A Woman I Know: female spies, double identities, and a new story of the Kennedy assassination by Mary Haverstick
$36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: near fine
The true story of a filmmaker whose unexpected investigation of her film's subject opened a new window onto the world of Cold War espionage, CIA secrets, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Independent filmmaker Mary Haverstick thought she'd stumbled onto the project of a lifetime - a biopic of a ...Show more
Borgata #1: Rise of Empire: A History of the American Mafia by Louis Ferrante
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Historians have previously glazed over the mafia's formative years. In this first volume, Ferrante explores its Sicilian roots, before following a cast of larger-than-life characters who arrived as fugitives on American shores. Through these and other lives - including legendary mobsters Lucky Luciano, ...Show more
Crimes of the Cross: The Anglican Paedophile Network of Newcastle, Its Protectors and the Man Who Fought for Justice by Anne Manne
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A searing expose of institutional child abuse, and the remarkable story of the survivors who would not be silenced For many years, Newcastle was the centre of an extensive paedophile network run by members of the Anglican church - and protected by parishioners and community members who looked the other ...Show more
Framed by Stuart Rosson
$26.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
“Framed” blows the lid off one of Melbourne’s most puzzling secrets: Who stole Picasso’s Weeping Woman from the NGV in 1986. Written by the brother of the brilliant artist who was framed for the crime, “Framed” draws on never-before-revealed information told to the author before his brother died. “Frame ...Show more
Hearts of Darkness by Jana Monroe
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
For fans of Mindhunter and Criminal Minds, a chilling account of a woman facing down serial killers as one of the first female profilers of the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit and real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice Starling 'Jana Monroe is the single most influential woman to ever serve ...Show more
Life Sentence - The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimores Deadliest Gang Leader by Mark Bowden
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Bestselling author Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offering an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader.
Pain Hustlers - Film Tie-In by Evan Hughes
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Now a major film streaming on NETFLIX'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. A tour de force.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, award-winning author of Empire of Pain'Everyone should read this book' - Sheelagh Kolhatkar, author of Black EdgeJohn Kapoor had already made a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he ...Show more
Sitdowns with Gangsters by Shaun Attwood; Christopher Berry-Dee (Foreword by)
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Featuring an introduction from the UK's bestselling true-crime author, Christopher Berry-Dee.Shaun Attwood is the man who talks to gangsters, drug lords and mafia bosses. Infamously known for his time as the head of an international ecstasy ring in Arizona, Shaun has since turned to gaining the trust of ...Show more
The Devil's Butterfly: Hunting Australia's first serial killer by Jason K. Foster
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
This is a strange and gripping tale of one of Australia's most notorious criminals.' - TROY LENNON - ByTheBook, Sydney Daily Telegraph From goldfields to gallows - the international manhunt for Australia's first serial killer. The Devil's Butterfly is the harrowing true story of the killer conman, Fra ...Show more
The Haunting of Borley Rectory - The Story of a Ghost Story by Sean O'Connor
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Marianne Foyster, Harry Price and the most haunted house in England - the perfect read for Halloween. 'Borley Rectory is perhaps the definition of an old haunt, still exerting an extraordinary grip on the popular imagination... Balanced, surprising and strangely moving' Mark Gatiss In 1928, Eric and Ma ...Show more
The Killer's Game: Murder, Lies and Stolen Lives by Jane Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Exposing Captain Starlight's twisted life of crime and deceit. Who was 'Captain Starlight'? When a respectable public servant dies suddenly under suspicious circumstances, the authorities are baffled. Who really was the dead man? Was he an Irish nobleman fallen on hard times - or a conman, a forger, ...Show more
The Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld by Jake Adelstein
$36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start fr ...Show more