Homicide!

by Charles W. Sasser

Former Police Homicide Detective Charles W. Sasser brings readers into the raw, grim world of a detective with the stories of the psychopaths and criminals that haunt our streets, the gruesome details of dead bodies, the killers who are out on parole and free to kill again, and the terrible, mind-binding toll homicide investigations take on a cop and his family.

They called Tulsa detective Chuck Sasser “Columbo” for his uncanny ability to solve murders. Now, he shares the most shocking, gory details of his career with readers in the pages of Homicide!

One case possessed Chuck Sasser as no other would. For nine years, he searched for the vicious serial killer who assaulted and murdered three young women. He had few clues, leads, or suspects—but the similar patterns of death and mutilation and the sheer savagery of the crimes drove him relentlessly on…

Through a tough detective’s eyes, HOMICIDE! brings to life the ugly realities, dark humor, and battle-scared idealism of a veteran cop’s world. This is life on the front lines, the real battle against the lawless insanity that is threatening the cities and towns across America.

278 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published September 1, 1990

About the author

Charles W. Sasser has been a full-time freelance writer/journalist/photographer since 1979. He is a veteran of both the U.S. Navy (journalist) and U.S. Army (Special Forces, the Green Berets), a combat veteran and former combat correspondent wounded in action. He also served fourteen years as a police officer (in Miami, Florida, and in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he was a homicide detective). He has taught at universities, lectured nationwide, and traveled extensively throughout the world. He has published over 2,500 articles and short stories in magazines ranging from Guideposts, Parents and Christian Life to Soldier of Fortune, True West, and Writer's Digest. He is author, co-author or contributing author of more than 30 books and novels.

As an adventurer, Sasser has, at various times: solo-canoed across the Yukon; sailed the Caribbean; motorbiked across the continent; rode camels in the Egyptian desert; floated the Amazon River; dived for pirate treasure; rode horses across Alaska; motorcycled Europe; climbed Mount Rainier; ran with the bulls in Spain; chased wild mustangs...

He has been a professional rodeo clown and bronc rider; professional kickboxer; sky diver and SCUBA diver; college professor; newspaperman; archaeologist/anthropologist...

Sasser now lives on a ranch in Chouteau, Oklahoma with wife Donna where he is a writer, rancher, and businessman who trains horses and team ropes. He also has a private pilot's license and is an ultralite aircraft Certified Flight Instructor.