It’s a publishing axiom that a writer needs to get a book out every year to keep a career alive. Someone forgot to give Terry Hayes (I AM PILGRIM) the message.
But I just happened to notice two writers who have books coming out this fall whom seemed to me to have not published in quite a while. So I checked it out and I was right.
First is Alan Bradley, author of the Flavia de Luce series about a precocious young amateur detective. His first book, A SWEETNESS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PIE (2009) won our Barry Award for Best First Novel and also a CWA Debut Dagger, an Agatha and a Dilys Award. The last in the series, THE GOLDEN TRESSES OF THE DEAD was published in 2019. Then silence — until now. WHAT TIME THE SEXTON’S SPADE DOTH RUST will be published in September of this year.
The other author whose absence I noticed (although I don’t read her works) is Tami Hoag. Her last book was published in 2018. BAD LIAR, the third in her Broussard and Fourcade series, will be published this September as well.
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