Diane Fanning Books In Order

The Trophy Exchange

A fast paced thriller introducing an unforgettable hero*ine Homicide Investigator Lucinda Pierce is physically and emotionally scarred by her job. She is angry and bitter, but her life is her work. Lucinda gets sent to investigate the brutal killing of Dr Kathleen Spencer. There seem to be links with other dead women: could it be the work of a serial killer? And will Lucinda be able to solve it or has she become too emotionally involved this time?

Punish the Deed

A Lucinda Pierce Investigation When childrens charity worker Sharon Flemming is brutally murdered and a note found by her mutilated body bears the words I was left behind, Lucinda Pierce must track down this violent killer before he strikes again. And when a series of notes are also left on her car windshield, she knows this has got personal. Comfort comes from a most unlikely source but can only lead to further complications…

Mistaken Identity

A new mystery for Homicide Investigator Lucinda Pierce When Homicide Investigator Lucinda Pierce has to break the news to a 13 year old boy that his parents have been murdered, his reaction comes as a shock: he claims that his father is not only still alive but also immortal, having sold his soul to the devil. The more Lucinda investigates, the more puzzled she becomes and the more convinced that this is a family with something major to hide…

The Windwalkers

In The Windwalkers, a psychologist battles her inner demons to find the strength she needs to eliminate a new form of dependency that has permeated every facet of society. It is an intriguing blend of satisfying story line and a serious social consciousness that weaves together the quirky possibilities of a Dean Koontz novel with a feminine sensitivity. The story begins when Psychologist Liz Starling and Jack Thompson, ad agency executive, form a partnership to create an educational advertising campaign for Mental Health Awareness Month. During the course of their work, their focus turns to windwalkers, the temporary physical beings created psychically by people’s needs and wants. Their existence is destroying any sense of personal responsibility and eliminating the need for genuine human interaction. The nightmare of a society driven by individual desire seems destined to become a reality. A strong proponent of this way of life is Psychiatrist Tennyson Pickett, Liz s supervisor and chief antagonist. All that stands in the way of this ugly inevitability are Liz, Jack, and Cherisse Scatliffe, an ancient woman sequestered in the wilds of the Virgin Islands. The provocative questions raised about human nature are certain to generate introspection and conversation.

Red Boots & Attitude

Red Boots & Attitude speaks to every Texas woman. It echoes her spirit, her strength and her indomitable will. This unique collection, edited by Texas authors Diane Fanning and Susie Kelly Flatau, showcases the fiction, creative non fiction and poetry of established and emerging Texas Women Writers. Featuring the creative non fiction of Liz Carpenter award winning author of Starts With a Laugh and Farnoosh Moshiri Bartheleme Memorial Fellowship for non fiction, 1996, the poetry of Teresa Palomo Acosta Voertman Award for Poetry, 1993 and Vicky Charleston Best Texas Poet Austin International Poetry Festival, 1995, and the short fiction of Suzy Spencer New York Times Bestseller and Ruth Pennebaker finalist for the Book Publishers of Texas Award for Best Book for Children and Young People, Texas Institute of Letters and many others.

Through the Window

Handsome, charming, and a fixture on the New York City club scene, Dean Faiello had built a thriving beauty business. But money was never enough for Faiello, whose hard partying ways constantly left him on the edge of ruin. So he did the unthinkable and worked as a cosmetic surgeon even though he had no medical degree, or training whatsoever.

In the spring of 2003, a beautiful, successful woman named Maria Cruz went to Doctor Faiello for a relatively simple cosmetic procedure and succumbed to a fatal complication while under his care. Faiello allegedly buried her corpse beneath a concrete slab at his Newark, New Jersey home and went on the run. It was only after Cruz’s body was found that the true callousness of Faiello s plan would be dissected and he would be accused of putting her

UNDER THE KNIFE

Into the Water

Richard Marc Evonitz was the perfect gentleman and one of America’s Most Wanted sex killers. An astonishing true story of abduction, murder and the nice guy next door by the author of Through the Window: the Terrifying True Story of Tommy Lynn Sells.

