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  • Everything We Didn’t Say by Nicole Baart

    Everything We Didn’t Say by Nicole Baart

    Nicole Baart, who lives in Iowa and is the mother of five children from four different countries, is the author of several bestselling mysteries. Taking time out from her busy schedule—she’s already working on her next novel–Baart chatted with Jane Ammeson about her latest, Everything We Didn’t Say, which was selected as the Book of…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 20, 2021
    Fiction, mystery
    Everything We Didn't Say, Fiction, mystery, Nicole Baart
  • Where They Wait: A Scott Carson Supernatural Thriller

    Where They Wait: A Scott Carson Supernatural Thriller

              What could be easier than for an out-of-work journalist than an offer of a high paying gig writing a puff piece for an old friend? Well, if you’re the main character in a Scott Carson novel then take it from someone like me who has read every book Michael Koryta has written including those…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    November 20, 2021
    mystery, Thriller
    Fiction, Haunting, Maine, Michael Koryta, mystery, Mystery-Thriller, Scott Carson, Supernatural, Where They Wait
  • Tiffani Thiessen Wants Us to Pull Up a Chair and Enjoy Home Cooking

    Tiffani Thiessen Wants Us to Pull Up a Chair and Enjoy Home Cooking

              Only six or so when she started helping out in the kitchen, Tiffani Thiessen grew up in a family where dinners were a gathering time to enjoy great cooking and conversations. She upped her game from traditional American fare when she and other stars from “Saved by the Bell” toured in Europe.           “It…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    October 27, 2021
    Cookbooks, Recipes
    Cookbooks, Deliciousness, Dinner at Tiffani's, Food, Pull Up a Chair, Tiffani Thiessen
  • If These Walls Could Talk by Reggie Brooks

    If These Walls Could Talk by Reggie Brooks

            “I wouldn’t have been so open if I had written my book five years ago,” says Reggie Brooks, author of the just released If These Walls Could Talk: Stories from the Notre Dame Fighting Irish Sideline, Locker Room, and Press Box (Triumph Books 2021, $17.95). “But Covid showed me how important it is to…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    October 22, 2021
    Author event, Authors, Autobiography, Book signings, Chicago Review Press, Indiana, Northwest Indiana, Sports
    Author event, Autobiography, book signing, Fighting Irish, Football, Hammes Book Store, Holtz's Heroes Foundation, NFL, Notre Dame, Reggie Brooks, Sports, Triumph Books
  • Tune in Tomorrow to Hoosier History Live as I Discuss America’s Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness

    Tune in Tomorrow to Hoosier History Live as I Discuss America’s Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness

    If you have time, tune in tomorrow Saturday, October 23rd when I talk to host Nelson Price of Hoosier History Live about my new book America’s Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness. The show airs live from noon to 1 p.m. ET each Saturday on WICR 88.7 FM in Indianapolis. Or you…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    October 22, 2021
    Indiana, Indiana University, Murder, True Crime
    America's Femme Fatale, Belle Gunness, Chicago, LaPorte Indiana, Murder, murderess, mystery, Serial Killer, True Crime
  • A Line to Kill

    A Line to Kill

    Anthony Horowitz is plotting a murder. That’s typical. After all, Horowitz has authored more than 40 mystery novels including several James Bond novels commissioned by the Ian Fleming Estate. Oh, and did we mention he’s also screenwriter, adapting mysteries such as Midsomer Murders into a long running English television series. That’s a lot of homicides…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    October 22, 2021
    English, Fiction, mystery
    Anthony Horowitz, English, Fiction, Hawthorn and Horowtitz, Literary Whodunnit, mystery
  • America’s Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness

    America’s Femme Fatale: The Story of Serial Killer Belle Gunness

    A Norwegian farm girl, her family so poor, they often went hungry, is seduced by a rich landowner’s son. But despite her dreams, he has no plans to make her his wife. Abandoned, she sees only one path forward or she’ll sink into the black hole of her family’s poverty. But her first goal is…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    October 16, 2021
    American History, mystery, Thriller, True Crime
    Belle Gunness, book signing, Chicago, History, Indiana Historic Society, Indiana University Press, LaPorte Indiana, Miles Book Store, Mystery-Thriller, Norway, Red Lightning, True Crime
  • Capote’s Women: The Story of the Writers’ Swans

    Capote’s Women: The Story of the Writers’ Swans

    “There are certain women who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich,” author Truman Capote wrote about the beautiful, well-dressed, and style-setting women he called his “swans.” The ultimate arm candy for the wealthiest and most powerful of men, these women of the mid-20th century were trophy wives before the term existed.…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    October 13, 2021
    American History, Author event, Biography, Culture, History, Hollywood
    Babe Paley, Biography, C.Z. Guest, Capote's Women, Gloria Guinness, Golddiggers, Husband hunters, Jackie Kennedy, Lee Radziwill, Pamela Churchill, Slim Hayward, Truman Capote
  • Join us for a free event when Edelweiss Presents Mystery, Murder, and Mayhem on October 13 at 2 P.M. ET

    Join us for a free event when Edelweiss Presents Mystery, Murder, and Mayhem on October 13 at 2 P.M. ET

    Don’t miss Walter Mosley, Richard Osman, and more of your favorite mystery authors at a FREE virtual event tomorrow, October 13th! Starting at 11:00 AM ET, log in to the Mystery / Thriller Community Hub to access sessions, engage in Community Conversations, and explore the books being featured during the event. Kicks of at 11:00…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    October 12, 2021
    Murder, mystery, Thriller
    Edelweiss Mystery/Thriller Community, Free Online Immersive Mystery Event, Gabino Iglesias, Kellye Garrett, Murder, mystery, Richard Osman, Walter Mosley
  • Whose Life Am I Living: Author Explores Cutting Edge Technology in New Thriller

    Whose Life Am I Living: Author Explores Cutting Edge Technology in New Thriller

    Imagine walking through a door and into another life. That’s what happens to striving Chicago artist Kelly Holter on her 29th birthday. Suddenly she’s back in her hometown in Michigan, married to a man she barely knew in high school. She’s completely disoriented, because suddenly she has memories from both of her lives, and she…

    Jane Simon Ammeson

    October 10, 2021
    Fantasy, mystery, Thriller
    Fiction, Mystery-Thriller, Sarah Zachrich Jeng, Sci-fi, Technology, The Other Me
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