Angel Face: Sex, Murder, and the Inside Story of Amanda Knox [The movie tie-in to The Face of an Angel]

Barbie Latza Nadeau

Mar 2015 · Sold by Beast Books

About this ebook

Despite all the airtime devoted to Amanda Knox, it's still hard to reconcile the fresh-faced honor student from Seattle with the sexually rapacious killer convicted of the November 2007 murder of her British roommate. Few Americans have heard all of the powerful evidence that convinced a jury that Knox was one of three people to sexually assault Meredith Kercher, brutalize her body, and cut her throat. In Angel Face, Rome-based Daily Beast senior writer Barbie Latza Nadeau -- who cultivated personal relationships with the key figures in both the prosecution and the defense -- describes how the Knox family's heavy-handed efforts to control media coverage distorted the facts, inflamed an American audience, and painted an offensive, inaccurate picture of Italy's justice system. An eye-opener for any parent considering sending a child away to study, Angel Face reveals what really went on in this incomprehensible crime.

Ratings and reviews

This book is well worth reading. The author gives an intelligent and very readable assessment of important information about the case. There are things about Amanda's version of events that just don't add up. The author cannot say definitively what happened the night Meredith was murdered, but her insights are valuable and well grounded, and she wisely does not take everything Amanda says at face value. She doesn't condemn Amanda, but she doesn't believe everything she says either. I concur with the author. I think the Italian court had excellent reasons for doubting Amanda's version of events and for suspecting her. It was not a kangaroo court.

About the author

As a senior writer for the Daily Beast, Barbie Latza Nadeau provided weekly reports on the Amanda Knox case and trial throughout 2008 and 2009. She is also a regular contributor to Newsweek and a frequent commentator on CNN and the BBC. A fourteen-year resident of Rome, she has reported from Italy on everything from natural disasters to papal investitures.