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Gangland: New Zealand's Underworld of Organised Crime by Jared Savage
$37.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
New Zealand's underworld of organised crime and deadly gangs New Zealand is now one of the most lucrative illicit drug markets in the world. Organised crime is about making money. It's a business. But over the past 20 years, the dealers have graduated from motorcycle gangs to Asian crime syndicates and ...Show more
Black Hands by Martin van Beynen
$38.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
This is the story of a mass-murder that divided a nation. It's a story that began in a rickety old home on a cold June morning in 1994, where five members of a seemingly ordinary New Zealand family were gunned down. There were two suspects. One lay dead from a single bullet to the head. The other was th ...Show more
18 Tiny Deaths: The Untold Story of Frances Glessner Lee and the Invention of Modern Forensics by Bruce Goldfarb
$38.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
'For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without any formal training. People often got away with murder. Modern forensic investigation originates with Frances Glessner Lee - a pivotal figure in polic ...Show more
Another Day in the Death of America : A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge
$25.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Saturday, 23rd November 2013. It was just another day in America. And as befits an unremarkable day, ten children and teens were killed by gunfire. Far from being considered newsworthy, these everyday fatalities are simply a banal fact. The youngest was nine; the oldest nineteen. None made the news. Th ...Show more
Epstein - Dead Men Tell No Tales by Dylan Howard; Melissa Cronin; James Robertson
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
This is--for the first time--the full and unedited story behind the sick life and mysterious death of Jeffrey Epstein that is being called one of the most significant scandals in American history He was the billionaire financier and close confidant of presidents, prime ministers, movie stars and Bri ...Show more
The Rodchenkov Affair by Grigory Rodchenkov
$40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Can one man take down an empire? The Rodchenkov Affair is a breathtaking real-life political thriller. As a leading chemical scientist and Director of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, Dr Grigory Rodchenkov was at the forefront of global efforts to detect drugs cheats in sport. Yet he was simultaneous ...Show more
The Outlaw Ocean - Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier by Ian Urbina
$26.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
'Just incredible' NAOMI KLEIN **New York Times Bestseller** The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen- the high seas. The oceans are some of the last untamed frontiers on our planet. Too big to police, and under no cle ...Show more
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
$32.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Shots rang out in Savannah's grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. John Berendt's sharply observed, ...Show more
Murder, Misadventure and Miserable Ends: Tales from a Colonial Coroner's Court by Catie Gilchrist
$37.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Murder, manslaughter, suicide, mishap - the very public business of determining death in colonial Sydney. Murder in colonial Sydney was a surprisingly rare occurrence, so when it did happen it caused a great sensation. People flocked to the scene of the crime, to the coroner's court and to the criminal ...Show more
Shepherds and Butchers by Chris Marnewick
$27.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
South Africa, 1987. Apartheid. When Leon, a white 19-year-old prison guard working on death row commits an inexplicable act of violence, killing seven black men in a hail of bullets, the outcome of the trial - and the court's sentence - seems a foregone conclusion. Hotshot lawyer John Weber (played by S ...Show more
The 15:17 to Paris by Anthony Sadler
$28.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
On 21 August 2015, Ayoub al-Khazzani boarded a train in Brussels bound for Paris. Khazzani's mission was clear- he had an AK-47, a pistol, a box cutter, and enough ammunition to obliterate the 554 passengers on the crowded train. But as he began to execute his plan, he encountered an unstoppable line of ...Show more
A City Possessed: The Christchurch Civic Creche Case by Lynley Hood
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Reference
Originally published in 2001, A City Possessed is the harrowing account of one of New Zealands most high-profile criminal cases a story of child sexual abuse allegations, gender politics and the law. In detailing the events of the 1990s that led up to and surrounded the allegations made against several ...Show more