Overview

As Close as You Can Get to True Crime While Still Breathing! For the true crime lover-finally, a travel guide from an award-winning travel journalist and suspense author that gives you the down and dirty on exactly where the major crimes occurred, and where the bodies are buried. For aficionados of paranormal, prison, and tombstone travel, there's a goldmine of tourism suggestions for you here as well. This is the second in the Vacations Can Be Murder series. Along with summaries of the major crimes committed in the Mid-Atlantic states of New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania, you'll discover where to find the best crime and ghost tours; which hotels and restaurants are former jails, courthouses, or harbor paranormal activity; where infamous criminals are/were jailed, and which venues and attractions might feed your fancy for murder and justice. Reading lists in each chapter will guide you to books expounding on the crimes discussed. Best of all, suggested itineraries bring all the pieces together to help you traverse the region's criminal landscape in an organized and entertaining way. Up for a true crime road trip? Let Vacations Can Be Murder be your ultimate travel guide.

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Reviews

""The perfect reference book for the U. S. crime traveler. Barclay rounds up a collection of known and obscure crimes, arranged by geographic area, that features museums, cemeteries, hotels, prisons, and private properties. She even offers itineraries, murder tours, a location-specific list of true-crime books, victim resources, and some ghost stories. This travel guide is a gem. Be packed and ready before you start reading because you'll want to go explore."" - Katherine Ramsland, author of Darkest Waters, The Nutcracker Investigations, and How to Catch a Killer ""The world's a dangerous place, and Vacations can be Murder: A True Crime Lover's Guide to the Mid-Atlantic States takes you on a tour-de-force of the grisliest and most dangerous locations in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. If you're a true crime aficionado, and have the courage to follow in danger's footsteps, and linger there for a while, this comprehensive and well-organized travel guide is for you!"" - Jodé Millman, author of the award-winning ""Queen City Crimes"" series

Author Information

Dawn M. Barclay (who writes fiction as D.M. Barr) has been writing in the travel field for decades, first as a travel trade journalist and later as a book author. She is the 2023 Lowell Thomas Gold-award-winning author of the autism travel bible, Traveling Different: Vacation Strategies for Parents of the Anxious, the Inflexible, and the Neurodiverse (Rowman & Littlefield, 2022). Dawn also won the First Prize-Other Writing award from the Society of Professional Journalists in 1992 for a story on travel law. Vacations Can Be Murder, her multi-volume true crime travel series with Level Best Books, combines the two things she loves best (after chocolate and dogs): travel and crime. Along with being an author of psychological suspense, she is a member of the Society of American Travel Writers, the New York Travel Writers Association, and several mystery writers' organizations.

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