Return to the Badlands: 12 Chilling True Crime Cases of Crooks, Cults and Crackpots

Filled with cunning crimes, cruel cults, and common crackpots, this book tells 12 fascinating, true tales from the badlands of contemporary Australia. "Is a suburban couple paying the babysitter with freshly stolen money? Can a lucky leech outsmart a brazen burglar?""Why did an Adelaide wife send her husband's privates to a fiery end?" Proving that truth is not only stranger than fiction, but also more colorful, more baffling, and more twisted, these stories delve beyond the headlines to expose the intricacies of the crimes committed by Australia's most wanted.

Liam Houlihan is a crime reporter with the ＂Sunday Herald Sun＂ and the author of ＂Badlands.＂