Deadly Beginnings
It was a bright, sunny day. I sat under a beer umbrella in the square
drinking Sleeman Cream Ale from a plastic cup. Guelph was celebrating it’s
annual Multicultural Festival and I was celebrating the end of a long hot day.
In no hurry to go anywhere, I pulled out my notebook and started writing...
It was a bright, sunny day. I sat
under a beer umbrella in the square drinking Sleeman Cream Ale from a plastic
cup. The beer was warm. I’d been nursing it for an hour, waiting for my client
to leave his office.
So started my first draft of Deadly Legacy. When I decided to set the
story in the near future, bright and sunny gave way to incessant rain as a nod
to Blade Runner. It took a while before “the client” got a name, but his
physical description was cemented that first day.
His pale face was a map of worry
lines and a fixed frown. He wore one of those endurable overcoats and a
matching hat, both advertised as 'guaranteed to protect your clothes from
anything nature or environmental pollution throws at you.' It made the short,
stocky man look like a walking tent.
The walking tent was really a man in his eighties. His coat probably fit
him just fine when he bought it. Both hat and coat were almost certainly
Endurables. Nothing else would have held up for so long. The short, stocky,
worried man was wearing a business suit and had just walked out of a bank. The
client was like Frankenstein’s monster, made from gathered parts. Not so the
detectives.
Kate Garrett and Jake Carmedy came to me in a dream. From the start,
they were real people in my mind. All I needed was the right story to bring
them together.
http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Carmedy-Garrett-Mystery-ebook/dp/B007TYPHYO
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Deadly-Carmedy-Garrett-Mystery-ebook/dp/B007TYPHYO
Gees, I was so busy with my free book, I completely missed this when it came out.
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