The killer of little shepherd's by Douglas Star
42.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
In the style of Agent Zigzag comes the story of Joseph Vacher, France's most notorious serial killer and his nemesis, Dr. Alexandre Laccassagne, the founder of modern forensic science. At the end of the nineteenth century, serial murderer Joseph Vacher, dubbed 'The Killer of Little Shepherds', terrorise ...Show more
Changing Lenses by Howard Zehr
25.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Crime victims have many needs, most of which our criminal justice system ignores. In fact, the justice system often increases the injury. Offenders are less ignored by this system, but their real needs -- for accountability, for closure, for healing -- are also left unaddressed.Such failures are not acc ...Show more
Convicted by Michael Guerin
34.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Author and retired journalist Michael Guerin turns his deft attention to detail to a handful of notorious murder cases from New Zealand and abroad, examining the forensic science behind each case, and explaining all he unearths for an everyday audience. As well as providing the reader with a useful over ...Show more
Donnie Brasco by Joseph D. Pistone
40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
When FBI Special Agent, Joe Pistone began what was supposed to be a six-month operation infiltrating New York's Bonanno crime family in 1975, he had no idea what was about to happen. Posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco, Pistone would spend the next six years undercover in the Family, witnessing - and so ...Show more
Mafia Allies by Tim Newark
57.50 NZD
Category: True Crime
The Mafia is one of the most feared and powerful criminal organizations the world has ever known. It was also, briefly during World War II, America’ s ally— a fact that had a profound effect on the fortunes of the Fascists, and on those of the Mafia, whom Mussolini had effectively crushed. This book bri ...Show more
The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston
34.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
In the tradition of John Berendt's "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" and Eric Larson's "The Devil in the White City", Douglas Preston weaves a captivating account of crime and punishment in the lush hills of Florence, Italy. Douglas Preston fulfilled a lifelong dream when he moved with his famil ...Show more
Exit Music by Ian Rankin
36.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
The year 2007 marks Detective Inspector John Rebus's last year in the Scottish police force. Forced to retire by both the law and his - relieved - superiors, Rebus knows that his time in the blue ranks must now come to an end. But how will the irascible detective deal with this grim terminus? Particular ...Show more
Victorian Murders: Mysteries of Police and Crime by Major Arthur Griffiths
44.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Victorian Murders contains all the most shocking cases of murder from Victorian true-crime classic Mysteries of Police & Crime. The author, Major Arthur Griffiths (1838-1908), was Inspector of Her Majesty's Prisons and deputy governor of Millbank and Wormwood Scrubs, and was most famous for his asso ...Show more
The Book of Murder by Cate Ludlow
39.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
As a schoolboy, Charles Dickens took a copy of "The Terrific Register" every week, and he later recalled how it 'frightened my very wits out of my head, for the small charge of a penny weekly; which considering that there was an illustration to every number, in which there was always a pool of blood, an ...Show more
Murder by Poison by Nicola Sly
45.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Murder by poison is often thought of as a crime mainly committed by women, usually to despatch an unwanted spouse or children. While there are indeed many infamous female poisoners, such as Mary Ann Cotton, who is believed to have claimed at least twenty victims between 1860 and 1872, and Mary Wilson, w ...Show more
Reggie Kray's East End Stories: The Lost Memoirs of the Gangland Legend by Reggie Kray
29.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The name Reggie Kray remains synonymous with London's East End to this day, and yet although much is known about Reg and his brother Ronnie's life of crime in the '50s and '60s, to date precious little has been revealed about their formative years. Reggie wrote his EAST END STORIES in the early 1990s, b ...Show more