A mythical diamond has been discovered. Loyalties will be tested. Lives will be lost. January 2023 | The Literary Titan Book Awards are awarded to books that have unique writing styles, vivid worlds, complex characters, and original ideas. The first book in Champitto's upcoming trilogy, The Shadowmaker, is yet another international thrill ride from the acclaimed, award-winning author. Stolen diamonds, fearless thieves, and a hidden truth that … [Read more...]
Deborah Levison’s Acclaimed Courtroom Thriller A NEST OF SNAKES Wins Connecticut Press Club Award!
In her fiction debut, Deborah Levison, author of the acclaimed, multi-award-winning true crime book THE CRATE, weaves a tale snatched from the headlines. A NEST OF SNAKES is loosely based on a spate of lawsuits in which adult men accused their elite private schools of abuses that shocked the nation. Brendan Cortland is a broken man. Middle-aged, pasty, pudgy, and fearful, he suffers from chronic depression, nightmares, and agoraphobia. His … [Read more...]
Available In Audiobook! The “Ten” Mystery Series Continues With THE KILLING MACHINE
Narrated by Justin Lawhorne, THE KILLING MACHINE is Available Now In Audiobook The next installment award-winning author Terry Persun's The 'Ten' Mystery Series! THE KILLING MACHINE, follows the cyber detective and scientist known as Ten. He is assigned to work on a top-secret project for the government that is abruptly and mysteriously terminated. In a tragic twist of events, Ten learns that the agency he was working for is the very same … [Read more...]
BY THE SIDE OF THE ROAD
The True Story of The Abduction and Murder of Ann Harrison is Available Now In the early hours of March 22, 1989, two friends - career criminals with violent felony convictions - drove around the eastern Kansas City area in a stolen car committing a series of crimes. The weather was mild for late March in Kansas City; the sky was clear, and there was the pale remnant of a Full Moon that bore the dubious name of Death Moon, the last full moon of … [Read more...]
GOING UNDER
Going Under by John Madinger is a Unique and Often Humorous Look at A Life Undercover I just want to make sure I've got this right. You hanged all three of them?" That's how it began, a case where the cops are crooks and the crooks are cops, a kidnapping where the victim is the bad guy, and the good guys must cross some lines to get him back. Welcome to the upside-down and backward world of the undercover agent, where nothing is as it seems, … [Read more...]
I DON’T LIKE MONDAYS
The True Story Behind America's First Modern School Shooting In 1979, Brenda Spencer, a seemingly average teenage girl living in a nice suburban neighborhood, made and executed plans that would place her in infamy and set a violent and terrifying national precedent. She received a rifle for Christmas and a month later set her sights and opens fire on the elementary school across the street. The event is forever glorified by the song 'I Don't … [Read more...]
THE LAST JEWISH GANGSTER: The Middle Years
Volume Two | The Middle Years The Last Jewish Gangster, The Middle Years, starts in 1968 with Michael Hardy entering the world's most dangerous prison in Mexico after taking the rap for his mother's counterfeiting scheme, trusting she'll love him this time. He's set to do twelve years for the crime. To survive, he works for a gay drug lord as his gringo pistolero, and kills three times. After he gets out, Hardy returns to Brooklyn, tries to go … [Read more...]
THE TUSKEGEE STRANGLER: The “Nicest” Serial Killer They Ever Met
Jerry Marcus fooled them all. He was "a nice guy," always helped at home, did well in school, an athlete, and always employed. When things went wrong, he was the first to help clean up the mess. He was the last person anyone suspected of being a serial killer. After Marcus was caught and sentenced to life in prison in the late '70s, author Linda Lou Long spent years corresponding with him. The Tuskegee Strangler gives an inside look into the … [Read more...]
Leslie Ghiglieri’s True Crime THE DECISION TO KILL Wins Literary Titan Gold
"When a crime is committed, numerous questions are asked... When everything about who you are and who you love is torn apart, what have you got left to stand for?" January 2023 | The Literary Titan Book Awards are awarded to books that have unique writing styles, vivid worlds, complex characters, and original ideas. Read the full review from Literary Titan Hear the author on CRIME BEAT About the Book A 1986 … [Read more...]
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER: Murder at Fort Devens by William J. Craig
True story of the lengths the government will go to keep their secrets hidden. It was a dreary winter afternoon in Ayer, Massachusetts, a quintessential New England town, the type that is romanticized in Robert Frost's poems. But on January 30, 1979, a woman's scream pierced the northeast tempest wind. In an unassuming apartment building on Washington Street, Elaine Tyree, a mother, wife, and US Army soldier had her life brutally ripped from … [Read more...]
