Research Catalog

Title

A death in Italy : the definitive account of the Amanda Knox case / John Follain.

Author

Follain, John

Publication

New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012, c2011.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Follain, John.

Description

xvi, 440 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports.; 25 cm.

Summary

This is a recounting of the Meredith Kercher case, from her murder to the acquittal of Raffaele Sollecito and Amanda Knox. Shortly after 12:30 p.m. on November 2, 2007, Italian police were called to the Perugia home of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher. They found her body on the floor under a beige quilt. Her throat had been cut. Based on four years of reporting and access to the complete case files, and hundreds of first hand interviews, this book takes readers on a journey behind the scenes of the investigation, as the author the drama of the trials and appeal hearings he lived through. Four days later, the prosecutor jailed Meredith's roommate, American student Amanda Knox, and Raffaele Sollecito, her Italian boyfriend. He also jailed Rudy Guede, an Ivory Coast drifter. Four years later Knox and Sollecito were acquitted amid chaotic scenes in front of the world's media. Including exclusive interviews with Meredith's friends and other key sources, this book reveals how the Italian dream turned into a nightmare.

Alternative Title

Death in Perugia

Subject

• Kercher, Meredith > Death and burial
• Knox, Amanda > Trials, litigation, etc
• Sollecito, Raffaele > Trials, litigation, etc
• Murder > Italy > Perugia
• Murder > Investigation > Italy > Perugia
• Trials (Murder) > Italy

Genre/Form

• True crime stories
• Récits criminels.

Note

• "First published in Great Britain under the title Death in Perugia."--T.p. verso.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Map of Perugia -- Principal characters -- Path to murder -- Investigation -- Trials.

ISBN

• 9781250024244 (hardcover)
• 1250024242 (hardcover)

OCLC

• 780481524
• SCSB-11361445

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library