True Crime category: 7770 books
The Matriarch
The Kath Pettingill Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2019
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 and violent family of habitual offenders in Australian criminal history, her life has revolved...
The Great Pearl Heist
London's Greatest Thief and Scotland Yard's Hunt for the World's Most Valuable N ecklace
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
London, 1913. An exquisite strand of pale pink pearls, worth more than the Hope Diamond, has been bought by a Hatton Garden broker, capturing the attention of both jewelers and thieves. In transit to London from Paris, the necklace vanishes without a trace.
Joseph Grizzard, “the King of Fences,”...
by Robin Bowles
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
Examines the question at the heart of our criminal justice.
Why is former Victorian police sergeant Denis Tanner a free man if the Victorian state coroner named him as the killer of his sister-in-law, Jennifer Tanner?
Did Greg Domaszewicz really kill Jaidyn Leskie and get away with it because he had...
by Lindy Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
I Got the Shit Car: On Father's Day in Australia in 2005, Robert Farquharson drove his car and three sons in a dam in country Victoria. The estranged husband and loving father was the only one to survive.
Welcome to Crime Shots - short, sharp, true crime stories from Australia's past and present.
The Trunk Dripped Blood
Five Sensational Murder Cases of the Early 20th Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the most famous murder investigations in California history—still debated by crime historians. In 1913, the dismembered body of a young pregnant woman, found in the East River, was traced back to her killer...
Criminal Women
Famous London Cases
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Shocking portraits of women who have committed capital crimes in England’s capital city—from the author of Jack the Ripper: An Encyclopedia.
Women have sometimes been seen as less criminally inclined than men. But, as John J. Eddleston shows in this revealing anthology of female crimes in London,...
by John J. Eddleston
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
The stormy past of England’s south coast city is vividly depicted in these true crime tales from the author of Jack the Ripper: An Encyclopedia.
The criminal cases vividly described by John J. Eddleston in this gripping book take the reader on a journey into the dark secret side of Southampton’s...
Smugglers
The Complex Web of the Drug, Blood Diamond, Human Organ, Ivory and Cigarette Underworlds
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
SMUGGLERS The Complex Web of the Drug, Blood Diamond, Human Organ, Ivory and Cigarette Underworlds
Contents SMUGGLING IN THE MODERN WORLD CIGARETTE SMUGGLING : Introduction, The North American Problem, The Montenegro Ring. DIAMONDS : Introduction, Sierra Leone, Angola. DRUG SMUGGLING : Introduction,...
Evil Life
The true story of the Calabrian Mafia in Australia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
The Calabrian mafia is Australia's oldest, largest and most ruthless crime syndicate, trafficking drugs worth billions of dollars and laundering the proceeds through sophisticated international networks.
Enforcing discipline with age-old tools of violence and intimidation, the Calabrians have...
by Nicola Sly
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Although an idyllic setting, where violent crime is thankfully rare, the Channel Islands have a shadier side. Contained within the pages of this book are 25 historic cases of murder committed in the Channel Islands. They include a fatal assault on John Francis in 1894, which remains unsolved; the...
Crossed Over
A Murder, A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
One mother's son is killed in a tragic accident; another's daughter murders two people in a wild rage. From these bitter facts, Beverly Lowry--the first child's mother and an acclaimed novelist--has fashioned a memoir in which the objectivity of true-crime reportage resonates with acute feeling and...
by M. Troy McDaniel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
When it comes to crime, murder is as bad as it gets. Despite civilization's advancement over the past one hundred years, murder still occurs, and it happens in places you've never heard of. People move to Greenwood, Louisiana, to escape the crime of nearby Shreveport, but in May, 2003, residents...
by Vikki Petraitis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In 1996 a neighbour spies three Asian men running out of a court in Glen Waverley. It looks like two chasing one. But when they head towards a nearby car with an open boot, and suddenly the boot closes and there are only two men standing there, the chase takes on a more sinister aspect.
Young...
The Lindbergh Kidnaping Case
The True Story of the Crime That Shocked the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The American people were aroused to a white-hot anger. Clergymen of all faiths joined in prayer. Messages of sympathy came in from presidents, prime ministers, dictators, friends, crackpots, the morbid, the curious…
THE LINDBERGH BABY HAD BEEN KIDNAPED!
State, city and federal law...