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
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
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
______________________________ A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories about the FBI's involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation of one of the most infamous cases in American history. Twenty years ago, reporting for a routine magazine p ...Show more
Dead Man Running by Ross Coulthart
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A true and chilling first-hand account of the criminal involvement of the feared Bandidos gang - the most powerful and influential crime group operating in Australia and North America today - and how one man broke their code and turned informant.
The Last Narco: Hunting El Chapo, the World's Most-wanted Drug Lord by Malcolm Beith
$24.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
Mexico, April 2009. The bodies of a pair of undercover military intelligence agents, disguised as campesinos (farmers), are dumped by the side of the road. Beside the corpses is a message on a scrap of paper: 'You'll never get El Chapo.' Such is the fate of many who have dared to try to catch El Chapo, ...Show more
Cocaina: A Book on Those Who Made it by Magnus Linton
$29.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
When the world's greatest 'King of Cocaine', Pablo Escobar, was killed in 1993 in a joint military operation undertaken by the CIA, the Colombian military, and Escobar's enemies, the entire world celebrated the event, thinking that cocaine production would fall rapidly. But twenty years later, Colombia ...Show more
Presumed Guilty by Bret Christian
$29.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
At the centre of this in-depth and often chilling book is the tragic murder, in 1959, of twenty-twoyear- old Perth woman Jillian Brewer, and the mostly inconceivable wrongful arrest and conviction of a young deaf man, Darryl Beamish, for the act. Charting in extraordinary detail the procedural errors, f ...Show more
The Damage Done by Warren Fellows
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In 1978 Warren Fellows was convicted of heroin trafficking between Thailand and Australia. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the notorious Bang Kwang prison-better known as the Bangkok Hilton. It was the beginning of 12 years of hell in a place where sewer rats and cockroaches are the only nutrit ...Show more
Murder in Mississippi by John Safran
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
This is a dazzling adventure in crime, race and genre. Funny and frightening, challenging and bizarre, Safran has written exactly the sort of idiosyncratic book one would have hoped, and revealed himself as a talented prose writer in the process.
Have You Seen Simone?: The Story of an Unsolved Murder by Virginia Peters
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Beneath the palm tree she'd perished like a stone fruit amongst the leaves and insects- her flesh bruised a variety of shades, from black through to yellow; her facial features, for all their lovely detail, completely indistinguishable. Look what happened to me,I could hear her say. This is what they di ...Show more
Chasing the Scream - The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
It is now 100 years since drugs were first banned. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, 30,000-mile journey into the war on drugs to uncover its secrets - and he found that there is a startling gap between what we have been told and what is really going on. ...Show more
MURDERING STEPMOTHERS: THE EXECUTION OF MARTHA RENDELL by HAEBICH, ANNA
$26.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
Sensational rumours of the murder of three small children by their stepmother ignite the passions of Perth citizens in 1909. Shocked by horrific descriptions of how she poisoned the children, they demand her execution as one voice. But did she do it? Or was she a victim of the prejudices of her persecut ...Show more