Claudia Rose’s latest client, the widow of a rich older man, is hated by her stepchildren, who are dead set on proving that she forged their father’s signature on his will. He left his entire estate, including the Sorensen Academy, to his young wife. Intrigued by this real-life soap opera, Claudia soon breaks one of the cardinal rules of business: Never get personally involved. But when she grows attached to a troubled Sorensen student, disaster strikes, she quickly realizes that reading between the lines can mean the difference between life and death.
With intimate access to the families, award-winning journalist Diane Fanning's Written in Blood spins a heart-wrenching true crime tale that's been the subject of an acclaimed documentary, "The Staircase", and an HBO TV miniseries starring ...
Written in Blood features the work of Appalachia’s leading scholars and activists making available an accurate, ungilded, and uncensored understanding of our history.
passed to her daughter—and in turn to Palmer. In the following year, a bookmaker named Bladon died with equal suddenness when staying with Palmer. A large sum of money disappeared, and so did Bladon's betting book, in which Palmer ...
Set in the harsh desert world of the Arizona Territory and northern Mexico during the 1870s, Written in Blood, the first installment of the Desert Legends Trilogy, follows young Jim Doolen as he attempts to find some trace of the father who ...
The History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen 1910-1928 Richard F. Selcer, Kevin S. Foster. officers Leon Harmon, Charlie Williams, and W. H. Garrison. Their informant had given them a general location. Now they had to find the action by ...
This text provides a history of Haiti from 1492 to the end of 1995.
But this made travelling in Russia all the more piquant.45 Less adventurous souls might prefer the role of armchair tourist and simply read avowals such as the one by William Eleroy Curtis of the Chicago Daily News, who travelled to ...
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library’s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote—also available are Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Other ...
Written in the Blood is the epic thriller of the year, a blazing and dexterous saga spanning generations, and threading the lives of five individuals driven by love, by sacrifice, by hunger and by fear.
"A serial killer who will stop at nothing.