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Jamelle Wells, The Court Reporter

HarperCollins Australia (ABC Books), 309 pp., ISBN: 9780733337888, p/bk, AUS$32.99

The Court Reporter (2018), described by the publishers as “a tough and fearless journalist’s memoir that looks at the cases that have shocked, moved and never left us”, is equal parts personal reflection on a career in the Australian media and a catalogue of crimes committed in New South Wales over recent decades.

Jamelle Wells' name will be familiar to many. In her work on radio and television she has delivered news of some of the most audacious, as well as senseless, crimes to make our headlines, from felons Des Campbell (found guilty of pushing his wife off a cliff) and Keli Lane (found guilty of murdering her baby, Tegan, and of lying under oath) to victims Lisa Harnum (thrown off the balcony of her fifteenth-floor apartment by her fiancé Simon Gittany) and two-year-old Dean Shillingsworth (murdered by his mother, placed in a suitcase and then dumped in a p