Australia's Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail by James Phelps
22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Welcome to Long Bay, Australia's hardest prison. For the first time, guards and inmates of the notorious South Sydney facility reveal what really goes on behind its towering concrete walls. Opened in 1909, Long Bay Jail, originally a women's reformatory, has a dark and extraordinary history. From ghosts ...Show more
Agatha Christie's True Crime Inspirations by Mike Holgate
24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: History Press Ser.
Fact proves far stranger than fiction in this collection of real-life crimes, scandals, tragedies and murders which either influenced the works of the world's most popular mystery writer or affected the lives of many famous personalities involved in her long and brilliant career. Discover the truth behi ...Show more
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
23.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Winner, Honorable Mention, 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards, True Crime category Helen Garner won a 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for her outstanding contribution to international literature. 'Garner's book is superbly alive to the narrative dynamics of the case; she tells a grim story of unhappy ...Show more
Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins (Legend film tie-in) by John Pearson
22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The classic, bestselling account of the infamous Kray twins which will be brought to the main screen this autumn as Legend, a film directed by Academy Award winner Brian Helgeland and starring Tom Hardy. Also published as 'The Profession of Violence'. Reggie and Ronnie Kray ruled London's gangland durin ...Show more
Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI and a Devil's Deal by Dick Lehr
19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
This is The New York Times Best-seller. This is a gripping true story of violence, double-cross and corruption, Black Mass takes us deep undercover, exposing one of the most outrageous scandals in FBI history. Boston, 1975. Under a harvest moon,'Whitey' Bulger, godfather of the Irish Mob, waits for an o ...Show more
A Different Class of Murder by Laura Thompson
19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
On 7 November 1974, a nanny named Sandra Rivett was bludgeoned to death in a Belgravia basement. A second woman, Veronica, Countess of Lucan, was also attacked. The man named in court as perpetrator of these crimes, Richard John Bingham, 7th Earl of Lucan, disappeared in the early hours of the following ...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
LAPD '53 by James Ellroy
29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
James Ellroy, the undisputed master and artist of crime writing, has teamed up with the Los Angeles Police Museum to expose the lurid underside of LA in the mid 1950s. After combing through the photo archives of the LA Police Museum, he discovered that 1953 featured the most unusual and striking imagery ...Show more
All Fall Down by Matthew Condon
32.95 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Three Kings part 3
The gripping finale to Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers brings to a close Matthew Condon's bestselling true crime trilogy. In 1983, the soon-to-be-knighted Police Commissioner Terry Lewis continues to turn a blind eye to the operation of The Joke, a highly organised system of graft payments from ...Show more
Blood Money: Bikies, Terrorists and Middle Eastern Gangs by Clive Small; Tom Gilling
24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Organized crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has broken old taboos and formed alliances that would have once been unthinkable. So who now holds the power? There are the Middle Eastern gangs whose core business is drugs, ...Show more
Murder in Mississippi by John Safran
22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'One of the best pieces of sustained, rigorous journalism I've read in twenty years. It is absolutely magnificent - smart, and wry, and emotional too.' Caroline Overington When filming his TV series Race Relations, John Safran spent an uneasy couple of days with one of Mississippi's most notorious whit ...Show more
Jacks and Jokers by Matthew Condon
29.95 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Three Kings part 2
The gripping second instalment of the rise--and spectacular fall--of one man, an entire state, and generations of corruption. "The message was powerfully clear. If you threatened the harmony of the Joke, you didn't last long." 1976. Terry Lewis, exiled in western Queensland, is soon to be controversia ...Show more