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Blood Stain: The True Story of Katherine Knight, the Mother & Abattoir Worker Who Became Australia’s Worst Female Killer
0$4.99This horrific true crime work tells the story of Katherine Knight, a grandmother and slaughter house worker who became Australia’s most notorious female murderer. Author Peter Lalor covered the case for a top daily newspaper in Australia and interviewed Knight’s ex-lovers, family, friends, and a former cop who worked on the investigation to present this chilling true story.
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Court in the Middle
0$5.99From 1975 to 2001, Andrew Fraser was a leading criminal solicitor with a successful national practice. Then it all went horribly wrong. In 1999 he was charged with being knowingly concerned with the importation of a commercial quantity of cocaine. Fraser pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing, trafficking a small quantity, and using cocaine over a period of time. He was sentenced to seven years in maximum security prison. Court in the Middle describes his early yearsgrowing up in a family of lawyers, running hard to build a criminal law practice; his successful years with a national practice, and defending high profile, sometimes notorious, clients. He also discusses his relationship with cocaine, addiction and deals, crime and punishment, and the shocking details of his time spent in a maximum security prison.
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Dirty Dozen: Bodies, Bullets & Betrayal
0$5.99Bodies, Bullets and Betrayal. a sconstructs twelve of the nation’s most intriguing and hideous crime cases. A murderer reveals his motive. A’mistress, blinded by love discloses how she strangled her female rival. Police tell of the moment they were forced to shoot down desperate bandits Detectives interview prime suspects. For the first time, read the entire story of the tragic death of Maria Korp – the woman at the centre of the “Mum in the Boot” investigation. Understand a family’s pain as the “Mornington Monster” John Sharpe, admits to murdering his wife and daughter with a spear gun before dumping them in a windswept landfil. And stand witness inside the kitchen corridor of a Melbourne restaurant as local identity Dominic Gatto shoots suspected underworld hitman Andrew Veniamin in self-defence From bestselling crime writer Paul Anderson, Bodies, Bullets and Betrayal is a true fly-on-the-wall account of today’s world of crime and punishment,
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Evil Angels: The disappearance of Azaria Chamberlain
0$4.99The most important book ever written regarding our most shameful and public miscarriage of justice.
The mysterious death of nine-week-old Azaria Chamberlain near Ayers Rock in 1980 sparked the most widespread controversy ever known in Australia – and one that endures to this very day. While Azaria’s mother, Lindy, claimed a dingo had taken her baby, she was widely disbelieved. An ever news-hungry media had a field day, disseminating rumours and stirring up suspicion against a woman whose demeanour in the face of tragedy they simply could not understand.
Lindy was found guilty and jailed for life, while her husband was found to be an accessory. Two appeals were lost, but by 1986 the build-up of scientific evidence corroborating the Chamberlains’ story became so overwhelming that the Northern Territory authorities released Lindy rather than re-open the inquiry. A year later a Royal Commission granted her a pardon and in 1992 she and Michael Chamberlain received over $1 million compensation.
Evil Angels is the gripping account of the Chamberlains’ trial and its aftermath, events that shook Australia’s faith in its justice system and its media, and revealed a savage new dimension to the lucky country. Author John Bryson’s multi award-winning book is a compelling narrative of events and issues which are still with us today.
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Last King of the Cross
0$5.99John Ibrahim’s incredible life story told in his own words.
Last King of the Cross lays bare Australia’s most notorious underworld figure. Continued Below … -
Marching Powder
0$5.99The true story of an English drug-smuggler, a notorious Bolivian prison and enough cocaine to cover the Andes …
Rusty Young, a twenty-something Australian law graduate, was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, an English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia’s notorious San Pedro prison. When Rusty met Thomas, they formed a surprising yet instant friendship and then became partners in an attempt to record Thomas’s experiences in the jail. The result is one of the most compelling prison stories of all time.
Marching Powder is a shocking, sometimes darkly comic account of life in San Pedro. In this bizarre prison, inmates are expected to buy their cells from real estate agents. Others run shops and restaurants, and women and children live with imprisoned family members. Violence and crime are never far away, and the jail contains some of Bolivia’s busiest cocaine laboratories. In San Pedro, cocaine makes life bearable – even the prison cat is addicted to crack.
