Well, I’m back in town, well-rested after a long, fishing-centric vacation that took years to achieve. And after a lot of time out on the lake fishing, I didn’t get a chance to write anything, but I do believe that, at least for now, I’m leaning toward putting my Pizza Deliver Mystery series on hold and crafting a new series around a crime-solving Messianic Rabbi.
It’s a completely different series in subject matter; there will be no ghostly assistant nor any other supernatural element, but at least this is a direction that no one else is trying right now, and the only precedent for such a series, Harry Kemelmen’s excellent Rabbi Small mysteries, have faded from recent, fond memories.
Can a mystery-thriller with an unconventional religious angle still capture a mainstream mystery audience? Only time will tell, but if it catches on, it will be an example of me creating something with no current trend that I’d be following.
The world has plenty of supernatural mysteries right now. There’s as many people writing those as there are weight loss products in your average Walgreens. Virtually no one has tried this sort of mystery recently. It’s time to see if it’s a market that can be mined.
But don’t expect me to write too much specifically about it until the manuscript is complete and has found either an agent or an editor. I want no repeats of the Thirty Minutes Or Less tragedy.
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