Richard Godwin’s THE PURE AND THE HATED Explores Family Relationships and the Mind of a Dangerous Psychopath

By Richard Godwin | April 19, 2016

A man takes a stranger into his house only to unleash a savage lesson from the past…  Synopsis: A psychological crime novel about the past, the nature of justice, family secrets, the nature of forgiveness, revenge, identity, hunting and predation. Shepherd Butler, the protagonist and narrator of the novel, and his wife Mary are grieving […]

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 […]