Murder and Mountain Justice in the Moonshine Capital of the World
Murder and Mountain Justice in the Moonshine Capital of the World

Author: Phillip Andrew Gibbs

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2023-07-17

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 1439678413

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A Story of Hard Spirits and Defiant Souls Franklin County, Virginia has long been known as the Moonshine Capital of the World. That history can seem romantic, but the county has a dark and violent past. The descendants of the Scots-Irish who settled its rugged mountains openly defied the law and employed their own notions of justice to defend their traditions and livelihood. During Prohibition, the production of moonshine skyrocketed, but the liquor didn't stop flowing from the mountains when the Eighteenth Amendment was repealed. County and state officials struggled to maintain order in a region where unsolved murders, strange disappearances, and senseless killings were a way of life. The peak came in 1978, with nine murders linked to moonshine and drugs in the county. Historian and Virginia native Phillip Andrew Gibbs tells story of that horrific year and the history behind it.

Murder in the Blue Ridge Mountains
Murder in the Blue Ridge Mountains

Author: R. Barri Flowers

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2024-02-20

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 0369744012

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Murder brings him back to the mountains. A cold case could get him killed. The discovery of a body becomes personal when special agent Garrett Sneed is forced to work the case with law enforcement ranger Madison Lynley, his ex-girlfriend. But when another homicide reveals a possible link to his mother’s unsolved murder, Garrett is out for blood. As a cold case escalates into a murder spree, he must stop a serial killer who has now targeted Madison… From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served. Discover more action-packed stories in the The Lynleys of Law Enforcement series. All books are stand-alone with uplifting endings but were published in the following order: Book 1: Special Agent Witness Book 2: Christmas Lights Killer Book 3: Murder in the Blue Ridge Mountains Book 4: Cold Murder in Kolton Lake Book 5: Campus Killer

Murdered Judges -xld
Murdered Judges -xld

Author: Susan P. Baker

Publisher: Susan Baker

Published: 2011-08-22

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 161842078X

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True tales of judges murdered in America in the 20th century, including those killed by strangers, family members, and unknown perpetrators. This book also includes a few who died in mysterious circumstances. Several murders remain unsolved. And the perpetrator remains at large in some. Anyone who ever worked at or near a courthouse will be intrigued by the happenings in this book and glad it didn't happen where they worked!

Murder at the Jumpoff
Murder at the Jumpoff

Author: Susan Jennifer Bennett

Publisher: Canterbury House Publishing, Limited

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780982905449

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When Donald MacIntyre, an avid off-trail hiker, fails to return from a quest to bushwhack through difficult terrain up to the top of the Jumpoff, a dramatic cliff in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the good-natured back country ranger Hector Jones leads a search and rescue team into the remotest depths of the Greenbrier section of the park and discovers the body. From the nature of MacIntyre's injuries, it's clear that he had fallen-or been pushed-from the top. The job of investigating the suspicious death goes to Sally Connolly, a 31-year-old detective with the Sevier County, Tennessee, sheriff's office. Due to Hector's expert knowledge of the terrain, Sally enlists his help in the investigation. Murder at the Jumpoff is a novel with a powerful sense of place and the story of unusual characters who challenge themselves to seek excitement, beauty and fulfillment from undiscovered, treacherous mountain landscapes and from those they dare to love.

Strange Tales of Crime and Murder in Southern Indiana
Strange Tales of Crime and Murder in Southern Indiana

Author: Keven McQueen

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2009-10-14

Total Pages: 111

ISBN-13: 1614234345

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The author of Horror in the Heartland delves deep into the dark and sordid annals of the region where Hoosier history began. Prepare to take a tour of some dark, strange moments of southern Indiana’s history. From the scheming wife who wanted her dull husband out of the way to make room for a young love affair and the husband who stomped his wife to death because she wouldn’t stop singing an irritating song, to the man who murdered an entire family to pay off some farming equipment and the case of a mistaken-identity murder, author Keven McQueen relates the sinister (or not so) motives and gruesome details of nine murders that occurred in southern Indiana between 1880 and 1912. With a detailed, if macabre, look at each story as well as the ambiguities surrounding the criminals and punishments, McQueen illuminates the darker side of Hoosier history. Includes photos!

