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Why I Wrote a Crime Thriller in First Person (And How It Changed

When I sat down to write Synthetic Identity, one of the earliest decisions I made was also one of the most consequential: Danny Tyler would tell this story himself.

That might sound simple. Pick a point of view, start writing. But for a crime thriller built around a family-run fraud operation, first person was a gamble. It meant locking the reader inside the head of a man who does terrible things for a living. No distance. No safety net. No omniscient narrator to step in and remind you that...