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...

Started off pretty good but for one reason or another I got distracted about half way through so the rest of the narrative was a bit disjointed for me (probably my fault).

Built up of lots of different styles (straight story, emails, police statements etc) to tell the investigation by an academic and an older woman - in a post 9/11 and Iraq war Britain - into the possible wrong conviction of a killer.

Now available in the Official BookCrossing Zone at Hudsons Coffee House, Colmore Row. The books are on a tall, thin set of shelves to the left of the arch into the back section of the coffee house.

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At the meet

Still there. This gets the Journal Entries in the right order, though!

Picked up at the meetup to use in the Never Judge A Book By Its Cover release challenge Week 47: Adjectives. The book includes the word "disordered" in the title.

This book will be released into the University Of Birmingham Library OBCZ.

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This book is being released for the Never Judge A Book By Its Cover release challenge 2008 Week 47: Adjectives, release # 22.

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Now available on the OBCZ shelf in the iLounge, University of Birmingham Main Library.

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This is no longer in the iLounge OBCZ as of today, so marking it as travelling pending a Journal Entry.

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