All That Remains - A Life in Death by Sue Black
Category: True Crime
For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality. Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist. She has lived her life eye to eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about it in this book, ...Show more
Mafia Hits by M. A. Frasca
Category: True Crime
Since the late 19th century, the Mafia has been a presence in North America using intimidation and worse to exert its control over organized crime in the major cities and beyond - anything from loansharking to bootlegging during Prohibition to extortion, kidnapping and racketerring. Throughout the 20th ...Show more
Hello, Shadowlands - Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia by Patrick Winn
Category: True Crime
'Reads like a thriller you can't put down' - Megha Rajagopalan, China Bureau Chief, Buzzfeed News 'ensures you'll never think about Southeast Asia in the same way ever again.' - Geographical Magazine Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlandsreveals a boomi ...Show more
The Popcorn Gangster (Chopper #10 1/2) by Mark Brandon Read
Category: True Crime
A new title in the series from Mark 'Chopper' Read, whose life was recently mythologised in film with Eric Bana as Chopper.
Talking With Psychopaths and Savages: Beyond Evil by Christopher Berry-Dee
Category: True Crime
Bestselling author Christopher Berry-Dee is back with a companion volume that delves even deeper into the savage world of psychopaths and their hideous crimes.
Don Vito and the Mafia: Living with My Father's Secrets by Massimo Ciancimino
Category: True Crime
Vito Ciancimino - Don Vito da Corleone - spent forty years in the grip of death, mafia, politics, business deals and the secret service. Don Vito recounts years of previously censored contacts between politicians and the mafia - between the Italian State and the Cosa Nostra. The key witness is Massimo, ...Show more
Gangland North South and West by Susanna/Morton, James Lobez
Category: True Crime
The last volume in the best-selling series, Gangland North, South and West looks at crime in South and Western Australia, Northern Territory and Tasmania. In addition to contract killing, prostitution, robbery, illegal gambling and the stand-over game, in these regions there has been a healthy living to ...Show more
Murders, Mysteries and Hauntings by John Pinkney
Category: True Crime
* Two of John Pinkney's most popular books, Great Australian Mysteries and Haunted, in one volume. THE AUSTRALIAN CONTINENT has challenged us with its mysteries since the earliest days of settlement. In this unique book, bestselling Australian author John Pinkney chronicles the most tantalising of these ...Show more
Big Shots: The Chilling Inside Story of Carl Williams and the by Adam Shand
Category: True Crime
This is the inside story of how a family feud became a grab for a multi-billion-dollar prize. It is also the author's personal journey into the lives of Australia's first celebrity gangsters, the police who pursued them and the media's role in creating and destroying them.
The Price of Life: The True Story of an Australian Held to Ransom for 462 Days by Nigel Brennan
Category: True Crime
August 2008, Bundaberg photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels to Somalia with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout. They are abducted by a criminal gang, brutalised, and kept in isolation and ignorance. The ransom amount is US$3 million; if it's not paid, they will be killed. And the Australian government d ...Show more
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Category: True Crime
"The Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and its amazing 'White City' was one of the most spectacular the world has ever seen. This is the incredible story of its realization, and of the two men whose fates it linked, and architect and a serial killer. The architect was Daniel H. Burnham, the chief builder of ...Show more
Black Widow: The True Story of Australia's First Female Serial Killer by Carol Baxter
Category: True Crime
Never before in the hundred year history of Australia has a female prisoner become so notorious as Louisa Collins.' - Evening News Two inquests, four trials, three hung juries and the executioner...but was Louisa Collins really a husband killer? Was she the callous adulteress, drunkard and liar known as ...Show more