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As Close as You Can Get to Murder While Still Breathing!
For the true crime lover-finally, a travel guide from an award-winning travel journalist and suspense author that gives you the down and dirty on exactly where the major crimes occurred, and where the bodies are buried. For aficionados of paranormal, prison, and tombstone travel, there's a goldmine of tourism suggestions for you here as well.
Along with summaries of the major crimes committed in New England, you'll discover where to find the best crime and ghost tours; which hotels and restaurants are former jails, courthouses, or harbor paranormal activity; where infamous criminals are/were jailed, and which venues and attractions might feed your fancy for murder and justice. Reading lists in each chapter will guide you to books expounding on the crimes discussed.. Best of all, suggested itineraries bring all the pieces together to help you traverse New England's criminal landscape in an organized and entertaining way. Up for a true crime road trip? Let Vacations Can Be Murder be your ultimate travel guide.
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Dawn M. Barclay (who writes fiction as D.M. Barr) has been writing in the travel field for decades, first as a travel trade journalist and later as a book author. She is the 2023 Lowell Thomas Gold-award-winning author of the autism travel bible,¿Traveling Different: Vacation Strategies for Parents of the Anxious, the Inflexible, and the Neurodiverse¿(Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). Dawn also won the First Prize-Other Writing award from the Society of Professional Journalists in 1992 for a story on travel law. Vacations Can Be Murder, her multi-volume true crime travel series with Level Best Books, combines the two things she loves best (after chocolate and dogs): travel and crime. Along with being an author of psychological suspense, she is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers, the¿American¿Society of Journalists and Authors, the New York Travel Writers Association, and several mystery writers organizations.
