Sep 10, 2015 | Murder In a Small Town|Uncategorized
Are people basically good? In my most recent novel, Live Free or Die, a major character, Henry Bouchard, raises the possibility that this question really doesn’t matter. Evil versus good makes for a wonderful philosophical argument, but, Bouchard theorizes, it...
Sep 7, 2015 | Murder In a Small Town
Here’s a conundrum: Does a killer kill because he/she is mentally ill or is that killer an evil person? Do you believe in evil? Was the killer in Sandy Hook evil? Was the Aurora killer evil? My favorite inspector asks this question in Jo Nesbo’s book,...
Sep 3, 2015 | Murder In a Small Town|The Writing Process
Will the killer of Stacey Burns ever don the orange prison garb and be subjected to the humiliation of his or her day in court? Based on what I have learned over the last five years (plus) I’d have to say no. Will any of my books ever approach even that special...
Aug 30, 2015 | Murder In a Small Town
“Murder in a Small Town” is the title of a program I presented to our Men’s Breakfast group at Desert Hills Lutheran Church last Thursday. Obviously, the subject was the work I’ve done on the book about the Stacey Burns murder case. There were...
Aug 27, 2015 | Murder In a Small Town
One of my regular readers takes me to task for dragging my feet on publishing what I have written on the Stacey Burns murder book. Her argument is sound. I asked for opinions and received many differing ones, as I expected. She and others suggested that publication...