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The Winter Road: A Killing at Croppa Creek by Kate Holden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
An epic true story of greed, power and a desire for legacy from an acclaimed Australian storyteller. July 2014, a lonely road at twilight outside Croppa Creek, New South Wales: 80-year-old farmer Ian Turnbull takes out a .22 and shoots environmental officer Glen Turner in the back. On one side, a farmer ...Show more
Far From Home: A True Story of Murder, Loss and a Mother's Courage by Rosie Ayliffe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
British mother Rosie Ayliffe thought her 21-year-old daughter, Mia, would be safe travelling around Australia on a gap year. But Mia wanted to extend her visa and in order to do that needed to find 88 days of work on a farm - a requirement that would lead to catastrophic events. Four short days after Mi ...Show more
Husband Poisoner by Tanya Bretherton
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members. For readers of compelling history and true crime, from critically acclaimed author Tanya Bretherton. After World War II, Sydney experienced a crime wave that was chilli ...Show more
Witness by Louise Milligan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
A masterful and deeply troubling expose, Witness is the culmination of almost five years' work for award-winning investigative journalist Louise Milligan. Charting the experiences of those who have the courage to come forward and face their abusers in high-profile child abuse and sexual assault cases, M ...Show more
The Missing : Novel based on true story of Fritz Haarmann by Dirk Kurbjuweit
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
Hanover, 1923. Boys are vanishing, one after another, without a trace. At first police suspect political motivations-perhaps the missing boys are communists, defecting to the newly formed USSR, or victims of the rising Nazi Party. Soon, however, Inspector Robert Lahnstein begins to believe even more sin ...Show more
Barrenjoey Road by Ruby Jones; Neil Mercer (As told to)
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
A gripping expose of a notorious cold case 1978. An idyllic beachside community. A series of abductions and rapes. So what happened to Trudie Adams? The disappearance of 18-year-old Trudie Adams while hitchhiking home on Sydney's northern beaches in 1978 left her family and community devastated. When ...Show more
The First Stone: 25th Anniversary Edition by Helen Garner
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
In the autumn of 1992, two young women students at Melbourne University went to the police claiming that they had been indecently assaulted at a party. The man they accused was the head of their co-ed residential college. The First Stone has been reviled and revered. At the time of publication, its auth ...Show more
Dirty Gold The Rise and Fall of an International Smuggling Ring by Jay Weaver
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
All that glitters is not gold. Gold is the new cocaine - and it's just as lucrative, dangerous, and destructive. __________ Dirty Gold is a searing expose on the booming gold mining industry and destruction on the land and people of Latin America. It looks closely at a small US firm in Miami that help ...Show more
In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences by Truman Capote
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those i ...Show more
The Secret Barrister - Stories of the Law and How It's Broken by The Secret Barrister
$18.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
"I'm a barrister, a job which requires the skills of a social worker, relationship counsellor, arm-twister, hostage negotiator, named driver, bus fare-provider, accountant, suicide watchman, coffee-supplier, surrogate parent and, on one memorable occasion, whatever the official term is for someone taske ...Show more
The Schoolgirl Strangler (PB) by Katherine Kovacic
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
The shocking true story of a serial killer in 1930s Melbourne.
We Own This City - A True Story of Crime, Cops and Corruption in an American City by Justin Fenton
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
In his debut book, Pulitzer Prize-nominated reporter Justin Fenton adds to the line of classic true crime writing with the story of 'one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation' (New York Times). Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city as citizens demanded justice f ...Show more