David Hegarty
Stories about crimes have always resonated with me, whether it wasCrime and PunishmentorThe Quiet American. Maybe it’s because I started my career as a police reporter, or because I worked for a time as a teacher in the county jail.More than a decade ago, when I decided to finally get serious about writing, I started with short stories based on real misdeeds I’d witnessed. I wrote one about my next door neighbor, who’d been murdered by a friend, another about an ambitious bike racer who...

