Crime category: 24427 books
by Adrian Gray
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Dark and foggy Victorian streets, the murderous madman, the arsenic-laced evening meal—we all think we know the realities of Victorian crime. Adrian Gray's book thrillingly reflects some of this, ranging over classic murders by knife and poison. But it also covers much more, taking the reader into...
Court Reporter
a tough and fearless memoir of the cases that have shocked, moved and never left us.
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
From true crime to petty crime - this is the memoir of one of Australia's most experienced court reporters.
Longlisted in the True Crime category for the 2019 Davitt and Ned Kelly Awards.
As a seasoned court reporter, the ABC's Jamelle Wells has filed thousands of stories on murderers,...
Bringing Down the Mob
The War Against the American Mafia
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2006
The riveting, often bloody account of how the fifty-year attack by the federal government virtually extinguished the nation's most powerful crime syndicate
In the critically acclaimed American Mafia, Thomas Reppetto narrated the ferocious ascendancy of organized crime in America. In this fascinating...
by Carlton Stowers
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Engrossed by the short lives of innocent victims, Stowers uses The Girl in the Grave … and Other True Crime Stories to tell the tales of devastated parents dealing with evil forces and unanswered questions that invaded their once normal lives, and the effect on the law enforcement officers duty-bound...
by Patrick Turner
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
It was the drugs that made him murder. He liked to experiment with fatal dosages to see how much they could take. Fascinated with death, he had watched his mother die when he was a child. Killing his elderly lady patients sustained his endless evil urges and nourished his insatiable impulse to recreate...
by Phil Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
His bullet-ridden, half-naked body was in the back-seat of the car while her naked body lay spread-eagled and slashed, her private parts and left breast missing. The District Attorney discovered what had happened to the breast when a piece was sent to her in a plastic bag. The Monster of Florence...
by Phil Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Lured away from prying eyes, she had been raped and stabbed to death with a screwdriver. The attack was so frenzied, police knew the murderer must be covered in blood. The killer’s chilling communiqué to the police declared his evil intentions – “Beware! I shall make you...
Did They Really Do It?
From Lizzie Borden to the 20th Hijacker
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Nine of the most controversial violent crimes in America’s history are reexamined in these compelling stories of true crime
Dr. Samuel Mudd set John Wilkes Booth’s broken ankle, but was he actually part of the larger conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln? Did Lizzie Borden...
The Boy on the Bicycle
A Forgotten Case of Wrongful Conviction in Toronto
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
On the night of September 15, 1956, seven-year-old Wayne Mallette, was brutally murdered on the grounds of the Canadian National Exhibition in Toronto. The chief suspect was a “boy on a bicycle” seen pedalling away from the CNE.
Investigators zeroed on 14-year-old Ronald Moffatt, a former...
by Robin Bowles
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2011
Is there one law for those at the top and a different one for those at the front line? This story describes how a young, dedicated and straight cop was driven from his career because he crossed the line. But with a degree of poetic justice in the end, those who persecuted him eventually faced their...
by Dave Courtney
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
Will you be held at gunpoint and find yourself reaching for the panic button or will you be laughing all the way to the bank as you try to answer this quiz book’s 450 testing questions cunningly prepared by former London gangster and nowadays best-selling celebrity author and film-maker Dave Courtney...
Waterfront
Graft, corruption and violence - Australia's crime frontier from 1788 till now
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
The colourful and exciting story of the larger-than-life characters who have populated Australia's docks, wharves and ports from the First Fleet to today - and the crime, violence and corruption that has always been present.
Ever since the First Fleet dropped anchor, Australia's ports have...
The Iceman
The Rise and Fall of a Crime Lord
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2012
The elite police officers secretly launching Scotland's biggest ever offensive against organised crime had only one target. His name was Jamie Stevenson, but he was known as The Iceman, the biggest drugs trafficker the country has ever seen. Suspected of a string of murders - including the gangland...
Acid Attack
A Journalist's War With Organised Crime
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Two days before Christmas 2015, veteran crime journalist Russell Findlay was the target of a vicious attack on his own doorstep. An unknown assailant, disguised as a postman, hurled sulphuric acid in his face before attempting to stab him with a steak knife. Despite suffering horrific burns, Findlay...