They say “write what you know.” But if you’ve ever actually killed anyone and gotten away with it, I suggest you don’t make that knowledge the centerpiece of your latest murder mystery novel. And if you do, I also suggest you don’t make the murder victim die in the exact same way your real-life victim did. Otherwise, this might happen to you.
Police got pointed to a five-year-old murder case when someone noticed remarkable similarities between the case and a novel, Amok, which highlighted an eerily similar killing. The author, Krystian Bala, wasn’t found guilty on this count alone, but through a bunch of other circumstantial evidence that arose after the authorities started investigating him–including the fact that he sold off the victim’s cell phone online four days after the victim disappeared.
In the book, the murderer gets away with the deed. Thank goodness life didn’t imitate art here.
I see that smile.
The gall of some people. You saw my smile?
Absolutely. Hopefully it was because this guy got caught, and not because you got away with something similar…right?
hahaha, I hadn’t thought of the way I wrote that.. I have not done, nor gotten away with, anything similar. rest assured! 😉