Written in Blood

Book Description

Nominated for a 2006 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category. This prestigious award was given to Truman Capote forty years ago for his classic, IN COLD BLOOD.

Written in Blood is the story of an army brat turned marine who saw combat in Vietnam, and returned a decorated soldier. An avid reader, his dreams of being an acclaimed novelist came true. His desire to find love was fulfilled when he married brilliant executive Kathleen Atwater, the first female student accepted at Duke University’s School of Engineering. The Petersons seemed the ideal academic couple well respected, prosperous, and happy.

All that came crashing down in December of 2001, when Kathleen apparently fell to her death in their secluded home in an exclusive area of Durham, North Carolina. But blood spattered evidence and a missing fireplace poker suggested calculated, cold blooded murder. Her trusted husband stood accused. Prosecutors introduced evidence at trial that sixteen years earlier, Peterson was one of the last people to see his neighbor alive before she was found dead at the bottom of a staircase in her home in Germany. A dramatic trial followed in the explosive final chapter of a life that no novelist could ever have conceived…

Gone Forever

Susan McFarland was a vivacious, successful mother of three young sons. On November 25, 2002, she disappeared. Three days later, her car was found, keys in the ignition. Later that day, her husband reported her missing and a desperate search began. Her friends and family hoped against hope that Susan was not Gone Forever. But investigators became increasingly suspicious of Richard McFarland. When the charred, decomposed body of Susan McFarland was finally discovered at an overgrown farmstead outside of San Antonio, a new hunt began for justice. McFarland maintained his innocence, and investigators only had circumstantial evidence against him. While headlines screamed out new details in the case, and police tried to gather more evidence, a blockbuster trial was about to begin. Then, Richard McFarland finally spoke…
and a terrifying, chilling truth came out…

Baby Be Mine

THE MIRACLE OF LIFE
When Lisa Montgomery presented her husband Kevin with their new born baby girl, he was ecstatic. Naming the child Abigail, the couple brought her to their local pastor. Miles away, police were investigating the brutal murder of a pregnant woman…

THE HORROR OF MURDER
Twenty three year old Bobbie Jo Stinnett was found by her mother, lying in a pool of blood, looking as if her stomach had exploded. Investigators soon determined: Someone had strangled Bobbie Jo to death and then cut her fetus from her womb…

THE WOMAN ACCUSED OF KILLING FOR AN UNBORN CHILD…

In late 2004, two women met in a dog breeding internet chat room. When Elizabeth Montgomery came face to face with eight months pregnant Bobbie Jo Stinnett, prosecutors claim she already had a plan. Investigators knew that Bobbie Jo had fought desperately for her life and that her fetus, alive or dead, was gone. Investigators scrambled after a killer. An Amber Alert went out for an hours old infant. And this horrifying case was about to shock neighbors and a nation: of a woman accused of murdering for a baby…

Under the Knife

Handsome, charming, and a fixture on the New York City club scene, Dean Faiello had built a thriving beauty business. But money was never enough for Faiello, whose hard partying ways constantly left him on the edge of ruin. So he did the unthinkable and worked as a cosmetic surgeon even though he had no medical degree, or training whatsoever.

In the spring of 2003, a beautiful, successful woman named Maria Cruz went to Doctor Faiello for a relatively simple cosmetic procedure and succumbed to a fatal complication while under his care. Faiello allegedly buried her corpse beneath a concrete slab at his Newark, New Jersey home and went on the run. It was only after Cruz’s body was found that the true callousness of Faiello s plan would be dissected and he would be accused of putting her

Under the Knife

Out There

Lisa Nowak was dedicated, smart, and courageous one of the first astronauts to fly a space shuttle mission after the horrific 2003 Columbia disaster. But that was before a fit of pure, primal jealousy landed her in an airport parking lot in Florida, where Lisa had a fateful, near fatal confrontation with the woman believed to be her romantic rival.

