The award-winning, definitive account of Australia's most notorious cold case, now fully updated with new information Winner of the Ned Kelly Award for True Crime On 4 July 1975, Juanita Nielsen set out on foot through the wintry streets of Sydney's red-light district. The chic heiress and newspaper publisher had a business meeting with a man called Eddie Trigg, a manager at the seedy Carousel Cabaret nightclub in Kings Cross. The following day, Juanita was reported missing. She has not been seen since and her body has never been found. Despite two police investigations, a coronial inquest and a federal parliament inquiry, the disappearance of Juanita Nielsen remains one of Australia's great unsolved murder mysteries. The most pressing question now is why? Killing Juanita is an unflinching examination of this cold case and its chief protagonists, not least Juanita Nielsen. An ardent campaigner fighting the proposed demolition of historic houses in the Cross, she was a thorn in the side of a powerful property developer with links to notorious crime bosses. Winner of the 2004 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime and now fully updated with new information, Killing Juanita is a compelling story of greed, corruption, dirty politics and cover-ups. It finally puts to rest decades of speculation, providing the definitive answer that authorities never could - or would.

In this legal thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of Against the Wind, breaking into a mansion for a laugh turns into a sobering crime. Maria Estrada, a hard-partying girl with family ties to some of the toughest gangsters in California, had no idea an old mansion could be so beautiful. The boy who broke into it with her had a feeling she might be impressed. But by the time the night is over, Maria has been brutally killed, and the boy is nowhere to be found. It’s up to PI Kate Blanchard and Luke Garrison, a criminal lawyer, to decipher what happened in the grand old mansion. To bring Maria’s killer to justice, they must locate the elusive connection between the poverty where she was raised and the affluence of where she died.

Introducing DEEP DARK FOREST: the second book in The Dark Series: A Michael Carter Cold Case Thriller by bestselling crime thriller author Susan Lund. Too many secrets are hidden in the deep dark forest… When the skeletal remains of a missing college student are found deep in the forest on the property of wealthy and prominent family, King County Cold Case Investigator Michael Carter and King County Medical Examiner Dr. Grace Keller are on the case. Wealthy, powerful and influential, the family has been above suspicion – until now… With leading legal professionals and powerful law enforcement members, the family has been a pillar of the community for decades, and appears to be above reproach, but Michael can’t help but dig deeper. He and Dr. Keller review the deaths connected to the family, including several that have been ruled accidental or natural. The killer knows every trick in the book... The family has friends in high places who work to protect them when Michael Carter’s investigation gets too close for comfort.

The Dark Series brings together the three books in the Dark Series by bestselling serial killer author Susan Lund. Book One: Long Dark Night Book Two: Deep Dark Forest Book Three: Cold Dark Water. About Long Dark Night, the first book in the Michael Carter Cold Case Thriller Series by Susan Lund. Two teenage boys went missing from a park in King County a decade ago. While one of the boys was found days later, his body discarded in a ravine in the forest on Tiger Mountain, the other boy was never found. Until now. After a property developer’s front end loader unearths the skeletal remains of several teenage boys from around Washington State, the missing boy’s remains are identified. As a result, King County Cold Case Investigator Michael Carter looks into the cases. He suspects they are linked to several current disappearances of teenage boys who were either living on friend’s sofas or on the streets. Believing he has another serial killer on his hands, Carter works with the FBI’s CARD Team to try to locate the missing boy. When Carter gets too close for comfort, he becomes the target of the serial killer’s rage, leading to a showdown between the two adversaries on one long dark night…

Annabel grew up in a loving catholic home, she is the oldest of three sisters and is considered, by her family as being strong, smart and responsible. She is known to be the glue that keeps the family together. When she meets and later marries Robert Winslow her life and her world, turns ferociously in an unexpected direction. Her dreams of being married to a rich, handsome doctor is not what she expected, but she is determined to keep her vows to love, honor and obey, she remains her commitment, despite the fact that her husband beat and abuses her often and after the brutal beatings, he hypnotizes her so she won’t remember, with a hope to keep her from leaving him. But, is Annabel really hypnotized or does she go along with it, just to keep her family together or hide from the truth, which could force her vow “until death do them part” to take on a whole new meaning. Robert Winslow is a rich and powerful Psychiatrist with the inability to be faithful to his beloved Annabel. Robert is well known in his community and by the police as the doctor that analyze and treat patients that has fatally abused their spouses. He is also known as the “go to” doctor for woman and men who are currently in a domestic violence situation and he uses all their stories to further manipulate and control his own family. He also treats the children, the innocent victims leave behind. Robert has to let out his frustrations, and to do that, he may slap his wife around a little. He has become addicted to seeing her suffer from the pain he afflict on her. As his insecurities grow stronger, he realize that seeing Annabel dead is the ultimate high he hunger. Although he loves her to death, he can’t stop. Robert comes from a dysfunctional family and he is creating the same dysfunction in his own family, however he believe, as a Psychiatrist he can fix it at any time. But is he willing to make the changes, to save his marriage or will he let his craving to kill ruin his career and possibly destroy his life.

