The Sweater Letter

The Sweater Letter
Author: David L. Distel
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2002
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0595259332

Set in the Northwoods of Michigan a woman is killed of the final day of deer season, 1992. It was quickly classified as a tragic hunting accident until an officer of the Michigan State Police started investigating. Discovery of a letter in a sweater drawer of the victim leads to a murder investigation, trial with the husband as the chief suspect. True story.

Hunt to Kill

Hunt to Kill
Author: Dave Distel
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2005
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 9780786017256

Previously published as "The Sweater Letter," this book tells the riveting true story of a ruthless husband who tried to get away with murder in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and the relentless police sergeant who was determined to bring him to justice.

Hunt To Kill

Hunt To Kill
Author: Dave Distel
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2009-12-01
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0786037814

Innocent Prey On November 29, 1992, Judy Blake Moilanen, 35, took her dogs for a walk in the north Michigan woods. It was the last time she would be seen alive. She was found shot through the chest, a seeming hunting accident victim. But state police Sergeant Bob Ball remained skeptical. . . Naked Greed Judy's husband, Bruce, 37, was the beneficiary of insurance policies with "accidental death" clauses that would pay off $330,000 in claims. Disturbing facts soon surfaced about a prior incident in which Judy had narrowly escaped being killed by a concrete block that had fallen from the roof where her husband was working. On a separate occasion, a fire had broken out as she and her 3-year-old daughter slept alone in the house. Final Justice Bruce Moilanen was a debt-dodger and chiseler, obsessed with a happily married woman who regarded him only as a "pest." For months, Sergeant Ball painstakingly gathered evidence against Moilanen, yet there was still no sign of a murder weapon as the trial date approached. Would a youthful prosecutor be able to overcome a tenacious defense and the specter of reasonable doubt to prove that Judy Moilanan's death was anything but accidental--and every bit an act of cold-blooded murder? "Destined to be a classic. . .a spell-binding tale." --Green Bay Press-Gazette "A riveting true story of murder." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune 16 Pages Of Shocking Photos Dave Distel was a writer, editor, and columnist for the Los Angeles Times for over twenty years before moving to the Upper Peninsula, where he now resides with his wife and collaborator, Lynn. Their work has drawn attention from national media, including Court TV's Forensic Files.

Love Letters to the Dead

Love Letters to the Dead
Author: Ava Dellaira
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014-04-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0374346682

“Dear Ava, I loved your book.” —Award-winning actress Emma Watson For fans of Kathleen Glasgow and Amber Smith, Ava Dellaira writes about grief, love, and family with a haunting and often heartbreaking beauty in this emotionally stirring, critically acclaimed debut novel, Love Letters to the Dead. It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more—though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. And, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her. Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was—lovely and amazing and deeply flawed—can she begin to discover her own path.

The Saga of Tom Horn

The Saga of Tom Horn
Author: Dean Fenton Krakel
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1988-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780803277670

An epidemic of cattle rustling in southern Wyoming in the 1890s and the desperate straits of stockmen set the stage for this saga of Tom Horn, a former Pinkerton detective, an expert hunter and dead shot, and one of the most mysterious and controversial figures in the history of the Old West. Some radicals in the powerful Wyoming Stock Growers Association turned to the man who once boasted, “Killing men in my specialty; I look to it as a business proposition, and I think I have a corner on the market.” Cattle thieves were duly warned, blood was shed, and Tom Horn was implicated but never charged. Then on the morning of July 18, 1901, Willie Nickell, the fourteen-year-old son of a Wyoming sheepman, was shot. Horn’s career was ended. The arrest, trial, and execution of Tom Horn ignite fireworks in Dean Krakel’s book, and a colorful cast of cattle barons and lawmen adds to the sizzle. A jury convicted Tom Horn, but his hanging did not settle the specter of guilt.

My Angry Letters

My Angry Letters
Author: Bonnie Zilinski
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 120
Release: 2010-05-13
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0557398193

If you have ever been so angry with a company that you wanted to send them a seething letter, this is the book for you. It is a compilation of my angry letters to some very deserving companies. The names have been omitted to protect the guilty.

Amos's Sweater

Amos's Sweater
Author: Janet Lunn
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2007
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0888998457

Amos, an old sheep, is tired of having his wool cut off, and tries to take the sweater that has been made from it.

Allen Peck's WWI Letters Home - 1917-1919

Allen Peck's WWI Letters Home - 1917-1919
Author: Charles E Peck
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2005
Genre: World War, 1914-1918
ISBN: 0595362230

Allen Peck's WW I Letters Home tell of his patriotic volunteer service for the brand-new U.S. Army Air Service to fight for his country. Allen's American group was sent to France to be trained by and to fly with a French escadrille. The airplanes were small, flimsy, and slow, with open cockpits and no heat. No oxygen masks. For young pilots these were exciting, challenging, and for some, fatal months. Allen survived plane crashes, enemy planes shooting bullets through his cockpit, and enemy ground fire. A Croix de Guerre was earned for downing a German. But the trauma was great. After Armistice, he wrote of the tragic toll on his "original gang""Twelve of us reached the front, seven gone, three wounded, one unheard from, and I was untouched." After November 11, his letters tell of experiences at a French university, of adventures at the American Embassy in London, and of helping with Inter-Allied Games. He fell in love with and married a young French girl. When his two-year enlistment was up, Allen chose at first to stay in Paris. But, after five months, he headed back home to America with his new wife, Marguerite. 65 names of individuals with whom he flew or interacted are indexed.