Bruce Robert Coffin, James L’Etoile, K.L. Murphy, Marcy McCreary, Michael Bradley, and Royce Wilson explore the many forms an investigator can take. They discuss how their characters were created, what separates the major subgenres, and how to write investigators who feel flawed, human, and convincingly real.
What Life Is Really Like on Death Row
Death row is a world few people ever see up close. Greg Laird draws on more than one hundred visits to Oklahoma’s death row to share what life is really like for inmates, how attorneys interact with their clients, and the human realities behind the justice system....



