The Outlaw and the Hitman by Caesar Campbell
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Caesar's back ... and this time Death rides with him.It's 2015. Legendary enforcer Caesar Campbell has been shot again. As the original Bandido wavers between life and death, he uses what may be his last gasps to reflect on four extraordinary decades in the Australian Badlands ...The Outlaw and the Hitm ...Show more
Jailbreak: 25 Unforgettable Australian Prison Escapes by Wendy Lewis
$29.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
This book chronicles the pick of Australian jailbreaks. The most notorious prisons and escapees are here - names like Grafton, Pentridge and Boggo Road, Russell 'Mad Dog' Cox, Ray Denning and Darcy Dugan. These are extraordinary stories, ranging from sheer brutality to love-conquers-all. Some are full o ...Show more
Suburban Nightmare by Emily Webb
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Think nothing ever happens where you live? Suburban Nightmare is a collection of stories that are hard to believe, except they really happened – and all in the streets and homes of the Australia many of us know and live. The suburbs. These cases range from recent murders to some historical stories tha ...Show more
The Case of the Chocolate Cream Killer: The Poisonous Passion of Christiana Edmunds by Kaye Jones
$39.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
"The trial which terminated yesterday...revealed one of the strangest and most horrible stories possibly ever told in a court of justice." (Morning Post). When the news broke in 1871 of a series of mysterious poisonings in Brighton, shock and horror gripped the Victorian public. Even more disturbing wa ...Show more
Mayhem by Matthew Thompson
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Christopher 'Badness' Binse is serving a crushing eighteen years in isolation. The once cocky outlaw who reaped hundreds of thousands of dollars in daring heists, who broke out of two prisons, who romanced the daughter of a Great Bookie Robber and who, as the most wanted man in Australia, was photograph ...Show more
The Family by Chris Johnston; Rosie Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: 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
Charlatan by Catherine Jinks
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Thomas Guthrie Carr is charged by Eliza Gray with mesmerising her and raping her while she was under his influence. But if mesmerism and Mr Carr are shams, was Eliza raped? In the tradition of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Charlatan is the story of a notorious nineteenth-century court case involving a l ...Show more
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels by Matthew Benns
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A highly entertaining, scurrilous and fascinating book on Australian con men (and women) and all their dirty, devious tricks. There are con men you fear and con men you hate, and con men with amazing stories who take your breath away with their dirty tricks and sheer brazen effontery. How do they get aw ...Show more
The Secret Life: Three True Stories by Andrew O'Hagan
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
The slippery online ecosystem is the perfect breeding ground for identities: true, false, and in between. The Internet shorthand IRL-"in real life"-now seems naïve. We no longer question the reality of online experiences but the reality of selfhood in the digital age.In The Secret Life, the essayist and ...Show more
Mind Behind The Crime by Cheryl Critchley, Helen McGrath
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Nurses and neighbours, partners and parents - all murderers who shocked Australia with the severity of their crimes. But what makes them tick?Society couple Michael O'Neill and Stuart Rattle had it all - their lavish country property, their interior design business - until Michael bludgeoned Stuart to d ...Show more
The Murder Gang - Fleet Street's Elite Group of Crime Reporters in the Golden Age of Tabloid Crime by Neil Root
$44.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The Murder Gang recounts the remarkable true story of the elite group of renegade Fleet Street crime reporters who covered the most famous British murders between the mid-1930s and the mid-1960s, when murder dominated the front and inside pages of the tabloid newspapers. Members of the "Murder Gang" dra ...Show more
A Shrink in the Clink by Tim Watson-Munro
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
From the author of the extraordinary memoir, Dancing with DemonsDRUG LORDS. DEVIANTS. BLACK WIDOWS. HIT MEN. RIOT GIRLS. MASS MURDERERS. PSYCHOS.No one gets closer to Australia's craziest characters than 'Doc' Tim Watson-Munro, a criminal psychologist with 40 years' experience assessing the mad, bad and ...Show more