Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Guilty but Insane by Christopher Berry-Dee
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A study of convicted murderers who have attempted to escape justice, and even the death penalty, by entering a plea of insanity - and sometimes succeeded The plea of insanity in criminal cases can be traced back at least to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which dates from 1755-1759 BC. It is a complic ...Show more
The Outside: Cheating Death, Chasing Waves and Growing Up in One of Australia’s Most Notorious Crime Families by Larry Blair and Jeremy Goring
$36.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Larry Blair shot to fame at barely 20 years of age when he became a double-winner of Hawaii’s Pipeline Masters – the biggest and most dangerous prize in surfing. He became a household name, appearing in soapies, on milk cartons and in TV ads for Levi’s and Coke. But Larry was harbouring the deadliest ...Show more
The Last Escape: The man behind the most daring jailbreak in Australian history by New Holland Publishers
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Career criminal John Killick was involved in the most audacious prison break in Australian history when he escaped from Sydney’s Silverwater prison after his partner in crime Lucy Dudko commandeered a scenic helicopter flight at gunpoint. Australia’s ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ spent 45 days on the run before be ...Show more
I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective by Gary Jubelin, Dan Box
$27.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of a homicide detective. Here I am: tall and broad, shaved head, had my nose broken three times fighting. Black suit, white shirt, the big city homicide detective. I've led investigations into serial killing ...Show more
The Devil's Butterfly: Hunting Australia's first serial killer by Jason K. Foster
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
This is a strange and gripping tale of one of Australia's most notorious criminals.' - TROY LENNON - ByTheBook, Sydney Daily Telegraph From goldfields to gallows - the international manhunt for Australia's first serial killer. The Devil's Butterfly is the harrowing true story of the killer conman, Fra ...Show more
A Woman of Force by Mark Morri
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
They call her 'the gangbuster'. The police force can be a tough place for a woman, but Detective Superintendent Deborah Wallace rose to the top with grace, humour and an iconic sense of style. In her incredible 36-year career with NSW Police, Wallace took on murderers and drug suppliers, and dismantled ...Show more
Backup Is Three Hours Away: A Raw Account of Remote Area Policing by Mark Tregellas
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Embark on a gripping adventure with Mark 'Trigger' Tregellas in Backup is Three Hours Away, a true crime memoir chronicling nearly three decades of policing Victoria's remote coastal region. Trigger never knew what each shift would bring – tragedy, laughter, adventure, danger – sometimes all on the same ...Show more
Confronting Murderous Men: Australian Police Slain in the Line of Duty 1922-1952 by Alan Leek
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In the turbulent years from 1922 to 1952, Australia witnessed a chilling toll as twenty-two dedicated police officers sacrificed their lives in the line of duty. Others fell with them.Emerging from the shadows of World War I, the nation, newly minted and resilient, navigated through The Great Depression ...Show more
Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Letters from Serial Killers by Christopher Berry-Dee
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A unique study of the criminal mind based on the author's extensive correspondence with convicted serial murderers
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill, Dan Piepenbring
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
______________________________ A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories about the FBI's involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation of one of the most infamous cases in American history. Twenty years ago, reporting for a routine magazine p ...Show more
Seventy Times Seven: A True Story of Murder and Mercy by Alex Mar
$39.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime - and its extraordinary aftermath. A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl's shocking crime — and its extraordinary aftermath.On a spring afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a fif ...Show more
Sins of the Brother by Les Kennedy, Mark Whittaker
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'Sins of the Brother exposes the dark underbelly of the Australian dream' - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Seven young backpackers brutally murdered. A nationwide police hunt spanning three years and thousands of hours of forensic investigation. And finally, the capture and conviction of one man. Sins of the Bro ...Show more