The Outback Court Reporter by Jamelle Wells
$34.99 AUD
Category: New True Crime
Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on inside the country courtrooms dotted across Australia. From the case of the stolen cat flap, to missing lollipops and exploding chocolate milk in a country supermarket, to a custody dispute over a camel - Ja ...Show more
Ms-13 - The Making of America's Most Notorious Gang by Steven Dudley
$22.99 AUD
Category: New True Crime
The definitive account of America's most dangerous street gang: the MS-13 (Mara Salvatrucha), seen through the eyes of one family caught in its vicious web.
The Notorious Kidd: Volume 2 of the Kidd Trilogy by Simon Griffin (Original Author)
$34.95 AUD
Category: New True Crime | Series: Kidd Trilogy
The Notorious Kidd follows on from volume one, The Audacious Kidd, which recounted Kidd's tough upbringing in war-torn London, his move to Australia as a teenager and his apprenticeship in crime, leading from petty theft to safe cracking, race fixing and counterfeiting. Volume two begins with Kidd locke ...Show more
The Teacher's Pet by Hedley Thomas
$36.99 AUD
Category: New True Crime
Lynette Dawson (nee Simms) disappeared from Sydney's idyllic northern beaches in 1982 and was never seen again. The Teacher's Pet, the book, tells the extraordinary story of the crime, the podcast investigation, the sexual exploitation of female teenage students, the failure for four decades of the crim ...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: New 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
Murder at the Fort: A Double Homicide Cold Case and Cover Up! - Out Of Print by Bob Marmion
$29.99 AUD
Category: New True Crime
Early one cold, wintry morning in late May 1942, the bullet-ridden body of Driver Roy Willis was found on the side of the road. He had been shot a number of times with a military revolver. Despite extensive enquiries by some of the Victoria Police's most experienced homicide detectives, the murderer was ...Show more
Story of Vicente, Who Murdered His Mother, His Father and His Sister - Life and Death in Juarez by Sandra Rodríguez Nieto
$29.99 AUD
Category: New True Crime
Sixteen-year-old Vicente and two of his high school friends murdered his mother, his father, and his little sister in cold blood. Through a Capote-like reconstruction of this seemingly inexplicable triple murder, Sandra Rodriguez Nieto paints a haunting and unforgettable portrait of the most violent cit ...Show more
The Family by Chris Johnston; Rosie Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: New True Crime | Reading Level: General Adult
A powerful work of investigative journalism about a notorious cult based in Melbourne, Australia, that captured world-wide headlines. The apocalyptic group The Family and their guru, Anne Hamilton-Byrne, captured international headlines throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Starting in Melbourne, Australia, t ...Show more
The Shark Arm Murders by Castles, Alex
$14.95 AUD
Category: New True Crime
Factually based account of one of the most celebrated unsolved murder cases which occurred in Sydney in 1935. On Anzac Day in that year a giant Tiger shark, on display in the Coogee public baths, coughed up a tattooed arm. The tale of detection in the 1930s Sydney underworld is told by the author who be ...Show more
The Missing Beaumont Children by Michael Madigan
$24.95 AUD
Category: New True Crime
The case of the "Missing Beaumont Children" has been forged into Australia's psyche and soul like no other crime. A crime so shocking that it has often been described as a defining moment in this country's history. After 50 years of intense police investigation the whereabouts of Jane (9), Anna (7) and ...Show more
Throw Away the Key: Australian Justice's Hall of Shame by ST JOHN JOE
$26.95 AUD
Category: New True Crime
The Australian criminal justice system is littered with examples of dangerous criminals being released on parole, only for them to commit heinous crimes again. In a justice system where 'life' rarely means 'life', innocent Australian victims every year lose their lives as a result of the well-oiled revo ...Show more
Wakool Crossing: A Modern-day Investigation into the Mysterious Death of a Young Woman in 1916 by Mike Richards
$27.95 AUD
Category: New True Crime
In November 1916, just a few years after federation and while Australia was at war in Europe, Hazel Hood, the beautiful 18-year-old daughter of a Riverina grazier, went to a local dance and never came home. Her mysterious disappearance caused a sensation in the district around the pioneer settlement of ...Show more