Murderer Wins Book Deal
An author named Alaric Hunt recently won a contest for mystery/suspense novels, and also a book deal with a ten thousand dollar advance. But no one knew, at the time, he was a convicted murderer serving a life sentence for a fire he started that killed a woman. He supposedly described settings in his book from episodes of
Law and Order, and crime novels he'd been reading. Sarah Weinman talks about it in NY Mag.
She had initially assumed that Hunt wouldn't get t...
Published on January 19, 2014 10:41