In 2019, London teenager Zac Brettler fell to his death from a luxury apartment overlooking the Thames. As his parents investigate the circumstances surrounding his death, they discover he had been posing as the son of a wealthy Russian oligarch. Following their search for answers, this true crime investigation explores how Zac’s elaborate deception drew him into London’s shadowy world of wealth, power and organised crime.

Set in New Zealand’s Hutt Valley in 2020, this narrative non-fiction account follows two men caught in the criminal justice system and the overstretched legal aid lawyer representing them. Drawing on years of field research and extensive interviews, it traces their experiences through courts, prisons, rehabilitation and social services, exposing the complexities of poverty, offending and access to justice.

In 2017, New York Times journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey exposed decades of sexual harassment and abuse allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. This investigative account follows their painstaking reporting, from persuading women to speak publicly to confronting powerful lawyers and attempts to suppress the story. Their investigation helped ignite the global #MeToo movement and challenged the systems that had protected influential men for decades.

Growing up in the Pacific Northwest during the 1970s and 80s, Caroline Fraser witnessed an era marked by an extraordinary concentration of serial killers, including Ted Bundy and the Green River Killer. Investigating their crimes alongside the region’s industrial history, she explores a provocative theory linking widespread exposure to toxic metals from smelters with neurological damage and violent behaviour, questioning whether environmental pollution contributed to the epidemic of murders.

On Father’s Day in 2005, Australian father Robert Farquharson drove his car into a dam, drowning his three young sons. Was it a tragic accident or a deliberate act of revenge against his estranged wife? Journalist Helen Garner follows the ensuing murder trials, examining the evidence, courtroom proceedings and devastating consequences for everyone involved, while exploring the complexities of grief, guilt and justice.

FBI agent Martin Suarez spent years undercover infiltrating Colombia’s most powerful drug cartels, posing as a trusted smuggler and money launderer. His investigations exposed an international network of drug trafficking and financial corruption, but maintaining his double life came at an enormous personal cost. As his cover deepened and danger threatened his family, Suarez struggled to reconcile his work with the life he was trying to protect.

In July 2023, Erin Patterson invited relatives to lunch in rural Victoria, where a meal containing death cap mushrooms left three people dead and another critically ill. Two years later, her murder trial attracted worldwide attention. Writers Helen Garner, Chloe Hooper and Sarah Krasnostein attended the proceedings, examining the evidence, the people involved and the public fascination surrounding one of Australia’s most notorious criminal cases.

Sandra Pankhurst has lived many lives, from a childhood marked by abuse and rejection to working as a drag queen, sex worker and eventually a specialist trauma cleaner. Following Sandra into homes affected by hoarding, death and neglect, Sarah Krasnostein explores her remarkable personal history alongside the lives of her clients, revealing the compassion and dignity she brings to people often overlooked by society.

Published after her death in April 2025, Virginia Giuffre’s memoir recounts her experiences of sexual abuse and exploitation by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, and her subsequent fight for justice. From her troubled childhood to becoming one of their most prominent accusers, she examines the lasting effects of trauma, the difficulties survivors face in speaking out and her determination to advocate for others.