Books by Carlton Stowers and Complete Book Reviews
Carlton Stowers, Author . St. Martin's $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-26688-2
Rural Texas endures a long-unsolved serial killing spree, in this grim suspenser by Edgar Award–winner Stowers (Open Secrets;
etc.). The narrative begins in late 1984, when a young nurse is found raped and murdered in Wichita Falls; soon a...
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Carlton Stowers, Author Taylor Publishing Company (TX) $4.99 (418p) ISBN 978-0-87833-530-5
The 1982 rapes and grisly murders of three teenagerstwo girls and a boyin Waco, Tex., and the investigation carried on for the most part by Truman Simons, a dogged and compassionate patrol sergeant, are recalled through hundreds of interviews with...
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Carlton Stowers, Author Da Capo Press $22.95 (205p) ISBN 978-0-306-81404-4
In tiny Penelope, Texas, population 211, six-man football rules. The game is a scaled-down version of the more common 11-man version, originally designed in the 1930s by a Nebraska coach who wanted small, rural schools to be able to have football...
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Carlton Stowers, Author Pocket Books $6.5 (400p) ISBN 978-0-671-70997-6
An intricate true story of a Dallas socialite who hired an assassin to kill her husband's lover. (Oct.)
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Carlton Stowers, Author Hyperion Books $22.45 (233p) ISBN 978-0-7868-6091-3
This astounding autobiography is a true-crime tale with a difference: Stowers, honored by the Mystery Writers of America for Careless Whispers and nominated for a Pulitzer for Innocence Lost, here writes of his older son, Anson, whose youth was...
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Carlton Stowers, Author, Jane Chelius, Editor Pocket Books $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-671-66819-8
This is a disquieting, involving account of the murder of an undercover police officer by two teenagers in Midlothian, Tex., regarded as an idyllic town to raise children. Officer George Raffield posed as a high school student to infiltrate...
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Carlton Stowers, Author, Jane Chelius, Editor Pocket Books $22 (357p) ISBN 978-0-671-70996-9
This exceedingly complicated case began with the murder of Rozanne Gailiunas in a Dallas suburb in 1983. Preparing to divorce her physician husband Peter, Rozanne was having an affair with Larry Aylor, who was building a new house for the...
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Carlton Stowers, Author, Carleton Stowers, Author St. Martin's Press $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-16981-7
When two-year-old Renee Goode dies unexpectedly at her father's Alvin, Texas, home in 1994, her mother, Annette, immediately suspects murder. Shane Goode, Annette's ex-husband, is her first and only suspect. When the medical examiner labels the...
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