So I heard...it was all over the media this morning, from my local paper to Fox News. Hopefully it won't be a seven-book mystery...
Posted by debhoag (Member # 5493) on :
I'd be surprised if it wasn't already pretty close to done. It was probably her favorite fantasy while she was finishing up HP, "someday soon, I'll be writing for grown-ups."
Posted by Jon Ruyle (Member # 5943) on :
I haven't read many detective novels not written by Sir Conan Doyle, but I'll read this one
Her HP books have a lot of what I would think would make extremely good detective stories, namely, tons of clues about "whodoneit" that often seem unimportant on first reading or even mislead the reader, but come together and make perfect sense in the end. (Snape casting spells while Harry is playing Quidditch in SS, and Harry seeing "Barty Crotch" on the marauders map in GOF are examples that come to mind...)
Jon.
Posted by TaleSpinner (Member # 5638) on :
"Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stolen"?
Pat
Posted by Spaceman (Member # 9240) on :
Rowling is in the enviable position of being able to write whatever she wants. It doesn't matter if anyone buys it because she's already set for life and then some. I applaud her branching out in a new direction.
Posted by rstegman (Member # 3233) on :
"I read a mystery with three criminals The person who wrote it, the person who published it and the person who sold it to me and the mystery was why I ever read it in the first place"
Posted by annepin (Member # 5952) on :
I actually think the mystery genre is a natural fit for Rowling. She's a great story teller, and mysteries are all about telling the story. I don't know if I'll read it, though.
Edited to say: Okay, pretty much all fiction is about telling the story, so that was a silly thing for me to say. Oh well.
[This message has been edited by annepin (edited August 20, 2007).]
Posted by HuntGod (Member # 2259) on :
Well if she continues to write for the YA audience (and the rest of us) maybe she'll give us a new Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew for the 21st century.
I would love for her to hit a second home run...or eigth home run, depending on how you look at it.
