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Joanna Schaffhausen

The Killer Beside Me

By Joanna Schaffhausen

January 11, 2019

Have you ever met a murderer? I’ve brushed up against three infamous murder cases—each lurid enough to be fictionalized on programs like Law and Order and Cold Case. In the first one, I lived in the same dorm with Gina Grant, a young woman convicted at age fourteen of murdering her mother. In Gina’s… Read more

In the Shadow of a Killer: Forever Affected by Ted Bundy’s Reign of Evil

By Joanna Schaffhausen

November 30, 2017

Ted Bundy murdered more than 30 women before authorities locked him up for good, and his grisly campaign has served as entertainment to the rest of us ever since. A new Bundy-related movie or TV show debuts almost every year—Zac Efron is slated to star in the next one—because public… Read more

Joanna Schaffhausen Excerpt: The Vanishing Season

By Joanna Schaffhausen

November 29, 2017

Winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Competition, Joanna Schaffhausen’s accomplished debut The Vanishing Season will grip readers from the opening page to the stunning conclusion (available December 5, 2017). Take a visual tour through The Vanishing Season with GIFnotes! Ellery Hathaway knows a thing or… Read more

The X-Files Fanfic: The Stories Are Out There

By Joanna Schaffhausen

November 23, 2017

Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are set to return next year for another revival season of The X-Files, but for some fans, it’s like they never really left—even during that 15-year gap when the show was off the air. Devotees of The X-Files keep the characters forever alive through fanfiction… Read more

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