I Heard You Paint Houses: Frank the Irishman Sheeran, Jimmy Hoffa, and the Biggest Hit in Mob History by Charles Brandt
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'I heard you paint houses' are the first words Jimmy Hoffa ever spoke to Frank 'the Irishman' Sheeran. To paint a house is to kill a man. The paint is the blood that splatters on the wall and floors. In the course of nearly five years of recorded interviews Frank Sheeran confessed to Charles Brandt that ...Show more
Underbelly: The Golden Casket by John Silvester
$22.95 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Underbelly
Carl Williams once liked to brag he won Australia's bloodiest underworld war because he survived when most of his rivals couldn't. Even while inside Victoria's maximum-security prison he saw the last man standing from the Moran clan gunned down outside a coffee shop in a middle class suburb. By then the ...Show more
99 Months: The Case of the Sydney Double Murders by Ram Tiwary
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On 15 September 2003, two Singaporean students at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Tony Tan Poh Chuan and Tay Chow Lyang, were brutally murdered in their apartment. More than eight months later, their housemate and fellow Singaporean, Ram Tiwary, was arrested for their murders. Although Ram ...Show more
Black Widow: The True Story of Australia's First Female Serial Killer by Carol Baxter
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Never before in the hundred year history of Australia has a female prisoner become so notorious as Louisa Collins.' - Evening News Two inquests, four trials, three hung juries and the executioner...but was Louisa Collins really a husband killer? Was she the callous adulteress, drunkard and liar known as ...Show more
Certain Admissions: A Beach, A Body and a Lifetime of Secrets by Gideon Haigh
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Who killed Beth Williams? On a warm evening in December 1949, two young people met by chance under the clocks at Flinders Street railway station. They decided to have a night on the town. The next morning, one of them, twenty-year-old typist Beth Williams, was found dead on Middle Park Beach. When polic ...Show more
Wild Man by Alecia Simmonds
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In April 2012, on a remote rural property in northern NSW named the School of Happiness, police shot dead Ryan Pringle. Ryan, who was high on a cocktail of drugs and who suffered from mental illness, had been threatening attendees of a hippie festival, known as a rainbow gathering, with a crossbow and h ...Show more
Dangerous to Know (updated edition) by Susanna Lobez
$27.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
" Dangerous to Knowdocuments murders known and not so well known, conmen and their victims, street gangs of the early twentieth century, crime lords of the 1920s, dock wars of the 1970s, bikers, sex offenders, and the drug gangs of today as well as the wrongly accused and wrongly convicted. They're all ...Show more
Broken Lives by Estelle Blackburn
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Eric Edgar Cooke was the last man to hang in Western Australia. Between 1958 and his capture in September 1963, Cooke committed 22 murders and attempted murders that forever changed the face of Perth from a friendly big country town to a city of suspicion and fear. His fantasies and delusions led him to ...Show more
Smuggler: A True Story of Marijuana, the Hippie Mafia and One of America's Most Wanted International Drug Traffickers by Richard Stratton
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Richard Stratton was the unlikeliest of drug kingpins. He was a clean-cut college student who fell in love with the adrenaline high of cross-border drug trafficking after bringing two kilos of marijuana across the US border from a trip to Mexico. He never looked back. Stratton became a member of the hip ...Show more
The Real Mary Kelly by Wynne Weston-Davies
$32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
Many researchers have tried over the decades to discover Mary Jane Kelly's true identity. She was the final and most brutally murdered victim of Jack the Ripper, but almost nothing is known about her family or her earlier life. In this thrilling book, Mary's great-nephew Wynne Weston-Davies, who is an a ...Show more
Shepherds and Butchers by Chris Marnewick
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
South Africa, 1987. Apartheid. When Leon, a white 19-year-old prison guard working on death row commits an inexplicable act of violence, killing seven black men in a hail of bullets, the outcome of the trial - and the court's sentence - seems a foregone conclusion. Hotshot lawyer John Weber (played by S ...Show more
Yakuza Moon: Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter by Shoko Tendo
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Born to a wealthy and powerful yakuza boss, Shoko Tendo lived the early years of her life in luxury. However, when she was six, everything changed: her father was jailed, and the family fell into debt. Bullied by her classmates because of her father's activities, and terrorized at home by her father, wh ...Show more