My Father, the Murderer - A Reckoning with the Past by Nina Young
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
This was Nina Young's shocking realisation in her mid-twenties, when she found out from online court records that her estranged father, Allan Ladd, had strangled a woman to death decades before. In prison he'd met Denise, Nina's mother, who was his tutor. Although Denise didn't know the extent of Allan' ...Show more
I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective by Jubelin, Gary
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of a homicide detective. Here I am: tall and broad, shaved head, had my nose broken three times fighting. Black suit, white shirt, the big city homicide detective. I've led investigations into serial killing ...Show more
Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story by Julie Brown
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the explosive reporting for the Miami Herald that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that protected him. F ...Show more
The First Stone: 25th Anniversary Edition by Helen Garner
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: GARNER. HELEN
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The First Stone has been reviled and revered. At the time of publication, its auth ...Show more
The Case of the Murderous Dr. Cream - The Hunt for a Victorian Era Serial Killer by Dean Jobb
$49.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
"A tour de force of storytelling. One of the best books I've read this year. Dean Jobb breathes new life into Cream's victims--who they were, where and how they lived--all the while blending in thorny issues of policing, of the fictional detectives being created, of the other serial killers on the loose ...Show more
Once a Copper The Life and Times of Brian ‘The Skull’ Murphy by Vikki Petraitis
$29.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
Petraitis explores the many facets of The Skull's story. Starting on the mean streets of South Melbourne, to his early years as a policeman, then his fight against police corruption. Dodging crooks and corruption on both sides of the thin blue line, The Skull carefully cultivated a reputation for being ...Show more
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe
$36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
‘I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an article, I read it . . . he’s a national treasure.’ Rachel Maddow Patrick Radden Keefe’s work has garnered prizes ranging from the National Magazine Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award in the US t ...Show more
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why? With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents-some never before seen-and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utiliz ...Show more
Killing Juanita by Peter Rees
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The award-winning, definitive account of Australia's most notorious cold case, now fully updated with new information Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for True CrimeOn 4 July 1975, Juanita Nielsen set out on foot through the wintry streets of Sydney's red-light district. The chic heiress and newspaper publ ...Show more
Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
While other children were devouring the works of Enid Blyton and Beatrix Potter, Carla Valentine was poring through the pages of Agatha Christie novels. It was this early fascination that led to her job as a pathology technician, trained in forensics and working in mortuaries.Nearly every Agatha Christi ...Show more
The Old Man and the Gun (FTI) And Other Tales of True Crime by David Grann
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Now a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, The Old Man and the Gun is here joined by two other riveting true-crime tales. "The Old Man and the Gun" is the incredible story of a bank robber and prison escape artist who modeled himself after figures like Pretty Boy Floyd and ...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