HISTORICAL FICTION AUTHOR
Books by Avree Kelly Clark
Explore stand alone works of historical fiction focused on real people and historic events of the nineteenth century. Each narrative is a journey through time, meticulously crafted to honor the souls of the past. Avree's approach to covering crime stories is so that victims' names will be known and remembered. Please feel free to explore the catalog below.
Published Works
Malice Aforethought: A True Story of the Shocking Double Crime That Horrified Nineteenth-Century New England
In the summer of 1874, a beloved schoolteacher mysteriously goes missing upon closing up school. After a frantic search, the young woman is discovered horribly mutilated in the woods, and authorities question everyone in the small railroad village of St. Albans, Vermont.
With the case turning cold, news arrives of an eerily similar crime committed in peaceful Pembroke, New Hampshire, in the autumn of 1875. This one, even more gruesome. Everyone questions whether the two beauties were intended victims or simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Amid mounting fear, dedicated detectives and a persistent populace will stop at nothing to ensure the murderous fiend is brought to justice.
For the first time, the true crime story that inspired dozens of podcasts and blogposts is now a gripping novel called Malice Aforethought, and the author shares an exciting theory never before explored.
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1894: It’s the beginning of the end for H. H. Holmes. After more than a decade committing a swath of crimes from Texas to Toronto, investigators are hot on the trail of the most daring and eccentric criminal of the age. What began as a man wanted for conspiracy to commit fraud turns into an extensive investigation that would reveal unspeakable horrors.
Detective Frank Geyer of Philadelphia is assigned his most bizarre and dramatic case to date, where he’ll exhaust an entire summer searching for three missing children. All the while, in Chicago, exploration into Holmes’ World’s Fair Hotel grips a nation. The press dub it the “Murder Castle.”
Witness the very real investigation and sensational trial that put a stop to the century’s most ruthless killer. A man born and bred in rural New Hampshire, who evolved into one of the most unique violators of law in American history. A handsome charmer skillfully making a place for himself among polite society while hiding an ugly secret.
This is the unmasking of Henry Howard Holmes.