The Lady in the Cellar - Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury by Sinclair McKay
$45.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Standing four storeys tall in an elegant Bloomsbury terrace, number 4, Euston Square was a well-kept, respectable boarding house, whose tenants felt themselves to be on the rise in Victorian London. But beneath this genteel veneer lay a murderous darkness. For on 9th May 1879, the body of a former resid ...Show more
Zealot by Jo Thornely
$37.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: near fine
Why would anyone join a cult? Maybe they're unhappy with their current religion, or they want to change the world, or they're disappointed with their lives and want to find something bigger or holier that makes sense of this confusing, chaotic and dangerous world. Or maybe they just want to give themsel ...Show more
The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal. The Hunt for thew World's Most Prolific Criminal by Evan Ratliff
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
'A hidden world filled with high-tech gangsters and drug kingpins and double-crossers and stone-cold hitmen. As fascinating as it is terrifying.?David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moonand The Lost City of ZThe Mastermindtells the incredible true story of Paul Le Roux, the frighteningly powerfu ...Show more
The Central Park Five by Sarah Burns
$27.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
On April 20th, 1989, two passersby discovered the body of the "Central Park jogger" crumpled in a ravine. She'd been raped and severely beaten. Within days five black and Latino teenagers were apprehended, all five confessing to the crime. The staggering torrent of media coverage that ensued, coupled wi ...Show more
The Vory - Russia`s Super Mafia by Mark Galeotti
$32.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia's much-feared crime class: the vory v zakone Mark Galeotti is the go-to expert on organized crime in Russia, consulted by governments and police around the world. Now, Western readers can explore the fascina ...Show more
Mrs Escobar - My Life with Pablo by Victoria Eugenia Henao
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
The closest you'll ever get to the most infamous drug kingpin in modern history, told by the person who stood by his side The story of Pablo Escobar, one of the wealthiest, powerful and violent criminals of all time has fascinated the world. Yet the one person closest to him has never spoken out - until ...Show more
Cold Case Investigations by Xanthé Mallett
$37.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
From the disappearance of the Beaumont children to the abduction of William Tyrrell to the double murder of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and her daughter Khandalyce, Xanthé is determined to expose the truth to maximise dignity for both deceased victims and those left behind. Xanthé talks to experts to uncove ...Show more
The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenaline-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen- the high seas. There are few remaining frontiers on our planet. But perhaps the wildest, and least understood, are the world's oceans- too big to police, and under no clear in ...Show more
My Father, the Murderer - A Reckoning with the Past by Nina Young
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
This was Nina Young's shocking realisation in her mid-twenties, when she found out from online court records that her estranged father, Allan Ladd, had strangled a woman to death decades before. In prison he'd met Denise, Nina's mother, who was his tutor. Although Denise didn't know the extent of Allan' ...Show more
Surviving the Krays - The Final Explosive Secret about the Krays by David Teale
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
David Teale: groomed by the twins, controlled by threats, falsely imprisoned by the State for his 'own protection' as younger brother of Kray-informer Bobby. Turns out that's only half the story. David first met the Krays when he was seventeen years old. He was drawn into London's underworld, and became ...Show more
Prison Break: The Extraordinary Life and Crimes of New Zealand's Most Infamous Escapee by Arthur Taylor
$36.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The extraordinary true story behind New Zealand's most infamous career criminal and prolific escapee. Arthur Taylor is New Zealand's best known, most influential, and colourful career criminal. A household name, he was paroled from prison in 2019 after more than 38 years years behind bars. His life stor ...Show more
Larrimah: A missing man, an eyeless croc and an outback town of 11 people who mostly hate each other by Caroline Graham, Kylie Stevenson
$36.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
A dying town, a missing man. One of Australia's greatest mysteries - two whodunnits, twisted together. Larrimah: hot, barren, a speck of dust in the centre of the nothingness of outback Australia. Where you might find a death adder in the bar and a spider or ten in the toaster. Maybe it's stupid to writ ...Show more