Paperback: When a devilish deacon’s secrets are discovered, it is revealed that a man who was holier than thou was also guilty as sin.
By day, Sam Smithers was the deacon of his Baptist church in Plant City, Florida. A respected neighbour to many and considered a true pillar of his community, Smithers was a devoted family man. But after the sun set, he became something else: a violent attacker of prostitutes - and a killer.
Smithers’s twisted double life came to light when a local woman who had hired him to take care of her property found him surrounded by a puddle of blood in her garage, cleaning an axe. Through exclusive interviews with Smithers’s wife, who described her spouse as nothing but a doting husband and father, author Fred Rosen learned why this man of God would be the last person anyone would suspect of committing these savage crimes.
Deacon Of Death was first published in 2000. The above edition was published in 2015.
About the author: Fred Rosen is an American true crime author and former columnist for the Arts and Leisure Section of The New York Times.
Rosen's published works in the genre include There But For the Grace: Survivors of the 20th Century’s Infamous Serial Killers (2007) and When Satan Wore a Cross (2007). Both were best-sellers at the Doubleday Book Club, Literary Guild, Mystery Guild, and Book-of-the-Month Club.
He is also the winner of Library Journal’s Best Reference Source 2005 award for The Historical Atlas of American Crime, and has written many other works of historical non-fiction including Cremation in America, Contract Warriors, Lobster Boy and Gold! He can frequently be seen on the Investigation Discovery network's Evil Kin and Evil Twins TV series, where he is a regular on-air commentator.
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