The Fatal Gift Of Beauty: The Trials Of Amanda Knox

The Fatal Gift of Beauty: The Trials of Amanda Knox

Award-winning author and journalist Nina Burleigh? mesmerizing literary investigation of the murder of Meredith Kercher, the controversial prosecution, the conviction and twenty-six-year sentence of Amanda Knox, the machinations of Italian justice, and the underground depravity and clash of cultures in one of central Italy? most beloved cities.The sexually violent murder of twenty-one-year-old British student Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, on the night of November 1, 2007, became an international sensation when one of Kercher? housemates, twenty-year-old Seattle native Amanda Knox, as well as her Italian boyfriend and a troubled local man Knox said she ?aguely