Listen to the F.B.I. Interview of the Serial Killer Featured in ICE AND BONE

By Monte Francis | April 16, 2016

Here is an audio clip I obtained from the F.B.I. of an interview with Joshua Wade shortly after his arrest in connection with Mindy Schloss’s disappearance. The interview appears in Chapter 40 of ICE AND BONE. What you obviously can’t see is Wade’s reaction when Agent Thoreson claims they “talked to Mindy.” Both Agent Thoreson and Detective Perrenoud, who were in the […]

New York Times Bestselling Author Steve Jackson Reflects On An Unexpected Reward From Writing SMOOTH TALKER

By Steve Jackson | April 13, 2016

Writing true crime books has it’s ups and downs. It can be a dark road through hell researching and writing about the terrible things human beings–if some killers can be classified as such–do to other human beings. It also has its rewards, some of them quite unexpected, as I was recently reminded. Anyone who reads my […]

True Crime Author Steve Jackson Discusses SMOOTH TALKER Picture Puzzle Pieces

By Steve Jackson | April 10, 2016

I’ve been asked why I chose to write SMOOTH TALKER: Trail of Death, especially as I have already written about serial killer Roy Melanson in the past. In 2002, I published a book called NO STONE UNTURNED: The True Story of the World’s Premier Forensic Investigators, which was about the history and some of the […]