The Real Prime Suspect - From the Beat to the Screen. My Life As a Female Detective by Jackie Malton; Hélène Mulholland
$24.99 AUD
$55.00 (54% off)
Category: True Crime
HIGHLY COMMENDED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE TRUE CRIME AWARDS 2023 *** 'Jaw-dropping.' -Val McDermid 'Pacy, witty... 4*' - The Telegraph 'A terrific read!' -Baroness Helena Kennedy QC 'Unputdownable. Searingly honest, shocking and funny.' -Barbara Machin, creator and showrunner, Waking the Dead ' ...Show more
Hate Mail by Mark Morri
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Sydney, 1998. Personal trainer Brett Boyd arrives home to find a package waiting in the driveway. It's addressed to his girlfriend, model and part-time escort Simone Farrow. Hours later, Boyd is in hospital, fighting for his life. The parcel was a bomb that had exploded in his face, leaving him badly di ...Show more
Capote's Women: The book behind TV's FEUD: CAPOTE VS THE SWANS by Laurence Leamer
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'DREAM HOLIDAY READING....I ENJOYED LEAMER'S BOOK A LOT.' SUNDAY TIMES'ABSOLUTELY PERFECT POOLSIDE READING AND I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE MINI-SERIES.' THE TIMES'BARRELING AND WELL-RESEARCHED.' MAIL ON SUNDAY'A JUICY, ENGAGING READ.' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT 'There are certain women,' Truman Capote wrote, 'who, th ...Show more
The Worst Woman in Sydney: The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh by Leigh Straw
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Matriarch of the criminal underworld ...or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney? The legend of Kate Leigh, Sydney's famed brothel madam, sly grog seller and drug dealer, has loomed large in TV's Underbelly and every other account of Sydney's criminal history from the 1920s to the 1960s. But she has never had ...Show more
Bloodstain: The vanishing of Peter Falconio by Richard Shears
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On a cold July night in 2001 a panic-stricken woman dashed out of the desert scrub, bringing to a halt a huge semi-trailer thundering down the highway. The story Joanne Lees subsequently told spread a chill among backpackers everywhere and launched Australia’s most intense manhunt in living memory. A co ...Show more
The Last Escape: The man behind the most daring jailbreak in Australian history by New Holland Publishers
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Career criminal John Killick was involved in the most audacious prison break in Australian history when he escaped from Sydney’s Silverwater prison after his partner in crime Lucy Dudko commandeered a scenic helicopter flight at gunpoint. Australia’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ spent 45 days on the run before be ...Show more
Double Trouble by Geoff Wilkinson, Ross Brundrett
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
It was a crime spree like no other. One of the great double acts in Australian criminal history led police on a merry chase for more than two years. And all the time police thought they were chasing one man. There were two, maybe three stickups a month but only in the colder months. Country TABs and ban ...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
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
‘Reads like a mashup of The Godfather and Chinatown, complete with gun battles, a ruthless kingpin and a mountain of cash. Except that it’s all true.’ Time In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a ...Show more
Australia’s Most Infamous Jail: Inside the Walls of Pentridge Prison by James Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
THE NEW BOOK FROM AUSTRALIA'S BESTSELLING TRUE CRIME AUTHOR In a long-awaited return to his best-selling prison series, James Phelps will lift the lid on Australia's most infamous prison - HM Prison Pentridge, the former home of Mark 'Chopper' Reed and Ned Kelly.From Jika Jika to the execution of Ronald ...Show more
My Mother's Eyes by Shanelle Dawson
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Imagine living with the knowledge that your father had murdered your mother and lied to you your whole life, telling you she left because she didn't love you anymore.How could a father do this to his children? How could a husband do this to a woman he at one time loved? When she was four years old, Sha ...Show more