With parents tormented by secrets, guilt, and shame, Jo Dibblee quickly learned to protect herself. Faced with her parents' alcoholism, drug abuse, and depression, along with the sexual assault and stalking of an "upstanding" foster parent, Jo began, early in life, to use a coping strategy she now calls frocking. With humor and hope, Jo shares the harrowing rollercoaster of her life story and gives the low-down on frocking-how she learned it and used it to survive, how she found it holding her back and what she had to do to, once and for all, Frock Off. Despite harsh truths, brushes with death and agonizing betrayals, Jo's heart shines through these pages, offering promise, wisdom and inspiration to any reader who has learned to hide and longs to be free.

Los Angeles Book Festival Runner Up Best Non-Fiction

Readers Favorite Book Award

New York Book Festival Award

Selected by The New York Times article '50 States of True Crime --Every state has an infamous crime and a book about it' by Tina Jordan and Ross MacDonald for the state of West Virginia.

Author and researcher, George Sidiropolis, exclusively reveals a previously hidden and shocking truth in his new book, Murder Never Dies—a detailed chronology and factual account of decades of rampant virgin crime and corruption in a city that became known as “Little Chicago.” The research illustrates a life experience of virtuous people who suffered unfairly and were shamefully abandoned. Their profane and immunized guardians engaged in wholesale bribery and unlimited decadence that made the city a bread basket of crime. Wheeling, WV, was forever changed.

WINNER! 2015 GOLD MEDAL AWARD FOR TRUE CRIME!
WINNER! 2016 GOLD MEDAL AWARD FOR TRUE CRIME!
WINNER! 2015 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR TRUE CRIME!

CAN EVIL BE INHERITED? FOLLOW ONE FAMILY WHO BELIEVES IT'S POSSIBLE!

Some stories just have to be told and so it is with the Tuxhorn family.

MURDER IS A FAMILY AFFAIR follows August Tuxhorn to America in the mid 1850s where Charles was born in Illinois. The boy grew up with a beautiful face and a stone heart.

Evil set in motion by his grandfather and then his father, Charles carries on the family’s violent temper and disregard for human life. Did he inherit these traits shared by others? More important, did he pass them on?

Follow their lives and watch the carnage they leave behind. Many lives were lost or destroyed in their wake.

After particularly gruesome murders, Charles Tuxhorn disappeared into thin air. How? Pinkerton looked for him around the world, but couldn’t find him. Where did he go? Is this the last of the evil?

OR IS IT JUST THE BEGINNING?

Inadmissible chronicles the unlikely story of a young man who emigrated to the U.S. in pursuit of the American dream, and how one mistake landed him behind bars along with some of America’s most notorious offenders. Against innumerable odds, he manages to survive prison, becoming an accomplished scientist, writer, and motivational speaker. Despite that, the separation from his American daughter would be forever, as he remains in the eyes of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Inadmissible. The memoir chronicles the flaws in the American justice system that mark felons for a lifetime of discrimination, and immigration laws that rip apart families and leave the most vulnerable—the children—without parents. It’s the true tale of one man’s redemption and triumph, lived through believing in himself and believing in the good hearts of the people who stuck by him.

Laugh, empathise, sympathise, and often be brought to tears. Prepare to become involved on a very personal basis.

Based on many different aspects of one family's life situations, Not the Body takes you from the happy birth of a precious baby down through the dark and sinister dealings of the police and government in general-a miscarriage of justice and corruption in high places.

While it is an exposé of lust, graft, and greed, it is also a love story of great depth and contains humour and happiness with an underlying spiritual message that fortifies the inner souls of innocents caught up in a horrifying, dehumanizing crime.

Not the Body is a spellbinding read for those who love a story that truly engages all their senses.

A real keeper!

