Gary Taylor

Luggage By Kroger: A True Crime Memoir (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Remember the movie 'Fatal Attraction'? And the movie 'Basic Instinct'? And the movie 'Play Misty for Me'? Toss all three of those in a blender, hit frappe and stand back. What comes out would be Gary Taylor's new book'Luggage By Kroger'"author Randall Radic. "A true crime memoir reminiscent of 'Basic Instinct.'"Reader Views online. "A riveting true story that reads like a high-octane crime thriller."Midwest Book Review. "This award-winning true crime gem is highly recommended for your reading list."True Crime Book Reviews. Since its publication in December of 2008, Luggage By Kroger has been recognized as a top true crime thriller with honors from five different national book competitions. Here's the scorecard: •True Crime Silver Medal from the 2009 IPPYs •True Crime Bronze Medal and Finalist for Book-of-the-Year from the 2008 ForeWord Magazine Book-of-the-Year Awards •True Crime Runner-Up in the 2009 National Indie Excellence Awards •True Crime Finalist in the 2009 USA Book News Awards •General Nonfiction Runner-Up at the 2009 New York Book Festival In this true crime memoir, former Houston Post reporter Gary Taylor recounts his true-life fatal attraction involvement in the trail of violence that has dogged Texas attorney Catherine Mehaffey Shelton for nearly three decades, prompting coverage by newspapers, TV, movies and even Oprah Winfrey. Now Taylor invites readers to grab a seat on the wild ride of an obsessive relationship: erotic beginning to violent end and the trials required to clean up the mess. The result is an adventure odyssey of self-discovery through an encounter that nearly cost him his life.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Gary Taylor
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781102467243
• Artikelnr.: 48025710

Autorenporträt

I am a veteran journalist and author of the award-winning true crime memoir, Luggage By Kroger. During a forty-year career as a newspaper and magazine journalist, I have covered crime, courts and legal affairs for multiple publications, including The Houston Post, The National Law Journal and Time Magazine. I began my career after graduation from the University of Missouri's School of Journalism, where I won the Walter Williams Award as the outstanding writer in the class of 1969. As a newspaper reporter, I was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize on a series of stories that freed an aging convict from prison and I won the Texas UPI Enterprise reporting award for stories exposing police corruption. As a freelance journalist from 1980-1997, I expanded my expertise to business writing, sports and larger general interest stories. Since 1997 I have specialized in business reporting as a staffer for trade publications covering the chemical and oil industries.

In 2008 I finally had the time to write a true crime memoir about the dramatic events that created a life-defining moment while working as the criminal courts reporter for The Houston Post in 1979. The result has been my award-winning book, Luggage By Kroger. It has been honored with a 2009 Silver Medal for true crime books by the IPPYs, a 2008 Bronze Medal for true crime from ForeWord Magazine and was 2009 Runner-Up in the true crime division of the National Indie Excellence Awards. It also was named a finalist for ForeWord Magazine's 2009 Book-of-the-Year Award.