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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Short Books APRIL-JUNE 03
Gregory Dart Unrequited Love: On Stalking and Being Stalked Pbk published April 2003 by Short Books at £6.99 ISBN: 1904095283


"She won't stop writing to me - e-mails, letters, text messages, cards. But it's not merely because I hardly know her that I no longer reply. Sometimes her complaints seem so plausible that I wonder if I am not the one to blame. At others, it is the pure flame of her hatred that mesmerizes me - and it is then that I begin to feel afraid."

"Unrequited Love" is the story of a London University lecturer's unwilling encounter with the spectre of obsession. Not until he himself fell victim to the charms of a virtual stranger did he begin to understand the psyche of his own hopelessly impassioned admirer. Dating, as Gregory Dart finds, has become a dangerous game. Whatever happened to the good old rules of courtship? Are we all potential stalkers now?

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Thomas Munch Petersen Fatal Error: Confessions of an Unlikely Killer Pbk published June 2003 by Short Books at £7.99 ISBN: 1904095453


In July 2000, Thomas Munch-Petersen was on his way to do some work in Leeds. Halfway up the M1, doing 70mph in the fast lane, he leant over to get some mints out of his jacket pocket. For a moment he took his eyes off the road. That moment - 1.96 seconds to be exact - would trigger a catastrophic multiple car crash. Three people died in the pile-up and Munch-Petersen was charged, and convicted, of dangerous driving. A teacher - a proud, professional man - he suddenly found himself on his way to prison. In vivid detail, he describes the accident, his guilt at the pointless deaths, and his subsequent moral indignation as he was brought to bear the full (and, to his mind, deeply unjust) weight of English law.

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