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From the Newsroom, to the Classroom, to the Seaside

Published Works

Hidden Truth: 
A Seaside Murder

by Carole O’Neill

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Book Description

For the last half-century, seaside residents of Onset Village have tried to forget the murder of the beautiful twenty-five year old tourist who came to bathe by the sea and dance at the Casino Ballroom. But after the trial and surprising acquittal of one of their own, they wonder if the killer still lives among them. When broadcast journalist, Samantha Scott, purchases the Victorian cottage on South Boulevard she finds herself in the middle of the cold case with enough evidence to solve the almost perfect murder.

Shameful Truth: 
116 Children Buried Alive

by Carole O’Neill

 

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Book Description

The second, Shameful Truth, takes place in Aberfan, Wales. In 1966 a coal mine slide destroyed a village and elementary school, killing 116 children. For thirty years after the 70-day tribunal concluded the party responsible was identified. The facts sequestered from Britain. This is the story of Gaynor Madgewick. She was eight years old when she became one of the ten survivors. Her sister and brother were not among them. I interviewed her and her family, as well as many of the people in the village for a documentary that aired in Boston.

 

Taylor’s Truth: 
Missing in Myrtle Beach

by Carole O’Neill

 

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Book Description

The third, Taylor’s Truth, takes place here along the Grand Strand, from Myrtle Beach to McClellanville. When nineteen-year-old Taylor Caldwell arrives in Myrtle Beach on spring break, she has no idea she won’t be returning with her class. Taylor’s Truth is based on my recent work with the South Carolina Task Force on Human Trafficking.

 

The Porch Sitters

by Carole O’Neill

 

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Book Description

When Beulah Jean Pickens left the Moncks Corner PD for a career as a private investigator, Myrtle Beach seemed the perfect place to settle and forget the life she left behind.

But when her cousin, Beatrice, called her for help finding the person breaking into homes in her Isle of Palms neighborhood, Beulah Jean’s new world was put to the ultimate test. Questioning her ability to work a criminal case on her own cast doubt in her mind about the skills for which she had once been awarded.

It wasn’t until Wedgewood Summit residents gathered on the porch of their upscale complex and formed a citizen’s posse, that the case moved from a mystery to a discovery. A shock to all.

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CAROLE O’NEILL is a Peabody and Emmy Award-winning producer/director with more than twenty years of experience in broadcast television. Her productions of news, public affairs, talk shows, documentaries and LIVE Specials aired on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS and WB network affiliates. She began her career in television at WBZ-TV in Boston. During her two terms on the Board of Governors for the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, she served as advisor to television executives in Italy, Switzerland and Luxembourg. She and her husband are spending their retirement between New Hampshire and South Carolina where she is working on her next novel.