Brian McDonald
Brian McDonald contributes frequently to New York City newspapers, including The New York Times. His first book, My Father's Gun, won critical raves and became the subject of a major History Channel documentary series. McDonald is also the author of Last Call at Elaine's, Indian Summer, and Safe Harbor: A Murder in Nantucket. He lives in Manhattan.
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Maria Schmeig is an attorney, mother, and author of her memoir, Don’t Poke the Bear- Recovering From Abuse By A Narcissist. While successfully navigating her law career and raising three great kids, she masked to the outside world what she endured at home from her abusive husband. After a lifetime of legal writing, she wrote her personal story. She hopes that her book will help others see their situation for what it is and find hope for a better future. Maria recently retired from the legal profession and spends her time blogging about narcissistic abuse, gardening, and enjoying her ever-growing family, especially her grandchildren and their giggles.
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Dick Lehr
Dick Lehr is a professor of journalism at Boston University. From 1985 to 2003, he was a reporter at the Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting and won numerous regional and national journalism awards. He served as the Globe's legal affairs reporter, magazine and feature writer, and as a longtime member of the newspaper's investigative reporting unit, the Spotlight Team. Before that, Lehr, who is also an attorney, was a reporter at The Hartford Courant.
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An Army brat. A trained professional classical oboist performing in the Northern Virginia / Washington, D.C. area. Commissioned in 1966 upon graduation from Valley Forge Military Academy. Served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the Republic of Germany. Commanded a NATO nuclear weapons site in the Fulda Gap on the border of the then Iron Curtain. Entered the mainstream business environment. Awarded a U.S. Patent. A survivor of September 11, 2001. The last person to escape the South Tower before it collapsed. Developed a Personal Assurance Program to determine the character of individuals requiring access to critical infrastructure. Enjoy trying to encourage the spoken word to come alive on paper.
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Keith Elliot Greenberg
Keith Elliot Greenberg is a New York Times bestselling author and producer for America's Most Wanted. In addition to producing programs for VH1, 48 Hours, MSNBC Investigates, the History Channel, and Court TV, among others, Greenberg has authored more than thirty nonfiction books and written for such outlets as Maxim, The Village Voice, The New York Observer, USA Today, Playboy.com, and US Weekly."
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Emilio Corsetti III
Emilio Corsetti III is a retired airline pilot and author. His work has appeared in regional and national publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Multimedia Producer, and Professional Pilot magazine. Emilio is a graduate of St. Louis University. For more information about the author, please visit the author's website at www.EmilioCorsetti.com.
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Keith Elliot Greenberg
Keith Elliot Greenberg is a New York Times bestselling author and producer for America's Most Wanted. In addition to producing programs for VH1, 48 Hours, MSNBC Investigates, the History Channel, and Court TV, among others, Greenberg has authored more than thirty nonfiction books and written for such outlets as Maxim, The Village Voice, The New York Observer, USA Today, Playboy.com, and US Weekly."
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Ann Rule
Ann Rule was a popular American true crime writer. Raised in a law enforcement and criminal justice system environment, she grew up wanting to work in law enforcement herself. She was a former Seattle Policewoman and was well educated in psychology and criminology.
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She came to prominence with her first book, The Stranger Beside Me, about the Ted Bundy murders. At the time she started researching the book, the murders were still unsolved. In the course of time, it became clear that the killer was Bundy, her friend and her colleague as a trained volunteer on the suicide hotline at the Seattle, Washington Crisis Clinic, giving her a unique distinction among true crime writers.
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Dick Lehr
Dick Lehr is a professor of journalism at Boston University. From 1985 to 2003, he was a reporter at the Boston Globe, where he was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in investigative reporting and won numerous regional and national journalism awards. He served as the Globe's legal affairs reporter, magazine and feature writer, and as a longtime member of the newspaper's investigative reporting unit, the Spotlight Team. Before that, Lehr, who is also an attorney, was a reporter at The Hartford Courant.
