True Crime Books
The Sting
$29.99 – Paperback book / Victory Books
It was a David and Goliath style battle: Australian investigators up against a global organised crime empire. What seemed like an impossible task resulted in one of the most ambitious investigations in the world, infiltr... Buy or find out more →
Partners And Crime: The True Stories Of Eight Women And Life With Their Notorious Partners
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
For some, it is true love. For others, it's the excitement, wealth and glamour. A fascinating exploration of the women who love the baddest of the bad boys - from Chopper Read to George Freeman and Robert Trimbole.
What ... Buy or find out more →
A Tragedy In Two Acts: Marcus Einfeld And Teresa Brennan
$34.99 – Paperback book / Victory Books
This was not the ending either of them expected. Marcus Einfeld, former Federal Court judge and human rights champion, and his old friend Teresa Brennan, an exuberant, sometimes controversial US-based academic, had each ... Buy or find out more →
A Pack Of Bloody Animals
$29.95 – Paperback book / Kerr
The killings referred to as 'Walsh Street' arose when police and armed robbers went to war. Both sides, convinced the other side started the war, were righteous in the letting of blood. This is the story of that war. It.... Buy or find out more →
Maximum Security
$34.99 – Paperback book / Pan Macmillan
Maximum security the toughest classification in the Australian prison system exerts a powerful fascination for us. Housing the nation's worst criminals, the so-called 'intractables', these facilities are settings of viol... Buy or find out more →
Mad Dog: William Cyril Moxley And The Moorebank Killings
$29.95 – Hardcover book / New South Books
William Cyril Moxley was hanged at Sydney's Long Bay Gaol in 1932 - the first execution in New South Wales for eight years. His crime was the brutal rape and murder of 21-year-old Dorothy Ruth Denzel and the vicious beat... Buy or find out more →
Death And The Dolce Vita: The Dark Side Of Rome In The 1950s
$25.95 – Hard back / Text Publishing
On 9 April 1953 an attractive twenty-one-year-old woman went missing from her family home in Rome. Thirty-six hours later her body was found washed up on a neglected beach at Tor Vaianica. Some said it was suicide; other... Buy or find out more →
Outlaw Nation
$32.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Razor Underbelly (TV Tie-In)
$24.99 – Paperback book /
This Underbelly TV tie-in edition is the acclaimed, award-winning history of the Razor gangs – now the basis for Channel 9's 13-part blockbuster – Underbelly Razor.
In the 1920s and '30s in inner Sydney, some of the ... Buy or find out more →
Midnight In Peking
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
January, 1937: Peking is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, lavish cocktail bars and opium debs, warlords and corruption, rumours and superstition – and the clock ticking down on all of it.
In the exclusive Legation... Buy or find out more →
The Australian Book Of Great Trials
$29.99 – Paperback book / Murdoch Books
The Australian Book of Great Trials tells the story of some of the most interesting and important trials in Australian history, including the first ever civil case, brought by two convicts a short time after the First Fl... Buy or find out more →
Sex On The Moon
$29.95 – Paperback book / William Heinemann
Ocean’s Eleven meets A Beautiful Mind…Sex on The Moon is the amazing true story of the 25-year-old genius who pulled off one of the most unique and significant heists in US history
Thad Roberts lead a pretty good lif... Buy or find out more →
Blood Brotherhoods: The Rise of the Italian Mafias
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
The author of the bestselling COSA NOSTRA reveals the previously underexposed mafias of Southern Italy.
BLOOD BROTHERHOODS is the enthralling new history of Italian organised crime by the author of the international accl... Buy or find out more →
Brothers: Justice, Corruption and the Mickelbergs
$32.95 – Paperback book / Fremantle Arts Ct Pr
When somebody swindled the Perth Mint out of gold worth more than half a million dollars - local police thought they had the culprits. The Mickelberg brothers, Ray, Peter and Brian, were their prime suspects. Already acc... Buy or find out more →
Burke And Hare
$24.95 – Paperback book / Birlinn Ltd
In a boarding house in West Port, an old army pensioner dies of natural causes. He owes the landlord GBP4 rent. Instead of burying the body, the landlord, William Hare, and his friend, William Burke, fill the coffin with... Buy or find out more →
El Sicario: Confessions Of A Cartel Hitman
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
'I'm going to tell you about 20 years of my life dedicated to serving the cartel. Serving them with these hands. Torturing people. And killing.'
