Tom Owen: 6 books

Just beneath the dark underbelly of a quiet Texas town, lurks a serial killer who sadistically preys on innocent victims. His debauchery and madness remain hidden behind the faade of normality. Five women have mysteriously disappeared, their bodies butchered and dumped down an abandoned oil well,...

Spreading death wherever he goes, a psychotic killer leaves body parts scattered across five states, changing modus operandi in a diabolical attempt to throw the police off his trail. In Texas, Detective Dave Alison believes the "Trash Bag Killer," now sitting on death row for those crimes,...

Tillman explores the psychopathy of serial murderers. Abused early on, the killer shoots his maternal grandparents in cold blood. Later arrested and tried, hes found insane and committed to a mental institution. Deemed cured, the killers released and returns to his mothers house. There, he transfers...

After being released from death row, Jack Leon Purdy assumes a new identity and sets out to avenge the death of his wife and her two sons. What follows is a tangled web of interlocking, yet apparently random murders that baffle the police. With nothing more than a vague description of someone seen...

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from “regional backwater” to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now. Once a regional manufacturing and textile center, Charlotte stands today as one of the nation’s premier banking and financial cores with interests...

Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8–11, 2013. It was attended by some eighty scholars from fourteen countries; the conference heard more than sixty papers....