An Ordinary Murder

248 pages. Hardback with jacket. On Friday 2 February 1990, while Lesley Moreland and her husband were eating their evening meal, the doorbell rang. It was the police. They told the Morelands that their daughter Ruth was dead. She had been murdered. This is Lesley Moreland's extraordinary account of what happened to her and her family in the weeks, months and years that followed. She describes with painful honesty the visit to see Ruth's body in the mortuary, the funeral, the efforts to obtain the facts about how Ruth died, and the trial. And she writes about her own need to meet the man who took Ruth's life, and the difficult journey which eventually brought her face to face with him in prison. To learn more about the other side of murder, she embarked on a correspondence with a prisoner on Death Row in Texas and develops a close friendship with him. Lesley describes her personal struggle with the issue of forgiveness and her endeavours to find ways of continuing to live positively while accepting that Ruth's death will always be part of her life. This candid, courageous abd compassionate book takes us behind the newspaper headlines to tell an unforgettable story about the aftermath of murder.