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Praise for The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime

The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime , edited by Mitzi Szereto, is a terrific anthology volume of love stories gone very, very bad. That is to say, the amorous partners in these true accounts become criminals with sinister and deadly results. Written by award-winning and critically acclaimed authors from around the globe, the stories are fast-paced and exciting. It is full of thrills and chills for everyone. This volume is a wonderful addition to the true crime genre, and I highly reco mmend it.

Scott Bonn , PhD, criminologist, author, an d producer

If you like true crime with something extra, The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime delivers. The crimes and criminals are compelling enough, but what sets these tales apart is the attention to setting and social milieu. Each crime is a product of its time and place, and context is enriched by digressions into the deprivations of wartime London, the pros and cons of using strychnine vs. arsenic on sheep farms in New Zealand, and a British version of The Americans featuring an antiquarian bookseller and his amateur photographer wife. An altogether enjoyable and instruct ive romp.

Stephanie Kane , cr ime writer

Readers cant get enough true crime and here comes another winner in Mitzi Szeretos The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime . Gathering stories from some of the worlds best writers, Szereto puts together another page-turning collection, telling true crime tales of the wicked, wild, and wonderful. Youll love this book and the stories of devious partnerships that ended in mayhem an d murder!

Bob Batchelor , cultural historian and author of The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibitions E vil Genius

When a human being decides to commit murder, that portion of society within their reach has a major problem. But when two killers are drawn together and decide to commit the unthinkable, cities, towns, and rural settings will soon find themselves in a living nightmare. And such is the case with The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime ! Within these pages youll read about true-life murderers, as well as those who only haunt the chilling works of fiction, written by authors who understand well the mindset of the murderer. Read t his book!

Kevin M. Sullivan , author of The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensi ve History

From Bittaker and Norris to Fred and Rosemary West, we are all too familiar with the deadly effects of partnerships in crime. The true crime stories in this collection range from wartime London to late-twentieth-century Australia, from noir narrative to a disquisition on the use of strychnine as a poison, but all of them focus on the evil that can arise when potential killers meet. Fascinating, shockingand highly rec ommended.

Danuta Kot , author of the East Rid ing series

Praise for The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Passion, Obsession & Revenge

True crime fans hungering for juicy tales of hot-blooded murder will gobble up the offerings in this irresistibly page-turning co llection.

Harold Schechter , author of Hells Princess: The Mystery of Belle Gunness, Butc her of Men

A grand sweep through tales of an abused wifes murderous revenge in Victorian-era Canada; a 1980 Brinks robbery in San Francisco by an unfailingly polite, gay thief who adopts a new identity and squanders his fortune in a sybaritic lifestyle in New York before being arrested; a husbands revenge murder of his adulterous wife in sexually licentious postwar England, leading to an unusual appeal to the House of Lords before he is hanged; the sensational 2012 Facebook Murder in the Netherlands signaled by the online post A Girl Dies Today at 3 p.m.; and the sordid tale of Evelyn Nesbit, gorgeous salesgirl turned famed actress, and her role in a love triangle with a prominent New York architect and the railroad scion who murders him in a rage on the rooftop theater of Madison Square Garden. Headlines in the sensationalist New York newspapers scream of the Trial of the Centurybut of course its only 1906, and the century is still qui te young.

Joe Sharkey , author of Above Suspicion

Szereto and her contributors dark stories and clean writing styles combine for a gripping read. W onderful!

Liza Rodman , author of The Babysitter: My Summers with a Ser ial Killer

What motivates people to kill and commit heinous crimes? Is it a snap decision or calculated, plotted, and sinister? Theres a whole lot of reasons, hence our endless intrigue about what goes on in the minds of criminals. This volume of crime cases edited by true crime queen Mitzi Szereto is a fascinating look at crimes where perpetrators let their rage and bad judgment take over. With historical crimes and more contemporary ones featured, its also interesting to see how our understanding of violence has evolved over t he years.

Emily Webb , cohost of Australian True Crime podcast and author of Angels of Death: Doctors and Nurse s Who Kill

The true heart of darkness is in true crime. Crime fiction authors are an inventive bunch, but rarely have they created stories of passion, obsession, and revenge as compelling as these true accounts of what the passionate human heart and obsessive mind can make a person do. You may pity some of the killers in this collection; you may loathe others. But I guarantee you wont for get them.

Peter Guttridge, critic and crime fict ion author

Praise for The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues & Criminals

Conjuring the spirits of Truman Capote and Damon Runyon (with the ghost of Patricia Highsmith looking on), the stories in The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues & Criminals thrillingly depict real-life misdeeds throughout history. An Ecuadorian Robin Hood, an art scandal in Paris, new insights into the life and death of a Depression-era bootleggerwhats not to love?

Abbott Kahler , New York Times bestselling author (as Karen Abbott) of The Ghosts of Eden Park

What a fantastic collection of spellbinding true crime stories from around the world! Each one is deeply researched, thoughtful, and fascinating. This anthology is simply good reading for any fan.

Kate Winkler Dawson , author of American Sherlock: Murder, Forensics, and the Birth of Am erican CSI

Ever since E.W. Hornungbrother-in-law of Arthur Conan Doyleintroduced the public in 1898 to his character A.J. Raffles, genteel, cricket-playing thief, the notion of the nonviolent criminal, from Robin Hood to Danny Ocean, has captured the publics attention. No blood, no gore: just people trying to scrape a living off the earnings of others. In her latest compendium, Mitzi Szereto has brought together a terrifically readable collection of new and intriguing case histories, including John Dillingers bagman and Ching Shih, the nineteenth-century woman pirate of the South C hina Sea.

J.P. Smith , author of If She Were Dead and The Summoning

This anthologys contributors approach their subjects with the nuanced understanding of a historian or sociologist; rather than simply examining motive and opportunity, they consider factors such as historical backdrops, personality types, public perceptions, self-deception, gender, class, and inequality. VERDICT: A thought-provoking volume, with accounts that span continents and circumstances, that will appeal even to true crime fans who have see n it all.

Libra ry Journal

Mitzi Szereto and a stellar group of authors bring us The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues & Criminals . Real-life Robin Hoods, smooth-talking charmers and gentlemen robbers, and an unforgettable cast of criminal characters. True crime storytelling at its v ery best!