Over on Crimereads.com, I wrote a piece about heroes in therapy. Gee, I wonder what sparked that???
Titled “Trauma Talk: 4 Mystery Novels and Series Where the Protagonist Gets Therapy,” the piece looks at four different mysteries/thrillers where the main character getting therapy is a major component of the story. Not a throwaway. Not a scene. A big piece of puzzle.
I wrote this because therapy is an enormous part of Every Hunter is Hunted. When I first started writing the book, my wife casually said, “I feel like there could be a therapy component to this story.” And I laughed because I already knew that Jasper’s ongoing therapy would be huge in this book. In some ways, it’s the whole point of the book, really.
Here’s a little nibble at the piece:
Long gone are the days of Marlowe and Chandler, when private eyes medicated their wounded psyches with a quart of middling whiskey and an appreciative leer at their femme fatale clients. In the past, our heroes’ traumas would rate a mere mention if anything all, a flashback at most.
Let’s face it—all of these people should be in therapy, plumbing their own depths with the same verve they apply to solving mysteries.
Check out Crimereads for the whole thing!