| Author: | Dreyfuss |
The compelling true story of the computer underground and the bizarre lives and crimes of an elite group of young Australian hackers who, in the 1980s and 1990s, took on the forces of the establishment. They conquered and created chaos amongst some of the world's biggest and most powerful organisations, including NASA and th... read more
| Author: | Melissa Sweet |
On 14th October 02, Margaret Tobin, director of S.A. mental health service, was shot four times, execution-style, in her Adelaide office. It was at first, considered a random shooting, but rumours soon linked her with a deregistered psychiatrist who has worked with her, who was later charged with her murder.
| Author: | Peter Graham |
On a drizzly Monday morning, 16 August 1886, the inhabitants of Timaru woke to astounding news. Tom Hall junior, a well-known local businessman and man about town, nephew of former New Zealand Premier Sir John Hall, had been arrested for attempting to murder his wife, Kitty, by poisoning. Also charged was Margaret Houston, Ki... read more
| Author: | Harry Keeble |
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
| Author: | Bill Bass & Jon Jefferson |
On a wooded hillside in Tennessee blowflies, bacteria and buzzards feast on human flesh, unhindered by coffins or mausoleums. They're buried in shallow graves; submerged in tanks of water; concealed under slabs of concrete; locked in the boots and backseats of rusting cars. They are serving the needs of science in the cause o... read more
| Author: | John Silvester |
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 during an underworld w... read more
| Author: | Charles Berlitz & William Moore |
The startling account of a ship that vanished - and returned to damn those who knew why...
| Author: | Bryan Bruce |
A hard-hitting and revealing true crime book.Did David Tamihere murder the Swedish tourists on his own? Who killed Kirsty Bentley? Why has the man who murdered Kayo Matsuzawa not been arrested? Is John Barlow innocent? And are mass murderers like David Gray natural-born killers? Or do we create them? Award-winning author and ... read more
| Author: | William Marsden & Julian Sher |
The Hell's Angels leader, Sonny Barger, is toasted as an American legend, and the bikers work hard to promote their folk-hero image. But the facts tell another story.The Hell's Angels are America's major crime export. Their membership has spread to 25 countries including the UK, Australia and Holland, where they have inspired... read more
| Author: | Ross Kemp |
In this sequel to the bestselling Gangs, Ross Kemp once again infiltrates groups of the deadliest criminals in countries as varied and far-reaching as Argentina, Thailand and Kenya. In Poland while investigating Neo-Nazi football hooligans, Ross is tear-gassed at a football match as he shadows an elite police riot squad. I... read more
| Author: | Ann Rule |
The shattering crime story that shocked the nation: the Thomas Capano murder caseOn a June evening in 1996, 30-year-old Anne Marie Fahey, secretary to the governor of Delaware, vanished without a trace following a restaurant rendezvous with her secret lover of more than two years: Thomas Capano. One of Wilmington's most promi... read more
| Author: | Alex Caine |
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
| Author: | HAINING Peter |
Sweeney Todd, the notorious Demon Barber, has been called 'the greatest mass murderer in English history'. With the aid of an ingenious revolving chair and a cut-throat razor, he is said to have robbed and butchered over 160 victims in his barber shop in Fleet Street, before taking the remains to nearby Bell Yard, where his a... read more
| Author: | Robert Mann & Miryam Ehrlich Williamson |
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
| Author: | Philip Carlo |
Top Mafia hit man, doting father - for 30 years, Richard 'the Ice Man' Kuklinski led a double life beyond anything ever seen on "The Sopranos", becoming one of the most notorious professional assassins in American history while hosting neighbourhood barbecues in suburban New Jersey. Kuklinski was Sammy 'the Bull' Gravano's pa... read more
| Author: | Kate Summerscale |
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome murder has taken place... read more
| Author: | Kate Colquhoun |
In July 1864, Thomas Briggs was travelling home after visiting his niece and her husband for dinner. He entered a First Class carriage on the 9.45pm Hackney service of the North London railway. At Hackney, two bank clerks entered the carriage and discovered blood in the seat cushions; also on the floor, windows and sides ... read more
I really enjoyed this very Victorian story of the first man to be murdered in a railway carriage in 1864. It was sensationalised in the newspapers and led to improvements in the design and communication of trains. The case reads rather like a thriller - when a suspect is tracked down he flees to the United States, then ... read more
| Author: | Jaycee Lee Dugard |
On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her family and friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On 26 August 2009, Dugard, her daughters, and Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole o... read more
| Author: | Debi Marshall |
The bestselling account of one of South Australia's worst series of crimes - the bodies in the barrels. A disused bank vault holding eight dismembered bodies immersed in barrels of acid. Two bodies buried in a suburban backyard. A further two found in the bush. Such was the findings of one of South Australia's most horrific m... read more
