The Matriarch: The Story of 'Granny Evil' Kathy Pettingill by Adrian Tame
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Kathy Pettingill is a name that's both respected and feared, not only by Australia's criminal underworld, but by many in the Victorian police force. As the matriarch at the head of the most notorious and violent family of habitual offenders in Australian criminal history, her life has revolved around mu ...Show more
Murder, Misadventure and Miserable Ends: Tales from a Colonial Coroner's Court by Catie Gilchrist
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Murder, manslaughter, suicide, mishap - the very public business of determining death in colonial Sydney. Murder in colonial Sydney was a surprisingly rare occurrence, so when it did happen it caused a great sensation. People flocked to the scene of the crime, to the coroner's court and to the criminal ...Show more
The Innocent Man: A gripping crime thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of mystery and suspense by John Grisham
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, in his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye ...Show more
The Killer Across the Table - Unlocking the Secrets of Serial Killers And Predators with the FBI's Original Mindhunter by John E. Douglas; Mark Olshaker
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
John Douglas is the FBI's pioneer and master of investigative profiling, and one of the most exciting figures in law enforcement I've had the privilege of knowing' Patricia Cornwell `John Douglas knows more about serial killers than anybody in the world' Jonathan Demme, Director of The Silence of the La ...Show more
Fred and Rose - The Full Story of Fred and Rose West and the Gloucester House of Horrors by Howard Sounes
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: near fine
NEW AND UPDATED EDITION Fred and Rose West are virtually unique in British criminal history: a husband and wife who loved and killed together. FRED & ROSE IS THE DEFINITIVE ACCOUNT OF THIS INFAMOUS CASE (NOW WITH A POSTSCRIPT FROM THE AUTHOR) During their long relationship, the Wests murdered a seri ...Show more
The Pretty Girl Killer by Andrew Byrne
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
This is the story of Christopher Wilder- the surf-loving son of a decorated naval war hero born in the suburbs of Sydney, who became the most wanted man in America - a psychopathic serial killer who slaughtered more than sixteen young women in the USA and is the prime suspect in the infamous Australian ...Show more
Captive: One House, Three Women and Ten Years in Hell by Allan Hall
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
One monster. Three innocent girls. Ten years in captivity. 22 August 2002: 21-year-old Michelle Knight disappears walking home. 21 April 2003: Amanda Berry goes missing the day before her seventeenth birthday. 2 April 2004: 14-year-old Gina DeJesus fails to come home from school. For over a decade these ...Show more
The Crucifix Killer by Chris Carter
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
When the body of a young woman is discovered in a derelict cottage in the middle of Los Angeles National Forest, Homicide Detective Robert Hunter finds himself entering a horrific and recurring nightmare. Naked, strung from two wooden posts, the victim was sadistically tortured before meeting an excruci ...Show more
The Central Park Five by Sarah Burns
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered the body of the "Central Park jogger" crumpled in a ravine. She'd been raped and severely beaten. Within days five black and Latino teenagers were apprehended, all five confessing to the crime. The staggering torrent of media coverage that ensued, coupled wi ...Show more
Pentridge: Behind the Bluestone Walls by Don Osborne
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
When Don Osborne went to Pentridge in 1970, he found a nineteenth-century penal establishment in full working order. It held about 1200 inmates, most of them cooped up in tiny stone cells that sweltered in summer and froze in winter. Some had no sewerage or electric light.Assigned to teach in the high-s ...Show more
Killer Instinct by Donald Grant
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Forensic psychiatrist Donald Grant asks, what is it about murder that fascinates us? Is it the chill whisper of fear reminding us we too can kill?Grant describes ten true murder cases, each with unique triggers. For most of us, murder is an arm's length experience, close enough to frighten and fascinate ...Show more
Mind Behind The Crime by Cheryl Critchley, Helen McGrath
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Nurses and neighbours, partners and parents - all murderers who shocked Australia with the severity of their crimes. But what makes them tick?Society couple Michael O'Neill and Stuart Rattle had it all - their lavish country property, their interior design business - until Michael bludgeoned Stuart to d ...Show more