Penguin Books Australia

In the summer of 1933 an amazing group of chancers, misfits and psychopaths took to the American road. Fuelled by the Depression, fast cars and cheap guns, these freelance gangsters terrorized a vast swathe of banks and drugstores across the Midwest. Bonnie and Clyde, Dillinger, Machine Gun Kelly, Baby Face Nelson, the Barker gang, Pretty Boy Floyd and others went on a crime spree that turned them...

'Incredibly involving and well-written. If you love mysteries of any sort, and learning about how crimes are solved and the people dedicated to solving them, you will want this book' 
Wired

Too many murders go unsolved. So a trio of detectives - a renowned former FBI agent, a forensic sculptor and a brilliant profiler - decided to do something about it. They created the Vidocq Society, an exclusive...

Discover the theories and facts surrounding the Whitechapel murders in David Rumbelow's The Complete Jack the Ripper . . . It is 1888 in London's Whitechapel district, where one by one a group of prostitutes are brutally murdered. Opium smoking Inspector Fred Abberline is called upon to investigate these horrific murders and through his visions track down and trap Jack the Ripper.

Dying for a deal: inside the shadowy, sinister, $38 billion world of terrorists and 'organized retail crime.'

The indispensable 'due diligence' guide to investigating potential investment partners, financial advisors, hedge funds, and M+A targets.

Consuming Pleasures traces the international and Australian history of licit and illicit drug use.

It examines why we consume and what we consume, as well as the way in which consumption is regulated in the era of global free trade.

An enthralling anthology of 18th-century writings that gives a fascinating insight into the dreadful misdeeds of - and the horrible punishments meeted out to - an array of rogues and criminals, from murderers and swindlers to prostitutes and pirates.  Captured in memoirs, letters, ballads and court transcripts are some of the most colourful villains ever to take their last gasp at the hangman's...

Would you go to the gates of Hell for your job?

American Federal Agent Jay 'Bird' Dobyns did.

For nearly two years, Dobyn's infiltrated the world's most notorious biker gang—the Hells Angels.

An undercover agent for the US government, Bird left his family behind and immersed himself in the Angels' seductive web of organised crime, violence and brotherhood. But all along, whether on the open road...

' Whatever it takes to get those bastards. The true nature of our Faustian bargain would not become clear until later, and maybe it needed a journalist as steely and tenacious as Jane Mayer to give us the full picture. 'The Dark Side' is about how the war on terror became 'a war on American ideals,' and Mayer gives this story all the weight and sorrow it deserves. Many books get tagged with the word...

The border between the United States and Mexico is a no-man's land. Drugs, guns, and human beings are the cargo of choice in a multi-billion dollar illegal empire dominated by powerful cartels, murderous street gangs, and corrupt government officials.

Against them stand the Special Agents of the United States Customs Service—men and women who fight to uphold the law and protect the U.S. on both...

'Dick became convinced that Perry was that rarity, 'a natural killer'- absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows'

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children were found brutally murdered. Blood all over the walls, the telephone lines cut, and only a few dollars...

'HE WAS A MONSTER . . . WHO COULD BE CHARMING AT FIRST'

On 23 Jun 2011 the convicted double-murderer Levi Bellfield was found guilty of the murder of 13-year-old school girl Milly Dowler.

THE DETECTIVES OF THE NEW ZEALAND POLICE CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION BRANCH (CIB) ARE CHARGED WITH INVESTIGATING AND SOLVING SERIOUS CRIME.

To outsmart and defeat New Zealand's hardened organised crime rings, the CIB employ the most sophisticated techniques and technologies available.  But at the end of the day, fighting crime demands an unflinching commitment to the case and an old-fashioned nose...