A History of the Hanged by Amanda Howard
$26.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Rope: A History of the Hanged takes the reader on a journey throughout the history of hanging, detailing the evolution of what was once a common method of capital punishment from the development of the drop to the invention of the gallows by Tyburn Gallows, readers will be enlightened on the mechanisms ...Show more
The Suitcase Baby by Tanya Bretherton
$37.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Series: The\Australian Crime Vau Ser.
True history that is both shocking and too real, this unforgettable tale moves at the pace of a great crime novel. In the early hours of Saturday morning, 17 November 1923, a suitcase was found washed up on the shore of a small beach in the Sydney suburb of Mosman. What it contained - and why - would p ...Show more
The Cause of Death by Cynric Temple-Camp
$29.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Spontaneous combustion and exhumation, drug mules and devil worshippers, a gruesome killing beneath the Palmerston North Airport control tower, a mysterious death in a historic homestead, a first-hand dissection of the infamous Mark Lundy case ... In The Cause of Death, provincial pathologist Dr Cynric ...Show more
The Stranger Beside Me: The Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy (New Edition) by Ann Rule
$29.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The Inside Story of Serial Killer Ted Bundy Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murderer. Little did she know that the young man who was her close friend was the savage slayer she was hunting . . . TED BUNDY was everyone's picture of a natural 'win ...Show more
Ian Brady: The untold story of the Moors Murders by Alan Keightley
$34.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Series: Nina
Since May 1966 when Ian Brady and Myra Hindley were sentenced to life imprisonment at Chester Assizes the British public has been absorbed and horrified by the Moors Murders. Ian Brady has often been aptly described as `the most evil man alive' or `the Daddy of the Devils', while Myra Hindley, Britain's ...Show more
The 15:17 to Paris by Anthony Sadler
$28.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
On 21 August 2015, Ayoub al-Khazzani boarded a train in Brussels bound for Paris. Khazzani's mission was clear- he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate the 554 passengers on the crowded train. But as he began to execute his plan, he encountered an unstoppable line of ...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
$39.99 NZD
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
The Mechanism by Vladimir Netto
$28.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
INTRODUCTION BY MISHA GLENNY, author of McMafia A gripping narrative of power, corruption and greed, The Mechanism is the true story of how a simple investigation into money laundering became a political crisis that threatened to bring down a nation. When a small team of investigators discovered that ...Show more
The Survivors by Steve Braunias
$37.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
True stories of death and desperation One survivor chooses loneliness. One chooses exile. One chooses oblivion. Some have violent tendencies, ruining lives indiscriminately. Some seal their own fate in slow motion; others do so in the blink of an eye. In The Survivors, award-winning true-crime w ...Show more
The Fact of a Body: A Gripping True Crime Murder Investigation by Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich
$22.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
"Complex and challenging... push es] the boundaries of writing about trauma." --The New York Times"A True Crime Masterpiece" - Vogue Entertainment Weekly "Must" List and Best Books of the Year So FarReal Simple's Best New Books Guardian Best Book of the YearLambda Literary Award WinnerChautauqua Prize W ...Show more
Missing Persons by Steve Braunias
$35.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
Twelve extraordinary tales of disappearance: a collection of true crime writing by New Zealand's award-winning master of non-fiction. Former journalist Murray Mason, found dead in the Auckland Domain; the mysterious death of Socksay Chansy, found dead in a graveyard by the sea; the tragic disappearance ...Show more
Shark Arm: A shark, a tattooed arm and two unsolved murders by Phillip Roope, Kevin Meagher
$36.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Truth can be stranger than fiction. In a Coogee aquarium in 1935 a shark coughed up a man's tattooed arm. The authors of Shark Arm have unravelled an extraordinary tale of high-class smuggling around Sydney Harbour and police collusion that has eluded many investigations into this famous cold case. ...Show more