9 Top true crime books like The Killing Streets: Uncovering Australia's First Serial Murderer by Tanya Bretherton

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The Killing Streets: Uncovering Australia's First Serial Murderer

By: Tanya Bretherton

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of The Suitcase Baby and The Suicide Bride, the story of a series of horr…

If you liked the true crime plot in The Killing Streets: Uncovering Australia's First Serial Murderer by Tanya Bretherton , here is a list of 9 books like this:

1. Australia's Most Murderous Prison: Behind the Walls of Goulburn Jail

By: James Phelps

4.07

Format: 213 pages,

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime

2. The Girl from Munich

By: Tania Blanchard

4.50

Format: None pages, Paperback

Germany, 1943. The choices she makes will change her life forever. Growing up in Hitler's Germany, … read more

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3. The Strange Affair of Madeleine Smith: Victorian Scotland's Trial of the Century

By: None

3.81

Format: None pages, Paperback

It was a case that rocked Victorian society. Madeleine Smith, a young woman from a prominent Glasgo… read more

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4. When The Bough Breaks: The True Story Of Child Killer Kathleen Folbigg

By: Matthew Benns

3.44

Format: 330 pages,

The true story of Australia's worst convicted female serial killer, Kathleen Folbigg. She killed he… read more

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5. American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

By: Maureen Callahan

4.09

Format: 285 pages, Hardcover

Ted Bundy. John Wayne Gacy. Jeffrey Dahmer. The names of notorious serial killers are usually well-… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
"I've got lots more stories to tell."

-Maureen Callahan, American Predator: The Hunt for the Most Meticulous Serial Killer of the 21st Century

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6. Treasure & Dirt (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #1)

By: Chris Hammer

4.07

Format: 512 pages, Kindle Edition

An unputdownable thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands. In the desolate outback tow… read more

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  • audiobook
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7. The Drowning

By: Bryan Brown

3.56

Format: 288 pages, ebook

With sales of over 16,000 copies of Sweet Jimmy , Bryan Brown's distinctive storytelling voice cont… read more

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  • audiobook
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8. All That's Left Unsaid

By: Tracey Lien

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For fans of Everything I Never Told You and The Mothers, a deeply moving and unflinching debut foll… read more

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  • audiobook
"Wenn sie noch beste Freundinnen gewesen wären, hätte Ky Minnie gestanden, was für sie das Beste an ihrem Job war, nämlich den Leuten sagen zu können, dass sie Journalistin war, aber dass sie die Arbe…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky laughed, felt the tingling warmth that bloomed within her whenever she talked to someone for whom she didn't need to fill in the blanks - someone who understood that the act of complaining about h…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Ky didn't allow her mother to have feelings, because to grant her those would mean acknowledging that she was a person who had desires and dreams beyond what Ky saw. It was easier to imagine her as a…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

"Now that she was twenty-two, the words were there in her head, jumbled. The feeling was still too hot to approach but was slowly beginning to make sense. If she would just give herself the time and s…"

-Tracey Lien, All That's Left Unsaid

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9. When She Was Good (Cyrus Haven, #2)

By: Michael Robotham

4.24

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Evie Cormack was found as a child at the scene of a brutal murder, and refuses to tell anything of … read more

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  • audiobook
"Why do people think everything will be better if they pour boiling water on dried leaves?"

-Michael Robotham, When She Was Good (Cyrus Haven, #2)

"... but I have grown accustomed to living alone, having one-sides conversations and arguments with myself that I still manage to lose."

-Michael Robotham, When She Was Good (Cyrus Haven, #2)

"The real power belongs to the people who control information,’ he says, still staring at the ground. ‘Individuals who can suppress stories, fix problems, spin news and plant false information"

-Michael Robotham, When She Was Good (Cyrus Haven, #2)

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10. The Bluffs

By: Kyle Perry

3.75

Format: 464 pages, Kindle Edition

'Tense, atmospheric and unsettling, this book will stay with you long after you turn the last page,… read more

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  • audiobook
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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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  • audiobook
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12. 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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  • audiobook
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13. I Know You

By: Claire McGowan

4.11

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In this tense thriller from the bestselling author of What You Did and The Other Wife, a woman find… read more

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  • audiobook
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14. Home Before Night

By: J.P. Pomare

3.38

Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio

As the third wave of the virus hits, all inhabitants of Melbourne are given until 8pm to get to the… read more

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  • audiobook
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15. Again, Rachel (Walsh Family, #6)

By: Marian Keyes

4.29

Format: 577 pages, Paperback

In her twenties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. Since her spell in rehab, though, she's come a long way o… read more

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  • audiobook
"It might be uncomfortable. But it's an opportunity. An opportunity for what? Personal growth. Internally, I sighed. Wretched personal growth. Always so unpleasant."

