Tombs of Little Egypt
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Published by: Resource Publications
Release Date: July 18, 2022
Pages: 182
ISBN13: 978-1666738582
Overview
Grave robbers turn a Southern Illinois town upside down. Lou and Duke, drifting ex-cons, are arrested and prosecuted for the crimes. Retired Sheriff Sam Carter records a chronicle of events to keep his town, Greens Point, in a good light for the history books.
Media covering the notorious crimes and trial pumps unforeseen money into this once sleepy town. From postarrest statements, Sheriff Carter learns about the defendants’ lives. From the witness stand, Lou yells at the jurors and spectators and shouts that they are the gold diggers. The shift to the criminals' perspectives gnaws at Sheriff Carter.
Beneath the retired sheriff’s wry narration of the investigation, arrests, and trial lies a fundamental question bound by neither place nor time. The truly good person is not the accuser but the accused, not the historian but the criminal, condemned between the pages of history in a tomb void of the dreams and hope of tomorrow.
Praise
“Author James Varga is a circuit court judge in Chicago, so it came as no surprise that his novel provides meticulous credibility in the chapters detailing the trial. The unexpected pleasure was finding vivid human theater in his subtle probe of morality.”
— Evelyn Ann Casey, Windy City Reviews
“. . . Very enjoyable! If you put it down, the characters will still be running through your head.”
— Terry Sullivan, Killer Clown, The John Wayne Gacy Murders
