John Kinsella via Cellnight, A Verse Book returns to the tumultuous past of Fremantle in Western Australia, at the time of the protest rallies against American nuclear warships coming into the Port town. Kinsella jarringly opens the pages with the arrest and bashing...
Although Operation Jungle may well read like a bit of fantasy it is the absolute truth; a truth that is without precedent in the Federal Bureau of Narcotics about a drug bust in the far reaches of far North Queensland that was to destroy John Shobbrook’s career but...
My life as a tactical cop. The impact. The aftermath. In his second book Gun to the Head, Keith Banks opens up a world of policing, corruption, bravery and challenge, based on his twenty years as a serving officer with the Queensland Police Force. Each aspect of his...
Touted as the best of the best from crime writer Michael Robotham, When you are mine is a standalone thriller that focuses on the dark side of obsession, passion and revenge. A Crime Boss, a mistress, a police woman and an investigative journalist forms the basis for...
Unlike today when it is a struggle to find an ATM, let alone an actual bank, the period of the late 1960’s to the end of 1990’s saw Bank branches sprout on almost every high street corner. Hence it is not surprising that it became the ‘Golden Age of Armed...
Murder and disappearances occur on a daily basis. Some never reported and many reported but with little or no end results. How do the Police, when all else fails go about moving on, eventually looking into the issue as a cold case and occasionally being able to...
Ms Janik has found a fascinating topic which encompasses many areas of female involvement in crime fighting. She has looked at early police women and also female fiction characters fighting crime and how they emerged. The author compares fiction female crime fighters...
