Tangled Vines: Greed, Murder, Obsession, and an Arsonist in the Vineyards of California by Frances Dinkelspiel
$27.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
On October 12, 2005, a massive fire broke out in the Wines Central wine warehouse in Vallejo, California. Within hours, the flames had destroyed 4.5 million bottles of California's finest wine worth more than $250 million, making it the largest destruction of wine in history. The fire had been deliberat ...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
Shot in the Dark: Unsolved New Zealand Murders from the 1920's and 30's by Scott Bainbridge
$19.99 NZD
$39.99 (50% off)
Category: Overstocks
Secondhand. A Christchurch publican shot in a crowded pub, an Indian fruiterer beaten to death in Hawera and a trail of destruction left across Waikato and the Bay of Plenty by a mass murderer - these are just some of the fascinating unsolved murders profiled in Shot in the Dark. While the ten cases pr ...Show more
Behind the Horror - True Stories That Inspired Horror Movies by DK
$24.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Uncover the twisted tales that inspired the big screen's greatest screams. Which case of demonic possession inspired The Exorcist? What horrifying front-page story generated the idea for A Nightmare on Elm Street? Which film was based on the infamous skin-wearing murderer Ed Gein? Unearth the terrifying ...Show more
On the Trail of the Serpent: The Life and Crimes of Charles Sobhraj by Julie Clarke
$28.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
THE GLOBAL BESTSELLER - REVISITED AND REVISED Soon to be the subject of a major TV series Charles Sobhraj remains one of the world's great con men, and as a serial killer, the story of his life and capture endures as legend. Born in Vietnam to a Vietnamese mother and Indian father, Sobhraj grew up wit ...Show more
The Dark Side by Clive Small; Tom Gilling
$36.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
"Each year at least $10 billion is laundered in and through Australia. Much of this money is derived from illicit drugs." Hooked on the limitless profits of the drug trade, organized crime has grown so powerful that it now poses a major threat to Australia's national security. Clive Small and Tom Gillin ...Show more
Charlatan by Catherine Jinks
$37.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Thomas Guthrie Carr is charged by Eliza Gray with mesmerising her and raping her while she was under his influence. But if mesmerism and Mr Carr are shams, was Eliza raped? In the tradition of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Charlatan is the story of a notorious nineteenth-century court case involving a l ...Show more
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
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