Rosetta Books is pleased to announce availability of the paperback edition of the Crimescape bestselling book After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by Marilyn J. Bardsley. The book was on the Wall Street Journal Best-Selling Books list twice, once as the # 1 Nonfiction E-Book.

There are some shocking parts of the new paperback edition. Interviews of Danny Hansford’s girlfriend, details of his incredible juvenile record and stint in the Air Force reserves have never been published before. There are more than 40 photos in the new edition, including a documented photo of Hansford and critical evidence photos used in the trials.

Valuable — and sometimes unintentionally entertaining — excerpts from the trial transcripts spotlight the traps the prosecutor and defense attorneys set for witnesses and each other during the unprecedented four trials. Especially memorable are the closing arguments that legendary defense attorney Sonny Seiler used at the end of Williams’ fourth trial for premeditated murder — arguments that led to Williams’ acquittal in 15 minutes. In the Williams case, the devil is definitely in the details and this expanded edition highlights those factors that let him go free after a decade-long ordeal and more than a million dollars in defense costs.

Marilyn J. Bardsley is a respected expert on serial killers and the editor of Rosetta Books’ bestselling Crimescape™ series, as well as the former executive editor and founder of Time Warner’s Crime Library, a premier true crime website.

Valuable (and some unintentionally entertaining) excerpts from the trial transcripts spotlight the traps the prosecutor and defense attorney set for witnesses and each other. Especially memorable are the closing arguments that legendary defense attorney Sonny Seiler used at the end of Williams’ fourth trial for premeditated murder –the arguments that led to Williams being acquitted in fifteen minutes in the last of the four trials. In the Williams case, the devil is definitely in the details and this expanded edition highlights those details that let him go free after a decade-long ordeal and more than a million dollars in defense costs.

The original Crimescape edition of After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by Marilyn Bardsley published in 2011 was on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list twice, once as the Number One nonfiction ebook.

“Grandmother Accused of Running Toddler Over With SUV.”  “Man Shares Childhood Memory of Seeing Someone Get Shot in the Head.” “Brazil’s Alleged Cannibal Trio Killed Women in Rituals and Sold Pies Made With Their Flesh.”

For nearly 15 years, one website has been serving up the dregs of the miserable and the macabre in easily digestible, pithily headlined format. With thousands of catalogued information relating to crimes large and small, appalling and bizarre, Crime Library has succeeded for 15 years on a premise that mystery lovers, journalists, and true crime aficionados all know too well: Crime is entertaining.

But as its founder and former executive editor, Marilyn Bardsley, knows all too well, even on the Internet, investigating violent crime can take its toll.

Go to: http://www.dailydot.com/society/crime-library-marilyn-bardsley-interview/ for rest of story

 Behind Crime Library, personal pain and true horror

Bardsley’s amateur sleuthing led her to stumble upon a wasp’s nest: a half-century of political scandal and coverup over the murders involving the legendary Eliot Ness. Bardsley was able to discover the criminal and bring the case to Crime Library, and the Internet, two decades later—though not without several very sinister encounters, including veiled threats, surveillance, and mysterious break-ins along the way.

We present her tale in its entirety.

Go to:

http://www.dailydot.com/society/mad-butcher-kingsbury-run/  for rest of story

Crimescape® is proud to announce that veteran true crime author Kevin F. McMurray is writing a new ebook called Fatal Trust, the story of a 12-year-old girl who goes missing for 13 months. Sometimes, it is better not to know the truth after your child is found.

Kevin F. McMurray has been writing about true crime and adventure stories for the last 17 years. His articles on such notorious crimes as the D.B.Cooper air piracy case, the unsolved LaGuardia Airport terrorist bombing, and the murder of 13-year old Matthew Margolies in Greenwich, Connecticut have appeared in such publications as Connecticut Magazine, Chic, and Oui, and others.

McMurray is author of two history/adventure books, the well-received Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea Doria (Simon & Schuster, 2001), and Dark Descent: Diving and the Deadly Allure of the Empress of Ireland (McGraw-Hill, 2004).

His true crime books include If You Really Loved Me (St. Martins Press ,2005); A Family Cursed, The Kissel Dynasty, a Gilded Fortune and Two Brutal Murders (St. Martins Press, 2007); Desire Turned Deadly, The True Story of a Beautiful Girl, Her Teenage Sweetheart and the Love that Ended in Murder. (St. Martins Press, 2009); One Dark Night, A Story of Deceit, Desire and Murder in a Peaceful Town (St. Martins Press, 2010

Kevin lives in upstate New York.

