The Ballad of Karla Faye Tucker

by Mark Beaver

Winner of the 2024 Georgia Author of the Year Award for Biography

On a June night in 1983, twenty-three-year-old Karla Faye Tucker and her boyfriend, fueled by a sinister cocktail of illicit drugs, broke into a Houston apartment. "We were very wired," Tucker later testified, "and we was looking for something to do." Though they later claimed they entered the premises with no murderous intent, they ended up slaughtering two people--one...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496846621
• ISBN13: 9781496846624
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"