Catch and Kill - Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adults | Reading Level: good-very good
Ray: "Riveting. Compelling. The story of how Ronan Farrow held his ground against the powerful media establishment, unprincipled lawyers, public relations spinmasters, spies, to expose the sexual predations of Hollywood mogul Henry Weinstein. An Australian-born media executive tried to stop the book fro ...Show more
The Real Mary Kelly by Wynne Weston-Davies
$19.99 AUD
$32.95 (39% off)
Category: Adults
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
Crimes That Shocked Australia by Ian Ferguson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Adults
Covering a wide range of crimes and periods, from the bushranger gangs to current-day fugitives, it is an eye-opening experience to relive these shocking Australian crimes.
The Penalty Is Death: State Power, Law, and Justice by Barry Jones ed
$35.00 AUD
Category: Adults
An updated edition of the classic study of capital punishment originally published 50 years ago, with a new introduction by Barry Jones.The Penalty is Death was first published in 1968, in the aftermath of the hanging of Ronald Ryan in Victoria - the last man executed in Australia. At the time, capital ...Show more
The Good Nurse: A True Story of Medicine, Madness and Murder by Charles Graeber
$22.99 AUD
Category: Adults
'...aside from the murders , Charles Cullen might have been a pretty good nurse...'The true story of the most prolific serial killer in US history, The Good Nurse is 'a stunning book... that should and does bring to mind In Cold Blood' New York Times
Suburban Noir: Crime and Mishap in 1950s and 1960s Sydney - Shortlisted for The Age Nonfiction Book of the Year Awards 2023 by Peter Doyle
$34.99 AUD
Category: Adults
Nothing in the post-war decades reveals the underbelly of Australian life the way police records do.Small time heists. Failed robberies. Runs of bad luck. Payback. Love gone wrong. Drink, drugs and late-night assignations. Cops doing their job well. And badly. Plausible lies, unlikely truths. Murder and ...Show more
King of Thieves: The Adventures of Arthur Delaney and the Kangaroo Gang by Adam Shand
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The story of the most spectacularly successful shoplifting gang in history, who plundered stores in England and Europe in the 1960s and 1970sthe Kangaroo Gangled by a master thief "King" Arthur Delaney.From the mid 1960s, a brazen band of Australian thieves ran riot in London for more than a decade, pul ...Show more
Melbourne Under Siege: The Moral Panic Behind the Apex Gang and Youth Crime by Brian Williams
$24.99 AUD
$32.99 (24% off)
Category: Adults
Melbourne Under Siege is an explosive book that captures the crimes that have Melbourne feeling shocked to their core and the traditionally sedate city of Melbourne has often found herself in the national and international news for all the wrong reasons. During the ensuing media firestorm, there was not ...Show more
Fatal Friends, Deadly Neighbors - Ann Rule's Crime Files Volume 16 by Ann Rule
$27.99 AUD
Category: Adults | Series: Ann Rule's Crime Files Ser.
The New York Times bestselling True Crime Files series continues with this haunting collection of the dangers lurking among those we trust the most--from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me. Doomed relationships and deadly betrayals are at the heart of this unputdownab ...Show more
Missing, Presumed Dead: The double murder case that shocked Australia by Mark Tedeschi
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adults
It was the double murder case that gripped Australia, and former Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC is finally able to share all the shocking details.Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan were both happy, healthy, affluent, middle-class women from conservative, loving families.Such women are hardly ever among t ...Show more
Cops, Drugs, Lawyer X and Me (PB) by Paul Dale; Vikki Petraitis
$32.99 AUD
Category: Adults
'How did a kid from the country who dreamed of joining the Victoria Police, end up on the wrong side of the bars? There are a lot of reasons, and I hope this story will help clarify some of them, not only for you, the reader, but for me too, because a lot of the time I am left shaking my head, wondering ...Show more