Extract from Jon Clarke's new book: 'My Search for Madeleine McCann'

sharonl wrote:

sharonl wrote:Best sellers rank

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Kindle           9150
Paperback    9390

Update:

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Kindle           21,864
Paperback   11,567

It's self published...can he manipulate the figures?

Jill Havern wrote:It's self published...can he manipulate the figures?

I am not sure, are they not based on Amazon's sales?

Just checked and the figures are based on Amazon best sellers

If this lying cheat could manipulate the figures they would be ranked no. 1 or at least in the top 10

What happened to PeterMac's open letter to Jon Clarke? I can't find it 

I took it down.
It was a reply to the chapter about me, but if you haven't read you would not see what I was talking about
and therefore it looked silly and self-indulgent.
And I am certainly not going to post the Chapter and give Clarke the pleasure of having his lies and innuendo
repeated here.

I'll review it in a different format later

A mixed bag some might say..

Anonymous

5.0 out of 5 stars Impressively comprehensive

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2021

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I devoured all 437 pages of this book in less than three days.

And although I must have already read hundreds of thousands of words about this case over the years, it had plenty of information I didn't know.

Jon Clarke has clearly carried out a comprehensive and forensic investigation of the case in order to write it.

But equally impressive is the way he successfully takes the reader on his journey investigating it - from the morning this case first began, right up until the present day - with a very readable writing style, which made me want to keep on reading right until the end.

I would recommend it to anyone, from people who have very little knowledge of this mystery to those who are experts on it, including the authorities now investigating.
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Fiona ryan

5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely gripping!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 8 September 2021

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This book is looking at angles I've been looking at over the last few years.
The lead investigator Gonçalo Amaral and his companions I feel are more involved then they would like to admit.

The missing child Joanna Cipriano ( the same man leading her investigation) she has never been found either!
Were the police turning a blind eye, while child trafficking was happening?

I'm on chapter 14 so far, and I can't put it down!

The undercurrent of human trafficking in Portugal has been kept quite hidden due to the impact on the tourist industry!

Child trafficking, especially to order can be an extremely lucrative practice, be it for the abductor or for the men who may possibly covering it up, under the guise of a police badge!

Absolutely gripping!

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Pam G

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding! An in depth investigation like no other.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 September 2021

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An investigator who has gome more than the extra mile. Detailed to go to Luz in the early morning of 4 May 2007 started 14 years of thorough investigation by Jon Clarke covering so many aspects of this mysterious case of missing Madeleine. I can't put the book down and am nearing the end. So glad he brought up the atrocious level of hatred, threats and trolling the McCann couple have had to endure on top of their pain at losing their first born. Nobody should have to put up with this.

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PM
1.0 out of 5 stars dubious at best.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2021

"Jon Clarke was the first journalist on the scene when Madeleine McCann went missing in 2007 . . ."

NO HE WASN'T

There is YouTube news footage showing him in a group of at least 6, comparing notes and reading what they had found out. He got there comparatively late having driven the 4 hours from his home in Spain.

So the first sentence is a lie. One he has repeated over the years.
Read the rest with this in mind.

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Maria Watson

5.0 out of 5 stars A rigorous investigation into the mysterious Madeleine McCann case

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2021

There is no doubt that Jon has become more immersed in this case than almost anyone… and his knowledge and expertise easily explain why no-one should believe the conspiracy theorists and oddballs who still blame the parents!

Instead he builds a very thorough and detailed understanding of the prime suspect Christian Brueckner by talking to those who know him best as well as police and prosecutors.
The seedy underworld of the costas of Spain and the Algarve is there for all to see. … and his probe of the hundreds of paedophiles there is excellent, as his honest and alarming study of the rise of child pornography over recent years.

All parents will want to have a read of this book.
In fact, it’s essential reading.

