At Hell's Gate by Mark Abernethy
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
"''I deal with heavy, dangerous people. People who can bring a society undone.'' The Contractor returns. Mike is a big unit. He builds houses and drives a ute. But he isn't your typical tradie. When a client calls he downs tools and flies into the hot zone in his other guise - that of an elite private i ...Show more
But I Trusted You: Ann Rule's Crime Files #14 by Ann Rule
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In this chilling volume of New York Times bestselling author Ann Rule’s Crime Files, discover unforgettable cases of a spouse, lover, family member or helpful stranger who is totally trusted-until it’s too late. Whether driven to extreme violence by greed or jealousy, passion or rage ...Show more
Jailbreak: 25 Unforgettable Australian Prison Escapes by Wendy Lewis
$29.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
This book chronicles the pick of Australian jailbreaks. The most notorious prisons and escapees are here - names like Grafton, Pentridge and Boggo Road, Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox, Ray Denning and Darcy Dugan. These are extraordinary stories, ranging from sheer brutality to love-conquers-all. Some are full o ...Show more
The House of Lies by Renee McBryde
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On the outside Renee McBryde's life sounds not too far from normal: she grew up with a single mother and her greatest support was her loving grandmother. She went to school, she played with friends. If you fill in the details, though, it was far from normal. Her mother was 16 when she had Renee, and she ...Show more
Australia's Toughest Prisons - Inmates by James Phelps
$49.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
These are the true and uncensored accounts of Australia's hardest inmates, from Australia's hardest inmates. Martin Bryant--who killed 35 people and injured another 23 at Port Arthur in 1996--is a 160kg slob who trades sex for chocolate in Risdon Prison. Twenty years after Australia's worst massacre, hi ...Show more
Stalkers - True Tales of Deadly Obsessions by Eileen Ormsby
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Deluded narcissists. Obsessed fans. Sinister internet trolls.Stalkers who turned deadly A young Hollywood starlet enjoys rising fame on a smash-hit sitcom, unaware that her greatest fan is an unhinged teenager hell-bent on meeting his crush... until she films a love scene and his adoration turns int ...Show more
The Man from the Train - The Solving of a Century-Old Serial Killer Mystery by Bill James; Rachel McCarthy James
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
BY The Time the Devil Came to Villisca, IOWA, on June 9, 1912, he'd been randomly murdering selected families for a decade and a half. A hundred years later, legendary writer Bill James and his daughter, Rachel, began finding commonalities between the Villisca murders and a series of other killings from ...Show more
Underbelly - Razor by Larry Writer
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
This Underbelly TV tie-in edition is the acclaimed, award-winning history of the Razor gangs. In the 1920s and '30s in inner Sydney, some of the most terrifying criminals in Australia's history waged war with razor and gun. As gang fought gang, the streets echoed with the sound of violence and ran with ...Show more
My Mother, A Serial Killer by Hazel Gaiter; Janet Fife-Yeomans (As told to)
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A gripping and shocking story of a serial killer mother, and the brave daughter who brought her to justice. Dulcie Bodsworth was the unlikeliest serial killer. Loved everywhere she went, the townsfolk of Wilcannia which she called home in the late 1950s, thought of her as kind and caring. The officers a ...Show more
The Penalty Is Death: State Power, Law, and Justice by Barry Jones ed
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Barry Jones.The Penalty is Death was first published in 1968, in the aftermath of the hanging of Ronald Ryan in Victoria - the last man executed in Australia. At the time, capital ...Show more
An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the Age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo scandal, 'An English Affair' is a sharp-focused snapshot of a nation on the brink of social revolution. Britain in 1963 - Harold Macmillan was the Prime Minister of a Conservative government, dedicated to tradition, hierarchy and, above ...Show more