Imagine... you are lying in bed on a Sunday morning, looking forward to a day of solitude, maybe binge-watching Netflix, when an incessant knock at your door forces you to abandon your warm quilt. A delivery service hands you a package, which is strange enough on a Sunday morning. You open it and find an opaque disc and a card inviting you to participate in a focus group starting that very morning. Of course, you dismiss it as a prank, abandon all hopes of crawling back into bed and make...

As popular as crime thriller television series go, I find them to be too stereotypical when it comes to depicting crime fighters. The main character, whether he or she is a cop, detective or agent of some law enforcement branch, is generally depicted as having a dysfunctional intimate relationship or marriage and incapable of keeping one in tact. Moreover, and this is the case in about 95% of the series I have watched, their partners are always upset, complaining and even leaving the...

New Release "Look - Where are you on the spectrum?" by Réal Laplaine Author and human rights activist Réal Laplaine's latest novel takes 11 people from around the world are invited to participate in a secretive social experiment, to discuss the human race and what makes it tick, with an ending that no one saw coming. Finn Baas, a Dutch investigative journalist, living in Rotterdam, Netherlands, was enjoying his sleep that Sunday morning, when a loud knock woke him. A delivery service handed...