#truecrimefiction

[penelopecat]

The new Nathan Heller novel by Max Allan Collins, the first one published by @hard_case_crime, is great! Each book in the series puts Chicago private eye in the middle of a historical mystery; this one is set in 1955 and 1958 and features the Bobby Greenlease kidnapping, a horrible crime I had never heard of before this book. While the series has been running for decades, this book is a great jumping on point, and I’m looking forward to the next one, coming later this year from HHC. The first book in the series, True Detective, may have been my introduction to private eye/crime/noir fiction, after learning about Collins from his comic with @terrybeattyart, Ms Tree (also currently being reprinted by HHC). Even if I’d read Hammett’s Maltese Falcon before Collins, this series would be the one that made me a passionate fan of the genre, and thus in part shaped who I am today. I’d love to see the entire series reissued with gorgeous covers like this—and yes, I’d buy the whole series again for the covers—but regardless, I hope the Heller series has found a long-term home here. #thismakesmehappy #books #2023reading #bookstagram #mystery #detectivefiction #nathanheller #maxallancollins #bigbundle #hardcasecrime #titanbooks #truecrimefiction #greenleasekidnapping https://www.instagram.com/p/CoP6vpfJIK3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[jessicaburkhart]

My new interactive story game, TRUE CRIME & TEA TUESDAY, launched today! It’s free for a limited time, so please come play! Chapter one, BE GAY, DO (NO) CRIMES, is up now! To find my story game, go to www.StoryLoom.com, click “all stories” at the top, and scroll allll the way to the bottom to find TRUE CRIME & TEA TUESDAY! Thank you so much for checking it out! 🙏🏼✨ #narrativestorygame #gamedev #truecrime #truecrimecommunity #truecrimeobsessed #truecrimefiction #truecrimefan #storyloom #gaymer #sapphicstory https://www.instagram.com/p/CmZpcPvJ6ZF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[tryerofpods]

It's funny. Everytime I reach back in my finished pod vault to do a review and unsubscribe to clean up my pod stream, I see there's a new season coming. LOL. And it's no different here. Season 2 in 2021! Let's talk about @angelofvine . A star studded fiction podcast about a modern day reporter, Oscar Simons, who, after finding some police detective turned PI's interview tapes from the 1950s, starts working a story of a famous Hollywood cold case. The victim, Marlene Marie Evans, was horrifically murdered, her body left mutilated in an alley way. What brought Marlene to Hollywood, and who killed her?? That was what PI Hank Briggs was obsessed with, for years and years he followed the trail. What did Hank find? We follow Oscar through interviews and Hank's tapes to find the real killer. With excellent sound quality, right down to cassette tape noise, The Angel of Vine only gets better with the star studded cast including Joe Manganiello (True Blood, Spiderman, Magic Mike), Alan Tudyk (Firefly, Knight's Tale, Dodgeball), Constance Zimmer (Entourage, Boston Legal, Unreal), and more! In Season 2, they'll be joined by Patton Oswalt (of everything funny in the universe, author, and Big Fan, Ratatouille, Mr. Show, King of Queens)! Awesome. Put that in your ears!

[superman-2050]

I am reading this book right now. It is about the Lizzie Borden case, and it is told through the eyes of the Irish maid, Bridget Sullivan. It is written by Trisha Leaver, and Lindsay Currie. #SweetMadness #TrishaLeaver #LindsayCurrie #LizzieBorden #BridgetSullivan #August4th1892 #1892 #1890s #FallRiverMassachusetts #AndrewBorden #AbbyBorden #TheBordenMurders #19thCenturyTrueCrime #TrueCrime #Unsolved #UnsolvedCrimes #TrueCrimeBooks #TrueCrimeFiction #TrueCrimeNovels #Bookstagram #LizzieBordenHouse #LizzieBordenTookAnAxe #TrueCrimeDiva https://www.instagram.com/p/CTwugkBlAy6/?utm_medium=tumblr

[penelopecat]

I don’t think I want to say too much about Chasing the Boogeyman, but it’s great. It’s a fictional mystery written in the style of a true crime book, with author @richard_chizmar as the main character. I’m glad Chizmar is getting some mainstream attention; I became a fan of his writing from his first collection, bbs I in the 90s, and a fan of the man from a number of lengthy phone conversations I had with him around that time. I can’t remember if I called him to place an order for books or the magazine he published, or if he called me to get more information about an order I placed, but we’d always end up chatting about crime and horror books and writers and probably movies, and I can’t even remember what else. @cemeterydancepub was responsible for my finding a lot of authors who remain favorites, and Richard Chizmar is responsible for all that. It took me too long to get around to reading this one; I definitely won’t be waiting on reading the sequel when it comes out. #thismakesmehappy #books #2022reading #bookstagram #chasingtheboogeyman #richardchizmar #crimefiction #serialkiller #mystery #truecrimefiction https://www.instagram.com/p/ClHC9z4JS-Z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[superman-2050]

I am reading this book right now. It is about the Lizzie Borden case, and it is told through the eyes of the Irish maid, Bridget Sullivan. It is written by Trisha Leaver, and Lindsay Currie. #SweetMadness #TrishaLeaver #LindsayCurrie #LizzieBorden #BridgetSullivan #August4th1892 #1892 #1890s #FallRiverMassachusetts #AndrewBorden #AbbyBorden #TheBordenMurders #19thCenturyTrueCrime #TrueCrime #Unsolved #UnsolvedCrimes #TrueCrimeBooks #TrueCrimeFiction #TrueCrimeNovels #Bookstagram #LizzieBordenHouse #LizzieBordenTookAnAxe https://www.instagram.com/p/CTwugkBlAy6/?utm_medium=tumblr