Now Available!!
​Available at Gibson's Bookstore in Concord NH,
the Henniker Book Farm in Henniker NH,
and at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and other retail outlets
Also available as an eBook!
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Ask for it at your local Independent Bookstore or Library
Milli is available for book talks, signings, & presentations
The world changed in dramatic ways between 1883 and 1915. The ways to commit crimes and the ways to investigate crime changed as well. Sometimes, the lives of the investigators, the judges and doctors, and the journalists who covered crime stories were every bit as fascinating as the crimes. Drawn from prison, court and newspaper archives, including 65 images, and fully indexed, Murder and Mayhem tells the stories behind the headlines and gives you a glimpse into true crime in New England leading up to World War I. These are true stories of those who served time in the New Hampshire State Prison, what they did, how they were apprehended, and the people who put them there.
$29.95
“Murder and Mayhem is both riveting reading and an agonizing reminder that the villains and monsters of our troubled time didn’t invent dishonesty and rage and hatred. The booty may have been smaller in the early days of our complicated history — a $6.00 payday instead of several billion in crypto crimes — but the intent was not dissimilar. Milli Knudsen, in her deceptively simple, Just the Facts, Ma’am compendium, has done an extraordinary job detailing ample proof of the duality of the human psyche and providing enough fascinating stories to fill a dozen seasons of a Netflix streamer.”
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Ernest Thompson, novelist, playwright, actor, director, Academy Award-winner for adapted screenplay of “On Golden Pond“
About Milli
Milli S. Knudsen was born and brought up in Maine, graduating from Oxford Hills High School in South Paris, Maine. She earned her undergraduate degree in Elementary Education and Social Sciences from the University of Southern Maine [called Po-Go U “back in the day”]. She went on to get her Masters as a Reading Specialist, which supported her career in teaching in the Londonderry (NH) School District.
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For years she had a genealogical research company called "Rootin’ for You" and became interested in creating genealogical support material;
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What’s News in Coos County, Volumes 1 & 2;
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The Knowledge of Mankind;
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Manchester in the Mirror;
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Hard Time in Concord:
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‘Til Divorce Do Us Part; and
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Obliged to Ask for Relief
were all published by Heritage Books of Bowie, MD.
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After preparing a spreadsheet for the NH State Archives based on the first prison register housed in their vault, she was intrigued by the stories of crimes and criminals suggested there and wrote her first crime book, "Hard Time in Concord," in 2005 (also published by Heritage Books). Several years later, she began volunteering with the NH Cold Case Unit which led to her being hired as their paralegal/data analyst in 2022.
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Milli is married to Paul Knudsen. They have four grandchildren who keep them energized and grounded. Outside of work Milli is a quilter, a reader, a golfer and loves traveling and ballroom dancing with Paul.
