Curated List of Crime Books
Browse gripping crime stories crafted with detail, depth, and a true investigative tone.
Our Catalogue of True Crime Books
The Tainted Cross
The Oxley & Gatton Murders Unveiled is a Murder Trails Series true crime casebook. Gatton was a close-knit rural community. Violent crime was unheard of. That innocence ended on Boxing Day night in 1898, when three members of the Murphy family met with murder.
Horse Tracks & Stirrup Irons
Death Comes to Ebenezer details the events of a cold winter's night in 1926, when a young girl stood at a crossroads waiting for her lover.
Boggo Road Gaol
ESCAPES Volume One is a comprehensive collection of the thirteen gaol-breaks between 1883 & 1949.Boggo Road Gaol - ESCAPES Volume One is extensively researched and includes over 50 original images, many never before published, revealing the criminal characters who pitted their minds and wits against the system to regain freedom at any cost.
Overture to Death
Coming Soon
Sydney, 1940. In a prestigious suburb, a young woman is discovered strangled and left in the wild bushland, her killer never found. Police investigations hint at a tragic fascination; perhaps she sought to emulate the glamorous victims from the crime stories she adored. No justice was served and for Betty no peace found. A true crime journey across continents ends in heartbreak, as a life full of promise is claimed by an unknown hand.
About Me
Caroline Stevenson is a social worker who advocates for the most vulnerable people in the community. She is passionate about social history and believes that true crime is a method of storytelling that shows us the most about ourselves. It reveals the way society thinks changes over time and provides valuable warnings about the link between crime and societal values. She lives in regional Queensland in an old Queenslander appropriately nicknamed “Crimewriter Cottage.”