Girlfriend to write book about Falconio Outback murder

British backpacker Joanne Lees, who survived an Outback attack that resulted in the murder of her boyfriend Peter Falconio, today said she had signed a deal to write a tell-all book about the ordeal.

The Australian deal comes three months after former truck driver Bradley John Murdoch was convicted of killing Falconio and assaulting Lees in July 2001 after Murdoch flagged down the British couple on a remote highway pretending to need help.