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  • Between Two Wars: A True Crime Collection
    Discover the most fascinating crimes committed between two of the greatest wars ever fought, from America's first train robbery by the Reno brothers in 1866, to alleged killings at the H. H. Holmes Murder Castle in 1893, to the Rumrich Nazi spy case in 1938, and much more. The era from the end of the Civil War to the beginning...
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  • Betrayed
    WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST TRUE CRIME 2023 WINNER OF THE UK TRUE CRIME AWARD FOR BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING 2024 Betrayed is a relentlessly fascinating and often jaw-dropping true story of two American women who unwittingly became Australia's 'Drug Grannies'. In 1977, Vera 'Toddie' Hays and Florice 'Beezie' Bessire thought they were about to embark on the...
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  • Behold the Monster
    ‘Fearless and fierce ... transcends a crime story to be a story that threatens social order’ - Michael Connelly ‘Bewitching . . . a tale of horror that is also humane and self-aware’ - Jennifer Egan ‘[Lauren] writes in film-noir ... American prose, so you feel you're in the seamy backstreets in the Rust Belt’ - Daily Mail, Book of...
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  • Behold the Monster
    'Fearless and fierce ... transcends a crime story to be a story that threatens social order' - Michael Connelly 'Bewitching . . . a tale of horror that is also humane and self-aware' - Jennifer Egan '[Lauren] writes in film-noir ... American prose, so you feel you're in the seamy backstreets in the Rust Belt' - Daily Mail, Book of...
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  • Bandit Country
    Welcome to an after-dark world of new money, hedonism and excess. A world of luxurious nightclubs where racketeers, gamblers and glamorous women mixed with entrepreneurs, bunny girls, politicians and policemen. Bandit Country is a gripping, atmospheric true-crime noir. It is the story of Britain's 1960's gambling boom, as the country emerged from years of hardship to embrace exotic night-life and...
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  • Bad Medicine
    Bad Medicine explores the darker side of the medical profession, where the ideal of "do no harm" is challenged. This principle, an oath of beneficence, is one that all healthcare professionals are expected to strictly uphold. As patients, we rely on those in the medical community to ensure our health, safety, and general wellbeing. While the vast majority of medical...
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  • El Narco
    'War' is no exaggeration in discussing the bloodshed that has terrorised Mexico in the past decades. As rival cartels battle for control of a billion-dollar drug trade, the body count—23,000 dead in five years—and sheer horror beggar the imagination of journalistic witnesses. Cartel gunmen have shot up schools and rehabilitation centres, and murdered the entire families of those who defy...
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  • Australia's Most Infamous Criminals
    Graham Seal finds and writes ripper, fair-dinkum, true blue Aussie yarns. His books are great reads. - The Weekly Times Australia's Most Infamous Criminals takes you on a journey through Australia's rich history of cold cases, notorious robberies, shameless frauds, and razor gangs, uncovering a cast of colourful villains. From the men and women who stepped off the convict ships...
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  • Art Heist
    An intriguing investigation into over 50 elusive artworks that were stolen and never recovered. Mona Lisa, Starry Night, Birth of Venus. People travel for hundreds of miles to observe these breathtaking paintings with their own eyes. Now discover the artworks that nobody can ever see and the fascinating stories behind their disappearance. In this collection of daring heist stories, read...
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  • A Rose For Her Grave & Other True Cases
    This first instalment in the New York Times bestselling Crime Files series is a chilling collection of shocking crimes and the ensuing struggles to bring the perpetrators to justice—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Stranger Beside Me. Soon to be a Lifetime original movie. The “country’s premier true crime author” (Library Journal) brings her clear-eyed, compassionate...
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  • A Rip in Heaven
    The acclaimed author of American Dirt reveals the devastating effects of a shocking tragedy in this landmark true crime book: the first ever to look intimately at the experiences of both the victims and their families. A Rip in Heaven is Jeanine Cummins' story of a night in April, 1991, when her two cousins, Julie and Robin Kerry, and her...
