Trafficked: The Terrifying True Story of a British Girl Sold into the Sex Trade by Sophie Hayes
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
He'd been her friend for years. He said he loved her. Then she realised she didn't know him at all... When everything seemed to be falling apart in Sophie's life, she was thankful for her friend Kas, who was always at the end of a phone, ready to listen and to offer comfort and advice.Her father's cold ...Show more
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country.The Tall Manis the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hu ...Show more
The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and his Wife by Rebecca Hazel
$34.99 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
Rat in the Ranks - Bookies, Police, Pimps, Perjury and Thugs ... and the Man Who Stood above It All by Alan Leek
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Australia was a grim place during the Great Depression. Bettiing was inexpensive entertainment for the masses, but outlawed, police were forced to pit themselves against their public who flouted the law. Mendelssohn Bartholdy Miller was a young office called to this duty, but discovered a world of .cor ...Show more
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: True Crime
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
Too Big To Jail: Inside HSBC, the Mexican drug cartels and the greatest banking scandal of the century by Chris Blackhurst Limited
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Across the world, HSBC likes to sell itself as 'the world's local bank', the friendly face of corporate and personal finance. And yet, a decade ago, the same bank was hit with a record US fine of $1.9 billion for facilitating money laundering for 'drug kingpins and rogue nations'. In pursuit of their g ...Show more
Crimes That Changed the World by Alan Whiticker
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Crime of the century was a catchery often used throughout the 20th century. Crimes that fascinated, haunted and reviled us, crimes that transcended national boundaries and became iconic signposts in time, often eared the epitaph crime of the century . This book presents and overview of crimes committed ...Show more
A History of the Hanged by Amanda Howard
$26.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Rope: A History of the Hanged takes the reader on a journey throughout the history of hanging, detailing the evolution of what was once a common method of capital punishment from the development of the drop to the invention of the gallows by Tyburn Gallows, readers will be enlightened on the mechanisms ...Show more
The Killing Chronicle - Police Service and Shattered Lives by Alan Leek
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Early 20th century criminals were at their worst and their excesses created havoc. The times were hard and made even more difficult with the beginning of WWII, when hand-guns, explosives and 'Tommie' guns became easy currency and were used with malice and astounding recklessness. Alan Leek, an awarded p ...Show more
A Thousand Miles From Care: In search of my brother Scott by Steve Johnson
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A gripping and heartbreaking story, A Thousand Miles From Care tells the 30 year quest Steve Johnson undertook to uncover the truth about his brilliant brother's brutal murder in Manly. At the entrance of Sydney Harbor, the cliffs rise fourteen stories above the Pacific, like a gigantic skirt made of sa ...Show more
Marching Powder by Rusty Young
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
San Pedro is Bolivia's most notorious prison. Small-time drug smuggler Thomas McFadden found himself on the inside. Marching Powder is the story of how he navigated this dark world of gangs, drugs and corruption to come out on top.Thomas found himself in a bizarre world, the prison reflecting all that i ...Show more
Murder on Easey Street: Melbourne's Most Notorious Cold Case by Helen Thomas
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A gripping account of Melbourne's unsolved Easey Street murders, now updated with new interviews and insightsSummer in Melbourne, 1977. Two young women are viciously murdered. The killer has never been found. Forty-five years ago, Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were fatally stabbed in their home o ...Show more