Collection: Adult Non Fiction - True Crime

"The captivating, deeply reported true story of how one of the most notorious novels ever written--Marquis de Sade's 120 Days of Sodom--landed at the heart of one of the biggest scams in modern literary history. Described as both "one of the most important novels ever written" and "the gospel of ...

"The Great Bookie Robbery of 1976 wasn't just one of the biggest heists in Australian history. It was also a curse. On the robbers and their families; on the law enforcement unit that sought answers; on the victims the aftermath left in its wake" --Back cover.

True crime icon John Silvester has been reporting on Australia's criminal underbelly for over forty years. Navigating the murky intersections between the lawmakers and lawbreakers, Silvester has drawn on a lifetime's work rubbing shoulders with the good guys, the bad guys and the downright dirty....

"In this book, I have presented a selection of twenty case stories involving women who have decided to 'take matters into their own hands' quite often with terrible outcomes for all parties concerned. However, murder, to intentionally take a human life would have to be one of the gravest crimes o...

A dark secret lurked aboard HMAS Australia, the flagship of the Royal Australian Navy. In 1942, with a Japanese invasion looming, those aboard the ship were shocked and completely unprepared to deal with the brutal murder of a young sailor by two shipmates who were allegedly part of a homosexual ...

The nine true stories of murder, dispossession, violence and misadventure contained in Dark Tales from the Long River all took place in the Gascoyne region during the thirty-three-year tenure of Magistrate C.D.V. Foss, which ended in 1915. Accounts from a wide array of contemporaneous newspapers ...

"Beginning in 2018, a powerful app for secure communications, called Anom, began to take root among drug dealers and other criminals. It had extraordinary safeguards to keep out prying eyes--the power to quickly wipe data, voice-masking technology, and more. It was better than other apps popular ...

Kidnapped on his ninth day of teaching with nine students, Rob Hunter retells the story of how Edwin John Eastwood, the Faraday kidnapper, having escaped from prison, burst into his remote South Gippsland school and at gun point took Rob and his nine students hostage. Day 9 at Wooreen paints a vi...

The traditional image of a political assassin is a lone wolf with a gun, aimed squarely at the head of those they wish to kill. But while there has been enormous speculation on what lay behind notorious individual political assassinations -- from Gaius Julius Caesar to John F. Kennedy -- the phen...

The most mystifying murder and abduction to take place on Australian soil. When British tourist Peter Falconio vanished at night in the Outback in 2001, it made front-page news around the world and ignited a massive police hunt. Thirteen months later, Bradley Murdoch was charged with Peter's murd...