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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
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
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
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
Hell's Angels - A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson
$34.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
From the father of 'gonzo journalism', Hunter S. Thompson's research for Hell's Angels involved more than a year of close association with the outlaws who burned a path through 1960s America, resulting in a masterpiece of underground reportage published in Penguin Modern Classics.'A phalanx of motorcycl ...Show more
I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
$32.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer-the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorized California for over a decade-from Michelle McNamara, the gifted journalist who died tragically while investigating the case. You'll be silent forever, and I'll be gone in the dark. For mo ...Show more
Jane: A Murder by Maggie Nelson (CalArts)
$38.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Series: Soft Skull Shortlit
Jane tells the spectral story of the life and death of Maggie Nelson's aunt Jane, who was murdered in 1969 while a first-year law student at the University of Michigan. Though officially unsolved, Jane's murder was apparently the third in a series of seven brutal rape-murders in the area. Nelson was bor ...Show more
The Real Lolita - The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman
$34.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the most beloved and notorious novels of all time. And yet, very few of its readers know that the subject of the novel was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and soc ...Show more
