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Indlæser... Finding Amy: A True Story of Murder in Maineaf Joseph K. Loughlin
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Combining the drama of a true crime story with the detail of a police procedural, Finding Amy chronicles the investigation into one of the most shocking murders in recent Maine history. Twenty-five-year-old Amy St. Laurent was attractive, intelligent, and responsible. One October evening, she went out to show a friend from Florida the exciting nightlife of Portland’s Old Port section. She played pool. She danced. And then she disappeared. The police investigation into her murder riveted the state of Maine for months. This inside account of the investigation alternates between Kate Clark Flora’s objective tale of dedicated police work and the dramatic recollections of then-Lieutenant Joseph K. Loughlin, who oversaw the case. From the first call to a Portland detective about a missing woman to the police’s growing certainty that she had been murdered, from the heroic efforts to locate the body to the flight from Maine of their chief suspect, and from the painstaking work of collecting evidence and building a case to the struggles over jurisdictional questions to the twists and turns of the eventual trial, Finding Amy is a dramatic story of brutal murder and exemplary police work. No library descriptions found. |
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The book also continues through the trial, with cogent explanations of the evidentiary issues and legal wrangling that goes on - the kind most people are never really aware of - in every criminal case, out of sight of the jury and the public. Loughlin and Flora are able to go into the reasons for choosing to leave in or leave out evidence or witnesses, and the reasons that evidence or witnesses can or can't be brought in to the trial. Disenchantment with the criminal justice system is evident, and so are the reasons for it, in ways that have never been made quite so clear to me.
All that said, the book occasionally lets Loughlin, who participated in the investigation, slip into first person recollections of conversations and events from the time of the investigation, and they're really pretty awful, characterized by wooden-sounding dialogue, cringe-worthy sentiments, and gratuitous machismo. These bits tend towards the maudlin, and they all feel stagy. The book would have been excellent without them; they interrupt the flow of an otherwise really compelling narrative, and don't do a thing to make Loughlin and the other investigatiors seem more human or likable. ( )