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
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
Hello, Shadowlands - Your Guide to Southeast Asia's Meth Fiefdoms, Terrorized Party Towns, Guerilla Hideouts and Other Places You'll Probably Never Visit by Patrick Winn
$32.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands reveals a booming underworld of organised crime across a region in flux-- a $100 billion trade that deals in narcotics, animals and people --and the staggering human toll that is being steadily ignored by the West. From M ...Show more
The Jolly Roger Social Club : A True Story of a Killer in Paradise by Nick Foster
$21.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The true story of a series of bold killings which took place in a shadowy American expat community in Panama-a tale of greed, political history, and murder In the remote Bocas del Toro, Panama, William Dathan Holbert, a.k.a. "Wild Bill," is awaiting trial for the murder of five fellow American expatriot ...Show more
Can You Ever Forgive Me? - Memoirs of a Literary Forger by Lee Israel
$22.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Before turning to her life of crime, running a one-woman forgery business out of a phone booth in a Greenwich Village bar, and dodging the FBI, Lee Israel had a legitimate, even celebrated, career as an author of biographies. Her first book on Tallulah Bankhead was a New York Times bestseller, and her s ...Show more
The Old Man and the Gun (FTI) And Other Tales of True Crime by David Grann
$22.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Now a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, The Old Man and the Gun is here joined by two other riveting true-crime tales. "The Old Man and the Gun" is the incredible story of a bank robber and prison escape artist who modeled himself after figures like Pretty Boy Floyd and ...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
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 Last Stone by Mark Bowden
$36.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The true story of a cold case, a compulsive liar, and five determined detectives, from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author and "master journalist" (The Wall Street Journal). On March 29, 1975, sisters Katherine and Sheila Lyons, ages ten and twelve, vanished from a shopping mall in suburban Washi ...Show more
Judas - How a Sister's Testimony Brought down a Criminal Mastermind by Astrid Holleeder
$27.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The inside account of the life and trial of one of the world's most infamous criminals, by his closest confidante and biggest traitor-his sister. Best known for his involvement in the 1983 kidnapping of the CEO and Chairman of Heineken brewing company, Willem Holleeder is one of the most notorious crim ...Show more
Catch and Kill - Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow
$37.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
Ray: "Riveting. Compelling. The story of how Ronan Farrow held his ground against the powerful media establishment, unprincipled lawyers, public relations spinmasters, spies, to expose the sexual predations of Hollywood mogul Henry Weinstein. An Australian-born media executive tried to stop the book fro ...Show more
The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures: A True Life Murder Mystery from the Birth of the Movies by Paul Fischer
$27.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The thrilling true story of the mysterious disappearance of Louis Le Prince.