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
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
Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt
$26.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
*SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING REESE WITHERSPOON AND COLIN FIRTH * The West Memphis Three. Accused, convicted...and set free. Do you know their story? In 2011, one of the greatest miscarriages of justice in American legal history was set right when Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie M ...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
Straight Flush by Ben Mezrich
$36.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Straight Flush is the true story of a group of University of Montana frat brothers who turned a weekly poker game in the basement of a local bar into one of the largest online poker companies in the world. At its height, the group's online empire was bringing in revenues of over a million dollars a day. ...Show more
Christchurch Crimes and Scandals 1876 -99 by Geoffrey W. Rice
$35.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
The Boxing Day Riot of 1879 when a parade of Orange Lodge members was attacked by a mob of Irish Catholic navvies swinging axe-handles, a slander case involving one of the city's richest merchants, the famous Severed Hand Mystery of 1885 ... Following on from his first volume, Christchurch Crimes 1850-1 ...Show more
Behind the Door : The Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp Story by Mandy Wiener
$34.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
In February 2013 the news of successful model Reeva Steenkamp's fatal shooting by her boyfriend and global sporting star Oscar Pistorius stunned the world. Over the ensuing months, as Pistorius appeared in court, applied for bail and was eventually put on trial, every detail that emerged was analysed, d ...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
Hope: A Memoir of Survival by Amanda Berry
$37.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
'We have written here about terrible things that we never wanted to think about again...Now we want the world to know: we survived, we are free, we love life.' On May 6, 2013, Amanda Berry made headlines around the world when she fled a Cleveland home and called 911, saying: "Help me, I'm Amanda Berry.. ...Show more
Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime by Val McDermid
$28.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Series: Wellcome Collection
The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died - and who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help justice to be done using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene or the faintest of h ...Show more