Big Shots: The Chilling Inside Story of Carl Williams and the by Adam Shand
Category: True Crime
This is the inside story of how a family feud became a grab for a multi-billion-dollar prize. It is also the author's personal journey into the lives of Australia's first celebrity gangsters, the police who pursued them and the media's role in creating and destroying them.
The Price of Life: The True Story of an Australian Held to Ransom for 462 Days by Nigel Brennan
Category: True Crime
August 2008, Bundaberg photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels to Somalia with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout. They are abducted by a criminal gang, brutalised, and kept in isolation and ignorance. The ransom amount is US$3 million; if it's not paid, they will be killed. And the Australian government d ...Show more
Black Widow: The True Story of Australia's First Female Serial Killer by Carol Baxter
Category: True Crime
Never before in the hundred year history of Australia has a female prisoner become so notorious as Louisa Collins.' - Evening News Two inquests, four trials, three hung juries and the executioner...but was Louisa Collins really a husband killer? Was she the callous adulteress, drunkard and liar known as ...Show more
Killer Book Of Serial Killers by Tom Philbin; Michael Philbin
Category: True Crime | Series: The\Killer Bks.
Terrifying tales of the ultimate evil among us The Killer Book of Serial Killers is the complete resource for any true crime fan or student of the lurid, fascinating world of serial killers. Inside you'll find the stories of the world's thirty-five most notorious murderers, including an in-depth look at ...Show more
The Thief, His Wife and The Canoe: The true story of Anne Darwin and 'Canoe Man' John by David Leigh, Tony Hutchinson
Category: True Crime
NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING MONICA DOLAN (AS 'CANOE WIDOW' ANNE DARWIN) AND EDDIE MARSANHow did the most ordinary of couples pull off one of the most outrageous frauds of modern times? And why did they carry on with the lie for so long?Drowning in debt and facing almost certain bankruptcy, John Darwi ...Show more
Underbelly #9 by J. Silvester
Category: True Crime
Compelling reading for compulsive crime readers and a reference book for both sides of the law.
Buddhist on Death Row by David Sheff
Category: True Crime
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, an extraordinary story of redemption in the darkest of places. Jarvis Jay Masters's early life was a horror story whose outline we know too well. Born in Long Beach, California, his house was filled with crack, alcohol, physical abuse, and men who paid his ...Show more
All That Remains - A Life in Death by Sue Black
Category: True Crime
For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality. Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist. She has lived her life eye to eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about it in this book, ...Show more
Searching for Spiderman: The Disappearance of Three-Year-old William Tyrrell by Ally Chumley
Category: True Crime
Three-year-old William Tyrrell made headlines across Australia in 2014 after he disappeared while playing outside his foster grandmother's house in Kendall on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales. Writer and researcher Ally Chumley, who has lived a stone's throw from Kendall for decades, watched as th ...Show more
Milat: Inside Australia's biggest manhunt - a detective's story by Clive Small, Tom Gilling
Category: True Crime
Milat - the serial killer who preyed on young hitchhikers. The backpackers - the innocent victims of a brutal murderer. Belanglo - a place that became synonymous with pure evil...It was the biggest and most complex manhunt in Australian history, an investigation that gripped a nation. Behind the many fa ...Show more
At the Altar of the Road Gods: Stories of Motorcycles and Other Drugs by Boris Mihailovic
Category: True Crime
'Boris has more fun on two wheels than should be legally possible.' - Richard Fidler, ABC His mother may not know it but Boris Mihailovic has lived a fast, furious, often politicially incorrect life chasing the epiphanies of speed (the sensation not the drug). For Boris, motorbike riding was the rite of ...Show more
Working Stiff by Judy Melinek; T. J. Mitchell
Category: True Crime
Dr Judy Melinek has made a career out of working with dead bodies. As a forensic pathologist, she has probed and prodded corpses for clues that may reveal murder, suicide, a medical accident or a rare genetic disease This fearless memoir tells the gripping story of the young doctor's 'rookie season' as ...Show more