By Darcy O'Brien

ISBN-10: 0786710950

ISBN-13: 9780786710959

The unbelievable crime of filicide takes at the solid of tragic inevitability during this haunting actual story of violence, greed, revenge, and demise. Fusing the narrative energy of an award-winning novelist and the designated learn of an skilled investigator, Darcy O'Brien unfolds the tale of Dr. John Dale Cavaness, the southern Illinois health care provider and doctor who in December 1984 used to be charged with the homicide of his son Sean. Outraged by way of the arrest of the expert clinical practitioner who selflessly attended to their wishes, the folks of Little Egypt rose to his safeguard. within the trial, notwithstanding, a notably diversified, disquieting portrait of Dr. Cavaness may emerge. For during the 3 many years that he loved the admiration and recognize of his group, Cavaness was once privately terrorizing his relations, abusing his staff, and making disastrous monetary investments in addition to brawling and womanizing. What was once now not published within the trial, in spite of the fact that, used to be that seven years prior, in a murder that had by no means been solved, the physique of Cavaness's firstborn son, Mark, have been discovered shot useless within the woods of Little Egypt. as well as a compelling chronicle that uncovers the reality in the back of ghastly crimes and lays naked the Jekyll–Hyde psyche in their wrongdoer, homicide in Little Egypt brings into stark midwestern mild the hidden, gothic underside of an the US bred on violence and bathed in blood. "Stunning material,"—Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney "A meticulous account ... an implicit indictment of a tradition that condones and encourages violent habit in men."—The long island occasions publication overview