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by Paul Sanders (Author)
On Christmas Eve 2007, Judy and Wayne Anderson's daughter, Michele, and her boyfriend, Joseph McEnroe, arrived at their home for a family meal.Unbeknownst to them, their daughter was armed with a loaded 9 mm pistol and McEnroe was carrying a .357 Magnum. Both parents were callously shot dead by the pair and their bodies hidden from view.Two and a half hours later, Michele's brother Scott, his wife Erica and their two children, Olivia (5) and Nathan (3), arrived at the house. Within the hour, they too had been pitilessly slain, in an act of violence that was breath-taking in its scope and cruelty.With his highly-anticipated third book, Paul Sanders takes the reader inside every day of the trial of Michele Anderson, with his customary attention to detail, from December 2015 until March 2016. And in a unique digression from his other works, Sanders includes something he has never done before: An interview with one of the killers, Joseph McEnroe, at Walla Walla Penitentiary.Banquet of Consequences is the first of two books on what came to be known as the Carnation murders. Were the killings a premeditated act, or had the defendants acted in self defense? And what of the deaths of Olivia and Nathan? Who shot them and why? It would not be an easy task for a jury to decide.Look for Book Two: The Carnation Murders, "Beyond the Pale: Rogue Juror - The Joseph McEnroe Death Penalty Trial."Available Christmas Eve, 2017.Reader reviews for Paul Sanders: "Move over Ann Rule and Shanna Hogan and make way for America's newest crime writer!""Paul Sanders is now among my favorite authors. Both of his books had me right there!" "The reader is taken into a world few of us who have ever received a jury summons will ever experience."
Author Biography
Paul Sanders writes True Crime from a juror's perspective. His story began in 2014, when he was called to serve as a death penalty juror in the trial of Marissa DeVault. At the completion of the case, he wrote his first True Crime book, Brain Damage: A Juror's Tale - The Hammer Killing Trial. Since then, Paul has gone on to write a further two True Crime books on some of the most spectacular trials in US history, Why Not Kill Her: A Juror's Perspective - The Jodi Arias Death Penalty Retrial and Banquet of Consequences: A Juror's Plight - The Carnation Murders Trial of Michele Anderson. Why Not Kill Her, along with Shanna Hogan's book, Picture Perfect: The Jodi Arias Story, has become one of the most recommended books on the subject and was publicly endorsed by the jury foreperson, Haaken Liknes. Paul's first two books were published on Amazon and this helped to build a platform of thousands of followers who are now eagerly awaiting the release of his latest work. Paul has been a guest on True Crime Radio, Trial Diaries, Court Chatter, HLN and Fox. He has also been featured on NBC Oxygen's, "Snapped," as well as I.D. Discovery's, "Scorned," where he represented himself as a former juror. He recently appeared on two episodes of Investigation Discovery's, "Deadly Sins". He was a trial reporter for Trial Talk Live during the Carnation murders trial of Michele Anderson. He currently resides in Seattle, Washington. Paul is an active member of the PNWA. He is currently preparing, Beyond the Pale: Rogue Juror - The Joseph McEnroe Death Penalty Trial, for publication on December 24, 2017, the 10th anniversary of the Carnation murders.
