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Sometimes the most mystifying and enticing stories are those without an ending. Mitzi Szereto's latest collection
The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes & Mysteries profiles the true crime stories that have mystified us for years, teasing us with possibilities and unpredictable suspects.
About the author
Mitzi Szereto is an internationally acclaimed author and anthology editor of fiction and nonfiction books spanning multiple genres. She has written numerous novels within her The Best True Crime Stories series. She's also written crime fiction, gothic fiction, horror, cozy mystery, satire, sci-fi/fantasy, and general fiction and nonfiction. Her anthology, Erotic Travel Tales 2, is the first anthology of erotic fiction to feature a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Mitzi's Web TV channel "Mitzi TV" has attracted an international audience. The Web series segments have ranged from chats with Tiff Needell, Jimmy Choo, and her ursine sidekick, Teddy Tedaloo. Other on-screen credits include Mitzi portraying herself in the pseudo-documentary British film, "Lint: The Movie." She maintains a blog of personal essays at "Errant Ramblings: Mitzi Szereto's Weblog." To learn more about Mitzi follow her on Twitter and Instagram @mitziszereto or visit her website at mitziszereto.com.
Summary
Sometimes the most mystifying and enticing stories are those without an ending. Mitzi Szereto's latest collection The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes & Mysteries profiles the true crime stories that have mystified us for years, teasing us with possibilities and unpredictable suspects.
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.
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“Haunting and heartbreaking, The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes & Mysteries lives up to its title, and is a must-read for true crime aficionados. It’s an ambitious collection of unsolved mysteries, spanning the globe and time—from France in the Roaring Twenties to Los Angeles in the 1960s to the Appalachian Trail in the 1990s, and beyond. The authors skillfully shed new light on long-forgotten murders, chronical a baffling and brazen art heist, and lay bare the systemic and societal failures in each case. But most of all, the authors honor the victims. Because maybe, just maybe, these renewed accounts will spawn new clues that will provide answers to grieving families, and perhaps even justice. I can’t stop thinking about these stories, and I highly recommend.”
—Alex Finlay, author of Every Last Fear and The Night Shift
“Ever since reading Megan Abbott’s The Song Is You, I can’t get enough of Jean Spangler, so I was thrilled to see the bizarre 1949 disappearance of the Hollywood bit actress turn up in Mitzi Szereto’s latest collection of unsolved true crimes. If you love history and mystery, you’ll love this book.”
—David Bushman, author of Murder at Teal’s Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks
“An unusually moving read. I was struck by the compassion and sensitivity with which the murders were described, as each of the authors felt a personal sympathy with and even a connection to the case.”
—Linda Stratmann, author of thirty true crime and crime fiction books, including her new series featuring a young Sherlock Holmes
“Quality literature always leaps from the pages when professional true crime writers dip quills into ink. This book is no exception. A great compilation of gut-wrenching cases giving ‘reader involvement and participation:’ the authors ‘talk to the reader’ not ‘at the reader,’ which is a style I encourage and thoroughly endorse. Well laid out. Dedicated research. This is a must-read book for all those interested in true crime.”
—Christopher Berry-Dee, criminologist; christopherberrydee.com
“Author and editor extraordinaire Mitzi Szereto has assembled an outstanding group of leading authors from throughout the world for this incredible collection—The Best New True Crime Stories: Unsolved Crimes & Mysteries. A truly fantastic anthology!”
—Dan Zupansky, author and host of True Murder
