Missing, Presumed Dead: The double murder case that shocked Australia by Mark Tedeschi
32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
It was the double murder case that gripped Australia, and former Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC is finally able to share all the shocking details.Dorothy Davis and Kerry Whelan were both happy, healthy, affluent, middle-class women from conservative, loving families.Such women are hardly ever among t ...Show more
Pegasus by Laurent Richard, Sandrine Rigaud
30.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The gripping, behind-the scenes story of one of the most sophisticated surveillance weapons ever created, which is threatening democracy and human rights. 'Absorbing . . . a celebration of journalism and hacking being used to unmask the bad guys' - Guardian Pegasus is widely regarded as the most power ...Show more
The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey: A true story of sex, crime and the meaning of justice by Julia Laite
22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
An extraordinary story.
Australia's Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail by James Phelps
34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
CONVICTED rapist Bilal Skaf would not shut-up. "Give me a cigarette," he screamed. For 15 minutes he repeated the three words, his demands driving the other prisoners mad. Just give him a cigarette chief," yelled one of the inmates, his plea bouncing of the cold concrete walls. "Shut the rapist up," scr ...Show more
Shepherds and Butchers by Chris Marnewick
22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
South Africa, 1987. Apartheid. When Leon, a white 19-year-old prison guard working on death row commits an inexplicable act of violence, killing seven black men in a hail of bullets, the outcome of the trial - and the court's sentence - seems a foregone conclusion. Hotshot lawyer John Weber (played by S ...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
Certain Admissions: A Beach, A Body and a Lifetime of Secrets by Gideon Haigh
32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Who killed Beth Williams? On a warm evening in December 1949, two young people met by chance under the clocks at Flinders Street railway station. They decided to have a night on the town. The next morning, one of them, twenty-year-old typist Beth Williams, was found dead on Middle Park Beach. When polic ...Show more
The Strange Case of Thomas Quick: The Swedish Serial Killer and the Psychoanalyst Who Created Him by Dan Josefsson
32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In 1991 Sture Bergwall, a petty criminal and drug addict, botched an armed robbery so badly that he was deemed to be more in need of therapy than punishment. He was committed to Sater, Sweden's equivalent of Broadmoor, and began a course of psychotherapy and psychoactive drugs. During the therapy, he be ...Show more
The Mile End Murder: The Case Conan Doyle Couldn't Solve by Sinclair McKay
39.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On Thursday 17 August, 1860, wealthy widow Mary Emsley was found dead in her own home, killed by a blow to the back of her head. What followed was a murder case that gripped the nation. A veritable locked room mystery, there were an abundance of suspects, from disgruntled step children concerned about t ...Show more
Rex V Edith Thompson: A Tale of Two Murders by Laura Thompson
22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'Another dark parable of society's vilification of women. Intelligent ... A tantalizing investigation' Kate Colquhoun. On the night of 3 October 1922, in the quiet suburb of Ilford, Edith Thompson and her husband Percy were walking home after an evening spent at a London theatre, when a man sprang out ...Show more
Conspiracies Uncovered by Lee Mellor
19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Enter a hidden world of mysteries, scandals, secrets, and lies Perhaps it is human nature to believe there is more to the world than meets the eye - that the greatest secrets and truths are hidden from us. Whatever the reason, conspiracy theories are a global phenomenon. Conspiracies Uncovered delves in ...Show more
Public Enemies: Ray Denning, Russell (Maddog) Cox an the Golden Age of Armed Robbery by Mark Dapin
32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The gripping and revealing inside story of Australia's most notorious armed robbers.