NO PLACE LIKE MURDER 2
Vintage True Crime in the Hoosier Heartland
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A new collection of 20 sensational vintage true crimes that rocked Indiana between 1883 and 1960.
NO PLACE LIKE MURDER 2 shines a light on women and children, who most often were the victims. But not always. Sometimes, they were the killers. “No Place Like Murder 2” places Thornton firmly in the upper echelon of true crime writers.” – RUSS EBERHART, writing as Ross Carley, author of The Three-Legged Assassin
* * * * “Extensively researched, well-documented, and expertly written.” – MB DABNEY, author of the David Blaise mystery series |
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TOO GOOD A GIRL
REMEMBERING OLENE EMBERTON AND THE MYSTERY OF HER DEATH
“My daughter was too good a girl
to have to face death this way.”
— Roxie Emberton
to have to face death this way.”
— Roxie Emberton
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On Saturday, October 16, 1965, 17-year-old Tipton (Indiana) High School senior Olene Emberton dropped off a friend after a movie and headed for home, a journey of just six blocks. Inexplicably, she never arrived. Two days later, a farmer in northern Tipton County found her body discarded alongside a remote gravel road. How she died and who abandoned her was never known. Throughout the intervening years, many people thought they had the answers, but only one person truly knew, and that person wouldn't tell. Part true crime, part oral history, and part memoir, “TOO GOOD A GIRL” tells the story of Olene’s mysterious death and how it affected all who knew her. > CLICK FOR PREVIEW. |
Dust Bunnies & Dead Bodies (An Elmwood Confidential mystery)
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Small-town newspaper editor Crystal Cropper can't resist a good mystery, while cleaning lady Gertie has a knack for sweeping skeletons out of closets—making her one of Crystal’s best informants. So when Gertie lands in the hospital, courtesy of an unknown assailant, Crystal starts snooping. The trail of dirt and gossip leads right to the doorsteps of some of Elmwood's most prominent families—as well as a decades-old murder and the disappearance of the accused killer.
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Dead Air & Double Dare (Book 2 in the Elmwood Confidential Series)
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Who killed Horace Q. Ogilvie, owner of the local radio station and most reviled man in Elmwood? The fun starts when Horace turns up dead, minutes before he is supposed to broadcast his next malicious editorial, designed to destroy yet another Elmwood luminary. As suspects abound, Crystal Cropper, the Elmwood Gazette's editor, dives in to nab the killer. Problem is, she's one of the suspects!
Dead Air & Double Dare is available in electronic and soft cover formats at Amazon.com. Or ... for a signed copy, you can make your purchase by clicking the "Signed Copy" button below. Janis will sign it and get it to you ASAP. |
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Life Sentences: Stories of 40 Ordinary People
Writing Extraordinary Lives, Sentence by Sentence
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During Janis’ years as a newspaper feature writer in Frankfort, Indiana, she became acquainted with a great many of readers, who granted her the privilege of hearing and writing about some of their most personal experiences — their joys, disappointments, triumphs, losses, and achievements. Even though her many news-writing assignments provided adventures of all sorts, absolutely nothing stoked Janis’ sense of satisfaction more than hearing and then writing a fascinating, first-hand story told by the person who lived it.
The stories that appear in “Life Sentences…” represent a microcosm of the entire community served: altruistic citizens, folks with unusual jobs, hobbyists, achievers of dreams, milestoneans, and military veterans. The people in the stories range in age from 12 to 101 and hail from a variety of backgrounds. They are real people with fascinating life stories to tell. They may think of themselves as regular and ordinary, but as their personal stories prove, they are anything but ordinary. This is the book that spawned a new dream and resulted in Life Sentences Publishing. |
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