The Outback Court Reporter by Jamelle Wells
Category: True Crime
Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on inside the country courtrooms dotted across Australia. From the case of the stolen cat flap, to missing lollipops and exploding chocolate milk in a country supermarket, to a custody dispute over a camel - Ja ...Show more
Crimes of the Cross: The Anglican Paedophile Network of Newcastle, Its Protectors and the Man Who Fought for Justice by Anne Manne
Category: True Crime
A searing expose of institutional child abuse, and the remarkable story of the survivors who would not be silenced For many years, Newcastle was the centre of an extensive paedophile network run by members of the Anglican church - and protected by parishioners and community members who looked the other ...Show more
Homicide Hill - Far-West NSW Homicide Handbook by Nathan Carnie
Category: True Crime
Once acknowledged as the fastest-growing city in Australia, Broken Hill first became recognised for its vast deposits of silver, copper, and zinc. With a sudden influx of workers, just in order to make a dollar, its residents sacrificed the compelling struggles of its rigorous landscape, gruelling clima ...Show more
Australia's Most Infamous Criminals: Gripping stories of bold heists, clever scams and mysterious murders by Graham Seal
Category: True Crime
Page turning stories of inventive scams, dramatic escapes and captures, and vile deeds of our most infamous criminals. 'Graham Seal finds and writes ripper, fair-dinkum, true blue Aussie yarns. His books are great reads.'-The Weekly Times Australia's master storyteller trawls our rich history of cold ca ...Show more
The Teacher's Pet by Hedley Thomas
Category: True Crime
Lynette Dawson (nee Simms) disappeared from Sydney's idyllic northern beaches in 1982 and was never seen again. The Teacher's Pet, the book, tells the extraordinary story of the crime, the podcast investigation, the sexual exploitation of female teenage students, the failure for four decades of the crim ...Show more
The Man Who Wasn't There by Dan Box
Category: True Crime
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
Meth Road: A life-and-death investigation following the world's most destructive narcotic to Australia by Conor Woodman
Category: True Crime
A wild and dangerous ride from the world's main meth source, a lawless Asian narco-state, to its most valuable market: Australia. When he received an SOS from a friend kidnapped in a dark corner of Asia, journalist Conor Woodman began a journey that would lead him to the most dangerous and least underst ...Show more
Australia’s Most Infamous Jail: Inside the Walls of Pentridge Prison by James Phelps
Category: True Crime
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
Monsters of the Mallee: Volume Three by Nathan Carnie (Prepared for Publication by)
Category: True Crime
The Cop Who Fell to Earth by Craig Semple
Category: True Crime
This raw and true account of the life of a tough cop has all the twists and turns and drama of a rattlingly good thriller. When a young eighteen-year-old Craig Semple joined the New South Wales Police Force in 1988, he generally preferred to steer clear of trouble rather than turn and face it. But like ...Show more
The Devil's Butterfly: Hunting Australia's first serial killer by Jason K. Foster
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
The Good Cop by Justine Ford
Category: True Crime
'A - Assume nothing. B - Believe nothing. C - Check everything.' - Ron IddlesIn an incredible 25 year career as a homicide detective, Ron Iddles's conviction rate was 99 percent. Yet that only partly explains why Iddles is known to cops and crims alike as 'The Great Man'.Tough, inventive and incorruptib ...Show more