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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
Format(s) : ePub
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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
Format(s) : ePub
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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
Format(s) : ePub
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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
Format(s) : ePub
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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
Format(s) : ePub
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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
Format(s) : ePub
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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
Format(s) : ePub
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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
Format(s) : ePub
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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
Format(s) : ePub
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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
Format(s) : ePub
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A riveting true-life tale of newspaper noir and Japanese organised crime from an American investigative journalist. Now a Max Original Series on HBO Max----------EITHER ERASE THE STORY, OR WE'LL ERASE YOU. AND MAYBE YOUR FAMILY. BUT WE'LL DO THEM FIRST, SO YOU LEARN...
Editeur : Corsair
Parution : 2010-07-08
Format(s) : ePub
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The name Reggie Kray remains synonymous with London's East End to this day, and yet although much is known about Reg and his brother Ronnie's life of crime in the '50s and '60s, to date precious little has been revealed about their formative years. Reggie wrote his EAST...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2010-07-01
Format(s) : ePub
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"I share the country's admiration for the bravery of Captain Phillips and his selfless concern for his crew. His courage is a model for all Americans." --President Barack Obama In this inspiration for the major motion picture Captain Phillips starring Tom...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2010-04-06
Format(s) : ePub
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You couldn't make it up: incredible real-life criminal casesA fascinating A-Z of murderous crimes which spans the globe and the centuries in uncovering the extremes of human criminality in all its strangeness.This collection of unusual, if not sensational, murder cases...
Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2010-03-25
Collection :
Mammoth Books
Format(s) : ePub
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Political idealism? Financial reward? The thrill of the chase? What drives a person to risk their life by entering the deadly world of high-level espionage? A unique investigation of the most important cases of the twentieth century, this exploration of the world’s...
Editeur : Summersdale
Parution : 2010-03-01
Format(s) : ePub
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**Now a major Netflix film directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci and Harvey Keitel**~The Irishman is an epic saga of organised crime in post-war America told through the eyes of World War II veteran Frank Sheeran, a hustler and...
Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton
Parution : 2010-02-18
Format(s) : ePub
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Dr Harold Shipman told his unsuspecting patients he was conducting blood tests as he injected them with a massive dose of heroin; they were dead within minutes. Before his trial, many assumed he was an over-zealous GP who went too far in providing comfort to dying...
Editeur : Summersdale
Parution : 2010-01-04
Format(s) : ePub
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'Death is my beat.' Those words, spoken by the narrator and hero of The Poet, Jack McEvoy, could also apply to Michael Connelly. Time and time again in these riveting true crime, non-fiction pieces, we make the connection between Connelly the crime reporter and Connelly...
Editeur : Orion
Parution : 2009-12-23
Format(s) : ePub
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'A fascinating look behind closed lock-up doors'Evening StandardEast End Gangland is a true crime classic, now updated and expanded. Bestselling author James Morton tracks the changing face of the East End from the 1870s to now, through opium dens and racecourse gangs,...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2009-12-03
Format(s) : ePub
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Growing up in Tarpon Springs, Florida - the seaside headquarters of the Greek mafia - Kevin Cunningham fell in love with Greek culture and hoped to become part of it. But when he was seventeen his world turned upside-down: from his deathbed, the man he'd always called...
Editeur : Sphere
Parution : 2009-11-05
Format(s) : ePub
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