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True Crime : The Novel by Andrew Klavan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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

Who reads True Crime : The Novel?

Author

Andrew Klavan

Publisher

G.K. Hall; Chivers Press; G K Hall & Co

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780783814384

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Thriller, Fiction

Rating

4.6 / 5 (655 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14