Naked City by John Silvester
$39.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
John Silvester has been reporting on crime from the cop stations, courthouses, back alleys, pool halls and gangster mansions of Melbourne for forty years. His contact book is a who's who of both sides of criminal justice, and the shadowy worlds between. He is the trusted confidante of cops, criminals, ...Show more
The Teacher's Pet by Hedley Thomas
$39.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Lynette Dawson (nee Simms) disappeared from Sydney's idyllic northern beaches in 1982 and was never seen again. The Teacher's Pet, the book, tells the extraordinary story of the crime, the podcast investigation, the sexual exploitation of female teenage students, the failure for four decades of the crim ...Show more
The Rise of Street Gangs: An explosive book on how street gangs are growing and how they work from the inside by Stevens Brett
$34.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
"The Rise of Street Gangs" gives a unique first-hand account of the rise of gang culture across the world, where drive-by shootings and communities under siege have become the new norm. The book not only covers street gangs but the characters of the gangs and their current revolution and outlook and how ...Show more
Pain Hustlers - Film Tie-In by Evan Hughes
$27.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Now a major film streaming on NETFLIX'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. A tour de force.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, award-winning author of Empire of Pain'Everyone should read this book' - Sheelagh Kolhatkar, author of Black EdgeJohn Kapoor had already made a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he ...Show more
Tangled Vines - Power, Privilege and the Murdaugh Family Murders by John Glatt
$27.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
In Tangled Vines, bestselling true crime author John Glatt reconstructs the rise of the prestigious Murdaugh family and the shocking double murder that led to the downfall of its patriarch, Alex Murdaugh.Among the lush, tree-lined waterways of South Carolina low country, the Murdaugh name means power. A ...Show more
The Real Prime Suspect: From the beat to the screen. My life as a female detective. by Jackie Malton, Helene Mulholland
$39.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Jackie Malton was a no-nonsense girl from Leicestershire who joined the police force in the 1970s when women were kept apart from the men. Feisty and determined, Jackie worked in CID and the famous flying squad before rising to become one of only three female detective chief inspectors in the Metropolit ...Show more
The Cop Who Fell to Earth by Craig Semple
$39.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
This raw and true account of the life of a tough cop has all the twists and turns and drama of a rattlingly good thriller. When a young eighteen-year-old Craig Semple joined the New South Wales Police Force in 1988, he generally preferred to steer clear of trouble rather than turn and face it. But like ...Show more
Vile Crimes: The Timaru Poisonings by Peter Graham
$29.50 NZD
Category: True Crime
On a drizzly Monday morning, 16 August 1886, the inhabitants of Timaru woke to astounding news. Tom Hall junior, a well-known local businessman and man about town, nephew of former New Zealand Premier Sir John Hall, had been arrested for attempting to murder his wife, Kitty, by poisoning. Also charged w ...Show more
Talking with Serial Killers: Stalkers - From the UK's No. 1 True Crime Author by Christopher Berry-Dee
$22.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Do you ever have that feeling you're being watched? Perhaps you are...Leading criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee turns his unflinching gaze on maybe the most sinister and disturbing of all killers - those who first stalk their unwitting victims, often for months at a time.
No Handcuffs - The Final Word on My War With the Krays by Eddie Richardson
$24.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Eddie Richardson is the last brand-name gangster. Say the name and the world of violent criminality grabs you by the throat. The Richardson brothers, Eddie and Charlie, and their infamous 'Torture Gang', made money while their rivals Ronnie and Reggie Kray made fatal mischief. They fought each other, bu ...Show more
Patched by Jarrod Gilbert
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: good-very good
From 'bikie' gangs to skinheads, the Mongrel Mob to Black Power, gangs have had a massive impact on our society. Based on intensive research within gangs, Patched is the first major history of gang life in New Zealand. Jarrod Gilbert traces the story from the early bodgies and widgies, the rise of Hell' ...Show more