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James Renner
Goodreads Author
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in Franklin Mills, Ohio
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Genre
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Member Since
June 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/jamesrenner
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
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2016
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The Man from Primrose Lane
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2012
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20 editions
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Amy: My Search for Her Killer: Secrets & Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic
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2006
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The Great Forgetting
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2015
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10 editions
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The Serial Killer's Apprentice: And 12 Other True Stories of Cleveland's Most Intriguing Unsolved Crimes
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2008
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2 editions
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It Came from Ohio
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2012
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2 editions
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Muse
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2019
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3 editions
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Keepsakes
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2013
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2 editions
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Googleplex
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2013
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Enormous Stories: Hard-Boiled Cleveland Journalism
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2014
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2 editions
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The Mile Higher Podcast Interview
I’m the guest on this week’s episode of the Mile Higher Podcast. It was such a treat to get to meet Kendall, Josh, and Janelle in Denver and talk about developments in the Amy Mihaljevic case, Maura Murray, and little green men! Check it out!
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray:
"I was familiar with the Maura Murray story from previously watching an episode of Disappeared. However, this book provided so much more detail and truly allowed me to see a fuller picture of the circumstances leading up to her disappearance as well a"
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray:
"I have become a true crime addict myself so reading this book about what happened to Maura Murray and if she is missing or just chose to vanish and start life over is fascinating. As of the book's publishing, it was still unclear what happened to Mau"
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray:
"I was spellbound with every page. I have followed the Maura Murray case for years in hopes of stumbling on some clue or resolution. Renner proposes tantalizing theories and interweaves his own personal memoir into this in very intricate ways."
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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.”
― The Great Forgetting
― The Great Forgetting
“There is no closure for this. Closure is for buildings, not people.”
― The Man from Primrose Lane
― 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.”
― The Man from Primrose Lane
― The Man from Primrose Lane
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“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.”
― P.S. I Love You
― P.S. I Love You
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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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.
