In 1964, an eighteen year old babysitter, Paula Herring, is murdered in her home while her six year old brother is asleep in the next room. Shortly afIn 1964, an eighteen year old babysitter, Paula Herring, is murdered in her home while her six year old brother is asleep in the next room. Shortly afterwards, a judge's son is convicted of the murder and serves time. Fast forward four decades when a private citizen stumbles upon old evidence that points to a miscarriage of justice in the 1964 case. Michael Bishop spends the next several years digging into old archives, interviewing surviving witnesses from back in the day and ultimately uncovering a ring of conspiracy surrounding who really murdered Paula Herring. And it is a shocker. As a thirteen year old who lived in Nashville at the time, I didn't remember the murder, but a lot of the ancillary characters and settings were familiar to me as I read through Bishop's investigation. The book was fairly well written and interesting and it brought back to me the Nashville of my youth....more
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