In a meeting with potential publishers, Knox was said to be self-assured and intelligent, quoting her favourite novels and describing her dreams of becoming a writer as she promised to deliver the truth about the death of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy, five years ago.
The book, she is said to have disclosed, would provide a faithful account of the events leading up to and following the murder of Kercher, who was 21 when she was found with her throat cut after what prosecutors described as a sex game that went wrong.
Knox and her Italian then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito always denied taking part in the assault along with a third defendant, Rudy Guede, who pleaded guilty.
They were convicted to 26 and 25 years respectively, but freed on appeal in October after serving four years in prison. Sollecito is also now reported to be writing his memoirs.
Knox has attracted huge publicity on both sides of the Atlantic since the crime, with Americans largely viewing her as a victim while many in Britain and Italy asking whether she was a manipulative killer who got away with murder. ...read more
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