Joe Cinque's Consolation

Joe Cinque's Consolation

<p><b>A TRUE STORY OF DEATH, GRIEF AND THE LAW</b></p><p>In October 1997 a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests-most of them university students-had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a massive dose of rohypnol and heroin. His girlfriend and her best friend were charged with murder. </p><p>Helen Garner followed the trials in the ACT Supreme Court. Compassionate but unflinching, this is a book about how and why Joe Cinque died. It probes the gap between ethics and the law; examines the helplessness of the courts in the face of what we think of as 'evil'; and explores conscience, culpability, and the battered ideal of duty of care. </p><p>It is a masterwork from one of Australia's greatest writers.</p><p><b>Winner of New Kelly Award for Best True Crime 2005</b></p><p><b>Winner of ABA Book of the Year 2004</b></p>