New York Times Bestselling Author Carlton Smith has a unique way of writing that flows in an easy to read conversational style, albeit at times repeatitive, which is present once again in his lastest publication The Prom Night Murders.

Pastor Bob Pelley and his wife Dawn had blended their families just two short years before their murder.

One of Bob’s two children was Robert “Jeffrey” Pelley; a high school senior in 1989 who didn’t see eye to eye with his father on a wide variety of issues.

Including his punishment for petty theft: he could not drive his date to the high school prom, nor participate in pre or post prom activities, instead being escorted to and from the occasion by his father.

Was it a disciplinary action stern enough to warrant murder? The execution-style killings of his father, stepmother, and two youngest stepsisters?

It was, according to a St. Joseph County, Indiana jury.

Seventeen years later in 2006.

In The Prom Night Murders, Carlton Smith provides his readers with ALL the facts; and while the jury’s verdict is in, he leaves readers hanging as to his own opinion – essentially inviting them to reach their own conclusion.

I love a book like this! So seldom is true crime a real “whodunnit,” but more of a fanciful version of the facts.

The case of Jeff Pelley as detailed in The Prom Night Murders - a case that spanned almost two decades – will really motivate readers to ponder, "Guilty or not guilty?"

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