The Teacher's Pet by Hedley Thomas
$36.99 AUD
Category: 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
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice' JON KRAKAUER 'A fiercely entertaining mystery story and ...Show more
The Australian Gamble: Organized Crime Down Under by Paul Bleakley
$39.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The Australian Gamble explores Jack Rooklyns, the Bally gambling organization managing director, role as a thread that connects some of the best-recognized characters, and most pivotal events, in Australian criminal history. The Australian Gamble explores Jack Rooklyns role as a thread that connects som ...Show more
The Journalist and the Murderer by Janet Malcolm
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
'Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible'In equal measure famous and infamous, Janet Malcolm's book charts the true story of a lawsuit between Jeffrey MacDonald, a convicted murderer, and Joe McGinniss, the ...Show more
The Murder Squad: How Australia's toughest cops hunted the monsters of the Great Depression by Michael Adams
$34.99 AUD
Category: History & military
How the New South Wales Police Force's finest solved murders in one of the most tumultuous periods in Australian history As Australia sank into the darkest days of the Great Depression, a succession of bloody mysteries grabbed headlines and gripped the country. The Hammer Horror, The Bungendore Bones, T ...Show more
The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek by Kate Holden
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
True crime writing at its finest, from the multi award-winning, bestselling author of In My Skin.Winner of the 2021 Walkley Book Award, 2022 NSW Premiers Literary Awards- Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, and 2022 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award (non-fiction).In July 2014, on a lonely road at twiligh ...Show more
Badness: From the author of the number one bestselling crime book I CATCH KILLERS by Gary Jubelin
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The sequel to the #1 Bestseller, I Catch Killers In the cops we call it Badness, for the evil that we cannot understand. And yet I have to face it. Over 34 years in the police, I grew used to sitting on one side of the interview room table, facing murderers, child abductors and rapists. Now I have ...Show more
Collateral Damage - the Unintended Victims of Crime by Robin Bowles
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
For every crime, there are unintended victims. People living their lives until something happens to them or someone they love. Many are innocent; some are not perfect themselves. No matter their story, they are put in a terrible situation due to the crimes of another.
The Devil's Work by Garry Linnell
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Australia's Jack the Ripper and the serial murders that shocked the worldHe was a murderer, swindler, bigamist and suspect in the Jack the Ripper killings.Frederick Deeming was also the most hated man in the world.Claiming to be haunted by the ghost of his dead mother, Deeming had spent years roaming th ...Show more
Frank Sinatra and the Mafia Murders by Mike Rothmiller, Douglas Thompson
$28.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
New evidence reveals the extent to which Frank Sinatra’s life and career were inextricably linked with the Mafia, and how innocent people died, simply because they knew Sinatra, or had upset himIn Frank Sinatra and the Mafia Murders Mike Rothmiller and Douglas Thompson draw on previously secret Los Ange ...Show more
I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective by Gary Jubelin, Dan Box
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of a homicide detective. Here I am: tall and broad, shaved head, had my nose broken three times fighting. Black suit, white shirt, the big city homicide detective. I've led investigations into serial killing ...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