Bøger af Rebecca F. Pittman

The South has always been steeped in mystery. Gunshots from duels fought for family honor still echo from the distant past. The same gray Spanish moss that swayed on moonlit nights throughout plantation grounds still move eerily on coastal breezes. It is in this fabled low country of South Carolina that the ever-changing tidal plain has begun to give up its secrets. A once powerful legal dynasty that covered five counties and spread throughout more like the deadly tendrils of the invasive kudzo vine was beginning to wither. It took the death of a beautiful 19-year-old girl named Mallory Beach to show the dark underbelly of a juggernaut family named Murdaugh. Here is the incredible saga of five mysterious deaths, a score of insurance fraud cases that devasted countless families, drug running, and possible dealings in sex trafficking. It is almost impossible to believe. Yet the shots that rang out on a rainy summer evening on the sprawling Moselle hunting property took not only the lives of the wife and son of Alex Murdaugh but were the percussions for justice that finally demanded answers on other deaths that had been buried beneath the subterfuge. Packed with photos, exclusive interviews, maps and trial transcripts, this is a comprehensive telling of the evidence, theories, victims and key players in this international thriller born of fact.>Rebecca F. Pittman is a bestselling author of 16 titles. She is regularly featured on TV, radio and podcast programs. Her History and Haunting series of books spotlight the most famous landmarks in the world that just happen to be featured regularly on the most haunted lists. Her Countdown to Murder series began with the startling true crime saga out of St. Louis involving Pam Hupp: a seemingly innocuous housewife who stands accused of killing her best friend, a stranger, and even her mother for profit. The story spawned the popular NBC mini-series, The Thing About Pam. Future books in the Countdown to Murder series will showcase the true crime cases of Harold Henthorn, Lizzie Borden, and others. Visit her website at www.rebeccafpittmanbooks.com and sign up for her free newsletter.

Thought to be one of the most bizarre stories in history, this saga of one of America's wealthiest families, and the leading Beer Barons in the Gilded Age, is one stranger than fiction. The story of the Lemp family is one of privilege, opulence, fame, and tragedy. Four members of the family died by gunshot wounds--three by suicide, a fourth under mysterious circumstances that has St. Louis tongues still waging today--95 years after the event took place. Take a peek through the keyhole of Lemp Mansion and discover her darkest secrets, and what makes her today one of the most-haunted houses, not only in St. Louis, but in the world.

In 1692, a small village in Salem, Massachusetts, was suddenly attacked by the specters of flying witches and all manner of evil. A group of young girls began "crying out" against their neighbors and family members. By the time it was over, nineteen people were hanged, one man crushed to death, and five succumbed to the ordeal of imprisonment. Today, despite the plague of witchcraft that had inflicted England, we still look at this one isolated incident of hysteria and madness, and ask "How did this happen?" This book offers answers to that question, along with exclusive interviews with the Salem Witch Trial's top experts. The book includes never-before-seen photographs and information about Proctor's Ledge from the experts and historians who located the actual site of the hangings. A focus on the paranormal activity happening in Salem is offered in The Haunting section. You will also find a nod to Hocus Pocus and other movies. Spotlights on the best lodging, restaurants, and tourist attractions are also listed, along with maps, and websites for further study. Rebecca F. Pittman is a best-selling author of 13 books, including The History & Haunting of Lizzie Borden, The History and Haunting of Salem, and many more. Her love of mysteries has found her on multiple TV and radio programs. Her website is www.rebeccafpittmanbooks.com, where you can sign up for her free Ghost Writings newsletter.

T.J. Finnel and the Well of Ghosts is an action-packed children's adventure novel for the middle-grade school market. Adults are having a hard time putting it down as well, comparing it to Harry Potter and Fablehaven. T.J. is an 11 year-old boy with a love of science and the stars. He and his family are living with his grandfather in a 110 year-old house that sits at the edge of the most-haunted woods in America...Harmon's Wood. With sightings of ghosts, eerie lights, and toad-like creatures roaming the forest, Harmon's Wood has caused the inhabitants of Coven Bay to lock their doors and windows at night for a hundred years; the time a mysterious well with secret symbols first appeared inside a cave deep within the trees. When a Forest Witch, named Morble, comes through the well from another dimension, the terror begins. She is searching for three things: the Dark Orb, Lunar Potion, and a powerful eye belonging to the Crone of the Spectre Lands. When T.J.'s grandfather is suddenly pulled into one of his paintings, the only people who seem to have clues as to what happened to the famous artist, are a talking troll-head walking cane named Twicket, and Mandolin Brandy, a constellation who has come to life. Together the threesome must take on the Crone of the Spectre Lands, a pirate ghost named Barnacle (who sails the skies in his ship of stars), a peddler called Wheedle, floating Banshees, a flying band of Siglets, and other creatures that inhabit another dimension. All the puzzle pieces must be in place before the Dark Moon rises, at which time the well will change locations, and T.J.'s grandfather, along with all the inhabitants of the 5 Dimensions, will be stuck where they are for the next 100 years, including the creatures who have entered our world. Time is running out. The only way for T.J., Twicket and Mandolin to save Dillon Finnel, and stop the evil, is to enter the Well of Ghosts.