作者介紹
作者介紹 John Railey has spent much of his life on the Outer Banks. His previous books from The History Press, The Carolian Murder at Nags Head: The Janet Siclari Story (2025), Murder in Manteo: Seeking Justice for Stacey Stanton (2024), Andy Griffith's Manteo: His Real Mayberry (2022) and The Lost Colony Murder on the Outer Banks: Seeking Justice for Brenda Joyce Holland (2021) have been top sellers on the Outer Banks. A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he is the former editorial page editor of the Winston-Salem Journal. He is working on a novel about a murder on the Outer Banks in the 1970s. Nancy Beach Gray and her family owned and operated Queen Anne's Revenge Restaurant in Wanchese for almost three decades. After the restaurant closed, she and her husband R. Wayne Gray sought to capture much of the history of the Outer Banks in their books Legendary Locals of the Northern Outer Banks (2015), Roanoke Island's Boating Heritage (2017), Lost Buffalo City (2018), Commercial Fishing on the Outer Banks (2019), Manteo (2020), Corolla and the Currituck Outer Banks (2021), and Sport Fishing on the Outer Banks (2023). She recently published a collection of her late husband's poetry, A Place of Peace (2025).
