Unsafe Convictions

by Alison G. Taylor

Book Overview

When a man is accused of murdering his wife, he is sent to prison for life, only to have his sentence quashed two years later when his alibi evidence is confirmed. Now Superintendent Michael McKenna... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0434004790
• ISBN13: 9780434004799
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Random House (UK)
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The Dark Corners of the the Human Heart

I went to a bit of trouble to get this book. As far as I know, it has never been released in the US which is a dead shame, because Alison Taylor writes the type of hard edged detective stories that there are not enough of in the US.First, this is not her best book. The one I enjoyed the most was Simeon's Bride.Second, I enjoyed this book immensely.Dominated by the scenery of the moors north of Manchester, the same scenery that supposedly inspired Ian Brady and Myra Hindley to murder, the small village of Haughton is rocked when the body of young woman is found in her burning house. Her brutally abusive ex-husband is convicted of the murder and sent to prison. Then evidence appears that does not just suggest that her husband was innocent, but which implicates the police in a frame up of the convicted man.Michael Mckenna and his group and brought in to investigate the police who are implicated in this miscarriage of justice. But was it a miscarriage? From the reporter who is more interested in selling papers than relating the truth, to the town's reformed bad girl who just wants to put her past behind her to the charismatic, handsome priest who is a major witness, the characters are riveting. The author has been a social worker and her knowledge of the dark corners of human society is obvious here. The focus in this story is not so much on McKenna and his group who mainly act as a catalyst, but on the inhabitants of Haughton and the pain they inflict on one another and themselves.