by Michele Clark McConnochie | Jan 28, 2015 | The Dralfynia Sagas, Writing Crime Fiction
I’ve just been lucky enough to spend a week in the northern part of New Zealand’s beautiful South Island with my husband. We spent a night at Lochmara Lodge in Queen Charlotte Sound, which is stunningly beautiful, quirky and fascinating. You can only...
by Michele Clark McConnochie | Jan 26, 2015 | Writing Crime Fiction
Week three of my Introduction to Forensic Science course completed – phew! It covered Blood Pattern Analysis and DNA. Again, really interesting, but getting extremely technical this week. For a writer of crime fiction, the in depth details of the sections of DNA used...
by Michele Clark McConnochie | Jan 14, 2015 | Writing Crime Fiction
Do you know the difference between finger prints, finger marks, latent and visible prints or what friction ridges are? I have just completed the module on fingerprints as part of the Introduction to Forensic Science MOOC which I am studying through FutureLearn....
by Michele Clark McConnochie | Jan 8, 2015 | Writing Crime Fiction
Any crime writer worth her or his salt does needs to be accurate when it comes to forensics. The amazing team at FutureLearn offer heaps of free online courses, wherever you are in the world. I hadn’t heard of MOOCs before (Massive Online Open Courses), but now...