The Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist - The a-List Kingpin and the Poker Ring That Brought down Tinseltown by Dylan Howard; Houston Curtis
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Front Page Detectives Ser.
"Right out of the gate, the entire game was designed to empty the pockets of those rich, celeb-loving LA suckers."--Houston Curtis Leonardo DiCaprio. Alex Rodriguez. Tobey Maguire. Affleck. Damon. Cassavetes. What do these people have in common? Not just fame and fortune; all these men are also ...Show more
The Book of Unexplained Mysteries - On the Trail of the Secret and the Strange by Will Pearson
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Everybody loves a good mystery and sometimes the questions can be more interesting than the answers.Will Pearson investigates twenty unique mysteries with their broad spectrum of strangeness. Some, like the sudden disappearance of the sailing ship Mary Celeste's passengers and crew have gained universal ...Show more
The Case of George Pell: Reckoning with Child Sexual Abuse by Clergy by Melissa Davey
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Guardian Australia's Melbourne bureau chief Melissa Davey covered Cardinal George Pell's evidence at the royal commission into child sexual abuses, and attended each of his trials for his alleged historic sexual offences against children--his committal hearing, mistrial, retrial, and appeal. What she sa ...Show more
The Central Park Five by Sarah Burns
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered the body of the "Central Park jogger" crumpled in a ravine. She'd been raped and severely beaten. Within days five black and Latino teenagers were apprehended, all five confessing to the crime. The staggering torrent of media coverage that ensued, coupled wi ...Show more
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighbourhood by David Simon, Edward Burns
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Canons Ser.
A devastating portrait of the American drugs war, from the creators of The Wire. 'Mind-blowing . . . less a book, more a way of life' - The Times
The Dark Art - My Undercover Life in Global Narco-terrorism by Edward Follis
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A highly decorated DEA agent recounts his incredible undercover career and reveals the shocking links between narcotics trafficking and terrorism. What exactly is undercover? From a law-enforcement perspective, it’s the art of skilfully eliciting incriminating statements. From a personal and psycholo ...Show more
The Death of Dr Duncan by Tim Reeves
$32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
The drowning of Dr Duncan in the River Torrens in 1972 remains one of South Australia's most notorious unsolved murders. His death shocked the community and still reverberates 50 years later. Tim Reeves is an award-winning author and the acknowledged authority on the Duncan case. He pulls together the c ...Show more
The Desert and the Sea - 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast by Michael Scott Moore
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates--a riveting, thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign pol ...Show more
The Devil's Grip: A true story of shame, sheep and shotguns by Neal Drinnan
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'An unforgettable, courageous and deeply tragic local story which manages to become a universal tale. No mean feat.' Gregory Day Seven shots ring out in the silence of Victoria's rolling Barrabool Hills. As the final recoil echoes through the paddocks, a revered sheep-breeding dynasty comes to a bloody ...Show more
The Devil's Work: Australia's Jack the Ripper and the serial murders that shocked the world. by Garry Linnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
He was a murderer, swindler, bigamist and suspect in the Jack the Ripper killings. Frederick Deeming was also the most hated man in the world. Claiming to be haunted by the ghost of his dead mother, Deeming had spent years roaming the planet under various aliases, preying on the innocent, the gullible a ...Show more
The Edward Street Baby Farm: The Murder That Gripped a City by Stella Budrikis
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In 1907, Perth woman Alice Mitchell was arrested for the murder of five-month-old Ethel Booth. During the inquest and subsequent trial, the state's citizens were horrified to learn that at least 37 infants had died in Mitchell's care in the previous six years. It became clear that she had been running a ...Show more
The Expert Witness: Examinations of crimes, drugs and poisons by a forensic toxicologist by William Dr Allender
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Drugs and poisons from a variety of sources have been used illegally for centuries and most conjure up an unfortunate, enduring fascination. People appear to be both attracted by them and at the same time repelled by them. As a forensic toxicologist, William Allender has been called to give expert witne ...Show more