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“A magisterial study of the infamous murders committed by 19-year-old Charles Starkweather across Nebraska and Wyoming in the 1950s. . . . Propulsive. . . . An instant true crime classic.” 
– PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)

“Great true-crime stories are a chance to understand just how deeply wounded the human animal can be. Gary Gilmore, in Norman Mailer’s “The Executioner’s Song,” makes your skin crawl. Harry N. MacLean’s “Starkweather” is a journey into the existential bleakness of a man so damaged it’s a wonder he can function, and MacLean makes a convincing case that the murders Charles Starkweather committed and the media coverage of them represented something altogether new in the culture, something that continues to this day.” 

WASHINGTON POST
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True Crime Book - In Broad Daylight by Harry MacLean
FOR TEN YEARS, HE TERRORIZED THEM WITHOUT MERCY!

Ken McElroy robbed, raped, burned, shot, and maimed the citizens of Skidmore, Missouri, without conscience or remorse. Again and again, the law had failed to stop him.

UNTIL THEY TOOK JUSTICE INTO THEIR OWN HANDS.
 
True Crime Book - Once Upon a Time by Harry MacLean
“IMPORTANT ... RELENTLESS ... A many-faceted and accomplished study ... [MacLean] has taken a gruesome story and retold it with considerable sensitivity. A lawyer himself, he gives an account of the trial that is comprehensible yet suspenseful, enriched by his insights into the tactics and emotions of the opposing lawyers. His understanding and clarity with regard to psychological issues is exemplary. Anyone who doubts that family violence is one of the most destructive forces in our society today had better read this book.”
– The New York Times
True Crime Book - The Joy of Killing by Harry MacLean
“The Joy of Killing is a sophisticated philosophical thriller, its gothic vibes rooted in the murky soil of human behavior. Like a modern day Edgar Allen Poe, Harry MacLean knows how to manipulate the reader in all the best ways, right up to the novel's shocking ending.”
—Tod Goldberg, author of Gangsterland
True Crime Book - The Past is Never Dead by Harry MacLean
“The Past Is Never Dead works both as a true crime potboiler and as a broader allegory of the South’s search for redemption.” 
– BookPage

“Extraordinary…What makes this book so profound are MacLean’s insights into how the trial reflects Mississippi’s social mores and internal conflict.”
- Denver Post
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True Crime Author Harry MacLean

HARRY N. MACLEAN

EDGAR AWARD WINNER & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

 

Harry MacLean is an Edgar Award winning writer and lawyer living in Denver, Colorado, who writes true crime books. 
 

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