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• Q and A: Can a Blow to the Chest Kill an Adult Male?

  

  Q: In my WIP I was planning to have someone killed by a strong blow to the chest. I know death has occurred this way in children, specifically young baseball... Read more

  Posted on 02 May 2012 BOOKS, HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Handprints and Stature: What’s Old Is Now New

  

  Hand prints are often left at crime scenes and, if a suspect is generated, the crime scene print can be compared with one obtained from the suspect. If a match... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2012 BOOKS, HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Q and A: How Would My 1925 Detective Determine That a Stain Was Human Blood?

  

  Q: The setting is rural 1925. There are dark stains on trees, shrubs and leaves which my hero believes is blood. My questions are, how would he identify it as... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2012 BOOKS

• Stroke From the Inside Out

  

  Want to know what it’s like to suffer a stroke? Hopefully you will never experience this but imagine someone, whose life work is studying the brain, suffering... Read more

  Posted on 22 April 2012 BOOKS, HEALTH, MEDICINE

• The Great American Manhunt: Interesting New NatGeo Show

  

  Here is a blurb for an upcoming forensics show on the National Geographic Channel. The 8-part series begins this Friday. As they say, check your local... Read more

  Posted on 17 April 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE, HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Guest Blogger: Katherine Ramsland: Crime Beat Becomes Crime Tweet

  

  Crime Beat Becomes Crime Tweet A Philadelphia cop taps social media for crime controlUsing social media doesn’t just mean mundane status lines and community... Read more

  Posted on 15 April 2012 BOOKS

• Q and A: What Injuries Might Cause My Character’s Amnesia and How Would It Be...

  Q: I want my victim and her best friend to be in a car accident. One girl dies instantly, and it looks like the second girl will die too, but she survives. Read more

  Posted on 11 April 2012 BOOKS

• Charlie, What the Hell Happened, Dude?

  

  Prison hasn’t been kind to Charles Manson. Or maybe it’s his psychosis shining through. New pictures of the now 77 year old Charlie were released ahead of his... Read more

  Posted on 07 April 2012 BOOKS

• Cool Job Opportunity for a Qualified Forensic Science Writer

  My friend Dr. Michael Welner and his staff at The Forensic Panel are looking for a full-time writer and a few writing interns to expand their writing programs.... Read more

  Posted on 04 April 2012 BOOKS

• Guest Blogger: Jodie Renner: Check Your Facts, Ma’am!

  

  You’re busy creating your story world with your right brain, rolling along with the great plot and developing your characters while your muse is buzzing. Great! Read more

  Posted on 02 April 2012 BOOKS

• Extortion By Virus

  

  The butler apparently did do it. It seems that Emanuel Nicolescu, a former butler for Anne Bass, devised a very unusual extortion scheme that sounds like... Read more

  Posted on 29 March 2012 BOOKS

• Q and A: Could My Investigator Determine If the Knife Used in a Murder Was Made...

  

  Q: I am a lawyer in Tacoma, WA with a hobby of writing detective novels, all unpublished but fun for me. My question is would a knife wound from an obsidian... Read more

  Posted on 26 March 2012 BOOKS

• CraftFest: Check Out the Great Instructors Who Will Teach This Year

  Look who will be joining us this year at CraftFest! Don’t miss this opportunity to meet and learn from these masters of the thriller genre. Read more

  Posted on 24 March 2012 BOOKS

• My New Book on Forensic Science for the American Bar Association

  

  Last year I was asked by the American Bar Association to write a book on forensic science for lawyers. It is part of their ABA Fundamentals Series and will be... Read more

  Posted on 22 March 2012 BOOKS

• Taking the Mystery Out of Writing Mysteries

  NOTE: This is a repost of an article by Dennis Palumbo that appeared in Psychology Today.Taking the Mystery Out of Writing MysteriesIf you saw the... Read more

  Posted on 21 March 2012 BOOKS

• Your Brain on Fiction

  

  A very interesting article by Annie Murphy Paul appeared in the New York Times yesterday. It was titled “Your Brain on Fiction” and deals with how the written... Read more

  Posted on 18 March 2012 BOOKS, HEALTH, MEDICINE

• Free Copy of MORE FORENSICS and FICTION

  

  Between now and March 30th you can sign up to win one of two signed copies of my next Q and A book, More Forensics and Fiction, which will be released April 1st. Read more

  Posted on 15 March 2012 BOOKS

• Guest Blogger: Jodie Renner: Heightening the Suspense, Part III

  

  Specific Techniques to Ratchet up the Suspense * Use the setting to create anxiety and suspense. This is the equivalent of ominous music; harsh, stark, or very... Read more

  Posted on 14 March 2012 BOOKS

• Guest Blogger: Jodie Renner: Heightening the Suspense, Part II

  

  Techniques for Building Suspense As I mentioned in part I of this article, all genres of fiction need some suspense, not just thrillers and action-adventures, t... Read more

  Posted on 11 March 2012 BOOKS

• Guest Blogger: Jodie Renner: Heightening the Suspense, Part I

  

  Today begins a new three-part series from Jodie Renner on heightening the suspense in your stories. Thanks, Jodie. Whether you’re writing a thriller, romantic... Read more

  Posted on 08 March 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE