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New Erikson Malazan murder mystery novella in the works

#1 ArchieVist

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Posted 25 September 2021 - 06:52 PM

Steven Erikson was on the Ten Very Big Books podcast and mentioned he took a few weeks off from Walk in Shadow to begin work on a murder mystery novella (or short novel) starring Flicker from Crack'd Pot Trail (see about the 1:08:00 mark).

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Flicker is the...greatest assassin ever...and the fact that nobody knows about it proves just how great an assassin he is. So it's that kind of a story.

He references the British crime series Midsomer Murders and says:

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I've kind of taken that idea of an English estate, an ancestral pile, loaded it up with characters and I'm now proceeding to knock them all off. It's fun.

#2 worry

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Posted 25 September 2021 - 08:30 PM

Lol that's an awesome idea.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

#3 Tsundoku

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Posted 25 September 2021 - 08:49 PM

If there's one thing I have learned from TV, it's that sleepy English villages have a higher murder rate than Medellin at the height of the Escobar era. :apt:

"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes

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