Book description
John Follain, who covers Italy for the Sunday Times, tells the
definitive inside story of this extraordinary case. Shortly after 12.
30pm on 2 November 2007, Italian police were called to the Perugia home
of 21-year-old British student Meredith Kercher. They found her body on
the floor under a beige quilt. Her throat had been cut. Four days later,
the prosecutor jailed Meredith's flatmate American student Amanda Knox,
and Raffaele Sollecito, her Italian boyfriend. He also jailed Rudy
Guede, an Ivory Coast drifter. Four years later Knox and Sollecito were
acquitted amid chaotic scenes in front of the world's media. Uniquely
based on four years of reporting and access to the complete case files,
Death In Perugia takes readers on a riveting journey behind the scenes
of the investigation, as John Follain shares the drama of the trials and
appeal hearings he lived through. Including exclusive interviews with
Meredith's friends and other key sources, Death in Perugia reveals how
the Italian dream turned into a nightmare. John Follain was born in
1966. He studied at Oxford before joining Reuters, for which he worked
as a correspondent in Rome and Paris. He has covered Italy for The
Sunday Times
since 1998. His previous books include THE LAST GODFATHERS and ZOYA'S
STORY on an Afghan resistance fighter, which was translated into
fourteen languages. He was voted runner-up for the 2006 Paul Foot Award
for Campaigning Journalism, and nominated for the 2008 Magazine
Journalism Awards for his interview with the Knox family.
