Crime Lab

Books based on true events that made headlines
Excerpt: "My little girl was shaking as they finished taping dynamite to her naked back. 'If you try to take it off,' the stranger said ..."
Held Hostage
by Michelle Renee
Published by Berkley Books
291 pgsPaperback$7.99

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From the shocking crime to the high-profile trial and verdict, this is the gripping first-person account of a mother and daugher's nightmarish ordeal, and a search for justice and retribution that would change their lives forever.
Michelle Renee
Firebug
by Bob Spear
Published by Spear's Mint Editions
186 pgs         Trade  $14.99

Self-published, the form isn't what we may be used to seeing, but I've chosen to include Firebug because of the excellent writing. Based on a true event, Bob has done his homework and come up with a compelling bit of history. No doubt his 25 year career in Army Intelligence has helped give this book its realism.
A retired Army Intelligence officer teams up with his daughter and two genealogy experts to track a homicidal arsonist. Based on a true event that took place in Leavenworth, Kansas, the setting for this novel.

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The Clarence Darrow
Copyright Esther Luttrell -  2010
Michelle's book became a Lifetime network movie. 
Bob Spear