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    Get HOMICIDE in four editions. Rated No.1 among The Five Best Crimes Biographies of All Time

    Get HOMICIDE in four editions. Rated No.1 among The Five Best Crimes Biographies of All Time

    July 16th, 2024   “HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT,” is available in 4 editions: Hardcover, Audible, Kindle and Trade Paperback. And, while they last, order a HARDCOVER first edition, signed by the…

    New book on my investigation into the Congresswoman, the Iraq war vet & the cover-up of a DUI hit-and-run manslaughter scandal

    New book on my investigation into the Congresswoman, the Iraq war vet & the cover-up of a DUI hit-and-run manslaughter scandal

    By Peter Lance July 2nd, 2024  In 2018 I was close to finishing a new investigative book set in Santa Barbara, when I put it on hold to pursue a…

    From the Archives. NY Magazine on a former U.S. Attorney’s campaign to bury “Triple Cross.”

    From the Archives. NY Magazine on a former U.S. Attorney’s campaign to bury “Triple Cross.”

    PROSECUTOR AS BOOK PUBLICIST By Boris Katchka.  Patrick Fitzgerald, U.S. Attorney for Illinois’s Northern District, doesn’t pull his punches. Charming, tough, and named one of People’s “sexiest men alive” in 2005,…

    Read the international media coverage for HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT: the true crime story of how billionaire Doris Duke got away with the murder of gay designer, art curator and war hero Eduardo Tirella in 1966

    Read the international media coverage for HOMICIDE AT ROUGH POINT: the true crime story of how billionaire Doris Duke got away with the murder of gay designer, art curator and war hero Eduardo Tirella in 1966

    Peter Lance July 16th, 2024 In the fall of 2018 I returned to my hometown of Newport, RI, to investigate an historic true crime legend: whether or not Doris Duke,…

    HuffPost: DOJ report on MISSBURN case leaves out key detail: I.D. of the Mafia killer who broke the case for Hoover’s FBI

    HuffPost: DOJ report on MISSBURN case leaves out key detail: I.D. of the Mafia killer who broke the case for Hoover’s FBI

    By Peter Lance June 27th, 2016. HuffingtonPost The NYT reported  June 20th that a U.S. Justice Dept. inquiry into the notorious 1964 murders of civil rights workers, Goodman, Schwerner & Chaney, has ended…

    From Bellevue Avenue to “The Mighty Fifth” in Newport, RI it’s always St. Patrick’s Day

    From Bellevue Avenue to “The Mighty Fifth” in Newport, RI it’s always St. Patrick’s Day

    Peter Lance March 17th, 2024 Dedicated to Timmy “The Woodhooker” Sullivan and his sister Julia: my tribute to The Irish of Newport, a tribe, I’ve been lucky enough to belong to.…

    Salon.com publishes The Intro to my HarperCollins FBI/Mafia exposé DEAL WITH THE DEVIL

    Salon.com publishes The Intro to my HarperCollins FBI/Mafia exposé DEAL WITH THE DEVIL

    It’s not just Whitey Bulger: Meet another Mafia killer aided for decades by the FBI The Colombo family killer stopped counting after 50 murders. A deal with the feds helped…

    From the Archives: On The CBS Evening News, Dan Rather reports from Iraq on “1000 Years for Revenge”

    From the Archives: On The CBS Evening News, Dan Rather reports from Iraq on “1000 Years for Revenge”

    Sept. 11th, 2023 Twenty years ago, on the anniversary of the greatest intelligence failure since The Trojan Horse –  the eve of publication of my first investigative book for HarperCollins,…

    City Under The Influence: A Death On The American Riviera

    PART ONE:        Memories of Mallory PART TWO:       Everybody Loved Raymond PART THREE:   The Hero And The High Speed Chase PART FOUR:     Damage Control PART FIVE: …

    Never forge hero FDNY Fire Marshal Ronnie Bucca who gave his life in the South Tower on 9/11

    Never forge hero FDNY Fire Marshal Ronnie Bucca who gave his life in the South Tower on 9/11

    By Peter Lance 9.11.23 On the 22nd anniversary of the worst intelligence failure since The Trojan Horse, please remember this extraordinary Fire Marshal who gave his life on 9/11. I…