12 must-read true crime books like Death Row at Truro: The shocking true story of Australia's deadliest sex killers by Geoff Plunkett

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Death Row at Truro: The shocking true story of Australia's deadliest sex killers

By: Geoff Plunkett

4.09

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for Australia's best True Crime book of the year, 2023 (Ned Kelly Award - Australian Cr…

If you liked the true crime plot in Death Row at Truro: The shocking true story of Australia's deadliest sex killers by Geoff Plunkett , here is a list of 12 books like this:

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1. Small Sacrifices

By: Ann Rule

4.25

Format: 496 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ann Rule's shocking and powerful account of the destructive forces that drove Diane Downs, a beauti… read more

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  • true crime
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2. The Family Court Murders

By: Debi Marshall

3.41

Format: None pages, Paperback

4 murders. 5 bombings. And no one charged. This is the definitive story of the Family Court Murders… read more

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3. A Thief in the Night: Life and Death in the Vatican

By: John Cornwell

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A model of investigatory journalism and a small masterpiece of the genre. Anthony Burgess On the ev… read more

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  • true crime
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4. Secrets in the Cellar

By: John Glatt

4.16

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Josef Fritzl was a 73-year-old retired engineer in Austria. He seemed to be living a normal life wi… read more

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  • crime
  • true crime
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5. The Baby-Snatcher (Inspector Ramsay, #6)

By: Ann Cleeves

4.06

Format: 344 pages,

From the author of Shetland and Vera When fifteen-year-old Marilyn Howe turns up alone and frighten… read more

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  • crime

6. The Truro Murders: The Sex Killing Spree Through the Eyes of an Accomplice

By: Ryan Green

4.04

Format: 323 pages,

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7. The Good Cop

By: Justine Ford

4.54

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

'A - Assume nothing. B - Believe nothing. C - Check everything.' Ron Iddles In an incredible twenty… read more

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8. The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

By: Alan W. Watts

0.00

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

In this fascinating book, Alan Watts explores man's quest for psychological security, examining our… read more

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9. Edenglassie

By: Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Two extraordinary Indigenous stories set five generations apart. When Mulanyin meets the beautiful … read more

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10. Man-Eater: The Terrifying True Story of Cannibal Killer Katherine Knight

By: Ryan Green

3.79

Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition

On 29th February 2000, John Price took out a restraining order against his girlfriend, Katherine Kn… read more

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  • crime
  • true crime
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11. The Seven (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #3)

By: Chris Hammer

4.23

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Tilt. Chris Hammer's… read more

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  • crime
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12. Sanctuary

By: Garry Disher

3.99

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

A thrilling new standalone set in regional SA, from one of Australia's most esteemed crime authors.… read more

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Cover of When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2) by John E. Douglas

13. When a Killer Calls (Cases of the FBI's Original Mindhunter, #2)

By: John E. Douglas

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A Haunting Story of Murder, Criminal Profiling, and Justice in a Small Town From John Douglas—th… read more

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  • true crime
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14. The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

By: Jeff Guinn

4.16

Format: 454 pages, Kindle Edition

By the New York Times bestselling author of Manson, the comprehensive, authoritative, and tragic st… read more

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  • crime
  • true crime
"No one listening [to Jones' sermons], even those who were the most devoted to him, could take it all in. But at some point each follower heard something that reaffirmed his or her personal reason for…"

-Jeff Guinn, The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple

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15. Foul Play (DCI Jack Hawksworth #5)

By: Fiona McIntosh

4.09

Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition

Superstar footballer Luca Bruni is being blackmailed for a night of lust he swears he didn’t partic… read more

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  • crime
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16. Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

By: Nicole Morris

4.31

Format: 345 pages, Kindle Edition

They just vanished …  Disappeared. Gone. Lost. No answers. Still missing. Imagine the pain, conf… read more

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  • true crime
"I find it harder and harder to talk about. It’s the frustration. I wish people had been this interested back then – we might have her with us."

-Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

"I just kept living in hope, but I’ve got used to that fact now. The hope is gone. I still dream about her, and I still have nightmares about her. It gets easier to cope with, but it never leaves"

-Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

"It’s tough. When my own son goes out, it’s natural to worry, but I get really paranoid. I worry that something’s going to happen, or he’s going to go missing when he goes out. I’m very protective of …"

-Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

"Sometimes as a family we don’t like to talk about it because all this stuff is going through our heads about what could have happened to him. It upsets us because we didn’t want him to suffer. We jus…"

-Nicole Morris, Vanished: True Stories from Families of Australian Missing Persons

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17. The Arsonist: A Mind on Fire

By: Chloe Hooper

4.05

Format: 258 pages, Paperback

On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in V… read more

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  • true crime
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18. Outback Outlaw: The Dark Legacy of Australia’s Backpacker Killer, Ivan Milat (True Crime)

By: Ryan Green

4.01

Format: 135 pages, Kindle Edition

"He was going to kill somebody from the age of 10. It was built into him… I knew he was on a one-wa… read more

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  • true crime
Cover of Death Row at Truro: The shocking true story of Australia's deadliest sex killers by Geoff Plunkett

19. Death Row at Truro: The shocking true story of Australia's deadliest sex killers

By: Geoff Plunkett

4.09

Format: 262 pages, Paperback

Shortlisted for Australia's best True Crime book of the year, 2023 (Ned Kelly Award - Australian Cr… read more

Similar categories in Geoff Plunkett's Death Row at Truro: The shocking true story of Australia's deadliest sex killers book and Geoff Plunkett's Death Row at Truro: The shocking true story of Australia's deadliest sex killers

  • crime
  • true crime
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20. Australia's Most Infamous Jail: Inside the walls of Pentridge Prison

By: James Phelps

3.84

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

'Pentridge was a place of murder and mayhem. A bluestone hell. The worst prison Australia has ever … read more

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21. Scuttled and abandoned ships in Australian waters

By: Ronald Parsons

5.00

Format: 56 pages, None

This book provides a comprehensive list of all known scuttled and abandoned ships in Australian wat… read more

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