Jerry Bledsoe, Author Longstreet Press $14.95 (196p) ISBN 978-0-929264-63-9
A former columnist on the Greensboro (N.C.) News and Record and author of Bitter Blood , Bledsoe here writes of his journey back to Thomasville, the small N.C. town where he grew up. He introduces members of his clan, whose stories amuse and touch...
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Jerry Bledsoe, Author St. Martin's Press $13.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-312-17104-9
The brother of a young 1950s polio victim works to make her Christmas wish come true. (Nov.)
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Jerry Bledsoe, Author Dutton Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-525-24591-9
This book recreates a complex case that claimed nine lives, one of the more shocking crimes of recent years. The links in all the deaths were Susan Lynch and her cousin Fritz Klenner, each from a prominent, upper-middle-class Southern family. The...
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Jerry Bledsoe, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (464p) ISBN 978-0-525-93369-4
On the surface this is an account of the plot conceived by Chris Pritchard to murder his mother and stepfather, Bonnie and Lieth Von Stein, to inherit a large sum of money; the crime involved two of his friends, James Upchurch, the actual killer of...
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Jerry Bledsoe, Author Plume Books $8.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-452-26706-0
Bledsoe returns to Thomasville, N.C., the small town where he grew up, and introduces readers to such members of his clan as a preacher cousin and his grandmother. According to PW, the stories ``amuse and touch the heart. . . . These are lovely...
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Jerry Bledsoe, Author Dutton Books $22.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-525-93826-2
In 1988, high school coach Russ Stager of Durham, N.C., was ``accidentally'' killed by his wife, Barbara, shot with a loaded gun he allegedly kept under his pillow. A seemingly happy and popular couple, both active in their church, the two were...
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Jerry Bledsoe, Author Dutton Books $24.95 (371p) ISBN 978-0-525-94255-9
In 1978, 52-year-old grandmother Velma Barfield admitted to poisoning four people, including her own mother. While she would be convicted of only one murder--that of her fiance, Stuart Taylor--it would be enough for her to die by lethal injection in
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Jerry Bledsoe, Author, Tim Rickard, Illustrator Down Home Press $14.95 (120p) ISBN 978-1-878086-54-9
Proof that a Christmas book need not drip with mawkish sentimentality is offered by this affecting novella from the author of such true-crime novels as Bitter Blood. Though published as fiction, the story Bledsoe tells has the ring of truth, plus...
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Jerry Bledsoe, Author, Tim Rickard, Illustrator Down Home Press $16.95 (149p) ISBN 978-1-878086-80-8
This is Bledsoe's sequel to his 1996 holiday favorite The Angel Doll, continuing the story of young Whitey Black, whose devotion to his four-year-old polio-crippled sister was the subject of the earlier book, narrated by his paper-route partner and...
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