Shelf Life

摘要

Several years ago oklahoma librarian Will thomas contacted novelist Anne Perry for an author's program he was organizing at the Broken Arrow branch of the Tulsa City-County Library System. Lit-tle did he dream then that the mystery writer would one day praise his own novel as "an exciting page-turner with two original detectives." This professional connection to Perry turned out to be fortuitous after Thomas told her he was working on a mystery. She kindly suggested several writing guides, including one by her own agent. "I had already started my book before the program on Perry," says Thomas, "but she definitely gave me the direction on how to do it." Perry later read Thomas's completed manuscript and wrote her favorable blurb for the galleys. Now the fruit of Thomas's labor and Perry's advice will appear on library and bookstore shelves this June when Simon & Schuster's Touchstone imprint releases Some Danger Involved, an atmospheric debut set in Victorian London, which the publisher likens to Caleb Carr's best-selling The Alienist.