Legal/Procedural
My First Thriller: Patricia Cornwell
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โThere was no call for him to be as unkind as he was,โ says famed author Patricia Cornwell, who single handedly created the forensic science crime fiction genre. Robert…
Fictional Versus Real Settings: A Writerโs Dilemma
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Every story has to start somewhere. And be somewhere. Take Dennis Lehaneโs 2003 novel, Mystic River. Its setting is so pivotal to the plot that you can find it…
โUNSUBโ Is Mostly Forgotten, But It Launched a New Era of Crime Procedurals
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Back when I was a newspaper reporter, I was hanging around our local prosecutorโs office when an investigator for the prosecutor was fondly recalling his days as a police…
Lee Goldberg on Westerns, Crime Novels, and Writing A Genre Mash-Up
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Iโve always loved crime novels and westerns. Iโve written dozens of crime novels, but not any westerns.ย Or so I thought.ย A few years ago, at a book signing…
A Childhood Full of Love and Death: On Growing Up With a Father in Forensics
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It wasnโt a surprise to those who knew me as a child that when I start telling stories for a living, they were centered around the forensic and crime…
Michele Campbell Leans into the Truth
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Michele Campbell worked at a prominent Manhattan law firm before spending eight years fighting crime as a federal prosecutor in New York City. She launched her fiction career in…
Why James Patterson and Mike Lupica Came Together to Write a Thriller
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For such a hotshot lawyer whoโs never lost a court case, youโre a lot younger than anyone would expect. And itโs your win/loss record, not your good looks, thatโs…
10 Big Pharma Conspiracy Thrillers
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Big Pharma is an industry that touches most everyone in some way. We have connection to it on a personal level as individuals and, even more importantly to many,…
Crime Novels Featuring Interpreters, Transcribers, and Other Invisible Law Enforcement Professionals
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Itโs the detectives, the private investigators and the lawyers who are usually front-and-center in crime fiction, but there are scores of professionals working in the criminal justice system to…