Dead Centre by Robin Bowles

When British tourist Peter Falconio vanished at night in the heart of the Outback in 2001, it made front-page news around the world. Having been pulled over on a major highway by a passing stranger in the Northern Territory, Falconio climbed out of his Kombi van and was never seen again. Still in the van, his girlfriend, Joanne Lees, heard a 'bang' and then was attacked, bound and gagged and thrown into the stranger's four-wheel drive. But Lees escaped, and his in sparse bushland for hours in the desert until she was finally picked up by a passing truckie.

Falconio's disappearance ignited a massive police hunt and unprecedented media attention. Thirteen months later, Bradley Murdoch was charged with Peter's murder and the attack on Joanne Lees. He was ultimately tried and found guilty.

In Dead Centre, true-crime expert Robin Bowles gets to the heart of what happened to Peter Falconio. Based on over 50 hours of exclusive interviews with Murdoch himself, who had unrestricted access to the police file on the case, as well as interviews with key police investigators, Bowles paints a vivid picture of a convicted murderer and exposes the behind-the-scenes workings of a difficult investigation.

She also tackles those questions that remain unanswered. Could Joanne Lees really have eluded discovery for so long? Why wouldn't she talk to the media? And the biggest mystery of all: where is Peter Falconio's body? It's a gripping analysis of one of Australia's most mystifying crimes by the bestselling author of Blind Justice and Justice Denied.

Genres: Nonfiction - True Crime - Australia
Condition: Very good
Published: 2005 by Bantam
Pages: 414
ISBN: 9781863254045
Weight: 315g