Stephanie Kane - True Crime Redux

Stephanie Kane is a lawyer and award-winning author of seven crime novels and one true crime memoir. After graduating from law school, she was a corporate partner at a top Denver law firm before becoming a criminal defense attorney. She has lectured on money laundering and white-collar crime in Eastern Europe and given workshops throughout the country on writing technique.

Her crime novels have won a Colorado Book Award for Mystery and two Colorado Authors League Awards for Genre Fiction. She belongs to the Mystery Writers of America, Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers, and the
Colorado Authors League. Head to writerkane.com to learn more.

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From the book's blurb,

The murder of Betty Frye had gone unpunished for decades when Kane, ex-
wife of Betty’s son Doug, finally decided to tell her story by fictionalizing
that brutal homicide. The result was the novel Quiet Time, which helped
bring a forgotten cold case roaring back to life.

In her new true-crime non-fiction, True Crime Redux, Kane, writing on the
murder’s fiftieth anniversary, artfully depicts the events leading up to the
murder and its fascinating, decades-long aftermath.

With a can’t-put-it-down story of trauma and forensics delivered in
propulsive bursts, capped off by a knock-out blow of an ending, the author
holds nothing back. Fearful that she had played an unwitting role in Betty’s
murder, she writes movingly about its effects on her as a normal college
girl and describes the obsessive lengths to which she went (as an amateur
sleuth) to get answers during the following five decades.

True Crime Redux is, simultaneously, the saga of an American family
plagued by mental illness, struggling to adjust to the demands of a rapidly
changing world, and involuntarily coping with a significant outsider who
suddenly enters the scene.