MICHAEL SLADE is a criminal lawyer who has acted in more than 100 murder cases. His specialty is psychopathology. His 15 thrillers about the Special X psycho-hunters of the RCMP fuse police and legal procedure, whodunit, history, horror, and suspense. TOO MANY HYDES: The Last Stand of Special X – the climactic novel in the series that began with HEADHUNTER in 1984 – will be published this year. As a playwright, he has written and staged MICHAEL SLADE’S SHOCK THEATRE for 18 years. He was guest of honour at BLOODY WORDS and the WORLD HORROR CONVENTION, speaker at 3 RCMP Regimental Dinners and the International Police Leadership Conference, and the BC Magistrates Dinner.
“Crime writer Michael Slade is the real deal! As a trial lawyer, Slade knows psycho killers, sex predators, and their horrific crimes inside out. As a Mountie, I worked sex crimes and led a team of ViCLAS psycho-hunters for 7 years. If reading Slade makes you react, ‘Wow! Serial killers don’t really do that to people, do they?’, I can tell you, yes, they do.” – RCMP Staff Sergeant Christine Wozney (ret.), CO of the Violent Crime Linkage Analysis team (West Coast).
Slade Website & e-bookstore: www.specialx.net