Australia's Hardest Prison: Inside the Walls of Long Bay Jail by James Phelps
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Welcome to Long Bay, Australia's hardest prison. For the first time, guards and inmates of the notorious South Sydney facility reveal what really goes on behind its towering concrete walls. Opened in 1909, Long Bay Jail, originally a women's reformatory, has a dark and extraordinary history. From ghosts ...Show more
Fear of 13 by Nicholas Yarris
$35.00 AUD
$38.00 (7% off)
Category: True Crime
This is the memoir of Nick Yarris, who was wrongly convicted of rape and murder and spent 22 years on Death Row. While he was in prison, to keep himself sane, Nick educated himself (including learning about triskaidekaphobia, the fear of 13 which gives the book its name). Later, as the technology devel ...Show more
Australia's Toughest Prisons: Inmates by James Phelps
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Porky Pig' stalks the yard, snorting and grunting as he stares down the prison guard.'Whatcha looking at,' yells Martin Bryant, Australia?s worst serial killer.The guard stays silent. Says nothing. He simply takes one step towards the monster, now fat, bald and broken.'Leave me alone,' he screams.He the ...Show more
Joe Cinque's Consolation by Helen Garner
$24.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students - had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a mas ...Show more
Underbelly: Shot at Close Range by John Silvester
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$27.99 (17% off)
Category: True Crime
'Pino' Acquaro got his big Italian funeral, but the mobsters didn't get the memo. The church was packed but nearly every gangster he knew stayed away. The handsome mafia lawyer had bungled burning down his Brunswick bar for the insurance but he had burned his bridges beyond repair. A couple of hard men ...Show more
Last Woman Hanged by Caroline Overington
$22.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
In January 1889, Louisa Collins, a 41-year-old mother of ten children, became the first woman hanged at Darlinghurst Gaol and the last woman hanged in New South Wales. Both of Louisa's husbands died suddenly. the Crown was convinced that Louisa poisoned them with arsenic and, to the horror of many in th ...Show more
The Ice Man: Confessions Of A Mafia Contract Killer by Philip Carlo
$27.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Richard "The Ice Man" Kuklinski led a double life beyond anything ever seen on The Sopranos, becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins in American history while hosting neighborhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey. Now, after 240 hours of face-to-face interviews with Kuklinski and his w ...Show more
Australia's Most Murderous Prison by James Phelps
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Category: True Crime
BEHIND THE WALLS OF GOULBURN JAILAn unprecedented spate of murders in the 1990s - seven in just three years - earned Goulburn Jail the ominous name of 'The Killing Fields?. Inmates who were sentenced or transferred to the 130-year-old towering sandstone menace declared they had been given a death senten ...Show more
Waiting for Elijah by Kate Wild
$35.00 AUD
Category: True Crime
Some witnesses to the shooting say otherwise, though, and this act of aggression doesn't fit with the sweet, sensitive, but troubled young man that Elijah's family and friends knew him to be. The shooting devastates Elijah's family and the police officer alike. So what happened in that Armidale laneway ...Show more
The Stoccos by Nino Bucci
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
After a run-in with police in 2007, father and son Gino and Mark Stocco went completely off the grid, travelling all around the country working as farmhands. For years they were carrying out moonlight raids to steal goods, going on vandalism sprees, and living for long stretches without phones, licences ...Show more
Murder at Myall Creek: The trial that defined a nation by Mark Tedeschi
$32.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
One of the most shocking murder trials in Australia's legal history, and the tribulations of the man who conducted it. In 1838, eleven convicts and former convicts were put on trial for the brutal murder of 28 Aboriginal men, women and children at Myall Creek in New South Wales. The trial created an eno ...Show more
My Mother, A Serial Killer by Hazel Gaiter; Janet Fife-Yeomans (As told to)
$34.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
A gripping and shocking story of a serial killer mother, and the brave daughter who brought her to justice. Dulcie Bodsworth was the unlikeliest serial killer. Loved everywhere she went, the townsfolk of Wilcannia which she called home in the late 1950s, thought of her as kind and caring. The officers a ...Show more