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James Renner
Goodreads Author
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in Franklin Mills, Ohio
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
— published 2016 — 7 editions |
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The Man from Primrose Lane
— published 2012 — 19 editions |
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The Great Forgetting
— published 2015 |
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Amy: My Search for Her Killer: Secrets & Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic
— published 2006 — 5 editions |
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The Serial Killer's Apprentice: And 12 Other True Stories of Cleveland's Most Intriguing Unsolved Crimes
— published 2008 — 2 editions |
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It Came from Ohio
— published 2012 — 2 editions |
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Keepsakes
— published 2013 — 2 editions |
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Googleplex
— published 2013 — 2 editions |
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Enormous Stories: Hard-Boiled Cleveland Journalism
— published 2014 — 2 editions |
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The Winds of Astrodon
— published 2013 — 2 editions |
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Are killers born or are they made? Does everyone have the capacity to commit murder? Why is true crime so popular today?
The Philosophy of Crime tackles the biggest questions about unsolved mysteries by looking to classical philosophy for answers.
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"If you're a conspiracy theorist or even a conspiracy suspecter, this book is for you! Weaving the stories of Jack, Tony, Sam, and Cole together with some of the most powerful stories of our time, this book asks the reader to take big leaps, but th..."
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray:
"I saw a documentary that got me hooked. I liked the authors style too, only disappointment was I now have more questions than I had before researching at all. Very puzzling case but also very interesting"
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Kelhayes's review
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray:
"Loved it!! I first heard of James on the podcast True Crime Garage. Holy crap...next day I was at the library checking his books out.
He does an awesome job on this crazy, complicated case. I read this book on a flight from Philly to Phoenix...I c..." Read more of this review » |
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray:
"Great writing."
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| The last 50 pages is amazing! And weirdly frightening in its implication. | |
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“Stories are magic, and that is why the first thing any dictator does is to ban the stories that do not agree with him.”
― James Renner, The Great Forgetting
― James Renner, The Great Forgetting
“There is no closure for this. Closure is for buildings, not people.”
― James Renner, The Man from Primrose Lane
― James Renner, The Man from Primrose Lane
“The universe is absurd. People want to make sense of it because we’re hardwired to find reason in the randomness. We look for patterns in the chaos. See omens in coincidence. We look at the random distribution of stars in the sky and pretend they look like animals, call them constellations. For some reason, we want to give meaning to the meaningless. If you go looking for the number eighty-eight, you’ll see it everywhere—the number of keys on a piano, the number of counties in Ohio—but it doesn’t mean anything.”
― James Renner, The Man from Primrose Lane
― James Renner, The Man from Primrose Lane
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“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
― Stephen King
― Stephen King
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It's kind of fun and scary that we have the same taste in books. Almost the same rankings too.
James, thanks for the friendship. I can already see that we appreciate several of the most talented and fascinating writers. Clive Barker's writing is chilling and amazing, and continues to influence my own work. And one of my most memorable experiences was meeting John Irving when I was in college. I could go on and on about your favorites, Stephen King, Salinger... they each possess distinct and remarkable voices of their own. I can even see the Douglas Adams "deadline whooshing noise" in your quotes section, too!
Hopefully we can chat a bit about writing, books, and the writers themselves :)
Hi James -- good to meet you. I'm looking forward to reading your books!
Thanks for the friendship James, your book sounds interesting!
Thanks for the friend invite! Really enjoying "MFPL" so far. Saw it recommended on Scalzi's blog and it was part of the XM radio show/podcast Slice of SciFi a couple of weeks ago.
Hi James,Thanks for sending a friend request to this fellow crime writer on Goodreads!
Want to make me smile? You can vote for The Man from Primrose Lane as best cover for a debut novel over here: http://qwillery.blogspot.com/2012/02/...
Hello James, it is a delight to meet you. If you have any questions about any of my books, please let me know.
