MURDER OLD AND NEW by Laurie and me…

Murder Old and NewMy wife Laurie and I wrote this one together, and it came out in 2020 in both print, e-book, and audio, recorded by the great Mary Ann Jacobs.

An aged photograph of a dead man hanging from a tree…

Deaths in a nursing home that may not be as natural as they appear…

Clues showing a 70-year-old suicide could be murder…

Sinister small town secrets, decades old, finally revealed…

Feisty Livy Crowe, single-and-loving-it owner of the nostalgia shop, Better Days, has to deal with all of these and more, including her mother’s slow deterioration in a senior residence that might be a crime scene, a very awkward romantic triangle, and murders old and new that threaten even Livy herself…

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Some nice words from Joe R. Lansdale:
“I was so engaged in this slick, clever mystery, I nearly burned the house down, having forgotten I had something cooking on the stove. Murder Old and New by Laurie and Chet Williamson is so riveting and swiftly paced you almost hate to arrive at the solution because you hate to lose the narrator’s voice.
Sharp writing, excellent characterization and a satisfying conclusion should put this at the top of your reading list.”

PSYCHO: SANITARIUM

I was approached by the Robert Bloch estate and asked if I’d like to write an authorized sequel to Bloch’s PSYCHO, in the “psycho”tic universe that Bloch, and not the films, had created. Since Bloch has always been one of my primary influences, and PSYCHO a touchstone, I was delighted with the opportunity.

The result was ROBERT BLOCH’S PSYCHO: SANITARIUM, to use the full title. I had a great time writing it. Both the estate and the editor were very pleased with it, and the promotional machine was in full force, with bright hopes for getting Universal to do a film version, until Universal basically said that if they wanted to do another film,  they’d do it themselves. Ah well.

Here’s the basic gist of the book:

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Websites are forever…

So has anyone else ever let a website flounder for five years?

Amazing how much can change in that time. As anyone with the patience to keep up with my “career” knows, I’ve not been writing much lately. A few short stories here and there, and the two novels that I co-wrote with my wife Laurie, which haven’t even been added here.

For the most part, I’ve been narrating audiobooks, something I can do out of my home. I enjoy it, and it’s profitable, and I should probably start creating posts for the audio work I do, just in case anyone stumbles across this website.

Therefore, a resolution: I shall update this bloody website, beginning with this skeletal post. I shall do a post a day, until…

Well, until I don’t.chetskeleton