The Widow of Walcha: A true story of love, lies and murder in a small country town by Emma Partridge
Category: True Crime
The Widow of Walcha is a shocking true story about death, love and lies in the small NSW town of Walcha. Shortlisted, 2023 Danger Awards, Nonfiction category All farmer Mathew Dunbar ever wanted was to find love and have a family of his own. That’s why, just months after meeting Natasha Darcy, the much- ...Show more
Monsters of the Mallee: Volume Three by Nathan Carnie (Prepared for Publication by)
Category: True Crime
Liliana's Invincible Summer: A Sister's Search for Justice by Cristina Rivera Garza
Category: True Crime
From one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, an astonishing work of non-fiction that illuminates an epidemic of femicide in Mexico through the death of one woman.'Meticulously written and deeply moving . . . A triumph' JACKIE KAY'Full of tenderness and beauty. This book is a revelation and a rest ...Show more
Shattered Lives: A Brutal Murder, A Cop On The Edge by Peter Seymour, Jason K. Foster
Category: True Crime
Suicides, hangings, shootings, car accidents, drownings, cliff falls, electrocutions … Detective Peter Seymour has seen every type of death imaginable in his time in the NSW Coroner’s Court and, after many years in law enforcement, the tragedies are beginning to take their toll. Dealing with death day i ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Category: True Crime | 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 Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld by Jake Adelstein
Category: True Crime
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
Category: True Crime
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
The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and his Wife by Rebecca Hazel
Category: True Crime
On 9 January 1982, Lynette Dawson disappeared and has not been heard from since. She is presumed murdered. She lived on Sydney's northern beaches, Bayview, with her husband Chris, a high school PE teacher and well-known rugby league player (Newtown Jets) and her two young daughters. For eighteen months ...Show more
What Really Happens in Vegas: Discover the infamous city as you've never seen it before by James Patterson
Category: True Crime
The notorious city as you've never seen it before. This non-fiction title featuring original interviews gets to the heart and soul of this desert metropolis - as well as its seedy underbelly. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas - until now. Whether you're a Vegas regular or have only heard the city's t ...Show more
I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective by Gary Jubelin, Dan Box
Category: True Crime
Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of a homicide detective. Here I am: tall and broad, shaved head, had my nose broken three times fighting. Black suit, white shirt, the big city homicide detective. I've led investigations into serial killing ...Show more
The Satin Man: Uncovering the mystery of the missing Beaumont children by Alan Whiticker
Category: True Crime
On Australia Day 1966, the Beaumont children – Jane, Arnna and Grant – disappeared from an Adelaide beach. Despite a large-scale police investigation and extensive media coverage, the case remains unsolved, bogged down by false leads and dead ends, and the Beaumont children were never seen again. In 200 ...Show more