Crime and Punishment: Offenders and Victims in a Broken Justice System by Russell Marks
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Redback Ser.
If the goal of our justice system is to reduce crime and create a safer society, then we must do better. According to conventional wisdom, severely punishing offenders reduces the likelihood that they'll offend again. Why, then, do so many who go to prison continue to commit crimes after their relea ...Show more
My Friend Anna by Rachel DeLoache Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'A Catch Me If You Can for the internet age... What Anna did was make Instagram flesh.' Guardian 'Anna looked at the soul of New York and recognized that if you distract people with shiny objects, they will be virtually unable to see anything else. And the thing was: it was so easy.' New York Magazine ...Show more
Ice Nation: Cracking an Ice Syndicate: A Detective's Gripping Inside Story by Jason Bray
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
When the young and impressionable sons and daughters of rural Australia were promised power and riches beyond their wildest dreams by an older sadistic boss, they become a highly manipulated and dangerous group of drug dealers. Intent on distributing their own brand of ice and justice into regional comm ...Show more
The Murder of Sonny Liston: A Story of Fame, Heroin, Boxing & Las Vegas by Shaun Assael
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On January 5th 1971, former heavyweight champion Sonny Liston was found dead at his Las Vegas home. Liston's death, labelled an overdose, has long hung over Las Vegas and the boxing world, leaving unanswered questions about his ties to mob kingpins, drug lords, billionaire hoteliers and powerful promote ...Show more
Flash Jim: The astonishing story of the convict fraudster who wrote Australia's first dictionary by Kel Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The astonishing story of James Hardy Vaux, writer of Australia's first dictionary and first true-crime memoir If you wear 'togs', tell a 'yarn', call someone 'sly', or refuse to 'snitch' on a friend then you are talking like a convict.These words, and hundreds of others, once left colonial magistrates b ...Show more
Roadmap to Hell: Sex, Drugs and Guns on the Mafia Coast by Barbie Latza Nadeau
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
"The book, built on interviews with many participants, is well-reported and consistently heartbreaking.... a useful work of advocacy, calling attention to a terrible traffic in human misery."" -- Kirkus Reviews "Roadmap to Hell is a crusading piece of journalism that exposes the human face of Italy's ...Show more
Walking Towards Thunder: The true story of a whistle-blowing cop who took on corruption and the church by Peter Fox
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: near fine
'All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.' Former Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox is a hero in many people's eyes. A police officer with 36 years' service in the Hunter region, he rose to national prominence in 2012 for his major role in speaking out for the victims ...Show more
Deal with the Devil by Grace Tobin
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
What Mark and Faye Leveson have endured to discover the truth about the mysterious death of their son Matt is unfathomable. For the ten years after Matt?s disappearance in September 2007, they tirelessly searched bushland for his body and doggedly pursued the man they believed responsible, Michael Atkin ...Show more
Pablo Escobar: My Father by Juan Pablo Escobar
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of the most infamous drug lord of all time, Pablo Escobar - from books to film to the cult series 'Narcos'. But these versions have always been told from the outside, only capturing half the truth, and ...Show more
All-American Murder by James Patterson
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'The man behind the hugely popular Alex Cross series has interviewed those closest to Hernandez to get the full, winding story on the NFL star turned murderer.' Sun 'Patterson unravels Hernandez's complicated and troubling story.' CBS News 'This disturbing true-crime thriller is another fast and capti ...Show more
Darkest Web: Hitmen for Hire, Drugs for Sale. Inside the Dangerous World That Lurks Beneath the Bright, Friendly Light of Your Internet Screen by Eileen Ormsby
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Hitmen for hire, drugs for sale. Inside the dangerous world that lurks beneath the bright, friendly light of your internet screen.
Griffith Wars TPB by Tom Gilling; Terry Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a problem for the mafia. Instead it roused the law-abiding citizens of Griffith to fight against the powerful criminal elements who had made their town synonymous with drugs and murder. Drawing on the personal diaries and memories of Terry Jones - wh ...Show more