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'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
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Voice For the Dead
2016
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— Appears in: The Advertiser , 2 April 2016; (p. 14) -
Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 19 September 2009; (p. 26)
— Review of Lambs to the Slaughter 2009 single work biography -
Books
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 19 September 2009; (p. 20)
— Review of Australians : Origins to Eureka : Volume 1 2009 single work prose ; Lambs to the Slaughter 2009 single work biography
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Books
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 19 September 2009; (p. 20)
— Review of Australians : Origins to Eureka : Volume 1 2009 single work prose ; Lambs to the Slaughter 2009 single work biography -
Untitled
2009
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 19 September 2009; (p. 26)
— Review of Lambs to the Slaughter 2009 single work biography -
Voice For the Dead
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 2 April 2016; (p. 14)
Awards
- 2010 longlisted Walkley Award — Best Non-Fiction Book
- 2010 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best True Crime Book