As a federal prosecutor in Mississippi for over thirty years, John Hailman worked with federal agents, lawyers, judges, and criminals of every stripe. In From Midnight to Guntown, he recounts amazing trials and bad guy antics from the darkly humorous to the needlessly tragic. In addition to bank robbers—generally the dumbest criminals—Hailman describes scam artists, hit men, protected witnesses, colorful informants, corrupt officials, bad guys with funny nicknames, over-the-top investigators, and those defendants who had a certain roguish charm. Several of his defendants and victims have since had whole books written about them: Dickie Scruggs, Emmett Till, Chicago gang leader Jeff Fort, and Paddy Mitchell, leader of the most successful bank robbery gang of the twentieth century. But Hailman delivers the inside story no one else can. He also recounts his scary experiences after 9/11 when he prosecuted terrorism cases.

Before Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields on Netflix, there was The Sheriff's Son - a potential suspect for the League City murders. This true story begins on Valentine's Day, 1961. 14 years old, Claudette Carolyn Covey went missing from Hondo, Texas. On Halloween evening, 1961, Claudette's remains were discovered eight miles from town in a field. She had been shot twice in the head. From the beginning, town folks believed that she was murdered by the corrupt sheriff or his 18-year-old son, whom she was dating. Because of the corrupt sheriff's influence, no one was ever charged with the murder. The story follows the life of the sheriff's son from 1961 to his death in 1998. The son was on the edges of many similar murders of young girls in the Houston and Galveston areas-but he was never charged. After 1961, the sheriff's son was arrested twice for the rape of 12-year-old girls, essentially walking away from these charges due to the connections of his father. After the deaths of the father and son, former wives and step children, no longer terrified-came forward. They tell a horrific story of brutality, rape, incest and murder at the hands of the son. Our novel connects the dots and makes the case that a serial killer went to his grave never charged with his many crimes against young women.

Tony Turner is a homicidal and psychotic enforcer for a ruthless Gun Runner and Crime Lord. Tony is murdered in a violent police shootout. Tony's soul goes to hell. While he's in hell burning the Devil makes him an offer. The Devil sends Tony back to Earth as an indestructible, demonic assassin. The Devil wants Tony to kill 4 reformed criminals who have completely turned their lives around, and our serving God in one form or another. The Devil wants them dead before they can reach their full spiritual potential, and God uses them as instruments in the war between Heaven and Hell. One of the people that the Devil wants dead is James Jones, Tony Turner's former enemy. James Jones is a former drug kingpin who got out of the drug game when his mother died of cancer. Now he is a legitimate businessman, and a contributing member to his community. He is also a great father to his young daughter. James is starting to gain faith in God and the Bible. He is trying to make peace with his bloody past, and atone for his past sins. The Devil wants him dead before he becomes spiritually aware, so he sends his former enemy back from hell to murder him. Tony Turner wants to avenge his murder by killing the man who murdered him, Detective Rick Martin. Det. Rick Martin lead a special police task force that was investigating Tony and James. Det. Martin would eventually kill Tony. After both surviving murder attempts by Tony, James Jones and Det. Rick Martin must reluctantly unite to stay alive and simultaneously figure out a way to kill Tony and send him back to hell.

Murders, suicides, unexplained deaths, scandalous romances, illegitimate children, cover-ups, and more, from the 1920s to Hollywood's Golden Age in the 1960s and right up to the present day. It covers over 60 scandals including: The Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Scandal; Clark Gable's Baby Scandals; The Rape of Patricia Douglas; The Life and Death of Jean Harlow; The Sudden Death of James Dean; Marilyn Monroe's Mysterious Death; John Belushi Dies at the Chateau Marmont; Madonna's Hollywood Stalker; Hugh Grant's Hollywood Scandal; Winona Ryder Is Arrested For Shoplifting; The Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie Love Triangle; The Tragic Life and Death of Anna Nicole Smith; The Life and Death of Michael Jackson; Arnold Schwarzenegger's Love Child; The Very Public Melt-Down of Charlie Sheen; The Rise and Fall of Whitney Houston; The Marriage of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes and many, many more.