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 Real Mary Kelly by Wynne Weston-Davies
32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
Many researchers have tried over the decades to discover Mary Jane Kelly's true identity. She was the final and most brutally murdered victim of Jack the Ripper, but almost nothing is known about her family or her earlier life. In this thrilling book, Mary's great-nephew Wynne Weston-Davies, who is an a ...Show more
The Drowned Man: A True Story of Life, Death and Murder on HMAS Australia by Brendan James Murray
32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
A chance encounter in a fish-'n'-chip shop set Brendan Murray on the trail of a mystery. Had a gay man been secretly murdered on HMAS Australia during the Second World War? The veteran he spoke to was certain. 'I knew about it,' he said. 'We all did.' But was the story true? If so, who was the dead man? ...Show more
The Worst Woman in Sydney: The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh by Leigh Straw
29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Matriarch of the criminal underworld ...or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney? The legend of Kate Leigh, Sydney's famed brothel madam, sly grog seller and drug dealer, has loomed large in TV's Underbelly and every other account of Sydney's criminal history from the 1920s to the 1960s. But she has never had ...Show more
The Secret by Deric Henderson
22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The killer dentist, his mistress, how they murdered their spouses - and how they almost got away with it. Now a major four-part ITV drama starring James Nesbitt: 'Unswitchoffable' Guardian 'James Nesbitt is at his magnetic best' The Times 'The most grown up drama of the week and it's brilliant' Observer ...Show more
Little Fish are Sweet by Matthew Condon
32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime
"I recall meeting Lewis on a number of occasions in company with Tony Murphy. I recall conversation getting around to payments of money with Murphy and Lewis. Lewis thanked me on several occasions and said 'Little fish are sweet." --Jack 'The Bagman' Herbert in evidence to the Fitzgerald Inquiry 1988. L ...Show more
Fear of 13 by Nicholas Yarris
35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
This is the memoir of Nick Yarris, who was wrongly convicted of rape and murder and spent 22 years on Death Row. While he was in prison, to keep himself sane, Nick educated himself (including learning about triskaidekaphobia, the fear of 13 which gives the book its name). Later, as the technology devel ...Show more
Hope: A Memoir of Survival by Amanda Berry
24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again...Now we want the world to know: we survived, we are free, we love life.' On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry made headlines around the world when she fled a Cleveland home and called 911, saying: "Help me, I'm Amanda Berry.. ...Show more
Stars, Cars and Crystal Meth by Jack Sutherland
29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: General Adult
Jack Sutherland, the narrator and protagonist of this memoir has, you might say, led a charmed life in the face of seeming damnation. A confirmed alcoholic in his early teens, by his twenties he was PA and bodyguard to the Hollywood stars most notably Michael Stipe, Ru Paul and Mickey Rourke. His work t ...Show more
Bandit: A Daughter's Memoir by Molly Brodak
32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'Raw, poetic and compulsively readable ...I can't wait to buy a copy for everyone I know.' Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help Aged thirteen, Molly Brodak arrived home to discover that her father had been arrested for pulling over a dozen bank robberies in the Detroit area. After seven years in jail, h ...Show more
Busted by Keith Moor
35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Bestselling writer and organised-crime expert Keith Moor takes us behind the headlines of the world's biggest seizure of ecstasy to expose a sophisticated mafia network in Australia. In 2007, Melbourne customs officials intercepted 15 million ecstasy tablets hidden in 3000 tomato tins arriving from Napl ...Show more
Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students - had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a mas ...Show more