... possibly climb your way back from here, especially with Bennett Cele as your star witness. Remember, I was with him and have an intimate knowledge of what he'll say. I'll completely destroy your case through Bennett's evidence.
shouted Nightingale as something zig-zagged over my head from behind me, with a noise like a hummingbird ... if hummingbirds weighed twenty kilos and ate rats for dinner. A second and third super-hummingbird passed me to the left and ...
Drawing on letters, diaries, ballads, broadsides, and images, as well as on poignant appeals for mercy which historians until now have barely explored, the book surveys changing attitudes to death and suffering, 'sensibility' and 'sympathy' ...
... Gulch City . " I'll send you word whenever mail's going , " I prom- ised . " If you don't hear for a while , don't you fret . Be- cause you'll know I'm thinking of my girl Charity and fixing up so's we can settle down and have a home as ...
The second book in Bryan Gruley’s irresistible Starvation Lake series, The Hanging Tree is a compelling story about family and friendship, sex and violence, and the failure of love to make everything right.
The Hanging Tree
In 1640, Alys Bailey was accused of witchcraft and sentenced to hang.
This is just a snapshot; her moment in time that forever shaped who she was as a woman and as a mother. The moment that she watched her son swing from The Hanging Tree.
Twenty-five years after the Great War Wilson's nephew finds a letter written before he was born by a young woman who loved two of the charismatic Masters brothers. He decides to seek her out.
AT THE END OF HIS ROPE.
Enter a world where spirits roam the earth in Michael Phillip Cash's haunting new novella, The Hanging Tree.
It's hard to go it alone.