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CNN Headline News Star Nancy Grace Debuts First Novel, “The Eleventh Victim”

By Art Harris, The Bald Truth, www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

She splits her time now between New York City and Atlanta, where she hit her hot streak as a Fulton County prosecutor (almost 100 felony cases, no losses at trial), then wound up as the late Johnny Cochran’s sidekick on “Cochran and Grace,” a legal show with a brief run.

But Nancy Grace had legs, and kept running to make her own TV history: from Court TV anchor to CNN Headline News superstar with a loyal 700,000 nightly fan base of true crime afficionados, to author and now gifted novelist.

Recent book signings for her first novel and New York Times bestseller, “The Eleventh Victim,” (Hyperion, $25.99) strongly autobiographical, stretched out the door of an Atlanta book store the other day, as she posed and signed autographs for friends, fans, and locals who thanked her for once keeping their city safe.

Nancy Grace Makes Novel Debut: The Eleventh Victim, (Hyperion, $25.99)
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By Bald Truth Staff, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

After all this time, almost three years since Natalie Holloway turned up missing, you’d think the Arubans would be demanding Joran Van der Sloot’s head on a platter after his shocking tell all on tape. Read the rest of this entry »

By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

We sat glued to the monitor in the CNN studios, ear piece in place, ready for a Nancy Grace grenade when the new mother of twins softened her voice to ask another mother, Beth Twitty, what she made of her three year journey to learn what happened to her daughter in Aruba, now that prime suspect Joran Van der Sloot had confessed on a hidden camera that he was with Natalie Holloway when she died in May 2005. Read the rest of this entry »

Kidnapped? Will Aruba Arrest Joran Van der Sloot Based On His “Confession” on tape?

By Art Harris, (c) www.artharris.com, all rights reserved

Several Aruban police investigators Friday sat down with Joran Van der Sloot in Rotterdam, the giant seaport in the Netherlands, and grilled the Dutch college student about secretly recorded video tapes that showed him saying he was with Natalie Holloway when she died. She vanished in May 2005.

According to a statement by the Aruban prosecutor, he wants a court order to detain Van der Sloot as a suspect after he confessed on hidden cameras to being with the Alabama High School honor student before he and a friend loaded her into a boat that took her to sea and dumped her body—even though he wasn’t certain she was dead. Read the rest of this entry »