Did Lisa intend to kidnap or kill Air Force captain Colleen Shipman because she was involved with fellow astronaut William Oefelein? What was the nature of Lisa’s connection with William: True love or dangerous obsession? As the details of Lisa s news making journey unfolded she donned a disguise, even wore a diaper during her 900 mile car ride to find Colleen Americans couldn t help but wonder: Why?
In this captivating account, master crime journalist Diane Fanning goes straight to the heart of the case. Through interviews with key family members, friends, and colleagues, the author reveals for the first time the real story behind the headlines and casts a light on Lisa s groundbreaking fall from grace.

The Pastor’s Wife

When Pastor Matthew Winkler was found dead at his Fourth Street Church of Christ parsonage in Selmer, Tennessee, both police investigators and parishioners were shaken and mystified: How could evil strike this cradle of faith? Meanwhile, Mrs. Winkler and her three daughters were still missing

A frantic search for Mary Winkler and the girls ensued. Once they were found, on a beach in Alabama, Mary was charged with murdering her husband in cold blood. But why did Mary pull the trigger? What sexual and psychological abuses did she allege she had suffered?

In the months that followed, the crime and the Winkler’s marriage would be exposed by the national media; Mary herself even appeared on Oprah. Set in a world of domineering men, obedient wives, and unshakable faith, this is the true story about what happened to Matthew Winkler and THE PASTOR S WIFE

Mommy’s Little Girl

When news broke of three year old Caylee Anthony’s disappearance from her home in Florida in July 2008, there was a huge outpouring of sympathy across the nation. The search for Caylee made front page headlines. But there was one huge question mark hanging over the case: the girl s mother. As the investigation continued and suspicions mounted, Casey became the prime suspect. In October, based on new evidence against Casey her erratic behavior and lies, her car that showed signs of human decomposition a grand jury indicted the young single mother. Then, two months later, police found Caylee s remains a quarter of a mile away from the Anthony home. Casey pled not guilty to charges of murder in the first degree, and she continues to protest her innocence. Did she or didn t she kill Caylee? This is the story of one of the most shocking, confusing, and horrific crimes in modern American history.

A Poisoned Passion

By the age of twenty four, Air Force Staff Sergeant Mike Severance had already survived a series of missions in Afghanistan and Iraq. But his life back at home, in Texas, would prove a lot more dangerous

In the winter of 2005, Mike’s wife, a veterinarian named Wendi Mae Davidson, reported him missing. Wendi told police that Mike had been acting erratically visiting local clubs, staying out late, sometimes not coming home at all. She filed for divorce the very next day.

Eventually Mike s body turned up in a stock pond on a private ranch. Investigators described a corpse that was weighted down with two cinder blocks, a rock, a boat anchor, and other equipment. It had also been stabbed forty one times with a knife. But an autopsy report told a different story: That the cause of death was exposure to pentobarbital and phenobarbital, drugs commonly used in veterinary medicine. All the evidence pointed to Wendi and soon she would be found guilty of murder in the first degree.

Her Deadly Web

Raynella Dossett Leath said she came home one morning in 2003 and found her husband’s body in bed covered in blood, a Colt . 38 by his side. But authorities were suspicious of Raynella s story. Why would her husband of ten years suddenly commit suicide? And if he had taken his own life, why did it appear that three shots were fired? David Leath was not the first of Raynella s husbands to turn up dead. After digging into Raynella s past, police unearthed bizarre, gruesome details surrounding the death of her first husband, who was seemingly trampled by his own cattle. Which led investigators to wonder: Could Raynella have staged his death, too?To those who knew her, Raynella was a loving mother of two, a good neighbor and friend, a nurse who always reached out a helping hand. Was this woman capable of killing both her husbands? And if so: Why did she do it out of greed, jealousy, revenge? This is the story about what dark secrets were lurking inside Her Deadly Web.