True Crime Fiction
6 Mystery Thrillers Inspired by and Including True Crime
Michael Lister
Pulpwood Press
Contents
True Crime Fiction an Introduction by Michael Lister
Books and the cases that inspired them
How to read the John Jordan Blood Series
Introduction by Michael Connelly
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Start Blood Money Now!
Blood Money Chapter 1
Blood Money Chapter 2
Blood Money Chapter 3
Start BLOOD CRIES NOW
Also by Michael Lister
BLOOD WORK
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
That Night
From In Search of Randa Raffield
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Chapter 112
Chapter 113
Chapter 114
Chapter 115
Chapter 116
Chapter 117
Chapter 118
Chapter 119
Chapter 120
Chapter 121
Chapter 122
Chapter 123
Chapter 124
Chapter 125
Chapter 126
Chapter 127
Chapter 128
Chapter 129
Chapter 130
Chapter 131
Chapter 132
Chapter 133
Chapter 134
Chapter 135
Chapter 136
Chapter 137
Chapter 138
Chapter 139
Chapter 140
Chapter 141
Chapter 142
Chapter 143
Chapter 144
Chapter 145
Chapter 146
Chapter 147
Chapter 148
Chapter 149
Chapter 150
Chapter 151
Chapter 152
Chapter 153
Chapter 154
Chapter 155
Chapter 156
Chapter 157
Chapter 158
Chapter 159
Chapter 160
Chapter 161
Chapter 162
Chapter 163
Chapter 164
Chapter 165
Chapter 166
Chapter 167
Chapter 168
Chapter 169
Chapter 170
Chapter 171
Chapter 172
Chapter 173
Chapter 174
Chapter 175
Chapter 176
Chapter 177
Chapter 178
Chapter 179
Chapter 180
Chapter 181
Chapter 182
Chapter 183
Chapter 184
Chapter 185
Chapter 186
Chapter 187
Chapter 188
Chapter 189
Chapter 190
Chapter 191
Chapter 192
Chapter 193
Chapter 194
Chapter 195
Chapter 196
Chapter 197
Chapter 198
Chapter 199
Chapter 200
Chapter 201
Chapter 202
Chapter 203
Chapter 204
Start Blood Shot Now!
Blood Shot Chapter 1
Blood Shot Chapter 2
Blood Shot Chapter 3
Chapter 205
Chapter 206
Chapter 207
Chapter 208
Chapter 209
Chapter 210
Chapter 211
Chapter 212
Chapter 213
Chapter 214
Chapter 215
Chapter 216
Chapter 217
Chapter 218
Chapter 219
Chapter 220
Chapter 221
Chapter 222
Chapter 223
Chapter 224
Chapter 225
Chapter 226
Chapter 227
Chapter 228
Chapter 229
Chapter 230
Chapter 231
Chapter 232
Chapter 233
Chapter 234
Chapter 235
Chapter 236
Chapter 237
Chapter 238
Chapter 239
Chapter 240
Chapter 241
Chapter 242
Chapter 243
Chapter 244
Chapter 245
Chapter 246
Chapter 247
Chapter 248
Chapter 249
Chapter 250
Chapter 251
Chapter 252
Chapter 253
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nbsp; Chapter 254
Chapter 255
Chapter 256
Chapter 257
Chapter 258
Chapter 259
Chapter 260
Chapter 261
Chapter 262
Start Blood Stone now!
Blood Stone Chapter 1
Blood Stone Chapter 2
Blood Stone Chapter 3
Reader’s Guide
Thank you
Audiobook
Introduction
Foreword
BLOODSHED
Chapter 263
Chapter 264
Chapter 265
Chapter 266
Chapter 267
Chapter 268
Chapter 269
Chapter 270
Chapter 271
Chapter 272
Chapter 273
Chapter 274
Chapter 275
Chapter 276
Chapter 277
Chapter 278
Chapter 279
Chapter 280
Chapter 281
Chapter 282
Chapter 283
Chapter 284
Chapter 285
Chapter 286
Chapter 287
Chapter 288
Chapter 289
Chapter 290
Chapter 291
Chapter 292
Chapter 293
Chapter 294
Chapter 295
Chapter 296
Chapter 297
Chapter 298
Chapter 299
Chapter 300
Chapter 301
Chapter 302
Chapter 303
Chapter 304
Chapter 305
Chapter 306
Chapter 307
Chapter 308
Chapter 309
Chapter 310
Chapter 311
Chapter 312
Chapter 313
Chapter 314
Chapter 315
Chapter 316
Chapter 317
Chapter 318
Chapter 319
Chapter 320
Chapter 321
Chapter 322
Start Blue Blood NOW!
