Kingdom of Devils
A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution
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Kingdom of Devils
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“In Cold Blood for the 1790s . . . Part true crime, part western, part ghost story, Kingdom of Devils plumbs the dark underbelly of the American West in the years following the Revolution.”—Jane Kamensky, president and CEO, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
Kentucky, 1798: A harrowing series of murders begins. The first body, discovered by cattle drovers, lies bloody at the bottom of a ridge. Then another—a dead boy staring up from a sinkhole. Bodies turn up along roadsides, stuffed into brush. They float to the surface of muddy brooks. For nine terrifying months, over hundreds of miles of Kentucky and Tennessee countryside, the terror unfolds. The killers—two men with hazy backgrounds—are brothers, named Wiley and Micajah Harp.
The Harps killed dozens, but why they did it has eluded folklorists and historians for generations. Almost every story imagines that their motive was pure bloodlust, but for historian Katherine Grandjean, that’s too simple. Instead, she uses the Harp murders to reveal the dark side of the young United States’ independence. These were uncertain and dangerous years—a time when the fledgling federal government could do little to protect its citizens. And if the American Revolution was liberating, it was also deeply destabilizing, politically and socially. Even as it built up some men, it stacked the deck against others, punishing them with volatile markets, lost safety nets, and shattered aspirations. Unspooling the mystery of what sent the Harps reeling exposes the hidden, violent legacies of the revolutionary era.
Bristling with tense, page-turning storytelling—and driven by a historian’s obsessive detective work—Kingdom of Devils recovers these long-forgotten murders as a haunting tale about the darkness at the heart of the American dream.
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“Historian Katherine Grandjean has researched this once-famous cold case with a detective’s tenacity and told it as a gripping story of violent young men and the havoc they wreaked in the unsettling early days of the American republic.”—Kathleen DuVal, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Native Nations
“With her novelesque prose and high-resolution verbal portraits of her story’s remarkable-but-real characters, Katherine Grandjean pioneers a new genre: true crime set in the 1700s. And Kingdom of Devils shows that some crimes, like the Harp brothers’ twenty-seven murders in two years, can be solved only with a deep dive into their historical context.”—Woody Holton, author of Liberty Is Sweet
“Part true crime, part western, part ghost story, Kingdom of Devils plumbs the dark underbelly of the American West in the years following the Revolution, when, as Katherine Grandjean writes, ‘not even the ground beneath your feet was fixed.’ Pairing deep and inventive research with crackling prose, Grandjean has written In Cold Blood for the 1790s: a rare history that makes its times memorably vivid, and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.”—Jane Kamensky, president and CEO, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
“Written with compassion, lucidity, and historical acumen, Katherine Grandjean’s thrilling Kingdom of Devils—about a once-famous, now-forgotten murder mystery—blows off the dust of the past, which isn’t quite past, to illumine what we forget at our peril.”—Brenda Wineapple, bestselling author of Keeping the Faith
“[An] exceptional true crime saga . . . Readers will find it an eerie tale of bloodshed and a chilling foreshadowing of similar crimes that continue to be perpetrated by ‘young men . . . pushed out of America’s social and economic order.’”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
“With her novelesque prose and high-resolution verbal portraits of her story’s remarkable-but-real characters, Katherine Grandjean pioneers a new genre: true crime set in the 1700s. And Kingdom of Devils shows that some crimes, like the Harp brothers’ twenty-seven murders in two years, can be solved only with a deep dive into their historical context.”—Woody Holton, author of Liberty Is Sweet
“Part true crime, part western, part ghost story, Kingdom of Devils plumbs the dark underbelly of the American West in the years following the Revolution, when, as Katherine Grandjean writes, ‘not even the ground beneath your feet was fixed.’ Pairing deep and inventive research with crackling prose, Grandjean has written In Cold Blood for the 1790s: a rare history that makes its times memorably vivid, and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.”—Jane Kamensky, president and CEO, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
“Written with compassion, lucidity, and historical acumen, Katherine Grandjean’s thrilling Kingdom of Devils—about a once-famous, now-forgotten murder mystery—blows off the dust of the past, which isn’t quite past, to illumine what we forget at our peril.”—Brenda Wineapple, bestselling author of Keeping the Faith
“[An] exceptional true crime saga . . . Readers will find it an eerie tale of bloodshed and a chilling foreshadowing of similar crimes that continue to be perpetrated by ‘young men . . . pushed out of America’s social and economic order.’”—Publishers Weekly, starred review
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