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
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
The Dead Duke, His Secret Wife and the Missing Corpse: An Extraordinary Edwardian Case of Deception and Intrigue by Piu Marie Eatwell
$22.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The extraordinary story of the Druce-Portland affair, one of the most notorious, tangled and bizarre legal cases of the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. In 1897 an elderly widow, Anna Maria Druce, made a strange request of the London Ecclesiastical Court: it was for the exhumation of the grave of her ...Show more
Standing Strong: An Unlikely Sisterhood and the Court Case That Made History by Diane Reeve
$29.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Diane Reeve found everything she was looking for in the handsome Frenchman Philippe Padieu. Deeply in love, they spent every Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday together at his place or hers . . . that is, until she learned about his Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday women. But her heartbreak was just b ...Show more
Lock Up: Behind the Bars at Gaols in Australia and New Zealand by John Miller
$32.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Lock Up: Behind the bars at gaols in Australia and New Zealand tells the story of the infamous prisons that have housed our criminals since colonial times right up to the present day. Along the way, it looks at the great escapes, tragic executions, paranormal activity, major crimes and notorious inmates ...Show more
El Norte - The Epic and Forgotten Story of Hispanic North America by Carrie Gibson
$55.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
For reasons of language and history, the United States has prized its Anglo heritage above all others. However, as Carrie Gibson explains with great depth and clarity in El Norte, America has much older Spanish roots - ones that have long been unacknowledged or marginalized. The Hispanic past of the Uni ...Show more
The Grey Men: Pursuing the Stasi into the Present by Ralph Hope
$32.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
"By 1990 the Berlin Wall had fallen and the East German state security service folded. During forty years, they had amassed more than a billion pages in manila files detailing the lives of their citizens. Overnight, almost a hundred thousand Stasi employees, many of them experienced officers with access ...Show more
Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Mass Murderers and Spree Killers by Christopher Berry-Dee
$22.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The leading writer and criminologist directs his uncompromising gaze on a growing phenomenon - so-called 'rampage killers', whose random multiple killings invariably leave entire communities in shock and mourning.
More Great Australian Outback Police Stories by Bill Marsh
$35.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
The Dirty Dozen - The Real Story of the Rise and Fall of London's Most Feared Armed Robbery Gang by Noel Razor Smith
$24.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The true story of London's most prolific armed robbery gang.
Hype by Gabrielle Bluestone
$36.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
From Vice journalist and executive producer of hit Netflix documentary Fyre comes an eye-opening look at the con artists, grifters and snake oil salesmen of the digital age--and why we can't stop falling for them. We live in an age where scams are the new normal. A charismatic entrepreneur sells thousa ...Show more