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"As an uncle, I want to say I hope Oscar will start on his healing process as he walks down the path of restoration. As a family we are ready to support and guide Oscar as he serves his sentence." - Arnold Pistorius. RESTORATION (also referred to as 8RESTORATION) is the 8th and final narrative in the Oscar Pistorius Murder Trial eBook Series. Written over the first three weeks of December 2014, before and after the state's successful application for Appeal, the authors examine a brand new narrative theme. RESTORATION, in sum, seeks to interrogate hope in the face of #B$. How do we maintain ...

Written between Halloween and Thanksgiving, the authors of #RS take the narrative of the Oscar Trial back to Reeva Steenkamp. At the same time #RS became available the media have started a new tune...of how Oscar might rebuild his life and find love again. And just two days before #RS was published, a few days shy of Oscar's 28th birthday (in jail) John Carlin's book on Oscar (Chase Your Shadow) was also published. Yet despite exclusive access to Oscar and the Pistorius family, Carlin's book does not offer a view on the legitimacy of Oscar's actions. #RS does. This 7th book in the series ...

Swords, ice, spaceships and Scotland. Set 200 years into the future, the world is caught in the grip of an ice age. A great Ring of Ice advances upon all living things that remain. While wolves enjoy a resurgence in number, and wild places come back to life, mankind battles to survive. What can arrest our downward spiral, our slipping fortunes? Civilization falls back in time to something resembling a medieval way of life. There is no electricity, not even paper. Only two fortresses of men remain in this grim setting. And the leaders of these two last Houses are brothers. Rivals. Both are ...

WHITE HORSE covers the three days of unprecedented testimony in the Oscar Pistorius sentencing phase, witnessed first-hand by Nick van der Leek, who was accredited for the trial. Besides ground-breaking analysis and insights not only beyond the media narrative, but going much further than the court’s “intruder” narrative as well, the author – with a background in law – was also part of a “secret meeting” with the prosecution, regarding a “rogue witness”. The authors interrogate defense and prosecution witnesses in-depth; once again this is at a level of investigative ...

Ray Wicksell, Oscar's former agent and manager, and a man who broke the 4 minute mile 24 times, shares his firsthand experiences with Oscar. Oscar and Wicksell's two daughters trained together, and attended the same meets with Oscar. Oscar was a close friend of the Wicksell family, which is why Ray Wicksell's account is both groundbreaking and moving. He shares the very real sentiments that "the world loved Oscar because he was lovable." UPDATED: Oscar's release from jail is scheduled for 21 August. Is Resurrection imminent for the Blade Runner? Has he beaten the system? Was this just one ...

True Crime maestros Nick van der Leek and Lisa Wilson have had repeated requests from their fans to write about O.J. “The Juice” Simpson. For some time the authors themselves felt all there is to know about the trial, the “Dream Team” and the luckless prosecutors was already out there. But with O.J. himself up for parole in 2017, and with a ground-breaking new true crime TV anthology doing the rounds, van der Leek and Wilson have finally turned their scalpels and surgical analysis to THIS trial. They’ve since admitted to being astounded at the audacities and mendacities buried ...

“…where does the urge to kill come from and how do we get it if we don’t have it?...” The first narrative in The Day After Christmas Trilogy focuses on the events immediately following the discovery of JonBenét Ramsey’s small blonde six year old corpse. In this narrative the bestselling authors of The Craven Silence Trilogy attempt to prove the seemingly impossible. Three prime errors in the JonBenét Ramsey canon are examined, interrogated and if these popular true crime maestros are to be believed, rectified. The implications of these amendments to the canon are profound, hence...

"[Jodi Arias] is just a case like any other case in Maricopa County.” - Jennifer Willmott, Jodi's defense attorney Except it isn’t. We haven’t seen the level of brazen mendacity in this case in any other case. Remember, Jodi was on the stand for an unprecedented 18 days. We haven’t seen the level of fabricating evidence and fakery in any other case. We haven’t seen an orgy of evidence (photos, letters, blood, audio recordings) to this extent in any other case. And perhaps more pertinent than anything else, we haven’t seen a chameleon of Jodi Arias’ calibre in any other case. ...

How many resources were used in the Chris Watts case? Why was so much effort expended to prosecute a case, only for the case to be closed and the file stuffed away in a drawer? TWO FACE EPILOGUE is the 9th and final narrative in the TWO FACE series. In the quest to put the last remaining loose ends to rest, more staggering and disconcerting insights emerge from the murk.

Black Star III deals with the years 2011 and 2012 in the Ramsey Timeline. It evaluates Darnay Hoffman’s contribution to the Cannon, and plumbs Patsy Ramsey’s most controversial and inconsistent statements. The primary focus of Black Star III is to re-examine the fifteen room Tudor house on 15th Street America's. Where - in which room - was JonBenét Ramsey murdered?

