Cathy Pickens

North Carolina's Triangle region is known for universities, research facilities and politics, but even in such a prosperous, diverse, modern environment, crime helps define the edges. These cases cover several decades of murder, fraud and betrayal. Read about the nation's largest prison escape and a couple of North Carolina's poisoners. From a civil rights-era clash of Old South and New and a suspected Cold War spy to new-tech sleuths and tales of...

Living in the small Southern town of her childhood after being fired from her big-city law firm, attorney Avery Andrews is called in to assist in a case in Charleston, South Carolina, but the job becomes serious when a young doctor is found dead.