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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
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Fiction, Trials (Murder), Journalists, Death row inmates, Trials (Murder) -- Fiction, Journalists -- Fiction, Large type books, Reporters and reporting, Capital punishment, Journalists, fiction, Fiction, legal, Everett, steve (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiledShowing 7 featured editions. View all 7 editions?
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True Crime
October 20, 1998, Random House Value Publishing, Brand: Random House Value Publishing
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051726823X 9780517268230
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True Crime: The Novel
October 1997, Chivers Audio Books
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0745166784 9780745166780
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True Crime: The Novel
August 1997, Tandem Library
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1417712430 9781417712434
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"Frank Beachum awoke from a dream of Independence Day."
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