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Cold Iron Murder on Old Street A Petersburg Story

Wallace, Stacy Minson

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One fateful night in 1826, Sceva Thayer, a blacksmith, is murdered on the street with an axe. Rumors ran rampant through the southern tidewater town. Fingers pointed to the man's son. This is the story of the Thayer family, Petersburg, and it's enslaved people who must struggle fires, floods, jealousy, humiliation, rage. Imprisonment and death to come through to become like iron, annealed by fire. Available on amazon.com/dp/B0DS8ZMTQL

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