Why So Much Suspicion of Psychology in Thrillers?

Writing Serial Killer Thrillers

Writing Serial Killer Thrillers   In this blog, thriller writer Rick Reed discusses writing serial killer novels. In the next blog he will discuss the various categories of serial killers, motivation, mobility, profiling value, importance of body count. In future blogs he will discuss the international aspects to serial killers. Rick was a homicide detective […]

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO POISONING

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO POISONING by Hilary Davidson   Growing up, I always knew that one day I’d kill someone with poison.   That was partly because I was fascinated by Agatha Christie novels, in which poison often plays a prominent role. Alfred Hitchcock used it to wonderful effect in his films — think of […]

Just The Facts: The Attempted Murder of Theodore Roosevelt

Just The Facts: The Attempted Murder of Theodore Roosevelt by Burt Solomon I’m basically a nonfiction guy, a journalist by trade. I believe in facts. I feel comforted by facts. Also inspired and served by them, as I shall explain. At the same time, I love fiction—to read and to write—because it takes me inside […]