READER'S ROCK LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE VOL 2 ISSUE 4 NOVEMBER 2014 Vol. 1 Issue 9 March 2014 | Page 29

Q&A:
Where did you come up with the idea for this type of investigative team?
My team of fictional investigators came to life after a unique dinner conversation. Career military,
a few of my friends were pumped up about a class they’d taken on an investigative process that
focused not just on profiling a particular kind of person, but rather narrowing down the search
area for a particular kind of criminal.
Greatly simplified, geographic profiling means if you study the criminal patterns (at the crime
scene and within the case at large) you’ll find clues that point you toward the area where the
criminal most likely lives.
It was fascinating but I locked on to a different detail - call it a novelist’s quirk. The part of their
stories that caught my attention were the tales of cooperation (or lack thereof) between law
enforcement agencies. Even
different departments within the
same agency often had trouble
sharing the right information to
close a case quickly.
And thus, RC Investigations
showed up, bigger than life, in my
imagination and eventually made it
onto the page.

The Informant:
A dead body is no way to start the day... a
fake marriage makes it a special brand of hell.
When her witness is murdered, DEA Agent
Hannah Thalberg knows she's the next target.
The only way she can stay close to the case
is to lie about getting married and hope her
one-time lover goes along with the deception.
Karl 'Bart' Bartholomew's Army career ended
his first marriage before an injury ended his
career. Now the owner of a popular truck stop,
he stays close to the