Nothing But The Truth: The Memoir of an Unlikely Lawyer by The Secret Barrister
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
<b>The <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 ‘Book of the Week‘</b> Full of hilarious and shocking stories, the Secret Barrister's memoir <i>Nothing But The Truth</i> tracks their transformation from hang 'em and flog 'em austerity-supporter to celebrated, ...Show more
Gun to the Head: My life as a tactical cop. The impact. The aftermath. by Keith Banks
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
From the bestselling author of Drugs, Guns & Lies, comes Keith's story of what it was really like to be a tactical police officer in the violent and corrupt eighties '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 ...Show more
Anita Cobby: The crime that shocked the nation by New Holland Publishers
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The abduction, rape and murder of 26-year-old nurse Anita Cobby in the Western Sydney suburb of Blacktown in February 1986 shocked hardened detectives, the wider community and ultimately the entire nation. That five young men from adjoining suburbs were responsible – local thieves and hoods with nothing ...Show more
Loose Units by Paul F. Verhoeven
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Paul Verhoeven's father, John, is a cop. Well, an ex-cop. Long since retired, John spent years embroiled in some of the seediest, scariest intrigue and escapades imaginable. Paul, however, is something of an artsy, sensitive soul who can't understand why he doesn't have the same heroism and courage as h ...Show more
Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students - had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a mas ...Show more
Solomon's Noose: True Story of Her Majesty's Hangman of Hobart by Steve Harris
$29.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
The story of a young convict, Solomon Blay, who became Her Majesty's hangman in Van Diemen's Land; the man who personally had to deliver an Empire's judgment on 200 men and women, and endured his own noose of personal demons and demonisation in order to "survive"; all in the context of the great struggl ...Show more
This House of Grief - The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
$23.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way ...Show more
The Escape of Jack the Ripper : The Full Truth About the Cover-up and His Flight from Justice by Jonathan Hainsworth ChristineWard-Agius
$29.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
For nearly 100 years, the question has repeatedly been asked: who was 'Jack the Ripper'? The real question that should be answered, however, is why? Why were five poor, defenceless women savagely murdered in the slums of Whitechapel in the autumn of 1888? Credible Victorian sources including an Old Eton ...Show more
The Lucky Laundry: longlisted for 2022 Walkley Award and 2022 winner of Financial Crime Fighter Award by Nathan Lynch
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
How the Aussie economy got hooked on the world's dirtiest cash. In today's ruthless world of organised crime, the best criminals aren't foolish enough to steal money out of banks. They wear tailored suits, carry briefcases, and discreetly slip money into banks. Bigwigs, oligarchs and crime syndicates r ...Show more
You'll Never See Daylight Again by Michaela McCollum
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The gritty prison memoir of Michaella McCollum, one half of the infamous 'Peru Two', sentenced to 7 years in a Peruvian jail for attempting to smuggle 11kg of cocaine.
A Different Class of Murder by Laura Thompson
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On 7 November 1974, a nanny named Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in a Belgravia basement. A second woman, Veronica, Countess of Lucan, was also attacked. The man named in court as perpetrator of these crimes, Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, disappeared in the early hours of the following ...Show more
A Woman of Force by Mark Morri
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
They call her 'the gangbuster'. The police force can be a tough place for a woman, but Detective Superintendent Deborah Wallace rose to the top with grace, humour and an iconic sense of style. In her incredible 36-year career with NSW Police, Wallace took on murderers and drug suppliers, and dismantled ...Show more