A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark O'Connell
29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
What does it mean to write about a killer? From an award-winning author comes a tale of a notorious double-murder, a political scandal, and a writer who found himself entangled in this strange, true story.
The Squad by Yoni Bashan
32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A gritty and compelling account of the Middle Eastern Organised Crime Squad and its struggle to contain the violence associated with the inexorable rise of Middle Eastern organised crime in Australia. The officers of the Middle Eastern Organised Crime (MEOC) squad are known to be both fearsome and intim ...Show more
Naked City by John Silvester
36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
John Silvester has been reporting on crime from the cop stations, courthouses, back alleys, pool halls and gangster mansions of Melbourne for forty years. His contact book is a who's who of both sides of criminal justice, and the shadowy worlds between. He is the trusted confidante of cops, criminals, ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
14.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
Behold the Monster - Confronting America's Most Prolific Serial Killer by Jillian Lauren; Michael Connelly (Foreword by)
34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'Fearless and fierce ... transcends a crime story to be a story that threatens social order' - Michael Connelly 'Bewitching . . . a tale of horror that is also humane and self-aware' - Jennifer Egan 'Wildly original... true crime fans will find this a unique and disturbing thrill ride' - Publishers We ...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
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice' JON KRAKAUER 'A fiercely entertaining mystery story and ...Show more
The Man Who Hacked the World - A Ghostwriter's Descent into Madness with John Mcafee by Alex Cody Foster
37.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
After parting ways with the eponymous McAfee Antivirus software company in 1994, John McAfee embarked on innumerable business, political, and criminal enterprises. From investing in cybersecurity and cryptocurrency to accusations of murdering his neighbor in Belize to making two unsuccessful bids for Pr ...Show more
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Now with a new afterword covering the months-long landmark trials of Elizabeth Holmes and Sunny Balwani.'I couldn't put down this thriller . . . the perfect book to read by the fire this winter.' Bill GatesWinner of the Financial Times/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award 2018The riveting true story ...Show more
Framed by Stuart Rosson
26.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
“Framed” blows the lid off one of Melbourne’s most puzzling secrets: Who stole Picasso’s Weeping Woman from the NGV in 1986. Written by the brother of the brilliant artist who was framed for the crime, “Framed” draws on never-before-revealed information told to the author before his brother died. “Frame ...Show more
The Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld by Jake Adelstein
36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start fr ...Show more
Pain Hustlers - Film Tie-In by Evan Hughes
24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Now a major film streaming on NETFLIX'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. A tour de force.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, award-winning author of Empire of Pain'Everyone should read this book' - Sheelagh Kolhatkar, author of Black EdgeJohn Kapoor had already made a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he ...Show more