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 - Indie Non-Fiction Winner 2019 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
Murder at Dusk - How US Soldier and Psychopath Eddie Leonski Terrorised Wartime Melbourne by Ian W. Shaw
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Far away from any World War II battlefront, the citizens of Melbourne lived in fear of a serial killer - the Brownout Strangler. May 1942: Melbourne was torn between fearing Japanese invasion and revelling in the carnival atmosphere brought by the influx of 15,000 cashed-up American servicemen. But tho ...Show more
City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir by Paul French
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
1930s Shanghai could give Chicago a run for its money. In the years before the Japanese invaded, the city was a haven for outlaws from all over the world- a place where pasts could be forgotten, fascism and communism outrun, names invented, fortunes made - and lost. 'Lucky' Jack Riley was the most notor ...Show more
Hoax: a History of Deception: 2,000 Years of Fakes, Forgeries, and Fallacies by Ian Tattersall; Peter Névraumont
$39.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
An entertaining collection of the most audacious and underhanded deceptions in the history of mankind, from sacred relics to financial schemes to fake art, music, and identities. World history is littered with tall tales and those who have fallen for them. Ian Tattersall, a curator emeritus at the Ameri ...Show more
City of Lies:A Detective Investigates the Murders of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. by Randall Sullivan
$23.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
LA, 1997. The city is restless and simmering with tension. In two seemingly unconnected attacks, rap superstars Tupac Shakur and The Notorious B.I.G. are brutally murdered. Across town, a black off-duty cop is gunned down by a white undercover cop in broad daylight.Award-winning journalist Randall Sulli ...Show more