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Candace Dempsey is an award-winning Italian-American journalist, true crime blogger and travel writer based in Seattle. Her seattlepi.com Amanda Knox blog has been featured on CNN Anderson Cooper 360, Newsweek.com and is read around the world. She's discussed the Amanda Knox case on CNN Headline News, Q13 FOX NEWS, KOMO-TV, KING TV, KIRO FM Radio, Italian TV and other media outlets. She has a master's degree in journalism and decades of writing experience in newspapers, magazines, and on the Web. Her staff positions include: magazine editor, newspaper editor, staff writer, and a producer, editor and writer for MSN. Her travel tales have been published in numerous Travelers' Tales and Seal Press anthologies.
Candace's MURDER IN ITALY, is the true story of Amanda Knox, the American honor student convicted of killing her British roommate, Meredith Kercher, in a seemingly idyllic Italian college town on November 1, 2007. Best True Crime Book Editor's and Reader's Choice awards, a Library Journal Bestseller, Top Ten Amazon True Crime.
Drawing upon candid interviews with the key players, case files, police reports, court documents, eyewitness accounts, crime scene videos, prison diaries, and DNA evidence, award-winning journalist Candace Dempsey reveals the real story behind the media frenzy surrounding suspects: American honor student Amanda Knox; Raffaele Sollecito, her Italian ex-boyfriend; and drifter Rudy Guede, an Italian immigrant form the Ivory Coast.
Giving readers a front-row seat at the trial, Dempsey unravels the evidence and the allegations to look at what really happened to Meredith Kercher, Knox's British roommate, when she was stabbed to death that dark Italian night.
