The first Crime Files: Four-Minute Forensics book Body of Evidence is now available for the Kindle and Nook. Who shot the crooked lawyer? How did a corpse in the morgue get up and walk around? Most important — who ate the last piece of chocolate cake? CSI Wes Burton and his crew use forensics and bad jokes to solve these cases and more for a total of fifty-one mysteries. The solution is at the end of each mystery, but can you solve it...

I recently caught up with author Jeremy Brown whose new novel, Suckerpunch, takes place in the tough-as-nails world of MMA heavyweight fighting … Your story takes place in the world of mixed martial arts. What initially interested you in writing about this subject? Thanks to George Ebey for the great write-up in The Big Thrill, which is the monthly webzine of the International Thriller Writers. Please check out the full interview here:...

When I was writing Crime Files (and there may be some more soon), my editor came back with some notes about too many instances of he said, she said. Problem was, in some scenes there were four or five people talking, and each speaker had to be identified to avoid confusion. So a scene could go: “I don’t see any blood,” said Burton. “Maybe it’s been cleaned up,” Trellis said. “I don’t clean...

Thanks to everyone at Moorsbridge Elementary for making my time there fun, and for buying so many...

I had a great time visiting with the students at Schoolcraft Upper Elementary during Detective...