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 Retired from a big-city homicide beat to a small Colorado mountain town, ex-detective Woodrow "Mountain" Bell yearns only to fade away. He's failed in so many ways … [Read more...]
Superstar Narrator, Jim Meskimen, Voices DEAF ROW Audiobook
Read the author's blog post profiling Jim Meskimen and get the audiobook now! On the author's blog at ronfranscell.com, narrator Jim Meskimen discusses the challenges of bringing the characters in the upcoming audiobook DEAF ROW to life with unique and identifiable voices. Meskimen, a veteran narrator with over 300 audiobooks under his belt, explains how he approaches narrating and how he works to add to the author's storytelling. DEAF ROW is a … [Read more...]
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! … [Read more...]
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 14, 2023! … [Read more...]
Author Peter Eichstaedt Discusses The Border Wars That Play A Large Part In BORDERLAND
To write Borderland, I drew heavily on the tortured relationship America has had and continues to have with Mexico. Having survived our recent exhausting and sometimes repugnant presidential election, we all know that the current occupant of the White House used border security as one of the pillars of his campaign. It’s a legitimate and very real concern, although the proposed solution is impractical. When I researched my nonfiction book … [Read more...]
Order Richard Godwin’s Thriller Noir Novel THE PURE AND THE HATED For FREE!
A man takes a stranger into his house only to unleash a savage lesson from the past… For a limited time, get internationally acclaimed author Richard Godwin's thriller noir novel, THE PURE AND THE HATED, for free! But hurry, this offer only lasts from August 14th through August 18th. This chilling crime novel is sure to leave you guessing as Godwin explores family relationships and the mind of a dangerous psychopath. 5 Star Rating on … [Read more...]
Richard Godwin: The Bad Guy in Crime Fiction
Savage Highway is about bad guys and the breakdown of law and why justice fails. In a lawless world revenge is justice. I want to discuss other authors here before I focus on the novel itself. Savage Highway is about the frontier. Both of the authors I will be discussing today portray bad guys in a variety of ways. In Burke we have the pairing of two lawless cops, Dave Robicheaux and Clete Purcell. And Purcell is an extreme example of the bad … [Read more...]
Vote for Your Favorite True Crime Hangouts
In order to better serve you... Please vote below for the places where you hangout the most to find, discuss and purchase your favorite true crime books. Voting will register you for a chance to win one of five sets of these three audio books: Bogeyman: He Was Every Parent's Nightmare Dixie's Last Stand: Was It Murder or Self-Defense? Vampire: The Richard Chase Murders If you go to specific groups or sections or forums of a site … [Read more...]
