The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime - (True crime gift)

Couples who commit crime together have been around for centuries. These are the criminals that Mitzi Szereto's latest collection, The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime will profile.

About the author

MITZI SZERETO (mitziszereto.com) is an internationally acclaimed author and anthology editor whose books encompass multiple genres, ranging from her popular true crime franchise The Best New True Crime Stories to crime fiction, gothic fiction, horror, cozy mystery, satire, sci-fi/fantasy, erotic fiction, and general fiction and nonfiction titles. Her books include The Best New True Crime Stories: Crimes of Passion, Obsession & Revenge; The Best New True Crime Stories: Well-Mannered Crooks, Rogues & Criminals; The Best New True Crime Stories: Small Towns; The Best New True Crime Stories: Serial Killers; Florida Gothic; Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts, and many other titles. Her anthology Erotic Travel Tales 2 is the first anthology of erotica to feature a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Mitzi has appeared internationally on radio and television and at major literature festivals and has taught creative writing around the world.
Mitzi's Web TV channel Mitzi TV has attracted an international audience. Segments have ranged across chatting about classic cars with Formula 1 race car driver/BBC TV presenter Tiff Needell and couture shoe designer Jimmy Choo, joining in a lively pub singalong, and covering a teddy bear festival with her ursine sidekick, Teddy Tedaloo. Other on-screen credits include portraying herself in the pseudo-documentary British film, Lint: The Movie. Follow Mitzi on Twitter and Instagram @mitziszereto.

Summary

Couples who commit crime together have been around for centuries. These are the criminals that Mitzi Szereto’s latest collection, The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime will profile.

Foreword

• Her titles, which have sold in the region of 300,000 copies, have been published in print, digital, audio and CD formats as well as book club editions.
  
• Her books and short fiction have been translated into multiple languages.
  
• Mitzi has appeared at literature festivals worldwide including Miami Book Fair International, Wordplay Book Festival (Scotland), Cambridge Literary Festival (England) and The Cheltenham Festival of Literature (England).
  
• She has an aggregate social media following of 55,000, encompassing multiple presences on sites such as Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Goodreads, LinkedIn, Crimespace etc. plus newsletter subscribers.
  
• She maintains a blog of personal essays at Errant Ramblings: Mitzi Szereto’s Weblog and created/presented the London-based Web TV channel Mitzi TV.
  
• She’s lectured in creative writing at several British universities and teaches writing from Europe to the Pacific Northwest.
  
• Her anthology Erotic Travel Tales 2 is the first anthology of erotica to feature a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
  
• A story from her crime anthology Getting Even: Revenge Stories received a “Highly Commended” from the UK Crime Writers Association’s Silver Dagger Awards.

Additional text

“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 recommend it.” —Scott Bonn, PhD Criminologist, author, and producer

“Readers can’t get enough true crime and here comes another winner in Mitzi Szereto’s The Best New True Crime Stories: Partners in Crime. Gathering stories from some of the world’s best writers, Szereto puts together another page-turning collection, telling true crime tales of the wicked, wild, and wonderful. You’ll love this book and the stories of devious partnerships that ended in mayhem and murder!” —Bob Batchelor, cultural historian and author of The Bourbon King: The Life and Crimes of George Remus, Prohibition’s Evil Genius

“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 instructive romp.” —Stephanie Kane, crime writer

“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 you’ll 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 this book!” —Kevin M. Sullivan, author of The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive 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, shocking—and highly recommended.” —Danuta Kot, author of the East Riding series

Product details

• Authors: Mitzi Szereto, Szereto Mitzi
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.01.2022
• EAN: 9781642507607
• ISBN: 978-1-64250-760-7
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: The Best New True Crime Stories
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws, HISTORY / Modern / General, TRUE CRIME / Murder / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, TRUE CRIME / Murder / Serial Killers, TRUE CRIME / Heists & Robberies, Organized crime, Crime & criminology, Violence & abuse in society, TRUE CRIME / Historical, True crime: serial killers & murderers