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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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'The crown of literature is poetry. It is its end and aim. It is the sublimest activity of the human mind. It is the achievement of beauty and delicacy. The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.'