Murder Out Yonder
Murder Out Yonder

Author: Stewart H. Holbrook

Publisher: Courier Dover Publications

Published: 2016-05-18

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0486803872

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"This Dover edition, first published in 2016, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by The Macmillan Company, New York, in 1941 under the title and subtitle Murder Out Yonder: An Informal Study of Certain Classic Crimes in Back-Country America."

Murder in a Moonlit Mason Jar
Murder in a Moonlit Mason Jar

Author: Corinne F. Gerwe

Publisher: Inkswift

Published: 2016-01-06

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1620204789

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It’s summertime and the living is easy in the idyllic mountaintop town of Serena. When two seemingly-accidental deaths send Police Chief Jeff Farley into the dense forest on a chilling investigative journey, he finds a legacy of property ownership, illegal moonshining, and the ancient art of hoodoo practice that have kept intruders at bay since the early settlers made claim to the land. Charlotte, wife of an ambitious Congressman, has come to Serena to escape her husband’s political career. She’s in search of some peace, and possibly, herself. When her husband shows up unexpectedly, strange events and ghostly happenings are set in motion that challenge the beliefs and intentions of all. Set amidst a haunting wilderness where magic still flows, the residents of Serena must solve an ancient mystery and battle a supernatural foe. The human dynamics of love and yearning, greed and madness, and rebellion and redemption unwind at a spellbinding pace beneath the mystifying North Carolina moon.

The Murder of Harriet Monckton
The Murder of Harriet Monckton

Author: Elizabeth Haynes

Publisher: Myriad Editions

Published: 2018-09-28

Total Pages: 546

ISBN-13: 1912408058

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From the award-winning and bestselling author of Into the Darkest Corner comes a delicious Victorian crime novel based on a true story that shocked and fascinated the nation. On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton, 23 years old and a woman of respectable parentage and religious habits, is found murdered in the privy behind the chapel she regularly attended in Bromley, Kent. The community is appalled by her death, apparently as a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussic acid, and even more so when the surgeon reports that Harriet was around six months pregnant. Drawing on the coroner's reports and witness testimonies, Elizabeth Haynes builds a compelling picture of Harriet's final hours through the eyes of those closest to her and the last people to see her alive. Her fellow teacher and companion, her would-be fiancé, her seducer, her former lover—all are suspects; each has a reason to want her dead. Brimming with lust, mistrust and guilt, The Murder of Harriet Monckton is a masterclass of suspense from one of our greatest crime writers.

Trial by Ice
Trial by Ice

Author: Richard Parry

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2009-01-21

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0307492125

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“An extraordinary real-life adventure of men battling the elements and themselves, told with ice-cold precision.” –Kirkus Reviews (starred review) In the dark years following the Civil War, America’s foremost Arctic explorer, Charles Francis Hall, became a figure of national pride when he embarked on a harrowing, landmark expedition. With financial backing from Congress and the personal support of President Grant, Captain Hall and his crew boarded the Polaris, a steam schooner carefully refitted for its rigorous journey, and began their quest to be the first men to reach the North Pole. Neither the ship nor its captain would ever return. What transpired was a tragic death and whispers of murder, as well as a horrifying ordeal through the heart of an Arctic winter, when men fought starvation, madness, and each other upon the ever-shifting ice. Trial by Ice is an incredible adventure that pits men against the natural elements and their own fragile human nature. In this powerful true story of death and survival, courage and intrigue aboard a doomed ship, Richard Parry chronicles one of the most astonishing, little known tragedies at sea in American history. “ABSORBING . . . Suspense builds as Parry describes the events leading up to Hall’s ‘murder,’ then climaxes in horrifying detail.” –Publishers Weekly “RIVETING.” –Library Journal

Waterless Mountain
Waterless Mountain

Author: Laura Adams Armer

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0486492885

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Story, told in beautiful poetic prose, of the training of a present-day Navajo Indian boy who feels a vocation to become a medicine man.