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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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Princess Diana Butler Paul Burrell on Hidden Camera Sting by Brit Tabloid.

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

Joran Van der Sloot isn’t the only one caught on tape confessing to something.

Not that Diana’s Butler, Paul Burrell, can be compared to the Aruban slimeball, who claimed to be lying when he confessed to dumping Natalee Holloway’s body in the Carribean. Only thing, he wasn’t under oath, just under the influence of pot’s Purple Haze, purportedly.

But Burrell WAS legally under oath in London when he testified as Diana’s trusted servant at the $20 million inquest into her mindset, life and loves that could prove key in feretting out any dark causes behind the tragic crash in a Paris tunnel that killed her and pal, Dodi Fayed. Read the rest of this entry »

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

I was in “diplomatic talks” with a girlfriend in Los Angeles, and it was not going well when my cell phone rang with a reprieve to cover a tragic romance much bigger than mine.

“Princess Diana just died in a car crash in Paris,” my then-executive producer at CNN was saying, “how fast can you get there?”

Not fast enough.

Within hours, I was on a plane to join a CNN-Time magazine team scrambling to dig into a mega-mystery that still hangs heavy over the Seine like a river fog. Read the rest of this entry »