we is got him

Tenth member Carrie Hagen (whom I know personally) has had her first book published  – we is got him: the Kidnapping That Changed America. Although Carrie’s grammar skills evidently need sharpening, she has received rave reviews about the book. Here is one example from Publishers Weekly: “Hagen’s first book re-enacts with literary confidence and fine detail America’s first documented kidnapping…Hagen’s writing balances journalistic sincerity and dispassion with exciting precision.”


Here is the opening paragraph on the jacket cover that presents the subject: "In 1874, a little boy named Charley Ross was snatched from his family's front yard in Philadelphia. A ransom note arrived the next day, demanding $20,000 for Charley's return. The city was about to host America's centennial celebration, and the mass panic surround the Charley Ross case jeopardized city politics and plunged the nation into hysteria."

Check out her website - http://carriehagen.net/ - but more importantly, get the book!