The Lady Vanishes by Alison Sandy, Bryan Seymour, Sally Eeles, Marc Wright
Category: True Crime
A much-loved mother, teacher and friend steps on a plane for an overseas adventure and is never seen again. Australia's most extraordinary missing persons case is examined by the journalists who created the global hit podcast into the disappearance of Marion Barter, a mother of two who simply vanished. ...Show more
Crimes of the Cross: The Anglican Paedophile Network of Newcastle, Its Protectors and the Man Who Fought for Justice by Anne Manne
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
The Last Victim: A serial con man. The ultimate betrayal. An unbreakable woman. The full story behind the relationship made famous by the hit podcast Who the Hell is Hamish? by Tracy Hall, Summer Land
Category: True Crime
When Who the Hell is Hamish? hit podcast platforms in 2019, Tracy Hall quickly became known as the last victim of one of the world's most prolific con men, Hamish McLaren. At last, Tracy is sharing the full story of how she overcame financial and emotional betrayal in this fast-paced, witty and empoweri ...Show more
The Outback Court Reporter by Jamelle Wells
Category: True Crime
Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on inside the country courtrooms dotted across Australia. From the case of the stolen cat flap, to missing lollipops and exploding chocolate milk in a country supermarket, to a custody dispute over a camel - Ja ...Show more
Homicide Hill - Far-West NSW Homicide Handbook by Nathan Carnie
Category: True Crime
Once acknowledged as the fastest-growing city in Australia, Broken Hill first became recognised for its vast deposits of silver, copper, and zinc. With a sudden influx of workers, just in order to make a dollar, its residents sacrificed the compelling struggles of its rigorous landscape, gruelling clima ...Show more
Australia's Most Infamous Criminals: Gripping stories of bold heists, clever scams and mysterious murders by Graham Seal
Category: True Crime
Page turning stories of inventive scams, dramatic escapes and captures, and vile deeds of our most infamous criminals. 'Graham Seal finds and writes ripper, fair-dinkum, true blue Aussie yarns. His books are great reads.'-The Weekly Times Australia's master storyteller trawls our rich history of cold ca ...Show more
The Man Who Wasn't There by Dan Box
Category: True Crime
A true story about lies, murder and the Territory 'Sorry, mate, but that's the message.' Zak says to grow some balls and defend him. You've got to remember he is still a young bloke, stuck in Darwin prison where it's always hot, the food is slop and they get rats in the wet season. It's not enough jus ...Show more
The Teacher's Pet by Hedley Thomas
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
Meth Road: A life-and-death investigation following the world's most destructive narcotic to Australia by Conor Woodman
Category: True Crime
A wild and dangerous ride from the world's main meth source, a lawless Asian narco-state, to its most valuable market: Australia. When he received an SOS from a friend kidnapped in a dark corner of Asia, journalist Conor Woodman began a journey that would lead him to the most dangerous and least underst ...Show more
Australia’s Most Infamous Jail: Inside the Walls of Pentridge Prison by James Phelps
Category: True Crime
THE NEW BOOK FROM AUSTRALIA'S BESTSELLING TRUE CRIME AUTHOR In a long-awaited return to his best-selling prison series, James Phelps will lift the lid on Australia's most infamous prison - HM Prison Pentridge, the former home of Mark 'Chopper' Reed and Ned Kelly.From Jika Jika to the execution of Ronald ...Show more
Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy by Alex Mar
Category: True Crime
A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime - and its extraordinary aftermath. A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime — and its extraordinary aftermath.On a spring afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a fif ...Show more
The Good Cop by Justine Ford
Category: True Crime
'A - Assume nothing. B - Believe nothing. C - Check everything.' - Ron IddlesIn an incredible 25 year career as a homicide detective, Ron Iddles's conviction rate was 99 percent. Yet that only partly explains why Iddles is known to cops and crims alike as 'The Great Man'.Tough, inventive and incorruptib ...Show more