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James Renner
Goodreads Author
Born
in Franklin Mills, Ohio
Website
Twitter
Genre
Influences
Member Since
June 2011
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/jamesrenner
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True Crime Addict: How I Lost Myself in the Mysterious Disappearance of Maura Murray
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2016
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10 editions
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The Man from Primrose Lane
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2012
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29 editions
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Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence
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2023
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5 editions
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Amy: My Search for Her Killer: Secrets and Suspects in the Unsolved Murder of Amy Mihaljevic
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2006
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7 editions
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The Great Forgetting
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2015
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10 editions
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Serial Killer's Apprentice: And Other True Stories of Cleveland's Most Intriguing Unsolved Crimes
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2008
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3 editions
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It Came from Ohio
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2012
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Muse
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2019
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5 editions
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Keepsakes
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2013
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Googleplex
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2013
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Upcoming Appearances
October 16: Sandusky Library, presentation about the unsolved murder of Lisa Pruett and my book, Little, Crazy Children. Link here.
October 24: Milan Library, presentation on the 35th anniversary of the Amy Mihaljevic case. Link here.
November 2: Buckeye Book Fair, Wooster. Coming meet local authors and get some signed books! Link here.
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Scout Camp: Sex, Death, and Secret Societies Inside the Boy Scouts of America:
"I was not prepared for this book. James said we would not be prepared and he was right because I was not. I immediately jumped when I saw he had a new book coming out with even reading what it was about. I saw Boy Scouts and thought it would be an ex"
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"Sometimes I thought I heard something shift inside the ironwood chest. Like a baby adjusting itself in a womb.
In 1960, a private eye is hired to steal a chest for a girl who wants to be a writer. The chest belonged to H.P. Lovecraft, and the PI figur" Read more of this review » |
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James Renner
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Hi there. Would someone please remove these two titles from my list of books? These two are not mine.
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"It's grisly, disturbing and fucked up. The female characters are most definitely written by a man (derogatory).
But I fucking loved it. Go in as blind as possible. Don't read any blurbs. Just read the damn book. Knocked one star off for whatever the fuc" Read more of this review » |
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| A wonderful, well-written mystery. This is clearly the beginning of a great series. The main character is on the spectrum and I've never seen a neuro-spicy character written with such understanding and empathy. More please. ...more | |
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James Renner
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Katherine Linboom's review
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Little, Crazy Children: A True Crime Tragedy of Lost Innocence:
"I said it before and I’ll keep saying it, Renner is a natural teacher. One of his teaching strengths is the way he is so aware of, diligently maps out, critically assesses and questions his own logic and reasoning, therefore providing his “students” "
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“The next day I got a call around five A.M. The call was from Lynda Mayer, who is my German teacher, and she told my parents what had happened to Lisa. My parents told me that Lisa had been murdered.”
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“Stories are magic, and that is why the first thing any dictator does is to ban the stories that do not agree with him.”
― The Great Forgetting
― The Great Forgetting
“There is no closure for this. Closure is for buildings, not people.”
― The Man from Primrose Lane
― The Man from Primrose Lane
“The universe is absurd. People want to make sense of it because we’re hardwired to find reason in the randomness. We look for patterns in the chaos. See omens in coincidence. We look at the random distribution of stars in the sky and pretend they look like animals, call them constellations. For some reason, we want to give meaning to the meaningless. If you go looking for the number eighty-eight, you’ll see it everywhere—the number of keys on a piano, the number of counties in Ohio—but it doesn’t mean anything.”
― The Man from Primrose Lane
― The Man from Primrose Lane
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― P.S. I Love You
― P.S. I Love You
“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
― The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time
“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.”
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It's kind of fun and scary that we have the same taste in books. Almost the same rankings too.
James, thanks for the friendship. I can already see that we appreciate several of the most talented and fascinating writers. Clive Barker's writing is chilling and amazing, and continues to influence my own work. And one of my most memorable experiences was meeting John Irving when I was in college. I could go on and on about your favorites, Stephen King, Salinger... they each possess distinct and remarkable voices of their own. I can even see the Douglas Adams "deadline whooshing noise" in your quotes section, too!
Hopefully we can chat a bit about writing, books, and the writers themselves :)
Thanks for the friendship James, your book sounds interesting!
Thanks for the friend invite! Really enjoying "MFPL" so far. Saw it recommended on Scalzi's blog and it was part of the XM radio show/podcast Slice of SciFi a couple of weeks ago.
Hi James,Thanks for sending a friend request to this fellow crime writer on Goodreads!
Want to make me smile? You can vote for The Man from Primrose Lane as best cover for a debut novel over here: http://qwillery.blogspot.com/2012/02/...
Hello James, it is a delight to meet you. If you have any questions about any of my books, please let me know.
