Description
An Edgar Award–winning writer’s true crime account of a grisly string of killings in Kentucky—and the shocking spectacle of greed that followed.
Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation “A Dark and Bloody Ground” more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, known as in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August 1985. Acker’s own life hung within the balance, however it used to be already too late for his college-age daughter, Tammy, savagely stabbed eleven times and pinned by a kitchen knife to her bedroom floor. Three men had breached Dr. Acker’s alarm and security systems and made off with the fortune he had stashed away over his lifetime.
The killers—a part of a three-man, two-woman gang of the sort not seen for the reason that Barkers—stopped counting the moldy bills when they reached $1.9 million. The cash came in handy soon after when they were caught and had to lure Kentucky’s most flamboyant lawyer, the celebrated and corrupt Lester Burns, into representing them. Full of colorful characters and desperate deeds, A Dark and Bloody Ground is a “first-rate” true crime chronicle from the writer of Murder in Little Egypt (Kirkus Reviews).
“An arresting look into the troubled psyches of these criminals and into the depressed Kentucky economy that became fertile territory for narcotics dealers, theft rings and bootleggers.” —Publishers Weekly
“The smell of wet, coal-laden earth, white lightning, and cocaine-driven sweat arises from these marvelously atmospheric—and compelling—pages.” —Kirkus Reviews
“O’Brien creates a captivating portrait of the mountain way of living and thought that forged the lives of these criminals.” —Library Journal
Kentucky never deserved its Indian appellation “A Dark and Bloody Ground” more than when a small-town physician, seventy-seven-year-old Roscoe Acker, known as in an emergency on a sweltering evening in August 1985. Acker’s own life hung within the balance, however it used to be already too late for his college-age daughter, Tammy, savagely stabbed eleven times and pinned by a kitchen knife to her bedroom floor. Three men had breached Dr. Acker’s alarm and security systems and made off with the fortune he had stashed away over his lifetime.
The killers—a part of a three-man, two-woman gang of the sort not seen for the reason that Barkers—stopped counting the moldy bills when they reached $1.9 million. The cash came in handy soon after when they were caught and had to lure Kentucky’s most flamboyant lawyer, the celebrated and corrupt Lester Burns, into representing them. Full of colorful characters and desperate deeds, A Dark and Bloody Ground is a “first-rate” true crime chronicle from the writer of Murder in Little Egypt (Kirkus Reviews).
“An arresting look into the troubled psyches of these criminals and into the depressed Kentucky economy that became fertile territory for narcotics dealers, theft rings and bootleggers.” —Publishers Weekly
“The smell of wet, coal-laden earth, white lightning, and cocaine-driven sweat arises from these marvelously atmospheric—and compelling—pages.” —Kirkus Reviews
“O’Brien creates a captivating portrait of the mountain way of living and thought that forged the lives of these criminals.” —Library Journal
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