Collection: Adult Non Fiction - True Crime

The Boxing Butterfly is a career chronicle of Margaret Cunneen SC - the boxing butterfly who turned the tables on ICAC, amidst prosecuting murderers, paedophiles and rapists - as she launches into her new chapter as a defence barrister. In her rear view mirror, Cunneen sees her trial successes - ...

Buru Island was the site of Indonesia's most remote and infamous prison camp. In the wake of the 1965 repression of the political Left, between 1969 and 1979, approximately 12,000 men were held on Buru without formal charge or trial. During their detention prisoners suffered torture, forced labou...

Whether you know it as the 'succulent Chinese meal' video (as it appears on T-shirts) or 'democracy manifest' (as it's taught in schools), chances are you're one of the millions of Australians who've seen Jack Karlson getting arrested outside a Brisbane Chinese restaurant in 1990. The Guardian ha...

Six captivating true-crime stories, spanning Mark Bowden's long and illustrious career, cover a variety of crimes complicated by extraordinary circumstances. In The Case of the Vanishing Blonde, the veteran reporter revisits some of his most riveting stories and examines the effects of modern tec...

Growing up, Rachel Rear knew the story of Stephanie Kupchynsky's disappearance. The beautiful violinist and teacher had fled an abusive relationship on Martha's Vineyard and made a new start for herself near Rochester, NY. She was at the height of her life-in a relationship with a man she hoped t...

December 2014: in the forbidding waters off Antarctica, Captain Hammarstedt of the Sea Shepherd ship Bob Barker embarks on a voyage unlike any seen before. Across ten thousand miles of hazardous seas, Hammerstedt's crew will relentlessly pursue the Thunder -- an infamous illegal fishing ship -- f...

Forensic and coronial pathologist Dr Cynric Temple-Camp lifts the lid on some of the most fascinating cases he's worked on during his 30-year career as a corpse investigator. Told with great skill, full of suspense, cliff-hangers and bizarre and surprising twists in the narrative, most of the exa...