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The novelist reflects on reaching the end of a series
The Reaper Follows arrives out in the world this week, and I'm certainly hoping that it's a suspenseful novel readers will enjoy!
It's the last in my ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' series-which, naturally, includes four books. Each book stands on its own, of course, a case that must be investigated, that brings danger and mystery, a beginning, a middle, and an end!"
But working on this has been intriguing for me! I have always been fascinated by ancient texts of any kind, words that can be-and are-interrupted differently by different people through time.
And the Four Horsemen . . .
We've recently lived through a period in which all signs of the ‘horsemen' might be seen-we've encountered war (not sure what decade, century, or millennium we haven't) pestilence, famine, and disease. I can certainly say that as I was raising my children, I didn't think to warn them that we might be facing a pandemic in their future, so that one was . . . far from impossible, of course, but for me, at least unexpected.
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'For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.'