Ray Speckman: 7 books

This is a story of the last year of Marti Speckman's life from the time she was diagnosed with breast cancer until her death much too young at 49. It is told by her care-giver husband, the author, Ray Speckman. This story details the strength and mental fortitutude of a very strong woman...

When Joseph Smith, Jr. and his brother Hyrum were killed at the Carthage, Hancock County, Illinois Jail on June 27, 1844, a struggle for leadership of the Latter Day Saints (The Mormons) Church developed. At that time in Nauvoo there were living five men who would eventually lead the church. It was...

Vivid, straight forward and amazing is the story of Fanny Adler as it has been passed orally through the years to the eldest of each generation.Now in straight-forward language that story, held inviolate for nearly two centuries is told.Told by the 6th Great Granddaughter of Fanny Adler, the first...

Emma Smith, in her own words, admits the creation of a hoax with her husband Joseph Smith, Jr. She details how two ambitious and creative young people concocted a lie that lead to a series of lies that created the Book of Mormon and led to the establishment of a religion, The Later Day Saints. She...

The novel traces a period in the life of Mark Oldham who returns to his native Utah to manage a proposed huge real estate development, a resort in the Wasatch Mountains. Twisting and turning like a high-mountain-road, the novel examines the historic roots of the Mormon Church and the teachings of...

Disguised in a topcoat and smuggled into a grove, and with the blessings of her family, Louisa Beaman became the third plural wife of Joseph Smith.Jr. After his murder in the Carthage jail she became the wife of Smith's successor, Brigham Young. In Salt Lake City she writes her first person story as she is near death, suffering from cancer.

The historically correct story of three men who planned the assassination of the Mormon Prophet and his brother, Joseph Smith, On a hot, humid night three men, Illinois Governor Thomas Ford and newspaper editors Thomas Sharp and Thomas Gregg met in a vacant Stone House on the banks of the Mississippi...