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MURDER IN ITALY (Penguin/Berkley Books) is the true story of fresh-faced Amanda Knox, the American college student convicted of killing her beautiful British roommate in an Umbrian hilltop town. Her housemate, American honor student Amanda Knox, quickly became the prime suspect and soon found herself the star of a sensational international story, both vilified and eroticized by the tabloids and the Internet.Award-winning Italian-American journalist Candace Dempsey gives readers a front-row seat at the trial and reveals the real story behind the media frenzy..  Did Amanda stab Meredith Kercher to death during a marijuana-fueled "sex game gone wrong," as the prosecution claimed? Or could she be innocent?*Get the real story behind the tabloid headlines and secrets that weren't revealed in court.This is Eat, Pray, Love gone horribly wrong. The prosecutor claims Amanda killed Meredith during a drug-fueled orgy assisted by Knox's rich Italian boyfriend and a drifter she barely knew.So who killed Meredith Kercher? How did Amanda Knox become the prime suspect? Was justice done?  Based in Seattle, Knox's hometown, the award-winning, Italian-American journalist Candace Dempsey unravels th

*Winner Best True Crime Book 2010 Editor's Choice and Reader's Choice awards.. MURDER IN ITALY by Candace Dempsey was the first book published on the Meredith Kercher murder and it remains one of the very best, beautifully researched, well-written, and clearly organized. If you want to know the real story of this enormous travesty of justice that sent an innocent American girl to an Italian prison for four years, you must read this book, reprinted after Knox's acquittal with a new ending. Dempsey was the first journalist in the United States to raise questions about the Amanda Knox case, and the first to look deeply into the facts and begin to uncover the shocking truth. --Douglas Preston, co-author of The Monster of Florence

Emerald said I enjoyed the book. I enjoyed the book, I didn't really follow the case closely, so was happy to be able to get this book and read it.I enjoyed it, you can't really go wrong with a book.. Steven said Well Done!. I enjoyed the book. Well written.. Is Amanda Knox Guilty? Probably Not. Before I sat to read the book "Murder in Italy" by Candace Dempsey, I had vague knowledge, at best, of the Amanda Knox case. About a year ago, I'd watched an hour-long special on the case on TV-one of these news magazine shows. I don't even remember which show. The special, aired after