Ramesh Nyberg's Blog - Posts Tagged "investigation"
Introduction
Greetings all...
There is probably no more prevalent genre/subject matter in entertainment (including books) than police work. In that heading I include non-fiction accounts of investigations, murder cases, criminal trials and all matters related to criminal law stories.
The problem is that most authors don't "get it right." I spent 27 years of my life in law enforcement, and 22 of those were as a homicide investigator. People ask me if I've "seen it all." If not, I'm pretty sure I've seen most of it.
I'm not here to deliberately correct anyone (though I'm happy to review someone's work and make suggestions), but I think writing realistically is a good idea. Getting certain details wrong can derail a reader--it certainly does for me. I've started many a good-looking crime fiction work and ended up putting it down because the author didn't do their research.
I digress.
I'm really here to introduce myself, and my first short book, "The Ten-Must Haves To be a Great Detective." This actually started out as a training manual for private investigators. I started my own agency after I retired from police work, and I wanted my investigators to do things right, and at a professional level. After I started this training manual, it morphed into a book, and I said, "why not?"
I'm working on a second book about Cold Case investigations, and I've got some material stirring in my head for at least a novel or two in the near future.
Feel free to reach out!
There is probably no more prevalent genre/subject matter in entertainment (including books) than police work. In that heading I include non-fiction accounts of investigations, murder cases, criminal trials and all matters related to criminal law stories.
The problem is that most authors don't "get it right." I spent 27 years of my life in law enforcement, and 22 of those were as a homicide investigator. People ask me if I've "seen it all." If not, I'm pretty sure I've seen most of it.
I'm not here to deliberately correct anyone (though I'm happy to review someone's work and make suggestions), but I think writing realistically is a good idea. Getting certain details wrong can derail a reader--it certainly does for me. I've started many a good-looking crime fiction work and ended up putting it down because the author didn't do their research.
I digress.
I'm really here to introduce myself, and my first short book, "The Ten-Must Haves To be a Great Detective." This actually started out as a training manual for private investigators. I started my own agency after I retired from police work, and I wanted my investigators to do things right, and at a professional level. After I started this training manual, it morphed into a book, and I said, "why not?"
I'm working on a second book about Cold Case investigations, and I've got some material stirring in my head for at least a novel or two in the near future.
Feel free to reach out!