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  • A Plot to Kill
    The true story behind hit BBC drama The Sixth Commandment [A] real-life Midsomer Murder ... it's chilling, but [David Wilson's] explanation of how a psychopath thinks is masterly - The Times Two deaths. Three doors apart. An unsuspecting community about to realise there's a killer in their midst. In October 2015, Peter Farquhar was found dead in his house in...
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  • A Passion for Poison
    'The whole story is so terrible. You will be disgusted and amazed.' Graham Young, confessing his crimes to detectives There are few criminal cases more astonishing yet less well known than that of Graham Young. A quintessentially British crime story set in the post-war London suburbs, it involves two sensational trials, murders both certain and probable, a clutch of forgiving...
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  • An Uncommon Hangman
    Winner, The Danger Awards 2023, People's Choice Awards Shortlisted, The Danger Awards 2023, Non-fiction Executioners were once a critical component of the justice system in New South Wales. In an era when judges handed down death sentences as easily as they toasted the good health of the monarch, someone had to do the dirty work of the authorities. Robert 'Nosey...
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  • Anansi's Gold
    Winner of the Jhalak Prize & Plutarch Award | A New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Newsweek, TIME Book of the Year 2023 ‘Fabulously entertaining’ Daily Telegraph \ ‘Perfect for fans of Frank Abignale Jr.’s Catch Me If You Can’ Publishers Weekly The astounding, never-before-told story of how an ingenious Ghanaian con artist ran one of the 20th century’s...
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  • American Scare
    A vital story for both our history and our present day, American Scare is a riveting expose of how the Florida government became determined to destroy the lives of Black and queer citizens in the 1950s. A vital expose for both our history and our present day, American Scare tells the riveting story of how the Florida government destroyed the...
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  • American Mother
    An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage - Patrick Radden Keefe A 2024 HIGHLIGHT IN THE OBSERVER, GUARDIAN AND IRISH TIMES SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH BOOK AWARDSAN IMMEDIATE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow, and widower, but there is...
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  • American Mother
    An extraordinary story of grace, forgiveness and moral courage — Patrick Radden Keefe A 2024 highlight in the Observer, Guardian and Irish Times Shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards An immediate international bestseller The English language has no specific word for the parent that has lost a child. There exist words for orphan, widow and widower, but there...
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  • American Cults
    America has spawned hundreds of cults. Charismatic leaders periodically burst into the news for the most awful of reasons. We are awash with stories of brainwashed members' struggles to leave. Meet the messianic leaders, see the indoctrination and manipulation, look at their beliefs, and read the stories of some of America's most notorious, eccentric, and unusual cults! From false religions...
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  • American Cartel
    American Cartel is an unflinching and deeply documented dive into the culpability of the drug companies behind the staggering death toll of the opioid epidemic. It follows a small band of DEA agents led by Joseph Rannazzisi, a tough-talking New Yorker who had spent a storied thirty years bringing down bad guys; along with a band of lawyers, including West...
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  • A Massacre in Mexico
    On September 26, 2014, 43 male students from the Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College went missing in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico. En route to a protest, local police intercepted the students and a confrontation ensued. By the morning, they had disappeared without a trace. Anabel Hernández reconstructs, almost minute-by-minute, the events of those nights in late September 2014, providing what is surely...
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  • Alcatraz Ghost Story
    The Incredible True Story of the Most Hunted Man in Pacific Coast History and the Woman He Loved Before the 1920s found their roar, a charismatic gambling addict named Roy Gardner dominated news headlines with daring train robberies and escapes from incarceration. Nicknamed "the Smiling Bandit," Gardner spilled no blood—except his own—as he cut a felonious path across the western...
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  • Under Cover of Darkness
    A gripping new history of London during the Blackout—revealing the violent crime that spread across the capital under the cover of darkness. Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the German bombers circling above, but of violence at the hands of fellow Londoners in the streets...
