Books by Ron Franscell

DEAF ROW

FINALIST in 2024 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards in Crime Fiction! Retired to a small Colorado mountain town, ex-Denver homicide detective Woodrow “Mountain” Bell yearns only to fade away. He’s failed […]

by Ron Franscell

SHADOWMAN: An Elusive Psycho Killer and the Birth of FBI Profiling

The entangled tales of a harrowing crime and the introduction of the FBI’s newest forensic tool: criminal profiling

by Ron Franscell

Alice & Gerald: A Homicidal Love Story

Available now!16 pages of color photosIn trade paperback, ebook, and audio Would you kill for love? ALICE & GERALD tells the grisly story of a loving couple who killed at least […]

by Ron Franscell

Morgue: A Life in Death

2017 EDGAR nominee! Now in US paperback from Picador and and various foreign languages around the world. Forensic science is booming. TV dramas, books and movies have made morgues cool. […]

by Ron Franscell

The Darkest Night

A modern true-crime classic listed by the New York Times as Wyoming’s most powerful crime writing! On a chilly autumn night in 1973, 11-year-old Amy Burridge eagerly rode with her […]

by Ron Franscell

Angel Fire

No. 74 among the 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century West San Francisco Chronicle A haunting tale of two brothers on separate odysseys of self-discovery. Twenty-four years after […]

by Ron Franscell

The Deadline

Among Top 25 Best Crime Fictions of 1999 POISONED PEN Former Chicago Tribune crime reporter Jefferson Morgan is living his life-long dream of running a weekly newspaper, The Winchester Bullet, […]

by Ron Franscell

The Obituary

When a world-renowned forensic anthropologist journeys to Winchester, Wyoming, to examine the long-dead remains of a woman who claimed to be Etta Place — the Old West’s most mysterious and […]

by Ron Franscell

Delivered from Evil

True Stories of Ordinary People Who Faced Monstrous Mass Killers and Survived Who’ll speak for the dead in some of America’s deadliest mass killings? In rare instances, only the survivors […]

by Ron Franscell

Evil at the Front Door

Part of the NYTimes bestselling Notorious USA series! Louisiana – famous for its Mardi Gras, spicy cuisine, and Dixieland jazz – is also the scene of some of the most […]

by Ron Franscell

Nightmare at Noon

Part of the NYTimes bestselling Notorious USA series! Everything is bigger in Texas—even murder. Two of America’s best crime writers, Ron Franscell and Gregg Olsen, team up to tell the […]

by Ron Franscell

Southern Fried Crime

Boxed set of Notorious Texas, Louisiana & Mississippi! Evil lurks from the scorched earth of West Texas to the suffocating bayous of Mississippi … where darkness is deadly and screams […]

by Ron Franscell

Sourtoe Cocktail Club

The Yukon Odyssey of a Father and Son in Search of a Mummified Human Toe … and Everything Else When the author and his teenage son embark on a road […]