I feel like this has happened before!
Wow, I'm honored and surprised and perplexed each about twice as much as I was a few weeks ago when Guy Marlborough took home his first prize. Thank you very much, Cinéad, and rest assured our detective's adventures are far from over (in this first installment...). I'm a little embarrassed because of this line:
He's also been good at one thing which scuppers so many AARs: keeping us supplied with updates.
because lately I have been falling terribly behind. Perhaps an update tonight will bolster my self-confidence.
Last time the neatest part was not being king of the hill, but getting to pick the next one. So I thank you most of all for forcing me to expand my reading and find another wonderful character writer to honor next week.
Thanks everyone and I hope to see you in the Guy Marlborough thread!
Rens - it was
Hussite Lament . That work and this new one have something in common; they are character-driven mysteries. That's primarily because I love Agatha Christie's plotting, but hate how the suspects are always a major, a doctor, two young lovers, etc. Recently I've been reading another master, P.D. James, and the suspects are all fascinatingly real people, but the detectives are stereotypes. So ... I decided to give the genre a try. Mysteries are buckets of fun to write - as Storey knows!