-Marian Keyes, Again, Rachel (Walsh Family, #6)

"- but forcing you to stop wouldn’t have gotten you clean. You had to be the one who decided. It took me nearly six months to face it, you didn’t love me enough -‘ ‘Of course I loved you!"

-Marian Keyes, Again, Rachel (Walsh Family, #6)

"[…] How often have I told you that is an addict doesn’t lose something, they’ve no incentive to change?’ ‘Right.’ But he didn’t like it. ‘In fact, if - and it’s not going to - but it if I ever relaps…"

-Marian Keyes, Again, Rachel (Walsh Family, #6)

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16. The Torrent (Detective Kate Miles, #1)

By: Dinuka McKenzie

3.90

Format: 333 pages, Paperback

A loving husband lost to devastating summer floods. A teenage girl injured during a robbery. Two se… read more

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  • audiobook
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17. Her Buried Bones (Opal Fields #1)

By: Fiona Tarr

4.13

Format: 195 pages, Kindle Edition

She came to find answers – she discovered a trail of secrets… When Jenny Williams took a job as … read more

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  • audiobook
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18. The Wartime Book Club

By: Kate Thompson

4.31

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

From enchanting cliff tops and white sandy bays to the pretty cobbled streets of St Helier, Jersey … read more

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  • audiobook
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19. Songs for the Dead and the Living

By: Sara M. Saleh

4.05

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

When the ground beneath your feet is always shifting, how can you ever know where you belong? Ja… read more

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  • audiobook
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20. The Fall Between

By: Darcy Tindale

3.93

Format: 336 pages, ebook

On a hot November morning, the first body lies in a cattle trough . . . It will be another two hour… read more

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  • audiobook
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21. The Schoolgirl, Her Teacher and his Wife: Winner of the 2024 Best Non fiction Crime Book, Davitt Awards

By: Rebecca Hazel

4.20

Format: 358 pages, Kindle Edition

Teacher and former rugby league player Chris Dawson appeared to have it all – a loving family and a… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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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. Green Is The New Black: Inside Australia's Hardest Women's Jails

By: James Phelps

3.65

Format: 260 pages, Kindle Edition

Ivan Milat, the notorious backpacker serial killer, is not the most feared person in the prison sys… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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24. 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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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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25. Larrimah

By: Caroline Graham

3.98

Format: 392 pages, Paperback

A dying town, a missing man. One of Australia's greatest mysteries - two whodunnits, twisted togeth… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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26. Brunswick Street Blues

By: Sally Bothroyd

3.73

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

Winner of the inaugural ASA/HQ Commercial Fiction Prize. The twists keep piling up in this fun and … read more

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  • audiobook
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27. The Snapshot Killer

By: Duncan McNab

3.82

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

A chilling journey into the life and mind of charming and persuasive predator and serial killer Chr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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28. The Boy in the Dress

By: Jonathan Butler

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

ON A BALMY TOWNSVILLE NIGHT IN 1944, YOUNG SERVICEMAN WARWICK MEALE IS FOUND BEATEN TO DEATH UNDE… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
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29. The Killing Streets: Uncovering Australia's First Serial Murderer

By: Tanya Bretherton

3.78

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

From the acclaimed author of The Suitcase Baby and The Suicide Bride, the story of a series of horr… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • true crime
  • audiobook
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30. Bee Miles: Australia's famous bohemian rebel, and the untold story behind the legend

By: Rose Ellis

3.96

Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition

The untold story of the uncompromising and fearless woman who captivated mid-20th century Australia… read more

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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Valley (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #4) by Chris Hammer

31. The Valley (Ivan Lucic & Nell Buchanan, #4)

By: Chris Hammer

4.36

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The latest stunning thriller from the bestselling author of Scrublands and The Seven.Nell Buchanan … read more

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