Amanda Knox Speaks

Since the arrest of Amanda Knox in 2007, her murder case — with its lurid details and attractive young cast — has been heatedly debated by the news media on both sides of the Atlantic and in several books.  Prosecutors and some European tabloids depicted Knox as a cunning “she-devil,” but her family and her supporters have promoted an image of her as an American innocent abroad who got caught up in the gears of a dysfunctional Italian justice system.  After a controversial trial, Knox was convicted and imprisoned. But in 2011, an appeals court overturned the decision and vacated the murder charge. Free at last, she returned home to the U.S., where she has remained silent, until now.  Filled with details first recorded in the journals Knox kept while in Italy, Waiting to Be Heard is a remarkable story of innocence, resilience, and courage, and of one young woman’s hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved.