The I-10 Incident is a story about a traffic accident that leads to multiple murder investigations.
This is a fictional story about imaginary characters in a fictional city that resembles New Orleans, Louisiana in some ways. The author did not base any part of any storyline on real people, real relationships, or real events. Although some of the location names in this series exist in real life, the author is not depicting the real world. Every aspect of this series is about understanding the characters.
This ongoing series is about fictional characters living in a fictional world while working at a fictional mortuary during 2014, and one of them is a serial killer. This is not a courtroom drama. This is not a forensics investigation series. This is not a detective story. This is not erotica. Knowing facts is not the key for solving the mystery of the storyline because this series is about Casual Serial Killers, an invention of the author. Understanding the characters is the key.
In other words, this series is an adult fairytale from the author’s imagination with foul language, violence, immoral behavior, and explicit sexual content.
Kim used to talk about writing fiction when we met 30 years ago. I was thrilled to discover The I-10 Incident recently, and it was well worth the wait. Kim's level of detail, her expert scene setting and her grasp and expression of character development do not disappoint. Her writing and the flow of action and thought remind me of a delicate cross between Hesse's The Glass Bead Game and Beethoven's 9th Symphony - deep and engaging philosophic thought progressing to a destination through her characters' actions and words, and gently recurring passages leading to and arriving at that same destination. I am part way through Book 2 and wishing all three were together in one edited volume. Also very happy to see the inclusion of one of Kim's sonnets in Book 1 and hoping to see more of her poetry in Books 2 and 3.