Janis Thornton, one of the Frankfort Community Public Library’s 2019 Women’s Expo speakers, has released her second true crime book titled No Place Like Murder, True Crime in the Midwest. This book will hit a little close to home because four of the crimes took place in Frankfort. No Place Like Murder profiles notorious killers such as Frankie Miller, who was fed up with her fiancé regularly spending time with another woman. As fans of the song “Frankie and Johnny” already know, Frankie met her former lover at the door with a shotgun.”– Indiana University Press
The Frankfort Library will interview Janis on our “Hoosier Storytellers” podcast. The episode will be posted to the library’s website, myfcpl.org, on November 6 at 9 a.m. In addition to the podcast, on November 14 at 1 p.m., Janis will join us for a virtual program via Zoom. You must register for this event and an email address is required. Visit myfcpl.org/calendar to register or call the library at 765-654-8746. In this program Janis will discuss her book and her writing and research process. There will be time for questions at the end. The program will be 45 – 60 minutes. Signed copies of her book are available for purchase on the lower level of the Frankfort Community Public Library at the Reference Desk for $20. Copies are limited. We will accept cash or check. Please have exact change.
Janis is quite familiar with Frankfort, Indiana. “The years I spent working at the Frankfort Times (2000-2008) were the best years of my working career. Frankfort is where I learned to write, and where I got to experience tons of new things (like flying on that powered parachute with Russ Kaspar and visiting the women’s prison with Lou “Mimi the Clown” Whitaker, to name just two), not to mention meeting so many great people, a few of whom I’m still in touch with.”
Currently, Janis is doing research on a book about the 1965 Palm Sunday tornado, and she hopes to include Clinton County residents with firsthand experience in her book.