Murder in the Bayou
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A SOUTHERN LIVING 2016 BOOK OF THE YEAR
An explosive, true-life southern gothic story, Murder in the Bayou chronicles the twists and turns of a high-stakes investigation into the murders of eight women in a troubled Louisiana parish.
Between 2005 and 2009, the bodies of eight…
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Real-life P.I. Ethan Brown pulls no punches with this wrenching exposé of deep-South police corruption.
Murder in the Bayou parts the curtain on inescapable connections between eight women killed in a rural Louisiana parish between 2005-2009..
Clocking in at less than 250 pages, this one is thick as swamp fog with the backgrounds and rap sheets of all players, indicted and unindicted. Brown's boots-on-the-ground approach to this story is evident in the interviews he scored with the central characters of this backwoods underworld.
The result is not just a triumph of journalism; it's a triumph of courage. I was inspired…
From Bruce's list on for journalists by journalists.
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