The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay

· Random House Australia
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How did a father with no criminal history come to be on trial for the brutal murder of his wife?

It began with a phone call to Brisbane police on 20 April 2012. Allison, wife of real estate agent Gerard Baden-Clay, was missing.

When investigating officers arrived at the family home, in one of the city’s wealthiest suburbs, a neatly dressed Gerard was about to send the couple’s three daughters off to school.

Scratches on his face were shaving cuts, he told them. Police weren’t so sure and opened one of Australia’s most high-profile investigations.

Ten days after Gerard reported Allison’s disappearance, the body of the former beauty queen was discovered on a creek bank 14 kilometres from home.

The Murder of Allison Baden-Clay is written by the investigative journalist who covered the case from the start. It weaves together exclusive interviews and police and court records to explain how an upstanding family man with no criminal history received a life sentence for murder. It's a story of love, lust, image, ambition and marriage. It’s also a story about everyday choices and their consequences.

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4.6
93 reviews
A Google user
April 3, 2018
A well written book that provided great detail and insight into this tragedy. I was moved by Allison's plight and her family's spirit. May her three beautiful girls have a wonderful life. Allison will never be far away as she will live on in them.
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Melanie Cosgrove
March 16, 2018
I couldn't stop reading this even though I knew the outcome. Brilliantly written. Informative, consice and surprisingly more respectfully written of a most unrespectable person then I thought it would be. Not an easy task with this individual.
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Bernadette Shaw
November 16, 2016
A book doesn't need the life history of every single person it mentions
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About the author

David Murray lives in Brisbane with his partner and their two sons. He has been a journalist since 1997, has won awards for news and investigative reporting and is a former European correspondent for NewsCorp.

He is currently Crime and Courts Editor for the Courier-Mail and Sunday Mail.

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