California's picturesque shores have always been a magnet for outcasts and criminals. Read about 64 of the most horrifying crimes ever committed in The Golden State, from the early 1950s into the 1980s. These accounts tell of man's inhumanity toward his fellow man and provide an inside look at infamous serial killers, assassins, sadistic rapists, bank robbers, kidnappers, Satan worshippers, and a plethora of other notorious criminals. Revisit "The Sex Club Slaying," "The Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping," and the "Real House on Haunted Hill." Be glad you're not on the helpful list of "The Lonely Hearts Killer" or "Souls for Satan." Written in an accessible, chronological sequence and enhanced by over 60 photographs, each entry provides an overview of the crime, the parties involved, evidence gathered, and leading theories about solutions. This reference is indispensable for the study of the history of modern crime in California.   

WINNER! 2015 GOLD MEDAL AWARD FOR TRUE CRIME!
WINNER! 2016 GOLD MEDAL AWARD FOR TRUE CRIME!
WINNER! 2015 BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR TRUE CRIME!

CAN EVIL BE INHERITED? FOLLOW ONE FAMILY WHO BELIEVES IT'S POSSIBLE!

Some stories just have to be told and so it is with the Tuxhorn family.

MURDER IS A FAMILY AFFAIR follows August Tuxhorn to America in the mid 1850s where Charles was born in Illinois. The boy grew up with a beautiful face and a stone heart.

Evil set in motion by his grandfather and then his father, Charles carries on the family’s violent temper and disregard for human life. Did he inherit these traits shared by others? More important, did he pass them on?

Follow their lives and watch the carnage they leave behind. Many lives were lost or destroyed in their wake.

After particularly gruesome murders, Charles Tuxhorn disappeared into thin air. How? Pinkerton looked for him around the world, but couldn’t find him. Where did he go? Is this the last of the evil?

OR IS IT JUST THE BEGINNING?

“You don’t have to have a murdered sister to be a good homicide detective, but it helps.” Finding Bethany, a best-selling Alaskan book, is a behind-the-scenes true crime memoir of murder and justice in the Last Frontier of Alaska. Finding Bethany is the true story of how, as a young boy, Glen Klinkhart was unable to save his sister from a heinous sexual homicide, and how he began his journey as a police officer to find the lost, the missing, and to bring those who would do evil upon others to justice. His career as a homicide detective takes the reader along as he travels from the brink of exhaustion and obsession and into the dark and evil world of sociopathic killers, and those who would do anything to help them.Finding Bethany details what real life homicide investigations are like, from his unique perspective as a victim and as a reluctant hero. The reader will experience the bizarre twists and turns down dark paths which result in macabre dead ends, and unexpected miracles found within the darkest of circumstances. His cases include the stories of people who were willing to give of themselves for someone they often didn’t even know. Finding Bethany is also about two brothers – one a sociopath, the other a good man whose own love for his evil brother had been exploited his entire life.

“Bloody Chicago” was the name given to America’s most corrupt city after the grotesque scene that left seven humans embedded into masonry walls and oil-slickened concrete.  Two Thompson submachine guns did the majority of the damage but the masterminds behind the St. Valentines Day Massacre escaped. Ten months later on December 14, 1929, St. Joseph, Michigan Police Officer Charles Skelly working a routine traffic crash came face to face with a killer.  Shots were fired, the assailant escaped and the dying Officer Skelly identified his murderer before taking his last breath. The trail led to a home in Stevensville, Michigan where authorities found an arsenal of weaponry, over $300,000 worth of stolen bonds, bulletproof vests, and two Thompson submachine guns. The hideout belonged to Fred Burke, a highly sought suspect in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre and now the most wanted man in the nation.
          The “backwash of bloody Chicago” had made its way into the rural neighborhoods of Southwestern Michigan and Northern Indiana. Citizens who turned a blind eye to crime, helped create “Capone’s Playground,” an environment abundant in all that is illegal and immoral.
          Using never before published police reports, interviews with family members of key witnesses, and leading experts, historian Chriss Lyon establishes the foundation for what would develop as a haven for gangsters from the onset of the Prohibition Era through to the mid-twentieth century, while revealing new information about the eventual capture of notorious gangster Fred “Killer” Burke.