Mafia Son: The Scarpa Mob Family, the FBI and a Story of Betrayal by Sandra Harmon
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Scarpa's were a New York Mafia Dynasty led by Greg Scarpa Sr., nicknamed 'the grim reaper' for his brutal addiction to violence and murder. But since the 1960s Scarpa has also been a Top Echelon Informant for the FBI. Betrayed by the father he worshipped, his son Gregory Jr.
Catch and Kill - Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations | Reading Level: good-very good
Ray: "Riveting. Compelling. The story of how Ronan Farrow held his ground against the powerful media establishment, unprincipled lawyers, public relations spinmasters, spies, to expose the sexual predations of Hollywood mogul Henry Weinstein. An Australian-born media executive tried to stop the book fro ...Show more
The Devil's Work: Australia's Jack the Ripper and the serial murders that shocked the world. by Garry Linnell
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
He was a murderer, swindler, bigamist and suspect in the Jack the Ripper killings. Frederick Deeming was also the most hated man in the world. Claiming to be haunted by the ghost of his dead mother, Deeming had spent years roaming the planet under various aliases, preying on the innocent, the gullible a ...Show more
Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders (*Ned Kelly Awards: Winner 2022 Best True Crime) by Debi Marshall
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Only one suspect has been charged and convicted for The Family Murders of Adelaide, the City of Corpses. Award-winning investigative journalist, Debi Marshall, interrogates these long cold cases. Debi Marshall believes it is time to expose all messy business that lies behind the sophisticated facade of ...Show more
Operation Playboy by Kathryn Bonella
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
This is the adrenaline-pumping story of the world's most audacious drug runners and the police hunt, 'Operation Playboy', to track them down. These drug-running playboys travel the globe: they ski in Europe, surf in Bali, hook up with celebrity models and live in five-star hotels. They are 24/7 party bo ...Show more
Missing, Presumed Dead: The double murder case that shocked Australia by Mark Tedeschi
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
It was the double murder case that gripped Australia, and former Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC is finally able to share all the shocking details.Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan were both happy, healthy, affluent, middle-class women from conservative, loving families.Such women are hardly ever among t ...Show more
Betrayed: The incredible untold inside story of the two most unlikely drug-running grannies in Australian history by Sandi Logan
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The relentlessly fascinating, sometimes hilarious and often jaw-dropping true story of two American women who became unwitting drug mules by driving a hashish-laden campervan from Stuttgart to Bombay, then later to Australia, where they were arrested and jailed. Think of the two most unlikely drug deale ...Show more
Snowing in Bali: The Incredible Inside Account of Bali's Hidden Drug World by Kathryn Bonella
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
From the internationally bestselling author of Hotel Kerobokan and Operation Playboy and co-author of Schapelle Corby's autobiography, this is the incredible inside account of Bali's hidden drug world."a unique, uncensored insight into a hidden world." The ChronicleIt's snowing in Bali. Among Bali's dru ...Show more
Shark Arm: A shark, a tattooed arm and two unsolved murders by Phillip Roope, Kevin Meagher
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Truth can be stranger than fiction. In a Coogee aquarium in 1935 a shark coughed up a man's tattooed arm. The authors of Shark Arm have unravelled an extraordinary tale of high-class smuggling around Sydney Harbour and police collusion that has eluded many investigations into this famous cold case. ...Show more
The Strange Case of Thomas Quick: The Swedish Serial Killer and the Psychoanalyst Who Created Him by Dan Josefsson
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In 1991 Sture Bergwall, a petty criminal and drug addict, botched an armed robbery so badly that he was deemed to be more in need of therapy than punishment. He was committed to Sater, Sweden's equivalent of Broadmoor, and began a course of psychotherapy and psychoactive drugs. During the therapy, he be ...Show more
Hunting LeRoux - The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire by Elaine Shannon
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
With a foreword by four-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Michael Mann. The story of Paul LeRoux, the twisted-genius entrepreneur and cold-blooded killer who brought revolutionary innovation to international crime, and the exclusive inside story of how the DEA's elite, secretive 960 Group brought him down ...Show more
The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek by Kate Holden
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
An epic true story of greed, power and a desire for legacy from an acclaimed Australian storyteller. July 2014, a lonely road at twilight outside Croppa Creek, New South Wales: 80-year-old farmer Ian Turnbull takes out a .22 and shoots environmental officer Glen Turner in the back. On one side, a farmer ...Show more