Daily Dose

Great News Town, a mystery/thriller about a fictional Illinois town that is terrorized by a serial killer, opens on June 26, 1984. So on June 26, 2012, a free, serialized version of the book was launched on this Web site. Weekly installments are posted on Thursdays. Check back often.

Is this really true?

Not exactly. Although Great News Town is fiction, the story was inspired by a series of murders that happened in 1983 in Will County, Illinois. For more details -- spoiler alert -- go to this web page.