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Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story

Book Review: Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story by Ron Franscell

By John Valeri

April 23, 2019

Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story is Ron Franscell’s deep exploration of a murderous couple and their shocking, grisly crimes.  Ron Franscell is a veteran author of fiction and non-fiction whose acclaimed works include the 2017 Edgar Award finalist A Life in Death (co-written with medical examiner Dr. Vincent Di Maio) and the novel Angel…

Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story

Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story: New Excerpt

By Ron Franscell

True crime master Ron Franscell returns in Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story to deliver a grisly and shocking account of love, murder and mayhem. CHAPTER ONE One morning, a new neighbor showed up in the space next to Gerald’s. A bigger trailer than his. No big deal, since folks who lived in mobile home parks…

Handsome Johnny: New Excerpt

By Lee Server

Handsome Johnny from New York Times bestselling author Lee Server is a look at the life of the legendary mobster Johnny Rosselli who was at the center of the century’s darkest secrets: an untold story of golden age Hollywood, modern Las Vegas, JFK-era scandal and international intrigue. Johnny Rosselli is a singular figure in the annals of…

Now Win This!: Shooters and Computers Sweepstakes

By Crime HQ

March 3, 2015

Sometimes CTRL + ALT + DELETE just won't do, and you'll wish you had backup. These eight books can help! Click here to enter for a chance to win! This is NOT a Comments Sweepstakes. You must click the link above to enter. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. A PURCHASE DOES NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. Sweepstakes…

The Faithful Executioner by Joel Harrington

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century : New Excerpt

By Joel F. Harrington

March 16, 2013

The Faithful Executioner: Life and Death, Honor and Shame in the Turbulent Sixteenth Century by Joel F. Harrington is the biography of a professional executioner based on the man's own journal (available March 19, 2013). Based on the rare and until now overlooked journal of a Renaissance-era executioner, the noted historian Joel F. Harrington’s The…

Rex Stout smoking cigarette

Rex Stout: An American Wit and Propagandist

By Robert Hughes

May 2, 2011

Rex Stout was a propagandist. You might have thought he was only that author who came up with the enduring Nero Wolfe mysteries, featuring the larger-than-large, orchid-growing detective and his dashing and irreverent right-hand man, Archie Goodwin. But Stout (1886–1975) was that most remarkable—and American—of crime writers. He was a jack of all trades. He…

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