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Scandals, cover-ups and lies – uncover the truth with our recommended true crime reads.
Michelle McNamara
A masterful true crime account of the Golden State Killer - the elusive serial rapist turned murderer who terrorised California for over a decade - from Michelle McNamara, the gifted…
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Hallie Rubenhold
The victims of Jack the Ripper finally get their full stories told.
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Maggie Nelson
In 1969, Jane Mixer, a first-year law student at the University of Michigan, posted a note on a student noticeboard to share a lift back to her hometown of Muskegon…
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Ann Rule
The international true crime classic More than 2 million copies sold in the English language alone
Ronan Farrow
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at…
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John Shobbrook
A gripping blend of memoir, true crime and corruption in the tropics.
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John Carreyrou
The shocking true story of the biggest corporate fraud since Enron, a gripping cautionary tale set amid the bold promises and gold-rush frenzy of Silicon Valley.
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John Berendt
John Berendt’s sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative reads like a thoroughly engrossing novel, and yet it is a work of nonfiction. Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account…
Chloe Hooper
The story of Palm Island, the tropical paradise where one morning Cameron Doomadgee swore at a policeman and forty minutes later lay dead in a watch-house cell. It is the…
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David Simon
The bestselling true crime classic from the creator of The Wire
Helen Garner
In October 1997, a clever young student at the ANU murdered her boyfriend. She and her best friend were later charged with murder. Garner followed the trial in the ACT…
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Ian Urbina
The Outlaw Ocean is a riveting, adrenalin-fuelled tour of a vast, lawless and rampantly criminal world that few have ever seen: the high seas. The oceans are some of the…
Jodi Kantor, Megan Twohey
On 5 October 2017, the New York Times published an article by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey that helped change the world.
Hollywood was talking as never before. Kantor and…
Truman Capote
Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is both a masterpiece of journalism and a powerful crime thriller.
Megan Norris
Eleven-year-old Stefanie Hinrichs came to Australia looking for paradise -and found herself trapped in the marriage from Hell.
In 1994, Stefanie Hinrichs dreamed of owning a horse, leaving school and…
Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
The shocking true story of the Manson murders, revealed in this harrowing, often terrifying book.
Patrick Radden Keefe
The story of the Sackler dynasty, their company Purdue Pharma, its bestselling drug OxyContin, their immensely generous philanthropy and their involvement in the opioid crisis.
Erik Larson
He used the attraction of the great fair - and his own devilish charms - to lure scores of young women to their deaths. These two disparate but driven men…
