The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek by Kate Holden
Category: True Crime
True crime writing at its finest, from the multi award-winning, bestselling author of In My Skin.Winner of the 2021 Walkley Book Award, 2022 NSW Premiers Literary Awards- Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, and 2022 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award (non-fiction).In July 2014, on a lonely road at twiligh ...Show more
Unholy Trinity: The Hunt For The Paedophile Priest Monsignor John Day by Peter Hoysted; Denis Ryan
Category: True Crime
One policemen's desperate and moving account of how he tried for decades to bring a paedophile priest to justice - but was blocked by not only the Catholic church, but by his own Police Force.
A Grain of Truth: How Pollen Brought a Murderer to Justice by Lyyne Milne
Category: True Crime
A true story of how a murderer and a serial rapist were put away by the work of a forensic scientist. There are many techniques that have been honed in forensic science but this one was special. It was the examination of pollen in the clothing of the accused that clinched their guilt.
Last King of the Cross: TV Tie-In by John Ibrahim
Category: True Crime
Last King of the Cross is the sensational bestselling memoir that lays bare Australia's most notorious underworld figure.In the mongrel tongue of the streets, John writes of fleeing war-torn Tripoli with his family and growing up in Sydney's wild west - before establishing himself as a nightclub boss on ...Show more
The Rise of Street Gangs: An explosive book on how street gangs are growing and how they work from the inside by Stevens Brett
Category: True Crime
"The Rise of Street Gangs" gives a unique first-hand account of the rise of gang culture across the world, where drive-by shootings and communities under siege have become the new norm. The book not only covers street gangs but the characters of the gangs and their current revolution and outlook and how ...Show more
Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family by Joaquin 'Jack' Garcia
Category: True Crime
At 6'4" and 375 pounds, Jack Garcia looked the part of a mobster, and he played his part so perfectly that his Mafia bosses never suspected he was an undercover agent for the FBI. 'Big Jack Falcone', as he was known inside La Cosa Nostra, learned all the inside dirt about the Gambino organized crime syn ...Show more
Life Sentence - The Brief and Tragic Career of Baltimores Deadliest Gang Leader by Mark Bowden
Category: True Crime
Bestselling author Mark Bowden takes readers inside a Baltimore gang, offering an in-depth portrait of its notorious leader.
Under the Bridge by Rebecca Godfrey
Category: True Crime | Series: Father Anselm Novels Ser.
'Both tragic and cathartic' New York TimesBritish Columbia, 1997.Under the Bridge traces the events surrounding the 1997 murder of fourteen-year-old Reena Virk by eight of her peers, in an account based on six years of research and interviews with the accused that offers insight into the social tensions ...Show more
Drugs, Guns & Lies: My life as an undercover cop by Keith Banks, Ben Smith
Category: True Crime
'Undercover was like guerrilla warfare; to understand your enemy, you had to walk amongst them, to become them. The trick was to keep an eye on that important line between who you were and who you were pretending to be.' This is the true story of Keith Banks, one of Queensland's most decorated polic ...Show more
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
Category: True Crime
The shocking true story of the Manson murders, revealed in this harrowing, often terrifying book. Helter Skelter won a Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award in 1975 for Best Fact Crime Book. On August 9th 1969, seven people were found shot, stabbed and bludgeoned to death in Los Angeles. America watche ...Show more
Underground by Haruki Murakami
Category: True Crime
"In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. Murakami interviews the victims to try and establish precisely what happened on the subway that day. He also interviews members and ex-members ...Show more
Like a Moth to the Flame: Good girls who are attracted to bad boys by Allender William J Dr
Category: True Crime
In this book, the forensic pathrologist Dr William J. Allender presents a selection of case stories from the many that he was involved with over the years. Some have led to successful prosecutions and some haven’t. 'Like a Moth to the Flame' look at cases where good girls have become involved with bad b ...Show more