Missing William Tyrrell by Caroline Overington

$34.99 AUD

Category: True Crime

   One minute a little boy is playing outside his foster nana's house, the next minute, he's gone. How can a three year old child simply disappear? On Friday 12 September 2014, William Tyrrell - a playful three-year-old boy dressed in a fire-engine red Spider-Man suit - disappears from a quiet street in broad daylight. It's assumed he's lost in the nearby bushland, but despite an intensive search, he's not found, and police start to suspect he's been abducted. No trace of William - not a shoe, not a hair - has ever been found, but now is not the time to surrender. How can a little boy just vanish? We have to find him. From best-selling author and Walkley Award-winning journalist, Caroline Overington, Missing William Tyrrell is a moving and compelling exploration of one of Australia's most baffling and heartbreaking mysteries. ...Show more

Playing Dead by Wendy Lewis

$9.99 AUD

Category: True Crime

Pretending to be dead is one of the most bizarre ways to opt out of society. Despite the obvious risks, a surprising number of people attempt to leave their old life behind by faking suicide. And the results can be unbelievably madcap.

The Road to Jonestown - Jim Jones and Peoples Temple by Jeff Guinn

$9.99 AUD

Category: True Crime

By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson comes this comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic story of preacher Jim Jones, who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre-the largest murder-suicide in American history. In the 1950s, a young Indianapolis minister named Jim Jones preached a curio us blend of the gospel and Marxism. His congregation was racially integrated, and he was a much-lauded leader in the contemporary civil-rights movement. Eventually, Jones moved his church, Peoples Temple, to northern California. He became involved in electoral politics and soon was a prominent Bay Area leader. In this riveting narrative, Jeff Guinn examines Jones' life, from his extramarital affairs, drug use, and fraudulent faith healing to the fraught decision to move almost a thousand of his followers to a settlement in the jungles of Guyana in South America. Guinn provides stunning new details of the events leading to the fatal day in November, 1978, when more than nine hundred people died-including almost three hundred infants and children-after being ordered to swallow a cyanide-laced drink. Guinn examined thousands of pages of FBI files on the case, including material released during the course of his research. He traveled to Jones' Indiana hometown, where he spoke to people never previously interviewed and uncovered fresh information from Jonestown survivors. He even visited the Jonestown site with the same pilot who flew there the day that Congressman Leo Ryan was murdered on Jones' orders. The Road to Jonestown is the definitive book about Jim Jones and the events that led to the tragedy at Jonestown. ...Show more

True True Blood by Megan Norris

$9.99 AUD

Category: True Crime

Blackened Tanner: The Dennis Tanner Story by Ron Irwin

$9.99 AUD

Category: True Crime

This is the story of Denis Tanner, a Victorian detective who hit the headlines in 1996, when a newspaper accused him of murdering two women, his sister-in-law Jennifer, who death in 1984 was treated as suicide, and Adele Bailey a transsexual prostitute who disappeared in 1978.

Chopper 10 Fool and His Toes Are Soon Part by Mark Read

$12.95 AUD

Category: True Crime

Chopper turns his attention to the vicious Melbourne underworld war that began in the late 1990s and would kill more than 30 gangsters before the police finally took back control of the streets. Chopper s experience and insider information make him the best person to tell the shocking story. Police inve stigators established that a gang of new-boy crooks run by a chubby suburban drug dealer called Carl Williams were out to exterminate established crime figures. Williams wanted to be king of the manor in Melbourne and found himself in the middle of a hurricane of mayhem and murder. The deaths caused a power vacuum within Melbourne s criminal community as various factions fought for control and influence. The majority of the murders remain unsolved, although police believe that Williams was responsible for up to10 of them. On February 28, 2007, Williams pleaded guilty to three counts of murder. In return for being released from prison by the time he is 70, police will not charge Williams with the other murders they believe he committed. So Carl Williams got 35 years in jail. But years before police set up a taskforce to tackle the murder wave, poacher-turned-gamekeeper Chopper warned that the war was about to explode. And he predicted who would die. He was right." ...Show more

Kill the Morans by Ben Wrout

$9.99 AUD

Category: True Crime

Kill the Morans is essential reading for anyone half serious about the real Melbourne Gangland War. Bert Wrout was shot while at the heart of Australia's bloodiest ever drugs turf war, with a tally of 39 bodies at last count. Bert enlisted formerly retired Melbourne crime journalist, Brett Quine, to hel p put the record straight and free the public from popular myth. In an explosive memoir Bert takes the reader into the heart of Melbourne's gangland, in a gripping conversational style that will hook readers from the opening page. Years in the making, Kill the Morans reveals the real truth behind the Melbourne Gangland War from one of the only players left standing, with an incredibly gripping account of the real rise and fall of the Moran crime crew. Includes stunning revelations about some of the key events of the Melbourne gangland wars. Note: Not available for sale in Victoria. ...Show more