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Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice is the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. Rice is the first black woman, second African American (after her predecessor Colin Powell, who served from 2001 to 2005), and the second woman (after Madeleine Albright, who served from 1997 to 2001 in the Clinton Administration) to serve as Secretary of State. Rice was President Bush's National Security Advisor during his first term. Before joining the Bush administration, she was a professor of political science at Stanford University where she served as Provost from 1993 to 1999. During the administration of George H.W. Bush, Rice served as the Soviet and East European Affairs Advisor during
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Adrian Havill
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Lisa Pulitzer
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Ken Englade
Kenneth F. Englade is a New Mexico-based author who has published nine books dealing with high profile trials. His latest book, Meltdown in Haditha: The Killing of 24 Iraqi Civilians by U.S. Marines and the Failure of Military Justice, will be published in 2015 by McFarland & Co. He also published five historical novels dealing with the pre-Civil War West. His books have been published in Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and Canada. He is a veteran journalist who has worked on newspapers and for fourteen years with United Press International, including three years in Asia where he covered the Vietnam War and the fall of Saigon. Beyond Reason, his book about a University of Virginia coed and her German boyfriend who conspired to kill the
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Anthony Flacco
Anthony’s background as a trained stage actor with over 2,000 performances under his Actors Equity membership provides the primary basis for his critically acclaimed ability to empathize with a wide cross-section of personalities. His screenwriting experience is also of great use in telling narrative stories that are visually compelling, whether for the “screen” of a reader’s imagination or the screen of a theatre or at home.
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He was selected for the prestigious American Film Institute fellowship in Screenwriting, and received his MFA in writing there in 1990 after winning AFI’s Paramount Studios Fellowship Award for his script, The Frog's Legacy. He was then selected out of 2,000 entrants for the Walt Disney Studios Screenwriting Fellowship, -
Kathryn Casey
An award-winning journalist and a critically acclaimed bestselling author, Kathryn Casey has written eleven true crime books and is the creator of the Sarah Armstrong and Clara Jefferies mystery series. ANGEL FALLS, her first historical fiction, was inspired by the life of Ruth Robertson, who in 1949 measured the world’s tallest waterfall.
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Casey’s books have been Literary and Mystery Guild selections, and DEADLY LITTLE SECRETS was made into a Lifetime movie. Her first novel, SINGULARITY, was named a Best Crime Novel Debut by Booklist, and Library Journal chose THE KILLING STORM for its annual list of Best Mysteries. Elle Magazine picked DIE, MY LOVE as one of the ten best thrillers and crime books written by a woman. True crime matriarch An -
John Leake
Born in Dallas, Texas, John Leake went to Vienna, Austria on a graduate school scholarship and ended up living in the city for over a decade, working as a freelance writer and translator. His first book, Entering Hades: The Double Life of a Serial Killer (Sarah Crichton Books, FSG) was a New York Times Sunday Book Review "Editors' Choice," a Men's Vogue "Best Book of 2007," and the inspiration of The Infernal Comedy, starring John Malkovich.
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M. William Phelps
Crime, murder and serial killer expert, creator/producer/writer and former host of the Investigation Discovery series DARK MINDS, acclaimed, award-winning investigative journalist M. William Phelps is the New York Times best-selling author of 30 books and winner of the 2013 Excellence in (Investigative) Journalism Award and the 2008 New England Book Festival Award. A highly sought-after pundit, Phelps has made over 100 media-related television appearances: Early Show, The Today Show, The View, Fox & Friends, truTV, Discovery Channel, Fox News Channel, Good Morning America, TLC, BIO, History, Oxygen, OWN, on top of over 100 additional media appearances: USA Radio Network, Catholic Radio, Mancow, Wall Street Journal Radio, Zac Daniel, Ave Mar
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Caitlin Rother
New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Rother has written or co-authored 14 books, ranging from narrative non-fiction crime to mystery and memoir. Her newest book is DEATH ON OCEAN BOULEVARD: Inside the Coronado Mansion Case (April 27, 2021). Her backlist includes HUNTING CHARLES MANSON; SECRETS, LIES, AND SHOELACES; LOVE GONE WRONG; DEAD RECKONING; THEN NO ONE CAN HAVE HER; I'LL TAKE CARE OF YOU; NAKED ADDICTION; POISONED LOVE; BODY PARTS; TWISTED TRIANGLE; LOST GIRLS; WHERE HOPE BEGINS and MY LIFE, DELETED. A Pulitzer Prize nominee, Rother worked as an investigative reporter at daily newspapers for 19 years before quitting the news biz in 2006 to write books full-time. Her journalism has been published in Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles
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Steve Jackson
“He writes with both muscle and heart”—New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen
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New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Steve Jackson has written ten non-fiction books in true crime, history and biography genres; he has also written fourteen crime fiction thrillers for the long-running and Times bestselling "Butch Karp Series" in collaboration with former New York assistant district attorney Robert K. Tanenbaum.
