The Lady Vanishes: The next bestselling Australian true crime book based on the popular podcast series, for fans of I CATCH KILLERS, THE WIDOW OF WALCHA and DIRTY JOHN by Alison Sandy, Bryan Seymour, Sally Eeles, Marc Wright
Category: True Crime
A much-loved mother, teacher and friend steps on a plane for an overseas adventure and is never seen again. Australia's most extraordinary missing persons case is examined by the journalists who created the global hit podcast into the disappearance of Marion Barter, a mother of two who simply vanished. ...Show more
The Last Victim: A serial con man. The ultimate betrayal. An unbreakable woman. The full story behind the relationship made famous by the hit podcast Who the Hell is Hamish? by Tracy Hall, Summer Land
Category: True Crime
When Who the Hell is Hamish? hit podcast platforms in 2019, Tracy Hall quickly became known as the last victim of one of the world's most prolific con men, Hamish McLaren. At last, Tracy is sharing the full story of how she overcame financial and emotional betrayal in this fast-paced, witty and empoweri ...Show more
The Man Who Wasn't There by Dan Box
Category: True Crime
A true story about lies, murder and the Territory 'Sorry, mate, but that's the message.' Zak says to grow some balls and defend him. You've got to remember he is still a young bloke, stuck in Darwin prison where it's always hot, the food is slop and they get rats in the wet season. It's not enough jus ...Show more
Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein
Category: True Crime
Now a hit HBO Max TV series starring Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe & Rachel Keller From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, here is a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At the age of ...Show more
Saving Our Kids: The Inside Story of Taskforce Argos, Detective Inspector Jon Rouse and Their Mission To Protect Our Children Online by Madonna King
Category: True Crime
The crime of sextortion has reached epidemic proportions, fuelled by both sex offenders and organised scammers targeting our most vulnerable online. Children are some of the internet's most prolific and most naive users, and increasing numbers are finding themselves caught in an evil web of networked m ...Show more
Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Guilty but Insane by Christopher Berry-Dee
Category: True Crime
A study of convicted murderers who have attempted to escape justice, and even the death penalty, by entering a plea of insanity - and sometimes succeeded The plea of insanity in criminal cases can be traced back at least to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which dates from 1755-1759 BC. It is a complic ...Show more
Atlas of True Crime: A Worldwide Guide to Murderers and Thieves, Kidnappers and Con Men by NANCY J. HAJESKI
Category: True Crime
"Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone." - Georges Bataille, French philosopher Interest in criminal behavior continues to flourish. The worse the crime and the greater the notoriety of the perpetrator, the more the public yearns to digest every detail. Atlas of True Crime o ...Show more
Roger Rogerson: From Hero Cop to Convicted Murderer by Duncan McNab
Category: True Crime
The verdict is guilty. On 20 May 2014, former New South Wales police officers Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara murdered student Jamie Gao in cold blood. Both have been found guilty of murder and possession of 2.78 kilograms of methamphetamine, and sentenced to life imprisonment. But this wasn't Rogers ...Show more
Three Crooked Kings (10th anniversary) by Matthew Condon
Category: True Crime
One of the landmark Australian true-crime books, with a new introduction following the death of disgraced Police Commissioner Terry Lewis. 'It was the genius of the system ... from day to day you didn't know who was on the take or not. You didn't know who you could trust.' Three Crooked Kings is the sho ...Show more
The Most Bizarre True Crime Stories Ever Told by Jack Rosewood
Category: True Crime
From murder and robberies to arson and blackmail, the 20 stories in this book are some of the most fascinating true crime stories ever recorded. Each of these cases is so bizarre that they confounded the police, baffled investigators and captured the attention of the press all over the world. These shor ...Show more
Suburban True Crime: Australian cases you'll never forget and some you've never heard of by Emily Webb
Category: True Crime
Chilling cases of murder and crime that have happened in the quiet streets of Australia’s suburbs.
Far North by David White and Angus Gillies
Category: True Crime
June 2016, Far North, New Zealand. The job seemed simple: leave Auckland, pick up 500kg of meth from Ninety-Mile Beach and drive it back south, while keeping a low profile. How hard could that be? This is the true story of one of New Zealand’s biggest ever drug busts, and how those responsible almost go ...Show more