Anna Flowers Brotemarkle is well known as the award-winning author of best-selling true crime books including Blind Fury: The Shocking True Story of Gerald Eugene Stano, One of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killers; Bound to Die: The True Story of Florida Serial Killer Bobby Joe Long; Murder at Wayside Antiques, and Vengeance at Meeting Street. Writing these books as Anna Flowers, she has appeared in multiple documentaries and television programs, and has been a featured speaker at conferences around the world.
For this book, the author has turned her investigative and research abilities inward to tell the story of her family, particularly her father Captain Wilbur Flowers.
This book will appeal to anyone interested in the early history of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the Merchant Marines in World War II, genealogy and family history.