True Confessions
True Confessions

Author anecdotes and reader revelations.  These things actually happened, people!

January 29 2013
Caught in the Web of Martha Ivery
Scott Adlerberg
November 15 2012
Dirty Secret or Best Ad Ever? Mature Librarian, Video Game Fanatic...
Eleanor Kuhns
November 14 2012
The Interrogation Specialist
Tim O'Mara
November 2 2012
You Used Your Machete on Whom?
Weston Ochse
October 20 2012
You Can’t Handle the Truth, So Escape with Some Crime Fiction
David Mark
October 5 2012
I Am Batman!...Well Sort Of…
Christopher Morgan
September 22 2012
The Pain Box: A Lesson from the Naval Reserve
Weston Ochse
August 27 2012
Getting the Truth: Confessions of an Investigative Reporter
Hank Phillippi Ryan
August 10 2012
Everything I Need to Know I Learned from The Incredible Shrinking Man
William Kent Krueger
August 9 2012
Crime Stories and the Power of Loss
CJ Lyons
August 6 2012
Airport Travel for the Paranoid and Delusional
Weston Ochse
July 31 2012
Bourne to Meet Jeremy Renner
Jennifer Proffitt
July 26 2012
Watching the Detectives Like a Real-Life Rick Castle
Peter de Jonge
July 11 2012
How I Hitchhiked to Disneyland and Almost Died
William Kent Krueger
May 23 2012
Naked Bicyclists, Drippy Showers, and the Perils of Planless Peregrination
Janice Hamrick
May 4 2012
Nameless in Newark: Meeting Brad Parks
Joan Tuohy
April 19 2012
My First Undead Love: How I Fell for the Horror Genre
Dana Fredsti
March 17 2012
Crime Takes a Holiday: Erin Go Gag.
Kate Lincoln
February 10 2012
The Girl with the Sideways Ponytail: Searching for Answers in Cleveland’s Coldest Case
James Renner
February 8 2012
Knitting a Story for a Tough Alaskan Heroine
Dana Stabenow
February 5 2012
Family Secrets
Dirk Robertson
January 8 2012
Weekends Are For Old Crime TV
Laura K. Curtis
December 11 2011
Bracelet Lands Man in Cuffs
David Swinson
November 17 2011
An Unnatural Appreciation: A Fan Letter To John Connolly
Laura K. Curtis
November 2 2011
Forensically Speaking: The Nonsense Effect
Colin Campbell
October 27 2011
True Scares: Kids’ Halloween Costumes
Eric Beetner
October 25 2011
Who Was That Masked Man?
Bill Crider
October 18 2011
My Fan Letter to Jim Kirkwood
Cathi Stoler
September 19 2011
Bouchercon: The Mystery of Conventions
Eric Beetner
September 17 2011
It’s Da Bomb!
Tony Hays
September 15 2011
Stan Lee-Endorsed Real-Life Superheroes: Humans, all too Human?
Cathy Zhu Chen
September 12 2011
Watching Texas Burn: Arson Hits Close To Home
Laura Griffin
August 22 2011
The Unsettling Case of the West Memphis Three
Jake Hinkson
August 7 2011
HBO Superheroes Documentary: Real-Life Crusaders Against Crime
Cathy Zhu Chen
July 28 2011
The Case of the Missing Keys
Elyse Dinh-McCrillis
July 10 2011
Held for Murder in Kuwait- Part 2
Tony Hays
July 9 2011
Held for Murder in Kuwait- Part 1
Tony Hays
June 19 2011
The Great and Unread
Leslie Gilbert Elman
June 16 2011
Bond Girl: A Juvenile Fleming Reader
Victoria Janssen
May 28 2011
Whistling in the Dark
Julie Summerell
May 24 2011
Mobbed-up Las Vegas: Spare Me Such Fun
Deborah Coonts
May 24 2011
Bicycles, Umbrellas and Love Hotels: Crime Japanese Style
Tony Hays
May 19 2011
Harry Fabian from Night and the City: Friend or Foe?
Brady Richards
May 11 2011
A Gangster’s Life
Dirk Robertson
April 28 2011
Solving My Own Hit-and-Run
Elyse Dinh-McCrillis
April 25 2011
Buried in Research: “Then they lowered the lid...”
Joseph Finder