TRUE CRIME / WEST AUSTRALIANA
Broken Lives, Estelle Blackburn’s riveting investigation into the life and untold crimes of Eric Edgar Cooke, the last man to hang in Western Australia, revealed new evidence to indicate that two innocent men, John Button and Darryl Beamish, went to jail for one of Cooke’s murders. Here, for the first time, Estelle goes behind the scenes and relates how she came to write Broken Lives – the investigative trail, the suspects and the cops involved, the families she befriended. Passionate, inspiring and compelling, The End of Innocence takes the reader on a journey to the heart of our criminal justice system – where good and evil are tightly entwined and truth is sometimes hard to find… 338 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports., facsims. ; 24 cm. First Edition #100216/0818/1020/0321/0421/150222/101123 TRUE CRIME SCARCE