Everyday Murders Book

What compels man to murder? Former prosecutor Hugh Anthony Levine enables the reader to sit with him at the prosecution's table as he represents the People of the State of New York or the People of the State of California in the trials of some "everyday" murders which encapsulate raw emotions often impelling man to kill - greed, lust, fear, hatred, as well as mere folly.

"Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out" wrote playwright John Webster in 1623, and our fascination with murder and murder trials has continued unabated to the present. Murder is, after all, the most dramatically unlawful thing a person can do to another.

Illuminating not the O.J. Simpson-, Scott Peterson-, Claus von Bülow-type cases which capture wide attention but those tried every week across America, often in courtrooms with no one in the audience, Everyday Murders in its gripping true stories brings up in full color killers who: inflicted too many stab wounds to count; killed as entertainment for their friends; wielded unusual weapons; killed multiple victims in the course of attempting suicide; were identified by a heroic victim who spoke from the grave; revealing the extraordinary drama inherent in even an ordinary murder.