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  • Inside the Mind of BTK
    A dramatic and compelling true-crime psychological thriller This incredible story shows how John Douglas tracked and participated in the hunt for one of the most notorious serial killers in U.S. history. For 31 years, a man who called himself BTK (Bind, Torture, Kill) terrorised the city of Wichita, Kansas, sexually assaulting and strangling a series of women, taunting the police...
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  • Vintage Crime
    “This slim yet insightful and entertaining volume documents the many instances where wine drinkers did not get what they paid for, sometimes with deadly consequences.”—New York Times, Best Wine Books of 2023 How fakes, fraudsters, and grape crusaders have shaped the world of wine. This novel take on the history of wine reveals that, whether by adding toxic sweeteners or...
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  • The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective
    A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account—and how they became a cultural sensationFrom Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male. Few people realise that women detectives successfully investigated Victorian Britain, working both with the police and for private agencies, which they sometimes managed themselves.Sara Lodge...
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  • The Monsters We Make
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  • Grey Area
    A compelling, first-hand account of the dark web, from its underground ecosystem, to the people responsible for committing data breaches and leaking data, 21st century's most consequential data breaches, the responses to those attacks, and the impact of dark web data and intelligence gathering and can have in the defence and security of our nation. In Grey Area, veteran hacker...
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  • If You Tell
    If You Tell is a shocking and empowering true-crime story from #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen, detailing the harrowing experience of three sisters determined to survive their mother's house of horrors. After more than a decade, the mere mention of the word "mom" for sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek brings back a cascade of painful memories....
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  • Cult Bride
    How are people like you and me brainwashed into cults? In her gap year after high school, Liz is approached at a shopping centre by a woman who asks her survey questions about her Christian faith. Liz is slowly brought into her small, friendly church community – but little does she know that her new ‘friends’ are members of the...
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  • White Terror
    Longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2025 'A shocking story of serial killers, twisted idealism and a country that looked away' Rory Carroll, bestselling author of Killing Thatcher In a tour de force of investigative journalism, White Terror tells for the first time the story of the National Socialist Underground in Germany – in an engrossing global story that examines violence, modern...
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  • Wakool Crossing: a modern-day investigation into the mysterious de
    In November 1916, just a few years after federation and while Australia was at war in Europe, Hazel Hood, the beautiful 18-year-old daughter of a Riverina grazier, went to a local dance and never came home. Her mysterious disappearance caused a sensation in the district around the pioneer settlement of Wakool Crossing near the Victorian-New South Wales border. The mystery...
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  • Two Sides of A Lie
    A tale of a Hong Kong journalist's struggle to unravel the truth of a pro-democracy protester's suspicious death, amid the city's political turmoil and its increasingly fragile relationship with its political master, China. This story is inspired by real events. It was a chilly September evening when the body of a young pro-democracy protester surfaced in Hong Kong's eastern Yau...
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  • The Woman Who Knew Too Little
    1948. An unidentified dead man is found on Somerton Beach, Adelaide. Officer Kitty Wheeler yearns to work the case - but the city's women police are typically assigned to more domestic matters. A wryly funny, sharply observed novel about one of Australia's great mysteries, and the life choices available to mid-century women. December, 1948. Officer Kitty Wheeler is a member...
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  • The Witchhunters
    Hong Kong, 1980. A British police officer minutes away from being arrested by colleagues for sex crimes is found dead in his locked bedroom. There are multiple wounds to his chest; his used service revolver by his side. There's only one possible conclusion: suicide. Yet a painstaking reinvestigation uncovers a different story: one involving a secret paedophile ring servicing the...
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  • The Winter Road
    On a country road in Croppa Creek, farmer Ian Turnbull faced environmental officer Glen Turner. What happened next shocked Australia. Kate Holden finds the epic thread in this crime and weaves a quintessential Australian story. - Chloe Hooper A gripping account of our land, and our selves. - Tara June Winch The Winter Road is an epic true story of...
