reluctant sleuth

my new project

I have launched a Substack newsletter, which is a new (at least to me) form of web-based publishing. It’s called reluctant sleuth

I am using reluctant sleuth to serially publish my mystery novel, The Book of Answers, which was nominated for a Crime Writers of Canada Award of Excellence. It has been exciting to have people outside my circle of family and friends read it, and let me know what they think.

Two new chapters of my book go live each week, and there is an online archive where all the chapters are accessible.

Here is a link to the first two chapters:

https://darrowwoods.substack.com/p/chapters-1-and-2

I also write short posts every week related to my interests in mystery and thriller fiction, and the mysteries of life.

This week I wrote a bit of a memoir, that traces the beginning of my interest in these things. It’s a fun, and fond recollection of my favourite bookstore when I was a child. Click on the link below to read it:

https://darrowwoods.substack.com/p/the-secret-origin-of-the-reluctant