The biggest revelation from the Second Confession is Chris Watts’ story about taking his girls to CERVI 319 while they were still alive. Watts said it, the Rzucek lawyers repeated it on Dr. Phil along with the Rzuceks themselves. The Weld County District Attorney assigned to the Watts case has also signed off on this version. The media have since reported on this version as fact. Finally, social media has recycled this version as if it’s fact. Even a few credible YouTubers have commented on this aspect as if it’s reliable. The popular mythology surrounding this case – as it stands ...

“Immediately after the incident, intricate webs of behind-the-scene schemes were afoot, games of cat and mouse and spy versus spy that were intentionally designed to keep everyone in the dark: the media, Laci’s closest family and friends, and the public. The murderer was the most active in this game, that’s no surprise, but his pursuers had a few tricks up their sleeve too.” In the first week of January, Scott Peterson made three surreptitious visits to the Marina. What was he afraid of? And if Laci’s remains had been discovered then, what would they have found, and how could that...

WHITE HORSE II continues to investigate deep into the dark matter of the Oscar behind the Great Pretender. In this narrative the authors provide additional detail of Nick van der Leek's "secret meeting" with the prosecution, and additional information released after the fact. The authors also deconstruct the ITV Interview, and unsurprisingly, uncover some peculiarities not only in Oscar's additional narrative [his third version now] but in the documentary itself. Besides following a money trail, the authors present an even more horrifying backstory to never-before seen crime footage of ...

Nick van der Leek returns for another leg of his journey through the grotesque and Kafkaesque underbelly of the Oscar Pistorius pantomime. This time he takes readers on a detour on his way to covering Oscar’s “Date With Destiny” on July 6th, Pretoria from inside the courtroom. It’s a path you won’t see coming, and one that will leave you stirring uncomfortably in your chair is it unfolds. White Horse III examines the darkest spaces of the narcissistic mind, and showcases the agony that betrayal brings. Yet, we are all partially to blame. Our persistence in the belief that ...

DOUBT 3 is a grim reconnaissance of dirt and graveyards, a brutal interrogation of the gritty undercurrents of intention and motive. In its mission to find Madeleine, or some substantive evidence of her, the third narrative in this bestselling true crime series burrows down through obvious stratum into the subterranean, stinking caverns underlying this case. “If Madeleine is invisible then we must resume our search for her not in the visible but in the invisible world…” As such DOUBT 3 interrogates: - The Paraiso Restaurante CCTV footage of May 3rd - Carol Tranmer’s Police Interview...

On Writing For Kindle is a practical guide written by a full-time author that specialises in writing for Kindle full-time. Nick van der Leek, a successful photojournalist and true crime author, has written over 60 books, spanning several popular true crime series. Many of his books - such as the JonBenet Ramsey series - are considered definitive in their field of analysis. He has lectured creative writing classes on the subject of writing for Kindle, and tutored amateur writers from introduction through editing and cover design to final upload. This guide is intended as an alternative to ...

The Media is Mad "I am writing this book because sometimes, often, a young person who is motivated to perform, to better himself, is sometimes, often, frustrated not just by bad luck or circumstance or some personal deficit, but by a person. Sometimes that person is ourselves. Michael Jackson would know, so would Homer Simpson. But sometimes one person – other than ourselves - can sometimes flush away a person’s dreams. Think of God and the Devil, Cane and Abel, Delilah and Samson, Brutus and Caesar, Judas and Jesus, Joan of Ark and the Bishop, John F. Kennedy and whoever killed him, Al...

THE APPEAL is the 10th book by True Crime maestro's Lisa Wilson and Nick van der Leek. Along with extended interviews with Judge Chris Greenland, THE APPEAL is the first book to include detailed, firsthand conversations with both Reeva's parents and Tania Koen, the Steenkamp's family lawyer. For the first time freelance photojournalist Nick van der Leek literally rubs shoulders with Barry Roux and Gerrie Nel, and the media circus in the court room. California based True Crime blogger Lisa Wilson is also present at the verdict, and both authors provide not one but two very clear views of the...

The world’s most prolific true crime author has followed SLAUGHTER with another disturbing triumph. INCEL profiles some of the most infamous “involuntary celibate” mass shooters, including Elliot Rodger, Nikolas Cruz, Alek Minassian, Scott Beierle and Brandon Clark. INCEL examines the unique criminal psychology behind these disturbed, alienated individuals. In this ground-breaking analysis, the first of its kind, investigative writer Nick van der Leek uncovers the deep psychological causes behind the incel phenomenon. He explains why the travails of America’s most alienated men ...

Hugh van Lewen, an ESL teacher working in South Korea, travels to the Philippines for some R&R. But immediately after landing at the Puerto Princesa airport on the island of North Palawan something seems to be wrong. All flights have been cancelled. Everyone is crowded around a flickering TV. A super typhoon has emerged out of nowhere and - to everyone's horror - is barreling right towards the island. As the waters rise and the walls move in Hugh (and Stella, a teenage girl) batten down the hatches. But surviving a single storm on the island is not the end of the game. It's the beginning. ...