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
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
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
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
Madoff: The Man Who Stole $65 Billion by Erin Arvedlund
$31.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Take the combined fortunes of Bill Gates, Tiger Woods and Roman Abramovich. Now imagine someone stealing that much money - and being hailed as a financial genius. That man is Bernard Madoff. Backed by governments and global banks, Madoff defrauded $65 billion from charities and individual investors incl ...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
My Story by Schapelle Corby; Kathryn Bonella (As told to)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The no. 1 bestselling memoir, co-written by Schapelle Corby and Kathryn Bonella, the author of Hotel Kerobokan and Snowing in Bali.Schapelle's story is like no other - a young woman experiencing the unimaginable, and enduring the unendurable with courage, strength and humour.It was meant to be a two-wee ...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
Death in Perugia by John Follain
$39.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Shortly after 12.30 p.m. on November 2, 2007, police officers entered the home of 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in the picturesque Italian town of Perugia. Inside, Kercher's half-naked body lay on the floor under a beige quilt. She had been stabbed three times in the neck. This is the unr ...Show more
Lockdown by Drauzio Varella
$37.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
The Carandiru House of Detention, in the teeming city of São Paulo, was the largest and most crowded prison in Latin America. Known as the 'Old House', it was also highly unusual in the way it was governed. Closed to the outside world, and even largely to the wardens, it was run almost entirely by the i ...Show more
Snowing in Bali by Kathryn Bonella
$39.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
It's snowing in Bali. Among Bali's drug dealers it's the code for a huge cocaine shipment having just landed. For the men who run the country's drug empires, it's time to get rich and party hard. Snowing in Bali is the story of the drug trafficking and dealing scene that's made Bali one of the world's m ...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