9 Best true crime books like Loose Units by Paul F. Verhoeven

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Loose Units

By: Paul F. Verhoeven

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Paul Verhoeven's father, John, is a cop. Well, an ex-cop. Decorated and long since retired, John sp…

If you liked the true crime plot in Loose Units by Paul F. Verhoeven , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. The Whale Rider

By: Witi Ihimaera

3.84

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more

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  • audiobook
"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

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2. Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family

By: Cameron Bloom , Bradley Trevor Greive

4.28

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Penguin Bloom is an extraordinary true story full of hope and courage, featuring Cameron Bloom's ex… read more

Similar categories in Cameron Bloom's Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family book and Paul F. Verhoeven's Loose Units

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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3. High Society

By: Ben Elton

3.81

Format: 380 pages, Paperback

The war on drugs has been lost, but afraid to face that fact, the whole world is rapidly becoming o… read more

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  • crime
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4. The Basketball Diaries

By: Jim Carroll

3.99

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

The urban classic coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, and basketball. Jim Carroll grew up to … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
"they're fucking up minds they do not own."

-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

"Now I got these diaries that have the greatest hero a writer needs, this crazy fucking New York."

-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

"Little kids shoot marbles where the branches break the sun into graceful shafts of light… I just want to be pure."

-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

"It was a dream, not a nightmare, a beautiful dream I could never imagine in a thousand nods. There was a girl next to me who wasn't beautiful until she smiled and I felt that smile come at me in heat…"

-Jim Carroll, The Basketball Diaries

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5. The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

By: Sarah Krasnostein

3.97

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • memoir
  • audiobook

6. Holding the Man

By: Timothy Conigrave

3.99

Format: 32 pages,

Los anos setenta seran recordados, entre otras cosas, por ser la epoca en que el "glam" irrumpe con… read more

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7. Blackbird House

By: Alice Hoffman

3.86

Format: None pages, Paperback

Through these interconnected narratives more than a dozen men and women learn how love transforms u… read more

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8. Dark Emu

By: Bruce Pascoe

3.36

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Dark Emu puts forward an argument for a reconsideration of the hunter-gatherer tag for precolonial … read more

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9. Past Mortem

By: Ben Elton

4.21

Format: 539 pages, Paperback

In romantic desperation, mild-mannered detective Edward Newson logged on to the "Friends Reunited" … read more

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10. Honeybee

By: Craig Silvey

4.40

Format: 421 pages, Paperback

Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail a… read more

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  • audiobook
"And I’m not wrong, I’m me. And I don’t want to be invisible anymore. I want people to see who I am"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"I wasn't cold, but I was shivering when I walked onto the Clayton Road overpass. I wasn't scared either, even when I climbed over the rail. I didn't feel much of anything."

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

"When we don’t think we’re worth much, we find ways to make our world small. We don’t allow ourselves to hope because we’ve already excepted failure. And this pattern of thinking often determines the …"

-Craig Silvey, Honeybee

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11. 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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  • audiobook
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12. 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
  • audiobook
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13. Dying of Politeness: A Memoir

By: Geena Davis

4.04

Format: None pages, Audio CD

None read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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14. 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
  • memoir
  • audiobook
"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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15. Kill Your Husbands

By: Jack Heath

3.77

Format: 384 pages, Kindle Edition

A witty, page-turning, twisty whodunit from the bestselling author of the Hangman series, perfect f… read more

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  • crime
  • audiobook
"Burn your bras. Kill your husbands."

-Jack Heath, Kill Your Husbands

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16. I Survived: A True Story.

