Because This Is Texas

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Learned journals as a rule are unexciting and opposite of sexy but (this) will knock your hat in the creek. -KENT BIFFLE <em>The Dallas Morning News</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A man walks free from two cold-blooded murders acquitted by a jury of his peers.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Why? a reporter asks a juryman.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Because this is Texas.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Written by a family descendant with exclusive access to private archives Clara Sneed's non-fiction account of the Sneed-Boyce feud-now published for the first time in book form-tells of a love affair so passionate it blinded the lovers to any mere commonsense concerns of three families and a society consumed by the fallout and of a marriage that ultimately survived adultery.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And those two murders.</span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sneed is also the author of the recently released </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Before We Turn to Dust </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(December 2024) a fictionalized version of the feud.</span></p>