That thing more terrifying than teleportation
Have you ever thought about how teleporters work? I know it's difficult to do so since they don't exist. But there are things that we know teleporters must be able to do to achieve their effect:
Mystery Rabbit Hole 11
I recently read a mystery novel, The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman. It is a good book that touches on several issues that will be at play in my upcoming novel, Zen Men Tell No Tales. Without giving anything away in the main storyline, this mystery has a significant subplot involving one of the main characters, Elizabeth, and her spouse, Stephen, who is losing his memory to early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Elizabeth is grieving the slow, steady loss of the man she has loved for decades, and Stephen is sending letters to himself so he will remember what is happening and encourage his future self to do something about it before it’s too late. This is a sad and terrifying story arc that haunts the main storyline about a single murder, where all the suspects keep killing each other until only one is left, making the detective’s job easier.
It's Thursday. Time for the murder club
Richard Osman has penned an intriguing series of murder mysteries about an unlikely gaggle of amateur detectives who have to set aside their armchair bickerings over cold cases in the break room of the retirement center, to face the reality of death and violence when it comes for them in their home. A cozy mystery series set in a retirement home might not be everyone's cup of tea, pun intended. What it lacks in the hardness of its criminals, or the technical brilliance of its police procedures, or the daring pace of its three-page chapters, each ending on a cliffhanger to keep you reading, it more than makes up for it with heart, wit, and depth of perspective. The four main characters are thrown together by circumstance and attempt to forge a meaningful life from the dregs of their collective retirements. Sometimes the hobbies that we start become something more. A weekly murder club becomes a crucible through which the characters find hope and friendship in the face of adversity. A spy who tries to keep the world at arm's length, a psychologist who wants to talk, a labor activist looking for something to fight for, and a lonely biscuit baker looking for love in all the wrong places all have one thing in common: each other.