Friday Breakout Workshop: INSIDE THE DETECTIVE'S HEAD: The Real Thinking Process Behind Crime-Solving
Friday Breakout Workshop: INSIDE THE DETECTIVE'S HEAD: The Real Thinking Process Behind Crime-Solving
Friday, August 21, 2026 • 3:50-4:35pm
Must be registered for the conference to attend breakout workshops.
Real detectives don't approach a case the way readers solve a puzzle — they work under pressure, incomplete information, and real constraints that shape what they see and what they miss. This presentation by Chris Berg explains how detectives really think: the pattern recognition that feels like intuition, the biases that influence investigations, and the constraints that force difficult decisions. You'll learn to write detectives who think like police officers, not TV detectives. Master this, and your crime fiction will create genuine tension where it matters most: the gap between what actually happened and what a detective believes happened.
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