Banquet of Consequences: A Juror's Plight: The Carnation Murders Trial of Michele Anderson (A Juror's Perspective Book 3)

Book Synopsis: On Christmas Eve 2007, Judy and Wayne Anderson’s daughter, Michele, and her boyfriend, Joseph McEnroe, arrived at their home for a family meal. Unbeknownst to them, their daughter was armed with a loaded 9 mm pistol and McEnroe was carrying a .357 Magnum. Both parents were callously shot dead by the pair and their bodies hidden from view. Two and a half hours later, Michele’s brother Scott, his wife Erica and their two children, Olivia (5) and Nathan (3), arrived at the house. Within the hour, they too had been pitilessly slain, in an act of violence that was breath-taking in its scope and cruelty.

With his highly-anticipated third book, Paul Sanders takes the reader inside every day of the trial of Michele Anderson, with his customary attention to detail, from December 2015 until March 2016. And in a unique digression from his other works, Sanders includes something he has never done before: An interview with one of the killers, Joseph McEnroe, at Walla Walla Penitentiary. Banquet of Consequences is the first of two books on what came to be known as the Carnation murders. Were the killings a premeditated act, or had the defendants acted in self-defense? And what of the deaths of Olivia and Nathan? Who shot them and why?

It would not be an easy task for a jury to decide.

Paul’s book, Banquet of Consequences: A Juror’s Plight (Book 3: A Juror’s Perspective) has received many honors:

• 2021 New York Festival Awards Honorable Mention - General Non-fiction
• 2021 New York Festival Awards Honorable Mention - Wild Card
• 2021 Paris Book Festival Awards Honorable Mention - General Non-fiction
• 2021 Paris Book Festival Awards Honorable Mention - Wild Card
• 2018 eLit Awards Gold Medal Winner – True Crime
• 2018 International Books Awards Silver Medal Awards – Historical
• 2018 “Best Book” Award Winner Finalist – True Crime
• 2018 “Reader’s Favorite – Five Stars
• 2018 Florida Book Festival Award Winner – Non-Fiction
• 2018 London Book Festival Award Runner-Up – Non-Fiction
• 2017 The Halloween Book Festival Award Winner – Non-Fiction
• 2017 Southern California Book Festival Award Winner – Non-Fiction

Reader reviews for Paul Sanders:

• “Move over Ann Rule and Shanna Hogan and make way for America’s newest crime writer!”
• “Paul Sanders is now among my favourite authors. Both of his books had me right there!”
• “The reader is taken into a world few of us who have ever received a jury summons will ever experience.”

Also Written by Paul Sanders

• Brain Damage: A Juror’s Tale - The Hammer Killing Trial (2015)
• Why Not Kill Her: A Juror’s Perspective - The Jodi Arias Death Penalty Retrial (2016)
• Secret Life of a Juror: Voir Dire - The Domestic Violence Query (2018)
• Victim or the Crime: The Day Before Jerry Died - A Grateful Dead Thriller (2022)