Watching Out: Reflections on Justice and Injustice by Julian Burnside
$29.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
When put to the test, most people have difficulty identifying what justice is, especially when there is tension between proper process and a desired result. Due process is inherent in our conception of justice. But bad process can yield the right result, just as good process can produce the wrong result ...Show more
McMafia: Seriously Organised Crime by Misha Glenny
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
"In this powerful and groundbreaking book, Misha Glenny takes us on a journey through the new world of international organised crime. For three years, he has been recording the stories of gun runners in Ukraine, money launderers in Dubai, drug syndicates in Canada, cyber criminals in Brazil, racketeers ...Show more
The Library Book by Susan Orlean
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
Susan Orlean's bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is "a sheer delight...as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library" (USA TODAY)--a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. "Everybod ...Show more
The Tall Man: Death and Life on Palm Island by Chloe Hooper
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
The story of a death, a policeman, an island and a country.The Tall Manis the story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the story of that policeman, the tall, enigmatic Christopher Hu ...Show more
The Man Who Wasn't There by Dan Box
$36.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
A true story about lies, murder and the Territory 'Sorry, mate, but that's the message.' Zak says to grow some balls and defend him. You've got to remember he is still a young bloke, stuck in Darwin prison where it's always hot, the food is slop and they get rats in the wet season. It's not enough jus ...Show more
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe
$24.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
From the prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain, twelve enthralling stories of misbehavior and skullduggery by one of the most decorated journalists of our time."I read everything he writes. Every time he writes a book, I read it. Every time he writes an artic ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
$14.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment | Series: Popular Penguins
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek by Kate Holden
$32.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
True crime writing at its finest, from the multi award-winning, bestselling author of In My Skin.Winner of the 2021 Walkley Book Award, 2022 NSW Premiers Literary Awards- Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, and 2022 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award (non-fiction).In July 2014, on a lonely road at twiligh ...Show more
My Italians - True Stories of Crime and Courage by Roberto Saviano
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
From the international bestselling author of Gomorrah, this is a deeply personal and candid portrait of Italy today: a place of trafficking and toxic waste, where votes can be bought and sold, where organized crime ravages both north and south - yet also where many courageous individuals defy the system ...Show more
The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria's Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as fire ...Show more
The Murder Squad: How Australia's toughest cops hunted the monsters of the Great Depression by Michael Adams
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
How the New South Wales Police Force's finest solved murders in one of the most tumultuous periods in Australian history As Australia sank into the darkest days of the Great Depression, a succession of bloody mysteries grabbed headlines and gripped the country. The Hammer Horror, The Bungendore Bones, T ...Show more
Nothing But The Truth: Stories of Crime, Guilt and the Loss of Innocence by The Secret Barrister
$34.99 AUD
Category: Crime & Punishment
Just how do you become a barrister? And why do only 1 per cent of those who study law succeed in joining this mysteriously opaque profession? If it's such a great occupation, how come you work 100-hour weeks for less than minimum wage? And why might a practising barrister come to feel the need to reveal ...Show more