10/16/23

Book of the Week (10/16/2023)

Malice Aforethought: A True Story of the Shocking Double Crime That Horrified Nineteenth-Century New England by Avree Kelly Clark (Novanglian Press, 2023)

In the summer of 1874, a beloved schoolteacher mysteriously goes missing upon closing up school. After a frantic search, the young woman is discovered horribly mutilated in the woods, and authorities question everyone in the small railroad village of St. Albans, Vermont. With the case turning cold, news arrives of an eerily similar crime committed in peaceful Pembroke, New Hampshire, in the autumn of 1875. This one, even more gruesome. Everyone questions whether the two beauties were intended victims or simply in the wrong place at the wrong time. Amid mounting fear, dedicated detectives and a persistent populace will stop at nothing to ensure the murderous fiend is brought to justice.For the first time, the true crime story that has inspired dozens of podcasts and blogposts is now a gripping novel called Malice Aforethought, and the author shares an exciting theory never before explored.--Publisher's blurb

About the Author: 

"Malice Aforethought" is Avree Kelly Clark's debut novel. Avree's love of history, forensics, and research came together in writing this historical crime fiction she describes as Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood" meets Margaret Atwood's "Alias Grace". Avree is a New Hampshire native who graduated from Pembroke Academy in 2005. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband of fifteen years and their cat, Aloysius.

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