VJ Books Features Alan Jacobson!

Alan Jacobson received his bachelor of arts degree in English writing from Queens College of the City of New York, and his doctorate from Palmer College of Chiropractic West in San Jose, California.

 

He achieved prominence as an agreed medical examiner and was subsequently appointed to the position of qualified medical evaluator by the state of California.

 

He has extensive experience testifying as an expert witness, which has exposed him to the many strengths and weaknesses of the judicial system. His previous novels include The Hunted, False Accusations, and his critically acclaimed bestselling Karen Vail series.

 

From the Alan's Website: "I was practicing chiropractic when an injury forced my hand (no pun intended) and I had to retire and sell my practice. But during the transition period to the new owner, I took a phone call from someone requesting a reference on a part-time employee, who was studying to be a criminalist. The person calling was head of the Department of Justice's Criminalists Institute. After giving him information on my employee, I asked him about a character in a novel I'd just started writing. To make a long story short, he was enormously helpful in providing information. I asked if I could tour the crime lab - which met with an emphatic "No" - but he did arrange for me to audit one of their classes on blood spatter pattern analysis.

There, I met an FBI agent who not only answered a lot of my questions about the Bureau, but who remained in touch with me over the subsequent months, when he was promoted to the Behavioral Analysis (profiling) Unit in Quantico. We continued having hours upon hours of conversations about serial offenders, profiling, and Bureau procedure. He invited me out to tour the Academy and profiling unit - he didn't have to ask twice - a visit that would serve as the first of many trips, FBI seminars and the like that provided valuable insights that helped me immeasurably in my writing career."

 

Alan recently shared with us that his next Karen Vail novel will be set in England, as Vail teams up with Hector DeSantos (from The Hunted and Velocity).

Watch Alan discuss his research behind Inmate 1577