Carlton Stowers: 15 books
Where Dreams Die Hard
A Small American Town and Its Six-Man Football Team
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Down Farm Road 308, an hour's drive south of Dallas, amidst sprawling fields of cotton lies a small community--Penelope, Texas (population 211). Here, where the only thriving businesses are the granary and the post office, unless you count the soft-drink machine in front of the fire station, two-time...
by Carlton Stowers
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2000
An acclaimed true-crime author takes on his toughest project of all-- writing about a murderer who happens to be his son.
When a hideous murder makes the headlines, a barrage of questions usually appears in its wake: Why did this happen? Could it have been prevented? What kind of family was...
Careless Whispers
The Award-Winning True Account of the Horrific Lake Waco Murders
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2001
When the bodies of three teenagers were found on the shores of Lake Waco, Texas in July, 1982, even seasoned lawmen were taken aback by the savage mutilation and degradation they had been subjected to. Yet only 52 days after the gruesome triple-murder was discovered, frustrated authorities suspended...
by Carlton Stowers
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2004
Undercover officer George Raffield's job was to pose as a student in the small town of Midlothian, Texas and infiltrate the high school drug ring. When Raffield's cover became suspect, word spread through a small circle of friends that the young officer would pay with his life. No one stopped it....
Death in a Texas Desert
And Other True Crime Stories from The Dallas Observer
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2003
Death in a Texas Desert is a fast-paced collection of 17 compelling true crime stories from the pages of the award-winning The Dallas Observer. From the "Phantom Killer" that haunted Texarkana in teh mid-1940s to the day of terror in 1991 when a crazed man began spraying bullets into Luby's Cafeteria...
by Carlton Stowers
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
FORMER TEXAS PRISON CHAPLAIN REV. CARROLL PICKETT, WORKING WITH TWO-TIME EDGAR AWARD WINNER AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR CARLTON STOWERS, PROVIDES THIS ELOQUENT, UNFLINCHING LOOK AT CAPITAL PUNISHMENT.Within These Walls is the powerful memoir of Rev. Carroll Pickett, who spent fifteen years...
Scream at the Sky
Five Texas Murders and One Man's Crusade for Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2004
Carlton Stowers, the two-time Edgar Award winner and New York Times bestselling master of true crime, is back. Scream at the Sky is his masterful chronicle of one man's murderous career, and another man's sworn promise to deliver justice and closure to the people of Texas.
Wichita Falls, Texas, was...
by Carlton Stowers
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Engrossed by the short lives of innocent victims, Stowers uses The Girl in the Grave … and Other True Crime Stories to tell the tales of devastated parents dealing with evil forces and unanswered questions that invaded their once normal lives, and the effect on the law enforcement officers duty-bound...
Marcus
The Autobiography of Marcus Allen
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Now, in his eloquent words, hear mega-football superstar Marcus Allen---Heisman trophy winner, Superbowl MVP, and record-breaking running back--tell his inspiring and unforgettable story, rom his triumphant rise to athletic stardom, to his rocky 11-year relationship with Los Angeles Raiders coach...
by Carlton Stowers, Ralph Compton
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
In this Ralph Compton western, a man rides for vengenace and into danger...
Thad Taylor is no one’s idea of a fine man. Usually drunk and shiftless, he’s disapproved of by most—especially his father. But when his father doesn’t return from a trip across the Kansas plains, Thad is the...
"Please … Don't Kill Me"
The True Story of the Milo Murder
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
I don't care who you hire, or what the company has to pay him … so long as he's the best there is.
This anguished cry from the wife of murder victim Dean Milo would draw private investigator Bill Dear into one of the most frustrating and ultimately triumphant cases of his career.
Dean...
Open Secrets
A True Story of Love, Jealousy, and Murder
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2002
On a fall afternoon in 1983, in an upscale Dallas suburb, Rozanne Gailiunas was found stripped, bound to her bed, and shot through the skull. Her four-year-old son has been napping peacefully in the next room when she was killed. Rozanne's husband, Dr. Peter Gailiunas--and her lover, Larry Aylor--immediately...
To The Last Breath
Three Women Fight For The Truth Behind A Child's Tragic Murder
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 1999
On January 22, 1994, two-year old Renee Goode played happily with her sisters and cousin, as the four of them enjoyed an impromptu "slumber party" at the home of her father, Shane Goode. The next day she was dead.
The local medical examiner could not determine the cause of little...
by Ralph Compton, Carlton Stowers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
A ruthless rancher crosses the wrong man in this western in Ralph Compton's USA Today bestselling series...
Haunted by memories of the Civil War, Coy Jennings just wants to find work as a ranch hand and to begin saving for a small farm where he could finally enjoy peace and quiet. Arriving...
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