Outside the Law: Volumes 1 & 2

In Outside the Law some of our best crime writers take you on a trip into the shadows of Australian society. You'll meet crooks who just can't help themselves; killers with twisted logic or hearts of darkness; and cops who daily walk the thinnest of lines to keep them at bay, and away from the rest of us.

This double dose of true crime digs beneath the polite exterior of modern Australian life to expose its chilling core. It includes the contribution by the cops who put their lives on the line day after day, and doesn't forget the private individuals who stand up and fight back. Take a trip into the shadows of Australian society with some of Australia's foremost true crime writers as they explore the effect on innocent victims caught in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Stories include John Silvester on Donald Mackay and the Australian Mafia

Andrew Rule on the Queen Street massacre

Liz Filleul on the death and destruction wrought by firebugs
Malcolm Brown on Ivan Milat

Paul B. Kidd on wife murderer Dr Rory Thompson

John Kerr on the helicopter prison-break of John Killick

Lindy Cameron on working life in the Homicide Squad

Greg Fogarty on the Crawford murders

Jennifer Cooke on the Anita Cobby murder

Garry Linnell on the life of an undercover cop

Ruth Wykes on the vicious West Australian murder of Stacey Mitchell

Syd Wright on an unsolved murder in Mitcham

Peter Haddow on how life imitates reality in Blue Heelers

Robin Bowles on a cop who wrote about the Silk Miller murder investigation

Vikki Petraitis on an unsolved Phillip Island mystery.