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Mom, Dad, Mike and Pattie: The True Story of the Columbo Murders by Bonnie Remsberg (December 1992)
Posted on December 1, 2010 | 4 CommentsWhen Frank and Mary Columbo struggled to keep their daughter Patty from seeing her older and married boyfriend, Frank DeLuca, their little princess would turn on them...and her 13-year-old brother -
Cruel Sacrifice by Aphrodite Jones (Reprint May 2005)
Posted on November 29, 2010 | 6 CommentsA lesbian love triangle turns deadly when 17-year-old Melinda Loveless recruits friends to help her murder her rival: 12-year-old Shanda Sharer -
Friday Fiction: Gingerbread Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke, Leslie Meier, Laura Levine
Posted on November 26, 2010 | No CommentsEnhance your holiday celebrations with this new trilogy of short Christmas stories -
Guilty Until Proven Innocent by Donald S. Connery (Reprint January 2010)
Posted on November 24, 2010 | No CommentsWhen he found his mother, Barbara Gibbons, butchered in their Connecticut home in 1973, 18-year-old Peter Reilly was a niave young man. And an easy target for police -
Deadly Secrets by Putsata Reang (March 2001)
Posted on November 22, 2010 | 1 CommentDavid Anderson and Alex Baranyi loved fantasy role playing games, but they were ready to up the stakes - they wanted to kill someone for real. -
Desire Turned Deadly by Kevin F. McMurray (March 2009)
Posted on November 17, 2010 | 5 CommentsWhen Michael and Cathryn Borden told 18-year-old David Ludwig he was no longer allowed to see their 14-year-old daughter Kara, he refused to take no for an answer and murdered them in cold blood. -
Too Good To Be True by Janet Parker Beck (January 1992)
Posted on November 15, 2010 | No CommentsCraig Anderson appeared to be Denise Redlick's Prince Charming, but then he turned possessive and abusive. When she tried to leave, he stopped her...by murdering her -
Stalling for Time: My Life as an FBI Hostage Negotiator by Gary Noesner (September 2010)
Posted on November 12, 2010 | No CommentsFormer Chief of the FBI Crisis Negotiation Unit Gary Noesner shares his experiences in a memoir style book that details cases he worked around the world, from militia stand-offs to domestic disturbances. -
Playing With Fire: The True Story of a Nurse, Her Husband, and a Marriage Turned Fatal by John Glatt (March 2010)
Posted on November 10, 2010 | No CommentsThe marriage of Jimmy and Shelly Michael appeared to be a fairytale to those on the outside looking end. But this love wouldn't end with happily ever after, but in a fiery murder and with a wife behind bars -
Arsenic and Clam Chowder: Murder in Gilded Age New York by James D. Livingston (July 2010)
Posted on November 8, 2010 | No CommentsResurrecting a Trial Long Forgotten Review by Kim Cantrell It’s the Victorian Era in the New York borough of Manhattan; specifically Nieuw Haarlem (now known as Harlem). It is an age...