12 best-selling true crime books like Police Stories: Compelling True Stories from the Frontline of Australia's Police by Vikki Petraitis

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Police Stories: Compelling True Stories from the Frontline of Australia's Police

By: Vikki Petraitis

3.86

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bizarre to the brutal to the unbelievable, truth is often stranger than fiction, as these …

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1. Maximum Insecurity: A Doctor in the Supermax

By: William Wright

3.52

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

After three decades as a successful ear surgeon, William Wright, MD is bored beyond belief. He dabb… read more

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2. Carl Williams

By: Adam Shand

4.13

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Barwon Prison's maximum security unit, 19 April 2010: Carl Williams is beaten to death with the ste… read more

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3. 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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4. Once Upon a Time in Melbourne

By: Liam Houlihan

4.19

Format: 168 pages, Paperback

Dirty Cops, Lying Politicians, Vampire Gigolos . . . An Unbelievable True Story Once upon a time in… read more

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5. Hell House

By: Richard Matheson

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Can any soul survive? Regarded as the Mount Everest of haunted houses, Belasco House has witnessed … read more

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6. Court in the Middle

By: Andrew Fraser

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Hardcover

From 1975 to 2001, Andrew Fraser was a leading criminal solicitor with a successful national practi… read more

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7. Doctor Ice Pick

By: Claire Prentice

3.77

Format: 85 pages, Kindle Edition

A haunting and true short story of the lobotomist who cut a brutal swathe through the lives of thou… read more

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8. Outback (DS Walker, #1)

By: Patricia Wolf

4.18

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Two missing backpackers. One vast outback. DS Lucas Walker is on leave in his hometown, Caloodie… read more

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9. The Next Patient: The Incredible World of Emergency Medicine

By: J. Thomas Grant

4.54

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Extraordinary encounters. Life-threatening diseases. Heroic actions. Instantaneous decisions. Unima… read more

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10. CODE 4: True stories from a 37-year police veteran

By: Terry Smith

4.39

Format: 210 pages, Kindle Edition

You step into a doorway to see a man levelling a shotgun at your chestYou hold a dying child in you… read more

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11. Badness

By: Gary Jubelin

4.08

Format: 341 pages, Paperback

The sequel to the #1 Bestseller I Catch Killers As a cop, I used to sit on one side of the inte… read more

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12. 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

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  • true crime
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13. Holiday SOS: The life-saving adventures of a travelling doctor

By: Ben MacFarlane

4.48

Format: 255 pages, Kindle Edition

Who are you going to call if it all goes wrong on holiday?Meet Doctor Ben MacFarlane. His job is to… read more

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"Laughter isn't the best medicine. Feeling that you're in safe hands is."

-Ben MacFarlane, Holiday SOS: The life-saving adventures of a travelling doctor

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14. 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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15. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

By: Nicole Perlroth

4.34

Format: 528 pages, Hardcover

From The New York Times cybersecurity reporter Nicole Perlroth, the untold story of the cyberweapon… read more

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"Finding a zero day is a little like entering God mode in a video game. Once hackers have figured out the commands or written the code to exploit it, they can scamper through the world's computer netw…"

-Nicole Perlroth, This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race

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16. Unfinished Woman: A Memoir

By: Robyn Davidson

3.78

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

"Searching, captivating and miraculously honest. Davidson has a voice we want to travel with, and t… read more

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17. Her Scorched Bones (Opal Fields #3)

By: Fiona Tarr

4.35

Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition

Missing motive for murder…Constable Jenny Williams took a job in a remote opal mining town for answ… read more

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18. Diary of a H.O. (House Officer): A Collection of Short Stories from a Surgeon's First Year of Training.

By: Brandon Green

4.13

Format: 175 pages, Kindle Edition

This book could save your life! If you've ever wondered what it's like working at a hospital Level … read more

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19. The Prison Doctor: Foreign Bodies

By: Amanda Brown

3.93

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

From the Sunday Times Bestselling author Dr Amanda Brown Revisit the wold of The Prison Doctor… read more

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20. Drugs, Guns & Lies: My life as an undercover cop

By: Keith Banks

4.22

Format: 295 pages, Kindle Edition

A story from the inside when Queensland had the most corrupt police force in the country. This is w… read more

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21. Meth Road: A life-and-death investigation following the world's most destructive narcotic to Australia

By: Conor Woodman

3.96

Format: 261 pages, Kindle Edition

A wild and dangerous ride from the world's main meth source, a lawless Asian narco-state, to its mo… read more

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22. Her Broken Bones (Opal Fields #2)

By: Fiona Tarr

4.29

Format: 207 pages, Kindle Edition

If bones could talk… Constable Jenny Williams came to the opal mining town of Coober Pedy to sol… read more

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23. Suburban True Crime: Australian cases you'll never forget and some you've never heard of

By: Emily Webb

3.75

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Chilling cases of murder and crime that have happened in the quiet streets of Australia’s suburbs. … read more

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24. Emergency Laughter: It Wasn't Funny When It Happened, But it is Now!

By: Mike Cyra

3.77

Format: 81 pages, Kindle Edition

Real life medical drama is OK… but true stories of emergency medicine that make you laugh out loud … read more

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25. Missing, Presumed Dead: The double murder case that shocked Australia

By: Mark Tedeschi

3.91

Format: None pages, Audiobook

It was the double murder case that gripped Australia, and former Crown Prosecutor Mark Tedeschi QC … read more

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26. Gangland: New Zealand's Underworld of Organised Crime

By: Jared Savage

4.13

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

New Zealand's underworld of organised crime and deadly gangs New Zealand is now one of the most … read more

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27. Healing Lives

By: Sue Williams

4.30

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Two incredible women, an unlikely friendship, and a united mission to save the lives of some of the… read more

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28. Police Stories: Compelling True Stories from the Frontline of Australia's Police

By: Vikki Petraitis

3.86

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

From the bizarre to the brutal to the unbelievable, truth is often stranger than fiction, as these … read more

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29. Under Her Skin: The life and work of Professor Fiona Wood AM, National Living Treasure

By: Sue Williams

4.44

Format: 381 pages, Kindle Edition

The remarkable story of Professor Fiona Wood AM, world-leading burns specialist and one of Australi… read more

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30. Filthy Rat: One Man’s Stand Against Police Corruption And Melbourne’s Gangland War

By: Simon Illingworth

3.97

Format: 259 pages, Kindle Edition

"Criminals began killing each other on the streets in broad daylight and police were being ferried … read more

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31. Backup is Three Hours Away: A raw account of remote area policing

By: Mark Tregellas

4.41

Format: 310 pages, Kindle Edition

Embark on a gripping adventure with Mark 'Trigger' Tregellas in Backup is Three Hours Away, a true … read more

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Chai Time at Cinnamon Gardens

Shankari Chandran

4.21

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Trent Dalton

4.41

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Bryan Brown

3.56

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Anna Funder

4.13

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