by Rick Reed | Jan 30, 2020 | True Crime
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...
by Hilary Davidson | Jan 26, 2020 | Blog Article, True Crime
A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO POISONING 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...
by Burt Solomon | Jan 2, 2020 | True Crime
Just The Facts: The Attempted Murder of Theodore Roosevelt 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...
by Mitzi Szereto | Dec 11, 2019 | Blog Article, True Crime
Is True Crime Good for You? I never gave much thought to true crime until I began working on my new true crime anthology series. Suddenly it occurred to me that I’d been a consumer of true crime since my teens, though at the time I wasn’t conscious of the fact...
by Paddy Hirsch | Sep 17, 2019 | Blog Article, True Crime
Ten American Pirates You’d Best Have Avoided When They Were in Their Prime Most of us think of 17th Century pirates as swashbuckling outlaws that wore eyepatches, drank grog and buried their treasure on desert islands. And while some pirates probably did...
by Daniel P. King | Jul 19, 2019 | True Crime
The Mystery of Elizabeth Canning Elizabeth Canning was an eighteen-year-old maidservant who disappeared on January 1, 1753, returning to her mother’s house, emaciated and in a deplorable state, one month later. She told authorities of being kidnapped. Several...
