Who's Who in the Zoo by Domenico Cacciola
$29.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
Confronting and at times terrifying, this is a first-hand account of Domenico 'Mick' Cacciola's life as a Licensing, Special Branch and CIB detective over four decades. From making the arrest in Australia's first televised siege (the hijacking of the Seaworld helicopter) to being ordered to pick up the ...Show more
A Different Class of Murder by Laura Thompson
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On 7 November 1974, a nanny named Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in a Belgravia basement. A second woman, Veronica, Countess of Lucan, was also attacked. The man named in court as perpetrator of these crimes, Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, disappeared in the early hours of the following ...Show more
Mafioso: The bloody and compelling history of the Mafia - from its birth in Italy to its invasion of America and present-day global infiltration - told by an Australian undercover insider by Colin McLaren
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Mafia remains a subject of fascination around the world, depicted in books, films and TV series. But in his role as an undercover drug squad cop, Colin McLaren (bestselling author of JFK: The Smoking Gun) actually became a mafioso. After McLaren's extraordinary three years undercover in the Mafia, g ...Show more
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
$27.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, a ...Show more
Australian Heist by James Phelps
$39.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Australia's Number 1 True Crime Writer on Australia's Greatest Gold Robbery. On 15 June 1862, a gang of bushrangers held up a gold escort at Eugowra, just east of Forbes, NSW. They escaped with a pile of cash and 77 kilograms of gold, worth about $10 million today. It remains the largest gold robbery in ...Show more
Australia's Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail by James Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
CONVICTED rapist Bilal Skaf would not shut-up. "Give me a cigarette," he screamed. For 15 minutes he repeated the three words, his demands driving the other prisoners mad. Just give him a cigarette chief," yelled one of the inmates, his plea bouncing of the cold concrete walls. "Shut the rapist up," scr ...Show more
Whitey by Gerard O'Neill; Dick Lehr
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
From the bestselling writers of Black Mass, now a major film, comes the definite biography of Whitey Bulger - the most brutal modern day mafia boss since Gotti. Drawing on previously classified material, Whiteytells the story of James J. 'Whitey' Bulger, the crime boss, psychopath and killer who brough ...Show more
All Fall Down by Matthew Condon
$32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Three Kings part 3 | Reading Level: General Adult
The gripping finale to Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers brings to a close Matthew Condon's bestselling true crime trilogy. In 1983, the soon-to-be-knighted Police Commissioner Terry Lewis continues to turn a blind eye to the operation of The Joke, a highly organised system of graft payments from ...Show more
When the Dogs Don't Bark a Forensic Scientist's Search for the Truth by Angela Gallop
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Wolf Boys by Dan Slater
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
At first glance, Gabriel Cardona was the poster boy American teenager: great athlete, bright, handsome and charismatic. But the streets of his border town of Laredo, Texas, were poor and dangerous, and it wasn't long before Gabriel abandoned his promising future for the allure of the Zetas, a drug carte ...Show more
The Cocaine Diaries: A Venezuelan Prison Nightmare by Jeff Farrell, Paul Keany
$19.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
'It won't happen to me. That's what I thought when I got on the plane to Venezuela. But it did - I got caught.' Caught smuggling half a million euros' worth of cocaine, Paul Keany was sexually assaulted by Venezuelan anti-drugs officers before being sentenced to eight years in the notorious Los Teques p ...Show more