Description
"A true-crime page-turner.... Lowry exhausts every possible scenario behind the shocking, unsolved quadruple murder ... and offers a theory on what really happened." --New York Post
Gripping, moving, and as good as any depiction of a murder case since In Cold Blood.... Brilliant. --Ann Patchett, award-winning, bestselling authorThe facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged, burned bodies of four girls--each one shot in the head--were found in a frozen yogurt shop in Austin, Texas. Grief, shock, and horror overtook the city. But after eight years of misdirected investigations, only two suspects (teenagers at the time of the crime) were tried; their convictions were later overturned and detectives are still working on what is now a very cold case. The story has grown to include DNA technology, coerced false confessions, and other developments in crime and punishment. But this story belongs to the scores of people involved, and from them Beverly Lowry has fashioned a riveting saga that reads like a novel, heart-stopping and thoroughly engrossing.
Author: Beverly Lowry
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/25/2017
Pages: 528
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 6.90h x 4.20w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780307739889
ISBN10: 0307739880
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Murder | General
- Social Science | Criminology
- History | United States | State & Local | Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
About the Author
BEVERLY LOWRY is the author of six novels and three previous works of nonfiction. Her writing has appeared in the The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Mississippi Review, Granta, and many other publications. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. She lives in Austin, Texas.