Love and Death in the Sunshine State: The Story of a Crime

When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest, and the motel is set on fire. Author Cutter Wood was a guest at Musil-Buehlers motel and began to talk with many of the people living on Anna Maria Island, the detectives, and the man presumed to be the murderer. In trying to understand how we treat those we love, this book tells a story that exists outside documentary evidence, crafting a tale about the dark conflicts at the heart of every relationship.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 01 April 2019
Publisher: Algonquin Books (division of Workman)

When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest: her husband, her boyfriend, and the man who stole the car. Then the motel is set on fire; her boyfriend flees the county; and detectives begin digging on the beach of Anna Maria Island. Author Cutter Wood was a guest at Musil-Buehlers motel as the search for her gained momentum. Driven by his own need to understand how a relationship could spin to pieces in such a fatal fashion, he began to talk with many of the people living on Anna Maria, and then with the detectives, and finally with the man presumed to be the murderer. But there was only so much that interviews and transcripts could reveal. In trying to understand how we treat those we love, this book, like Truman Capotes classic In Cold Blood, tells a story that exists outside documentary evidence. Wood carries the investigation of Sabines murder beyond the facts of the case and into his own life, crafting a tale about the dark conflicts at the heart of every relationship.

When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest: her husband, her boyfriend, and the man who stole the car. Then the motel is set on fire; her boyfriend flees the county; and detectives begin digging on the beach of Anna Maria Island. Author Cutter Wood was a guest at Musil-Buehlers motel as the search for her gained momentum. Driven by his own need to understand how a relationship could spin to pieces in such a fatal fashion, he began to talk with many of the people living on Anna Maria, and then with the detectives, and finally with the man presumed to be the murderer. But there was only so much that interviews and transcripts could reveal. In trying to understand how we treat those we love, this book, like Truman Capotes classic In Cold Blood, tells a story that exists outside documentary evidence. Wood carries the investigation of Sabines murder beyond the facts of the case and into his own life, crafting a tale about the dark conflicts at the heart of every relationship.

Weight: 198g
Dimension: 140 x 209 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781616209339