Once Upon a Cowpat: Stories from the Back Country

(Paperback)

Country folk have their own way of doing things and their own sense of humour too. They are naturally wary of men in suits and university types, and such people have to be put to the test before they can be accepted. They are not too keen on new-fangled ways of doing things either; a meal of mountain oysters is....

Helen: The Helen Meads Tragedy

On the morning of 23 September 2009 Helen Meads was murdered by her husband Greg at the stables on their Matamata farm. It was the final chapter in years of control and abuse. Here, Helen's father David White describes the events of that day, and what led to it, and tells of the ordeals that a family is subjected to....

Trial by Ambush: The Prosecutions of David Bain

By Joe Karam(Paperback)

At 7.09 a.m. on 20 June 1994, David Bain called emergency services and reported finding his entire family of five dead. A year later he was convicted of having murdered them in cold blood, with determination and cunning. He was sentenced to life in prison.

Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury Earthquake

(Paperback)

'It was all so sudden. Twenty seconds and then silence. I started calling out, 'Can anyone hear me?' - nothing but silence. Over the next few hours I heard hysterical sobbing and people clapping as others were rescued. I could hear engines, drilling and what sounded like sledgehammers ...when the sounds went away I worried they weren't coming back.'....

So Brilliantly Clever: Parker, Hulme and the Murder That Shocked the World

By Peter Graham(Paperback)

The brutal, premeditated murder of Honorah Parker in 1954 in a lonely park by her 16-year-old daughter Pauline and Pauline's 15-year-old friend Juliet Hulme made shock headlines around the world. International media flocked to New Zealand to follow the trial. Still today, the murder remains one of the most interesting criminal cases of all time, and a source of intense....

Breaking the Silence: The Kahui Case

By Ian Wishart(Paperback)

The explosive story of what really happened to the Kahui twins.

Sophie's Legacy: The Sophie Elliott Story

By Lesley Elliott(Trade paperback)

Sophie Elliott had everything to live for - good looks, intelligence, friends, a loving family, a degree under her belt and a new job at the Treasury in Wellington. And then, the day before she left Dunedin to take up that job, she was brutally stabbed to death in her own home by her former boyfriend, Clayton Weatherston. He was....

Expert Witness

By Anna Sandiford(B-format paperback)

Forensic scientists are crime-solving sleuths producing slam-dunk evidence and tidy endings all in a day’s work … because being a forensic scientist is just like it is on the television, isn’t it? In fact, it’s so much more than this. From examining illegal drugs to collecting pollen samples from corpses, an independent forensic scientist reveals her fascinating world in this....

NZ Detectives: True Stories from the New Zealand Police Criminal Investigation Branch

By John Lockyer(Paperback)

Following on from the successful documentary series Undercover and Line of Fire this will also be a three-part series to screen on TV1 and will reveal the undisclosed world of the Criminal Investigation Branch of the NZ Police.

Riding by Faith Through New Zealand: Riding by Faith

By Tracey Elliot-Reep(Paperback)

Sensing Murder

By Nicola McCloy & Ninox Television(Paperback)

The book of the TV2 series Sensing Murder, with special focus on additional information never previously aired. Psychic mediums from New Zealand and Australia are challenged to uncover fresh leads in some of New Zealand's most chilling unsolved murder cases. Armed with only a photo of the victim, and with no previous knowledge of the case, the mediums use only....

Still Missing

By Scott Bainbridge(Paperback)

Each year hundreds of New Zealanders mysteriously go missing, vanishing from their homes and families, their cars and workplaces seemingly without a trace. Many will remember the publicity surrounding particular cases, but this book gives insider information into the background of all involved, the searches, suspicions, police theories, photos and other evidence.

Ngati Dread: Footsteps of Fire

By Angus Gillies(Paperback)

When you talk about terrorism, most people in New Zealand think about problems overseas. But those in Gisborne and the East Coast merely cast their minds back twenty years to the Ruatoria Troubles. From 1985 until 1990 the township was terrorised by a Maori sect calling itself The Rastafarians. Their story is one of the most bizarre chapters in modern....

Hammy's Gold: Prospecting Yarns of the Wakatipu

By Alan Hamilton(Paperback)

A collection of prospecting yarns of the Wakatipu & Western Australia.

Invisible Evidence: Forensics in New Zealand

By Bill O'Brien(Paperback)

Examine the Forensic Files. Where New Zealand case studies, both historic and recent, provide fascinating glimpses into crime investigation. With chapters devoted to different forensic disciplines including fingerprint identification systems, electronic crime lab work, isotopic analysis and forensic mapping, palynology (pollen analysis), ballistics, blood spatter patterns, document examination, forensic photography, toxicology, cyber crime and the latest techniques utilizing DNA analysis.

Vile Crimes: The Timaru Poisonings

By Peter Graham(Paperback)

A riveting examination of one of New Zealand's most sensational court cases of its day: the 1886 trial of Tom Hall for attempting to murder his wife Kitty by poison, and the murder of his father-in-law, Captain Henry Cain. A portrait of scandal in a newly emerging colonial society.

Mud Beneath My Boots: Private Coley's War

By Allan Marriott(Paperback)

Tells the story of a young New Zealander in the trenches from two perspectives - the raw, vulnerable boy and the seasoned man - providing a unique insight into one of the blackest periods of our history.

My Home Now: Migrants and Refugees Tell Their Stories

(Paperback)

Fifty highly readable, often startling, short interviews.

War and Pieces

By Miles Spence(Paperback)

War and Pieces is an autobiographical third-person account of one man's experiences in the Navy during the Second World War. John Pilgrim enlists for the Navy because "If the world was about to end he wanted to go out with his guns blazing". His training, first at Devonport naval base, later near Wellington, is interspersed with stories of mateship, chasing....

Broken Angels: A Mother's Story of Triumph Over Tragedy

(Paperback)

Drama and tragedy have pursued Nancye O'Reilly throughout her life. Adopted as a baby and sexually abused from a young age, in 1980 she discovered her daughter Alicia had been raped and murdered in her own home overnight. Then, in 1987 her older daughter was killed in a car crash and two years later a third daughter died after childbirth.