MEDIA

Conversation with the Author

It’s a question as old as time I suppose, but
where did you get the idea for Easy Evil?
Is it a real story turned into a novel?

Several years after I started reporting on
crime for WMAQ Radio in Chicago, I covered
a young woman’s murder in one of the northern
suburbs. She was shot to death while unloading groceries from her car in her parents’ driveway. We discovered she was the wife of a soldier stationed overseas and he had hired one of his stateside buddies to kill her and make it look like a professional hit. Those aspects of the case stayed with me along with the location: beautiful house, nifty driveway, exclusive neighborhood. That’s where reality ends and fiction begins because the real murder resulted in a court martial and Easy Evil progresses and ends…more unconventionally.