Scene of the Crime - Tracking down Criminals with Forensic Science by H. P. Newquist
37.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Learn about the history of forensic science, how to collective and analyze evidence, and get one step closer to being a world-class, crime-solving detective From the critically acclaimed author of The Book of Chocolate, The Human Body, and From Here to There, comes an all new nonfiction deep dive i ...Show more
The Mind of a Murderer: A glimpse into the darkest corners of the human psyche, from a leading forensic psychiatrist by Richard Taylor
27.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
'Beautifully written and very dark' Nimko Ali OBE'A dark, fascinating and often surprising glimpse into the minds of those who kill, from a forensic psychiatrist who's seen it all' Rob Williams, writer of BBC's The Victim'Whodunnit' doesn't matter so much, not to a forensic psychiatrist. We're more inte ...Show more
Prison Break: The Extraordinary Life and Crimes of New Zealand's Most Infamous Escapee by Arthur Taylor
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The extraordinary true story behind New Zealand's most infamous career criminal and prolific escapee. Arthur Taylor is New Zealand's best known, most influential, and colourful career criminal. A household name, he was paroled from prison in 2019 after more than 38 years years behind bars. His life stor ...Show more
Dangerous Minds: A Forensic Psychiatrist's Quest to Understand Violence by Taj Nathan
37.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
What drives someone to commit murder? What makes some people lash out on those that they love? Can we predict whether a child will grow into a violent adult, and what can we do to prevent it?These are just some of the questions that forensic psychiatrist Dr Taj Nathan interrogates every day in his work ...Show more
The Devil You Know by Gwen Adshead
36.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
From a pioneering psychiatrist and psychotherapist comes The Devil You Know, a perspective-shattering work into the minds of violent criminals which reveals profound consequences for human nature and society at large. As a forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist, you could say I am a student of evil. ...Show more
The Happy Traitor: Spies, Lies and Exile in Russia: The Extraordinary Story of George Blake by Simon Kuper
32.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
'A deeply human read, wonderfully written, on the foibles of a fascinating, flawed, treacherous and sort of likeable character.' Philippe Sands Those people who were betrayed were not innocent people. They were no better nor worse than I am. It's all part of the intelligence world. If the man who turne ...Show more
True Crime Story: The Times Number One Bestseller by Joseph Knox
37.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
"A triumph. Dazzlingly original.' Sunday Times ______________ 'What happens to those girls who go missing? What happens to the Zoe Nolans of the world?' In the early hours of Saturday 17 December 2011, Zoe Nolan, a nineteen-year-old Manchester University student, walked out of a party taking place i ...Show more
Missing! - Missing Without Trace in Ireland by Barry Cummins
34.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
They are some of Ireland's most famous names, for all the wrong reasons. They are Ireland's missing women, many of them murdered and their bodies hidden by evil killers who remain at large. They include American woman Annie McCarrick who was murdered in the Dublin-Wicklow mountains; Jo Jo Dullard who wa ...Show more
Confident Women - Swindlers, Grifters, and Shapeshifters of the Feminine Persuasion by Tori Telfer
34.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
A thoroughly entertaining and darkly humorous roundup of history's notorious but often forgotten female con artists and their bold, outrageous scams--by the acclaimed author of Lady Killers. From Elizabeth Holmes and Anna Delvey to Frank Abagnale and Charles Ponzi, audacious scams and charismatic scamme ...Show more
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
24.99 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: good-very good
A New York Times bestseller to be adapted into a film with Jennifer Lawrence to star. In 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the female Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup 'unicorn' promised to revolutionize the medical industry with a machine that would ...Show more
The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird by Joshua Hammer
35.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
On May 3, 2010, an Irish national names Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain's Birmingham International Airpost with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. So begins a tale almost too bizarre to beli ...Show more
How to Solve a Murder: True Stories from a Life in Forensic Medicine by Derek Tremain; Pauline Tremain
27.99 NZD
Category: True Crime
As gripping as it is gruesome, How to Solve a Murder is a fascinating insight into the career of a forensic scientist. Includes a foreword from Dr Richard Shepherd, bestselling author of Unnatural Causes. FRACTURED SKULLS. GAS MASKS. BRAIN BUCKETS. VATS OF ACID. PICKLED BODY PARTS. Not the usual tools ...Show more