Kelly Ford

Jul 2, 2024 | audible.com | John Berendt |Erik Larson |Kellye Garrett |Kelly Ford

"I'm so excited to share my favorite audiobooks of all time." —Rachel Howzell Hall, author of What Fire BringsSave Rachel's picks to your Library Collections. “This is one of the first true crime stories I read. This is one of those books that I loaned it and never got it back.”“Another true crime story, of serial killer H.H. Holmes, who did his bad deeds in Chicago.

Sep 1, 2023 | vicfoster.home.blog | Kelly Ford

In the town of Presley, Arkansas, the townsfolk are gearing up for the yearly hunt for the“Golden Egg”. This search consumes the minds of many before the arrival of Easter. The hunt issponsored by the local radio station, the clues lead to various locations around town and thegrand prize could be enough money to make life comfortable for a few years. Since the dawn ofthe contest, a shadow has loomed over the spectacle of this scavenger hunt.

Sep 1, 2023 | localnews8.com | Ken Jaworowski |Kelly Ford

CanvaA water tower in a small American town seen at sunsetSmall-town crime is big. There’s never been a time when readers of mystery and crime novels didn’t like stories in rustic and rural settings. James M. Cain’s 1934 crime novel “The Postman Always Rings Twice”was grabbed up by readers — and banned in Boston — for its torrid story of a murderous affair in a roadside California town. Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot solved a murder in a small town in“The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” back in 1926.

Aug 31, 2023 | ktvz.com | Ken Jaworowski |Kelly Ford

CanvaA water tower in a small American town seen at sunsetSmall-town crime is big. There’s never been a time when readers of mystery and crime novels didn’t like stories in rustic and rural settings. James M. Cain’s 1934 crime novel “The Postman Always Rings Twice”was grabbed up by readers — and banned in Boston — for its torrid story of a murderous affair in a roadside California town. Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot solved a murder in a small town in“The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” back in 1926.

Aug 31, 2023 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Kelly Ford

Author Kelly J. Ford has made a name for herself in Southern crime noir. Her first two novels, Cottonmouths and Real Bad Things, dripped with the humidity and claustrophobia of small Arkansas towns, limited opportunity, and cramped trailer homes. She knows how to make her readers gasp within the airless spaces.