What's new? Our selectors have hand-picked the top new additions to the Christchurch City Libraries collection for espionage, crime, murder, and everything in between.
In this groundbreaking new book from the UK's leading criminologist, David Wilson explores what our nation's most lethal murderers reveal about us in a thrilling blend of history and true crime. Ranging from the crimes of Jack the Ripper and the…
A riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II, uncovers how an unlikely heroine, Rose Valland, infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the cultural legacy of the West. At every stage of World War II, Valland was front and center, came…
How are people like you and me brainwashed into cults? Liz Camaron takes us behind the scenes to show how cults operate in plain sight and how we can unpick the systems that enable them to prey on vulnerable people. This powerful, candid memoir…
Eighteen missing people, multiple families grieving, and one person looking for answers in this forensic and moving re-examination of some of Australia's most heartbreaking missing persons cases. Of the 38,000 missing persons reported each year,…
A no-holds-barred memoir about identity, from a former Hostage Rescue Team sniper who left the FBI on 9-11 only to lose himself, moving deeper into a world of spies. In September 2001, Christopher Whitcomb was the most visible FBI agent in the…
In this intimate and harrowing memoir, a former Chinese gang member tells the story of how he went from "bad to blue" by leaving the gang behind and becoming a New York City police detective. Anyone identifying him as a former gang member could…
After surviving a series of personal tragedies, Alison Marsh made a life-altering decision; building on her strong sense of justice and desire to help people, she thrust herself into the thrilling and often-strange world of private investigations -…
In March 1978, the Red Brigades kidnapped former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, murdering his bodyguards. For nearly two months, they held him hostage, before eventually killing him and dumping his body in the middle of Rome. But who were this…
Fuelled by the widespread immiseration caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and facilitated by the boom in cryptocurrencies, online frauds have grown exponentially in recent years. Who is behind these operations? How do people end up in them? How is…
The Mission' tells the gripping, high-stakes story of the CIA through the first quarter of the twenty-first century, revealing how the agency fought to rebuild the espionage powers it lost during the war on terror - and finally succeeded in…
On a thrilling whistle-stop tour of how the world's criminal underbelly has shaped state-making, capitalism, globalisation and all forms of so-called legitimate power, 'Homo Criminalis' shows the emergence of modern society through the evolution of…
By the early 1990s, Colombia's Cali cartel had become what the former head of the DEA Thomas Constantine referred to as "The biggest and most powerful crime syndicate in history." Responsible for nearly 85% of the cocaine that reached U.S. soil and…
The extraordinary story of the theft of priceless Chinese antiques around the world and the connection to crimes spanning more than two centuries-with present-day implications.The Great Chinese Art Heist is a sweeping narrative filled with the…
With their book 'The Idaho Four', James Patterson and Vicky Ward have written a disturbing, necessary portrait of a killer and his victims. The book reveals new details and attempt to lift the veil of secrecy that has shrouded the Idaho college…
A deeply researched history of assassination in the modern world, from Franz Ferdinand to Osama bin Laden. In this incisive new history, Simon Ball shows how targeted political murder has become a tool of democratic states but also a key strategy of…
Attorney Chris Franzblau spent more than seventy years representing and socializing with some of the most notorious figures in organized crime. 'The Last Mob Lawyer' explores his seventy-year career working at the intersection of organized crime,…
Diagnosed with PTSD in 2021, Justyn wrote this memoir as an honest exploration of the psychological scars that come with being a first responder. As PTSD silently takes root, Justyn confronts the relentless impact of trauma on his work, family, and…
In 'The Spider', Barry Levine shines a light into the darkest corners of Jeffrey Epstein's world, including his young adulthood and earliest accusations of sexual misconduct, the murky sources of his fortune and business dealing and his circle of…
