TOM CARR is an independent writer and journalist in Northern Michigan who spent 25 years in daily newspapers, primarily the Traverse City Record-Eagle. He's won journalistic awards for his investigative reporting, feature writing, breaking news and humor columns, and often covered police, courts and crime.
"In this hugely effective debut, Tom Carr sheds keen illumination upon a regional inventory of killers, kooks, cutthroats & the aggressively unhinged. The tales are horrific and humorous by turns - grisly, goofy, poignant dispatches expertly summated by a skilled veteran reporter who's no stranger to the back stairs habituated by a true sleuth. Story telling at its fully imagined best. -Ben Hamper, author, ""Rivethead"" Michigan's blood-red past includes crooked sheriffs, ruthless gangsters, serial killers, mass murderers, Wild West-style bandits, and pirates. These miscreants, and more, do their dastardly deeds in Blood on the Mitten, an aptly-titled case book documenting the more infamous scenes in Michigan history. Each chapter contains a ""Murder Map""-a unique guide for the stout-of-heart who would like to follow in the footsteps of the characters who doused the Mitten with blood- spatter. The true crime aficionado as well as those new to the genre will find something new and fascinating between these covers. -Tobin T. Buhk, author of True Crime: Michigan, Skeletons in the Closet: Stories from the County Morgue and other historical books ""with a dark twist"" Author Tom Carr shows his reportorial chops with crisp, concise prose and the text is enhanced by a multitude of historical photographs, including miscellaneous graphics. Carr blends interesting content with some visually gruesome graphics. This collection is one that Michigan history bibliophiles will want on their shelves. -Joseph Heywood, author of the Woods Cop mysteries, based on conservation officers in Michigan's Upper Peninsula"