Bone Valley: An Evening with Gilbert King and Leo Schofield

From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King comes a chilling exploration of one of America’s most haunting wrongful conviction cases. Based on the hit podcast, Bone Valley dives into the dark heart of rural Florida, where a young man’s life was upended by a tragic miscarriage of justice. Tombolo Book is thrilled to host award-winning author Gilbert King and Leo Schofield, the man whose wrongful conviction is at the center of King's new book Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida. This event will take place at Nova 535 located at 535 Dr M.L.K. Jr St N, St. Petersburg, FL 33701. Drinks will be available for purchase from Nova's bar during the event. Purchase your tickets here. A confirmation email with more details will be sent to you upon purchase. Books can be picked up before the event or at Nova on the night of the event. Event Two Guests - $53 ticket includes admission to the event for you and one guest and one copy of Bone Valley. Event Single Guest - $43 ticket includes one admission to the event and one copy of Bone Valley. More about Bone Valley In 1987, Leo Schofield was arrested and charged with the murder of his wife, Michelle. Always insistent on his innocence, he was poorly served by his legal defense: the investigation was sloppy, the case flimsy, and numerous pieces of evidence were ignored. He was sentenced to life in prison. Over thirty years later, Gilbert King is tipped off to Leo’s case and is astonished by what he found: layers of corruption, flawed evidence, and deep-seated errors. He can’t shake the story and starts to get to know Leo and his family. Leo shows an incomprehensible amount of grace and love about his situation, which spurs Gilbert even more to tell his story. Bone Valley is at once a revelatory investigation into a murder, a chilling portrait of the criminal justice system, and a uniquely powerful story of grace and redemption. Gilbert King has written a new classic of narrative nonfiction. Gilbert King is the writer, producer, and host of Bone Valley, a narrative podcast about murder and injustice in 1980s central Florida, from Lava For Good podcasts. He is the author of three books, including Devil in the Grove, winner of the Pulitzer Prize. A New York Times bestseller, the book was also named runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. King has written about race, civil rights, and the death penalty for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic, and he was a 2019-2020 fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars at the New York Public Library. He lives in Brooklyn.

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