Not a book that you could say you were "looking forward to" - this is nonetheless a book I have been interested to read. Derek Ernest Percy isn't really a well known name in Australia, yet he's been "at the Govenor's pleasure" in various jails in Victoria since 1969. Despite a number of subsequent inquests, and much speculation - he remains a suspect in many notorious Australian child murders from around the same time - yet he has only ever been charged with one murder.
From the Blurb:
July, 1969. Police discover the mutilated body of 12-year-old Yvonne Tuohy off a lonely bush track at Victoria's Westernport Bay.
Within hours, they have charged Derek Ernest Percy, a highly intelligent 20-year-old Royal Australian Navy seaman, with the heinous crime.