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  • The Winter Road
    True crime writing at its finest, from the multi award-winning, bestselling author of In My Skin. Winner of the 2021 Walkley Book Award, 2022 NSW Premiers Literary Awards - Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, and 2022 Sisters in Crime Davitt Award (non-fiction). In July 2014, on a lonely road at twilight outside Croppa Creek, New South Wales, 80-year-old farmer Ian...
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  • The Undercover Police Scandal
    Five women who were deceived and manipulated into long-term, sexual relationships by undercover police tell the shocking story of what happened to them. Groomed. Gaslighted. Ghosted. They thought they'd found their soulmate. They had no idea he was spying on them. These five motivated, independent women each thought they'd met their perfect partner—someone who shared their values, ambitions, and goals....
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  • The Umbrella Murder
    A revealing, page-turning story of the most iconic Cold War spy killing of all time, for fans of Ben Macintyre, Henry Hemming, and the novels of John Le Carré and Mick Herron. 'This masterly investigation ... exposes an assassin worthy of James Bond' – Observer, Book of the Week London, September 1978 – exiled Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is murdered...
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  • The Trump Indictments
    Edited and introduced by MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, The Trump Indictments collects the complete charging documents brought by the Department of Justice and the Fulton County (GA) and Manhattan (NY) district attorneys—a riveting and shocking narrative of the former president’s alleged crimes and conspiracies. "A valuable record for history ... Velshi makes a strong case that Americans need to understand these...
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  • The Sins of the Sheikh
    The Sins of the Sheikh tells the dark story of abduction, cover-ups, brutality, and intimidation within the mysterious royal family of Dubai, ruled by the iron fist of its patriarch, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum. Dubai is feted internationally as a beacon of modernity—glittering skyscrapers, a cultural melting pot, even a new player in the space race. The city's...
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  • The Sinners All Bow
    INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER! One of Amazon's Best History Books of January Acclaimed journalist, podcaster, and true-crime historian Kate Winkler Dawson tells the true story of the scandalous murder investigation that became the inspiration for both Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter and the first true-crime book published in America. On a cold winter day in 1832, Sarah Maria Cornell was...
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  • The Silk Finisher
    What happens when toxicity invades a life at every turn? A 1963 murder leads to a decade-long journey for a son to uncover truths about his family, an American town, and ultimately himself. In the “Crossroads of America,” three active-duty US Army paratroopers commit a more heinous crime than the one they are trying to cover up. Their arrests and...
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  • The Silenced Women
    The Silenced Women is a compelling police procedural debut that follows a Violent Crime Investigations unit as they track a disturbing killer through Santa Rosa. Who will speak for those who no longer can? When a young woman is found strangled to death and left on a park bench in Santa Rosa, California, Detective Eddie Mahler and his Violent Crime...
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  • The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and his Wife
    The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and his Wife by Rebecca Hazel delves into the mysterious disappearance of Lynette Dawson long before the phenomenon of The Teacher's Pet podcast emerged. The Teacher's Pet podcast became a worldwide sensation, amassing over 80 million downloads globally. The podcast unravelled the puzzling case of Chris Dawson, a teacher and former rugby league player who seemingly...
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  • The Scholl Case
    In December 2011, a female corpse is found in a forest in Ludwigsfelde, a small and peaceful town south of Berlin. The victim is Brigitte Scholl, 67, cosmetician and wife of Ludwigsfelde's former mayor Heinrich Scholl. While the police look for the murderer, parents forbid their children to leave the house, and local joggers change their usual trails, avoiding the...
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  • The Pretty Girl Killer
    The complete true story of one of the world's most horrifying serial killers, who terrorised both Australia and America. This is the story of Christopher Wilder, the surf-loving son of a decorated naval war hero born in the suburbs of Sydney, who became the most wanted man in America—a psychopathic serial killer who slaughtered more than sixteen young women in...
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  • The Outback Court Reporter
    One of Australia's most experienced court reporters goes on a judicial road trip. The Outback Court Reporter is a sometimes funny, sometimes tragic look at the comings and goings on inside the country courtrooms dotted across Australia. From the case of the stolen cat flap, to missing lollipops and exploding chocolate milk in a country supermarket, to a custody dispute...
