Overview
Ā Fusing the narrative power of an award-winning novelist and the detailed research of an experienced investigator, author Darcy OāBrien unfolds the story of Dr. John Dale Cavaness, the southern Illinois physician and surgeon charged with the murder of his son Sean in December 1984.Ā Outraged by the arrest of the skilled medical practitioner who selflessly attended to their needs, the people of Little Egypt, as the natives call their region, rose to his defense.
But during the subsequent trial, a radically different, disquieting portrait of Dr. Cavaness would emerge. Throughout the three decades that he enjoyed the admiration and respect of his community, Cavaness was privately terrorizing his family, abusing his employees, and making disastrous financial investments. As more and more grisly details of the Cavaness case come to stark Midwestern light in OāBrienās chilling account, so too does the hidden gothic underside of rural America and its heritage of violence and blood.
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āA meticulous accountĀ .Ā .Ā . An implicit indictment of a culture that condones and encourages violent behavior in men.ā āThe New York Times Book Review
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āA fascinating story, and Darcy OāBrien does a great job of structuring it for suspense.ā āThe Washington Post
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āRiveting.āāPublishers Weekly
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āA terrifying story of family violence and the community that honored the perpetrator.ā āKirkus Reviews
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āStunning materialĀ .Ā .Ā . Handled with justice and fastidiousness by a natural storyteller.ā āSeamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize
This book title, Murder in Little Egypt, ISBN: 9781504008327, by Darcy O'Brien, published by Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. (March 13, 2018) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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