There is a small, strange, wonderful shelf in the library of thrillers — one most readers stumble onto by accident. It is where three things that publishing usually keeps in separate rooms are braided into a single rope: the crime novel’s hunger to know who did it, faith’s insistence that the soul is the real
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There is a thing that happens to the body in a moment of real danger that no one who hasn’t been through it quite believes. Time stretches. Sound goes strange — some of it roaring, some of it gone. Your vision narrows to a tunnel, and your hands seem to move on their own, faster
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Raymond Chandler once argued that the detective at the heart of a crime novel has to be a kind of knight — a man of honor walking down streets that are anything but honorable, neither tarnished by them nor afraid of them. That idea has shaped the genre for the better part of a century.
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For a good stretch of my life, my days were governed by things I could prove. Chain of custody. Time stamps. The serial number on a weapon, the data on a phone, the testimony I could swear to before a judge. A detective lives in the world of the demonstrable, because in that world a
There is a particular sound a well-worn Bible makes when it falls open — not to a page you went looking for, but to the page it always seems to find on its own, where the spine has been broken by years of returning. In the book, I gave Lady Grace a Bible like that,
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I once watched a man walk back into a burning situation that every instinct, every ounce of training, and every sensible person nearby told him to walk away from. He had nothing to gain by it. He was not being paid, not being ordered, not being watched by anyone whose opinion could help him. He
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There is a particular hour on a long surveillance — somewhere past two in the morning, when the coffee has gone cold and the street has emptied of everything but stray cats and bad intentions — when a man alone in a car begins to hear his own thoughts more clearly than he would like.
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Most thrillers open with a body. The Hunter of Wolves opens with a child under a bed, listening to footsteps he knows are coming for him, breathing in the dark while something that is almost a wolf and almost a man sniffs its way closer. There is no detective yet, no siren, no clever forensic
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Welcome. My name is Rocker Craigley, author of The Hunter of Wolves. I’m so happy to have you as a visitor to my blog about my new book. This project is very special to me, and I hope to share some of that excitement with you here. I’ll be using this blog to interact with