BOOK REVIEW: FOUR TRUE CRIME HISTORIES BY THE KENT STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS TRUE CRIME HISTORY SERIES

THE UNCOMMON CASE OF DANIEL BROWN HOW A WHITE POLICE OFFICER WAS CONVICTED OF KILLING A BLACK CITIZEN, BALTIMORE, 1875 By Gordon H. Shufelt Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2021. $24.95 COLD WAR SECRETS A VANISHED PROFESSOR, A SUSPECTED KILLER, AND HOOVER’S FBI By Eileen Welsome Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 2021. $24.95 […]

Dark Objects and Why True Crime Is Stranger than Fiction

DARK OBJECTS AND WHY TRUE CRIME IS STRANGER THAN FICTION By: Simon Toyne “Where do you get your ideas from?” is pretty much top of the list of questions I get asked at festivals and signings. It’s a question I usually dread because normally I have no idea, ideas just seem to form out of nothing […]

Kill Show: A True Crime Novel

“Riveting, original, and chillingly plausible, Kill Show is both an urgent reckoning with the ethics of true crime and a tense mystery in its own right. I couldn’t turn the pages fast enough.”—Flynn Berry, Edgar Award–winning author of Northern Spy When sixteen-year-old Sara Parcell goes missing, it’s an utter tragedy—and an entertaining national obsession—in this thoughtful and addictively […]