The Altar Boys by Suzanne Smith
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: True Crime
Boys with everything to live for ... A community betrayed ... The whistle-blower priest who paid the ultimate price Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class community in Shortland, on the outskirts of Newcastle, New South Wales. Both proud altar boys at the ...Show more
The Australian Gamble: Organized Crime Down Under by Paul Bleakley
37.99 AUD
39.99 (5% off)
Category: True Crime | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The Australian Gamble explores Jack Rooklyns, the Bally gambling organization managing director, role as a thread that connects some of the best-recognized characters, and most pivotal events, in Australian criminal history. The Australian Gamble explores Jack Rooklyns role as a thread that connects som ...Show more
The People You Meet in Hell: A Troubling Almanac of the Very Worst Humans in History by Brian Boone; Pipi Sposito (Illustrator)
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: True Crime
True crime monsters, historic jerks, and Earth's lowest of the low get their due There's no rest for the wicked! Darkly hilarious and deeply satisfying, The People You Meet in Hell takes comedy roasts to a whole new subterranean level. This definitive guide to humanity's most despicable individuals ...Show more
Three Crooked Kings (10th anniversary) by Matthew Condon
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: True Crime
One of the landmark Australian true-crime books, with a new introduction following the death of disgraced Police Commissioner Terry Lewis. 'It was the genius of the system ... from day to day you didn't know who was on the take or not. You didn't know who you could trust.' Three Crooked Kings is the sho ...Show more
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
18.99 AUD
19.99 (5% off)
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: General Adult
In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. ...Show more
Accidental Death?: When things aren't as they seem by Robin Bowles
32.99 AUD
35.00 (5% off)
Category: True Crime
This collection of stories centres on the idea of 'accidental death', and the upheaval caused in the lives of those who lose a loved one in this way. Several of the cases examined here turned out, on investigation, not to be accidents at all. Some were crimes. Some remain unexplained; others were shown ...Show more
Australia’s Most Infamous Jail: Inside the Walls of Pentridge Prison by James Phelps
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
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
Bowraville by Dan Box
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: 2 Crime
A true crime story cannot often be believed, at least at the beginning. In Bowraville, all three of the victims were Aboriginal. All three were killed within five months, between 1990 and 1991. The same white man was linked to each, but nobody was convicted. More than two decades later, homicide detecti ...Show more
Broken Lives by Estelle Blackburn
31.50 AUD
32.99 (4% off)
Category: True Crime
Eric Edgar Cooke was the last man to hang in Western Australia. Between 1958 and his capture in September 1963, Cooke committed 22 murders and attempted murders that forever changed the face of Perth from a friendly big country town to a city of suspicion and fear. His fantasies and delusions led him to ...Show more
Defeating Terror: Behind the Hunt for the Bali Bombers by David Craig
28.50 AUD
29.99 (4% off)
Category: True Crime
In 2002 Australia was rocked by the terrorist bombings in Bali that killed 202 people, including 88 Australians. Then, in 2005 the country was rocked again by another bombing that claimed the lives of a further 20 people and injured 100 others. In Defeating Terror, former Australian Federal Police agent ...Show more
Drugs, Guns & Lies: My life as an undercover cop by Keith Banks, Ben Smith
21.99 AUD
22.99 (4% off)
Category: True Crime
'Undercover was like guerrilla warfare; to understand your enemy, you had to walk amongst them, to become them. The trick was to keep an eye on that important line between who you were and who you were pretending to be.' This is the true story of Keith Banks, one of Queensland's most decorated polic ...Show more
Ghosts of the Orphanage by Christine Kenneally
32.99 AUD
34.99 (5% off)
Category: True Crime
Ghosts of the Orphanage is the result of ten years of investigation by award-winning journalist Christine Kenneally. What she has uncovered is shocking, yet it was all hiding in plain sight. Terrible things, abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths have happened in orphanages all over the ...Show more