Dirty Girl: The State Sanctioned Murder of Brothel Madam Shirley Finn by Juliett Wills
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Mostly it only took a trumped up charge to ruin a reputation and silence a person, but sometimes the rat pack that ruled Perth in the 1970s would have to resort to murder. Not the back room, needle in the arm, overdose kind of murder that could so easily be written off, nor the disappearance altogether ...Show more
Unmaking a Murder: The Mysterious Death of Anna-Jane Cheney by Graham Archer
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
An investigation into an intriguing murder case and an unprecedented account of how the decisions made by organs of government can be defended and mistakes covered up. Anna-Jane Cheney worked at the epicenter of the conservative Adelaide legal community. She was vivacious, popular and talented with an i ...Show more
The Seventh Circle: A Former Australian Soldier's Extraordinary Story of Surviving Seven Years in Afghanistan's Most Notorious Prison by Malcolm Knox (As told to); Robert Langdon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In the tradition of Midnight Express, The Damage Done, Marching Powder and Hotel Kerobokan comes an extraordinary story of Australian resilience and survival in Afghan's notorious Pul-e-Charkhi prison, a place that's been described as 'the world's worst place to be a westerner'.
Broken Lives by Estelle Blackburn
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Eric Edgar Cooke was the last man to hang in Western Australia. Between 1958 and his capture in September 1963, Cooke committed 22 murders and attempted murders that forever changed the face of Perth from a friendly big country town to a city of suspicion and fear. His fantasies and delusions led him to ...Show more
Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street by Sheelah Kolhatkar
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
Nominated for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction Amazon Top 5 Business Books of 2017 'A prodigious feat of reporting' - Malcolm Gladwell 'Black Edge has the grip of a thriller a Everyone should read this book' - David Grann, New York T ...Show more
When the Dogs Don't Bark a Forensic Scientist's Search for the Truth by Angela Gallop
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar by Virginia Vallejo
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Now a major motion picture Pablo Escobar was one of the most terrifying criminal minds of the last century. In the decade before his death in 1993, he reigned as the head of a multinational cocaine industry and brought the Colombian state to its knees, killing thousands of politicians, media person ...Show more
Angel of Death : Dulcie Markham, Femme Fatale of the Australian Underworld by Leigh Straw; Leigh Straw
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
This is the story of 'Pretty' Dulcie Markham, a key figure of the underworld of Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, who, according to one crime reporter, 'saw more violence and death than any other woman in Australia's history'. Nicknamed the 'Black Widow' and 'Angel of Death' by the crooks, reporters and p ...Show more
Drugs, Guns and Lies: My Life As an Undercover Cop by Keith Banks (with Ben Smith)
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'Banks has told his story in a raw and honest autobiography. It is the best true crime book published in Australia in a decade.' -John Silvester, Crime Reporter for The Age Undercover was like guerrilla warfare; to understand your enemy, you had to walk amongst them, to become them. The trick was to kee ...Show more
Assassinations That Changed The World by Nigel Cawthorne
$21.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
We live in an age of asymmetric warfare. Huge armies no longer face each other on the battlefield. Instead heads of major powers and lone assassins (or martyrs) target each other to pursue their agendas. President Donald Trump felt it necessary to use drones to blow away the Iranian Revolutionary Guard' ...Show more
The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek by Kate Holden
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
An epic true story of greed, power and a desire for legacy from an acclaimed Australian storyteller. July 2014, a lonely road at twilight outside Croppa Creek, New South Wales: 80-year-old farmer Ian Turnbull takes out a .22 and shoots environmental officer Glen Turner in the back. On one side, a farmer ...Show more
The Justice Game by Geoffrey Robertson
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
"Geoff Robertson was born in Australia, bu came to London in 1970. He made his name as the fearless defender of Oz magazine at the celebrated trial and went on to engage in some of the most newsworthy cases in recent history. He has defended John Stonehouse, Cynthia Payne, Salman Rushdie, Kate Adie, Art ...Show more