My new book, True Crime Burbank, comes out August 18 on History Press, and I’ll be doing a number of events to promote it:

August 19, Los Angeles Breakfast Club

October 20, Burbank Library (Buena Vista Branch)

November date tba, Burbank Historical Society.

I’ll also be posting pictures and Daily Burbank Deaths on my instagram @gourmetghosts, and blogging stories and pictures here on the Blog.

Burbank is known as a haven from the craziness of nearby Hollywood, but the city has a dark underbelly. Nellie May Madison shot her husband to death at their home in 1934 and became the first woman to be condemned to death in California. The brutal 1953 murder of Mable Monohan inspired an Oscar-winning movie, but that didn’t save Barbara Graham and her killer collaborators from the gallows.

In the decades that followed, infamous and violent offenders such as the “Dating Game Killer”, the “Toolbox Killers”, and “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez hunted for victims in the area, while slayings of detectives, private eyes, bookies and secret gamblers piled up in the cold case files of the police department.

You can pre-order it from History Press, where you will get a 15% discount using the promo code BURBANK or via this link https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/BURBANK and of course it’s available on Amazon too and at Barnes & Noble and will be at bookshops and stores everywhere after August 18.