BROKEN—LOVE AND MURDER IN THE ADIRONDACKS

BROKEN—LOVE AND MURDER IN THE ADIRONDACKS
Author: J. E. Irvin
Publisher: The New Atlantian Library
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2023-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1955036276

Sexy, Fat-paced, and intense, this romantic suspense novel will keep you up all night reading! Riley Marie Finn lives a stolid, conventional life, every detail planned and unexpected and dull. But when her boyfriend dumps her and the school district where she teaches releases her due to budget concerns, Riley’s whole world turns upside down. Jilted and jobless and determined to change her fate, she heads to the Adirondacks in search of summer employment, where she ends up lost. Rescued by a broody forest ranger who directs her to the hamlet of Wanakena, she is hired in place of a woman whose dead body is discovered at the very place Riley appeared. Josh Waylon is a forest ranger haunted by the ghost of his unfaithful wife, the first victim of the Wilderness Strangler one year ago. With a battered heart and a cloud of suspicion hanging over him, he swears off human contact until Riley invades his territory. Broken and desperate and unable to resist their mutual attraction, Riley and Josh join forces to flush out the ‘Wilderness Strangler’ and clear their names. Can their growing feelings for each other heal the damage of their past lives? Can they solve the dual murders before one of them becomes the next victim? J.E. Irvin is a career educator and an award-winning author. Her stories, essays, and poems have appeared in a variety of print and online publications. Happiest when canoeing in the Northwoods or hiking forest paths, Irvin and her husband reside in Springboro, Ohio, where they share their life with two crazy cats, a resident beaver in the pond behind their home, and a variety of wildlife in the prairie to the west.

BETRAYED—LOVE AND MURDER IN THE ADIRONDACKS

BETRAYED—LOVE AND MURDER IN THE ADIRONDACKS
Author: J. E. Irvin
Publisher: The New Atlantian Library
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2023-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1955036616

A fast-paced, chilling page-turner, with a romance to melt the coldest heart! The Second Book in the Love and Murder in the Adirondacks Series Emma Pearson believes she has the perfect life in Hopewell, Ohio, until she doesn’t. Her husband’s murder while working undercover has revealed a secret life, a betrayal too deep to forgive, and his actions have placed her and her children in danger. Declining an offer to enter witness protection, she changes her name and goes on the run to join her best friend Riley in the Adirondacks, a park so vast she can start a new life and hide from her pursuers. After recovering from severe burns and a gunshot wound acquired in a drug bust, Anton ‘Tony’ Storms struggles with demons of his own. When Emma and her children arrive in Wanakena, he finds his world turned upside down. Then the assassins trailing her show up, and Tony must decide whether to remain apart from all entanglements or risk everything to protect the woman who has stolen his heart. J.E. Irvin is a career educator and an award-winning author. Her stories, essays, and poems have appeared in a variety of print and online publications. Happiest when canoeing in the Northwoods or hiking forest paths, Irvin and her husband reside in Springboro, Ohio, where they share their life with two crazy cats, a resident beaver in the pond behind their home, and a variety of wildlife in the prairie to the west.

Within a Forest Dark

Within a Forest Dark
Author: Michael Virtanen
Publisher:
Total Pages: 117
Release: 2007-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780978925420

When Jack Kirkland travels to the Adirondack Mountains to investigate the death of a well-to-do engineer, he expects to uncover medical malpractice. Instead, he finds evidence of murder and falls in love with the only suspect, the dead man's girlfriend. Will Kirkland give up a chance at happiness to get at the truth?

Sworn to Silence

Sworn to Silence
Author: Jim Tracy
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2021-03-16
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1642936278

Jim Tracy’s Sworn to Silence is an unforgettable story of two American lawyers who did the unprecedented. They searched for, found, and photographed the lifeless bodies of their client’s victims and then kept it secret. They did so in the face of unendurable pressure from the authorities and the victims’ families, who suspected the lawyers knew more than they were saying. When the American public eventually learned of the lawyers’ actions, they were horrified, outraged, and vengeful. People could not fathom how two attorneys—fathers of teenage girls themselves—and supposed officers of the law, could conduct themselves in a manner seemingly beyond any concept of humanity. Today, this landmark legal case is studied and analyzed in law schools worldwide. These events have been indelibly marked in Tracy’s mind since he was eight years old; in fact, he was present at the scene of New York state’s largest manhunt after the killer broke into Tracy’s father’s hunting camp in the Adirondack Mountains. In Sworn to Silence, Tracy weaves together a true crime narrative that should rank with some of the most compelling American crime stories of modern times. He does so while taking you—the reader—on a page-turning journey back to the early 1970s, unveiling an American serial killer most people have never heard of.

