The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A gripping true-crime investigation of the 1948 abduction of 11-year-old Sally Horner, which brings the forgotten girl--and the two years she was forced to pretend she was the daughter of her kidnapper and abuser--back to life. The real-life inspiration of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Vladimir Nabokov's L ...Show more
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson comes this comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre-the largest murder-suicide in American history. In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curio ...Show more
The Schoolgirl Strangler (PB) by Katherine Kovacic
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The shocking true story of a serial killer in 1930s Melbourne.
The Snakehead: An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream by Patrick Radden Keefe
$36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: near fine
In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York's Chinatown, managed a multimillion-dollar business smuggling people.
The Spy Who Was Left Behind - Russia, the United States, and the True Story of the Betrayal and Assassination of a CIA Agent by Michael Pullara
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The shocking true story of international intrigue --"a highly detailed, engrossing work" (Kirkus Reviews)--involving the 1993 murder of CIA officer Freddie Woodruff by KGB agents and the extensive cover-up that followed in Washington and in Moscow. "In a post-truth era, we need a lot more fearless write ...Show more
The Suicide Bride: A Mystery of Tragedy and Family Secrets in Edwardian Sydney by Tanya Bretherton
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: The\Australian Crime Vau Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
From the author of the acclaimed THE SUITCASE BABY - shortlisted for the Ned Kelly and Nib awards - comes the chilling story of a charlatan, a murder-suicide, and a family tree so twisted that it sprouts monsters. Whenever society produces a depraved criminal, we wonder: is it nature or is it nurture? W ...Show more
The Suitcase Baby by Tanya Bretherton
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: The\Australian Crime Vau Ser.
True history that is both shocking and too real, this unforgettable tale moves at the pace of a great crime novel. In the early hours of Saturday morning, 17 November 1923, a suitcase was found washed up on the shore of a small beach in the Sydney suburb of Mosman. What it contained - and why - would p ...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 Umbrella Murder: The Hunt for the Cold War's Most Notorious Killer by Ulrik Skotte
$36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A revealing, page-turning story of the most iconic Cold War spy killing of all time, for fans of Ben Macintyre, Henry Hemming and the novels of John Le Carre and Mick Herron. London, September 1978- exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered in broad daylight on Waterloo Bridge with a poison-t ...Show more
The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek by Kate Holden
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
An epic true story of greed, power and a desire for legacy from an acclaimed Australian storyteller. July 2014, a lonely road at twilight outside Croppa Creek, New South Wales: 80-year-old farmer Ian Turnbull takes out a .22 and shoots environmental officer Glen Turner in the back. On one side, a farmer ...Show more
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
$23.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Winner, Honorable Mention, 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards, True Crime category Helen Garner won a 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for her outstanding contribution to international literature. 'Garner's book is superbly alive to the narrative dynamics of the case; she tells a grim story of unhappy ...Show more
Tokyo Noir: In and out of Japan's underworld by Jake Adelstein
$36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A darkly comic sequel to Tokyo Vicethat is equal parts history lesson, true-crime exposé, and memoir. It's 2008, and it's been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijincrime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking cl ...Show more