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  • The Newcomer
    There's no such thing as a perfect victim. There's no such thing as a perfect victim. In a hotel room on a sleepy Pacific island, Judy Novak waits. And worries. It isn't the first time 29-year-old problem child Paulina has kept her mother waiting. But Judy can't ignore the island's jagged cliffs and towering pines - or the dread that...
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  • The Messiah's Bride
    Eleven-year-old Stefanie Hinrichs came to Australia looking for paradise—and found herself trapped in the marriage from Hell. In 1994, Stefanie Hinrichs dreamed of owning a horse, leaving school, and marrying Keanu Reeves. But God had other plans for the teenager. Her family belonged to a controversial Doomsday cult led by self-proclaimed Messiah William Kamm, also known as the 'Little Pebble',...
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  • The Matriarch
    The matriarch of Australia’s most violent and notorious criminal family, and allegedly the inspiration for the award-winning film Animal Kingdom, tells her side of the story. Kathy Pettingill is a name that’s both respected and feared, not only by Australia’s criminal underworld, but by many in the Victorian police force. As the matriarch at the head of the most notorious...
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  • The Last Bushrangers
    The story of Australia's last bushranging gang - the murderous Kenniffs. Easter Sunday, 1902, deep in the Carnarvon Ranges, a police constable and station manager are slain, then later incinerated, their remains stuffed into saddlebags. Accused of the ghoulish crime are two members of the bushranging Kenniff gang, fast gaining notoriety as Queensland's equivalent of the Kelly gang. Yet the...
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  • The Lady Vanishes
    A much-loved mother, teacher and friend steps on a plane for an overseas adventure and is never seen again. When Marion Barter disappeared in 1997, police initially dismissed it as the actions of a divorced mother abandoning her family. In this book, the creators of the addictive global hit podcast The Lady Vanishes detail the winding investigation into Marion's disappearance,...
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  • The Family Court Murders
    4 murders. 5 bombings. And no one charged. This is the definitive story of the Family Court Murders. An initiative of the Whitlam Government, the so-called helping court opened its doors in January 1976. But despite the high idealism of the court’s creators, they failed to factor in one universal truth: that in a marital tug of war, one side...
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  • The Family
    The apocalyptic group The Family and their guru, Anne Hamilton-Byrne, captured international headlines throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Hamilton-Byrne, who some followers believed was Jesus Christ, was glamorous and charismatic—and, many allege, very dangerous. She acquired children—some through adoption and some born to cult members—and raised them as her own, bleaching their hair blonde to make them look like siblings....
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  • The Edward Street Baby Farm
    The Alice Mitchell murder trial gripped the city of Perth and the nation. The Edward Street Baby Farm retraces this infamous 'baby farm' tragedy, which led to legislative changes to protect children's welfare. In 1907, Perth woman Alice Mitchell was arrested for the murder of five-month-old Ethel Booth. During the inquest and subsequent trial, the state was horrified to learn...
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  • The Black Widow
    The Black Widow almost got away with murder. But then her sister-in-law became suspicious... The infamous Black Widow case shocked the nation. An average-looking suburban housewife carefully staged her husband's 'suicide'. At first, it looked like she might get away with murder, but then her sister-in-law, Lee-Anne Cartier, became suspicious and started gathering evidence and presenting it to the police....
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  • The Ballroom Murder
    The Ballroom Murder is a true crime story that gripped Perth nearly 100 years ago, demonstrating the power of the press and privilege in an extraordinary judicial outcome. In August 1925, Audrey Jacob shot dead her former fiancé, Cyril Gidley, in full view of hundreds of guests at a charity ball in Perth's Government House. When she was arrested, she...
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  • The Altar Boys
    Boys with everything to live for ... A community betrayed ... The whistle-blower priest who paid the ultimate price. Shortlisted for the 2020 Walkley Book Award Shortlisted for the 2021 NSW Premier's Community and Regional History Prize Shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Award Glen Walsh and Steven Alward were childhood friends in their tight-knit working-class community in Newcastle, NSW....
