Crime : True Crime

On 24 September, 2002, Queensland mother Dianne Brimble was found dead on the floor of a cabin on the cruise ship Pacific Sky, less than 24 hours into what was to be the holiday of a lifetime. The cabin belonged to four men from Adelaide who were part of a group of eight colourful characters, whom the media would later describe as the most hated men in Australia. Within hours of Dianne Brimble's death it emerged that she had been showered and dressed before medical help was called. Soon there were rumours of drug use and group sex, which grew into allegations of rape and murder. P&O personnel failed to secure the cabin, allowing the men back in to collect their belongings thus making the truth even more difficult to determine. A police investigation, a high-profile inquest, a grieving family and a criminal trial probed what went on in those few crucial early morning hours ending in her death. This extraordinary case, which captivated Australia, highlights the lines between criminal and moral responsibility and how easily things can get out of hand when care is abandoned.

ISBN: 9781741754544
Title: ABANDONED DEATH OF DIANNE BRIMBLE
Author: JACOBSEN GEESCHE
Year: 1010
Publication date: 01/10/2010
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Publishing status: ACTIVE
Price: $29.99
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Imprint: ALLEN & UNWIN
True stories
Pages: 324
Dimension: 195mm X 130mm

ISBN: 9781742370026
Title: ABOVE LAW TP HOW OUTLAW MOTORCYCLE GANGS BECAME WORLDS CRIMINAL EMPIRE
Author: COULHART & MCNAB
Year: 0810
Publication date: 01/08/2010
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Price: $34.99
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Imprint: ALLEN & UNWIN
True stories
Pages: 328
Dimension: 234mm X 153mm

As dawn broke over the vast desert, the body was still hanging beneath the overpass, having been suspended from it - decapitated and dangling by a rope tied around the armpits - at 4.30am. The sun rose about two hours after it had been suspended from the concrete 'Bridge of Dreams', throwing rays like firelight across rush-hour traffic and discarded American school buses carrying workers to sweatshop factories. And it was still there another hour later - swaying, headless, hands cuffed behind its back, in the cold early morning wind of Ciudad Ju rez, the most dangerous city in the Americas, probably the world.' Amexica tells the harrowing story of the extraordinary terror unfolding along the US-Mexico border - 'a country in its own right, which belongs to both the US and Mexico, yet neither' - as the narco-war escalates to a fever pitch there. In over twenty years as a journalist at the Guardian and the Observer, Ed has covered organized crime in Italy, the war in Bosnia, and the aftermath of 9/11 in America, and Iraq. He has been a war reporter all over the world, and yet nowhere more has the violence commanded such revulsion and compulsion as it does along the borderline. 'The borderline has always drawn me in, and never lets me go - not least because it is a land of such dichotomy and contrast - of love and violence, tribulation and opportunity.' The book documents a kind of road trip that Vulliamy undertakes in mid-2009 along the border itself - from the Pacific coast to the Gulf of Mexico - Tijuana to Brownsville. Along the way, facets of the crisis - police corruption and the system of 'plazas'; the smuggling of people, weapons and drugs back and forth across the border; middle-class flight from Mexico as violence escalates; the interrelated economies of drugs and the 'Maquiladora' factories; the harrowing, systematic murders of young women in Juarez; the insatiable market for drugs inside and outside of Mexico - are illuminated through everyday people and places. This is the story of a place and people in time of war as much as the war itself. Vulliamy paints a street-level portrait of a place, shows us the institutional roots of the chaos and violence that plagues it, and makes us care about its very survival.

ISBN: 9781847921291
Title: AMEXICA
Author: VULLIAMY ED
Publication date: 01/12/2010
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Publishing status: ACTIVE
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Imprint: RANDOM HOUSE

These riveting Australian stories cover over 100 years of infamous crimes.

ISBN: 9781741104943
Title: ANOTHER 12 CRIMES THAT SHOCKED THENATION
Author: WHITICKER ALAN
Publication date: 01/07/2007
Price: $24.95
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Weight: 352gr
Dimension: 235mm X 155mm

ISBN: 9781742662435
Title: AUSTRALIAN BOOK OF FAMILY MURDERS
Author: LEWIS WENDY
Year: 2011
Publication date: 01/12/2011
Price: $29.99
Imprint: PIER 9 MRD

ISBN: 9781742571171
Title: AUSTRALIAN CRIME
Author: BROWN MALCOLM
Year: 1011
Publication date: 01/10/2011
Price: $29.99
Imprint: NEW HOLLAND PRESS

ISBN: 9781742611440
Title: AUSTRALIAS SERIAL KILLERS
Author: KIDD PAUL B
Year: 2011
Publication date: 01/08/2011
Price: $22.99
Imprint: PAN

ISBN: 9781743314012
Title: BABY FARMERS MISSING BABIES SHAMEFUL SECRETS & MURDER 19TH CENT AUST
Author: COSSINS ANNIE
Year: 0613
Publication date: 01/06/2013
Price: $29.99
Imprint: ALLEN & UNWIN

ISBN: 9781743312964
Title: BAD TRUE STORY OF PERISH BROTHERS
Author: DUFFY MICHAEL
Year: 0912
Publication date: 01/09/2012
Price: $29.99
Imprint: ALLEN & UNWIN