Disordered Minds
by Minette Walters | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 033042002x Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 033042002x Global Overview for this book
Registered by whitehorsy of Hasselt, Limburg / Limbourg Belgium on 6/30/2020
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From the back cover:
In 1970 Howard Stamp, a retarded twenty-year-old, was convicted on disputed evidence of brutally murdering his grandmother in her Dorset home. Less than three years later he was dead, driven to suicide by self-hated and relentless bullying by other prisoners. A fate befitting a murderer, perhaps, but what if he was innocent?
When thirty-four-year-old anthropologist Dr. Jonathan Hughes re-examines Stamp's case for a book on injustice, his research into the written evidence leads him to believe that Stamp was wrongly convicted. But is the forgotten story of one friendless young man compelling enough to persuade Jonathan to confront the real murderers?
One person believes it is, George Gardener, sixty, has been trying to bring Stamp's case to public attention for years and has unearthed new evidence that might exonerate him. But Gardener needs the young academic on board if it is to be used to maximum effect.
On the face of it, there is no similarity between the illiterate Stamp and the highly educated Hughes, yet their lives resonate through their damaged childhoods and their Mutual sense of exclusion. With the threat of war in Iraq dominating British hearts and minds, there begins a battle far closer to home: an attempt to prove a grotesque miscarriage of justice.
But if a dangerous killer is still at large... then Gardener must first help Jonathan defeat his own demons.
Read in July 2020.
In 1970 Howard Stamp, a retarded twenty-year-old, was convicted on disputed evidence of brutally murdering his grandmother in her Dorset home. Less than three years later he was dead, driven to suicide by self-hated and relentless bullying by other prisoners. A fate befitting a murderer, perhaps, but what if he was innocent?
When thirty-four-year-old anthropologist Dr. Jonathan Hughes re-examines Stamp's case for a book on injustice, his research into the written evidence leads him to believe that Stamp was wrongly convicted. But is the forgotten story of one friendless young man compelling enough to persuade Jonathan to confront the real murderers?
One person believes it is, George Gardener, sixty, has been trying to bring Stamp's case to public attention for years and has unearthed new evidence that might exonerate him. But Gardener needs the young academic on board if it is to be used to maximum effect.
On the face of it, there is no similarity between the illiterate Stamp and the highly educated Hughes, yet their lives resonate through their damaged childhoods and their Mutual sense of exclusion. With the threat of war in Iraq dominating British hearts and minds, there begins a battle far closer to home: an attempt to prove a grotesque miscarriage of justice.
But if a dangerous killer is still at large... then Gardener must first help Jonathan defeat his own demons.
Read in July 2020.
Journal Entry 2 by whitehorsy at Coop Sint Jan - Boekenruilkastje in Leende, Noord-Brabant Netherlands on Monday, July 20, 2020
Released 3 yrs ago (7/20/2020 UTC) at Coop Sint Jan - Boekenruilkastje in Leende, Noord-Brabant Netherlands
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