Crimescape® is a RosettaBooks collection of compelling short nonfiction crime books by the best true crime authors in the business, many of whom have seen their books made into major motion pictures. Taking readers into the dark heart of the criminal mind and the tense hunt to bring perpetrators to justice, Crimescape® authors stand apart from other true crime writers because they are selected for their experience in crime investigation, whether as police detectives, investigative reporters, forensics professionals or criminal psychologists. Riveting storytellers, our Crimescape® short nonfiction writers give readers all the information they need to understand relevant clues and the interwoven influences in each criminal case.

The Vampire Trap by Dr. Katharine Ramsland is the story of a young woman and her 19-month-old daughter who are last seen alive at a child’s clothing store. A troubled young man’s obsession with the currently popular vampire culture’s larger-than-life charisma becomes the center of a police investigation. The current fascination with vampires makes some people identify with these supernatural figures who dominate their world, taking whatever they want for themselves. It is here that the killer’s story opens a window on the fringe of this subculture, where people act out the more violent aspects of the vampire. (A 65-page True Crime Short with photographs).

Immortal Monster by Anthony Bruno.  Contract killer, lethal scam artist, loving father, abusive husband, abused son, convicted murderer, jailhouse schemer, liar, TV star. The man they called “The Iceman” was all of those. In 1988 he was sentenced to life for four gruesome murders, but this was just the tip of his iceberg. He had a taste for esoteric methods of death–favoring a cyanide solution in a nasal spray bottle–and body disposal–freezing one of his victims to disguise the time of death. At one point he bragged that his personal body count was over 200, seven times the more likely number.

Still, he has huge following, and a biopic based on his life is about to start shooting this fall. The Iceman told his story in three extremely popular HBO documentaries, which are still broadcast regularly. Why does the Iceman’s story continue to fascinate the public five years after his death and 25 years after his apprehension? And how much of his legend is truth? (A 62-page True Crime Short with photographs)

The Crimescape® titles chosen for the Big Deal sale are:

• Mark Gado’s MOM: The Killer and Kiss the Girls Goodnight and Nightcrawler
• Dr. Katherine Ramsland’s Psychopath and The Ivy League Killer
• Marilyn Bardsley’s After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
• Rachael Bell’s Sexual Obsessions Gone Wrong
• Anthony Bruno’s The Roppongi Stalker
• Johnny Sharp’s Murder on the New Moon: The True Story of the Monster of Florence
• David J. Krajicek’s Death By Rock ‘N’ ‘Roll
• Elizabeth Engstron’s Something Happened to Grandma

We hope you enjoy this opportunity to buy Crimescape® ebooks at such an unbeatable price.

Rosetta Books had just published Dr. Katherine Ramsland’s newest Crimescape® ebook, MOM: God Told Me To Kill. It is a frightening and unforgettable story. If Mark Gado’s MOM: The Killer profoundly disturbed you, then Ramsland’s new book in this collection will send chills down your spine.

The two older boys, ages 6 and 12, hand-lettered their signs for Mother’s Day — “Thank God for Mothers” and “Mother’s Love Grows Here” — and set them out near the front door, while the 14-month-old baby watched their labor of love. This home belonged to a seemingly perfect family: a loving husband and wife, devoted to each other and their three sons, planning a big family barbeque for Mother’s Day.

Overnight, a stunning tragedy struck. The devoutly religious mother, with no history of mental illness, acted on a secret delusion. From several signs she saw during the day, she believed that God had ordered her to sacrifice her sons, just as He had commanded Abraham in the Old Testament to sacrifice his only son, Isaac. This story is a terrifying tale of sudden descent into unthinkable madness. Her trial created a dramatic legal controversy over whether a person who kills because she truly believed God commanded it can be found guilty of murder. Today, she is working toward the unsettling possibility of eventual release, and, surprisingly, she might achieve it.

He was a handsome and charismatic local minister; she was the church choir’s beautiful soprano soloist. In 1922 they were found together, brutally murdered, along a secluded lane in New Brunswick, New Jersey—a popular spot for lovers’ trysts. Each of the victims was married—to someone else. And although the police believed this would be an easy case to crack, it became one of the most high-profile unsolved crimes of the decade.

At first, the primary suspects seemed obvious—the betrayed wife and husband of the slain lovers. The minister’s wife was one of the town’s wealthiest and most socially prominent citizens; the soprano’s husband was a man of modest means, working as the church sexton. But as the investigation progressed, new suspects were uncovered and key eyewitness testimony was found to be false—deepening the mystery surrounding the murders.

Crimescape® is a RosettaBooks collection of compelling short nonfiction crime books by the best true crime authors in the business, many of whom have seen their books made into major motion pictures. Taking readers into the dark heart of the criminal mind and the tense hunt to bring perpetrators to justice, Crimescape® authors stand apart from other true crime writers because they are selected for their experience in crime investigation, whether as police detectives, investigative reporters, forensics professionals or criminal psychologists. Riveting storytellers, our Crimescap®e short nonfiction writers give readers all the information they need to understand relevant clues and the interwoven influences in each criminal case.