The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and his Wife by Rebecca Hazel
$36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On 9 January 1982, Lynette Dawson disappeared and has not been heard from since. She is presumed murdered. She lived on Sydney's northern beaches, Bayview, with her husband Chris, a high school PE teacher and well-known rugby league player (Newtown Jets) and her two young daughters. For eighteen months ...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
The Man Who Wasn't There by Dan Box
$36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A true story about lies, murder and the Territory 'Sorry, mate, but that's the message.' Zak says to grow some balls and defend him. You've got to remember he is still a young bloke, stuck in Darwin prison where it's always hot, the food is slop and they get rats in the wet season. It's not enough jus ...Show more
Murder in Mississippi by John Safran
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'One of the best pieces of sustained, rigorous journalism I've read in twenty years. It is absolutely magnificent - smart, and wry, and emotional too.' Caroline Overington When filming his TV series Race Relations, John Safran spent an uneasy couple of days with one of Mississippi's most notorious whit ...Show more
The Teacher's Pet by Hedley Thomas
$36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Lynette Dawson (nee Simms) disappeared from Sydney's idyllic northern beaches in 1982 and was never seen again. The Teacher's Pet, the book, tells the extraordinary story of the crime, the podcast investigation, the sexual exploitation of female teenage students, the failure for four decades of the crim ...Show more
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as fire ...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
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
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
Underbelly: The Gangland War by John Silvester
$24.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
They called Carl Williams 'The Truth' but the truth was he was just a fat kid with a pill press and a taste for fast food, women and bucks. He got lucky the day Jason Moran shot him in the belly instead of the head. Carl didn't return the favour: one by one, Moran, his family, and friends were shot dead ...Show more
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.
Bigwig : The Remarkable Rise and Fall of Tony Mokbel by Liam Houlihan
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Finally the story of Tony Mokbel can be told. Top crime writer Liam Houlihan documents the extraordinary rise and fall of the man they call Fat Tony, from his ascension in the drug trade to the decade-long and only-now-complete struggle to hold Mokbel to account for his crimes. Houlihan explores the pol ...Show more