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Cleveland jokes are old hat, I know, but it’s appropriate here, as Renner’s latest book, “Little, Crazy Children” is set in an east-Cleveland suburb known as Shaker Heights. Author of the excellent “True Crime Addict”, a memoir about his fixation on solving (or trying to, anyway) cold cases, and “The Man From Primrose Lane”, a trippy sci-fi horror murder mystery, Renner likes to go places where very few people like to go.

It will be available in bookstores in May 2023.Ī new James Renner book is cause for celebration in my world, and, yes, I know my world is very weird. This book was a giveaway by the author and publisher. Who had the capacity for such unchecked violence? What monsters still lurk in the dark? After more than thirty years, questions like these continue to fester among the community of Shaker Heights, Ohio, still deeply scarred by wounds that remain hidden, unspoken, and unhealed. What emerges is a portrait of a community seething with dark undercurrents-its single-minded authorities, protective status-conscious parents, and the deeply peer-pressured teens within Lisa’s circle. With a fresh perspective and painstaking research culled from police files, court records, transcripts, uncollected evidence, and new interviews, James Renner reconstructs the events leading up to and following that heartbreaking night. His eventual acquittal didn’t squelch the anger and outrage among those who believed that Kevin got away with murder. Without a shred of evidence the teen was arrested, charged, and tried for the crime.

Together they wove a damning narrative that circled back to a likely “weird” high school outcast Kevin Young. The murder cast a palpable gloom over the upscale community and sparked accusations, theories, and rumors among Lisa’s friends and peers.

In September of 1990, in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, sixteen-year-old Lisa Pruett, a poetry lover and member of a church youth group, was on her way to a midnight tryst with her boyfriend, when she was viciously stabbed to death only thirty feet from the boy’s home. For readers of Ann Rule and Gregg Olsen, a riveting new true crime book from the acclaimed author of True Crime Addict and creator/host of the podcasts True Crime This W eek and The Philosophy of Crime, as he explores the unsolved murder of 16-year-old Lisa Pruett in the real life town of the bestselling novel Little Fires Everywhere for a painstakingly researched account of a senseless and heartbreaking tragedy and the people who were pulled into its aftermath.