In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
24.00 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
The Gardner Heist - The true story of the world's largest unsolved art theft by Ulrich Boser
28.99 NZD
37.00 (21% off)
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
Shortly after midnight on March 18, 1990, two men broke into the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston and committed the largest art heist in history. They stole a dozen masterpieces, including one Vermeer, three Rembrandts, and five Degas. But after thousands of leads, hundreds of interviews, and a ...Show more
Mafia Princess by Marisa Merico
36.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
Marisa Merico, the daughter of one of Italy's most notorious Mafia Godfathers, was dazzled by her father, Emilio DiGiovine. To her he was all powerful, sophisticated and loving; to the rest of the world he was staggeringly ruthless. Marisa knew her father would do anything for her, but she hadn't expect ...Show more
The Crimes of Josef Fritzl: Uncovering the Truth by Stefanie Marsh
34.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
The inside account of the Fritzl case - Josef Fritzl's horrific incarceration of his daughter in an airless dungeon for 24 years, and the seven children he fathered with her. By the time Elisabeth Fritzl was 11 years old, her father had singled her out for special attention. When she was 12, Fritzl obt ...Show more