The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob by T. J. English
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs - James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone - the gang dominated the decaying slice of New York City's West Side known as Hell's Kitchen in the 1970s and '80s. Excelling in extortion, numbers running, loansharking an ...Show more
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
$27.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, a ...Show more
The Worst Woman in Sydney: The Life and Crimes of Kate Leigh by Leigh Straw
$9.99 AUD
$29.99 (66% off)
Category: True Crime
Matriarch of the criminal underworld ...or the Robin Hood of inner Sydney? The legend of Kate Leigh, Sydney's famed brothel madam, sly grog seller and drug dealer, has loomed large in TV's Underbelly and every other account of Sydney's criminal history from the 1920s to the 1960s. But she has never had ...Show more
They All Love Jack: Busting the Ripper by Bruce Robinson
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A book like no other - the tale of a gripping quest to discover the identity of history's most notorious murderer and a literary high-wire act from the legendary writer and director of Withnail and I. For over a hundred years, 'the mystery of Jack ...Show more
This House of Grief: The Story of a Murder Trial by Helen Garner
$23.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Winner, Honorable Mention, 2015 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards, True Crime category Helen Garner won a 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for her outstanding contribution to international literature. 'Garner's book is superbly alive to the narrative dynamics of the case; she tells a grim story of unhappy ...Show more
This is How I Will Strangle You by HAIGH GIDEON
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
'I'm just a prisoner of my past. I don't want to be a prisoner any more.'Natasa Christidou's earliest memory is of her father masturbating over her childhood bed. She was two. It was the start of a lifetime's physical abuse and psychological torture, which included long phases of sex slavery and sex wor ...Show more
Tiger Wars - Joe Exotic vs. the Big Cat Queen by Al Cimino
$21.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
The global smash-hit Netflix documentary mini-series Tiger King introduced viewers to the weird, crazy and chaotic life of private zoo owner and big cat breeder Joe Exotic, and his war against Carole Baskin. Baskin, who runs the Big Cat Rescue in Florida, a sanctuary for abused and abandoned wild cats, ...Show more
Trace: Who Killed Maria James? by Rachael Brown
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
"The whole place seems cold, and he feels a terrible sense of dread. He calls out, but gets no reply. Taking a knife from the cutlery drawer, he unlocks the back door as an escape route. Then he sees her on the floor. Her eyes and mouth are open, and there is blood everywhere. He's too late." After a s ...Show more
True Crime Book Pack Love Behind Bars/Never To Be Released by KIDD Heywood
$9.99 AUD
Category: True Crime