The following is a guest post by Mark Bacon, author of Death in Nostalgia City. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple belongs in an English drawing room in St. Mary Mead or perhaps somewhere in Cornwall. Author Raymond Chandler often stuck Philip Marlow in some dark alley in LA. Robert B. Parker’s Spenser inhabited…
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The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper
On Wednesday 30 October 2013, Andrew Pyper was in town to promote his latest book, The Demonologist. During the event, he read an excerpt and, astonishingly, he stopped at the exact same place where I had stopped reading only moments ago. Later on, he spoke about another coincidence: one night, his 5-year-old daughter had a nightmare about a boy dead in a river. This was the same night when the…