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by Michael Lister




  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 79

  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.

 

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