In 1991 Nancy Dillard Lyon, daughter of a powerful Dallasreal estate tycoon, was murdered, poisoned with arsenic. Nancy’s brother becameconvinced her adulterous husband, Richard, was responsible. And so Richard wasarrested, tried, and convicted—and sentenced to life in prison. But did theevidence support this conviction?
Mystery novelist A. W. Gray made his nonfiction debutwith this provocative true-crime account of sex, incest, infidelity, drugs, andmurder—one that raises doubts about the justice that was served in this case.