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Shirley Thompson

5.0 out of 5 stars Best seller

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 5 September 2021

A very good report on the case. Best seller. I hope the McCann family get closure in the near future.
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Truthseeker

1.0 out of 5 stars What a load of nonsense

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 September 2021

This novel should really be under crime fiction. Clarke, not known for fair and honest reporting, has pictured a man on the front cover and is suggesting that he is guilty of abducting Madeleine McCann when the man has not even been questioned yet. To me, this book is highly libelous and both the publisher and Amazon should be mindful of this.

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jason m.

1.0 out of 5 stars Yet another on the make

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2021

Jon Clarke had added his name to the vast list of vile individuals who have done nothing but disrespect and abuse the name that is Madeleine McCann. She’s been nothing but a cash cow since her demise and the amount of people making money off of her name is despicable. If Jon Clarke had anything new to add to the investigation, (he doesn’t by the way) why not take that info to the authorities first instead of writing a book? I’m sure you’ll enjoy the proceeds Jon. Much the same as I’m sure poor Madeleine would love to know how you’re using her as a money maker. Poor Madeleine McCann. Abused in death as she was in life.

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sharonl wrote:

sharonl wrote:

sharonl wrote:Best sellers rank

Kindle          8924

Paperback    6622

Update:

Kindle           9150
Paperback    9390

Update:

This novel is doing better than I thought


Kindle           21,864
Paperback   11,567

Kindle           27,405

Paperback     18,705


Don't know why this popped up, maybe they're in the process of updating it

crusader wrote:Is the reflection in the window Jon Clarke I wonder. 

The point is..



Contrary to a claim up-page!

sharonlUpdate: wrote:

This novel is doing better than I thought

Kindle           21,864
Paperback   11,567

Kindle           27,405

Paperback     18,705

PeterMac's FREE e-book has had 212,006 hits since JC's bewk came out a couple of days ago 

Down a quid already 

New book explores 14 years of Investigating Madeleine McCann case by the Olive Press in Spain and Portugal

In new book My Search for Madeleine, Olive Press editor Jon Clarke explains how he probed the Maddie mystery from the beginning.

By Jon Clarke (Publisher and Editor) - 11 Sep 2021 @ 10:00

I first investigated the Madeleine McCann case on Day one in May 2007, when I was up and out of my house near Ronda before 7am and on the road to the Algarve.

A missing child story in Portugal wasn't too out of the ordinary.

What was different though, was the family involved.  The professional, middle-class doctors Kate and Gerry McCann were not your typical Brits abroad-type victims - the least likely of tourists to want to get involved with the press, particularly on holiday.

But they were clearly in desperate need for help.

Conjuring up a legion of journalists to help in their hunt for their missing daughter seemed the best way forward.

I was working for a handful of national British newspapers and ended up spending almost two weeks there in the first month alone.

The story had first appeared on Sky News at around 7.45am in the UK,and I figured it would be over by the time I got there:  she would be found, like the vst majority of other kids who wander that wander off during their holidays, either dead or alive, in a swimming pool or a ditch somewhere.

It wasn't hard to locate the Ocean Club, in Praia da Luz and I was the first British newspaper journalist on the scene.

Read on:  https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2021/09/11/new-book-explores-14-years-of-investigating-madeleine-mccann-case-by-the-olive-press-in-spain-and-portugal/

crusader wrote:Sorry, I thought @Silentscope  meant the photo the witness took at the time was not shown.

No problem!

You know as well as I the importance of sticking to truth and evidence as far as humanly possible - dogs included.

It's taken a long time to rid the forum of the typical social media element, the idle gossip-mongers who don't have the time nor inclination to check what they repeat, we don't want to go back there.

Of course there will always be the odd stray but providing erroneous information is corrected before growing legs, all is good.

How are you getting on with 'the book' ?

From the bits I've seen so far, like the above latest report by the Olive Press ^^^ by the mighty pen of Jon Clarke himself, the content lacks substance and above all else .... 'evidence'.

Anyone can say they did this that or the other but without some degree of evidence to back the claims, it's essentially worthless.

I don't think Mr Clarke will enrich himself in any way shape or form by this work of unsubstantiated twaddle.

Poetic licence personified.

