Poison - The History of Potions, Powders and Murderous Practitioners by Ben Hubbard; Sophie Hannah (Foreword by)
28.00 NZD
Category: History
"As every amateur toxicologist knows, the difference between a poison and medicine is often simply the dose." There is no weapon as insidious, as seductive or as mysterious as poison. In this terrifying account of history's silent assassin, discover the gripping tales of users, abusers and victims of t ...Show more
Fear Is Just a Word by Azam Ahmed
40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
This unputdownable book weaves together two stories: the story of a courageous mother, and the story of the rise of drug cartels and of violence in Mexico. The story begins on an international bridge between Mexico and the U.S. Miriam Rodriguez is stalking one of the men who murdered her daughter. He is ...Show more
The Cause of Death by Cynric Temple-Camp
30.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Spontaneous combustion and exhumation, drug mules and devil worshippers, a gruesome killing beneath the Palmerston North Airport control tower, a mysterious death in a historic homestead, a first-hand dissection of the infamous Mark Lundy case ... In The Cause of Death, provincial pathologist Dr Cynric ...Show more
Blood Gun Money by Ioan Grillo
33.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
From the author of El Narco, a searing investigation into the enormous black market for firearms, essential to cartels and gangs in the drug trade and contributing to the epidemic of mass shootings.The gun control debate is revived with every mass shooting. But far more people die from gun deaths on the ...Show more
A City Possessed by Lynley Hood
50.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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
A Thread of Violence: A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark O'Connell
33.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
What does it mean to write about a killer? From an award-winning author comes a tale of a notorious double-murder, a political scandal, and a writer who found himself entangled in this strange, true story.
Sailing the Graveyard Sea - The Deathly Voyage of the Somers, the U. S. Navy's Only Mutiny, and the Trial That Gripped the Nation by Richard Snow
60.00 NZD
Category: Nautical
A riveting account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy--a little-known event that cost three innocent young men their lives--part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and as propulsive and dramatic as the bestselling novels of Patrick O'Brian.On December 16, 1842, the US brig-of ...Show more
The Art Thief: A true story of love, crime and a dangerous obsession by Michael Finkel
38.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
The true story of the world’s most prolific art thief, who accumulated a collection worth over $1.4 billion. A spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, from the bestselling author of The Stranger in the Wood. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the ...Show more
The Unusual Suspect: The Remarkable True Story of a Modern-Day Robin Hood by Ben Machell
25.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
The remarkable true story of a modern-day Robin Hood, from Times feature writer Ben Machell.
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
24.00 NZD
Category: True Crime | Reading Level: very good
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped pe ...Show more
Crimetime by Mark Van Leewarden
45.00 NZD
Category: No Category
“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
Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story by Julie Brown
40.00 NZD
Category: True Crime
Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, and the explosive reporting for the Miami Herald that finally brought him to justice while exposing the powerful people and broken system that protected him. F ...Show more