Midnight in Peking - Out Of Print by Paul French
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
As 1936 gave way to 1937, the people of Peking waited nervously for the axe to fall. The encirclement by the Japanese army was tightening daily and troop skirmishes were on the rise. The Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek had fled south to Nanking, where some said he was ready to cut a deal with ...Show more
Into the Kill Zone: A Cop's Eye View of Deadly Force by David Klinger
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
What's it like to have the legal sanction to shoot and kill? This compelling and often startling book answers this, and many other questions about the oft-times violent world inhabited by our nation's police officers. Written by a cop-turned university professor who interviewed scores of officers who ha ...Show more
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil - A Savannah Story by John Berendt
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good
The monster sleeper bestseller--an enormously engaging account of life and death in secluded and hauntingly beautiful Savannah, Georgia--continues to take America by storm. "Mr. Berendt's writing is elegant and wickedly funny, and his eye for telling details is superb".--The New York Times Book Review. ...Show more
The Price of Life: The True Story of an Australian Held to Ransom for 462 Days by Nigel Brennan
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
August 2008, Bundaberg photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels to Somalia with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout. They are abducted by a criminal gang, brutalised, and kept in isolation and ignorance. The ransom amount is US$3 million; if it's not paid, they will be killed. And the Australian government d ...Show more
Job Fighting Crime From The Frontline by Charlie Bezzina; Ben Collins (Contribution by)
$25.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Charlie Bezzina was one of Victoria's top homicide detectives. In his 17 years in the Homicide Squad, he investigated more than 300 suspicious deaths, including 150 murders - among them the crimes of serial killer Paul Denyer, the killing of Melbourne gangland figure Alphonse Gangitano, the baffling dis ...Show more
Another Dirty Dozen by Paul Anderson
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime | Series: Dirty Dozen
A collection of true-crime stories, this book follows on from "Dirty Dozen" and includes a chapter revealing the inside story of Joe and Maria Korp from early 2005.
Crimes of Passion: An Unblinking Look at Murderous Love by Howard Engel
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The very term "crimes of passion" can evoke deep-seated, primitive responses. We are fascinated, yet repelled by the thought of such overwhelming rage and passion. This book examines some of history's most infamous cases, from Ruth Ellis and Lord Broughton to OJ Simpson and Lorena Bobbit.
Women Who Kill: Chilling Portraits of Australia's Worst Female Murderers by Lindy Cameron
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Women Who Kill investigates over a dozen cases of murder in Australia and New Zealand where women have taken the lives of loved ones and total strangers for the thrill of it. It explores these high-profile cases that dominated the media as people struggled to understand the motives behind brutal murders ...Show more
The Story of My Life by Alan M. Dershowitz
$40.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
In The Story of My Life recounts, and reflects on, his more than fifty years as a corporate, labor, and criminal lawyer, including the most celebrated and notorious cases of his day: establishing the legal right of a union to strike in the Woodworkers' Conspiracy Case; exposing, on behalf of the United ...Show more
Life Sentence: Murder Victims and Their Families by Catherine Cleary
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A teenage boy is snatched as he walks up the road, minutes from his own house, and beaten to death with a hammer; two psychiatric patients are stabbed to death in their sheltered accommodation; a young girl is fatally stabbed in her own bedroom by a neighbour she hardly knows; a man is beaten to death i ...Show more