I confess, I've crumbled under the pressure - for no other reason than the fact I don't like commenting on anything I haven't read with my very own mince pies.



I've ordered from Amazon International, still have to pay over the odds for delivery but not 40 quids worth of over the odds.

The order hasn't yet been processed so I haven't a clue what the estimated delivery date is to be.  Probably in time for Christmas, by that time it will be over and done with.

At least it can gather dust, or maybe I'll use it as a novelty garden planter.

He is shameless alright.

In his Olive Press yesterday, he has a photograph of Goncalo Amaral and a statement that says he was charged with covering up a missing child case one day before Madeleine went missing.

Clarke is evil.

crusader wrote:@PeterMac wrote...Have we ever seen that handout ?  
And from where did three local women get a photo of Madeleine in her pyjamas ?

I wonder where the ex pat woman had got the photo from and so early. He said he grabbed a stack- probably about a dozen.

Could it be the photo that was printed by the Ocean Club and reproduced by this woman.

I can offer no proof but I strongly suspect said photograph of Madeleine to be the same image given to the PJ - it could easily be said the pink top is pyjama..





It appears to me Jon Clarke likes to take things from the PJ files and other more reliable sources and weave them into his own 'version' - his story. Like as not he did talk to these people when pursuing his 'investigative journalist' venture.

crusader wrote:Chapter 9 Quote
It is a little known fact that Amaral himself had actually been made an arguido in another still very murky case just ONE DAY before Madeleine went missing.

Again it would appear Jon Clarke is using fact and/or documented evidence to weave his web of intrigue. This instance in all probability he is referring to the charges made against Snr Amaral in connection with the Joana Cipriano case, I don't recall the time span of the incident, if I ever knew, but there was a lot made of it at the time of the investigation into the Madeleine Mccann case.

I've plucked this from nowhere only as an illustration of the scandal at the time, can't vouch for the accuracy but it gives an idea of what was being reported at the time..

wikipedia wrote:Joana Isabel Cipriano (born 31 May 1996) disappeared on 12 August 2004 from Figueira, a village near Portimão in the Algarve region of Portugal. An investigation by the Polícia Judiciária, Portugal's criminal police, concluded that she had been murdered by her mother, Leonor Cipriano, and her uncle, João Cipriano, after witnessing them engaged in incestuous sex. There was no evidence to support this but the police beat a confession out of her . Her body was never found. There is no real evidence she is dead.

The mother and uncle confessed to police in October 2004; the uncle said he had cut the girl's body into pieces before disposing of it by throwing it into a nearby pigsty. Joana's mother withdrew her confession the day after signing it, alleging that she had been beaten during a 48-hour-long interrogation. The police officers accounted for the bruising on the mother's face and body by maintaining that she had thrown herself down some stairs in the police station in an effort to commit suicide. Both the mother and uncle were convicted of murder and sentenced to sixteen years in jail. It was the first murder trial in Portuguese legal history to take place without the discovery of a body.

Five officers were charged with a variety of offences as a result of the allegations of assault; three were acquitted. One of the two officers who was convicted, Chief Inspector Gonçalo Amaral, led the investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, a British girl who went missing in May 2007 from the nearby resort of Praia da Luz. Amaral was not present during the alleged assault, but was accused of having covered up for other officers; he was convicted of having falsified police documents in the case and received an eighteen-month suspended sentence.

Oddly enough, or not as the case may be, at the foot of one such sleezy gossipy showbiz report about Snr Amaral's conviction, the Netflix 'Madeleine McCann Documentary' trailer is featured..



That's where Jon Clarke made his debut as a video movie star.

... led the investigation away from the real culprits in the Maddie case ...

Geeez-us I nearly choked on a swig of water

Methinks Mr Clarke is getting a bit confused here.

Isn't it the British institution that led the PJ's investigation - Snr Amaral's investigation, down the garden path, away from 'The Prime suspects'?

Silentscope wrote:Jon Clarke should know that Herr Wolters is already on record with Sandra Felgeuiras stating that Nicole F is not a Suspect in this case

Where is this on record, may I ask?