The day the sun never set
ByRon FranscellJun 21, 2024Seventeen years ago, I spent this day with my teenage son in a remote Yukon camp above the Arctic Circle, where the Sun never sets on the longest day of…
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The memory of dirt
ByRon FranscellFeb 26, 2024“Matter can neither be created nor destroyed. It can only be rearranged.” —Law of Conservation of Mass For a long time, I collected dirt. OK, maybe not the coolest collection,…
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How to recognize a toxic narcissist—and survive
ByRon FranscellFeb 11, 2024According to the Mayo Clinic, narcissistic personality disorder — related to sociopathy under the umbrella term Antisocial Personality Disorders — is a mental condition in which people have an inflated…
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The Blessing Jar
ByRon FranscellJan 1, 2024“Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.” —SATCHEL PAIGE I lived a hundred lives last year. The curious wanderer, the angry plumber, the heartbroken son who refused to…
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The Fremont Canyon Bridge near Casper WY is an especially haunted—and sanctified—place for me. From there in 1973, my two friends and next-door neighbors, Amy Burridge and Becky Thomson, were thrown by two local creeps with terror, rape, and murder in mind (the subject of my NYTimes bestseller "The Darkest Night"). One died and one miraculously survived. So it twisted my gut to see a Facebook post and video this weekend by an Idaho bungree-jumping outfit inviting people to "throw your meat" from that heartbreaking bridge.![]()
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The backlash from horrified Casper people was noticed by reporter Clair McFarland at the Cowboy State Daily, who did a marvelous story about it. (See a link in the Comments.)![]()
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(This marvelous photo is by my friend and brilliant photographer Rose Fry.)
Great news! My mystery "Deaf Row" is a crime-fiction finalist in the 2024 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, announced today. Winners will be announced Oct. 1 and I think the old codgers could use the encouragement!![]()
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(If you haven't yet read "Deaf Row" see the handy link to print, ebook, and audio in the Comments.)
Please join my conversation with bestselling mystery writer Anne Hillerman about her new novel "Lost Birds." 2pm today at the Placitas (NM) Community Library—and it's free!
I am delighted to join my old friend and bestselling author Anne Hillerman as the moderator for a book chat about her new mystery "Lost Birds," at 2pm June 23 at the Placitas Community Library. If you're a fan (as I am) of her Manuelito/Chee/Leaphorn novels—which extend the lives and stories of characters from her late father Tony Hillerman's mega-bestselling Southwestern mysteries—please join us. It's free!
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of my first mystery "The Deadline," its ebook edition is available for $1.99 for a limited time only. First published in 1999—before my friends CJ Box and Craig Johnson made Wyoming a cool setting for suspense—"The Deadline" is set in the fictional Wyoming town of Winchester, where small-town newspaper editor Jefferson Morgan is plunged into the mystery of a long-ago murder and a dying convict who only wants his name cleared before he dies. A sequel ("The Obituary") was published before my unsettling, personal true crime—"The Darkest Night"—diverted me onto a very different path.
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