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Ron Franscell Answers “Which is harder to write: true crime or crime fiction?’

DEAF ROW will be available in hardback, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats on February 14, 2023!

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NYT Bestselling Author Ron Franscell Delivers A Crime Mystery With Shocking Twist: DEAF ROW

Get DEAF ROW   eBook   Paperback   Audio Book About The Book As you read along, be sure to dog-ear the pages bursting with Franscell’s gritty descriptions – a sentence, a paragraph or a page – of the silver-haired people and the gray places of rural Colorado in this raw, wintry crime novel.” —DAVID STEINBERG, Albuquerque Journal […]

OUTLAW LOS ANGELES Takes Readers To The City Where Anything Is Possible, Even The Ghastly

A sunset cruise through a place where ordinary inhumanities are entertainment… Los Angeles is where America’s dreams and nightmares got all tangled up. In this otherworldly place of seemingly everlasting life, death could have an otherworldly quality, too. In a city where anything was possible, even the ghastly could happen. Where else does a list […]

Ron Franscell Takes Readers On A Rollicking Ride Through The Southwest’s Unruly Past In OUTLAW SOUTHWEST

“The ultimate guilty pleasure book!” – San Antonio Express News The line between history and mythology is razor thin—and the American Southwest often erases the line altogether. We might never disentangle crime-fact from fiction, but this book will transport you to Billy the Kid’s real-life stomping grounds, legendary Tombstone, the childhood home of one of […]

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Ron Franscell Pens Hot Mystery Sequel To THE DEADLINE With THE OBITUARY

The Adventures of Newspaperman Jefferson Morgan Continue With Another Scintillating Mystery Set In Wyoming When a world-renowned forensic anthropologist journeys to Winchester, Wyoming, to examine the long-dead remains of a woman who claimed to be Etta Place — the Old West’s most mysterious and legendary female outlaw — he’s not expecting to find a man’s […]

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Ron Franscell’s Debut Mystery Novel As Stunning As The Wyoming Landscape

A dying convict’s last request thrusts small-town newspaperman Jefferson Morgan into a deadly maelstrom as he explores a fifty-year-old case of child murder — a wound his town still isn’t ready to scrape open. Under the heaviest deadline of his life, and amid threats from unexpected foes, Morgan must struggle with his own conscience to […]

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Reader’s Guide For Ron Franscell’s DEAF ROW

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Superstar Narrator, Jim Meskimen, Voices DEAF ROW Audiobook

Read the author’s blog post profiling Jim Meskimen and pre-order the audiobook now! DEAF ROW will be available in hardback, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats on February 14, 2023!

Book Trailer For DEAF ROW by Ron Franscell

Read the author’s blog and watch the book trailer for an eerie sense of the upcoming Ron Franscell mystery thriller. DEAF ROW will be available in hardback, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats on February 14, 2023!

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Tatiana Vila Designs “Chilling” Cover For DEAF ROW

Best-selling author Ron Franscell asked the talented book cover artist Tatiana Vila a few questions back in October. Vila has designed numerous covers for WildBlue Press over the years including DEAF ROW. Read the author’s blog post below and at ronfranscell.com! DEAF ROW will be available in hardback, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats on February […]

The Infamous Charles Manson is Featured In OUTLAW LOS ANGELES

Every generation has its bogeyman. Before 1969, maybe it was Adolf Hitler. After 2001, Osama bin Laden. But for those 30 or so years in between it was unquestionably an aspiring musician, deeply damaged outlaw, and hippie Svengali named Charles Manson. On two nights in the summer of 1969—the same summer as Woodstock—Manson rose from nobody to […]

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NYT Bestselling Author Ron Franscell Delivers A Crime Mystery With Shocking Twist: DEAF ROW

Get DEAF ROW   eBook   Paperback   Audio Book About The Book As you read along, be sure to dog-ear the pages bursting with Franscell’s gritty descriptions – a sentence, a paragraph or a page – of the silver-haired people and the gray places of rural Colorado in this raw, wintry crime novel.” —DAVID STEINBERG, Albuquerque Journal […]

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GASPING FOR AIR: Book Two In The ‘Big Dogs Series’ by S.L. Ditmars

Get GASPING FOR AIR   eBook   Paperback SL Ditmars writes another fast-paced, page-turning police procedural… I love the characters and the dogs, Ares and Addy, who make the story even richer… I very much and highly recommend this book. —K.L. Peacock, author of THE CROSSINGS series and Public Safety Writers Association Member About The Book JW North and […]

Crime Fiction Author S.L. Ditmars Answers: “Why are your bad guys so bad?”

If you have read my blog posts before, you know I spend a lot of time making my stories feel real and accurate. It is why I have such a large beta reader team. I don’t want my books to be full of technical errors or too much jargon to be an enjoyable read. A […]

Ron Franscell Answers “Which is harder to write: true crime or crime fiction?’

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Author S.L. Ditmars On Writing Book Two In The ‘Big Dogs Series’

  We’re back! It seems like forever ago that I wrote about my first book, Big Dogs-Book One of the ‘Big Dogs Series’. But, in reality, it was only a couple of months ago. The holidays are a blur, but we did manage to have some great times with friends and family. Gasping for Air-Book […]

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Superstar Narrator, Jim Meskimen, Voices DEAF ROW Audiobook

Read the author’s blog post profiling Jim Meskimen and pre-order the audiobook now! DEAF ROW will be available in hardback, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats on February 14, 2023!

Book Trailer For DEAF ROW by Ron Franscell

Read the author’s blog and watch the book trailer for an eerie sense of the upcoming Ron Franscell mystery thriller. DEAF ROW will be available in hardback, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats on February 14, 2023!

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