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Jock Palfreeman's Bulgarian tragedy

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June 2013, no. 352

Every Parent’s Nightmare: Jock Palfreeman and the True Story of His Father’s Fight to Save Him from a Lifetime in a Bulgarian Jail by Belinda Hawkins

Allen & Unwin, $29.99 pb, 354 pp

Jock Palfreeman's Bulgarian tragedy

by
June 2013, no. 352

Like the best examples of true crime books, Every Parent’s Nightmare goes far beyond the tragedy at its centre and places it in its socio-economic context. Belinda Hawkins details how a death in Bulgaria back in 2007 became a highly politicised incident, and offers a convincing explanation as to why the trial was so sloppy and one-sided.

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