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American Murder Mystery: A True Story of a Case that Broke a Family, Divided a Town, and Revealed What It Takes to Solve a Homicide
Not yet published
Expected 18 May 27
A haunting and inspiring true story about how a community comes together to help solve a murder.
In Belleville, Michigan, a small lake town west of Detroit, twenty-seven-year-old singer-bartender Egypt Covington was a local celebrity. But on a summer night in 2017, someone entered Egypt’s home, tied her up in Christmas lights, and ended her life with a single gunshot.
Local police told Egypt’s family that they knew who did it, they just needed one more piece of evidence to make an arrest. But when an arrest never came, some family members took matters into their own hands. What they discovered would unravel the detectives’ theories, lead to secret dissent within the police department, and energize an entire town. As it turned out, the clues to solving the case were there all along, like silent witnesses, waiting to be unearthed.
Egypt’s murder points to a larger crisis this country In some cities, the odds of getting justice are as good as a coin flip, or worse. As her friends and family would discover, the reasons why her case went cold for so long—and why more than a third of all killers literally get away with murder each year—are as important to explore as the mystery of who killed Egypt Covington.
In Belleville, Michigan, a small lake town west of Detroit, twenty-seven-year-old singer-bartender Egypt Covington was a local celebrity. But on a summer night in 2017, someone entered Egypt’s home, tied her up in Christmas lights, and ended her life with a single gunshot.
Local police told Egypt’s family that they knew who did it, they just needed one more piece of evidence to make an arrest. But when an arrest never came, some family members took matters into their own hands. What they discovered would unravel the detectives’ theories, lead to secret dissent within the police department, and energize an entire town. As it turned out, the clues to solving the case were there all along, like silent witnesses, waiting to be unearthed.
Egypt’s murder points to a larger crisis this country In some cities, the odds of getting justice are as good as a coin flip, or worse. As her friends and family would discover, the reasons why her case went cold for so long—and why more than a third of all killers literally get away with murder each year—are as important to explore as the mystery of who killed Egypt Covington.
288 pages, Hardcover
Expected publication May 18, 2027
About the author
Lisa Sweetingham
7 books5 followersJournalist Lisa Sweetingham spent four years following in the footsteps of DEA agents and Ecstasy traffickers to bring CHEMICAL COWBOYS to life. Previously, she covered high-profile celebrity trials and Supreme Court nomination hearings for Court TV online. Sweetingham is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism and her writing has appeared in The New York Times, Parade, Spin, Time Out New York, Health Affairs, and many other publications. She resides in Los Angeles. CHEMICAL COWBOYS is her first book.
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