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
And the Sea Became Blood
Also by Michael Lister
True Crime Fiction
6 Mystery Thrillers Inspired by and Including True Crime
Michael Lister
Pulpwood Press
True Crime Fiction an Introduction by Michael Lister
As a novelist, I’m afforded the opportunity to write about what interests me. This is a singular and unique gift—one that I cherish and try not to take for granted.
This has led me on unique and idiosyncratic literary journeys around an imaginative globe and allowed me to be an adventurer in the hidden realms of the human psyche, an explorer of human nature.
One of the areas of human nature that interests me most is that of crime—of what one human is capable of doing to or taking from another.
I study and write about true crime, and I attempt to write truthful works of fiction.
Of course, you don’t have to be interested in true crime in order to write crime fiction, but for many years I have been fascinated and captivated by both. And lately my interest in true crime cases, particularly those that are cold and/or unsolved has intensified exponentially.
In high school when given the choice of topics to write my term paper on, I chose true crime. Growing up, I was far from obsessed with true crime, but there were many cases that drew me in even as they were captivating the public imagination. I was drawn to and riveted by In Cold Blood, Helter-Skelter, and many of the other bizarre and brutal cases that gripped the public consciousness like a gloved hand around the throat.
With degrees in theology, the fact that I chose prison chaplaincy, or, as I actually believe, it chose me, shows a link to and connection with true crime that must be in my DNA. Though, like in my fiction, I like a full portion of mystery in my true crime. Though I’m interested and fascinated in howdunits and whydunits, it’s whodunits that I’m most drawn to.
But my intensified interest, my heightened fascination with true crime was born (or born again), like so many in our current culture, as I listened to the seminal true crime podcast Serial. Since then I have consumed true crime and true crime culture like never before, and this newfound or renewed exploration of the subject has caused much of it to wind up in my novels. So I present to you my collection of True Crime Fiction—novels inspired by and that include actual true crime cases.
My connection to some of the true crime cases that have inspired these novels is in ways direct and personal, others, spiritual and emotional. But the connection exists—exists in vivid and extraordinary ways in my writer’s mind and imaginative workshop.
In the case of the Atlanta child murders, my family and I visited Atlanta during the Atlanta Monster’s reign of terror, when I was a kid roughly the same age, if not the same race, as the monster’s victims. We stayed at the Omni Hotel and I played in its game room—the place where many of the young victims were last seen. When I moved to Atlanta as an 18-year-old some six years later, I lived and worked and attended college in close proximity to many of the sites where victims were snatched or later dumped by the monster. I also attended the integrated mega church and worked with the bishop who was contacted by someone claiming to be the Atlanta child Murderer back when the killings were still happening. To this day, I feel a deep connection to Atlanta, its citizens, and the victims of the monster it spawned as it was becoming the city of the South.
I also have a direct and personal connection to the Ted Bundy case. I was born in and my family is from Tallahassee, Florida, where Ted Bundy perpetrated his vicious and frenzied Chi Omega rampage. Both of my parents attended FSU, as did my sister and my children—virtually everyone in my family except for me. My calling carried me along the road less traveled to college in Atlanta then Tulsa. With family in Tallahassee, I’ve visited often the city often and experienced the lingering and residual effects of Bundy’s brutality on the psyche of the city. As a young prison chaplain with the Florida Department of Corrections, I’ve visited death row at Florida State prison where Bundy was housed and the death chamber where he was executed. Bundy was long since dead when I was there, but it was he who I felt when I touched the old wood of the electric chair, he who haunted my time there—far more than the Gainesville Ripper who was there at the time.