Thank you for coming. True crime across america. Im a graduate dean at the university and is happy to be here. We have about 45 minutes for this session and then will leave about 15 for q and a. The sponsors for our panel. Are stay with us . [applause] im happy to introduce our moderator for this session. Hes not only an attorney im sorry. I skipped over this. Hes over there. Moderator is an associate professor at the university of mississippi and hes also at the southern journal and positive. Thank you all for coming. We appreciate the presence of our guests on the panel here at the book festival. Its getting big and better every year. I will introduce briefly our guests and will carry on a discussion and i hope you all have some questions for the panel towards the end. Bestselling author of several books. Her newest book is amazons best book. Maybe some of you read this, it captures the bill of that age and its gangsters. They also call her book a well researched and highly engaging
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Earthquake in the southern philippines at least 4 people have been killed. And im planning how much with sport arsenals and mr turtle angers the china with his comments on treatment of we go muslims beijing says hes been deceived by faith news. Where we begin in lebanon where the president has been planning to hold consultations with Political Parties to decide on a new Prime Minister now thats been postponed until thursday lebanon of course to see months of protests against corruption and sectarianism that it eventually led see the resignation of Prime Minister saad hariri but there is a possibility he will return to see the job if hes appointed by president michel aoun while many people are unhappy with fast in the past 2 nights of protests in the capital beirut have ends is in violence lets get more now form our correspondent in beirut saying the harder it stands. By frizzy that we were expecting a Prime Minister to be. House of course being delayed. Well guess just minutes before l