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Pure Narco by Jesse Fink; Luis Navia
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
It's a life story that reads like something out of a John Grisham or Elmore Leonard novel that it's remarkable it has remained untold for so long. Careers in the cocaine-trafficking business are usually short. It's not only a dangerous profession, fraught with the possibility of capture and long jail se ...Show more
Revelations ; Ngati Dread Volume 3 by Angus Gillies
$34.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Series: Ngati Dread
When you talk about terrorism, most people in New Zealand think about problems overseas. But those in Gisborne and the East Coast merely cast their minds back to the 1980s to the Ruatoria Troubles. From 1985 to 1990 the township was terrorised by a Maori sect calling itself the Rastafarians. Their story ...Show more
The Organ Thieves - The Shocking Story of the First Heart Transplant in America's Segregated South by Chip Jones
$37.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks meets Get Out in this landmark investigation of racial inequality at the core of the heart transplant race. In 1968, Bruce Tucker, a black man, went into Virginia's top research hospital with a head injury, only to have his heart stolen out of his body and put into ...Show more
Murder Maps - Crime Scenes Revisited. Phrenology to Fingerprint. 1811-1911 by Drew Gray
$55.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Elegant period maps and compelling crime analysis illuminate this disquieting volume, which reexamines the most captivating and intriguing homicides of the nineteenth century. Organized geographically, the elements of each murder--from the prior movements of both killer and victim to the eventual locati ...Show more
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale
$32.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERSLondon, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refug ...Show more
Manhunters - How We Took down Pablo Escobar, the World's Most Wanted Criminal by Steve Murphy; Javier F. Peña
$26.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The explosive memoir of legendary DEA agents and the subject of the hit Netflix series Narcos. Readers will go deep inside the inner workings of the Search Bloc, the joint Colombian-US task force that resulted in an intensive 18-month operation that tracked Escobar.
The Case of the Vanishing Blonde by Mark Bowden
$32.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
From Mark Bowden, a 'master of narrative journalism' (New York Times), comes a true crime collection both deeply chilling and impossible to put down.
Furious Hours - Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
$24.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR A SUNDAY TIMESBOOK OF THE YEAR AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A triumph on every level. One of the losses to literature is that Harper Lee never found a way to tell a gothic true-c ...Show more
Kilo - Life and Death Inside the Secret World of the Cocaine Cartels by Toby Muse
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Join the deadly journey of cocaine, from farmer to kingpin. Meet Jose.Jose doesn't see himself as a criminal. He's just a farmer growing a crop he won't lose money on- coca. This is Fabian. Fabian calls himself a freedom fighter. But wars cost money. And transporting drugs is the fastest way to raise ca ...Show more
The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule
$29.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Ann Rule was working on the biggest story of her career, tracking the trail of victims left by a brutal serial-killer. Little did this future bestselling author know that the savage slayer she was hunting was the young man she counted among her closest friends. Everyone's picture of a natural winner ...Show more
Elementary : The Explosive File of Scott Watson and the Disappearance of Ben & Olivia by Ian Wishart
$38.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
OF ALL THE BOOKS ON THIS CASE, YOU NEED TO READ THIS ONE...It's a murder mystery worthy of Sherlock Holmes. It even has a Watson. Yet, solving the disappearance of Ben Smart and Olivia Hope has proved anything but elementary. Some books on the case have argued so strongly for either innocence or guilt t ...Show more
I Catch Killers by Jubelin, Gary
$36.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of a homicide detective. Here I am: tall and broad, shaved head, had my nose broken three times fighting. Black suit, white shirt, the big city homicide detective. I've led investigations into serial killing ...Show more
