How to Solve a Crime: Stories from the Cutting Edge of Forensics by Angela Gallop
30.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
'Endlessly fascinating...meticulously written and thoroughly absorbing book' Financial Times Pre-order now: *Revised and Updated* The gripping new book by the UK's most eminent forensic scientists, Angela Gallop__________ CRIME [Noun]: An action or omission which constitutes an offence and is pu ...Show more
Murder on the Maungatapu by Wayne Martin
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
In the winter of 1866 New Zealand s most notorious bushranger, Richard Burgess, knelt at a small desk in his Nelson prison cell, took up his quill pen and began to write. His life, he knew, was beyond salvation but words were the last weapon at his disposal to consign his mortal enemy, gang turncoat Jos ...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 clear in ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
26.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Controversial and compelling, "In Cold Blood" reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those i ...Show more
War and Punishment by Mikhail Zygar
40.00 NZD
Category: Politics
As soon as the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine began, prominent independent Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar took action. He circulated a petition that was signed first by hundreds of his cultural and journalistic contacts and then by thousands of others. That brave act led to a new law in Russia crimi ...Show more
The Sewing Girl's Tale: A Story of Crime and Consequences in Revolutionary America by John Wood Sweet
40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
A riveting Revolutionary Era drama of the first published rape trial in American history and its long, shattering aftermath, revealing how much has changed over two centuries--and how much has not. On a moonless night in the summer of 1793 a crime was committed in the back room of a New York brothel--t ...Show more
Busted: Stories from New Zealand's Leading Private Investigator by Ron McQuilter
35.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson
28.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
As heard on NPR's This American Life "Absorbing . . . Though it's non-fiction, The Feather Thief contains many of the elements of a classic thriller." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air "One of the most peculiar and memorable true-crime books ever." --Christian Science Monitor A rollicking true-crime a ...Show more
The Last Leonardo by Ben Lewis
28.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over across the centuries. In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci's small oil painti ...Show more
The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird by Joshua Hammer
35.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
On May 3, 2010, an Irish national names Jeffrey Lendrum was apprehended at Britain's Birmingham International Airpost with a suspicious parcel strapped to his stomach. Inside were fourteen rare peregrine falcon eggs snatched from a remote cliffside in Wales. So begins a tale almost too bizarre to beli ...Show more
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
30.00 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
Prison Break: The Extraordinary Life and Crimes of New Zealand's Most Infamous Escapee by Arthur Taylor
37.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
The extraordinary true story behind New Zealand's most infamous career criminal and prolific escapee. Arthur Taylor is New Zealand's best known, most influential, and colourful career criminal. A household name, he was paroled from prison in 2019 after more than 38 years years behind bars. His life stor ...Show more