An edition of True Crime: The Novel (1995)

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An edition of True Crime: The Novel (1995)

True crime

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True Crime is an edge-of-the-seat suspense novel that graphically portrays the final moments leading up to a condemned killer's appointment with the executioner. The plot is familiar but convincing: An inmate, Frank Beachum, denies any involvement in the murder of a young pregnant woman. His only chance for survival lies in the hands of a reporter, Steven Everett. From the very first page, however, veteran suspense writer Andrew Klavan does everything possible to make this journalist unlikable--he drinks too much, he's committed adultery. In fact, the incarcerated Beachum, who stands accused of a hideous crime, comes across as a much more decent person than Everett.
Foes of capital punishment will find in True Crime another buttress to the oft-expressed argument that state-sanctioned murder is not always just, that some police investigations are sloppy even when they're not politically tinged or racially motivated, and that exonerating evidence is often overlooked. Here such evidence is so glaringly overlooked that it's possible for a somewhat drunken reporter with plenty of other things on his mind (a wife who's about to leave him and a boss who's just discovered that Everett is cuckolding him) to spot the inconsistencies. He follows a hunch, discovers the identity of the real killer, and tries to clear Beachum's name as the minutes tick away. The relentless pace and Klavan's crisp, taut writing make the suspension of disbelief possible, and no doubt Clint Eastwood, who stars in the movie version, will make Steven Everett a more likely and likable hero. --Jane Adams

Publish Date
Language
English
Pages
481

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True Crime
February 6, 2003, Time Warner Paperbacks
Paperback
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True Crime
October 20, 1998, Random House Value Publishing, Brand: Random House Value Publishing
Hardcover in English
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True Crime: The Novel
October 1997, Chivers Audio Books
Audio Cassette in English - Unabridged edition
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True Crime: The Novel
August 1997, Tandem Library
Unknown Binding in English
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True Crime: The Novel
August 11, 1997, Dell
in English
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True crime
1995, G.K. Hall, Chivers Press, G K Hall & Co
in English
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True crime: the novel
1995, Crown
in English - 1st ed.

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Edition Notes

Published in
Thorndike, Me., USA, Bath, Avon, England

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3561.L334 T78 1995b

The Physical Object

Pagination
481 p. (large print) ;
Number of pages
481

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL788424M
Internet Archive
truecrime00klav
ISBN 10
0783814380, 0745179193, 0745137393
LCCN
95020786

First Sentence

"Frank Beachum awoke from a dream of Independence Day."

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