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McCracken Poston Jr.
McCracken Poston Jr. is a criminal defense attorney, former Georgia state legislator, and author of "Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom" (Citadel, 2024).
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He served four terms in the Georgia House of Representatives before returning to private legal practice. In 1999, he defended Alvin Ridley, a reclusive television repairman in Ringgold, Georgia, who was accused of murdering his wife after she hadn’t been seen in public for nearly 30 years. Poston’s discovery of Virginia Ridley’s extensive writings helped prove her agoraphobia and epilepsy — and led to Alvin’s acquittal in one of the most misunderstood criminal cases in Georgia history.
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Lisa Pulitzer
LISA PULITZER is a former correspondent for the New York Times. She is the author of more than a dozen non-fiction titles, including New York Times bestseller Stolen Innocence (with Elissa Wall) and Portrait of a Monster: Joran van der Sloot, A Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery (with Cole Thompson.)
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Cathy Scott
Cathy Scott, a Los Angeles Times bestselling author, investigative veteran journalist and blogger for Psychology Today, has written twelve books. Her work has appeared in New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Reuters and Las Vegas Sun. Best known for penning The Killing of Tupac Shakur and Murder of a Mafia Daughter, she taught journalism for five years at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her latest books are The Millionaire’s Wife and Freeway Rick Ross: The Untold Autobiography, which won a best non-fiction award in 2014. Recent TV appearances include The Dr. Oz Show, Dateline NBC, the Today Show, Vanity Fair’s crime series. She lives in a renovated miner's cabin in the mountains of San Diego County with her three rescued dogs.
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McCracken Poston Jr.
McCracken Poston Jr. is a criminal defense attorney, former Georgia state legislator, and author of "Zenith Man: Death, Love, and Redemption in a Georgia Courtroom" (Citadel, 2024).
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Monte Francis
The Associated Press Television and Radio Association named Monte Reporter of the Year in 2013 for a region covering 13 western states. Monte has also won four Emmys; the latest in 2015 for his part in NBC Bay Area's coverage of the Napa earthquake.
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Monte is a graduate of the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, and has a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from California State University Fresno.
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Adrian Havill
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Rebecca Rosenberg
Rebecca Rosenberg received her master's degree in journalism from Columbia University.
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A staff reporter at the New York Post, she currently covers Manhattan Supreme Court and has chronicled hundreds of local and national trials -- including the cases of fallen film producer Harvey Weinstein, mass murderer Dylan Roof, and real estate scion Robert Durst.
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Bert Murray
Bert Murray is an American author. Bert attended Princeton University.
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Simone Campbell
Sister Simone Campbell has served as Executive Director of NETWORK, A National Catholic Social Lobby, since 2004. She is a religious leader, attorney and poet with extensive experience in public policy and advocacy for systemic change. Among her accomplishments while at NETWORK was the writing of the famous “Nuns’ Letter,” considered by many as critically important in convincing Congress to support the Affordable Care Act, and organizing and leading NETWORK’s “Nuns on the Bus” trips across the country to support economic justice and immigration reform.
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Sister Campbell has received numerous awards and has been the keynote or featured speaker at many large gatherings, including the 2012 Democratic National Convention. She has often appeared i