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    Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
    Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
    Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
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    Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida

    Written by Mikita Brottman

    Narrated by Leon Nixon

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    About this audiobook

    “Murder, a love triangle, and small-town secrets in Tallahassee, Florida...an unputdownable read.” —The New York Times

    “A compelling psychological double portrait of what happens when two people are forever bound by a life-altering secret.” —Becky Cooper, bestselling author of We Keep the Dead Close

    From the critically acclaimed author dubbed “one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction” (The New York Times Book Review), a breathless true crime tale of sex, religion, and murder in the deep South.

    Mike and Denise Williams had a tight knit, seemingly unbreakable bond with childhood friends, Brian and Kathy Winchester. The two couples were devout, hardworking Baptists who lived perfect, quintessentially Southern lives. Their friendship seemed ironclad. That is, until December 16, 2000, when Denise’s husband Mike disappeared while duck hunting on Lake Seminole.

    After no body was found, everyone assumed that Mike had drowned in a tragic accident, his body eaten by alligators. But things took an unexpected turn when, within five years of Mike’s disappearance, Brian Winchester divorced his wife and married Denise. Their surprising romance set tongues talking. People began wondering how long they had been a couple, and whether they had anything to do with Mike’s death. It took another twelve years for the truth to come out—and when it did, it was unimaginable.

    Now, the full, shocking story is revealed by Mikita Brottman, acclaimed true crime writer of the “enthralling” (San Francisco Book Review) An Unexplained Death. Through tenacious research and clear-eyed prose, she probes the psychology of a couple who killed and explores how it feels to live for eighteen years with murder on the soul.

    A fascinating page-turner of modern noir, Guilty Creatures is destined to become an instant true crime classic.

    Editor's Note

    Adept exploration…

    Brottman (“Couple Found Slain”) tells the true story of the murder of Mike Williams in 2000, which went unsolved for over a decade and wound up being a devastating betrayal that feels like it could only happen in Florida. “Guilty Creatures” is both a fascinating true crime account and an adept psychological exploration of those who kill and the weight of carrying terrible secrets.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateJul 23, 2024
    ISBN9781797175904
    Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
    Author

    Mikita Brottman

    Mikita Brottman, PhD, is an Oxford-educated scholar, author, and psychoanalyst. She has written seven previous books, including The Great Grisby: Two Thousand Years of Literary, Royal, Philosophical, and Artistic Dog Lovers and Their Exceptional Animals, and is a professor of humanities at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. She lives in Baltimore, Maryland, and continues with her weekly reading group at Jessup Correctional Institution.

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    • 5/5
      Fascinationg story. Great detail, insight and flow to the narrative. The narrator was superb and knew how to nuance his pitch to speak for the characters. He was perfect and the prose gripped your attention.
    • 3/5
      A good book to listen to while driving, but gets a little repetitive in the end and you can see where it’s going