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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2022 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best True Crime Book for 'Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders'.
- 2022 winner Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best True Crime for Banquet: The Untold Story of Adelaide's Family Murders.
Awards for Works
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Lambs to the Slaughter
North Sydney
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Heinemann Australia
,
2009
Z1626365
2009
single work
biography
crime
'Inside the depraved mind of child killer, Derek Ernest Percy.
'Young. White. High IQ. Middle-class family. Naval rating. A portrait of a yuppie success story? No. A portrait of child killer, Derek Ernest Percy.
'In this definitive, graphically chilling account of Percy's life, a man dubbed by a prison officer as 'Australia's answer to Hannibal Lecter', award-winning true-crime author Debi Marshall applies her investigative journalism skills to a forensic examination of the crimes, the man and his modus operandi. Informed by exclusive material never before seen - poignant and insightful interviews with Percy's mother, victims’ families, psychiatrists, police officers and former colleagues - Marshall also takes us on her personal journey as she seeks to unravel the truth about the monster whose lonely, idiosyncratic character has deceived the best psychiatric minds for 40 years.
'Is Derek Percy responsible for Australia's worst unsolved child abductions and murders? Is he mad - or just bad?'
Source : publisher's blurb
- 2010 longlisted Walkley Award — Best Non-Fiction Book
- 2010 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best True Crime Book
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