by paracletepress | Mar 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
The Google Alert about my 2013 book was intriguing: Murder, Mystery and Mayhem Book Club – Meets the last Tuesday of the month at 5:30. We will meet at Slate’s Mercantile at 140 W Pine St., Mt. Airy – January’s selection is “Met Her on the Mountain: The...
by paracletepress | Jan 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
Latest update on our newest true crime project: the 1938 murder of Reverend Charles Lee, a second cousin of Robert E. Lee, on St. Simons Island, Ga., as he prepared his Sunday sermon, a killing that generated national headlines (...
by paracletepress | Dec 4, 2024 | Met Her on the Mountain
In the interest of due journalistic diligence for this piece for the North Carolina Assembly ( My 50-Year Obsession with an Unsolved Mountain Murder), I visited Richard Johnson earlier this week at the Nash Correctional Institute in eastern North Carolina, a trip not...
by paracletepress | Jun 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
Last month my wife and I traveled to the Spoleto music festival in Charleston. S.C., in part to celebrate our wedding anniversary (43). While there, we also met with my collaborators in our latest, cold case, nonfiction project: “Murder in the Rectory.” For now, I’ll...
by paracletepress | Oct 31, 2023 | Crime
There are few things I like more than setting my feet on the soil of Madison County, especially after a long absence. A part of me will always be there. I’m recently back from an eventful, long weekend in Hot Springs, Marshall and Mars Hill, where the leaves were near...
