Bøker av Les Standiford

Les Standifords account of the decades-long attempt to solve the murder of Adam Walsh is chilling, heartbreaking, hopeful, and as relentlessly suspenseful as anything Ive ever read. A triumph in every way.Dennis Lehane, author of Mystic RiverThe most significant missing child case since the Lindberghs.A taut, compelling and often touching book about a long march to justice.Scott Turow, author of Presumed InnocentThe abduction that changed America forever, the 1981 kidnapping and murder of six-year-old Adam Walshson of John Walsh, host of the Fox TV series Americas Most Wantedin Hollywood, Florida, was a crime that went unsolved for a quarter of a century. Bringing Adam Home by author Les Standiford is a harrowing account of the terrible crime and its dramatic consequences, the emotional story of a father and mothers efforts to seek justice and resolve the loss of their child, and a compelling portrait of Miami Beach Homicide Detective Joe Matthews, whose unwavering dedication brought the Adam Walsh case to its resolution.

"Les Standiford takes us under the big top and behind the curtain in this richly researched and thoroughly engaging narrative that captures all of the entrepreneurial intrigue and spirit of the American circus." -Gilbert King, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Devil in the Grove

Classic noir set in Miami from Elmore Leonard, Zora Neale Hurston, Damon Runyon, Lester Dent, and many more.