A girl realizes she’s happier throwing away her meals than eating them. A man with Alzheimer’s sets out alone for his childhood home.
Those stories tend to seat readers within pinching distance of her characters, who, like most of us, slide at times from real life to fantasy and back.
Nowadays, having outlived her mortgage and her professional counseling life, she aims herself at her desk most days where she tangles with whatever story she can’t get out of her head. Later, her interests in myth and depth psychology led to graduate and postgraduate degrees in counseling.
in English, she drove a shabby Ford Falcon with a changing array of homemade bumper strips: Art for Art’s Sake, Forgive Us Our Trespasses, Free Bosie from the Scorn of History. Dutton is the one who hid during high school gym, produced an alternative newspaper, and exchanged notes in Tolkien’s Elfish language with her few friends. Holmes claimed his color-coded system was modern and flawless. They filled the unused icebox, the pots that never knew soup, and lined most of the cupboards.īooks climbed the walls, stacked and somehow tracked in their positions with ribbons that hung from the center pages in a festive display-red, black, gold, green, purple, blue, white. Books invaded the corner of the ground floor room usually devoted to meal preparation, too. Books lined shelves and the stairway to the sleeping loft.
Some might say it was no place for any inhabitant at all, full as it was with apparatus meant for Holmes’ scientific inquiries, not to mention the maps and almanacs, the world’s newspapers, and of course, his library. No doubt his cottage fit his needs precisely, but it was no place for a visitor, perhaps purposely so. Not for the first time, I felt a surge of gratitude for Holmes’ unspoken understanding that his digs at Bolt Cottage couldn’t suit me. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Purchase Links for Sherlock Holmes and the Remaining Improbableīarnes & Noble Kobo iTunes The Book DepositoryĬhapters/Indigo Publisher ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Excerpt from Sherlock Holmes and the Remaining Improbable Like a tiny explosion unaccountably shifting a far-reaching landscape, the simple words churn desperate action and interlocking mystery into the lives of Holmes’ friends and enemies both. His scribbled response, “no more solutions, but one true resolution,” seems more a vow than a goal to his psychiatrist, Pierre Joubert. Confronted by a question as to his treatment goals, Holmes hesitates, aware that his real goal far exceeds the capacity of any clinic. August 1920 finds him filling our entry papers at a nearly defunct psychiatric clinic on the Normandy coast.Įngland’s new Dangerous Drugs Act declares his cocaine use illegal and he aims to quit entirely. The Game is not afoot and the Better-Ever-Day World of 1895 is gone, even hard to recall as WWI ends.įrom his rural cottage, Holmes no longer provokes Scotland Yard’s envy or his landlady’s impatience, but neither is he content with the study of bees. Genres: Fiction, Adventure, Crime, Detective/Sleuth, Historical Fiction, Mystery, Psychological Thriller