Meaner than Fiction

Just where is justice in Australia hiding? This brilliant new collection of true crime stories takes us into the Australian courts of the 1980s and '90s, back in time to the goldfields of the 1860s, and out to the island nation of Nauru in 2006 to explore how the scales of justice are unbalanced. This is a world in which the innocent still get locked up and the guilty too often go free.

This collection is a must for all lovers of true crime. It will shock, outrage and intrigue.

• Robin Bowles charts a mysterious case of sudden death
• Lindy Cameron on the random shooting of Dr Andrew Taylor
• Kathryn Deans on Heather Osland and how 13 years of torture was just the start of the ordeal!
• Liz Filleul on the disappearance of Elisabeth Membrey
• Kerry Greenwood examines the role that crime writers have played in redressing miscarraiges of justice
• PD Martin on the Innocence Project, and Andrew Mallard
• Susan Metcalfe on the tragedy of two Iraqis left behind on Nauru
• Leigh Redhead asks how a man who secretly filmed his flatmates got away with it
• Shelley Robertson, a modern forensic pathologist, questions the 'whole truth' of expert testimony
• Lucy Sussex on the unfortunate Mary Fortune