Author Carla Conti at Ambler Library
The Jacklighter - Murder, Betrayal and Justice in Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains
Join award-winning Ambler true crime author and journalist at Ambler Library!
Award-winning true crime author Carla Conti visits Ambler Library on her book tour for The Jacklighter: Murder, Betrayal and Justice in Pennsylvania's Endless Mountains!
Best Thrillers calls Jacklighters “A powerful and compulsive true crime epic that demands a screen adaptation.”
Carla Conti is a journalist-turned-true-crime author whose award-winning debut, Chained Birds: A Crimemoir, features a decade‑long investigation into federal prison gangs, abuse, and corruption. CHAINED BIRDS has received multiple national book awards, including several best true crime honors and a Nellie Bly journalism prize.
Her new book, The Jacklighter: Murder, Betrayal, and Justice in Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains, (releases Oct. 27) returns to a 1976 “hunting accident” she first covered as a young reporter.