Susan Wels

Apr 12, 2023 | criminalelement.com | Chanel Cleeton |Thomas Mullen |William Landay |Susan Wels

Chanel Cleeton visits the site today to talk about why she's so drawn to historical crime fiction, and about what inspired her to write her new novel, The Cuban Heiress, which just launched this week! Writing historical fiction frequently feels like playing detective as I research events in the past, trying to understand what happened and why, looking for clues in the historical record that help me bring a setting and time period to life for readers.

Feb 27, 2023 | bigthink.com | Susan Wels

Excerpted from An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder, written by Susan Wels and published by Pegasus Books. Newspapers were a thriving business in the 1830s. There were twice as many of them in America as there had been in 1810. Alexis de Tocqueville, a French aristocrat who traveled the young country in 1831, was amazed at the number of periodicals. Every village, he reported, had a newspaper, and the power of the press was impressive.

Feb 24, 2023 | sacramento.newsreview.com | Susan Wels

Home Arts+Culture On March 5, Face in a Book will have Susan Wels discuss her new book ‘Assassin in Utopia’  In the annals of presidential bloodshed, the felling of Civil War hero James Garfield is perhaps the least-known and little-understood moment that ever rocked the White House. Author Susan Wels is out to change that with her new tome An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President’s Murder.

Feb 7, 2023 | crimereads.com | Susan Wels

John Humphrey Noyes, in his youth, was so painfully shy that he could barely endure the company of women. “I could face a battery of cannon with less trepidation,” he wrote in his diary, than “a room full of ladies with whom I was unacquainted.” Born in 1811 on the Vermont frontier, he was the fourth of nine children of John Noyes Sr., a former congressman, and flame-haired Polly Hayes, whose nephew—the feeble, emaciated Rutherford B.

Feb 2, 2023 | chron.com | Susan Wels |Joy Lanzendorfer

- - - On July 2, 1881, President James Garfield was in a good mood. Having completed six months in office, Gaffy, as at least one of his friends called him, was going on vacation. It was a welcome break from the presidency, which Garfield found tedious and depressing. After doing a handspring over a bed in the White House, the 49-year-old president headed to the Baltimore and Potomac railroad station. He was accompanied by Secretary of State James Blaine - and no security.