Wes Skilling’s Groundbreaking Exposé of Small Town Justice Gone Wrong Now Set for Global Stage at Frankfurt Book Fair 2025

The Frankfurt Book Fair – also known as Frankfurter Buchmesse – is the largest book fair in Europe, and it owes that size to the thousands of authors exhibiting there. These include not just novelists from traditional publishing firms but also independent journalists like Wes Skillings.

Having served for over 30 years for three different newspapers, his specialty lay in covering a variety of court events (including municipal meetings as well as murder trials). However, no case has lingered on his mind as much as the murder of Jennifer Hill.

Looking back, Skillings could only conclude that they had borne witness to the excesses of small-town justice. To expose the failings he had seen, he wrote “Mosaic Pieces: Surviving the Dark Side of American Justice.” This year, he successfully secured an exhibit for the book during the upcoming Frankfurt Book Fair.

Skillings had originally planned to turn his experience into a work of fiction. But after mulling over and realizing his real strength was in journalistic writing, he self-published “Mosaic Pieces” as a work of true crime (and a cautionary tale of what happens when emotions run high in the pursuit of a verdict).

Visitors to the Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 can find his book exhibited under ReadersMagnet, a self-publishing and book marketing company, beneath stand 6.0 A12. The book event will be taking place on October 15-19, 2025, at Messe Frankfurt, Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, Frankfurt, Germany.

“Mosaic Pieces: Surviving the Dark Side of American Justice” is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Wes Skillings runs a copywriting service. Visit his website at https://skillunlimited.com/.

“Mosaic Pieces: Surviving the Dark Side of American Justice”
Author: Wes Skillings
Published date: July 11, 2025
Publisher: Self-Published
Genre: True Crime

Author’s Biography:

Wes Skillings retired from newspaper journalism on April 1, 2011, after 38 years as a reporter, columnist and editor where, among his assignments for three different newspapers, he covered everything from municipal meetings to murder trials. He is a Vietnam vet with a BA in English from Mansfield (PA) University, formerly Mansfield State College, where he won a national writing award with an essay in The Atlantic Magazine Creative Writing Contests for College Students.

As a journalist, he received numerous Keystone Press Awards from the Pennsylvania Newspaper Association (PNA) — fifteen of them over his last 11 years in the business. Eight placed first in the state in their respective categories. His first award came years before in 1980—a first place for Public Service from the Associated Press Managing Editors of Pennsylvania.

Additionally, he is a self-published author whose first book published in 2014 was about one man’s triumph over traumatic brain injury (“A Matter of Recovery: The Story of C.B. Miller”).

On October 7, 2022, Skillings published this meticulously researched book about small town justice and its abuses stemming from the October 1973 murder of a twelve-year-old girl: “Mosaic Pieces: Surviving the Dark Side of American Justice.” In the summer of 2025, the book was republished under his own brand.

A father and grandfather, he and wife of 56 years as of February 1, 2025, Mary, live in healthy retirement in hometown Wyalusing, PA.

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