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Straight from the Pig's Mouth - The Life and Crimes of a Kiwi Detective by Al Lester
$38.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
'This book takes you into the life of a New Zealand police detective.I tell it how it was and spare few details so that you too can see the world through one policeman's eyes. The stories contained in this bookrange from the humorous, strange and bizarre to extreme violence and murders. This is the lot ...Show more
In Dark Places: The Confessions of Teina Pora and an Ex-Cop's Fight for Justice by Michael Bennett
$34.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Teina Pora, a 17-year-old car thief, was wrongly convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Susan Burdett, who had been beaten to death with the softball bat she kept next to her bed for her own protection. Tim McKinnel, en ex-cop turned private investigator, discovered the long forgott ...Show more
Doing Justice: A Prosecutor's Thoughts on Crime, Punishment and the Rule of Law by Bharara Preet
$32.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Multi-million-dollar fraud. Terrorism. Mafia criminality. Russian espionage. For eight years Preet Bharara, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, successfully prosecuted some of the most high-profile crimes in America. Along the way he gained notoriety as the 'Sheriff of Wall Str ...Show more
Dirty John and Other True Stories of Outlaws and Outsiders by Christopher Goffard
$28.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
A collection of newspaper stories by award-winning Los Angeles Times reporter Christopher Goffard--including "Dirty John," the basis for the hit podcast and the upcoming Bravo scripted series starring Connie Britton and Eric Bana. Since its release in fall 2017, the "Dirty John" podcast--about ...Show more
The Murderer of Warren Street - The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Revolutionary by Marc Mulholland
$28.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
'A Victorian whodunit... Swashbuckling adventure and political thriller... A magnificent book.'Francis Wheen, The Oldie In December 1854, Emmanuel Barthelemy visited 73 Warren Street in the heart of radical London for the very last time. Within half an hour, two men were dead... This is the true story o ...Show more
Out of Thin Air - A True Story of Impossible Murder in Iceland by Anthony Adeane
$27.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
In 1974, two men vanished without a trace under suspicious circumstances, shocking the people of Iceland, where serious crime is almost nonexistent. More than a year later, there seemed to be a breakthrough when a small-time crook named Erla Bolladottir described a dream to police that they interpreted ...Show more
A Massacre in Mexico by Anabel Hernandez
$32.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. According to official reports, the students commandeered several buses to travel to Mexico City to commemorate the anniversary of the 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre. During the journey ...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 w ...Show more
Murder, Interrupted: (Murder Is Forever: Volume 1) by James Patterson
$26.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Series: Murder Is Forever Ser.
As seen on Discovery's Murder is Forever TV series: In these two true crime thrillers, a reluctant hitman and a cheating husband fight for their lives . . . and a single mother exacts her revenge.In Murder, Interrupted, rich, cheating financier Frank Howard wants his wife dead, and he's willing to pay B ...Show more
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
$38.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
As heard on NPR's This American Life "Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever." --Christian Science Monitor A rollicki ...Show more
Hunting El Chapo: Taking Down the World's Most-Wanted Drug Lord by Andrew Hogan; Douglas Century
$36.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The incredible, untold story of the American agent who captured El Chapo, the world's most-wanted drug-lord. Every generation has its larger-than-life criminal legend living beyond the reach of the law: Billy the Kid, Al Capone, Ronnie Biggs, Pablo Escobar. But for every one of these criminals, there's ...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
