Percentages-Evil vs. Good

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...

Evil? Mental illness?

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,...

Am I kidding myself?

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...

Publish or perish?

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...