New series = new beginning!
As I announced last week on my Facebook page, I’ve put aside book 7 of the Jill Quint, MD, mystery series and begun an entirely new murder series. The title of the first book will be RED ROCK ISLAND, set in San Francisco, California on an actual island in the bay. The series will be led by male protagonist Damien Green, and his female sidekick Natalie Severino, a retired detective from the San Jose Police Department.
I had about 20% of Jill Quint book 7, Castle Killing, written and I was struggling to put in four hundred words a day to the story line. After six books it’s hard to think of new reasons for the four main characters of that series to be together and to solve a crime in under a week or two. I do believe I’ll go back and finish that book in the future but in the meanwhile I’m enjoying shaping my new characters and their back story.
When I started to think about a new series, I knew I wanted a complete change of characters. In the Jill Quint series, Jill traveled the United States and Europe solving cases. In the Damien Green series, he’s a loner that rarely leaves his rock of an island. He has good reason to feel that way as seven years before the story begins, his wife and two daughters were murdered by an escaped convict. The first book fills in his story and his reasons for clinging to the island. At the same time, he has been and continues to be, a brilliant inventor and engineer; two skills that make living on the island possible and make him an asset to retired detective Severino when she occasionally calls upon him for help. She was the detective that informed him of his family’s murder, found the perpetrator, and shot him dead. In his isolated life, she’s the closest human to Damien. Natalie in retirement, works as both a private investigator and sporadically as a consultant to her old department.
As the island is small and rocky, his pets through this new series will be two cats. While I’d love to have a dog in the story, the island’s shores are too rocky and steep for a dog to be safe. My muse for the setting of this new mystery series actually exists in San Francisco Bay, I’ve just taken the liberty of fantasizing what it would be like to build and live in such a location. Red Rock Island will introduce you to the new series as Damien and Natalie solve a cold case.
I expect the book to be published this summer. It’s such fun embarking on the adventure of creating a new series! I’m also looking forward to creating a new book cover that brands this series different from the Jill Quint series.
Cheers,
A. Peche
I had about 20% of Jill Quint book 7, Castle Killing, written and I was struggling to put in four hundred words a day to the story line. After six books it’s hard to think of new reasons for the four main characters of that series to be together and to solve a crime in under a week or two. I do believe I’ll go back and finish that book in the future but in the meanwhile I’m enjoying shaping my new characters and their back story.
When I started to think about a new series, I knew I wanted a complete change of characters. In the Jill Quint series, Jill traveled the United States and Europe solving cases. In the Damien Green series, he’s a loner that rarely leaves his rock of an island. He has good reason to feel that way as seven years before the story begins, his wife and two daughters were murdered by an escaped convict. The first book fills in his story and his reasons for clinging to the island. At the same time, he has been and continues to be, a brilliant inventor and engineer; two skills that make living on the island possible and make him an asset to retired detective Severino when she occasionally calls upon him for help. She was the detective that informed him of his family’s murder, found the perpetrator, and shot him dead. In his isolated life, she’s the closest human to Damien. Natalie in retirement, works as both a private investigator and sporadically as a consultant to her old department.
As the island is small and rocky, his pets through this new series will be two cats. While I’d love to have a dog in the story, the island’s shores are too rocky and steep for a dog to be safe. My muse for the setting of this new mystery series actually exists in San Francisco Bay, I’ve just taken the liberty of fantasizing what it would be like to build and live in such a location. Red Rock Island will introduce you to the new series as Damien and Natalie solve a cold case.
I expect the book to be published this summer. It’s such fun embarking on the adventure of creating a new series! I’m also looking forward to creating a new book cover that brands this series different from the Jill Quint series.
Cheers,
A. Peche
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