Silence of the Lambs

Let's discuss the mind of a killer...the one in your next novel. This killer may be an integral part of your novel if you're writing a psychological thriller where the killer shows up throughout your story and scenes are written using his point of view. But even if you only get a really good look at him in the last few pages as your mystery reaches its climax, you still need to have a …

…to remember is, there's a reason. Wrong, confused, skewed, garbled though it may be, there's always a reason in the back of that killer's mind. This doesn't mean that as responsible citizens and jurors we should let him go unpunished. It does mean that as authors we should be vitally aware of what the real reason is, because it has to be logical...in the killer's mind. It has to make sense to the killer.