Up and Coming New Indie Author Dennis Fleming Writes A Heart Rending True Crime

Jan. 28, 2009 - PRLog -- St. Louis, MO – August 2008 Can an author—through a combination of solid journalism and introspective reflection—weave an intricate story filled with sadness, anger, and even humor about his attempts to cope with the greatest tragedy he’d ever known—then successfully publish it himself?
Mr. Fleming published his memoir, “She Had No Enemies” (August 2008) ISBN: 143823144X through CreateSpace—an Amazon.com POD company—designing the cover and layout himself. The book, an intensely personal story about how the author turned the death of his sister by serial killer Anthony J. LaRette into a positive force, is available at www.Amazon.com in paperback ($14.99) and in Amazon’s new Kindle reader ($4.79).
“My youngest sister, Mickey, has been eighteen for more than twenty-five years now. That’s how old she was in the summer of 1980—when he murdered her. Anthony J. LaRette, Jr. was from out of town. We’d find out later, much later, that he was also a serial killer.”

So begins Dennis Fleming’s intensely personal story about the murder of his youngest sister, a life-affirming story about one man’s twenty-five-year search for meaning and fulfillment in the face of a devastating situation.

From the shocking details of Mickey’s murder and his subsequent suicide attempt to the mixed feelings he experienced as he witnessed LaRette’s execution, Dennis delves deeply into the complex process of coming to grips with Mickey’s death—and of eventually finding forgiveness in his heart for her killer. It is a story free of the fictional embellishments of true crime novels.

A story that is as well crafted as it is compelling, one that shows the long reaching effects of violent crime. —Whiting Award-winning author, Kathleen Finneran, The Tender Land

About the Author
Dennis Fleming left a career as a vice president with a pharmaceutical laboratory. He wrote articles for industry journals in the U.S. and U.K., and sat on the Editorial Review Board for the journal Contract Pharma. BioMedNet purchased and published Fleming’s first poem After the Flood. Fleming wrote a feature film outline based on a true story of the heroic childhood of author Kathryn Davis Henry’s grandfather. The author is currently writing a screenplay titled Midland. He lives in St. Louis, MO and Corning, NY with his wife, Kathy, and two sons. He can be reached at dennyvision@charter.net 636-399-3161.

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