What it's about
All that remained was a knife, incredibly ornate, featuring an eagle. Each of the bodies found in the same position, slain in the same way. The scenario was baffling, with so little evidence and no link between each of the deceased. It was giving Paul a massive migraine. He’d dealt with many homicides in his 10 years in Calgary, but this was not just a series of homicides, this was clinical, pre-meditated and untraceable. Paul needed a break, a mistake, something, anything. That’s when he got the phone call, the phone call that started the timer. the question was, could he beat it?
How it's going
Slowly. The writing has been running longer than some software companies. I've written text I'm proud of and deleted more than I care to admit. At this point writing it has become a bit like maintaining a beloved but temperamental classic car, a labour of love, and occasionally a source of frustration.
The honest version: life gets in the way. Family, work, randomly starting (and not finishing) other projects, the general business of being a person, these are not excuses but they are real (maybe slightly excuses). The book exists in the gaps.
Will it ever be finished?
Yes. Probably. I genuinely believe this. I've kept coming back to it for years, which must mean something. It would be easier to abandon it but I don't want to.
If and when it does get finished and published, you'll hear about it here first.