In the Cold Light of Day

by Ann Williams and Ann Williams

Gripping, nonfiction crime novel about an infamous 1960 Southern murder and its aftermath, involving the coat hanger strangulation of beautiful socialite and mother of four, Gene Tate. Author Ann... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0966126807
• ISBN13: 9780966126808
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: LeFleur's Bluff Publications, Inc.
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

This is an outstanding true story of a sleeepy southern town

I was brought up in this town in Mississppi and knew indivduals personally that this book is about, I attened and graduated from the the same high school as the author, sherriff, many of the attorneys and well as the person convicted of the slaying. It is very true and exacting story of a muder that took place in a sleepy little southern town. That will still bring questions to ones mind.

Once I started the book I fell under its' spell.

I felt myself time travel back to the early sixties. I felt as though I was a fly on the wall, an observation point of "insider" privilege, as the plot unfolded. It was as though the murder had taken place in my own childhood neighborhood in Arizona (only it took place in Mississippi) in a time when such things were far from common occurrences. The court room drama was told with uncommon clarity and the characters reminded me of some of my own relatives and neighbors, the author made them come to life with uncanny ability. I was thoroughly engrossed in the characters lives and in the murder trial and its aftermath. I would definitely suggest it to others as a great read! I look forward to another of Williams' books.

Incredible reading. John Grisham look out!

One of those books you just can't put down. Ann Williams does an remarkabale job of making you feel you were right there. Exciting, thrilling with an unbelievable twist at the end. Hoping for a TV special or movie.

All the more compelling because true!

This is a work of truth, not fiction, drawn from the author's personal knowledge,augmented by the recollections and memorabilia of the pricipal witness at trial A "page turner" that will cause you to stay up later than you wanted to, this book demonstrates the strange turns of the legal system, and of the abnormal human mind.