num_pages: 328
description: In October 1997, a clever young law student at ANU made a bizarre plan to murder her devoted boyfriend after a dinner party at their house. Some of the dinner guests - most of them university students - had heard rumours of the plan. Nobody warned Joe Cinque. He died one Sunday, in his own bed, of a massive dose of Rohypnol and heroin. His girlfriend and her best friend were charged with murder.Helen Garner followed the trials in the ACT Supreme Court. Compassionate but unflinching, this is a book about how and why Joe Cinque died. It probes the gap between ethics and the law; examines the helplessness of the courts in the face of what we think of as "evil"; and explores conscience, culpability, and the battered ideal of duty of care.It is a masterwork from one of Australia's greatest writers.
language: English
title: Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law
titlecomplete: Joe Cinque's Consolation: A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law
genres: Book Club, Biography, True Crime, Crime, Psychology, Nonfiction, Female Authors, Law, Australia, Memoir
ratings_count: 5883
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Ned Kelly Award
category: True Crime, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Australian Booksellers Association Book of the Year, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Nita B. Kibble Literary Award
publisher: Picador