An American Tragedy

An American Tragedy
Author: Theodore Dreiser
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 526
Release: 1978
Genre: New York (State)
ISBN: 1427081271

Broke Heart Blues: A Novel

Broke Heart Blues: A Novel
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher: Akashic Books
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2024-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1636141943

The much-anticipated reissue of a novel that is one of Joyce Carol Oates’s personal favorites among her oeuvre; featuring a new afterword by Oates IN THE HEART OF A LANGUID JULY, ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHN REDDY HEART drives a traffic-stopping, salmon-colored Cadillac into the quiet upstate town of Willowsville, New York. His mother, Dahlia Heart, a blackjack dealer, has brought her family east from Las Vegas to claim the rambling mansion left to her by a wealthy suitor. But it is John Reddy—already growing into a heartbreaking hybrid of James Dean, Marlon Brando, and Elvis Presley—who will claim the town itself. It is John Reddy who will arouse the desire of Willowsville’s teenage girls and the worship of its boys, the fear and envy of its men, and the yearning of its women. And it is John Reddy who will capture the town’s soul forever on the night a prominent citizen is shot dead in Dahlia Heart’s bedroom—and a statewide manhunt sweeps Willowsville’s rebel outlaw into the realm of living myth. Over the course of thirty years, Broke Heart Blues charts the rise and fall—and the ultimate call to reckoning— of John Reddy Heart, through the myriad voices of those who find him their whipping boy, savior, dream lover, and confessor. At once a scathing indictment of the cultlike nature of fame and celebrity in America and a deeply moving mediation on human need and longing, the novel explores loneliness, and the profound price we pay for our desires and dreams.

Murder in the Adirondacks

Murder in the Adirondacks
Author: Craig Brandon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release: 1986
Genre: History
ISBN:

"Murder in the Adirondacks is the true story of the Chester Gillette - Grace Brown murder case, which was the basis for Theodore Dreiser's classic novel An American Tragedy and the movie "A Place in the Sun" with Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor. Although the trial in Herkimer, New York was front page news throughout the nation in 1906 and millions of words have been written about Dreiser's novel, this book is the first complete account of the fascinating facts behind the fiction. Gillette, a former prep school student and railroad brakeman, was the nephew of the owner of a skirt factory in Cortland, New York, where he met Grace Brown, the daughter of a Chenango County farmer. Soon after Grace discovered she was pregnant with Gillette's child in 1906, they left on a trip to the Adirondacks. Grace thought it was to be a wedding trip, but Gillette was planning murder, not matrimony. At Big Moose Lake in Herkimer County, Gillette rented a boat and took Grace to a deserted section of the lake called Punky Bay. She ended up at the bottom of the lake and Gillette escaped to Inlet, where he was arrested three days later. The spectators at Gillette's trial sobbed when the district attorney read Grace's letters, but Gillette sat quietly and chewed gum until it was his turn to testify. Then he said Grace jumped out of the boat and committed suicide. The jury didn't believe him and he was sentenced to die in the electric chair in Auburn. Gillette's mother waged a campaign that led all the way to the governor's mansion in Albany and a last minute attempt to save her son's life. By the 1980s, the fiction had overpowered the facts and many people accepted Dreiser's novel as the true story. This book sets the record straight. Meticulously researched, it relies on the original courtroom testimony and the 1906-1908 newspaper articles. It contains letters, documents and photographs that have never before been made public. Facts about Gillette's early life and his family are revealed here for the first time anywhere. After 80 years, readers can finally find out what really happened at Big Moose Lake in 1906. The true story of Upstate New York's most famous murder case can finally be told."--Back cover

The Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Region

The Underground Railroad in the Adirondack Region
Author: Tom Calarco
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2011-03-09
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 078646416X

The success of the Underground Railroad depended on the participation of sympathizers in hundreds of areas throughout the country, each operating independently. Each area was distinctive both geographically and societally. This work focuses on the contributions of people in the Adirondack region, including their collaboration with operatives from Albany to New York City. With more than 10 years of research, the author has been able to take what for years in northern New York was considered akin to legend and transform it into history. Abolitionist newspapers--such as Friend of Man, Liberator, Pennsylvania Freeman, Emancipator, National Anti-Slavery Standard, and the little known Albany Patriot--that were published weekly from 1841 to 1848, as well as materials from local archives, were utilized. The book has extensive maps, photographs and appendices; key contributors to the cause are identified, abolition meetings and conventions are described, and maps of the Underground Railroad stations by county are provided.

How to Solve a Murder

How to Solve a Murder
Author: H. A. Ripley
Publisher: Castle Point Books
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2024-04-09
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1250324459

Use your wits to solve 70 detect-o-gram mysteries! With just your common sense and a capable eye for detail, you can learn How to Solve a Murder. In this unassuming book of 70 detect-o-grams (brief but curious mysteries you can solve in a minute), you will dust off the case files of a time gone by, when the answers were not at your fingertips. Do away with forensic tools and technology and focus on the barest of facts and critical details. Follow the guidance of the fictional Professor Fordney, a mere intellectual with a sharp wit, whose assessments broke cases wide open and embarrassed the likes of detectives who could not see the easy answers before them. Simply ask yourself: What is it about the criminals’ own hubris, negligence, or even stupidity, that will lead you to the solutions? - Decode 70 puzzles that only take a minute to solve, and perfect your crime-solving skills - Travel back in time to when Depression-era tensions led to bootlegging, corruption, estate theft, and scandals - Make it a party game! Solve cases—from jewelry heists and crimes of jealousy to brazen murders