From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King comes a chilling exploration of one of America's most haunting wrongful conviction cases. Based on the hit podcast, Bone Valley dives into the dark heart of rural Florida, where a young man's life was upended by a tragic miscarriage of justice.
"Captivating, enraging, and all too true." -Bob Kolker, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road
"Bone Valley is a work of rare moral clarity and deep compassion." -Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking
In 1987, Leo Schofield was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Michelle. Always insistent on his innocence, he was poorly served by his legal defense: the investigation was sloppy, the case flimsy, and numerous pieces of evidence were ignored. He was sentenced to life in prison.
Over thirty years later, Gilbert King is tipped off to Leo's case and is astonished by what he found: layers of corruption, flawed evidence, and deep-seated errors. He can't shake the story and starts to get to know Leo and his family. Leo shows an incomprehensible amount of grace and love about his situation, which spurs Gilbert even more to tell his story.
Bone Valley is at once a revelatory investigation into a murder, a chilling portrait of the criminal justice system, and a uniquely powerful story of grace and redemption. Gilbert King has written a new classic of narrative nonfiction.
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Bone Valley is a work of rare moral clarity and deep compassion. -- Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking Captivating, enraging, and all too true. -- Bob Kolker, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road
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Headline Publishing Group
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-0354-1938-8 (9781035419388)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Gilbert King is the writer, producer and host of Bone Valley, a narrative
podcast about murder and injustice in 1980s central Florida, from
the Lava for Good podcast network. He is the author of three previous
books, including Devil in the Grove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A New
York Times bestseller, the book was also a runner-up for the Dayton Literary
Peace Prize. King has written about race, civil rights and the death
penalty for the New York Times, Washington Post and the Atlantic,
and he was a 2019-2020 fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman
Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. He lives
in Brooklyn.
