True Crime Books by Jason Lucky Morrow

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Archive for 'New Books'

Dark Bayou: Infamous Louisiana Homicides

If you’re from Louisiana or love Louisiana like I do, you’ll want to read this book. It’s from a great team of authors who know their history well. Great stories of murder and mayhem with a gumbo flavor. This collection chronicles the most mysterious, bizarre and often overlooked homicides in Louisiana history. Drawing on contemporary […]

New Book: Blood Legacy – The True Story of the the Snow Axe Murders

In BLOOD LEGACY: THE TRUE STORY OF THE SNOW AXE MURDERS, James Pylant sheds new light on a tale of 20 shocking deaths fueled by greed, insanity and revenge. Book Description In 1925 Texans were stunned when a teenager’s severed head was found in an abandoned farmhouse near the town of Stephenville. An investigation led […]

Murder in Suburbia, Disturbing Stories from Australia’s Dark Heart, by Emily Webb

When I’m looking for a true crime book to read, I like to jump into crimes I never knew about. If you’re an American reader with the same passion, then you will enjoy Australian True Crime writer Emily Webb’s book, Murder in Suburbia: Disturbing Stories from Australia’s Dark Heart. You know that country Australia. It’s […]

New Book Uncovers Early 1900s Serial Killer

Cold Serial: The Jack the Strangler Murders by Brian Forschner, investigates a century-old series of murders and the deranged offender who committed them. In the early 1900’s, a string of heinous crimes took place in the town of Dayton, Ohio. Five young girls were raped and brutally killed. In an era when women lacked rights […]

New Crime Magazine Launched: Real Crime

Does anyone remember how a trip to the grocery or book store would inevitably lead you to peruse a crime magazine? And then one day, they were extinct. Well, now they’re back. One is, anyway. British magazine publisher Imagine Publishing announced Thursday the release of their new “Real Crime” magazine. The first issue is a […]

Tulsa World Article on Deadly Hero

Here is a nice little profile on my book, Deadly Hero, and the Phil Kennamer case in the Sunday edition [July 12, 2015] of the Tulsa World by writer Jimmie Tramel. Tulsa World readers searching for a copy can find the paperback version here, and the Kindle version, here. A warm and special thank you […]

My New Book Deadly Hero
Available May 20 on Amazon

. What can you buy for $1.99? Eighteen months of hard work for my latest book, Deadly Hero: The High Society Murder that Created Hysteria in the Heartland, which will go on sale on Amazon on May 20. It is available for preorder now. The $1.99 sale will last until May 31. Here is the […]

Tommy Gun Winter by Nathan Gorenstein

A tale of love, murder, insanity and the law. Plus two zealous newspaper reporters and a couple of clever detectives in 1930s Boston. Tommy Gun Winter” is the improbable but true story of four Bostonians who once shared the front pages with John Dillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd and Bonnie and Clyde. One was a beautiful […]

Little Demon in the City of Light
by Steven Levingston

This gem of a true crime story, which takes place in Paris 1889, is now out in paperback—making it affordable to everyone with a price range of $7.87-$11.36 on Amazon. Author Steven Levingston is the non-fiction editor for the Washington Post. Book Description: A delicious account of a murder most gallic—think CSI Paris meets Georges […]

Book Review: The Murder of Maggie Hume

. Book Review: The Murder of Maggie Hume: Cold Case in Battle Creek, by Blaine Pardoe & Victoria Hester, History Press, August, 2014. While researching and writing his last true crime book, Murder in Battle Creek: The Mysterious Death of Daisy Zick, which was great reading, veteran author Blaine Pardoe was repeatedly confronted with another […]