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The Edward Street Baby Farm: The Murder That Gripped a City by Stella Budrikis
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In 1907, Perth woman Alice Mitchell was arrested for the murder of five-month-old Ethel Booth. During the inquest and subsequent trial, the state's citizens were horrified to learn that at least 37 infants had died in Mitchell's care in the previous six years. It became clear that she had been running a ...Show more
Lawyer X by Patrick Carlyon; Anthony Dowsley (As told to)
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
nderbelly meets Molly's Game - the true crime investigation that rewrote the story of Melbourne's infamous gangland war and triggered a royal commission. Melbourne's gangland war was an era dominated by murders, stings, hits, drug busts, corruption and greed - inspiring bestselling books and even a pop ...Show more
Electric Blue by Paul F. Verhoeven
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Paul Verhoeven's ex-cop dad, John, spent years embroiled in some of the seediest, scariest intrigue and escapades imaginable. One day John offered Paul the chance of a lifetime- he'd spill his guts on tape. What unfolded in Loose Units was a goldmine of true-crime stories, showcasing John's dramatic exp ...Show more
Public Enemies: Ray Denning, Russell (Maddog) Cox an the Golden Age of Armed Robbery by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The gripping and revealing inside story of Australia's most notorious armed robbers.
Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students - had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a mas ...Show more
Marching Powder (PB) by Rusty Young
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
San Pedro is Bolivia's most notorious prison. Small-time drug smuggler Thomas McFadden found himself on the inside. Marching Powder is the story of how he navigated this dark world of gangs, drugs and corruption to come out on top.Thomas found himself in a bizarre world, the prison reflecting all that i ...Show more
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, ...Show more
Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
$24.99 AUD
Category: Chat10Looks3 Recommendations
In this instant New York Times bestselling account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Rona ...Show more
Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Nicholas Pileggi's vivid, unvarnished, journalistic chronicle of the life of Henry Hill--the working-class Brooklyn kid who knew from age twelve that "to be a wiseguy was to own the world," who grew up to live the highs and lows of the gangster's life--has been hailed as "the best book ever written on o ...Show more
Solitary: Unbroken by Four Decades in Solitary Confinement by Albert Woodfox
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: 3
Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement - in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours aday, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana - all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary endur ...Show more
Dirty Girl: The State Sanctioned Murder of Brothel Madam Shirley Finn by Juliett Wills
$29.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
Mostly it only took a trumped up charge to ruin a reputation and silence a person, but sometimes the rat pack that ruled Perth in the 1970s would have to resort to murder. Not the back room, needle in the arm, overdose kind of murder that could so easily be written off, nor the disappearance altogether ...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