Dirty Rotten Scoundrels by Matthew Benns
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A highly entertaining, scurrilous and fascinating book on Australian con men (and women) and all their dirty, devious tricks. There are con men you fear and con men you hate, and con men with amazing stories who take your breath away with their dirty tricks and sheer brazen effontery. How do they get aw ...Show more
Green is the New Black: Inside Australia's Hardest Women's Jails by James Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Ivan Milat, the notorious backpacker serial killer, is not the most feared person in the prison system. Nor is it Martin Bryant, the man responsible for claiming 35 lives in the Port Arthur massacre. No, the person in Australia controversially ruled 'too dangerous to be released', the one who needs chai ...Show more
Gangland Oz by Susanna Lobez
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Gangland
Devious, daring, cunning a but ultimately too greedy, too cocky. Gangland Oz- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow exposes the country's pantheon of crooks and criminals since the first convicts stepped ashore and got to work. Ten years on from the original bestselling Gangland Australia, top true-crime writer ...Show more
Great Australian Scams, Cons and Rorts: A Book of Dodgy Schemes and Crazy Dreams from the Bush to the City by Jim Haynes
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in history. From the cleverest double-crosses to the most unlikely and maddest schemes, master storyteller Jim Haynes reminds us that we've never been shy of pulling a trick or two.So how ...Show more
A Scandal in Bohemia by Gideon Haigh
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
As enigmatic in life as in death, Mollie Dean was a woman determined to transcend. Creatively ambitious and sexually precocious, at twenty-five she was a poet, aspiring novelist and muse on the peripheries of Melbourne's bohemian salons - until one night in 1930 she was brutally slain by an unknown kill ...Show more
Killer Instinct by Donald Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Forensic psychiatrist Donald Grant asks, what is it about murder that fascinates us? Is it the chill whisper of fear reminding us we too can kill?Grant describes ten true murder cases, each with unique triggers. For most of us, murder is an arm's length experience, close enough to frighten and fascinate ...Show more
Gangland This Unsporting Life by James Morton; Susanna Lobez
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Sport has always attracted organised crime. Huge sums of money are wagered in every arena, and rorts, swindles and unsporting behaviour have shadowed players of all codes. Cricket and footy are not immune, with Heath Shaw and Ben Cousins caught up in gambling and drugs, and NRL star Ryan Tandy in match- ...Show more
I Heard You Paint Houses: Now Filmed as The Irishman directed by Martin Scorsese by Charles Brandt
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'I heard you paint houses' are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the wall and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that ...Show more
Walking Towards Thunder: The true story of a whistle-blowing cop who took on corruption and the church by Peter Fox
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: near fine
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.' Former Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox is a hero in many people's eyes. A police officer with 36 years' service in the Hunter region, he rose to national prominence in 2012 for his major role in speaking out for the victims ...Show more
Catch and Kill - Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
Ray: "Riveting. Compelling. The story of how Ronan Farrow held his ground against the powerful media establishment, unprincipled lawyers, public relations spinmasters, spies, to expose the sexual predations of Hollywood mogul Henry Weinstein. An Australian-born media executive tried to stop the book fro ...Show more
Smuggled: A history of illegal journeys to Australia by Ruth Balint, Julie Kalman
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
‘The sea was rough, waves a few metres, falling on top of us. We were just waiting and hoping and praying that we were going to make it.’ – Taozen, proud Australian, proud HazaraSmuggled offers a previously unseen glimpse into the dangerous and shadowy world of people smuggling. It shares harrowing true ...Show more
The Coffin Confessor by William Edgar
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'That's when I stood up, told the best mate to sit down, shut up or f**k off. That the man in the coffin had a few things to say.'Imagine you are dying with a secret. Something you've never had the courage to tell your friends and family. Or a last wish - a task you need carried out before you can rest ...Show more