By: Victoria Cilliers

4.16

Format: 187 pages, Kindle Edition

A chilling, eye-opening story of marriage and attempted murder, revealing the truth about a case th… read more

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  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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17. The Prison Doctor

By: Amanda Brown

4.01

Format: 224 pages, Kindle Edition

Dr Amanda Brown has treated inmates in the UK’s most infamous prisons – first in young offenders’ i… read more

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  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective

By: Gary Jubelin

4.15

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

Serial killings, child abductions, organised crime hits and domestic murders. This is the memoir of… read more

Similar categories in Gary Jubelin's I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective book and Paul F. Verhoeven's Loose Units

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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19. CSI Told You Lies

By: Meshel Laurie

3.81

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Meshel Laurie, host of the incredibly successful Australian True Crime podcast speaks to the forens… read more

Similar categories in Meshel Laurie's CSI Told You Lies book and Paul F. Verhoeven's Loose Units

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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20. 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
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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21. Another Day in the Colony

By: Chelsea Watego

4.43

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

In this collection of deeply insightful and powerful essays, Chelsea Watego examines the ongoing an… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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22. The Widow of Walcha

By: Emma Partridge

4.23

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The Widow of Walcha is a shocking true story about death, love and lies in the small NSW town of Wa… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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23. I Am NOT Fine, Thanks

By: Wil Anderson

3.77

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

'How are you?' How am I? How am I? How do you think I am? I know in the Before Times the traditi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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24. Jack Charles: Born-again Blakfella

By: Jack Charles

4.42

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Jack Charles has worn many hats throughout his life: actor, cat burglar, musician, heroin addict, a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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25. Stalking Claremont: Inside the Hunt for a Serial Killer

By: Bret Christian

4.14

Format: 432 pages, Kindle Edition

One young woman missing, two found murdered -- the gripping true story of Australia's longest-runni… read more

Similar categories in Bret Christian's Stalking Claremont: Inside the Hunt for a Serial Killer book and Paul F. Verhoeven's Loose Units

  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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26. I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is In Love with a Pedophile: 6 Patient Files From Prison (Dr. Harper Therapy, #2)

By: Dr. Harper

4.01

Format: 177 pages, Kindle Edition

The highly anticipated sequel to I'm a Therapist, and My Patient is Going to be the Next School Sho… read more

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  • crime
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27. The Lost Girls

By: Ava Benny-Morrison

4.21

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

The chilling true story of the heinous murder of Karlie Pearce-Stevenson and daughter Khandalyce a… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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28. Sam Bloom: Heartache & Birdsong

By: Bradley Trevor Greive

4.32

Format: 208 pages, ebook

The follow-up to the ABIA award-winning, international bestselling sensation Penguin Bloom The h… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • memoir
  • audiobook
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29. Loose Units

By: Paul F. Verhoeven

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

Paul Verhoeven's father, John, is a cop. Well, an ex-cop. Decorated and long since retired, John sp… read more

Similar categories in Paul F. Verhoeven's Loose Units book and Paul F. Verhoeven's Loose Units

  • true crime
  • memoir
  • nonfiction
  • crime
  • audiobook
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30. Growing up Wiradjuri

By: Anita Heiss

4.20

Format: 90 pages, Hardcover

Featuring stories by Aunty Isabel Reid, Uncle Stan Grant Snr, Aunty Lorraine Tye, Aunty Elaine Loma… read more

Similar categories in Anita Heiss's Growing up Wiradjuri book and Paul F. Verhoeven's Loose Units

  • nonfiction
  • memoir
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31. Mind Behind The Crime

By: Cheryl Critchley

3.71

Format: 464 pages, Paperback

Nurses and neighbours, partners and parents - all murderers who shocked Australia with the severity… read more

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  • crime
  • nonfiction
  • audiobook

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The Whale Rider

Witi Ihimaera

3.84

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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

Sarah Krasnostein

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Honeybee

Craig Silvey

4.40

Transform Your Habits

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Melissa Lucashenko

4.13

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Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse

Paul Carter

3.86

Transform Your Habits

A Mother's Story

Bryce Corbett , Rosie Batty

3.86

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I Catch Killers: The Life and Many Deaths of a Homicide Detective

Gary Jubelin

4.15

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Tim Booth

3.98

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