BY: BETTY JEAN CRAIGE In this tale of two intertwined crimes, the consequences of a 1968 Ku Klux Klan murder and rape in Witherston, Georgia, come back to haunt the town some fifty years later. The body of Crockett Wood, … Continue reading →
BY: BETTY JEAN CRAIGE Aldo is a mystery/thriller/love story in which a brilliant and dangerous ideologue attempts to eliminate a university’s genetics institute by holding the university’s president hostage. On the same day that Isabel Canto, associate director of Pembrook … Continue reading →
Betty Jean Craige is Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature at the University of Georgia. She lives in Athens, Georgia. Her non-academic books include Conversations with Cosmo: At Home with an African Grey Parrot; the Witherston Murder Mysteries: Downstream, Fairfield’s Auction, … Continue reading →
BY: BETTY JEAN CRAIGE On a cold winter evening in the small mountain town of Witherston, Georgia, antique dealer Hempton Fairfield auctions off rare Cherokee artifacts, Appalachian antiques, and a young African Grey parrot. Late that night, a blizzard stops … Continue reading →
BY: BETTY JEAN CRAIGE At the celebration of his hundredth birthday, local billionaire Francis Hearty Withers announces to the people gathered on the front lawn of Witherston Baptist Church that he has finalized his will. In it he bequeaths $1 … Continue reading →
BY: BETTY JEAN CRAIGE The mayor of the north Georgia town of Witherston and one of its prominent attorneys are being blackmailed by a mysterious Donna Dam, who threatens to expose the two men’s shameful activities of forty years ago … Continue reading →
