Unsolved Australia: Lost Boys, Gone Girls by Justine Ford
Category: True Crime
Can you catch a killer or find a missing person? Australia is 'the lucky country'. But not for everyone. Unsolved Australia: Lost Boys, Gone Girls tells thirteen stories of people whose luck ran out in the most mysterious of circumstances. It's a journalistic deep-dive into Australia's dark he ...Show more
The Outback Court Reporter by Jamelle Wells
Category: True Crime
Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on inside the country courtrooms dotted across Australia. From the case of the stolen cat flap, to missing lollipops and exploding chocolate milk in a country supermarket, to a custody dispute over a camel - Ja ...Show more
True True Blood by Megan Norris
Category: True Crime
For anyone who believes vampires only exist in the darkest depths of Transylvania or in cult dramas like Twilight or True Blood – think again! True True Blood is a dark snapshot into some the world's most brutal and gruesome vampire slayings. From the grisly murder of Western Australian teenager Stacey ...Show more
The Suicide Bride: A Mystery of Tragedy and Family Secrets in Edwardian Sydney by Tanya Bretherton
Category: True Crime | Series: The\Australian Crime Vau Ser.
From the author of the acclaimed THE SUITCASE BABY - shortlisted for the Ned Kelly and Nib awards - comes the chilling story of a charlatan, a murder-suicide, and a family tree so twisted that it sprouts monsters. Whenever society produces a depraved criminal, we wonder: is it nature or is it nurture? W ...Show more
The Contractor 6 True tales of Counter Terrorism by Mark Abernethy
Category: True Crime
'I fix things. I can build you a house or remodel your bathroom. I can also make bad situations - and bad people - disappear.'Meet Mike. Runs a building site, drives a ute, likes a beer, loves his nail-gun.But Mike is hiding in plain sight. When the Pentagon call him in as 'Big Unit', he's another kind ...Show more
The Devil's Work: Australia's Jack the Ripper and the serial murders that shocked the world. by Garry Linnell
Category: True Crime
He was a murderer, swindler, bigamist and suspect in the Jack the Ripper killings. Frederick Deeming was also the most hated man in the world. Claiming to be haunted by the ghost of his dead mother, Deeming had spent years roaming the planet under various aliases, preying on the innocent, the gullible a ...Show more
Cults - Inside the World's Most Notorious Groups and Understanding the People Who Joined Them by Max Cutler; Kevin Conley (As told to)
Category: True Crime
Mystery. Manipulation. Murder. Cults are associated with all of these. But what really goes on inside them? More specifically, what goes on inside the minds of cult leaders and the people who join them? Based on the hit podcast Cults, this is essential reading for any true crime fan. Cults prey on the v ...Show more
The Snapshot Killer by Duncan McNab
Category: True Crime
A chilling journey into the life and mind of charming and persuasive predator and serial killer Christopher Wilder, who murdered on two continents and evaded capture for over twenty years Christopher Wilder was about as bad as they get. A serial killer and predator, he first came to the attention of pol ...Show more
The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and his Wife by Rebecca Hazel
Category: True Crime
On 9 January 1982, Lynette Dawson disappeared and has not been heard from since. She is presumed murdered. She lived on Sydney's northern beaches, Bayview, with her husband Chris, a high school PE teacher and well-known rugby league player (Newtown Jets) and her two young daughters. For eighteen months ...Show more
Hate Mail by Mark Morri
Category: True Crime
Sydney, 1998. Personal trainer Brett Boyd arrives home to find a package waiting in the driveway. It's addressed to his girlfriend, model and part-time escort Simone Farrow. Hours later, Boyd is in hospital, fighting for his life. The parcel was a bomb that had exploded in his face, leaving him badly di ...Show more
Conspiracies Uncovered by Lee Mellor
Category: True Crime
Enter a hidden world of mysteries, scandals, secrets, and lies Perhaps it is human nature to believe there is more to the world than meets the eye - that the greatest secrets and truths are hidden from us. Whatever the reason, conspiracy theories are a global phenomenon. Conspiracies Uncovered delves in ...Show more
My Father, the Murderer - A Reckoning with the Past by Nina Young
Category: True Crime
This was Nina Young's shocking realisation in her mid-twenties, when she found out from online court records that her estranged father, Allan Ladd, had strangled a woman to death decades before. In prison he'd met Denise, Nina's mother, who was his tutor. Although Denise didn't know the extent of Allan' ...Show more