True Crime

Anthony 'Gaspipe' Casso, boss of New York's Lucchese crime family, was a Mafia superstar, responsible for more than fifty murders. Now serving thirteen life sentences at a federal prison in Colorado, Casso has given journalist and New York Times bestselling author Philip Carlo the most intimate, personal look into the world o... read more

Lawyers and judges speak platitudes about the wisdom and commonsense and community values juries bring to bear, but it's clear from Malcolm Knox's recent experience of a long jury trial that this is a legal fiction. He found chillingly apposite an old legal adage: you'd love to be in front of a jury if you'd committed a crime... read more

This true story of police corruption and undercover assignments will have you reeling. Glen McNamara joined the NSW Police Force when he was 17 and was sworn in as a constable at 19. A career as a detective beckoned and soon Glen was tracking down the notorious Warren Lanfranchi, who was dealing drugs with Neddy Smith, and di... read more

In the tradition of true crime bestsellers by Alan Dershowitz and Dominick Dunne, Mickey Sherman delivers a powerful and extraordinarily candid account of his legal career that gives the readers an all-access backstage pass to not only the sausage factory that is the criminal justice system but the "big cases" we have all liv... read more

The bastard offspring of cocaine, crack first entered the UK in the early 1990s. By the end of the decade Britain's inner cities were in the midst of a crack epidemic, with users being responsible for a massive proportion of crime -- 95% of street shootings are crack-related, for example. Communities, especially in London, we... read more

Ann Rule was a writer working on the biggest story of her life, tracking down a brutal mass-murderer. Little did she know that the young man who was her close friend was the savage slayer she was hunting. Ted Bundy was everyone's picture of a natural 'winner' - handsome, caring, brilliant in law school, successful with women... read more

In 1999, shortly after arriving in Beijing as The Times’s China correspondent, Oliver August set out on the trail of Chinaâ€ÂÂ... read more

The book of the TV2 series Sensing Murder, with special focus on additional information never previously aired.Psychic mediums from New Zealand and Australia are challenged to uncover fresh leads in some of New Zealand's most chilling unsolved murder cases. Armed with only a photo of the victim, and with no previous knowledge... read more

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The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. In 1998, veteran law enforcement officer and lifelong motorcycle lover William Queen penetrated the San Fernando chapter of the notorious Mongols and kick-started the most extensive undercover operation inside a criminal ... read more

Alex Caine started life as a working-class boy from Quebec who always thought he'd end up in a blue-collar job. But after a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, he fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or 'kite': infiltrating criminal groups that cops across North Ameri... read more

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The city of Las Vegas never sleeps and neither does its crime lab. The Crime Scene Investigators of the Las Vegas Police Department use the latest technology along with solid detective work to solve their cases. With their skilled lab technicians and unbiased medical examiner, they can answer the ... read more

Forget CSI - this is the real deal!From Jeffrey Dahmer to 9/11, these are true case histories from one of the world's foremost forensic anthropologists.Mass graves, actual skeletons in the closet, and a host of homicides steeped in bizarre clues and buried secrets they're all in a day's work for one detective whose job begins... read more

Ross Kemp travels the world, gaining an incredible insight into the lives of highly dangerous criminals. In his close encounters with society's underbelly Kemp endures several near-death experiences, including being shot at in Rio de Janeiro and set fire to in Russia. Without judging or glamorising the people he meets, Kem... read more

In October 1997 a clever young student at the ANU murdered her boyfriend. She and her best friend were later charged with murder. Garner followed the trial in the ACT Supreme Court. This book is about how and why Joe Cinque died. It probes the gap between ethics and law explores conscience, culpability and much more.

Would you go to the gates of Hell for your job? American Federal Agent Jay 'Bird' Dobyns did. For nearly two years, Dobyn's infiltrated the world's most notorious biker gang - the Hells Angels. An undercover agent for the US government, Bird left his family behind and immersed himself in the Angels' seductive web of organise... read more

Three of the world's greatest detectives - a renowned former FBI agent, a forensic sculptor and an eccentric profiler known as 'the living Sherlock Holmes' - were distraught at the growing tide of unsolved murders. And so William Fleisher, Frank Bender and Richard Walter pledged themselves to a quest for justice ...They invit... read more

A memoir that was recently discovered and appears to have been written in the 1920s by someone who asserts that he was Jack the Ripper. It introduces a new suspect for the infamous murders in Whitechapel in 1888. It also offers a credible motive for James becoming the murderer Jack and also a reason for the end of the murders.

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The bastard offspring of cocaine, crack first entered the UK in the early 1990s. By the end of the decade Britain's inner cities were in the midst of a crack epidemic, with users being responsible for a massive proportion of crime -- 95% of street shootings are crack-related, for example. Communities, especially in London, we... read more