The Carolinian Murder at Nags Head: The Janet Siclari Story

On an August morning in 1993, thirty-five-year-old Janet Siclari, a visitor enjoying the Outer Banks, was found brutally murdered behind the iconic Carolinian hotel at Nags Head. The shocking crime would haunt the North Carolina coast for years. Drawing on advances in DNA evidence and exclusive interviews with the investigators and insiders who lived the case, veteran journalist John Railey traces the long, twisting road to an arrest and conviction, and the defense's argument that another suspect could have been the killer. A former editorial page editor of the Winston-Salem Journal who has spent much of his life on the Outer Banks, Railey brings both investigative rigor and deep compassion to Janet's story, restoring dignity to the victim while unspooling a gripping true-crime narrative. A must-read for fans of regional true crime and anyone drawn to the darker history of the Carolina coast. Available now at Spindle & Spine Bookstore.