Marching Powder by Rusty Young
$12.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Marching Powder is the story of Thomas McFadden, a small-time English drug smuggler who was arrested in Bolivia and thrown inside the notorious San Pedro prison. He found himself in a bizarre world, the prison reflecting all that is wrong with South American society. Prisoners have to pay an entrance fe ...Show more
In for the Kill; A True Story of Hunting Evil by Hart Christine
$12.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
A childhood that saw her abandoned on the doorstep of a convent and then abused by her adoptive parents left Christine Hart vulnerable and desperate to find somewhere that she belonged. A quest to trace her real father led her along a confused and complex path to the prison cell of the notorious Moo ...Show more
Mafia Hits by M. A. Frasca
$12.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Since the late 19th century, the Mafia has been a presence in North America using intimidation and worse to exert its control over organized crime in the major cities and beyond - anything from loansharking to bootlegging during Prohibition to extortion, kidnapping and racketerring. Throughout the 20th ...Show more
Encyclopedia of Australian Crime : A Calendar of Murder, Mayhem, Rape, Robbery and Much, Much More by Jim Main
$16.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Australia has had more than its share of crime and, in fact, bloodshed, butchery and brutality has been with us since white settlement in 1788. From murder and mayhem to riot and rape, Australia has experienced every imaginable crime. There have been headless corpses, limbs in rivers, plane hijackings, ...Show more
Underbelly: The Gangland War by John Silvester
$12.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
They called Carl Williams 'The Truth' but the truth was he was just a fat kid with a pill press and a taste for fast food, women and bucks. He got lucky the day Jason Moran shot him in the belly instead of the head. Carl didn't return the favour: one by one, Moran, his family, and friends were shot dead ...Show more
David & Goliath: The Bain Family Murders by Joe Karam
$8.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Reprint, originally published 1995. A brief preface has been added, otherwise content is the same as the original publication. Public interest in this case will be heightened further when David Bain's retrial for the murders of five members of his family in Dunedin in June 1994 gets underway - this is s ...Show more
Honor Bound: My Journey to Hell and Back with Amanda Knox by Raffaele Sollecito
$14.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
They were accused of one of the most infamous murders of our time. Targeted by the media, sentenced by the courts, and wrongfully imprisoned for four excruciating years for a crime neither could fathom let alone perpetrate, Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox were the victims in a trial so bizarre it def ...Show more
LIMA 3 by FERGUSON HARRY
$12.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
In Lima 3 Harry Ferguson leaves the Kilos behind for a new call sign and a tougher assignment with the Lima team, the 'Allstars' of HM Customs Investigation Division. His new work brings him up against brutal Liverpool gangster John Haase. and it soon becomes clear that Haase works closely with a Turkis ...Show more
Outlaws Inc.: Flying With the World's Most Dangerous Smugglers by Matt Potter
$12.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: 16
In the world's most dangerous trouble spots, a small band of men risk their lives to fly in desperately needed aid. But they are not heroes. Their giant ex-Soviet cargo planes are also riddled with secret compartments, which they fill with drugs, guns, money or people. They deliver anywhere, and they rt ...Show more
My Father Pablo Escobar by Juan Pablo Escobar
$16.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM PABLO ESCOBAR'S SON Until now, we believed that everything had been said about the rise and fall of the most infamous drug lord of all time, Pablo Escobar - from books to film to the cult series 'Narcos'. But these versions have always been told from the outside, only ...Show more
Crimetime by Mark Van Leewarden
$12.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
“We think you’re the type of joker who would suit working undercover. No controls, out there doing deals and drinking piss.” And with that the young beat cop shed what was left of his uniform and slid into the underworld of strippers, junkies, crooks and gangsters. Codename: Emu. Mission: to take out ha ...Show more
Underbelly Squizzy by Andy Muir
$12.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
In the 1920s, the notorious gangster Squizzy Taylor, one of Melbourne's most colourful underworld figures, evaded imprisonment by witness intimidation and jury fixing. Renowned for dressing loudly, the diminutive criminal was also a pickpocket, pimp, armed robber, fraudster, extortionist, race fixer, sl ...Show more