Claire Feeney's Blog

Every city's crime is unique. It has a personality of its own shaped over time by both nature and nurture, by the geography and the politics. We read about and watch shows on New York City, Chicago, LA, Miami, but my hometown isn't like those places.

I've lived in Austin, Texas my whole life, an...

I just finished watching Monsters Inside: the 24 Faces of Billy Milligan on Netflix this week. It set my brain on fire about Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) (previously called Multiple Personality Disorder).

For there to be a disorder so distinctive that a large portion of psychologists are...

Not much to say other than, PHEW! This one took me to some dark places. It’s a shade darker and creepier than Killer Delivery, but I think I make it worth the read. That’s all I’ll say about it, because this is one of those plots where just about anything is a spoiler.

To buy your copy of the s...

"I think I'm running out of True Crime shows," I said at the dinner table the other night.
"Sure looked like it," my husband said.

Earlier, as I was prepping the coconut shrimp and pineapple rice, I'd searched Netflix for something soothing to enjoy. You know, a crime show. But Netflix was just s...

Police work in real life isn't like in the movies.

But if it were, those movies wouldn't make much at the box office.

My husband works in law enforcement, no matter how much I try to convince him to find a job with better hours where he won't be made the scapegoat and poster child for all of soci...

Family annihilations have been on the rise over the last fifteen years. It’s not a topic that gets much attention, which is surprising, considering how shocking and sensational such a thing is. And I have to wonder, is that because the public (or rather the vast majority of the people who make it up) expect or even accept the concept?

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Two years after I first came up with the idea for Dana Capone, the book is finally out. Phew! Not like anything major happened between September 2019 and September 2021. I dunno what took me so long.

This it not the first series I’ve written by any means, but I’m actually ...

Cults are everywhere, turns out. It’s a shockingly easy business model, if you’re into that kind of thing. Not every cult is worthy of a true crime show about it, but the ones that are… phew! Go ahead and loosen up your jaw, because it will be on the floor in no time.

It’s easy to judge people who end up in cults (even th...

I thought getting away might help my focus, and that’s how I ended up alone in a hotel room on the other side of the city. I worked from the overly soft bed as much as I could, all four flimsy feather pillows stuffed behind my back as I leaned over my laptop.

These revisions on the next Dana Capone book have been giving m...

Are you prepared to be abducted?

I am. I don’t want to be, obviously, but if it happens, I’m about as well-positioned for it as possible. I have an “If I Go Missing” sheet for my husband with all my relevant passwords on it. He can log in and track my phone. Also, he’s a cop, so that’s a huge advantage. Police spouse goes missing, and you have an entire department dropping what they’re doing to look. Not everyone has that, which is extremely unfortunate.

For them. Not for me. I’ll be fine, like I...