Saving Our Kids: The Inside Story of Taskforce Argos, Detective Inspector Jon Rouse and Their Mission To Protect Our Children Online by Madonna King
Category: True Crime
The crime of sextortion has reached epidemic proportions, fuelled by both sex offenders and organised scammers targeting our most vulnerable online. Children are some of the internet's most prolific and most naive users, and increasing numbers are finding themselves caught in an evil web of networked m ...Show more
The Man Who Wasn't There by Dan Box
Category: True Crime
A true story about lies, murder and the Territory 'Sorry, mate, but that's the message.' Zak says to grow some balls and defend him. You've got to remember he is still a young bloke, stuck in Darwin prison where it's always hot, the food is slop and they get rats in the wet season. It's not enough jus ...Show more
Tokyo Vice: A Western Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein
Category: True Crime
Now a hit HBO Max TV series starring Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe & Rachel Keller 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 ...Show more
Talking with Psychopaths and Savages: Guilty but Insane by Christopher Berry-Dee
Category: True Crime
A study of convicted murderers who have attempted to escape justice, and even the death penalty, by entering a plea of insanity - and sometimes succeeded The plea of insanity in criminal cases can be traced back at least to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which dates from 1755-1759 BC. It is a complic ...Show more
Roger Rogerson: From hero cop to convicted murderer by Duncan McNab
Category: True Crime
The verdict is guilty. On 20 May 2014, former New South Wales police officers Roger Rogerson and Glen McNamara murdered student Jamie Gao in cold blood. Both have been found guilty of murder and possession of 2.78 kilograms of methamphetamine, and sentenced to life imprisonment. But this wasn't Rogers ...Show more
Australia’s Most Infamous Jail: Inside the Walls of Pentridge Prison by James Phelps
Category: True Crime
THE NEW BOOK FROM AUSTRALIA'S BESTSELLING TRUE CRIME AUTHOR In a long-awaited return to his best-selling prison series, James Phelps will lift the lid on Australia's most infamous prison - HM Prison Pentridge, the former home of Mark 'Chopper' Reed and Ned Kelly.From Jika Jika to the execution of Ronald ...Show more
Crimes That Shocked Australia by Ian Ferguson
Category: True Crime
Covering a wide range of crimes and periods, from the bushranger gangs to current-day fugitives, it is an eye-opening experience to relive these shocking Australian crimes.
Three Crooked Kings (10th anniversary) by Matthew Condon
Category: True Crime
One of the landmark Australian true-crime books, with a new introduction following the death of disgraced Police Commissioner Terry Lewis. 'It was the genius of the system ... from day to day you didn't know who was on the take or not. You didn't know who you could trust.' Three Crooked Kings is the sho ...Show more
Betrayed: The incredible untold inside story of the two most unlikely drug-running grannies in Australian history by Sandi Logan
Category: True Crime
The relentlessly fascinating, sometimes hilarious and often jaw-dropping true story of two American women who became unwitting drug mules by driving a hashish-laden campervan from Stuttgart to Bombay, then later to Australia, where they were arrested and jailed. Think of the two most unlikely drug deale ...Show more
Far North by David White and Angus Gillies
Category: True Crime
June 2016, Far North, New Zealand. The job seemed simple: leave Auckland, pick up 500kg of meth from Ninety-Mile Beach and drive it back south, while keeping a low profile. How hard could that be? This is the true story of one of New Zealand’s biggest ever drug busts, and how those responsible almost go ...Show more
The Most Bizarre True Crime Stories Ever Told by Jack Rosewood
Category: True Crime
From murder and robberies to arson and blackmail, the 20 stories in this book are some of the most fascinating true crime stories ever recorded. Each of these cases is so bizarre that they confounded the police, baffled investigators and captured the attention of the press all over the world. These shor ...Show more
The Last Yakuza: life and death in the Japanese underworld by Jake Adelstein
Category: True Crime
The Last Yakuza tells the history of the yakuza like it's never been told before. Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start fr ...Show more