Blood Echoes
The Infamous Alday Mass Murder and Its Aftermath

I've read about eight books by Thomas H. Cook in the last five years...he's a great writer and has become one of my all-time favorite authors...I plan on reading all his books, fiction & non-fiction. Blood Echoes is his fair and unbiased look at the Alday Mass Murder Case in the State of Georgia, 19......more

Finished this book yesterday April 21 2015 and yes I liked it. Good writing and an interesting story. Oh my so sad. How terrible that the perpetrators of crimes are still even more than back then protected while their victims loved ones cannot protect themselves. For instance they are not allowed to sh......more

This book was quite sympathetic to members of the victim's family, and gave a sense of the loss they felt. Almost as harrowing as the murders themselves was the aftermath, where despite conviction and incarceration, one of the killers was able to continue inflicting pain on the family for years afte......more

On May 14, 1973, three men escaped from the Maryland State Prison. Carl Isaacs, Wayne Coleman, and George Dungee picked up Billy Isaacs, the 15 year old brother of Carl, and took off to Florida. The group were travelling to Florida, when they came upon the Alday farm, located in Donalsonville, Georg......more

This was a good book about a terrible, terrible series of crimes and all the craziness that followed in the wake of the prison escape of a pair of morally questionable brothers and their 2 vulnerable sidekicks. The author manages to compress years and years of legal wrangling very well; he's never r......more