<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>In this gripping and emotional memoir, a woman confronts the man who murdered her father twenty years earlier.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>When Carys Cragg was eleven, her father was brutally murdered during a home invasion. Twenty years later, she decides to contact his murderer in prison, and by doing so comes across startling new information about the crime. In this powerful and emotional memoir, she learns of his horrific childhood, and the reasons he lied about the murder; in turn, he learns about the man he killed. She mines the letters they exchange for clues about the past, revealing her need for the truth and the murderer's reluctance to tell.</p><p><strong>Carys Cragg</strong> is an instructor at Douglas College in Vancouver.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Dead Reckoning</i> is one of those books that will remain on my mind for a very, very long time. I applaud Carys Cragg's personal journey, and the graceful and highly articulate writing she employs to share her journey with readers. --Amber Dawn, author of <i>Sub Rosa</i> and <i>How Poetry Saved My Life</i> <p/>With remarkable candour and extraordinary insight Carys Cragg's memoir examines central elements of transformative justice--truth, responsibility and punishment. Healing becomes not reconciliation but compromise, as Cragg's story shifts from the narration of her father's murder as a moment of horror and devastation to a journey of surrender, acceptance, and even forgiveness. --Marina Cantacuzino, Founder, The Forgiveness Project<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Carys Cragg: Carys Cragg is faculty in Child, Family & Community Studies at Douglas College. Her personal essays reviews have appeared in <i>The Globe & Mail</i> and <i>The Tyee</i>, amongst others. She is a graduate of of the Writer's Studio at Simon Fraser University. <p/>
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