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Bait : To Catch a Killer : A True-Crime Memoir

Author :  Janine Lazarus (Ed) Melinda Ferguson

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Country
South Africa
Publisher
Melinda Ferguson Books (mf),Cape Town,South Africa
ISBN 9781990973345
Format PaperBack
Language English
Year of Publication 2021
Bib. Info 196p.
Product Weight 290 gms.
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In the early 1990's the Norwood Rapist and serial killer was on the loose, sending a suburb of women into terror. In a deadly game of cat and mouse, echoing Clarice and Hannibal Lector in Silence of The Lambs, Lazarus is used by the police as a decoy to hunt Geldenhyus who has terrorised the JHB suburb of Norwood. It becomes extremely personal – the hunter hunting the hunted. Set in the newsroom of the predigital era, the gruesome story was competing with some of the hugest headlines in our transition to democracy. Written as a riveting behind-the-headlines true crime memoir with a most unusual twist, the book explores fascinating newsroom ethics and questionable police procedures while delving into the power relationship between a reporter, an editor and a serial killer. If we are to believe that journalists should shape the news – not make the news – Lazarus breaks just about every rule in the newsroom guide book as she becomes increasingly obsessed with Geldenhyus.

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