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Summary: extraordinarily well researched
Review: As co-counsel for Michael Fletcher during his murder trial, I was reluctant to work with Tom Henderson on this book because I believed my client and this case could not be adequately portrayed by a media consumed with the lurid details of "A Deadly Affair". I am pleasantly surprised to learn that I was wrong. Henderson not only objectively offers all of the facts and evidence involved in this trial, but he also manages to keep the motive/affair information in context. This book is well worth reading if for nothing else than Henderson's undaunted efforts to uncover the truth of what really happened to Leann Fletcher. His attention to detail must be highly praised. Whether one believes in Mick Fletcher's innocence or guilt, or even knows anything at all about this case, the book is worth reading because it exposes alot of information about our legal system, and, quite possibly, its imperfections.
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Summary: A trite page turner for short-hop flights
Review: For all the (...) hullaballoo, this book simply presents another example of the oldest story there is; the Eternal Triangle, and its consequences. Granted, some of the facts are novel, i.e., a law clerk having repeated intercourse with a judge who was manifestly unqualified to be such, but who, even so, should have known better. Of course, the law clerk tires of his wife, and so he kills her. THE CONVICTION HAS SINCE BEEN UPHELD ON APPEAL, to no one's real surprise.I live in the county where the law clerk and judge worked. She was suspended, and then left office before the voters could throw her out. We feel sullied by what took place. The book is an effort to bolster the defense's case after the facts were adduced and the case decided. Despite its one-sided nature, the book fails in its quest. Mr. Fletcher is where he belongs, and the only amazing thing is that he didn't try to take the judge with him, so as to bring down his own sentence. Apparently, even cold-blooded killers have some small vestige of morals. The book addresses nothing really new in the human experience, caters to the tawdry, and I'm sorry I spent the few hours I did on it. Don't even bother, unless you are really bored, and have absolutely nothing better to with your life.
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Summary: A trite page turner for short-hop flights
Review: For all the (...) hullaballoo, this book simply presents another example of the oldest story there is; the Eternal Triangle, and its consequences. Granted, some of the facts are novel, i.e., a law clerk having repeated intercourse with a judge who was manifestly unqualified to be such, but who, even so, should have known better. Of course, the law clerk tires of his wife, and so he kills her. THE CONVICTION HAS SINCE BEEN UPHELD ON APPEAL, to no one's real surprise. I live in the county where the law clerk and judge worked. She was suspended, and then left office before the voters could throw her out. We feel sullied by what took place. The book is an effort to bolster the defense's case after the facts were adduced and the case decided. Despite its one-sided nature, the book fails in its quest. Mr. Fletcher is where he belongs, and the only amazing thing is that he didn't try to take the judge with him, so as to bring down his own sentence. Apparently, even cold-blooded killers have some small vestige of morals. The book addresses nothing really new in the human experience, caters to the tawdry, and I'm sorry I spent the few hours I did on it. Don't even bother, unless you are really bored, and have absolutely nothing better to with your life.
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Summary: An new author watch for!
Review: I'm usually not a true crime reader, but when a friend told me to read this book I agreed. I'm so glad I did. Tom Hendersons approach to the often boring and repetitive court room drama held my attention for hours. I found that I had a difficult time putting this book down. Tom has a way with words and I hope to see much more from him in the future. He has a very promising future a novelest. Keep up the good work!!
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Summary: Very Disappointed
Review: I, too, was very disappointed after buying this book. It was a totally one-sided effort to prove the defendant innocent. No matter what the evidence, the author seemed blinded by his own prejudice and favoritism toward Michael Fletcher and his family, including a rather bizarre fascination with Michael's sister, a Christian singer. He seemed to find it impossible to believe that such an attractive woman of God could have a brother capable of committing murder. Perhaps a better title for this book would have been, "This Man is Innocent, His Sister Said So."
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Summary: Author paid off by defense attorneys or what?
Review: Sorry, but not only was the book boring and repetitive, but Thomas Henderson bent over backwards to present Mick Fletcher as innocent. Michael Fletcher is a spoiled brat, serial adulterer and user of women who had no loyalty to his wife or his child...or even his mistresses. The world apparently revolves around him. And Leann Fletcher's friend was right in his comments that she had it all over the judge that her "husband" was cheating on her with. If it's one thing I can't stomach, it's a homewrecker, male or female. She should've been booted off the bench immediately! Justice was done here.
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Summary: boring
Review: This story was incredibly interesting despite the author's inability to write very well. I especially enjoyed the trial. This is the first book I read in which I was not convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that he was guilty. The author could have been MUCH better. I wish Ann Rule would take this one over.
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Summary: Stark Terror
Review: Tom Henderson is one of the most articulate and well researched crime writers to ever grace the craft. I was especially impressed by his impassioned description of character's biographical information.
His folksy style reminds me of the A&E program City Confindential. Unfortunately, the graphic nature of Leann Fletcher's death doesn't lend itself to sound sleep.
Be afraid, Be very afraid!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Stark Terror
Review: Tom Henderson is one of the most articulate and well researched crime writers to ever grace the craft. I was especially impressed by his impassioned description of character's biographical information.
His folksy style reminds me of the A&E program City Confindential. Unfortunately, the graphic nature of Leann Fletcher's death doesn't lend itself to sound sleep.
Be afraid, Be very afraid!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: A Deadly Affair
Review: Until reading this book I thought the prosecution in the O.J. Simpson case drew the worst jury in the history of American jurisprudence. I now think that honor goes to the defense in Michael Fletcher's murder trial. This book makes a compelling case, not for the defendant's innocence, but for the idea that the prosecution unquestionably failed to prove his guilt beyond and to the exclusion of a reasonable doubt. The defendant was victimized by a jury that ran amock in playing detective and deciding for itself how the decedent's death must have occurred, finding the defendant guilty based on "evidence" it invented in the jury room and in the process ignoring its own disbelief in the prosecution's theory of how the "murder" occurred, the prosecution's asserted motive for the "murder," and the testimony of the prosecution's key witnesses. A well written book that will hold your interest from beginning to end and in the process will severely shake any faith you might have had in the idea that justice always prevails in criminal trials.
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