Murderer. Loving mother. Sadomasochist. Animal rescuer. Master manipulator. Talented artist. Each of these identities applies to Carole Alden, the subject of Barbara Oakley’s book Cold-Blooded Kindness. In July 2006, Alden shot and... Read More

Deadly Roses is a true-crime story rendered in just-the-facts, police-blotter language*.* The author summarizes his book as the “… true story about the murder of Lita McClinton Sullivan and the investigation, arrest, trial and... Read More

To call Leslie Ibsen Rogge merely a bank robber is doing him a severe injustice. Throughout a lifetime of masterminding bank robberies, escapes, and evasions, Rogge proves to be a multifaceted genius, a modern day Renaissance Man that is... Read More

Few things are more American than Friday night high school football. For the star of a winning team, the world is, indeed, an oyster. So it was for the late Bobby Hoppe, Chattanooga Central High’s “living legend.” Hoppe’s hard... Read More

John Davis is a down-on-his-luck man who, after a night of drinking, takes his wrath out on his wife and family. It’s not the first time he’s done it, and when his wife Jean pleads for him to leave the house to cool off, he threatens... Read More

Imagine an American man who yearns to find the love of his life—a woman with whom he can share his life and who’ll accept and love his son from a previous marriage. He thinks he’s found her, at long last. But this wouldn’t be a... Read More

In the vast field of what the world calls “organized religion” are psychological landmines encased in devout goodness and pious sweetness. On the surface this fertile terrain looks safe, but beneath the green grass lurks an array of... Read More

On July 9, 1993, Jimmy Scott’s arms and back ached from lifting fifty-pound sandbags all day. He and scores of other volunteers had been working against time and the rising waters of the Mississippi River to secure the levee that... Read More