Three Days In Devon: The Beauty Queen, the Missionary, and the Kidnapping the World Called the "Manacled Mormon" Case - Couverture souple

Ashcroft, Vivienne

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798233413612

Editeur : Elc Publishing, 2026

Synopsis

She said she would have skied down Mount Everest in a bikini for him. Instead, she bought a gun, a set of chains, and a plane ticket - and flew three thousand miles to prove it.

In the autumn of 1977, former beauty queen Joyce McKinney tracked a nineteen-year-old Mormon missionary named Kirk Anderson to a quiet English town, approached him outside his own church at gunpoint, and drove him to an isolated cottage in Devon - where he was chained to a bed frame for three days. She called it a rescue. The British press called it kidnapping. The world would spend the next four decades unable to decide which of them was right.

What followed was one of the strangest true crime sagas of the twentieth century: a courtroom defense built on love rather than denial, a tabloid bidding war between Fleet Street's fiercest rivals, a scandal-ending photo leak, and a fugitive's escape from British justice disguised as a member of a traveling mime troupe. Joyce McKinney vanished for thirty years - only to resurface in 2008 at the center of an entirely different international headline: the world's first celebrity dog-cloning scandal.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Vivienne Ashcroft is the author of The Couture Code - a spy thriller romance trilogy following a covert intelligence unit hunting a criminal empire hidden inside the ultra-luxury fashion world - as well as the bestselling dark fantasy and romantasy series The Ashen Throne Chronicles and The Hollow Crown Series.

Her fiction lives at the intersection of high stakes and high emotion: operatives who don't trust easily, worlds that punish weakness, and romance that burns slow before it burns everything. She writes characters who are dangerous by necessity and human despite themselves.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Elc Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798233413612
• Reliure: Tapa blanda
• Nombre de pages: 178
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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