Pine Murder News Today

MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Moultrie native has just published his fifth book.

Several authors from Athens or with local ties have released books this year, including a former attorney in Athens who today spends most of his time on a yacht sailing the warm seas of the Caribbean. Howard T. Scott, who dove into criminal defense work while practicing in his hometown of Athens, has written the murder-suspense novel “Rascal on the Run.” “It’s a work of over eight years in the making,” Scott said in a recent telephone call from his big boat somewhere in the ocean. “...