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Comprend les noms: CARLTON STOWERS

Œuvres de Carlton Stowers

Innocence Lost (1990) 66 exemplaires
Sins of the Son (1995) 45 exemplaires
Please Don't Kill Me: The True Story of the Milo Murder (1989) — Auteur — 22 exemplaires
Signpost Guide Loire Valley (2002) 20 exemplaires
Unsinkable Titanic Thompson (1982) 11 exemplaires

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Noah's Ride: A Collaborative Western Novel (2006) — Contributeur — 7 exemplaires

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Lieux de résidence
Cedar Hill, Texas, USA
Prix et distinctions
Pulitzer Prize nominee

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Confederate veteran, Ben Dalton, now sheriff of Aberdene, Texas, receives a letter from the woman he loves who married his best friend wile he was fighting in the war asking him to come to Fort Worth to help her husband who has been accused of murder. Torn between helping the man who stole his girl and seeing Mandy again, he sets off.

Knowing he is not a detective, he wonders how he will be able to help. Soon he learns everyone fears Colonel Abernathy and Mandy's husband, John, had crossed him. Soon Ben is under attack too but quickly earns some key friends in Fort Worth. A fast paced story that any fan of the genre will enjoy and struggle to stop reading.… (plus d'informations)
 
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lamour | Mar 3, 2022 |
Always looking for little books (meaning "short" "quick" reads" ) to carry around for all those times one has to wait! Found this gem at an event at my Public Library and since it was about baseball, and short, I decided it was a great find. Have carried it around for some time, and during one of those waiting moments, I pulled it out and spent the rest of my wait time, entertained, educated, and enthralled by a wonderful story about baseball here in Texas that I had not heard of and am truly thrilled that now I have. Written by an Edgar Allen Poe Award, a recipient of the Violet Crown Award and a finalist for the PEN Southwest Best Literary Non-Fiction, it was expected of Carlton Stowers a well-written, knowledgeable, interesting, great read and I was not disappointed. Grab a copy to carry around for your wait moments and learn something about President Lyndon Baines Johnson you probably never knew and meet a terrific writer you must add to your list of those well worth your acquaintance.… (plus d'informations)
 
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SmithfieldJones | Jan 3, 2020 |
Between 1984 and 1986 four young women in Wichita, Texas were brutally killed, most stabbed to death and left in a carnage of blood, one strangled and another smothered with a pillow. There was no doubt for those trying to find the killer that these were acts of rage. Difficult to find the connection, it wasn't until 14 long years after the women were killed, that a new detective, John Little, brought a fresh perspective , and a chance discovery that led to the killer.

A liar, a substance abuser, and a man filled with rage, Faryion Wardrip (what a name!), randomly found women to mutilate. The murders were actions of chance, and Faryion simply found and killed whenever the opportunity arose. Some were raped, all were undeserving of the cruel fate that left their bodies discarded and mutilated.

The book focused more on the grief stricken families than the life of Wardrip. For all those years, sisters, grandmothers, fathers, mothers, and friends were haunted by the fact that the killer simply could not be found...Until, Little saw that the girls murdered lived or worked in close proximity of each other.

When caught, Faryion admitted he killed the final woman, a "friend." He thought he could get away with killing the others. When caught, he flippantly noted that there was another woman he killed. She didn't live in Wichita.

If you like to read true crime stories, this is a good book.

One can only guess at what triggered the rage that left five women dead. And, in the end, even if it is know why, it does not change the fact that the girls died young, tragically and their murders were senseless and brutal.
… (plus d'informations)
 
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Whisper1 | 1 autre critique | Mar 27, 2018 |
Right now I am checking my shelves to see if I registered all my true crime books I can see when I move my head to the left.

This one was not registered on goodreads. Back in the days I wrote a very short and Very very simple ^-^ review.

I read and finished this book last night. (Jan. 14th 2007)
I liked the writing. The story was good.
It does leave you with questions. Why did he do it, how did he do it, would he have murdered the other child as well?
 
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Marlene-NL | Mar 12, 2016 |

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