In the Evil Day: Violence Comes to One Small Town - Hardcover

Carey, Richard Adams

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1611687152 ISBN 13: 9781611687156

Publisher: ForeEdge, 2015

Synopsis

On the afternoon of August 19, 1997, John Harrigan―owner and publisher of the News and Sentinel newspaper in Colebrook, New Hampshire―arrived at his building to find the woman he loved lying dead in the parking lot. Lawyer Vickie Bunnell had been shot and killed by a local carpenter wielding an assault rifle. By then, three more people were already dead or dying. More mayhem was to ensue in an afternoon of plot twists too improbable for a novel. The roots of the incident stretch back twenty-five years, with tendrils deep in the history of New England’s North Country. These bloody events shocked America and made headlines across the world. Hundreds of local citizens became unwilling players in the drama―friends and colleagues of the dead, men and women who were themselves real or potential targets, along with their neighbors in law enforcement―but the town and its inhabitants were never passive victims. From the first shot fired that day, they remained courageously determined to survive. This is the story of that town, those people, and that day. In the Evil Day is a moving portrait of small-town life and familiar characters forever changed by sudden violence.

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About the Author

RICHARD ADAMS CAREY is assistant director of the MFA program at Southern New Hampshire University. His previous books include Raven’s Children: An Alaskan Culture at Twilight, Against the Tide: The Fate of the New England Fisherman, and The Philosopher Fish: Sturgeon, Caviar, and the Geography of Desire.

Review

“In the Evil Day is as much the story of a town, its culture, its way of life, its history, but especially its people, as it is an in-depth cautionary tale of the tragic consequences of nursing a grudge. It's the most authentic, gripping, true-to-life modern-day murder documentary I've ever read.” (Ernest Hebert, author of The Darby Chronicles)

“Richard Adams Carey does the impossible: He writes about violence and tragedy in ways that are both beautiful and beguiling, and, because of that, all the more devastating.” (Wiley Cash, author of A Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy)

“In the Evil Day is by far the best true-crime book I’ve ever read. It reads like a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. I couldn’t put it down. It is a remarkable literary portrait of the power of evil to destroy our lives, do what we may.” (Howard Frank Mosher, author of God’s Kingdom)

About this edition

• Publisher: ForeEdge
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1611687152
• ISBN 13: 9781611687156
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336