The Curse of Brink's-Mat: Twenty-five Years of Murder and Mayhem - The Inside Story of the 20th Century's Most Lucrative Armed Robbery by Wensley Clarkson
$37.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
'It's a curse because everyone connected to Brink's-Mat stands to get topped sooner or later' Legendary South London villain Georgie Francis, shortly before he was shot dead by a hitman. The Brink's-Mat raid was the robbery of the century, the stuff of legends in the criminal underworld. On November 26, ...Show more
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher : Or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
$27.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome ...Show more
Gotti: The Rise and Fall by Jerry Capeci
$24.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
John Gotti: Gangster, killer, celebrity. From the tough streets of Queens to the heights of the American Mafia, John Gotti thought he was invincible. Ruthless, brutal and always immaculately dressed, he was known as the Teflon Don, because no charge the Feds brought against him would stick. Told by orga ...Show more
Life After Death: The Shocking True Story of an Innocent Man on Death Row by Damien Echols
$30.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
The true story of the wrongful conviction of the infamous West Memphis Three, Life After Death is a powerful and unflinching first-person account of life on death row. In 1993 three teenagers, Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Miskelley Jr, were arrested and charged with the murders of three eight ...Show more
Chopper 3: How to Shoot Friends & Influence People by Mark Read
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"Crims and screws agree on one thing: that the people who run prisons wouldn't know if a tram was up them unless you rang the bell." How to Shoot Friends and Influence People, Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read's third book, was written behind bars as Chopper faced life in prison for a shooting he claimed he d ...Show more
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn
$30.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
After more than forty years, Charles Manson continues to mystify and fascinate us. One of the most notorious criminals in American history, Manson and members of his mostly female commune killed nine people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. Now, drawing on new information, bestselling author Jeff ...Show more
A Very British Killing: The Death of Baha Mousa by A. T. Williams
$28.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
On 15 September 2003 Baha Mousa, a hotel receptionist, was killed by British Army troops in Iraq. He had been arrested the previous day in Basra and was taken to a military base for questioning. For forty-eight hours he and nine other innocent civilians had their heads encased in sandbags and their wris ...Show more
Crooks Like Us by Peter Doyle
$65.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
In the 1920s Sydney police began quietly assembling a gallery of the citys most light-fingered, fleet-footed, silver-tongued rogues con artists, magsmen, housebreakers, thugs, gunmen, shoplifters, drug dealers, pickpockets and hooligans. These extraordinary images resurfaced in the 1980s, long after the ...Show more
Death by Cannibal: Criminals with an Appetite for Murder by Peter Davidson
$26.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
They're an anathema even in the twisted world of serial murder. More frightening still, the cannibal killer has hidden behind a mask of normalcy, as witnessed in these shocking profiles of five American men who ate their victims. Drawn from revealing interviews with family members, authorities, and the ...Show more
Show Me a Hero: A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption by Lisa Belkin
$24.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Yonkers, New Jersey, 1987. Nicholas Wasicsko, the city's ambitious young mayor is given a court order demanding that the city build public housing on the white, middle-class side of town in order to right what the judge saw as intentional, decades-long pattern of segregation. As these cosy neighbourhood ...Show more
Mafia State by Luke Harding
$24.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
In February 2011, in scenes that evoked the chilliest moments of the Cold War, journalist Luke Harding was expelled from Moscow. His offence? To have reported on aspects of contemporary Russia that the authorities would have preferred to remain hidden from view. Moscow Ghosts is a clear-eyed and unflinc ...Show more
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
$29.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, a ...Show more