KAREN Campbell is not a crime novelist. There are no carefully hidden clues to follow in her fiction, no red herrings, no implausibly complicated murders to be solved and no all-seeing sleuth to do the solving.
Firearms officers who kill innocent people are reviled as social pariahs. So what drove policewoman-turned-novelist Karen Campbell to spend months inside their heads, exploring the devastating impact fatal shootings have on the killers and their families? Interview by Paul Dalgarno
KAREN Campbell is not a crime novelist. There are no carefully hidden clues to follow in her fiction, no red herrings, no implausibly complicated murders to be solved and no all-seeing sleuth to do the solving.