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James Renner
Goodreads Author
Born
in Franklin Mills, Ohio
Website
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Genre
Influences
Member Since
June 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/jamesrenner
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
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2016
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12 editions
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The Man from Primrose Lane
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2012
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33 editions
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Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence
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2023
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Amy: My Search for Her Killer: Secrets and Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic
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2006
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8 editions
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The Great Forgetting
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2015
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11 editions
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Scout Camp: Sex, Death, and Secret Societies Inside the Boy Scouts of America
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Serial Killer's Apprentice: And Other True Stories of Cleveland's Most Intriguing Unsolved Crimes
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2008
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It Came from Ohio
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2012
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Muse
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2019
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6 editions
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Keepsakes
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2013
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Fall 2025 Appearances
October 17 – Vermilion, Ohio – Elementary, My Dear Ritter: The Science of Forensics. I’ll be speaking about investigating true crime and using genetic genealogy to catch killers at 3:30 p.m.
October 22 – Willowick, Ohio – Willowick Public Library (7 p.m.). “The True History of the Boy Scouts of America”
October 30 – Kingsville, Ohio – Kingsville Public Library (6 p.m.) Local true crimes.
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Scout Camp: Sex, Death, and Secret Societies Inside the Boy Scouts of America:
"Deeply moving. This one is going to take some time to deal with. This was a very difficult read for me and brought up some past experiences. I am shocked to find these things are still going on in the BSA. Thank you for sharing your story. "
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“There are paths in life presented to you like a choice and you are given the time to make up your mind before continuing. And sometimes you can see the fork in the road and feel a harsh hand on your back pushing you down the wrong lane and there ain’t nothing you can do about that. This was one of those other times.”
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They had a narrative they wanted to push that was sexier than the truth.
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“Stories are magic, and that is why the first thing any dictator does is to ban the stories that do not agree with him.”
― The Great Forgetting
― The Great Forgetting
“There is no closure for this. Closure is for buildings, not people.”
― The Man from Primrose Lane
― The Man from Primrose Lane
“The universe is absurd. People want to make sense of it because we’re hardwired to find reason in the randomness. We look for patterns in the chaos. See omens in coincidence. We look at the random distribution of stars in the sky and pretend they look like animals, call them constellations. For some reason, we want to give meaning to the meaningless. If you go looking for the number eighty-eight, you’ll see it everywhere—the number of keys on a piano, the number of counties in Ohio—but it doesn’t mean anything.”
― The Man from Primrose Lane
― The Man from Primrose Lane
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
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― P.S. I Love You
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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It's kind of fun and scary that we have the same taste in books. Almost the same rankings too.
James, thanks for the friendship. I can already see that we appreciate several of the most talented and fascinating writers. Clive Barker's writing is chilling and amazing, and continues to influence my own work. And one of my most memorable experiences was meeting John Irving when I was in college. I could go on and on about your favorites, Stephen King, Salinger... they each possess distinct and remarkable voices of their own. I can even see the Douglas Adams "deadline whooshing noise" in your quotes section, too!
Hopefully we can chat a bit about writing, books, and the writers themselves :)
Thanks for the friendship James, your book sounds interesting!
Thanks for the friend invite! Really enjoying "MFPL" so far. Saw it recommended on Scalzi's blog and it was part of the XM radio show/podcast Slice of SciFi a couple of weeks ago.
Hi James,Thanks for sending a friend request to this fellow crime writer on Goodreads!
Want to make me smile? You can vote for The Man from Primrose Lane as best cover for a debut novel over here: http://qwillery.blogspot.com/2012/02/...
Hello James, it is a delight to meet you. If you have any questions about any of my books, please let me know.
