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Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida

Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida - Hardcover

by Gilbert King
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gilbert KingPublish date:10/7/2025Pages:384
Language:EnglishPublisher:Flatiron BooksISBN-13:9781250368546ISBN-10:1250368545UPC:9781250368546Book Category:True Crime, Law, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Murder, Criminal Law, CriminologySize:9.30 x 6.20 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC057YGB4T

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King comes a chilling exploration of one of America's most haunting wrongful conviction cases. Based on the hit podcast, Bone Valley dives into the dark heart of rural Florida, where a young man's life was upended by a tragic miscarriage of justice.

"Captivating, enraging, and all too true." --Bob Kolker, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road

"Bone Valley is a work of rare moral clarity and deep compassion." ―Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking

In 1987, Leo Schofield was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Michelle. Always insistent on his innocence, he was poorly served by his legal defense: the investigation was sloppy, the case flimsy, and numerous pieces of evidence were ignored. He was sentenced to life in prison.

Over thirty years later, Gilbert King is tipped off to Leo's case and is astonished by what he found: layers of corruption, flawed evidence, and deep-seated errors. He can't shake the story and starts to get to know Leo and his family. Leo shows an incomprehensible amount of grace and love about his situation, which spurs Gilbert even more to tell his story.

Bone Valley is at once a revelatory investigation into a murder, a chilling portrait of the criminal justice system, and a uniquely powerful story of grace and redemption. Gilbert King has written a new classic of narrative nonfiction.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Flatiron BooksISBN-13:9781250368546ISBN-10:1250368545UPC:9781250368546Book Category:True Crime, Law, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Murder, Criminal Law, CriminologySize:9.30 x 6.20 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.3514Product ID:SC057YGB4T
Gilbert King is the writer, producer, and host of Bone Valley, a narrative podcast about murder and injustice in 1980s central Florida, from Lava For Good podcasts. He is the author of three books, including Devil in the Grove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A New York Times bestseller, the book was also named runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. King has written about race, civil rights, and the death penalty for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic, and he was a 2019-2020 fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. He lives in Brooklyn.
Publisher: Flatiron Books

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