Before we get into today's episode, a little news from the Killer Author Club: your hosts Kimberly, Heather, and Kaira have written a thriller of their own. Take Back the Night publishes January 12, 2027 — and you can preorder your copy now at killerauthorclub.com/killer-book.

Eriq La Salle joins us to talk about Laws of Solomon, the fourth book in the Martyr Maker series — and the one where a former child soldier, mercenary, and hit man has traded all of it for California soil, a garden, and a fragile quiet he has absolutely no business expecting to keep. We get into the deliberate choice to give Solomon a peaceful life worth destroying, how Eriq went all the way in writing the backstory that made Solomon who he is and how difficult it was to actually go there on the page, and what his training at Juilliard and NYU taught him about building a protagonist from the inside out. We also talk about how a career spent directing and acting changes the way he constructs a scene — and the question we had to ask: when it comes down to it, which does he love more?

And if you haven't yet — preorder Take Back the Night, the thriller written by your KAC hosts, at killerauthorclub.com/killer-book. January 12, 2027 can't come soon enough.

Download and listen today — because some men bury their past so deep it takes a child in danger to dig it back up.