Böcker av Joe Strupp

On July 29, 1962, four of Joe Strupp's relatives were found shot to death in their South Dakota home.The killer: Joe's great-uncle, John Bowman.The victims: Bowman, his wife, and their two teen-age sons.The result: a shocking tale of simmering tensions, mixed motives, and deadly outcomes that still harbors a mystery-why did it happen?When Joe first heard about the tragedy 20 years ago, he began a long and intense investigation into the family secret that revealed a tangled history of mental illness, alcoholism, and still-unanswered questions as to why this horrific crime occurred.Why did a quiet, frustrated father with no history of violence kill his family in cold blood and then take his own life, leaving no note of explanation?Why did the priest who administered last rites leave the church soon after?Why was the killer allowed to leave a mental hospital after years of troubling incidents?And why did Joe's family keep it secret for 40 years?

After a campaign filled with mud-slinging, accusations, and corruption, Billy Dale-San Francisco''s most cunning, most successful political consultant-steers former police chief Jack Callahan to a sweet victory in an underdog race for mayor on Election Night, 1991. But the city''s two daily newspapers are not about to let Callahan off the hook. Both papers lost plenty of political clout by backing the incumbent. As the newspapers battle for control of the new mayor and Dale fights to keep his City Hall power intact, other forces-from rival newspaper publishers to wannabe power brokers-tangle things up with bribery, deceit, and hardball tactics. San Francisco news veteran Joe Strupp''s The Crookedest Street weaves a two-year tale of political power-grabbing, backroom deals, shady operatives-even murder-peopled with the kind of colorful and eccentric characters that have run San Francisco since its Barbary Coast days. "