Free (Kindle & PDF) Who Killed the Candy Lady? [True Crime Journalism]

[ATDrake]

Who Killed the Candy Lady?: Unwrapping the Unsolved Murder of Helen Brach by journalist James Ylisela, is an exploratory short true crime account of the titular wealthy widow of a prominent confectionary family (Wikipedia), free courtesy of publisher Agate's Digital imprint.

Currently free, probably just until the weekend @ Amazon (not available to Canadians), and also directly @ the publisher's website (DRM-free PDF available worldwide).

Actually, all the Agate freebies for this week seem to have finally shown up in PDF (sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, and I'll finish adding in the links in once the system lets me edit my posts again; for some reason, I keep getting an error message when doing that).

Description
Thirty-five years ago, Helen Brach walked out of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and vanished without a trace. By all accounts, the 65-year-old heiress to the E.J. Brach & Sons candy fortune was in good heath. But shortly after her leaving the clinic the details of Helen Brach's life—and presumed death—moved from fact to speculation, and they have been shrouded in mystery ever since.

Who Killed the Candy Lady?: Unwrapping the Unsolved Murder of Helen Brach is the true and complete story of Helen Vorhees Brach's mysterious disappearance and unsolved murder, as told by veteran Chicago journalist Jim Ylisela. This book will reveal the sordid facts behind the case and the seedy underbelly of Chicago's notorious crime world. Drawing from never-seen documents, interviews, and insiders' perspectives of prosecutors, horse thieves, and candy heiresses alike, Who Killed the Candy Lady? is a true-to-life whodunnit.

This is a fascinating and entertaining tale, and after finishing it readers will be unable to stop themselves from jumping to their own conclusions. Written with the straightforward precision and sly wit of a longtime Chicago writer immersed in the case's details, Who Killed the Candy Lady? is the ultimate guide to this unsolved murder mystery.

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keep us posted if any other free reads show up. Book sounds interesting