So I knew my boys were spending too much time on my computer when my three-year-old pointed out the Desktop shortcut he made to his favorite Nick Jr. game -- well, that, and I'm three weeks behind on my book deals & news emails!
An amazing number of true crime titles debut this summer, and I'll be posting details here throughout the coming weeks.... Many of my favorite true crime books have beach sand between the pages, too.
Here are some links in the meantime....
Michigan crime historian Mardi Link, whose first true crime book, When Evil Came to Good Hart [see the CLEWS review], has already had more than one print run, has begun a blog (while working on her second book). On her site, Rusty Gun, she "explores cold cases, cockamamie theories, and chicanery." My favorite post so far: The best opening sentences in the true crime genre.
I'm currently reading War of Words by Simon Read, which is a history of the San Francisco Chronicle. Before you think that's dry, the book begins its look at boom-days journalism with a shooting and a hanging, and it recently won the Grand Prize at the inaugural San Francisco Book Festival.
Jack the Ripper - solved again? Why, he was an invention of the tabloid press, per the tabloid press!
Belle Gunness, the movie? That's the word.
I followed your post on Family Annihilators to Maine Supernatural looking for more on the Purington Massacre. Seems Mr. Spooner has been busy and written a book on axe Murders with 2 long chapters dedicated to the event. I'm not sure if you are in touch with him or what, but his book should be included somewhere. I bought it and read it straight unable to put it down. The Title of the book is "Return to Smuttynose Island and other Maine Axe Murders" I bought mine on Amazon, at this link : http://www.amazon.com/Return-Smuttynose-Island-Other-Murders/dp/1441485872/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_1
Posted by: Jake Brewster | June 12, 2009 at 01:04 PM