Kidnapped: the Crime That Shocked the Nation by Mark Tedeschi
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'A broad-brush morality tale about the consuming power of greed' Sydney Morning HeraldThe story of Australia's first known kidnapping of a child for ransom - now with an exclusive extract from Mark Tedeschi's new book, Murder at Myall Creek - The Trial that Defined a NationWhen eight-year-old Graeme Tho ...Show more
City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir by Paul French
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
1930s Shanghai could give Chicago a run for its money. In the years before the Japanese invaded, the city was a haven for outlaws from all over the world- a place where pasts could be forgotten, fascism and communism outrun, names invented, fortunes made - and lost. 'Lucky' Jack Riley was the most notor ...Show more
The Ultimate Book of Impostors - Over 100 True Stories of the Greatest Phonies and Frauds by Ian Graham
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Think You Know Who Your Friends Are? Think again... From Mata Hari to D. B. Cooper, history is littered with people pretending to be someone else. Some go undetected for years, cultivating their false identities so skillfully, even their spouses don't know. Other frauds go up in flames after one misste ...Show more
Busted by Keith Moor
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Bestselling writer and organised-crime expert Keith Moor takes us behind the headlines of the world's biggest seizure of ecstasy to expose a sophisticated mafia network in Australia. In 2007, Melbourne customs officials intercepted 15 million ecstasy tablets hidden in 3000 tomato tins arriving from Napl ...Show more
The Man Who Played with Fire: Stieg Larsson's Lost Files and the Hunt for an Assassin by Jan Stocklassa; Tara F. Chace (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The author of the Millennium novels laid out the clues. Now a journalist is following them. When Stieg Larsson died, the author of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had been working on a true mystery that out-twisted his Millennium novels: the assassination on February 28, 1986, of Olof Palme, the Swedis ...Show more
I Heard You Paint Houses: Now Filmed as The Irishman directed by Martin Scorsese by Charles Brandt
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'I heard you paint houses' are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the wall and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that ...Show more
The Professor and the Parson - A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking by Adam Sisman
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'I embarrassed myself by uncontrollable guffaws ... This is a truly wonderful story' A. N. Wilson, Spectator'A white-knuckle roller-coaster ride of fibs and frauds' Sunday Telegraph'An utterly mad, and wholly delightful story of chicanery and fantasy' Simon WinchesterOne day in November 1958, the celebr ...Show more
Chasing Shadows: The untold and deadly story of terrorism in Australia by Kristy Campion
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
From Irish revolutionaries to the Christchurch massacre, Chasing Shadows uncovers the long and brutal history of terrorism in Australia. Australia likes to assume that extremists and their dark ideas can be stopped at the border. But Fortress Australia, and the sense of security it provides, is an illu ...Show more
Don't Make a Fuss: It's Only the Claremont Serial Killer by Wendy Davis
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Wendy Davis was attacked by the Claremont Serial Killer and survived. This is her story.In 2020, after the longest and most expensive trial in Western Australian history, Bradley Robert Edwards was convicted of two of the Claremont Serial Killings, a series of unsolved murders that had haunted the state ...Show more
The Ballroom Murder by Leigh Straw
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Ballroom Murder is a true crime story that gripped Perth nearly 100 years ago, and demonstrates the power of the press and privilege in an extraordinary judicial outcome.In August 1925, Audrey Jacob shot dead her former fiance, Cyril Gidley, in full view of hundreds of guests at a charity ball in Pe ...Show more
Last King of the Cross by John Ibrahim
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
John Ibrahim's incredible life story told in his own words.Last King of the Cross lays bare Australia's most notorious underworld figure.In the mongrel tongue of the streets, John writes of fleeing war-torn Tripoli with his family and growing up in Sydney's rough and tumble west - before establishing hi ...Show more
The Spider Network The Wild Story of a Maths Genius, a Gang of Backstabbing Bankers, and One of the Greatest Scams in Financial History by David Enrich
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Shortlisted for the FT & McKinsey Book Prize! 'Will snare you in its web of deceit, lies, corruption, manipulation and colourful characters. [a] brilliant investigative exposé' - Harlan Coben, bestselling thriller author 'Reads like a fast-paced John le Carré thriller, and never lets up' - New ...Show more