Hunting LeRoux - The Inside Story of the DEA Takedown of a Criminal Genius and His Empire by Elaine Shannon
$35.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
With a foreword by four-time Oscar nominated filmmaker Michael Mann. The story of Paul LeRoux, the twisted-genius entrepreneur and cold-blooded killer who brought revolutionary innovation to international crime, and the exclusive inside story of how the DEA's elite, secretive 960 Group brought him down ...Show more
In Dark Places: The Confessions of Teina Pora and an Ex-Cop's Fight for Justice by Michael Bennett
$34.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Teina Pora, a 17-year-old car thief, was wrongly convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Susan Burdett, who had been beaten to death with the softball bat she kept next to her bed for her own protection. Tim McKinnel, en ex-cop turned private investigator, discovered the long forgott ...Show more
The Dark Heart of Italy by Tobias Jones
$32.99 NZD
Category: Travel
In 1999, Tobias Jones emigrated to Italy, expecting to discover the pastoral bliss described by centuries of foreign visitors. Instead, he discovered a very different country, besieged by unfathomable terrorism and deep-seated paranoia, where crime is scarcely ever met with punishment. "The Dark Heart o ...Show more
The Killer's Shadow - The FBI's Hunt for a White Supremacist Serial Killer by John E. Douglas; Mark Olshaker
$32.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Series: Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter Ser.
The legendary FBI criminal profiler and international bestselling author of Mindhunter and The Killer Across the Table returns with this timely, relevant book that goes to the heart of extremism and domestic terrorism, examining in-depth his chilling pursuit of, and eventual prison confrontation with Jo ...Show more
Real Silent Witness - Shocking Cases from the World of Forensic Science by Wensley Clarkson
$27.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Going beyond the popular TV show, this is the true story of forensic science from those who solve crimes without witnesses. How do you identify a serial killer? What are the tell-tale signs of guilt? Can we now solve the unsolvable? Since even before the first season of Silent Witnessin 1996, forensic s ...Show more
The Winter Road: A Story of Legacy, Land and a Killing at Croppa Creek by Kate Holden
$37.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
An epic true story of greed, power and a desire for legacy from an acclaimed Australian storyteller. July 2014, a lonely road at twilight outside Croppa Creek, New South Wales: 80-year-old farmer Ian Turnbull takes out a .22 and shoots environmental officer Glen Turner in the back. On one side, a farmer ...Show more
The Missing Cryptoqueen by Jamie Bartlett
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
'The largest financial scam ever' - Fortune 'The bizarre case of OneCoin illustrates how easily a classic scam could be reinvented for the digital age' - Financial Times 'The story of OneCoin stands out even among the outlandish capers of the cryptocurrency era' - Wall Street Journal ___________________ ...Show more
Blood Money: Bikies, Terrorists and Middle Eastern Gangs by Clive Small; Tom Gilling
$29.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Organized crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has broken old taboos and formed alliances that would have once been unthinkable. So who now holds the power? There are the Middle Eastern gangs whose core business is drugs, ...Show more
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
$24.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
A New York Times bestseller to be adapted into a film with Jennifer Lawrence to star. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup 'unicorn' promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
$12.95 NZD
$13.99 (7% off)
Category: True Crime | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
Milat: Inside Australia's biggest manhunt - a detective's story by Clive Small, Tom Gilling
$24.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Milat - the serial killer who preyed on young hitchhikers. The backpackers - the innocent victims of a brutal murderer. Belanglo - a place that became synonymous with pure evil...It was the biggest and most complex manhunt in Australian history, an investigation that gripped a nation. Behind the many fa ...Show more