The Night Dragon by Matthew Condon
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
. . . he is hard to frighten . . . he is very methodical . . . he does not like sunlight because he is very fair-skinned . . . he has the tattoo of St George and the Dragon . . . - Witness statement given to the Crime Intelligence Unit, Brisbane, 1974. In 2017, Vincent O'Dempsey, along with his accomp ...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
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
We Is Got Him: The Kidnapping That Changed America by Carrie Hagen
$24.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
In 1874, a young boy named Charley Ross was snatched from his front yard in Philadelphia. The child's father received a letter that read: ""Mr. Ross; be not uneasy you son charley bruster be all writ. we is got him and no powers on earth can deliver out of our hand. You wil have two pay us before you gi ...Show more
Chopper 1: From the Inside by Mark Brandon Read
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Apart from Irish whiskey, good cigars, Pontiac motor cars, and a pistol grip baby .410 shotgun with solid load shells, what I love the most is kidnapping smartarse gangsters and taking their money.'Mark Brandon 'Chopper' Read is the son of a strict Seventh Day Adventist mother and a shell-shocked forme ...Show more
The Inheritor's Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed by Sandra Hempel
$39.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
This is the story of how an infamous murder case led to the birth of modern toxicology. In the 19th century criminal poisoning with arsenic was frighteningly easy. For a few pence and with few questions asked, it was possible to buy enough poison to kill off an entire family, hence arsenic's popular nam ...Show more
White Shotgun: The Sicilian Mafia in Their Own Words by Attilio Bolzoni
$24.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Lupara bianca ('White Shotgun') -- an Italian term that refers to a Mafia-style killing, in which no trace of the victim can be found. For thirty years, prize-winning Sicilian journalist Attilio Bolzoni has reported on the shadowy activities of Cosa Nostra. Now, for the first time, he has collected toge ...Show more