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Dennis Palumbo, author of Head Wounds and other mysteries featuring Dr. Daniel Rinaldi, recently wrote a piece for Mystery Scene Magazine . He gave permission to reprint that article. You might find it fascinating reading. It's about a disorder and a villain. Nietzsche once wrote, “There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.” Perhaps. Then again, Nietzsche never met Sebastian Maddox, the villain in my latest suspense thriller,  Head Wounds . It’s the fifth in my series about Daniel Rinaldi, a psychologist and trauma expert who consults with the Pittsburgh police. What makes the brilliant, tech-savvy Maddox so relentlessly dangerous is that he’s in the grip of a rare delusion called erotomania, also known as De Clerambault’s Syndrome. Simply put, erotomania is a disorder in which a person—in this case, Maddox—falsely believes that another person is in love with him, deeply, unconditionally, and usually secretly. The latter because this ima...