Cult Trip - Inside the world of coercion and control by Anke Richter
$37.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: near fine
A leading journalist on cults explores how and why they capture people, the line between victim and perpetrator, and the cost of leaving. At a new age festival in Byron Bay, journalist Anke Richter is finding her spiritual awakening when she meets a woman - a survivor of the Auckland cult Centrepoint - ...Show more
The Rise of Street Gangs: An explosive book on how street gangs are growing and how they work from the inside by Stevens Brett
$34.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
"The Rise of Street Gangs" gives a unique first-hand account of the rise of gang culture across the world, where drive-by shootings and communities under siege have become the new norm. The book not only covers street gangs but the characters of the gangs and their current revolution and outlook and how ...Show more
Pain Hustlers - Film Tie-In by Evan Hughes
$27.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Now a major film streaming on NETFLIX'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. A tour de force.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, award-winning author of Empire of Pain'Everyone should read this book' - Sheelagh Kolhatkar, author of Black EdgeJohn Kapoor had already made a small fortune in pharmaceuticals when he ...Show more
The Real Prime Suspect: From the beat to the screen. My life as a female detective. by Jackie Malton, Helene Mulholland
$39.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Jackie Malton was a no-nonsense girl from Leicestershire who joined the police force in the 1970s when women were kept apart from the men. Feisty and determined, Jackie worked in CID and the famous flying squad before rising to become one of only three female detective chief inspectors in the Metropolit ...Show more
Vile Crimes: The Timaru Poisonings by Peter Graham
$29.50 NZD
Category: True Crime
On a drizzly Monday morning, 16 August 1886, the inhabitants of Timaru woke to astounding news. Tom Hall junior, a well-known local businessman and man about town, nephew of former New Zealand Premier Sir John Hall, had been arrested for attempting to murder his wife, Kitty, by poisoning. Also charged w ...Show more
Talking with Serial Killers: Stalkers - From the UK's No. 1 True Crime Author by Christopher Berry-Dee
$22.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Do you ever have that feeling you're being watched? Perhaps you are...Leading criminologist Christopher Berry-Dee turns his unflinching gaze on maybe the most sinister and disturbing of all killers - those who first stalk their unwitting victims, often for months at a time.
No Handcuffs - The Final Word on My War With the Krays by Eddie Richardson
$24.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Eddie Richardson is the last brand-name gangster. Say the name and the world of violent criminality grabs you by the throat. The Richardson brothers, Eddie and Charlie, and their infamous 'Torture Gang', made money while their rivals Ronnie and Reggie Kray made fatal mischief. They fought each other, bu ...Show more
Patched by Jarrod Gilbert
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Current Affairs | Reading Level: good-very good
From 'bikie' gangs to skinheads, the Mongrel Mob to Black Power, gangs have had a massive impact on our society. Based on intensive research within gangs, Patched is the first major history of gang life in New Zealand. Jarrod Gilbert traces the story from the early bodgies and widgies, the rise of Hell' ...Show more
The Night Dragon by Matthew Condon
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
. . . he is hard to frighten . . . he is very methodical . . . he does not like sunlight because he is very fair-skinned . . . he has the tattoo of St George and the Dragon . . . - Witness statement given to the Crime Intelligence Unit, Brisbane, 1974. In 2017, Vincent O'Dempsey, along with his accomp ...Show more
Little Fish are Sweet by Matthew Condon
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
"I recall meeting Lewis on a number of occasions in company with Tony Murphy. I recall conversation getting around to payments of money with Murphy and Lewis. Lewis thanked me on several occasions and said 'Little fish are sweet." --Jack 'The Bagman' Herbert in evidence to the Fitzgerald Inquiry 1988. L ...Show more
The Secret Prison Governor: The Brutal Truth of Life Behind Bars by Unnamed
$27.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The Secret Prison Governor has spent decades surrounded by every type of prisoner known to man, from petty thieves and common drug dealers to crime bosses and dangerous serial killers. This is his account. An eye-opening, thought-provoking and mind-blowing account from a genuine prison governor of what ...Show more