Crime Stories and the Power of Loss
By CJ Lyons
August 9, 2012Six years ago I left medicine to live a life of crime. Many thriller/suspense novels are powered by love in all its permutations: passion, jealousy, revenge, obsession. But another powerful emotion that resonates because of its universal, primal nature is loss. Grief in its rawest, purest form makes us all insane . . . It’s…