by Tom Adair author of the 2012 Crime Thriller The Scent of Fear. As a former CSI I tried to understand how the criminal thinks. It's ...

Chain of Custody is is a legal definition that many people outside the law don't understand. I see it commonly misrepresented in print a...

by Tom Adair author of The Scent of Fear (2012) One of the most interesting observations I have made in the courtroom is what passes for...

A few days ago a young student contacted me about a paper she was writing. What is a day in the life of a CSI like? It was an excellent ques...

Each post, I try to demystify some aspect of forensics or crime scene investigations as it relates to crime writers. Recently I was reminde...

There is a common depiction in movies and novels of bullets exploding and "shooting off" when exposed to fire. The idea is pret...

A lot of people believe that victims are identified by family or friends. We've all seen the movie scene where the mother, brother, or ...

 A hit man just wouldn't be hit man without a silenced firearm. But, silencers (technically referred to as suppressors) affect only one ...

By Tom Adair Author of The Scent of Fear I don't want o get too technical here because, let's face it, the topic is kind of gross...

By Tom Adair; Author of The Scent of Fear Criminalists are a strange bunch. We see the world differently than most others. Early in your ...

It’s Tom’s day to post, but he’s been shy to talk about his first novel, so I prompted him with a bunch of questions. If you haven’t heard, ...