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,...

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...

A tale told by an idiot?-not!

William Shakespeare in Macbeth provides us with this pessimistic view of life. “It is a tale told by an idiot,” Macbeth says, “full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.” Most of us will not identify with this viewpoint. We’d prefer to...

An extreme act!

Murder as an extreme act-one of my favorite fictional characters is Inspector Harry Hole (pronounced Holy) in the series by Jo Nesbo. He’s been mentioned in this blog once before. He is always on target with his observations as so many fictional characters are....

Might never be solved!

The murder of Stacey Burns may be solved but then again, may never be solved. This observation comes from (using the journalistic cliché) “an informed source very close to the investigation.” The point of this post is to open a discussion about the...