2 great NZ murder/crime non-fiction reads for summer! Who Killed Scott Guy? and Trial by Ambush (David Bain) Both in good condition. Scott Guy was gunned down at his front gate for no reason. His death enthralled us because it was so inexplicable but also because there were no obvious suspects. When police finally arrested someone, public fascination soared - because the person they claimed killed Scott Guy was his brother-in-law, colleague and former mate,Ewen Macdonald. While on the surface a hardworking husband and father of 4, it gradually emerged Macdonald had an alter-ego and alternative life of violence. He secretly hated the person who'd been best man at his wedding. So he planned to get rid of Scott and shot him as he headed to work. But despite enormous media coverage, most of us still know very little about the case. To understand what really happened and why, you need to set aside what you think you know and start over again, from that first dark midwinter morning.By the end you'll know everything the jury did - and much more.

TRIAL BY AMBUSH by Joe Karam At 7.09 a.m. on 20 June 1994, David Bain called emergency services and reported finding his entire family of five dead. A year later he was convicted of having murdered them in cold blood. He was sentenced to life in prison. However,after 12 years of public controversy, inquiries and appeals, on 10 May 2007 the Privy Council concluded that a substantial miscarriage of justice had occurred and accordingly quashed the convictions and ordered a retrial. For the first time the background to this historic decision is laid bare. This compelling new book explores why the miscarriage happened, just how substantial it actually was and why it took 12 years to right this dreadful wrong. When the evidence heard by both juries is on the table and assimilated in logical fashion as Joe Karam has done in this detailed narrative, the so-called controversy posed by the judge in his summing up - 'Who did it?will be put to rest once and for all.