Karen Harrington | When a man loves a woman…who murders

When a central character is still deeply in love with someone you and I would
judge harshly, for, say, murder, that presents a challenge for the writer. How
can readers be sympathetic to a misguided, love-struck protagonist? And does a
writer necessarily have to sympathize with him?
I know all about this challenge.

In my debut novel JANEOLOGY, Tom Nelson is still in love with the woman who has
destroyed his life. He misses her. He craves her. He wants to touch her. He
wants to talk to her over a cup of coffee the way they used to as friends. But
this is never going to happen.