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Disordered Minds

by Minette Walters
Greg Wagland
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In 1970, Harold Stamp, a reclusive twenty-year-old, was convicted on disputed evidence and a retracted confession of brutally murdering his grandmother - the one person who understood and protected him. Less than three years later, he is dead - driven to suicide by isolation and despair. Jonathan Hughes, an anthropologist specialising in social stereotyping, is determined to re-examine this case. There were alarming disparities in the evidence and Hughes has little doubt that there has been a terrible miscarriage of justice. But there is also something else pushing this half-Iranian, half-Libyan outsider to reach for the truth...

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    July 1, 2020

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      • ISBN: 9781004004003
      • File size: 404882 KB
      • Duration: 14:03:30

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    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 8, 2004
      Correction:
      The author cited in the review of Jan DeSmedt's Singularity
      (Forecasts, Oct. 25) is Greg Bear, not Craig Bear.
      Mass Market
      DISORDERED MINDS
      Minette Walters
      . Berkley
      , $10 (544p) ISBN 0-425-19935-5

      Bestseller Walters (Fox Evil
      , etc.) delivers another complex tale of murder and deception. In 1970, 20-year-old Howard Stamp is convicted of brutally killing his 57-year-old grandmother with a carving knife; three years later, he commits suicide in prison. In 2002, London anthropologist Jonathan Hughes includes the Stamp case in his book, Disordered Minds
      , which examines infamous miscarriages of justice. The mentally slow Stamp may have been coerced into confessing to the murder. George (Georgina) Gardener, an elderly councilor living in Stamp's hometown of Bournemouth, has come to believe in Stamp's innocence herself and asks Jonathan for help in clearing the young man's name. The two get off to a rocky start, but they form an uneasy alliance that gradually grows into a deep friendship. Watching this relationship develop is one of the novel's more entertaining aspects. Walters uses to good effect the multiple viewpoints of her numerous characters, as well as flashbacks, letters, newspaper articles and e-mails to reveal the truth behind the decades-old murder. However, as in life, there are no easy answers, and although the ending may disappoint some, it caps perfectly all that has come before it. Agent, Jane Gregory at Gregory and Company.

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