A Season of Darkness: It Began with the Brutal Murder of Pure Innocence...

By Doug Jones and Phyllis Gobbell

Book Overview

The horrific true crime cold case of Marcia Trimble, the little girl who disappeared while selling Girl Scout cookies and was discovered a month later, strangled. This mystery haunted her family for over 30 years...

When nine-year-old Marcia Trimble was murdered in 1975, her devastated parents believed justice would be served. But without a clear suspect in sight and without the ability to analyze DNA evidence, fingers pointed toward the family and toward neighborhood boys without any definitive conclusion. Police were left at a loss to find any kind of evidence that would lay this brutal murder case to rest and bring peace to the long-suffering family of this innocent little girl.

A Season of Darkness catalogs the gruesome account of the murder and its awful aftermath, detailing the thirty years of wondering, silence, and investigation that would eventually lead to a shocking, unexpected, and long-awaited concusion.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0073N4YPE
• ISBN13: 9780425239155
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.1" x 6.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher