Author: Elizabeth McCullough Keenan

As a thriller author, I’ve spent numerous hours dissecting the psychology of con artists — their manipulative appeal, weaponized belief and skill to take advantage of vulnerabilities. Crime has fascinated me since childhood, not only for the acts themselves, however for the minds behind them. I spent years finding out these behaviors, satisfied that understanding their ways would defend me and people I really like.That phantasm crumbled when the individual closest to me — my husband — was conned.Whereas crafting fictional schemes for my fourth co-written novel, “Belief Points,” I immersed myself in fraudsters’ ways to govern their victims. I…