Disordered Minds
5 journalers for this copy...
Synopsis:
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 innocent? 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 enough 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...
Read this a while ago, and don't remember what I thought of it exactly, but I enjoy a Minette Walters' mystery once in a while.
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 innocent? 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 enough 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...
Read this a while ago, and don't remember what I thought of it exactly, but I enjoy a Minette Walters' mystery once in a while.
Book number 2 in my Christmas calendar release challenge!
http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/31/4896536/
This will travel to a friend in Canada to fulfil a wish! Happy reading! :)
http://www.bookcrossing.com/forum/31/4896536/
This will travel to a friend in Canada to fulfil a wish! Happy reading! :)
*screams with delight* This is Christmas two weeks ahead of time in my mailbox! :D Thank you for this shimi, as well as for the other books and chocolate!
Journal Entry 5 by Bjorg from Reykjavík, Reykjavík (Höfuðborgar svæðið) Iceland on Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Thanks for the book aunt-sophie:) look forward to read this one:)
Journal Entry 6 by Bjorg at Reykjavík, Reykjavík (Höfuðborgar svæðið) Iceland on Tuesday, March 13, 2012
I finally read this one, it´s been with me for so long and I´m feeling so embarrased about it!!!!
Anyways, it´s not one of her best books, it was difficult to get into it at the beginning and it made me almost give up! But I did finish ;)
Anyways, it´s not one of her best books, it was difficult to get into it at the beginning and it made me almost give up! But I did finish ;)
Journal Entry 7 by Bjorg at Reykjavík, Reykjavík (Höfuðborgar svæðið) Iceland on Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Released 12 yrs ago (4/3/2012 UTC) at Reykjavík, Reykjavík (Höfuðborgar svæðið) Iceland
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Will bring this one and a few other books to a café tonight when I will meet Birnsen :)
Journal Entry 8 by birnsen at Árborg (Selfoss, Eyrarbakki, Stokkseyri), Suðurland Iceland on Wednesday, April 4, 2012
got this from my friend Bjorg yesterday and thought I hadn't read it but when home I noticed I had the same book in my bookshelf that I read a couple of years ago so I'll pass it directly on to another book crosser as RABCK :-)
Thank you! Minette Walters is a mystery master. Looking forward to reading this. How did I ever get so lucky? :-)
