Winter of Frozen Dreams: A True Story of Passion, Greed, and Murder - Hardcover

Harter, Karl

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809241056 ISBN 13: 9780809241057

Publisher: Contemporary Books, 1990

Synopsis

Recounts the criminal activity of Barbara Hoffman, a manipulative college student turned prostitute, and Jerry Davies, Hoffman's fiance, and the man who became a victim of her cold-blooded ambition and an accomplice to murder

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About the Author

Karl Harter is the author of WINTER OF FROZEN DREAMS, A True Story of Passion, Greed, and Murder in Madison, Wisconsin. The book was published in 1990. Harter researched the book for four years and lived in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife at the time he wrote the book.

From Library Journal

On Christmas Day 1977, Jerry Davies led Madison, Wisconsin police to a snowbank concealing the corpse of Harry Berge. By the day after Easter, Davies lay dead in his bathtub, an apparent suicide. The link between the two was their shared love for Barbara Hoffman, a former honor student and massage parlor queen who had enlisted Davies's aid in removing Berge's body from her apartment. In recounting the complexities of the case, which riveted the community for two and a half years, Harter reveals an eye for the gruesome detail and ironic twist, but when the verdicts are in, Hoffman, and the mens' deaths, seem destined to remain mysteries. Recommended for large true crime collections and libraries serving areas where media coverage was intense.
- Jim Burns, Pompano Beach City Lib., Fla.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Contemporary Books
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0809241056
• ISBN 13: 9780809241057
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 261