to discover the truth about the mysterious death of their son Matt is unfathomable. For the ten years after Matt?s disappearance in September 2007, they tirelessly searched bushland for his body and doggedly pursued the man they believed responsible, Michael Atkin ...Show more
Judas by Astrid Holleeder
$33.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Willem Holleeder is one of the most notorious criminals in contemporary history. Best known for his involvement in the 1983 kidnapping of Alfred Heineken, CEO and Chairman of Heineken, and his infamous 2006 trial in which he was convicted of extortion, money laundering and membership of a criminal organ ...Show more
Trace: Who Killed Maria James? by Rachael Brown
$33.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
"The whole place seems cold, and he feels a terrible sense of dread. He calls out, but gets no reply. Taking a knife from the cutlery drawer, he unlocks the back door as an escape route. Then he sees her on the floor. Her eyes and mouth are open, and there is blood everywhere. He's too late." After a s ...Show more