• ISBN13: 9788293522089
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: 978-82-93522-08-9
• Publisher Imprint: 978-82-93522-08-9
• Publication Date: October 29, 2017
• Pages: 240
• Original Price: USD 43.78
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 450 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Murder / General

He never confessed, but worked tirelessly to regain his freedom from his death cell in Huntsville, Texas. Over a period of ten years and through more than a hundred letters, he shared his innermost thoughts with his twenty years older Norwegian pen friend, the author of this book. In so doing he afforded her an insight into a hitherto completely unknown world. He urged her to write a book about him.

Marit Lund Bødtker is a Norwegian author of nine books. She is also an educated librarian, journalist, editor and former literary agent. She exchanged over hundred letters with the inmate Ivan Ray Murphy Jr. on Death Row over a period of ten years. Her book was first published in Norwegian by Manifest forlag. Her translator Basil Cowlishaw is an Englishman who has lived in Norway for several years. He is a well known translator of several books into English. In 2017 the author founded an online course in how indie writers can proceed to edit their own books.