TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN (CRIME) FICTION

By Laraine Stephens   Did you know that William McCloundy, also known as ‘I.O.U. O’Brien’, spent two and a half years in Sing Sing Prison for selling the Brooklyn Bridge to an unsuspecting tourist in 1901? You didn’t? Well, that’s one of the more amusing facts that I gleaned when researching my latest book Lies […]

Killer Signs: Forensic Semiotics and the Scene of the Crime

Killer Signs: Forensic Semiotics and the Scene of the Crimeby Barbara Nickless The night Susan Peterson’s path crossed with that of a serial killer, she’d been dancing at a club in Dallas, Texas. Hours later, on a chilly February morning in 1991, her partially clothed body was found on a quiet residential street in south […]

Q & A with Seth Adams

Strand Magazine intern Kierstin Singer had the opportunity to interview Seth Adams, author of If You Go Down to the Woods Today (2018) and Are You Afraid of the Dark? (2019). Read this Q&A if you want to enter the Literary Mind of Seth Adams! Is there a difference between a writer and an author? Although these terms can be used synonymously in […]