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
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
The Great Train Robber: My Autobiography: The Inside Story of Britain's Most Notorious Heist by Chris Pickard
Category: True Crime
The revised and updated autobiography of the infamous great train robber and criminal playboy, Ronnie Biggs
Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man mystery by Kerry Greenwood
Category: True Crime
In 1948, a man was found dead on an Adelaide, Australia, beach. Well-dressed and unmarked, he had a half-smoked cigarette by his side, but no identity documents. Six decades later, the Somerton Man's identity and murder are still a mystery. From the missing labels from all his clothing to the tiny piece ...Show more
Hunting Charles Manson - The Quest for Justice in the Days of Helter Skelter by Lis Wiehl; Caitlin Rother (As told to)
Category: True Crime
Drawing upon deep archival research and exclusive personal interviews--including unique access to Manson Family parole hearings--Lis Wiehl provides a factual account of Charles Manson's horrific crimes. In the late summer of 1969, the nation was transfixed by a series of gruesome murders in the hills o ...Show more
Hearts of Darkness by Jana Monroe
Category: True Crime
For fans of Mindhunter and Criminal Minds, a chilling account of a woman facing down serial killers as one of the first female profilers of the FBI Behavioral Sciences Unit and real-life model for The Silence of the Lambs's Clarice Starling 'Jana Monroe is the single most influential woman to ever serve ...Show more
Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIME SHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION 'A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice' JON KRAKAUER 'A fiercely entertaining mystery story and ...Show more
Carnage: A succulent Chinese meal, Mr Rent-a-Kill and the Australian Manson murders by Mark Dapin
Category: True Crime
Millions have been entertained by the viral video of a man being arrested after a ‘succulent Chinese meal’. But when out of the blue this Falstaff figure called author Mark Dapin thirty years later, it emerged his story went to the heart of the Australian underworld over decades, connecting a celebrated ...Show more
The Cop Who Fell to Earth by Craig Semple
Category: True Crime
This raw and true account of the life of a tough cop has all the twists and turns and drama of a rattlingly good thriller. When a young eighteen-year-old Craig Semple joined the New South Wales Police Force in 1988, he generally preferred to steer clear of trouble rather than turn and face it. But like ...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
The Killer's Game: Murder, Lies and Stolen Lives by Jane Smith
Category: True Crime
Exposing Captain Starlight's twisted life of crime and deceit. Who was 'Captain Starlight'? When a respectable public servant dies suddenly under suspicious circumstances, the authorities are baffled. Who really was the dead man? Was he an Irish nobleman fallen on hard times - or a conman, a forger, ...Show more
Secrets and Lies: A story of justice, perseverance and the life that comes after by David Meagher
Category: True Crime
I was a victim of child sexual abuse. It occurred more than forty years ago, when I was just thirteen years old. This is the story about what happened to me, how I kept it to myself, how I eventually fought back and how - after decades of living with the impact of the abuse - I decided one day to finall ...Show more