REPEAT OFFENDER UPDATE: Once again, we're back with Sin City Cop and Author Bradley Nickell for an important update about the Daimon Monroe case detailed in Bradley's wildly popular true crime thriller, REPEAT OFFENDER. The case is back in the courtroom for what might be the final provocative, chaotic, and hopefully inspiring episode. Check out the video below for the Repeat Offender update. If you haven't read the book yet, you're … [Read more...]
Richard Godwin’s SAVAGE HIGHWAY Receives Great Review from Dead End Follies
International bestselling author Richard Godwin's new thriller noir book, SAVAGE HIGHWAY, received a great review from the Dead End Follies blog. SAVAGE HIGHWAY follows the mystery of the disappearance of women from a truck stop on a remote highway in Arizona and was released from WildBlue Press on January 19th, 2016. Get your copy of SAVAGE HIGHWAY today! "Richard Godwin writes the extreme and the disturbing very well. He's very good at … [Read more...]
True Crime Author Steve Jackson Interviewed For 48 Hours Story On Oregon Murder Case
Show aired March 5 In the course of working on a potential book in Oregon about a man accused of murdering his girlfriend and mother of his child by pushing her off a cliff in 2009, I suddenly became a focal point of a January hearing over a defense motion to dismiss the case. Pre-trial efforts to dismiss a case are not unusual. However, the defense attorney, Mike Arnold, partly based his witness questioning during testimony on the … [Read more...]
True Crime Author Steve Jackson Books Hot Topics On 48 Hours, Investigation Discovery
Author To Fight Defense Attorney's Subpoenas Holy Smokes! I'm suddenly a hot commodity with 48 Hours for two separate books I'm working on. And in the meantime, another book project about serial killer Roy Melanson will be the featured topic on the Investigation Discovery channel's new show Epic Mysteries in April. Working on a book in Oregon about a man accused of murdering his girlfriend and the mother of his child by pushing her off a … [Read more...]
My Association with Postmortem Ted Bundy
True Crime author Kevin Sullivan Reflects On His Connection To A Serial Killer This piece was previously published with a typo that mis-dated the below picture of Ted Bundy at 1984, when he would have been in prison in Florida. According to Kevin Sullivan, the picture below was taken in 1975 or 1976 in Utah. Ted Bundy was never supposed to be a part of my life. I’d first heard about the guy after his escape from Colorado, and I remember … [Read more...]
Recording History While We Can
When I was a teenager, my father said he wanted to introduce me to a man who went by the nickname of “Irish”. He was originally from Ireland, my father explained, but he'd joined the Canadian Army and fought the Germans in the First World War. Prior to our meeting, dad told me some of the stories Irish told him about fighting in the trenches, especially about the Battle of Vimy Ridge in France in April 1917. Being a voracious reader of military … [Read more...]
Richard Godwin on His New Thriller Noir Novel SAVAGE HIGHWAY
Richard Godwin Discusses Lawlessness in Crime Fiction
LAWLESSNESS IN CRIME FICTION, Richard Godwin. An author frequently gets asked how did you come to write this book? In a way this post tackles that but in the wider context. This forms part of a series of posts about Savage Highway. I wrote Savage Highway because I wanted to explore lawlessness and injustice, but also for the reasons I discuss here. Historically debates about art and its cultural significance are thematically cloned … [Read more...]
Bradley Nickell’s REPEAT OFFENDER Named Best of 2015 in True Crime
Bradley Nickell's true crime book, REPEAT OFFENDER, was named "Best of 2015" in True Crime by Suspense Magazine! REPEAT OFFENDER follows Las Vegas Police Detective Bradley Nickell as he brings you the inside scoop on the investigation of the most prolific repeat offender Las Vegas has ever known. Daimon Monroe looked like an average guy raising a family with his diffident schoolteacher girlfriend. But just belowthe surface, you’ll learn he was … [Read more...]
Richard Godwin Reviews Burl Barer’s HEADLOCK
Richard Godwin, international bestselling author of crime fiction, horror and noir, reviewed Edgar Award winning author Burl Barer's new crime fiction novel, HEADLOCK, which is being published by WildBlue Press on December 22. HEADLOCK follows private eye author Jeff Reynolds as he attempts to solve a thrilling murder mystery set in Walla Walla, Washington. Find out more about Burl Barer … [Read more...]
