Just Another Little Murder

by Phil Cleary

"Eyes downcast, his head framed by the shadow from the flash and his thick hands a patchwork of freckles branded with scars from the removal of tattoos, the man captured by the police camera on the day he killed my sister was a pitiful figure". It should have been easy, but neither family nor the law could stop this man from murdering Vicki Cleary. On a sunny August morning in 1987, outside the kindergarten where she worked, Peter Raymond Keogh stabbed his ex-girlfriend to death. When Phil Cleary heard the jury's verdict of not guilty on grounds of provocation, he was outraged by the lies and deceits that let a bad man get away with murder. For the next 14 years he combed police and court records detailing Keogh's life and crimes, listened to the stories of good women who suffered the criminal's terror, and waged a public war against the complicity of the legal fraternity, psychiatrists and a parole officer who fell for a coward's lies. Impassioned and articulate, Phil Cleary takes us on his journey to set the record straight and to seek the justice that was denied his sister. His is a story of the heartbreak murder brings to an ordinary family, and a brother's obsession with retribution.

288 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 2003

Reviews

[Doron D'silva · Rating 3 out of 5]

The truth of it all was shocking . I would rather prefer the story be told from start to finish . Instead the writer has decided to dart between the various timelines . That's what ruined it for me

[Rea · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very repeatative!!!!

[Kay Anderson · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really wanted to read this book and what happened to these people is an absolute disgrace however I didn’t finish this book because it was too all over the place and really hard to follow.