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Spencer Kope

Book Collecting: The Thrill of the Hunt

By Spencer Kope

August 28, 2020

Unlike most book collectors, I know the exact year, month, and day that I started my collection. I almost know the hour. It was sometime on the morning of December 25, 1977, for it was that Christmas that I tore open the wrapping paper to find a leatherbound, boxed edition of the Lord of the…

Naked in Whatcom County: Tales from a Crime Analyst

By Spencer Kope

Anyone who’s been in law enforcement more than 10 minutes knows that a lot of crazy things go on behind the scenes—stuff that the general public doesn’t hear about and probably can’t relate to. Let’s face it, if you’re a receptionist, you’ve probably never fingerprinted a corpse in between typing and filing, and I’m guessing…

Collecting the Dead: Audio Excerpt

By Spencer Kope

August 24, 2016

Collecting the Dead by Spencer Kope is a debut novel that introduces Magnus “Steps” Craig, a member of the FBI's Special Tracking Unit (Available June 28, 2016). Magnus “Steps” Craig is part of the elite three-man Special Tracking Unit of the FBI. Called in on special cases where his skills are particularly needed, he works as…

Collecting the Dead by Spencer Kope

Collecting the Dead: New Excerpt

By Spencer Kope

June 20, 2016

Collecting the Dead by Spencer Kope is a debut novel that introduces Magnus “Steps” Craig, a member of the FBI's Special Tracking Unit (Available June 28, 2016). Magnus “Steps” Craig is part of the elite three-man Special Tracking Unit of the FBI. Called in on special cases where his skills are particularly needed, he works…

Crime Analysis: The Profession and the Process

By Spencer Kope

June 16, 2016

It’s been said that crime analysis is only slightly younger than crime itself. Long before the profession came into being, people practiced crime analysis without ever putting a name to it. When someone warned a neighbor to stay away from a certain part of town after dark because they knew from experience or word of…

20 Things Heard at the Sheriff’s Office

By Spencer Kope

June 9, 2016

In my twelve years as the crime analyst for the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office, I’ve seen and heard a lot of funny and unusual things—some of which provided great inspiration while writing Collecting the Dead and the follow-on books in my FBI Special Tracking Unit series. Here’s a sampling of some of the actual questions…

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