Murder in Italy:  The Shocking Slaying of a British Student, the Accused American Girl, and an International Scandal In the idyllic hilltop town of Perugia, Italy, on November 2, 2007, police discovered the body of a British college student stabbed to death in her bedroom. The prosecutor alleged that the brutal murder had occurred during a drug-fueled sex game gone wrong. Her housemate, American honor student Amanda Knox, quickly became the prime suspect and soon found herself the star of a sensational international story, both vilified and eroticized by the tabloids and the Internet. .This is Eat, Pray, Love gone horribly wrong; Under the Tuscan Sun on the dark side.   Murder in Italy is the true story behind the notorious international murder.  Award-winning Seattle-based journalist Candace Dempsey gives readers a front-row seat at the trial and reveals the real story behind the media frenzy.  Candace has reported on the Kercher/Knox case for CNN Headline News, KOMO TV and Italian television. Murder In Italy grew out of her true crime blog, which is hosted by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, featured on Newsweek.com, CNN Anderson Cooper 360°, Corriere della Sera, Oggi, Martha Stewart Living Radio, and is read worldwide. Candace Dempsey is an award-winning Italian-American journalist and travel writer. She has written for the Chicago Tribune, Boston Phoenix and many other outlets. Her adventure tales appear in Travelers Tales and Seal Press anthologies. She is the former editor/producer of Underwire, a MSN Website that Newsweek called "cheeky, nicely written, fun." The New York Times praised it for "serious sisterhood."