To The Last Breath: Three Women Fight For The Truth Behind A Child's Tragic Murder - Hardcover

Stowers, Carlton

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312169817 ISBN 13: 9780312169817

Publisher: St. Martin's Press, 1998

Synopsis

Describes how, after supposedly dying due to natural causes, two-year-old Renee Goode's death was vindicated when her mother, grandmother, and a police investigator took on the case and discovered that the little girl had been murdered by her own father.

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Review:

The story opens with somber drama: The body of a 2-year-old girl is removed from her grave and transported to a hospital for a second autopsy. In the small Gulf Coast town of Alvin, Texas, the bereaved mother, the child's grandmother, and the female detective who has risked so much to champion their cause, await the opinion of a visiting pathologist. Carlton Stowers, whose Careless Whispers won the 1987 Edgar Award for fact crime, brings all the right skills to this tale of a sullen, possessive man who liked to play cruel mind games on his loved ones and apparently killed his young daughter in a slow and deliberate fashion. Perhaps at the end, we don't really know why he did it, but we will have come to know and admire the three women who fought for justice.

From the Publisher:

This book, To the Last Breath by Carlton Stowers, won the 1999 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312169817
• ISBN 13: 9780312169817
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256