Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-c ...Show more
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara, Patton Oswalt
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post - Maureen Corrigan, NPR - Paste - Seattle Times - Entertainment Weekly - Esquire - Slate - Buzzfeed - Jezebel - Philadelphia Inquirer - Publishers Weekly - Kirkus Reviews - Library Journal - Bustle - Mother Jones - Real Simple - Cri ...Show more
Night Games: Sex, Power and Sport by Anna Krien
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
Sex, celebrity, and power come together in a critically lauded, true-life courtroom drama centering on a rape case in the world of top-level sport. *Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2014* 'The Pies beat the Saints and the city of Melbourne was still cloaked in black and w ...Show more
The Secret Barrister: Stories of the Law and How It's Broken by The Secret Barrister
$21.99 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
An American Summer - Love and Death in Chicago by Alex Kotlowitz
$49.95 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
From the bestselling author of There Are No Children Here, a richly textured, heartrending portrait of love and death in Chicago's most turbulent neighborhoods. The numbers are staggering: over the past twenty years in Chicago, 14,033 people have been killed and another roughly 60,000 wounded by gun ...Show more
Fake Law: The Truth About Justice in an Age of Lies by The Secret Barrister
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported because he had a pet cat? Are unelected judges truly enemies of the people? Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches ...Show more
Murder: The Biography by Kate Morgan
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
THE CRIMES. THE STORIES. THE LAW'Fascinating' - Sunday Times'Masterful' - Judith Flanders'A page-turning read' - Prof. David WilsonTotally gripping and brilliantly told, Murder: The Biography is a gruesome and utterly captivating portrait of the legal history of murder.The stories and the people involve ...Show more
American Demon - Eliot Ness and the Hunt for America's Jack the Ripper by Daniel Stashower
$36.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
New York Times bestselling author and Edgar Award-winner Daniel Stashower returns with American Demon, a historical true crime starring legendary lawman Eliot Ness. Boston had its Strangler. California had the Zodiac Killer. And in the depths of the Great Depression, Cleveland had the Mad Butcher of Ki ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder And Its Consequences by Truman Capote
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Dick became convinced that Perry was that rarity, 'a natural killer'- absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows' On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children ...Show more
Australia’s Most Infamous Jail: Inside the Walls of Pentridge Prison by James Phelps
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
THE NEW BOOK FROM AUSTRALIA'S BESTSELLING TRUE CRIME AUTHOR In a long-awaited return to his best-selling prison series, James Phelps will lift the lid on Australia's most infamous prison - HM Prison Pentridge, the former home of Mark 'Chopper' Reed and Ned Kelly.From Jika Jika to the execution of Ronald ...Show more
The Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld by Jake Adelstein
$36.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start fr ...Show more
Carnage: A succulent Chinese meal, Mr Rent-a-Kill and the Australian Manson murders by Mark Dapin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
Millions have been entertained by the viral video of a man being arrested after a ‘succulent Chinese meal’. But when out of the blue this Falstaff figure called author Mark Dapin thirty years later, it emerged his story went to the heart of the Australian underworld over decades, connecting a celebrated ...Show more