Promise Me You'll Shoot Yourself: The Mass Suicide of Ordinary Germans In 1945 by Florian Huber
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
In 1945, as the army retreated, the German people were surrendered to the enemy with no means of defence. A wave of suicides rolled across the country as thousands chose death-for themselves and their children-rather than face the defeat of the Third Reich and what they feared might follow. Drawing on e ...Show more
The Rise of Street Gangs: An explosive book on how street gangs are growing and how they work from the inside by Stevens Brett
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
"The Rise of Street Gangs" gives a unique first-hand account of the rise of gang culture across the world, where drive-by shootings and communities under siege have become the new norm. The book not only covers street gangs but the characters of the gangs and their current revolution and outlook and how ...Show more
The Hilton Bombing: Evan Pederick and the Ananda Marga by Imre Salusinszky
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In 1978, Evan Pederick, a naive 22-year-old in the thrall of a radical religious movement, Ananda Marga, placed an enormous bomb outside Sydney's Hilton Hotel. It killed three people.A decade later, Pederick confessed to this act of terrorism. But when one of his alleged accomplices was later acquitted, ...Show more
Empire of Pain -The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
The highly-anticipated portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, by the prize-winning, bestselling author of Say Nothing. The Sackler name adorns the walls of many storied institutions - Harvard; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Oxford; the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the w ...Show more
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
$23.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Winner, Honorable Mention, 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards, True Crime category Helen Garner won a 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for her outstanding contribution to international literature. 'Garner's book is superbly alive to the narrative dynamics of the case; she tells a grim story of unhappy ...Show more
Operation Playboy by Kathryn Bonella
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
This is the adrenaline-pumping story of the world's most audacious drug runners and the police hunt, 'Operation Playboy', to track them down. These drug-running playboys travel the globe: they ski in Europe, surf in Bali, hook up with celebrity models and live in five-star hotels. They are 24/7 party bo ...Show more
Australia's Most Murderous Prison by James Phelps
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
BEHIND THE WALLS OF GOULBURN JAILAn unprecedented spate of murders in the 1990s - seven in just three years - earned Goulburn Jail the ominous name of 'The Killing Fields?. Inmates who were sentenced or transferred to the 130-year-old towering sandstone menace declared they had been given a death senten ...Show more
Blood and Oil: Mohammed Bin Salman's Ruthless Quest for Global Power by Bradley Hope; Justin Scheck
$33.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Thirty-five-year-old Mohammed bin Salman's sudden rise stunned the world. Political and business leaders such as former Prime Minister Tony Blair and WME Chairman Ari Emmanuel flew out to meet with the Crown Prince and came away convinced that his desire to reform the kingdom was sincere. He spoke passi ...Show more
The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare by Jeff Farrell, Paul Keany
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'It won't happen to me. That's what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did - I got caught.' Caught smuggling half a million euros' worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques p ...Show more
McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime by Misha Glenny
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
"In this powerful and groundbreaking book, Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through the new world of international organised crime. For three years, he has been recording the stories of gun runners in Ukraine, money launderers in Dubai, drug syndicates in Canada, cyber criminals in Brazil, racketeers ...Show more
Ten Feet Tall and Not Quite Bulletproof: Drug Busts and Helicopter Rescues One Cop's Extraordinary True Story by Cameron Hardiman
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Cameron Hardiman lived a life most young boys could only dream of. Every morning he put on a navy blue police flight suit, grabbed his flight helmet, and prepared to work on the police helicopter. He could be called to anything during a shift, to search for a missing child, to pull an injured driver fro ...Show more
Relentless Pursuit: My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein by Bradley J. Edwards
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
This is the definitive story of the case against Jeffrey Epstein and the corrupt system that supported him, told in thrilling detail by the lawyer who has represented Epstein's victims for more than a decade. In June 2008, Florida-based victims' rights attorney Bradley J. Edwards was thirty-two years ...Show more