What Courtrooms Can Teach Crime Novelists

Mystery & Crime • Research & Forensics • Writing Craft
2015
Featuring Anthony Franze, Charles Rosenberg, Nancy Allen, Ted Hertel

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Lawyers turned crime writers discuss how real courtroom experience shapes their fiction. This session explores what drew them from practicing law to storytelling, how legal procedure and criminal psychology inform their plots, and what writers get right and wrong about courtrooms on the page.

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