Yet amid, the corruption, brutality and the daily struggle for survival, Marching Powder is also the tale of an unlikely friendship, forged in the oddest of circumstances, between a drug smuggler and a lawyer. It is the story of one of the strangest places on earth, where horror is leavened by humour and where cruelty lives side by side with compassion.
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Shamed: The Honour Killing That Shocked Britain
0$5.99The courageous, inspiring story of Sarbjit Kaur Athwal, who bravely fought for justice, risking her own life, after her sister-in-law was murdered in an honor killing by her husband’s family In 1998, Sarbjit Athwal was called by her husband to attend a family meeting. It looked like just another family gathering. An attractive house in west London, a large dining room, two brothers, their mother, one wife. But the subject they were discussing was anything but ordinary. At the head of the group sat the elderly mother. She stared proudly around, smiling at her children, then raised her hand for silence. “It’s decided then,” the old lady announced. “We have to get rid of her.” “Her” was Surjit Athwal, Sarbjit’s sister-in-law. Within three weeks of that meeting, Surjit was lured from London to India, drugged, strangled, and her body dumped in the Ravi River, never to be seen again. After the killing, risking her own life, Sarbjit fought secretly for justice for nine long, scared years. Eventually, with immense bravery, she became the first person within a murderer’s family ever to go into open court in an honor killing trial as the prosecution’s key witness, and the first to waive her anonymity in such a trial. As a result of her testimony, the trial led to the first successful prosecution of an honor killing without the body ever being found. But her story doesn’t end there. Since the trial, her life has been threatened; her own husband arrested after an allegation of intimidation. This is a story of fear and of horror—but also of immense courage, and a woman who risked everything to see that justice was done.
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The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire
0$5.99On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, then sat on the roof of his house to watch the inferno. In the Valley, where the rates of crime were the highest in the state, more than thirty people were known to police as firebugs. But the detectives soon found themselves on the trail of a man they didn’t know.
The Arsonist takes readers on the hunt for this man, and inside the strange puzzle of his mind. It is also the story of fire in this country, and of a community that owed its existence to that very element. The command of fire has defined and sustained us as a species – understanding its abuse will define our future.
A powerful real-life thriller written with Hooper’s trademark lyric detail and nuance, The Arsonist is a reminder that in an age of fire, all of us are gatekeepers.
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The Crimes of Josef Fritzl: Uncovering the Truth
0$4.99The only inside account of the Fritzl case – Josef Fritzl’s horrific incarceration of his daughter in a windowless dungeon for 24 years and the seven children he fathered with her – from the journalists who helped to break the story.
Until April 19 2008, Josef Fritzl seemed like an upstanding member of the community in the Austrian town of Amstetten: an ideal father and successful businessman who had worked his way up from humble beginnings to become a role model of respectability.Yet for over two decades he had been living a double life of unimaginable and unparalleled horror. In 1984 he had drugged his 18-year-old daughter, Elisabeth, and dragged her into a purpose-made prison under the house that he had spent five years preparing. He held her captive there for 24 years and raped her frequently. Fritzl initially kept his daughter chained to a bed and forced her to re-enact scenes from pornographic films he projected in the cellar. Three months into her incarceration Elisabeth miscarried what would have been her first child. Over the next 18 years in the cellar she bore her father seven children – six of whom survived. Lisa, Monika and Alexander were taken ‘upstairs’ to live with their grandmother. Michael died after birth. Kerstin, Stefan and Felix were never to see daylight, trapped with their mother in the five-room cellar.
This bold and forensically-researched study sheds new light on the mind and the psychological development of the man who became one of the most unique and frightening criminals in history. It includes new information on the bizarre formative experiences that shaped his pathology and argues that his crimes, though unthinkable, were in many ways inevitable.
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The Mammoth Book of New CSI
0$5.99This fresh look at crime scene investigations focuses on gruesome crimes the world over. Most of the cases are modern or have recently been reopened, often as a result of advances in forensic science.
