Taking Timmy

by Jim Lawrence

Taking Timmy
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Taking Timmy

by Jim Lawrence

Published Aug 08, 2025
418 Pages
6 x 9 Black & White Paperback
Genre: FICTION / Crime


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Book Details

J. Edgar Hoover needs a sensational crime to prop up his beleaguered FBI—and finds it in the kidnapping and murder of a five-year-old boy.

Southern Florida glades, May 1938. On the cusp of retirement, Sheriff J. D. McCall and his small staff are suddenly confronted with a shocking crime: the kidnapping of young Timmy Hunter. The desperate search for the little boy sparks a massive manhunt that includes everyone from Boy Scouts to Seminole Indians. Eventually the FBI takes over the case, under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover. A young man, a friend of the Sheriff, is arrested, tried, and convicted of the crime. He is sent to the notorious prison at Raiford, Florida, where he is condemned to die in the electric chair. But shocking new revelations throw doubt on his guilt. Will the state execute an innocent man?

 

About the Author

Jim Lawrence

Jim Lawrence is a fourth-generation Floridian. He grew up in New Smyrna Beach and had relatives all over the state, in Monticello, Mayo, Havana, Lakeland, Titusville, Cocoa, and Clewiston. He spent some twenty years in Los Angeles writing television movies for Walt Disney Productions, Warner Brothers, and CBS. Jim recently retired from university teaching after a 25-year career in higher education. He currently lives in Asheville, North Carolina, with his significant other, Barbara, and their Cairn Terrier, Dickens. He teaches regularly at the College for Seniors at the University of North Carolina-Asheville. Taking Timmy is his sixth novel.

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