The Resurrection of Knox Martin

Knox Martin confessed to a terrible crime. He was sentenced, baptized, and hanged. Case closed-or so the city of Nashville believed.

But in the weeks that follow, the dead man's name refuses to fade. Whispers stir through jail cells, church pews, and backroom parlors. Some say he was seen walking. Others claim he never left at all.

Reverend Nelson Merry knows what Knox prayed before the rope tightened. Sheriff Price watched him die. And beneath it all moves Aunt Mary, the voodoo priestess who anointed him-says the story isn't over.

Set against the backdrop of a Reconstruction, The Resurrection of Knox Martin is a brooding tale of belief, judgment, and the quiet spaces where faith and fear entwine.

Was justice done? Or did something older, stranger, take its place?

The Resurrection of Knox Martin is inspired by the astonishing true events that shook Nashville in 1879.

What You Will Find:

• gripping true story from 1879 Nashville where a brutal murder trial collides with Southern voodoo and Frankenstein-like science.
• A shocking series of events, from a midnight escape from a lynch mob to a secret, high-stakes experiment to reanimate the dead.
• Real-life courtroom drama
• Rich historical detail that immerses you in post-Reconstruction Tennessee
• A cast of unforgettable historical figures: a confessed killer seeking redemption, a voodoo practitioner with mysterious motives, a conflicted sheriff, and ambitious doctors obsessed with conquering death.
• Meticulous research drawn from period newspapers and historical accounts of the crime, the trial, and the bizarre aftermath.
• An eerie fusion of true crime, Southern Gothic, and historical mystery that builds to a stunning climax at the gallows... and beyond.