John Railey has spent much of his life on the Outer Banks. A graduate of the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, he is a former editorial page editor of the Winston-Salem Journal and investigates mitigating factors in death penalty cases for the State of North Carolina. His previous books for The History Press--The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks: Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland, Andy Griffith's Manteo: His Real Mayberry and Murder in Manteo: Seeking Justice for Stacey Stanton--are top sellers on the Outer Banks. He is also the author of the memoir Rage to Redemption in the Sterilization Age: A Confrontation with American Genocide.

Murder in Paradise

"Telling a true account of murder with grace is an above and beyond feat. It lends dignity to and cushions the victim with love while carefully unfolding an unspeakable tragedy. The result is a full - bodied approach allowing the reader to experience not only the action, but gain a sense of time and place, and the complexities of the human element." -- Mary Ellen Riddle, Author and Educator at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum