The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire by Chloe Hooper
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
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
Dead Centre by Robin Bowles
$25.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The most mystifying murder and abduction to take place on Australian soil. Thanks to Robin Bowles' extensive research, this is the exclusive story of Peter Falconio's murder and the escape and tale of Joanne Lees which raised more questions than answers.'This is by far the most engaging of the books on ...Show more
A Stolen Life: The Bruce Trevorrow Case by Antonio Buti
$29.99 AUD
$32.99 (9% off)
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: 3 Biography
On Christmas Day 1957, Joe Trevorrow walked through the blistering heat to seek help for his sick baby boy. When relatives agreed to take Bruce to hospital, Joe was relieved - his son was in safe hands - but, within days, Bruce would be living with another family, and Joe would never see his son again. ...Show more
Hollywood Godfather: My Life in the Mafia and the Movies by Gianni Russo; Patrick Picciarelli (As told to)
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: 3 Biography
The rollicking adventures of a real-life mobster-turned-actor who helped make The Godfather a reality. Gianni Russo was a handsome 25-year-old mobster with no acting experience when he walked onto the set of The Godfather and entered Hollywood history. He played Carlo Rizzi, the husband of Connie Corleo ...Show more
Trace: Who Killed Maria James? by Rachael Brown
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good
"The whole place seems cold, and he feels a terrible sense of dread. He calls out, but gets no reply. Taking a knife from the cutlery drawer, he unlocks the back door as an escape route. Then he sees her on the floor. Her eyes and mouth are open, and there is blood everywhere. He's too late." After a s ...Show more
Double Trouble : The Amazing True Story of the After Dark Bandit by Geoff Wilkinson & Ross Brundrett
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students - had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a mas ...Show more
Snowing in Bali: The Incredible Inside Account of Bali's Hidden Drug World by Kathryn Bonella
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
From the internationally bestselling author of Hotel Kerobokan and Operation Playboy and co-author of Schapelle Corby's autobiography, this is the incredible inside account of Bali's hidden drug world."a unique, uncensored insight into a hidden world." The ChronicleIt's snowing in Bali. Among Bali's dru ...Show more
Accidental Death?: When things aren't as they seem by Robin Bowles
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
This collection of stories centres on the idea of 'accidental death', and the upheaval caused in the lives of those who lose a loved one in this way. Several of the cases examined here turned out, on investigation, not to be accidents at all. Some were crimes. Some remain unexplained; others were shown ...Show more
Pentridge: Voices From the Other Side by Rupert Mann
$49.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Members of the last generation of inmates and staff return to the now-forgotten prison to tell the true and brutal story of Pentridge before developers bury it forever.Rupert Mann has worked with the past all his life, and is interested in how we use, forget, and celebrate it today. This priceless work, ...Show more
The Family by Chris Johnston; Rosie Jones
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: General Adult
A powerful work of investigative journalism about a notorious cult based in Melbourne, Australia, that captured world-wide headlines. The apocalyptic group The Family and their guru, Anne Hamilton-Byrne, captured international headlines throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Starting in Melbourne, Australia, t ...Show more
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
$23.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Winner, Honorable Mention, 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards, True Crime category Helen Garner won a 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for her outstanding contribution to international literature. 'Garner's book is superbly alive to the narrative dynamics of the case; she tells a grim story of unhappy ...Show more