Hell in the Heartland

<h2>This stranger-than-fiction cold case is about to crack wide open!</h2> <h2>Perfect for fans of <em>I’ll be Gone in the Dark</em> and <em>Zodiac</em></h2> <p>On December 30th 1999 in rural Oklahoma 16-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend Lauria Bible were having a sleepover. The next morning the Freeman family trailer was in flames and both girls were missing.</p> <p>While rumours of drug debts revenge killings and police corruption abounded in the years that followed the case remained unsolved and the girls were never found.</p> <p>In 2016 crime writer Jax Miller travelled to Oklahoma to discover what really happened. What she unearthed was shocking. These forgotten towns were wild lawless and home to some very dark secrets.</p> <p>Finally in April 2018 the first arrests were made… could justice finally be in sight for the girls and their families?</p> <p><strong>‘There is in the best of us a search for the truth to serve the living and dead alike…Jax Miller is one of those people and <em>Hell in the Heartland</em> is one of those books’</strong> Robert Graysmithauthor of <em>Zodiac</em></p> <p><strong>‘Every generation has its standout true-crime writer. Jax Miller does with <em>Hell in the Heartland</em> what Truman Capote did with <em>In Cold Blood</em>’</strong> A.A. Dhand author of <em>Streets of Darkness</em></p> <p><strong>‘Mesmerizing raw evocative unforgettable’</strong> William Boyle author of <em>A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself</em></p> <p> <strong>‘A captivating ride through the frustrating twists turns and dead ends of a horrifying murder case’</strong> <em>Publishers Weekly</em> </p> <p> <strong>‘Beautiful and devastating’ </strong> <em>Crime Reads</em> </p>