Writing is a Crime
Diane Fanning, author of fifteen true crime books and twelve mystery novels, blogs about writing, reading, crime and observations of life. Sometimes serious, sometimes irreverent.
I Didn’t See it Coming: Breast Cancer is a Hidden Danger
I Didn’t See it Coming Breast Cancer is a Hidden DangerI didn’t see it coming. I had no pain. I felt no lump. I just went in for my regular annual mammogram. They said that they wanted to have a second look and an ultrasound. I was not alarmed. I’d been down that road...
The Fanning Book Syndicate
Last weekend, for the very first time, my stepson Pete Fanning and I were at the same book event. We had a blast at the Amherst Public Library talking to readers and selling books. What we write is very different. Pete writes Young Adult books…
Suffolk and the Ghost Bunny
Suffolk and the Ghost BunnyLast weekend, we travelled to Suffolk, Virginia, for the 12th Annual Suffolk Author’s Festival. We had a spectacular time. Even the drive down was terrific—with blossoming trees everywhere we looked. Friday night, we…
Henrietta & Harriet: Two Amazing Women
This morning, I woke to this headline: “Henrietta Lacks’s Family Settles Suit With Novartis Over Use of Her Cells.” Seeing that after I just finished reading Truevine by Beth Macy last night, was a bit mindboggling.
DEATH WISH: A Charley Spencer Novel
If the name Charley Spencer sounds familiar to you, you probably read a book or two in my Lieutenant Lucinda Pierce series. I introduced Charley in the first book, The Trophy Exchange. At that time…
Growing Up in Baltimore: Another Childhood Bubble Popped
I spent the first six years of my life growing up in Baltimore in a community that I was told was built as housing for returning World War II veterans. Recently, I got curious about my original home and turned to…
Getting Away with Murder: Part Three – Raynella Dossett Leath
After the questionable deaths of two husbands and the attempted murder of another man, Raynella Dossett Leath finally received a sentence of 51 years to life imprisonment for the murder of…
Getting Away with Murder: Part Two – Michael Peterson
Michael Peterson, convicted of murdering his wife Kathleen Peterson and suspected of killing his close friend Liz Ratliff, was granted a new trial because the state’s blood expert was discredited. I can…
Getting Away with Murder: Part One – Casey Anthony
I wrote Mommy’s Little Girl and St, Martin’s Press published it more than a year before Casey Anthony went to trial for the murder of her toddler daughter, Caylee.