Deep Beyond the Reef by Owen Scott
29.99 NZD
31.00 (3% off)
Category: True Crime
The brutal double murder of Fiji Red Cross director John Scott and his partner Greg Scrivener in 2001 shocked several nations and attracted a huge amount of media attention, partly because of John Scott s role as go-between in the hostage crisis during the George Speight-led coup in 2000. Drawn back to ...Show more
Crime Scene by Esther Mckay
27.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Esther McKay joined the NSW police as an idealistic 21 year old and became one of the force's most experienced and respected forensic investigators. This amazing true crime book takes us inside a police forensic unit, the first called to every grisly crime scene.
Russia (Ganglands #2) by Ross Kemp
22.00 NZD
23.00 (4% off)
Category: True Crime
Trojan Industries are in Russia and there's a new gang in their sights. Eagles 88, a twisted group of Neo-Nazi extremists, are terrorizing the streets of Moscow, attacking innocent civilians. Can Alexi Zukov, Trojan's latest teenage recruit, infiltrate the inner workings of the gang and save the capital ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
26.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those i ...Show more
Madoff: The Man Who Stole $65 Billion by Erin Arvedlund
30.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Take the combined fortunes of Bill Gates, Tiger Woods and Roman Abramovich. Now imagine someone stealing that much money - and being hailed as a financial genius. That man is Bernard Madoff. Backed by governments and global banks, Madoff defrauded $65 billion from charities and individual investors incl ...Show more
Pirates by Ross Kemp
29.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Pirates have been around as long as people have used the oceans as trade routes, and their reign on the world's high seas has inspired many a novelist. But the type of pirate Ross Kemp is investigating now is a world away from the cutlass-and-peg-leg stereotype of Treasure Island and Pirates of the Cari ...Show more
Gangs II: More Encounters with the World's Most Dangerous Gangsters by Ross Kemp
29.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Ross Kemp once again squares up to the world's deadliest gangsters in this breathtaking follow up to the bestselling Gangs.This time his travels take him as close to home as Liverpool and as far away as Colombia and East Timor. And the gangs he meets just get meaner: Ross is tear-gassed investigating Po ...Show more
Monster by Allan Hall
28.00 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
Category: True Crime
On 28 August 1984, Josef Fritzl drugged his teenage daughter with ether and imprisoned her in an underground bunker behind eight locked doors. Over the following twenty-four years, he raped and abused her, never letting her or the children she bore him out of the dark, windowless cellar. Based on 150 ne ...Show more
Gangs - My Close Calls with the Hardest Men on the Streets, from Rio to Moscow by Ross Kemp
28.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good
Across the world millions of people are members of street gangs. In groups they fight, stab, rob, rape and murder anyone who isn't one of their own. And when rival gangs meet - what you get is warfare. Ross Kemp, whose dad was a copper and taught him right from wrong, decided to infiltrate these secret ...Show more
The Innocent Man by John Grisham
26.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
John Grisham's first work of non-fiction, an exploration of small town justice gone terribly awry, is his most extraordinary legal thriller yet. In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye ...Show more
Boardwalk Empire by Nelson Johnson
39.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
‘When I was first approached by HBO to use Nelson Johnson’s book as the basis for a TV series, my biggest challenge was choosing a time period in which to set it… Ultimately I settled on the 1920s of Atlantic City’s legendary treasurer Nucky Johnson… A place of spectacle, shady politics, fast women an ...Show more
Mr Nice and Mrs Marks - Adventures with Howard by Judy Marks
37.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good
The 'Bonnie & Clyde' adventures of the world's most notorious dope smugglers! Howard Marks' story has passed into hippie folklore. At one time, the world's then most wanted man had 43 aliases, 89 phone lines and 25 registered companies. Thanks to the technical brilliance of his networking skill ...Show more