8 Top true crime books like The Messiah's Bride by Megan Norris

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The Messiah's Bride

By: Megan Norris

3.88

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old Stefanie Hinrichs came to Australia looking for paradise –and found herself trapped…

If you liked the true crime plot in The Messiah's Bride by Megan Norris , here is a list of 8 books like this:

1. The Spare Room

By: Helen Garner

4.24

Format: 376 pages, Hardcover

A powerful, witty, and taut novel about a complex friendship between two women--one dying, the othe… read more

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2. Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

By: Shankari Chandran

4.21

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Welcome to Cinnamon Gardens, a home for those who are lost and the stories they treasure. Cinnam… read more

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3. Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire

By: Chanel Contos

4.56

Format: 271 pages, Kindle Edition

The game-changing book about sex and consent that every woman - and man - should read In 2021, Chan… read more

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  • nonfiction
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4. Lola in the Mirror

By: Trent Dalton

4.41

Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more

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5. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life

By: Anna Funder

4.13

Format: 464 pages, Hardcover

This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more

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  • nonfiction
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6. 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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7. Lenny Marks Gets Away with Murder

By: Kerryn Mayne

4.07

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Lenny Marks is excellent at not having a life. She bikes home from work at exactly 4pm each day,… read more

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8. The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

By: Grace Tame

3.98

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Grace Tame has never walked on middle ground. From a young age, her life was defined by uncertai… read more

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  • nonfiction
"I learned something about the commodification of trauma that day [Tame's appearance on the ABC's Q&A programme], which is that you have to take things into your own hands. If you don't speak, people …"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I survived being Australian of the Year because I knew already that it wouldn't be a true reflection of my worth. I knew it would be ugly, at least in part. I came equipped with a glimpse of fame tha…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

"I frowned at Scott Morrison deliberately because, in my opinion, he has done and assisted in objectively terrible things. No matter what your politics are, the harm that was caused under his governme…"

-Grace Tame, The Ninth Life of a Diamond Miner

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9. Mongrel

By: Hanako Footman

4.38

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Mei loses her Japanese mother at age six. Growing up in suburban Surrey, she yearns to fit in, supp… read more

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"Hold onto the things that you have forgotten. Let go of the things that you remember."

-Hanako Footman, Mongrel

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10. Did I Ever Tell You This?

By: Sam Neill

4.06

Format: 398 pages, Hardcover

In this unexpected memoir, written in a creative burst of just a few months in 2022, Sam Neill tell… read more

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  • nonfiction
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11. Crows Nest

By: Nikki Mottram

3.47

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Fleeing problems in her own marriage, child protection worker Dana Gibson leaves Sydney for a job i… read more

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12. Seven Sisters

By: Katherine Kovacic

3.92

Format: 310 pages, Paperback

Men get away with murder all the time. Now it's our turn ... A twisty, intriguing crime novel for f… read more

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13. The House of Now and Then

By: Jo Dixon

4.15

Format: 372 pages, Kindle Edition

You should leave the past in the past ... or should you? A vividly told, jaw-droppingly twisty and … read more

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14. I Don't: The Case Against Marriage

By: Clementine Ford

4.13

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Incendiary feminist and bestselling author Clementine Ford presents the inarguable case against mar… read more

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  • nonfiction
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15. You Called an Ambulance for What?

By: Tim Booth

3.98

Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition

Tim Booth is shocked when his first emergency callout for someone short of breath turns out to be a… read more

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  • nonfiction
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16. Not Now, Not Ever: Ten years on from the misogyny speech

By: Julia Gillard

4.28

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Then it was done. After staying silent, I’d had my say. At no time did I feel worked up or hotly an… read more

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  • nonfiction
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17. Eggshell Skull

By: Bri Lee

4.36

Format: 358 pages, Paperback

EGGSHELL SKULL: A well-established legal doctrine that a defendant must 'take their victim as they … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
"The ugly parts of my life kept crashing into the beautiful ones."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of fucks to give"

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Finally feminist enough to realise I was all out of ducks to give."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

"Only skinny enough when starving, only successful enough when exhausted."

-Bri Lee, Eggshell Skull

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18. Five Bush Weddings

By: Clare Fletcher

3.98

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

As a photographer, Stevie’s been to enough bush weddings to last a lifetime. When’s it going to be … read more

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19. The Couple Upstairs

By: Holly Wainwright

3.48

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Five months after Mel told her husband to leave, a ghost moved in upstairs.A young man who reminds … read more

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20. The Bookshop Woman

By: Nanako Hanada

3.60

Format: 204 pages, ebook

A love story to climbing all the way down a book's rope, free diving to its bottom, and then resurf… read more

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  • nonfiction
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21. The Teacher's Pet

By: Hedley Thomas

4.14

Format: 619 pages, Kindle Edition

If you thought you knew the story of The Teacher's Pet, get ready to be shocked. Hedley Thomas take… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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22. 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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  • nonfiction
  • 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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23. Witness

By: Louise Milligan

4.44

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

From the best-selling author of CARDINAL comes a searing examination of the power imbalance in our … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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24. Headland

By: John Byrnes

3.09

Format: 296 pages, Paperback

A coastal town is evacuated after record floods. Three young police officers are left behind. With … read more

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25. The Girl in the Band: Bardot: A Cautionary Tale

By: Belinda Chapple

3.67

Format: None pages, Audiobook

This is the story Bardot’s Belinda Chapple has wanted to tell for twenty years – a cautionary tale … read more

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  • nonfiction
"I had learned that a few of Bardot's Warner Music executives had asked her to remain in the band long enough to see out our booked commitments because everyone knew how much we deserved that money. B…"

-Belinda Chapple, The Girl in the Band: Bardot: A Cautionary Tale

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26. Obsession: A journalist and victim-survivor’s investigation into stalking

By: Nicole Madigan

4.08

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

A gripping blend of memoir, investigation and expert analysis, Obsession takes a deep dive into the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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27. The Messiah's Bride

By: Megan Norris

3.88

Format: 364 pages, Paperback

Eleven-year-old Stefanie Hinrichs came to Australia looking for paradise –and found herself trapped… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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28. Man-Made: How the bias of the past is being built into the future

By: Tracey Spicer

3.58

Format: 298 pages, Paperback

`Mum, I want a robot slave.’ Broadcaster Tracey Spicer had an epiphany when her young son uttere… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of A Witness of Fact: the peculiar case of chief forensic pathologist Colin Manock by Drew  Rooke

29. A Witness of Fact: the peculiar case of chief forensic pathologist Colin Manock

By: Drew Rooke

3.83

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

The compelling story of South Australia’s disgraced former chief forensic pathologist and the legal… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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30. 17 Years Later

By: J.P. Pomare

4.43

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Is the truth sometimes best left buried? A crime masterpiece by bestselling author J. P. Pomare… read more

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31. Unsolved Australia: Lost Boys, Gone Girls

By: Justine Ford

3.88

Format: 283 pages, Paperback

Can you catch a killer or find a missing person? Australia is 'the lucky country'. But not for e… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime

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Chanel Contos

4.56

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4.13

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3.98

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4.41

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Craig Silvey

4.40

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