Bøger af Susan Lindsley

Milledgeville's Sesquicentennial Murders tackles the story of Marion Stembridge, a white man charged with murder of a black teenage girl in 1949, but convicted of manslaughter by an all-white, all-male jury, and sentenced to prison. He never served a day in any jail. A genius suffering from mental illness, he used "ole time Southern conniving" to have a local judge cancel the decisions of the Georgia Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.During the time the case was travelling through higher courts, the Internal Revenue Service began to investigate his tax returns. Stembridge informed the two agents they would be $10,000 better off each if they went away. He was to be sentenced for attempted bribery on May 4, 1953. On May 2, while his home town, the former capital of Georgia, Milledgeville, began to celebrate a weeklong party in honor of it's founding 150 years before, Stembridge shot and killed two attorneys, one his own and the other his wife's divorce attorney. The killings made news nation-wide, and newspapers gave the story higher recognition than they gave the Kentucky Derby upset of Native Dancer.​The book lays to bed the rumors spread for seventy years and still moving through Milledgeville. The author details the previously unknown legal shenanigans he used, and his desperation, to stay out of jail. The community held its birthday party after funerals delayed the festivities.

Author Susan Lindsley shows off her photographic skills in this color photo book of wildlife. Deer, turkeys, squirrels...the wildlife she has nurtured throughout her life, beginning with her childhood in rural Georgia.

A family history of Luther and Lillas Lindsley and their children.

A collection of stories about the great outdoors, including hunters, poachers, game wardens and unforgettable characters.

The author went from "I don't want to hunt" to an avid deer hunter, an expert tracker, a teacher for her friends, and a ferocious activist for game management. She writes as she lived those years: With a heart for animals, an enthusiasm for the outdoors and a love of painting pictures with words.

Second novel from Susan Lindsley, whose debut novel last year ("The Bottom Rail") was a finalist as best first novel in the Georgia Author of the Year Contest. Like that novel, this one also won the ThomasMax "You Are Published" Award from the Southeastern Writers Conference. Set in the 1940's "Old South," this story is told in the language and dialogue of the era and deals with race relations, crime and scandals from that era. Interracial romance. The KKK. Murder during the sesquicentennial parade-shades of Milledgeville, Georgia. America's last mass lynching at Moore's Ford Bridge. Gay romance and betrayal. Posses hunting for fleeing blacks. "It's just home town stuff," says the author.

Seeking a future, the Carter families move from their bootlegging home in the mountains to middle Georgia. By 1946, they expand their enterprises to include murder, bootlegging, cattle rustling, election fraud, and interracial affairs. Revenge for attempted rape is best served up by two women: "-they'll git in his hay. Atter they git paid, you and me, we'll git him back. We'll light a Lucifer to his hay barn. That'll learn him." Filled with loneliness and hunger for love, Penny, at fourteen, uses her sexuality to satiate the hungers and generates problems for herself and her family. The men reach for the top rail, unmindful of what or whom they step on-neighbors, benefactors or strangers. THE BOTTOM RAIL's characters are as decadent as Faulkner's Snopes family and as driven as Flannery O'Connor's.

Lindsley puts forth a classic book of Christmas poetry in this illustrated collection. Family friendly reading includes "A Deer with Funny Feet and 20 other poems to brighten anyone's holiday.