S18 Ep13: Deaf Row w/Ron Franscell
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🗓️ 31 January 2023
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Retired from a big-city homicide beat to a small Colorado mountain town, ex-detective Woodrow “Mountain” Bell yearns only to fade away. He’s failed in so many ways as a father, a husband, friend, and cop that it might be too late for a meaningful life. When he stumbles across a long-forgotten, unsolved child murder, his first impulse is to let it lie … but he can’t. He’s drawn into the macabre mystery when he realizes the killer might still be near. Without help from ambivalent local cops, Bell must overcome the obstacles of time, age, and a lack of police resources by calling upon the unique skills of the end-of-the-road codgers he meets for coffee every morning—a club of old guys who call themselves Deaf Row. Soon, this motley crew finds itself on a collision course with a serial butcher.
Deaf Row is more than a tense mystery novel, more than an unnerving psychological thriller drawn from Ron Franscell’s career as a bestselling true-crime writer and journalist. It is also a novel of men pushing back against time and death, trying not to disappear entirely. Ron joins the program today to talk about Deaf Row, it's characters, and his motivations for writing the book!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome in to the best in true crime podcasting. |
| 0:25.3 | This is true crime Tuesday. |
| 0:26.3 | I'm Tim Dennis. |
| 0:27.3 | I'm excited about today's show folks. |
| 0:29.5 | Today we're going to take a slight turn to the left. |
| 0:31.6 | We're going to go from true crime books to true crime fiction, which I'm excited about |
| 0:37.6 | this as well. |
| 0:38.6 | We're bringing back an old friend, Ron Fransell, as he has a brand new book out there called |
| 0:43.6 | Death Row. |
| 0:44.6 | Not like Death Row Records or Death Row, the place where you sit and jail, but Death |
| 0:48.9 | Row, it's coming out in a few weeks. |
| 0:51.1 | And we're going to talk a little bit about this book. |
| 0:53.5 | And I tell you, I spent some time with this book and I absolutely fell in love with the |
| 0:57.0 | characters in this book and talk a little bit about that. |
| 1:00.5 | In case you're not familiar with Ron Fransell or you're catching up with Ron, he's a veteran |
| 1:05.3 | journalist who has 18 books to his credit, including international bestsellers The Darkest |
| 1:10.4 | Night and Edgar nominated true crime morgue, a life in death. |
| 1:16.2 | His latest true crime, Shadow Man and elusive psycho killer and the birth of FBI profiling |
| 1:21.3 | was released in 2022 by Berkeley Penguin Random House. |
| 1:26.2 | His atmospheric and muscular writing hailed by Anne Rule, Vincent Bugliosi and others has |
| 1:31.6 | established him as one of the most provocative voices in narrative nonfiction, but his |
| 1:36.6 | newest title that we're going to talk about today, Death Row signals a return to crime fiction |
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