TOM RICHEY
THE BOOKS
Researching for the book DEATH ROW SCOT opened me to the law, which I continued to find a great interest in. During the ensuing years, I learned the law and became a practising jailhouse lawyer. I won numerous civil actions against prison authorities for violating prisoners' rights, including a landmark freedom of speech case in the US Supreme Court. I also won the freedom for other prisoners who were serving long sentences. Recently, I became dissatisfied with the corruption inherent in the US legal system, and it has returned me to my first love. Writing.
Kenny Richey Death Row Scot
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ISBN-10: 1845020642
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ISBN-13: 978-1845020644
DEATH ROW SCOT was published by Black and White Publishing. It was written about my brother, Kenny, who sat on Ohio State's Death Row for 21 years. The book, which sold internationally, resulted in freeing Kenny three years after its publication.
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Prisoner 929444 86,000 words.
Memoir that begins in Edinburgh, Scotland, where I was born and raised. This book is more than a story about a man who ends up in a foreign prison for all of his adult life. It's a story that transcends prison. It is a story of struggling against all odds, of refusing to give up. When I wrote my memoir, I wanted it to be more than a prison story. I wanted it to touch others as I have been touched, and to inspire. I'm a firm believer that a great writer can make even a shopping list interesting. Prison may be the least interesting setting for most people, but I have collected the most interesting experiences, like trying to scale the prison wall with a rope and grappling hook and being shot at by a prison guard for my efforts.
OUR STRUGGLE 100,000 words.
This work is what I describe as 'faction.' It's an amazing story about an ordinary German family who tried to survive the Nazi regime, the Second War, and the four years following the war. What few people know is that, following the end of the Second War, between 9.3 and 13.6 million Germans died following the imposition of genocidal policies spearheaded by the Americans. A million of those killed were German POWs who died in American and French concentration camps (some of which were those that had been used by the Nazis to house Jews and dissidents). Millions more who died were women and children. 'Our Struggle,' follows the Gutmann family trying to survive the Nazi regime, the war, and the subsequent years when the German race stood on the precipice of extinction.
THE COLDEST WINTER 85,000 words.
This fiction story is set in 1812, when Napoleon invades Russia with half-a-million men and escapes months later with only 40,000. Among his army is Imrie Cameron, a former smuggler from the East Coast of Scotland whose father was caught and jailed by French officials. He contracted typhoid fever in jail. To free his father, Imrie agrees to volunteer his services to Napoleon's Great Army. He struggles to survive the conquest in order to return to his young love who he believes is waiting for him in Scotland.
Shallow Graves 90,000 words.
This dark crime novel set in Edinburgh follows a police detective assigned to a task force for the purpose of apprehending a serial killer the press have dubbed, 'The Butcher', who has dismembered and buried the bodies of teen-aged girls around the city. Only, all of the graves the killer's letters direct the police to contain remains of missing girls that have lay un-eartherd for over twenty years, and all clues point to a suspect who himself is only twenty years old.