In this unprecedented and chilling monologue, a repentant Mexican hitman te... Buy or find out more →
Delivered From Evil
$39.99 – Hardcover book / Fair Winds
"Delivered from Evil" retells the stories of mass murders from the harrowing perspective of a sole survivor. Drawing from extensive research and 1st person interviews with the survivors, the most notable cases will be gi... Buy or find out more →
Cold Case Files
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Pan Macmillan
Cold case investigators scrape back paint in a renovated flat where a murder was committed twelve years earlier, and find a blood stain that leads them to a killer. Scientists extract DNA from crime-scene samples collect... Buy or find out more →
Madeleine
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
A heartbreaking and personal account from Kate McCann on the disappearance – and continuing search– for their daughter Madeleine
From press release dated 18 November 2010.
Transworld acquires ‘Madeleine’, Kate and Ge... Buy or find out more →
Cruel City
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
Why is it that Adelaide - a beautiful city of churches and lush gardens, a place renowned for its support of the arts and culture - has become better known as the epicentre of some of Australia's weirdest and most brutal... Buy or find out more →
Dirty Dozen 5 The Rise And Fall Of Carl Williams And Other True Crime Stories
$24.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
Like those that came before it, this fifth instalment in the best-selling Dirty Dozen series is a true inside account of some of Australia’s most gruesome and intriguing crime cases. Get inside the head of Carl Williams ... Buy or find out more →
People Who Eat Darkness
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Jonathan Cape
An incisive and compelling account of the case of Lucie Blackman
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Lucie Blackman – tall, blonde, and 21 years-old – stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000, and disappeared forever... Buy or find out more →
The Maul And The Pear Tree: The Ratcliffe Highway Murders 1811
$22.99 – Paperback book / Faber
P.D. James's only work of true crime: a historical mystery every bit as gripping as her bestselling novels.
In 1811 John Williams was buried with a stake in his heart. Was he the notorious East End killer or his eighth v... Buy or find out more →
Mafia Son: The Scarpa Mob Family The FBI And A Story Of Betrayal
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
An unforgettable story of growing up in a Mafia world of wealth, glamour, sex and random violence - a unique 'insiders' view of the most notorious criminal organisation in the world.
The Scarpa's were a New York Mafia Dy... Buy or find out more →
Abandoned: The Sad Death Of Dianne Brimble
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
Drugs, sex and a pack of unscrupulous men circling, circling - it was always going to get ugly but no-one foresaw the tragic death of a young woman.
On 24 September, 2002, Queensland mother Dianne Brimble was found dead ... Buy or find out more →
Big Shots: The Chilling Inside Story Of Carl Williams And The Gangland Wars
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Adam Shand, until then a finance journalist, naively set out to unravel Melbourne's bloody gangland wars. A few months' research, a guaranteed cover story. But his foray into the underworld took him deeper than that. He ... Buy or find out more →
Enforcer: The Real Story of One of Australia's Most Feared Outlaw Bikers
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
Among members of the outlaw motorcycle clubs, Caesar Campbell is a legend. Former sergeant-at-arms and chief enforcer for the Comancheros, Caesar became the founding member and sergeant-at-arms of the Australian chapter ... Buy or find out more →
The Tiger
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
In a remote part of the Siberian forest a desperate poacher triggers a series of tragic events as a tiger turns man-eater. Part gripping detective story played out on a wild and exotic stage and part ecological parable, ... Buy or find out more →
Siberian Education
$25.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
‘The only thing a worthy criminal takes from the cops is a beating, and even that he gives back, when the right moment comes.’
Siberian Education is the story of a tiny, tightly knit community of ‘honest’ and ‘dishon... Buy or find out more →
Biker Chicks: The Magnetic Attraction of Women to Bad Boys and Motorbikes
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
A revealing portrait of the mysterious role of women in bikers' clubs. Popular images of scantily-clad females who are little more than slaves don't do justice to the rich history and culture of the many women who have c... Buy or find out more →
Badlands: Australia’s 13 Most Intriguing True Murders
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
Unpacks the compelling psychological riddles, inspired investigations and sensational plot twists of thirteen intriguing contemporary homicides.