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  • Shattered Lives
    Suicides, hangings, shootings, car accidents, drownings, cliff falls, electrocutions … Detective Peter Seymour has seen every type of death imaginable in his time in the NSW Coroner’s Court and, after many years in law enforcement, the tragedies are beginning to take their toll. Dealing with death day in day out becomes too much for Seymour and this seasoned veteran starts...
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  • Shattered
    Shattered is a true story about the devastating impacts of mental illness and domestic violence that saw one family self-destruct in just 67 harrowing days. Told through the eyes of a hurting brother and son, this tragic story follows three family members through a series of decisions that bring the family together and then tear them apart. Almost every family...
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  • Seventy Times Seven
    A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl’s shocking crime — and its extraordinary aftermath. 'Alex Mar's bold yet sensitive account of one of America's youngest death row inmates and the people whose lives she forever changed, is intimately reported, deeply moving, and unforgettable.' — Robert Kolker, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road 'An...
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  • Rendezvous with Death
    The harrowing true stories of fallen police officers and how they met their end in a rendezvous with death on the path of duty. A new century and a new nation forged by the will of the people seemed to turn a new page and raised hope for a better future. In this there was abundant truth, but there still...
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  • Pure Narco
    How does a young student majoring in Portuguese at Georgetown University in Washington, DC become one of the biggest drug smugglers on Earth? And how does he survive 25 years in the trade—and encounters with some of its most powerful and ruthless figures, from Pablo Escobar to Narcos-Mexico's Alberto Sicilia Falcón—when he hates violence and never carries a gun? In...
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  • Prisoner of the State
    At sixteen years old, Lily Arthur was caught between the women’s liberation movement of the ‘swinging sixties’ and the draconian ideology that young women should be punished for deviating from society's 'moral codes'. For the 'crime' of being pregnant, Lily was forcibly taken from the man she planned to marry and incarcerated in the notorious Holy Cross Home for ‘wayward’...
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  • Operation Jungle
    A gripping blend of memoir, true crime and corruption in the tropics. In the late 1970s, criminal mastermind John Milligan and his associates conspired to import heroin into Far North Queensland via a remote mountain top airdrop. In a story that is stranger than fiction, it took them three trips through dense jungle to locate the heroin, but they only...
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  • Never to Be Released
    Paul Kidd's second collection of true-life stories details the most heinous crimes and their perpetrators. In Never to Be Released, he combines new cases of those recommended to be released and revisits a couple of subjects from his previous book for whom the recommendation holds firm.
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  • Never Alone
    Debbie Malone is an acclaimed spirit medium who has assisted police departments across Australia in missing-persons and murder investigations for the last twenty-three years. Her extraordinary gifts—she is a psychic and clairvoyant as well as a medium—enable her to receive visions from both the living and the dead, from the past, present and future, and to convey messages to bereaved...
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  • Mysteries Uncovered
    Mysteries Uncovered explores the world's most fascinating mysteries—from disappearances to paranormal events. The mysterious is all around us... UFOs, extraterrestrial encounters, baffling disappearances—Mysteries Uncovered investigates, without prejudice, some of the most notorious, disturbing and enduring mysteries ever recorded. UFO activity - the Roswell Incident, the Phoenix Lights, the Rendlesham Incident... Alien abduction - the Barney and Betty Hill case... Uncanny...
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  • My Girl
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  • Murder at Myall Creek
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  • Missing
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  • Meadow's Law
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  • Love Until Death
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  • Lovers' Lane Murders
    Andy Atkinson and Cheryl Henry met on a blind date arranged by friends and hit it off immediately. On their second date at Bayou Mama’s, they left together to visit a spot known as "Lovers' Lane." Within hours, Andy was found tied to a tree with his throat slashed, and Cheryl was discovered raped and murdered nearby. Their brutal deaths...
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  • Little Fish Are Sweet
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  • Lie Hunter
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