LLOYD DELIVERS A TRUE CRIME STORY

THE INNOCENT WIFE Amy Lloyd Loot.co.za (R367) ARROW

THE mutilated body of a young woman lies in the Florida bayou.

An angeliclooking 18-year-old Dennis Danson is convicted and sentenced to death.

A documentary suggests serious flaws and Dennis is granted a stay of execution. He has been on Death Row for 18 years when a schoolteacher from Bristol becomes obsessed with his story. Sam is 31 years old and reeling from a painful break-up when she begins writing to Dennis. Their correspondence turns into an epistolary love affair. Amy Lloyd’s psychological thriller is reminiscent of true-crime stories. |