January 9: Happy New Year and Murder for Hire
Right after Christmas, got the chance to visit one of my brothers and his family down in San Antonio for a few days. Had a fun time enjoying the warmth and catching up. (Long line at the Alamo!) But now I’m back to my desk.
Still hard at work on Thicker Than Thieves: The Travelers Book 8. Hoping to make it the best Travelers crime thriller ever. While I’m rewriting and making changes, I’ve been doing some general research reading for the future.
In Harper’s Magazine, I read an article about murder-for-hire scams on the dark web.
The way these scams work is that a bad player thinks they are hiring a murderer, but in fact they’re just being taken. They pay in bitcoin and then the supposed “murderer” disappears with their money without doing the killing.
Or it turns out that the supposed “murderer” is actually the FBI and the bad player ends up charged with conspiracy to commit murder.
The downside is when the bad player, after being ripped off, decides to take matters into their own hands. Could a murder have been prevented if the bad player were arrested earlier?
Here’s the link if you want to check out the article: https://harpers.org/archive/2020/01/click-here-to-kill-dark-web-hitman/
That’s all for now. Happy reading!