"In the Spider's Web" is about Caitlin Weber, 13, a girl who, with her mother and four other children, murders her mother's employer. Caitlin is sentenced to 22 years in prison and sent to Ash Meadow, a prison for juveniles, where she will stay until she turns 18, when she will be transferred to a prison for adult women. At Ash Meadow, Caitlin tries to come to terms with her past and her memories of her mother, whose love was more traumatic than the commission of murder.

Rights Contact

Jerry Gold <jgoldberon@gmail.com>

Award(s)

Silver Award (True Crime) from Foreword Reviews

Rights Sold (Countries)

None

Book Website

https://www.blackheronpress.com

Contributor(s)

Jerome Gold

Publisher

Black Heron Press

ISBN-13

978-1-936364-14-5

Publication Date

May 20, 2015

Pages

215

Price

$14.95

Tags

#truecrime

#autobiographyandmemoir

Our Review

Striking, deeply honest, and sensitively told, this novel based in real life considers juvenile prisons and all its dramas. Jerome Gold calls In the Spider’s Web a “nonfiction novel.” In it, he depicts the routines and characters of a prison for juveniles, centering on one young woman in... Read More