Disgraced?: The Cop at the Centre of Melbourne's Gangland Wars by Paul Dale
$32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
In 2011, an article in The AGe accused Detective Paul Dale of nodding "off for a quick power nap" while a notorious gangland figure escaped from the back of an armed robbery squad car in 1990. Only problem was that Paul Dale was never an armed robbery squad detective, and in 1990 was a 20-yearold junior ...Show more
Little Girls Lost by Helen Reade
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Little Girls Lost is the stories of the horrendous murders of four girls & their parents' battles to bring about changes in the law to ease the unbearable burden of homicide for the families and loved ones of the victims who will tragically, but inevitably, follow in their footsteps.
The Big Book of Scandalous Australian Women by Kay Saunders
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Some are wicked, some are scandalous, some are downright mean and ruthless and some just went a little bit sideways. Meet the bad women of Australia: the femmes who challenge our ideas of what women should be - together in the one big book. Tilly Devine, Mary Bryant, Helena Rubinstein, Lola Montez - th ...Show more
At the Altar of the Road Gods: Stories of Motorcycles and Other Drugs by Boris Mihailovic
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In this fast, furious book, Boris Mihailovic shares his wild stories of motorcycling, mateship and frequent, two-wheel-related mayhem. Boris has had a life-long obsession with motorbikes and in this collection of yarns he shares pivotal moments in his riding life, from his first XJ650 Yamaha and the cra ...Show more
Murder on the Mind: An Insight into the Minds of Serial Killers and Their Crimes by Amanda Howard
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In Murder on the Mind, Amanda Howard, tells the stories of some of history's most depraved serial killers, and provides insight and analysis of their behaviour, thought processes and crimes. She focuses on 10 types of serial killer including child murderers, killer couples, parents who murder, mass chil ...Show more
Murder of Allison Baden-Clay by David Murray
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: General Adult
It began with a phone call to Brisbane police on 20 April 2012. Allison, wife of real-estate agent Gerard Baden-Clay, was missing. When investigating officers arrived at the family home, in one of the city's wealthiest suburbs, a neatly dressed Gerard had been getting the couple's three daughters ready ...Show more
Certain Admissions: A Beach, A Body and a Lifetime of Secrets by Gideon Haigh
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Who killed Beth Williams? On a warm evening in December 1949, two young people met by chance under the clocks at Flinders Street railway station. They decided to have a night on the town. The next morning, one of them, twenty-year-old typist Beth Williams, was found dead on Middle Park Beach. When polic ...Show more
Sting by Kate Kyriacou
$32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
The story of the police sting that resulted in the confession of Daniel Morcombe's killer reads like crime fiction. An elaborately staged face crime gang, run by a 'Mr Big', that lured Brett Cowan in with the promise of a hefty payout. It was the stuff of a TV crime series rather than an Australian poli ...Show more
Bluff Rock: Autobiography of a Massacre by Katrina M Schlunke
$39.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The past is a problem for us. We know certain events happened, sometimes exactly when and yet our longing for certainty cannot be satisfied we tell stories about where we come from and who we are. We change these stories sometimes minutely, sometimes radically This is an original and courageous book. Sc ...Show more
Noose: True Stories of Australians who Died at the Gallows by Xavier Duff
$32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
Over two centuries, 1700 men and women were sent to the gallows in Australia. Noose vividly portrays eleven of these cases, including the first -- in 1788 of Thomas Barrett, a First Fleeter hanged for stealing food. And the very last, the hanging of Ronald Ryan, at Melbourne's Pentridge Prison in 1967, ...Show more
Monster by Allan Hall
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On 28 August 1984, Josef Fritzl drugged his teenage daughter with ether and imprisoned her in an underground bunker behind eight locked doors. Over the following twenty-four years, he raped and abused her, never letting her or the children she bore him out of the dark, windowless cellar. Based on 150 ne ...Show more
Australia's Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail by James Phelps
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Welcome to Long Bay, Australia's hardest prison. For the first time, guards and inmates of the notorious South Sydney facility reveal what really goes on behind its towering concrete walls. Opened in 1909, Long Bay Jail, originally a women's reformatory, has a dark and extraordinary history. From ghosts ...Show more