The Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld by Jake Adelstein
$36.99 AUD
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
Seven Bones: Two Wives, Two Violent Murders, A Fight For Justice by Peter Seymour, Jason K. Foster
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'We have a dead second wife and a missing first wife...we've got a huge problem here.' Detective Peter SeymourSeven Bones is the story of one of the more bizarre murder investigations in Australia's history. Two wives die in suspicious circumstances: co-incidence or, as husband Thomas Keir describes it, ...Show more
Murder in the Pacific: Mt Yasur by Matt Francis
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In the heart of Vanuatu's Tanna island, Hu Lee, the leader of an aid agency, meets a tragic end, fatally stabbed amidst a tsunami evacuation drill. With no witnesses, Sergeant George Long, visiting for the wedding of Constable Jayline Oli, is thrust into the role of lead investigator. Ordered by his sup ...Show more
Run for Your Life: The Remarkable True Story of a Family Forced Into Hiding After Leaking Russian Secrets by Sue Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The remarkable true story of a family forced into hiding after leaking Russian secrets What started out as a great adventure turned into a terrifying nightmare when Nick Stride and his family were forced to flee for their lives from one of the richest, most powerful men in the world. Nick moved to R ...Show more
The Teacher's Pet by Hedley Thomas
$36.99 AUD
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 Killer's Game: Murder, Lies and Stolen Lives by Jane Smith
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Exposing Captain Starlight's twisted life of crime and deceit. Who was 'Captain Starlight'? When a respectable public servant dies suddenly under suspicious circumstances, the authorities are baffled. Who really was the dead man? Was he an Irish nobleman fallen on hard times - or a conman, a forger, ...Show more
The Murder Squad: How Australia's toughest cops hunted the monsters of the Great Depression by Michael Adams
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
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
Murder at the Fort: A Double Homicide Cold Case and Cover Up! by Bob Marmion
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Early one cold, wintry morning in late May 1942, the bullet-ridden body of Driver Roy Willis was found on the side of the road. He had been shot a number of times with a military revolver. Despite extensive enquiries by some of the Victoria Police's most experienced homicide detectives, the murderer was ...Show more
The Cop Who Fell to Earth by Craig Semple
$34.99 AUD
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 Lucky Laundry: longlisted for 2022 Walkley Award and 2022 winner of Financial Crime Fighter Award by Nathan Lynch
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
How the Aussie economy got hooked on the world's dirtiest cash. In today's ruthless world of organised crime, the best criminals aren't foolish enough to steal money out of banks. They wear tailored suits, carry briefcases, and discreetly slip money into banks. Bigwigs, oligarchs and crime syndicates r ...Show more
The Snapshot Killer: The shocking true story of serial killer Christopher Wilder - from Sydney's beaches to America's Most Wanted by Duncan McNab
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Christopher Wilder was about as bad as they get. A serial killer and predator, he first came to the attention of police in Sydney when as a teenager in 1963 he was charged with rape. As a young adult he relocated to Florida, USA.Wilder plied his vile and deadly trade on two continents and did so undetec ...Show more
Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders (*Ned Kelly Awards: Winner 2022 Best True Crime) by Debi Marshall
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Only one suspect has been charged and convicted for The Family Murders of Adelaide, the City of Corpses. Award-winning investigative journalist, Debi Marshall, interrogates these long cold cases. Debi Marshall believes it is time to expose all messy business that lies behind the sophisticated facade of ...Show more