THE FLIP SIDE OF PROFILING: COERCION & THE CAPTIVE MIND By Carla Norton Years ago, I wrote a true account of an astonishing crime that gave me nightmares: Twenty-year-old Colleen Stan was kidnapped at knifepoint, locked in a coffin-sized box, and held captive for over seven years. She was subjected to unthinkable deprivation and abuse. […]
I came to crime late in life, by which I mean that my preferred reading and my early novels had to do with the mysteries of different genres. But I have always been interested in 19th-century England: the dichotomy between the haves and the have-nots, the mansions and the slums, the low status of women […]
Top Ten Mysteries Set in Asia Two decades ago, I was waylaid by Asia. My original travel plan called for a lengthy stay in either London or Paris, but I stopped in Tokyo “on the way.” I never imagined that stopover would have me building a career as an editor, getting married, and raising children […]