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Book Review by Patrick H. Moore, August 24, 2022
There is probably no crime that stirs up the good women of America as much as a mother murdering her young children. This is understandable as it is a truly hideous crime, a crime […]
Book review by Patrick H. Moore, August 21, 2022
I was recently asked to read and review a novel called Presumed Guilty by Alexandra Shapiro. Ms. Shapiro is a criminal defense lawyer and one of the leading appellate lawyers in the […]
Patrick H. Moore’s post, “Embracing the Other: You Can Make It If You Really Try”, is now live on Darcia Helle’s blogsite, Quiet Fury Books (http://www.quietfurybooks.com/). Darcia has kindly posted this short memoir as part of her #Monday Blogs series, which is […]
It’s once again time for Cicero’s Dead, Patrick H. Moore’s award-winning crime novel to be given away free (for 3 days — March 21 to March 23) to the deserving American (and international) readership. Enjoy!
by Darcia Helle
August 15th of this year marks the 100th anniversary of the most gruesome mass murder Wisconsin has ever seen. The story has all the makings of a New York Times bestseller or blockbuster movie. We have the wealthy and world-famous […]
compiled by Patrick H. Moore
Rainey Bethea, age 27, was the last person to be publicly executed in the United States. Bethea had confessed to the rape and murder of a 70-year-old woman named Lischia Edwards, and — under Kentucky state law […]
by Darcia Helle
In 1870, New Orleans was a city divided by politics, class, and race. The Civil War had left much of the south reeling, and now the government’s Radical Reconstruction attempted to force change by integrating the black population into the […]
by Bob Couttie
Many years ago, on another planet, I drank champagne on the French Riviera and bedded a princess. Outside the shuttered windows a clear blue Mediterranean Sea sparkled below the stuccoed wealthy villas of Cap Ferrat and the decaying remains of […]
by Darcia Helle
“I didn’t do it, but I know who did.”
Imagine you are a 20-year-old, uneducated man-child who has spent his entire life in a small, crime-infested community. Your family defines dysfunctional, but you don’t think about that because you don’t […]
A warm All Things Crime Blog welcome to our newest contributor, crime writer Darcia Helle.
by Darcia Helle
Some people believe in a hidden dimension where spirits coexist and sometimes interact with us. That might or might not be true, but there absolutely […]
