by StrandMag | Apr 4, 2019 | Blog Article, Reviews, True Crime
In today’s society, it’s easy to fall down the rabbit hole of true crime, from the never ending stream of documentaries to the countless turning pages of books. But don’t worry, The Strand Magazine is here to point you in the right direction with...
by William Boyle | Feb 28, 2019 | Authors, Blog Article, True Crime
After growing up hearing mob tales and names from the Five Families, William Boyle reflects on what drew him to the mob genre and inspired some of his projects, such as his newest novel A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself. I grew up on the border of Bensonhurst and...
by John Altman | Jan 3, 2019 | True Crime
How to Write Convincing Spy Fiction About Highly Classified Subjects Some spy writers have intelligence backgrounds – Frederick Forsyth, John le Carré, Graham Greene, Ian Fleming, and Jason Matthews come to mind – but for the rest of us, writing about the world...
by Kate Kessler | Nov 1, 2018 | Blog Article, True Crime
Deadly Motives: The Hedonistic Drive of Serial Murder There are several motives that drive serial killing as far as experts are concerned. Some are driven by missions such as ridding the world of what they perceive as a sin, or because they think they’re a higher...
by Paul Willetts | Sep 25, 2018 | True Crime
Is Truth Stranger Than Fiction? It might be if you read about the talented Edgar Laplante It’s often said that truth is stranger than fiction. Nowhere is the validity of this tired old adage demonstrated more emphatically than in the adventures of the once...
by Jay Schiffman | Sep 10, 2018 | True Crime
Three Things John Grisham’s The Confession Teaches Us About Wrongful Convictions A few years before John Grisham’s The Confession was published, I wrote a 50-page brief to a United States District Court judge asking him to declare the death penalty...