In 1970, Harold Stamp, a retarded twenty-year-old was convicted on disputed evidence and a retracted confession of brutally murdering his grandmother - the one person who understood and protected him. Less than three years later he is dead, driven to suicide by isolation and despair. A fate befitting a murderer, perhaps, but what if he were incent? Thirty years on, Jonathan Hughes, an anthropologist specialising in social stereotyping, comes across the case by accident. He finds alarming disparities in the evidence and has little doubt that Stamp's conviction was a terrible miscarriage of justice. But how far is Hughes prepared to go in the search for justice? Is the forgotten story of one friendless young man compelling eugh to make him leave his books and face his own demons? And with what result? If Stamp didn't murder Grace Jeffries then somebody else did...and sleeping dogs are best left alone...
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pan Books, Pan Macmillan
brand
Pan Macmillan Australia
GTIN
9780330420020
ISBN-10
033042002x
ISBN-13
9780330420020
eBay Product ID (ePID)
106306580
Product Key Features
Author
Minette Walters
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Publication Year
2010
Type
Novel
Genre
Crime, Thriller & Adventure
Dimensions
Weight
304g
Depth
35 mm
Height
178mm
Width
111mm
Length
New edition
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Spine
35mm
Audience
Children
Author Biography
Minette Walters is England's bestselling female crime writer. She has won the CWA John Creasey Award for best first crime novel, the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best crime novel published in America and two CWA Gold Daggers for Fiction. Minette lives in Dorset with her husband and two children.