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Written in Blood
Author: Diane Fanning

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Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780312994037 - ISBN-10: 0312994036
Publication Date: 2/1/2005
Pages: 400

Book Description:
An army brat-turned-marine, he saw combat in Vietnam, and returned a decorated soldier. An avid reader, his dreams of being an acclaimed novelist came true. His desire to find love was fulfilled when he married brilliant executive Kathleen Atwater, the first female student accepted at Duke University's School of Engineering. The Petersons seemed the ideal academic couple- well-respected, prosperous, and happy.

All that came crashing down in December of 2001, when Kathleen apparently fell to her death in their secluded home in an exclusive area of Durham, North Carolina. But blood spattered evidence and a missing fireplace poker suggested calculated, cold-blooded murder. Her trusted husband stood accused. Prosecutors introduced evidence at trial that sixteen years earlier, Peterson was one of the last people to see his neighbor alive before she was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her home in Germany. A dramatic trial followed in the explosive final chapter of a life that no novelist could ever have conceived...

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An excellent account of the lives of Michael Peterson and Kathleen Atwater, and the trial of Michael Peterson. The author includes good background detail without going overboard.



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Good true crime story.


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