Journalist Karen Kissane follows the accused into the courtroom, telling the inside story of one of Australia’s most controversial trials and the marriage at its centre. A compelling combination of great writing, true crime and courtroom drama.Julie and Jamie Ramage...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2011-02-01

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Charles 'Lucky' Luciano was a vicious mobster who rose to become the multimillionaire king of the New York underworld. He was a legend - but also a fake master criminal without real power, his reputation manipulated and maintained by the government agents who had put...

Editeur : Mainstream Digital
Parution : 2011-01-31

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Operation Kronstadt not only reveals the early days of Britain's intelligence services but uncovers a truly dramatic story from the Russian Revolution involving a daring rescue attempt and a 'mission impossible' against the best defended naval target in Russia. By May...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-01-31

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The true stories behind some of the most shocking assassinations in recent history.We live in a new age of political assassination; within our lifetimes all the senior members of the UN Security Council have used it as an extension of political policy in all corners of...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2011-01-27
Collection : Brief Histories
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WINNER OF THE GOLD DAGGER AWARD FOR CRIME NON-FICTIONThe definitive, Sunday Times bestselling true story of serial-killer Dennis Nilsen and the murders he committed, written with Nilsen's full cooperation.‘A seminal look into the criminal mind’ Daily Mail‘An important...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2011-01-25

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Edwardian London in 1910, the notorious tale of Dr Crippen and Ethel Le Neve re-investigated by a prizewinning journalist.At a time whenEdwardian Britain seemed a golden place, basking in its imperial glory, Dr Hawley Harvey Crippen and his wife Belle lived among the...

Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2010-11-25

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NOW A MAJOR TELEVISION SERIESThey call Adelaide the city of churches. What they forget is that every church has a graveyard - and every graveyard is full of skeletons.Adelaide, an elegantly designed, civilised city, where the inhabitants are known for their love of the...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2010-11-01

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'the best Kelly biography by a country mile' - The AustralianThe definitive biography of Ned Kelly - and a superb description of his times. A bestseller since it was first published, Ned Kelly: A Short Life is acknowledged as being the definitive biography. Ian Jones...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2010-11-01

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Gripping accounts of some of Australia’s worst murder cases – and insights into the men and women who committed the crimes.Why do some people cross the threshold from rational behaviour to cold blooded murder?What could motivate a mother to kill her own children? How...

Editeur : Hachette Australia
Parution : 2010-11-01

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Meet Pete Razanskas, 22-year veteran homicide cop and Marcella Winn, a rookie detective who grew up in the 'hood. They're an unlikely partnership whose job it is to attempt to close some of the hundreds of murder cases that happen every year in the gang-infested streets...

Editeur : Ebury Digital
Parution : 2010-10-31

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Can Fandorin infiltrate a secret society to save Moscow's youth? A dark and decadent detective story from the master of Russian crime fiction.There's been rising concern in Moscow over a wave of suicides among the city's young bohemians. An intrepid newspaper reporter,...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-09-30
Collection : Erast Fandorin Mysteries
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See No Evil is the astonishing and controversial memoir from one of the CIA's top field officers of the past quarter century. Robert Baer recounts his career as a ground soldier in the CIA's war on terrorism, running agents in the back alleys of the Middle East, with...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-09-30

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Strange Trade tells the compelling stories of Mary, a Liberian drug courier with a college education, and Pauline, a Ugandan wife, mother, and drug cartel boss. A leading expert on women and organized crime, Asale Angel-Ajani spent years interviewing these women in...

Editeur : Seal Press
Parution : 2010-09-28

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The remarkable and shocking true account of the kidnap of Natascha Kampusch in 1998, who shares her deeply moving story. On 2 March 1998 ten-year-old Natascha Kampusch was snatched off the street by a stranger and bundled into a white van. When she emerged from her...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2010-09-16

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Ever since the Kray twins invited John Pearson to write their 'official' biography more than forty years ago, he has been obsessed with them. After they were jailed in 1969 for thirty years for murder, Pearson's biography The Profession of Violence enjoyed a cult...

Editeur : Cornerstone Digital
Parution : 2010-09-02

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Mexico, April 2009. The bodies of a pair of undercover military intelligence agents, disguised as campesinos (farmers), are dumped by the side of the road. Beside the corpses is a message on a scrap of paper: 'You'll never get El Chapo.' Such is the fate of many who...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2010-09-02

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Coinciding with Pope Benedict XVIs state visit to the UK in September 2010. David Yallop, author of In God's Name, looks at the current news stories concerning widespread child abuse by priests and shows how the Vatican is not telling the full story.Praise for In God's...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2010-08-26
Collection : Tom Thorne Novels
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Canine conspiracies, spurned lovers, murderous greed, jealousy, politics, power and knitting: Pelagia and the White Bulldog marks the beginning of an addictively entertaining new crime series from the internationally bestselling author, Boris Akunin.In the dying days of...

Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-08-12

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As a gun-wielding bank robber, Noel 'Razor' Smith was top of the criminal tree, enjoying the excitement and benefits of a dangerous and adrenalin-filled career. But he'd also spent the greater part of his adult life in prison, an environment where respect and basic...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2010-07-29

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The inspiration for a major new BBC TV series,The Interceptor is Cam Addicott's true story of life undercover.Fighting on the frontline of the war against crime, Cam Addicott was one of the very few hard-boiled and highly-experienced surveillance operatives to get...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2010-07-08

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