Praise for The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns
“Here be monsters! This brilliant collection of gruesome small-town misdeeds spanning a century and four continents will have you running for the comfort and safety of the big city.”
—Peter Houlahan, author of Norco ’80
“Having written about famous serial killers, as well as murders that occur in small towns, I can tell you that some of the most shocking murders often take place in small towns, small communities, and places so remote that most of the world will never hear about them. However, that’s not the case for those reading The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns, as they’re in for an eye-opening excursion into the world of murder, often committed by the neighbors and friends of those who live in these small towns. Without question, it’s a book you won’t soon forget!”
—Kevin M. Sullivan, author of Through an Unlocked Door: In Walks Murder
“Mitzi Szereto has assembled a group of today’s brightest and best authors for this truly extraordinary anthology. Brilliant!”
—Dan Zupansky, author and host of True Murder
“Remember the saying ‘The devil is in the details’? Well, it’s small towns that deal in details as they unfold in scary, thrilling, and sometimes gruesome fashion. Mitzi Szereto’s new true crime anthology is filled with the devil and the details—great stories and fantastic writing. After reading this book, you will look at your neighbors in a whole new way… Or, perhaps never again!”
—Bob Batchelor, cultural historian and author of The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition’s Evil Genius
“Mitzi Szereto has compiled another exciting true crime anthology and what sets this apart from the usual examination of horrific crimes is the fact that the authors wrote about gruesome crimes committed in more rural communities. She found stories that look deeper into each crime to reveal the community that spawned the criminals and how that community reacted. A very thought-provoking compilation in the true crime milieu.”
—Gary Jenkins, mob author and host of the popular mob podcast, Gangland Wire
Praise for The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers
“In this new anthology, editor Mitzi Szereto collects some of the day’s very best true crime writing focused on one (troubling, fascinating, compelling) strand of the crime world: serial killers.”
—CrimeReads
“The latest collection of true crime stories compiled by Mitzi Szereto will more than satisfy those crime writers and readers amongst us who have that voyeuristic fascination for crime in all its ugly perspectives. From the virtually crime-free, ultra-respectable suburbs of Japan to the mean streets of South America where life is cheap; from the peaceful, but forever-tainted, English cathedral town of Gloucester to a Native Indian reservation in Minneapolis; from the fjords of Norway to the idyll of a Midwest farm in the USA, this book travels the world, examining the history and psychology of some of the world’s most gruesome serial killers.”
—Robin Bowles, Australia’s true crime queen
“True crime addicts will devour this book. The portraits of these psychopaths will mesmerize and horrify everyone who reads it.”
—Aphrodite Jones, bestselling true crime author
“This is by far the best book about serial killers I’ve ever read—and I’ve probably read more than is good for my mental health. The writers each have unique insights—sometimes because they have encountered the killers they describe, always because they can get further into the unfathomable minds of the killers through their sensitivity. Chilling, very moving (those poor victims), but above all, essential reading.”
—Peter Guttridge, critic and crime fiction author
“This compelling collection of serial killer stories is more than its beautifully told parts—it adds up to a clear and startling portrait of murder as an addiction and the very human demons that haunt the lives of killers and victims alike.”
—Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz-Age New York
“An engrossing and multi-faceted anthology for a new era of true crime writing. This fascinating collection goes beyond the procedural to raise important questions about how man’s darkest impulses both threaten and consume us—as individuals and as a culture.”
—Piper Weiss, author of You All Grow Up and Leave Me
“The stories in The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers provide insight into a compulsion that’s unfathomable to the average person. Can’t get enough true crime? This thought-provoking, highly readable collection will scratch that itch.”
—Alma Katsu, author of The Hunger
The Best
New True Crime
Stories
Small Towns
The Best
New True Crime
Stories
Small Towns
Edited by Mitzi Szereto
Coral Gables
Copyright © 2020 by Mitzi Szereto
Published by Mango Publishing Group, a division of Mango Media Inc.
Cover Design, Layout & Design: Morgane Leoni
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The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication number: 2020934387
ISBN: (print) 978-1-64250-280-0, (ebook) 978-1-64250-281-7
BISAC category code TRU002000, TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
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