The Old Man and the Gun (FTI) And Other Tales of True Crime by David Grann

$7.99 AUD

Category: True Crime

Now a major motion picture starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek, The Old Man and the Gun is here joined by two other riveting true-crime tales.   "The Old Man and the Gun" is the incredible story of a bank robber and prison escape artist who modeled himself after figures like Pretty Boy Floyd and who, even in his seventies, refuses to retire. "True Crime" follows the twisting investigation of a Polish detective who suspects that a novelist planted clues in his fiction to an actual murder. And "The Chameleon" recounts how a French imposter assumes the identity of a missing boy from Texas and infiltrates the boy's family, only to soon wonder whether he is the one being conned. In this mesmerizing collection, David Grann shows why he has been called a "worthy heir to Truman Capote" and "simply the best narrative nonfiction writer working today," as he takes the reader on a journey through some of the most intriguing and gripping real-life tales from around the world. ...Show more

Hate Mail by Mark Morri

$19.99 AUD

Category: True Crime

Sydney, 1998. Personal trainer Brett Boyd arrives home to find a package waiting in the driveway. It's addressed to his girlfriend, model and part-time escort Simone Farrow. Hours later, Boyd is in hospital, fighting for his life. The parcel was a bomb that had exploded in his face, leaving him badly di sfigured and lucky to be alive. Who was behind such a violent and calculated attack? What did they want? And why was the parcel addressed to his girlfriend? Suspicion immediately falls onto Boyd's former business partner, a rising TV star named Roberto de Heredia. But it turns out that there was much more to their 'business' than anyone had imagined, and the investigation leads straight to Kings Cross, the beating heart of Sydney's organised crime scene that has just descended into chaos in the wake of a royal commission into police corruption. De Heredia is soon arrested for the bombing, but while out on bail, he fakes his death and flees the country using a false passport. It's not until years later, long after he thinks he is safe living under a different name on the sunny coast of Spain, that two Aussie cops unearth the cold case file and decide that it's not over. And so ensues an international manhunt to see de Heredia extradited to Australia and brought to justice. Veteran crime reporter and bestselling author Mark Morri has followed these extraordinary events since the very beginning, and this book is filled with extensive interviews with detectives, crooks and the star witnesses. HATE MAIL is a gripping account of one of Sydney's most unbelievable and notorious cases, a story twenty years in the making. ...Show more

Perfect Stranger: A True Story of Desire and Obsession by Kay Schubach

$19.99 AUD

Category: True Crime

Simon Lowe was a master of his craft. Handsome and charismatic, smart and urbane, he sought out and hunted down vulnerable women - usually women who had money and who craved the exhilaration of romantic love and the sex that goes with it. He told them what they wanted to hear, promised them love with th e lot. This is Kay Schubach's story of what happened when she took the plunge with Simon, diving in recklessly to a new relationship and blowing up her life as she knew it. What she couldn't have foreseen was that Simon Lowe was a violent narcissist with a criminal history, who had done time for previous crimes against women. This is an insight into domestic violence in a place we don't expect to see it - Sydney with harbour views and a glass of French champagne. This extraordinarily candid account of what happened to Kay is like watching a car crash - terrible but impossible to look away. Part psychological thriller, part true crime, part cautionary tale, this is an extraordinary insight into what a woman will do for love and the promise of a baby - and at what cost. ...Show more

The Prisoner by Kerry Tucker

$19.99 AUD

Category: True Crime

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Most Dangerous Animal of All (Zodiac Killer) by Gary L. Stewart

$4.99 AUD

Category: True Crime

An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious-and still at large-serial killers in America. Soon after his birthmother contacte d him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. It was a quest that would lead him to a horrifying truth and force him to reconsider everything he thought he knew about himself and his world. Written with award-winning author and journalist Susan D. Mustafa, The Most Dangerous Animal of All tells the story of Stewart's decade-long search for his father following a complex trail of startling twists and connections. Combing through government records and news reports and through conversations with his father's relatives and friends, Stewart turns up a host of clues, including forensic evidence, identifying his father as one of the most infamous and still-wanted serial killers in American history. ...Show more