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Cyrena’s 2024 Year in Books
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This book was so good. And so very long. I really enjoyed the story. The characters. The plot. Only thing I did not enjoy was the cliffhanger. 😭 I usually wait for all parts of a series. I thought this as a stand-alone. It is no" Read more of this review » |
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I have to admit, I looked up Fell wondering if it was a real place! So you did your job well :)
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Because Fell, it turned out, had more than one unsolved murder. For such a small place, it was a true-crime buff’s paradise.
I wanted to make Fell, my fictional town, almost a character in the book. I wanted readers to feel like they were taking a temporary trip to a place that was weird and creepy and a little surreal. I always set my books in fictional towns if possible, because that way I get to make up details instead of wasting time researching things I will probably get wrong!
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Except that once I graduated from reading The Black Stallion, the books I read were the dark kind—about scary things like disappearances and murders, especially the true ones. While other kids read J. K. Rowling, I read Stephen King. While other kids did history reports about the Civil War, I read about Lizzie Borden.
My brother is four years older than me, and at age twelve I started raiding his Stephen King bookshelf. I read things I definitely should not have been reading at far too young an age. I also remember a yellowed paperback called “Women Who Kill” that I picked up at a babysitting job. The Lizzie Borden chapter started my love for true crime.
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How it didn’t matter how afraid or how careful you were—it could always be you.
This is another theme of the book: that the average woman is, in her own way, an expert in crime. Both Viv and Carly come to realize this fact as they learn to rely on their own instincts, born of always being aware of danger. This is also one of the reasons that the true crime genre is so popular with women, something I could go on and on about! I love true crime, and I really wanted to read a novel that gave me that same thrill while also being a satisfying mystery. I couldn’t find that book, so I wrote it, which is how I come up with most of my ideas.
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The person who could be truly alone, in the company of no one but oneself and one’s own thoughts—that person was stronger than anyone else. More ready. More prepared.
In my early twenties, I worked night shifts at a now-defunct TV station for almost two years. I was the new kid on the job, I had no husband or children, and I had nowhere else to be, so I was given the shifts no one else wanted. No one cared that a young woman who couldn’t afford a car had to get to and from work alone in a bad part of town in the middle of the night.
For a long time, I had the itch to write a ghost story about people who work at night. I didn’t meet anyone or date for those two years, I didn’t party with friends, and I didn’t spend holidays with family because I was working
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