Evil Life : the Calabrian Mafia in Australia by Clive Small; Tom Gilling
Category: True Crime
The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest, and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks. Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have been resp ...Show more
Milat: Inside Australia's biggest manhunt - a detective's story by Clive Small, Tom Gilling
Category: True Crime
Milat - the serial killer who preyed on young hitchhikers. The backpackers - the innocent victims of a brutal murderer. Belanglo - a place that became synonymous with pure evil...It was the biggest and most complex manhunt in Australian history, an investigation that gripped a nation. Behind the many fa ...Show more
Seven Bones: Two Wives, Two Violent Murders, A Fight For Justice by Peter Seymour, Jason K. Foster
Category: True Crime
'We have a dead second wife and a missing first wife...we've got a huge problem here.' Detective Peter SeymourSeven Bones is the story of one of the more bizarre murder investigations in Australia's history. Two wives die in suspicious circumstances: co-incidence or, as husband Thomas Keir describes it, ...Show more
Impossible Odds: The Kidnapping of Jessica Buchanan and Her Dramatic Rescue by SEAL Team Six by Jessica Buchanan
Category: True Crime
A "New York Times" bestseller! In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan stepped off a plane in Nairobi, Kenya, with a teaching degree and long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married a native Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate humanit ...Show more
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon; Richard Price
Category: True Crime | Series: Canons Ser.
From the creator of HBO's The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide un ...Show more
Murders That Shocked the World - 70s by Michael Cowton
Category: True Crime | Series: Murders That Shocked the World
Murders That Shocked the World - 70s (Trade Paperback / Paperback) By Cowton, Michael Pre Release International The 1970s saw some of the worst mass killings and murders in recent history. Fanatical cult leader Jim Jones was responsible for the deaths of hundreds, while serial killers Ted Bundy and John ...Show more
The Griffith Wars - The Powerful True Story of Donald Mackay's Murder and the Town That Stood up to the Mafia by Tom Gilling; Terry Jones
Category: True Crime
The assassination of Donald Mackay was meant to solve a problem for the mafia. Instead it roused the law-abiding citizens of Griffith to fight against the powerful criminal elements who had made their town synonymous with drugs and murder. Drawing on the personal diaries and memories of Terry Jones - wh ...Show more
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
A New York Times bestseller to be adapted into a film with Jennifer Lawrence to star. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup 'unicorn' promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would ...Show more
Ghosts of the Orphanage by Christine Kenneally
Category: True Crime
Ghosts of the Orphanage is the result of ten years of investigation by award-winning journalist Christine Kenneally. What she has uncovered is shocking, yet it was all hiding in plain sight. Terrible things, abuse, both physical and psychological, and even deaths have happened in orphanages all over the ...Show more
Conspiracy - Legends: Murders, Lies and Cover-Ups by David Gardner
Category: True Crime
The greatest cover-ups and unsolved mysteries in the world of celebrity
Naked City by John Silvester
Category: True Crime
John Silvester has been reporting on crime from the cop stations, courthouses, back alleys, pool halls and gangster mansions of Melbourne for forty years. His contact book is a who's who of both sides of criminal justice, and the shadowy worlds between. He is the trusted confidante of cops, criminals, ...Show more
The Betrayal of Anne Frank: A Cold Case Investigation by Rosemary Sullivan
Category: True Crime
Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why? With painstaking care, retired FBI agent Vincent Pankoke and a team of indefatigable investigators pored over tens of thousands of pages of documents-some never before seen-and interviewed scores of descendants of people familiar with the Franks. Utiliz ...Show more