Bookshelf
True Crime
Southern Blood
Deadly Belles of Tennessee
Southern Blood explores the lives of women whose crimes unsettled the quiet landscapes of Tennessee. These are not tales of spectacle or sensational headlines, but careful excavations of violence, secrecy, and the uneasy places where history prefers to look away.
Across decades of Tennessee history, these narratives examine how ordinary lives can conceal extraordinary darkness. Each chapter traces the slow unfolding of events that led to tragedy—moments when control, manipulation, or desperation crossed into irreversible acts.
Written in restrained literary prose, Southern Blood focuses not only on the perpetrators but also on the human cost of their crimes. The stories move through courtrooms, communities, and private lives forever altered by violence.
This collection is not about glorifying killers. It is about understanding how silence, myth, and memory shape the way crimes are remembered—and how often the victims themselves are left in the shadows of the stories told about them.
Peach Black
Poison Beneath the Cherokee Rose
Georgia’s history is often told through romance, folklore, and the mythic charm of the American South. Peach Black turns that mythology over and examines what lies beneath it.
This volume explores the stories of women whose crimes disrupted the social and cultural fabric of Georgia communities. Through careful reconstruction of events, these narratives follow the slow escalation of suspicion, deception, and ultimately violence.
Each case unfolds with attention to historical detail and emotional weight. Rather than sensationalizing crime, the book examines the quiet mechanics of manipulation, the pressures within families and communities, and the consequences that ripple outward long after the crime itself.
The result is a haunting portrait of how violence can hide within ordinary life—behind charm, domestic routine, and the expectations placed upon women across generations.
Like the rest of the series, Peach Black places the victims and their absence at the center of the narrative, reminding readers that every crime leaves behind lives that cannot be restored.