The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts : Murder and Memory in an American City (Paperback)

from jen.e.moore

There's a building in Brownsville, Texas, one of the poorest cities in the country, where something terrible happened. A lot of terrible things happen in Brownsville -- right on the Mexican border, it's a center for drug trafficking as well as immigration, both legal and not, and the usual urban ...

from Susan.Macura

This is an insightful look into a horrible crime. On March 11, 2003, in Brownsville, Texas, parents John and Angela murdered their three small children in a brutal way. The author, a reporter, first became interested in this crime when she was sent to cover the story of whether or not the decrepi...

from janersm

I don't know how to explain my feelings toward this book. It is an extremely compelling story, but the writing quality is poor. There seemed to be no real outline or backbone to it. The purple prose only highlighted this flaw, as did the repetition of unimportant things and the lack of refreshers...

from TexasBookLover

TRUE CRIME Laura Tillman The Long Shadow of Small Ghosts: Murder and Memory in an American City Scribner Hardcover 978-1-5011-0425-1 (also available as an ebook and on Audible), 256 pgs., $26.00 April 5, 2016 Laura Tillman was a rookie reporter at the Brownsville Herald in 2008 when she was assig...

from jen.e.moore

There's a building in Brownsville, Texas, one of the poorest cities in the country, where something terrible happened. A lot of terrible things happen in Brownsville -- right on the Mexican border, it's a center for drug trafficking as well as immigration, both legal and not, and the usual urban ...