Sorted on book title (not in series order)
On 10 November 1984, Laurie Tanner came home to his farmhouse in rural Victoria and found Jenny, his wife, dead, her hand wrapped around the barrel of a bolt-action rifle. Her death was viewed as suicide. In 1996 Robin Bowles, a Melbourne company director, heard about a special taskforce...Read more
Meet Cornelia Finnigan, the loudest, loveliest and luckiest PI around.
With a swagger, a smile and a slash of lipstick she takes on the mystery of a torched Ferrari, investigates the case of the poisoned Pekinese puppies and stumbles into the world of missing persons, drug deals...Read more
Well you just knew it had to happen - an Australian crime fiction book complete with recipes. And a VW named Henry, a Rottweiler named Kissiface, a cop named Riley, a purveyor of fine foods named Romeo, a canary named Groucho and a PI named Cornelia. Cornelia starts off life as chief cook...Read more
When British tourist Peter Falconio disappeared in the centre of Australia on July 14, 2001, it made front page news around the world. A man had driven past his car, telling him there were sparks coming from the back of his van. Peter Falconio got out of the car to inspect. It was the last...Read more
On 2 December 2010, the body of a 24-year-old woman was found at the bottom of the rubbish chute in the luxury Balencea tower apartments in St Kilda Road, Melbourne, twelve floors below the apartment she had shared with her boyfriend, Antony Hampel.
Within minutes, the sound of...Read more
Interesting case, with a fair recall of the facts / conclusions left to the reader, not well-served by the authors constant pushing of themselves into the narrative for no apparent reason.Read more
In June 1997, in the Victorian industrial town of Moe, toddler Jaidyn Leske went missing. The child's body was found in a local dam many months later. Jaidyn's babysitter on the night he went missing, Greg Domaszewicz was charged with murder but was a acquitted by a jury.
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Just where is justice in Australia hiding? This brilliant new collection of true crime stories takes us into the Australian courts of the 1980s and '90s, back in time to the goldfields of the 1860's, and out to the island nation of Nauru in 2006 to explore how the scales of justice are...Read more
One of the principles of a strong democracy (and hence a strong justice system) has to be the right to scrutinise decisions made in our collective name.
MEANER THAN FICTION is one such book - with a series of individual writers looking at a range of cases over the years that...Read more
Cornelia Finnigan, the loudest, loveliest and luckiest PI, is back - smarter, brighter and funnier than ever.
Having recovered from her near fatal run-in with a novice nun, Cornelia is the lucky recipient of a stunning porcelain horse. Funny that it looks just like the one the...Read more
The great thing about the Australian Crime Fiction scene these days is there is a book for just about every sort of reader. THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING MASTERPIECE (and the earlier book THE CURSE OF THE GOLDEN YO-YO) are the sort of books that may appeal to people who like their crime on...Read more
The discovery of a transsexual skeleton in a deserted mineshaft in Bonnie Doon, Victoria in June 1996 sparked a renewed police investigation into the death of country housewife Jenny Tanner, who had allegedly committed suicide less than 2km from the mineshaft. The sensational discovery also...Read more
This is the story of the life of Adele Baily, her death and the connection between the location of her body and the house in which Jenny Tanner died. Victorians, in particular, will probably be well aware of the case of the supposed suicide of Jenny Tanner - who supposedly shot herself in...Read more
In Outside the Law 2 some of our best crime writers take you on a trip into the shadows of Australian society. You’ll meet crooks who just can’t help themselves; killers with twisted logic or hearts of darkness; and cops who daily walk the thinnest of lines to keep them at bay, and away...Read more
I often wonder why authors get involved in True Crime writing. Surely there must be a component of it that's just soul destroying. Writing about the sad, mad, bad, idiot, evil, opportunist criminals who commit the most senseless acts. Then again, there are a lot of us that read True...Read more
Take a walk outside the law with some of Australia's best crime writers. Investigate the criminals who deal in murder, drugs and kidnapping; the cops who track them down; and the journalists who report their stories.Read more
Every year in Australia, there are a lot of true crime books released. The OUTSIDE THE LAW series from Five Mile Press is now up to number 3, edited by Lindy Cameron, released in August 2009. It includes an interesting forward from the editor where she says (amongst other things):...Read more
Rough Justice: Unanswered Questions from the Australian Courts examines the question at the heart of our criminal justice system - what happens when our courts get it wrong?
Why is former Victorian police sargeant Denis Tanner a free man if the Victorian state coroner...Read more
ROUGH JUSTICE comes from that section of True Crime books which include telling the story of particular cases, and then analysing aspects of those cases.
As with all these sorts of books whether or not it will work for the reader depends on a number of highly subjective...Read more
Stuart Rattle and Michael O’Neill were the perfect couple. Country boys from working-class backgrounds, they were bon vivants and lovers, the envy of all their gay friends—until tragedy struck.
Stuart Rattle was at the peak of his design career, feted and entertained by hosts...Read more
Imagine the shock of returning home from work to discover your partner has left you and taken your child or children. On 11 March 1999 it happened to Robin Bowles' son - his own son illegally taken to France by the French-born mother. "Taken in Contempt" is the extraordinary account, not...Read more