Little Fish are Sweet by Matthew Condon
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
"I recall meeting Lewis on a number of occasions in company with Tony Murphy. I recall conversation getting around to payments of money with Murphy and Lewis. Lewis thanked me on several occasions and said 'Little fish are sweet." --Jack 'The Bagman' Herbert in evidence to the Fitzgerald Inquiry 1988. L ...Show more
The Secret Prison Governor: The Brutal Truth of Life Behind Bars by Unnamed
$27.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The Secret Prison Governor has spent decades surrounded by every type of prisoner known to man, from petty thieves and common drug dealers to crime bosses and dangerous serial killers. This is his account. An eye-opening, thought-provoking and mind-blowing account from a genuine prison governor of what ...Show more
Chasing Shadows: A True Story of Drugs, War and the Secret World of International Crime by Miles Johnson
$39.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
'Compelling, visceral and highly readable' Oliver Bullough, bestselling author of MoneylandA compulsive true crime thriller about modern-day international drugs trafficking, terrorism and geopolitical intrigue following an investigation driven by one DEA agent, Jack Kelly. Three very different men battl ...Show more
The Foundling - The True Story of a Kidnapping, a Family Secret, and My Search for the Real Me by Paul Joseph Fronczak; Alex Tresniowski (As told to)
$28.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
This is the page-turning true story of Paul Fronczak, a man who recently discovered that he had been kidnapped as a baby--and how his quest to find out who he really is upturned the genealogy industry, his own family and set in motion the second longest cold-case in US history. In 1964, a woman pret ...Show more
Three Crooked Kings (10th anniversary) by Matthew Condon
$40.00 NZD
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
All Fall Down by Matthew Condon
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Series: Three Kings part 3 | Reading Level: General Adult
The gripping finale to Three Crooked Kings and Jacks and Jokers brings to a close Matthew Condon's bestselling true crime trilogy. In 1983, the soon-to-be-knighted Police Commissioner Terry Lewis continues to turn a blind eye to the operation of The Joke, a highly organised system of graft payments from ...Show more
My Story by Schapelle Corby; Kathryn Bonella (As told to)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The no. 1 bestselling memoir, co-written by Schapelle Corby and Kathryn Bonella, the author of Hotel Kerobokan and Snowing in Bali.Schapelle's story is like no other - a young woman experiencing the unimaginable, and enduring the unendurable with courage, strength and humour.It was meant to be a two-wee ...Show more
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
$24.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped pe ...Show more
Maximum Security: Inside Stories from the World's Toughest Prisons by Karen Farrington
$19.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Presents accounts of repressive prison regimes and the men that fight against them, the vicious hierarchies that operate within the prison population, what it's like to be on Death Row, riots and hostage-taking, violent abuse by both guards and inmates, plus daring escapes against the odds.
Madoff: The Man Who Stole $65 Billion by Erin Arvedlund
$31.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Take the combined fortunes of Bill Gates, Tiger Woods and Roman Abramovich. Now imagine someone stealing that much money - and being hailed as a financial genius. That man is Bernard Madoff. Backed by governments and global banks, Madoff defrauded $65 billion from charities and individual investors incl ...Show more
Sex on the Moon by Ben Mezrich
$37.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Ocean's Eleven meets A Beautiful Mind...Sex on The Moon is the amazing true story of the 25-year-old genius who pulled off one of the most unique and significant heists in US history. Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA programme had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea. He wanted to gi ...Show more
Price of Life by Nigel Brennan
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In August 2008 Bundaberg photojournalist Nigel Brennan travels to Somalia, along with Canadian reporter Amanda Lindhout. What happens next could happen to anyone. You have a brother with a taste for adventure, who you haven't heard from in a while. You get a phone call on a Sunday morning from a jou ...Show more