Two bound Thai prostitutes are thrown into a Northern Territory river teemi... Buy or find out more →
I, Mick Gatto
$29.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Mick Gatto.
Gambler.
Underworld veteran.
Melbourne gangland survivor.
Made into a household name Australia-wide by the hit television series Underbelly, in his autobiography, Mick Gatto finally reveals the man behind the... Buy or find out more →
Forensic Investigator: True Stories From The Life Of A Country Crime Scene Cop
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Michael Joseph
FORENSIC INVESTIGATOR Geoff Bernasconi had always been passionate about his job as a policeman in rural New South Wales and, from the earliest days of his career, went the extra mile, both for victims of crime and for th... Buy or find out more →
Dangerous To Know: An Australasian Crime Compendium
$39.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Following the success of their best-selling Gangland Australia, James Morton and Susanna Lobez turn their attention to crime and criminals, both organised and disorganised, in Australia and New Zealand over the last cent... Buy or find out more →
Friends Of The Family: The Inside Story Of The Mafia Cops Case
$27.99 – Paperback book / Harper Collins
The most notorious case in NYPD history: the honest cop and district attorney who broke New York's coldest case and put two dirty detectives who murdered for the mob in jail.
On 10 March 2005‚ two highly decorated detect... Buy or find out more →
The Skull: Informers, Hitmen and Australia's Toughest Cop
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Black Inc
There has never been a more feared or respected policeman in Australia than Brian “Skull” Murphy.
Adam Shand, author of the bestselling Big Shots, tells the story of the last of the super cops, collaring big-time cri... Buy or find out more →
Pimp: The Story Of My Life
$24.95 – Paperback book / Canongate
The ultimate anti-hero, Iceberg Slim takes you into the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, the sounds, the fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his sto... Buy or find out more →
The Suspicions Of Mr Whicher Or The Murder At Road Hill House
$24.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
It is midnight on 30th June 1860 and all is quiet in the Kent family's elegant house in Road, Wiltshire. The next morning, however, they wake to find that their youngest son has been the victim of an unimaginably gruesom... Buy or find out more →
Pixie: Inside A World Of Drugs Sex And Violence
$32.95 – Paperback book / Hardie Grant
Andrea Mohr's CV is an eye-opening read: drug runner, hostess, money launderer, drug dealer and importer amongst other things. Alongside this was a glamorous life filled with travel, movie stars and easy money. But the d... Buy or find out more →
Infiltration: The True Story of the Man Who Cracked the Mafia
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
A blistering tale of the only undercover cop to infiltrate the Griffith Mafia-the biggest undercover sting in Australia's history
For two years police detective Colin McLaren disappears off the face of the earth, surfaci... Buy or find out more →
Escobar: The Inside Story Of Pablo Escobar: The World's Most Powerful Criminal
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
ESCOBAR by Roberto Escobar
The incredible true story of the rise and reign of Pablo Escobar, the most wanted criminal in history, told by the one man who was with him every step of the way, his brother Roberto.
Escobar's... Buy or find out more →
Born Or Bred? Martin Bryant: The Making Of A Mass Murderer
$34.99 – Paperback book / Fairfax
Martin Bryant murdered 35 people and injured 37 during the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania in 1996, a crime for which he is serving 35 life sentences in Hobart’s Risdon Prison. It remains one of the largest single massa... Buy or find out more →
No Angel: An Undercover Journey To The Heart Of The Hells Angels
$34.95 – Trade paperback / Text Publishing
Would you go to the gates of Hell for your job?
American Federal Agent Jay ‘Bird’ Dobyns did.
For nearly two years, Dobyns infiltrated the world’s most notorious biker gang—the Hells Angels.
An undercover agent f... Buy or find out more →
On The Run
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Melb Univ Press
Covert operative Cole Goodwin pulls off the biggest undercover sting in Australia. Now he's on the run in the biggest gig of his life-survival.
