all your Reads in Here

Today, David Carlson is my guest blogger and author. He's the author of three mysteries featuring Christopher Worthy, a Detroit police detective, and Father Nicholas Fortis, a Greek Orthodox monk. I reviewed his second book in the series, Let the Dead Bury the Dead , in September 2017,  http://bit.ly/2PQIPjh . Now, as to David Carlson's guest post. A couple weeks ago, twelve authors wrote about the libraries they love for an article in The New York Times,  https://nyti.ms/2QPSC9b . Carlson wrote a piece for us about libraries. Thank you, David. MY DEBT TO LIBRARIES David Carlson                 I think it was Voltaire who wrote that entering a library always humbled him.  Since I was a boy, entering a library has given me a different feeling—excitement.  Perhaps if I’d thought more about it, I would have felt intimidated by all the knowledge stored on the shelves.  But as a boy, I felt a...

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...