Many thanks to NetGalley and Pen and Sword Publishing for granting my wish to read an ARC of this book about Amanda Knox by Helen Saxton - 4 stars!
In November 2007 the body of British student Meredith Kercher was discovered in her bedroom in Perugia, Italy. She had been brutally killed. Over the course of the next eight years one man, Rudy Guede, would be convicted of her murder and two other suspects, Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, would be convicted, acquitted and convicted again for their part in the crime, before having their convictions overturned for the final time in 2015.
I'm definitely not alone with being fascinated by the Amanda Knox story. Saxton has taken police reports, court proceedings, books and internet chatter and has compiled them into a story. It's fascinating that Amanda because the crux of this story, more so than the victim and the other accused. The author was very objective and never expressed her opinions one way or the other. What this book shows is what the author states - that no one besides the person(s) who killed Meredith really know what happened. There are just as many arguments for Amanda's innocence as in her guilt.
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