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The Shooting of Nancy Howard: A Journey back to Shore combines love, betrayal, conspiracy, suffering, and survival with a cast of improbable characters: a respected church-going husband and his mistress, a group of colorful criminals in East Texas, and a millionaire businessman. The story opens with Nancy's returning home from a church function on a Saturday night in 2012, and pulling into her garage. As she walks toward the door to her house, she suddenly faces an attacker who demands her purse and then shoots her in the head. Investigation of the shooting first reveals that Nancy's husband has been having a three-year affair. A few days later, detectives uncover connections between her CPA husband and the East Texas gang. The story becomes increasingly bizarre as evidence surfaces of a murder-for-hire conspiracy initiated by Nancy's husband.



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Alice Mathews

Alice M. Mathews is the author of "The Shooting of Nancy Howard: A Journey back to Shore." Dr. Mathews is a retired professor from the University of North Texas, located in Denton, Texas, where the two trials resulting from the shooting took place. During her career, Mathews edited an academic journal and taught courses in nonfiction and technical writing, technical editing, British literature, and most often an advanced course on the works of John Milton. She especially enjoyed the opportunity to engage young adults in spirited discussion of theological issues, which often centered on Milton's Paradise Lost. Although she has published academic and feature essays in various publications, this is her first book, inspired by her friendship with Nancy Howard. That friendship was fostered by their common faith and their membership in the First Baptist Church of Carrollton, especially in the church choir. In addition, Dr. Mathews and Nancy experienced several similar surgeries, Nancy's resulting from a shooting and Alice's from a blow to the face, likely linked to the "knock-out game," which was popular in 2014. Mathews and her husband, Bill, are long-time residents of Carrollton, Texas, a suburb of Dallas and the city where Nancy's shooting took place. The Mathews have two adult daughters, Allison and Meredith, and always at least one cat. They spend many summers in Colorado visiting their daughter Meredith and her family and hiking the mountains near Estes Park.



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