The Body On The Bricks - Krishtalka, Leonard
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A hatchet--a seamstress bludgeoned. An axe--a dead child. A shotgun--a lawyer executed. One day, three murders. Lawrence, Kansas, 1873, reels in shock. Kansas Daily Tribune crime reporter, Mary Fanning, chases the monstrous secrets and sins behind the cold, calculated killings--nothing about them is what it seems. Smart, tough, independent, she becomes trapped in webs of deception, vengeance, and religious fervor: a spiritualist who claims to resurrect the dead; the explosive revelations of a woman sentenced to an asylum; a bohemian goddess, half-naked, strutting the streets, reciting the…mehr

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A hatchet--a seamstress bludgeoned. An axe--a dead child. A shotgun--a lawyer executed. One day, three murders. Lawrence, Kansas, 1873, reels in shock. Kansas Daily Tribune crime reporter, Mary Fanning, chases the monstrous secrets and sins behind the cold, calculated killings--nothing about them is what it seems. Smart, tough, independent, she becomes trapped in webs of deception, vengeance, and religious fervor: a spiritualist who claims to resurrect the dead; the explosive revelations of a woman sentenced to an asylum; a bohemian goddess, half-naked, strutting the streets, reciting the poetry of Robert Burns. In The Body on the Bricks, Leonard Krishtalka delivers a masterful sequel to The Body on the Bed, his acclaimed historical mystery in which journalist Fanning covers a sensational murder and trial, and roots out the diabolical plot--all amid the turbulent social upheaval of post-Civil War 1871 Kansas. Now, says the Midwest Book Review, "Fanning returns in a superb Kansas setting" and faces a new, dangerous reckoning-professional, moral, and personal-as "madness descends on her career, life, and discoveries. Krishtalka weaves together facts and embellishes them with dramatic flair and high drama, an exquisite capturing of the times and daily life." The result is "a deadly series of snarls that embroils the readers in a gripping saga, a vivid, exciting story that's hard to predict-or put down." The Body on the Bricks is a riveting tale of murder, madness, and moral justice that cements Mary Fanning's place among literature's most intrepid investigators.
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Leonard Krishtalka enjoys two careers--one as novelist, essayist, and author, the other as paleontologist, museum director and evolutionary biologist. As a novelist, he uses the mystery genre to excavate the human condition. His award-winning series of Harry Przewalski novels, The Bone Field, Death Spoke, The Camel Driver, and Native Blood, are detective thrillers, each a human intrigue wrapped inside an anthropological intrigue. Each unravels the dirty underbelly of people's lives--the love, loss, betrayal, treachery, fraud, and murder buried beneath petrified shards, skin and bones.Krishtalka has authored two historical fiction novels, The Body on the Bed, and its sequel, The Body on the Bricks. Both feature crime reporter Mary Fanning, who investigates shocking murders and covers the sensational trials, all amid the social upheaval of 1870s post-Civil War Kansas.Krishtalka has also written a regular column for the Lawrence Journal-World and for Carnegie Magazine, with an acclaimed book of collected natural history essays, Dinosaur Plots.As a paleontologist, Krishtalka has worked on fossil-hunting expeditions throughout western Canada and the US, Patagonia, Europe, China, Kenya and Ethiopia, unearthing and studying the remains of past life and cultures of the planet, including dinosaurs, ancient mammals, and hominids--human ancestors. He has held academic posts at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, PA, the University of Pittsburgh, the National Science Foundation, Washington, DC, and The University of Kansas, Lawrence.Krishtalka lives in Lawrence, the central setting for two Przewalski novels, Death Spoke and its sequel, Native Blood, and for both Mary Fanning novels, The Body on the Bed and The Body on Bricks.