Sorted on book title (not in series order)
From the bizarre to the brutal to the unbelievable, truth is often stranger than fiction, as these fascinating true stories testify.
Vikki Petraitis spent hundreds of hours interviewing police - and even accompanying them on active duty - to compile this collection of stories...Read more
A fingerprint identifies a serial poisoner, a strange indentation in a caravan panel proves a hit-run driver's guilt, and a mass DNA screening flushes out a brutal criminal. Vikki Petraitis has interviewed Australian police from Forensics, Fingerprints, Criminal Investigation Units and...Read more
Most Australians are murdered by someone they know. Usually by someone in their own family.
Killer in the Family explores more than twenty cases where families have been torn apart by murder.
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
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
It's chilling to think that there are women amongst us who kill simply because they can.
Women Who Kill explores more than a dozen cases of murder in Australia and New Zealand where women have taken the lives of loved ones and total strangers for the thrill of it.Read more