Why I Wrote THE FIFTH REFLECTION by Ellen Kirshman
The Dot Meyerhoff mysteries are inspired by clients I've treated in my 30 years as a police psychologist. I want my readers to learn something so new that the next time they see a cop, they’ll look at him differently. The first book, Burying Ben, was about police suicide. Most people don’t know that cops are nearly twice as likely to kill themselves as they are to be killed in the line of duty. The second, The Right Wrong Thing, is about a female cop who kills an unarmed pregnant teenager, mistaking her cell phone for a gun. Badly treated by her male colleagues, she is repulsed when she becomes their hero. My newest book, The Fifth Reflection, was inspired by the wife of an officer who was assigned to an Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force. The spillover from his job was damaging his family and contaminating everyone and everything he touched. The Fifth Reflection is not a book about pedophiles or pornography. It's about the pe...