Cole Goodwin spent years undercover, infiltrating the Mafia and putting the ... Buy or find out more →
Charles Manson: Coming Down Fast
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
In the summer of 1969, a set of grisly murders shocked the population of Los Angeles and the rest of the US. Seven people lay senselessly butchered, among them actress Sharon Tait, the beautiful young wife of Roman Polan... Buy or find out more →
The Dark Side
$24.95 – Paperback book / Kerr
Roger Rogerson hasn't been a police officer for more than 20 years. Yet his name makes him the most well-known 'detective-sergeant' in Australia. He has been the subject of articles, appearances, profiles and books; port... Buy or find out more →
Walsh Street: The Cold-blooded Killings that Shocked Australia (Updated)
$27.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
A powerful Melbourne crime family. A teenage protected witness. The killing of two policemen. Terror. Violence. Loyalty.
On a cool spring morning two policemen were lured into a leafy street in Melbourne, Australia and g... Buy or find out more →
Evil In The Suburbs
$0.00 – Trade paperback / Bantam Press
In August 2000 a gang of rapists lured 12 victims from train stations and via the internet in a series of planned attacks. One 16-year-old was staked to the ground by a dozen men and raped repeatedly. Another young teena... Buy or find out more →
Shotgun And Standover: The Story Of The Painters And Dockers
$34.99 – Trade paperback / Macmillan
Few names in Australian criminal history are as redolent as the Painters and Dockers. They were a union gone to the bad. From their outset in the early years of the 20th Century, they attracted more than their fair share... Buy or find out more →
The Fast Life And Sudden Death Of Michael McGurk
$24.99 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
In September 2009 Sydney businessman Michael McGurk was executed in a professional hit on the driveway of his North Shore house. With a single shot to the head the property developer, doting father and generous Catholic ... Buy or find out more →
Bonnie And Clyde
$25.00 – Paperback book / Henry Holt & Company
The flesh-and-blood story of the outlaw lovers who shot their way across Depression-era America, based on archival research, declassified FBI documents, and interviews
The daring movie revolutionized Hollywood—now the tr... Buy or find out more →
The Magnificent Spilsbury And The Case Of The Brides In The Bath
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Hodder Headline
Bessie Mundy, Alice Burnham and Margaret Lofty are three women with one thing in common. They are spinsters and are desperate to marry. Each woman meets a smooth-talking stranger who promises her a better life. She falls... Buy or find out more →
Gangland Australia
$27.99 – Paperback book / Melb Univ Press
Gangland Australia details the exploits of an unforgettable cast of villains, crooks and mobsters who have made up the criminal and gangland scene in Australia for over two centuries.
In this fully updated and bestsellin... Buy or find out more →
Knife Crime
$24.95 – Paperback book / Quercus
Knife crime is sweeping Britain as the law of the blade rules on the streets and in the schools.
Many cases have gained notoriety - Ben Kinsella, the brother of an Eastenders actor killed for walking away from a fight he... Buy or find out more →
Snitch: Crooked Cops And King Cross Crims By The Man Who Saw It All
$0.00 – Paperback book / Allen & Unwin
A vivid and compelling first-hand recollection of Kings Cross and Sydney' s underworld, from 1989 to the Wood Royal Commission.
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There was nothing in the Cross 'The Inspector' didn't know. He walked the line b... Buy or find out more →
Mafia Princess
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Harper Collins
Marisa Merico, the daughter of one of Italy′s most notorious Mafia Godfathers, was dazzled by her father, Emilio DiGiovine. To her he was all powerful, sophisticated and loving; to the rest of the world he was staggering... Buy or find out more →
Tokyo Vice
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police Press Club, here is a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up.
At the age of 19,... Buy or find out more →
Blood Money: Bikies, Terrorists And Middle Eastern Gangs
$35.00 – Trade paperback / Allen & Unwin
A meticulously researched and revealing expose of the new players in organised crime.
Organised crime in Australia is more reckless and more violent than ever before. Controlled by a new wave of gangland bosses, it has b... Buy or find out more →
Crims in Grass Castles: The True Story of Trimbole, Mr Asia and the disappearance of Donald Mackay
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Viking
Before Carl Williams, there was Trimbole: race-fixer, drug boss, Mafia powerbroker, murder contractor, arms dealer. This is his true story with never-before-published material.
In the 1970s Robert Trimbole and the Calabr... Buy or find out more →