Suspense Radio
Suspense Radio, brings you the best of the best in suspense / thriller / mystery and horror. Interviews and reviews in the genres.
Episodes
Here’s the thing about the South—if you can’t tell a story, they won’t feed you. They’ll simply deposit you behind the barn and let you wither away. That doesn’t happen often because everyone down there can spin a yarn. Some better than other...
We are so honored to bring you ex-criminal prosecutor and current bestselling author Marcia Clark. She joins us to talk about her latest book, TRIAL BY AMBUSH, her first True Crime novel.
Marcia Clark is the best selling author of nine legal thrillers and one memoir, starting with four bestselling legal thrillers featuring prosecutor Rachel Knight: The Competition, Killer Ambition, Guilt by Degrees, and Guilt by Association. TNT op...
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FORENSIC
SCIENCE TIMELINE
Prehistory: Early cave
artists and pot makers “sign” their works with a paint or impressed finger or
thumbprint.
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Writers, particularly early in their careers, make mistakes. Often the
same ones over and over. Here are a few pitfalls to avoid.
OVERWRITING:
Too many wo...
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Too often, fiction writers commit medical malpractice in their stories. Unfortunately, these mistakes can sink an otherwise well-written story. The ones I repetitively see include:
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A scene-by-scene analysis of The Terminator
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Elements of a Thriller
Open with a Bang or a Chill or a Compelling Question
Establish the 4 Ws Early-------Who, What, When, and Where
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From Publishers Weekly:
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Gunshot wounds (GSWs) come in many flavors and those to the chest can be particularly dicey. Yet, a chest GSW can be a minor flesh wound, a major traumatic event with significant damage, or deadly. If you have a character who suffers such an injury, this podcast is for you.
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For years it was felt that the DNA of identical twins was indeedidentical. Since they come from a single fertilized egg, this would seem intuitive. But, nature likes to throw curve balls—and the occasional slider. After that first division of the fertilized, and after the two daughter cells go their way toward producing identical humans, th...
From HOWDUNNIT:FORENSICS
Toxicology is a relativelynew science that stands on the shoulders of its predecessors: anatomy,
physiology, chemistry, and medicine. Our knowledge in these sciences had toreach a certain level of sophistication before toxicology could become areality. It slowly...
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You never get a second chance to make a first impression. The same is
true for your fictional characters. So, make them vivid and memorial. How do
you do this? There are many ways. Let’s explore a few of them.
Riding the Rap--Elmore Leonar...
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Somerset Maugham: There are three rules for novel writing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
Terry Brooks Rules
Read, Read, Read
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One pill makes you larger, and one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you, don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall
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Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is as much as 300 times more powerful than morphine sulfate. It can be injected, ingested, inhaled, and will even penetrate the skin.
It is used in medical situations frequently for pain management, sedation, and for twilight-anesthesia for things such as colonoscopies.
Fentanyl is the number one cause of drug ODs.
Americans have a slightly higher than 1% chance of ultimately d...
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Here in the 21st century we know a great deal about infectious diseases. We can treat bacterial
infections with antibiotics, immunize people against numerous diseases,
understand how viruses work, and have a huge fund of knowledge about surgical
sterility and disease pre...
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“Good fences make good neighbors”—Robert Frost,”Mending Wall”
I suspect Ryan Felton Sauter’s neighbor, Keith Monroe, would agree.
People commit mu...
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Head Trauma
(Direct, Infectious, Anoxic, Vascular)
Physical Abnormalities
Behavioral Changes
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