“It’s a dangerous story about a dangerous place..” Roger Johns talks about his newest mystery novel – River of Secrets. “Baton Rouge has a lot of elements to it that seemed…at some instinctive level more accommodating to stories of the kind I wanted to tell…. When you write a mystery it has to work like a clock. Everything that needs to be there has to be there. You don’t want to make the reader mad by cheating…She ( the lead character) turned out to be a sort of a miraculous thing that just showed up in my head. This little voice just showed up in my head one day “You need a woman at the wheel…”
It was hard work but it was so interesting. So much more interesting than anything I had done before that I decided to stick with it; and when I sold the book that was all the encouragement I needed.
As we have seen over and over in history – A lie is as powerful as the truth if you can get someone to believe it.
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