Poisoned PEN
As I’ve mentioned many times in the past, I love getting emails from my readers, whether followers of this column, or those who enjoy my books. Every so often, though, I get what I call an oh-oh email. This is where the sender likes aspects of my twisted mind just a little too much.
Until recently, I had regarded the email as the scariest I’d received. This was from a fan who was so on me – in short, as per the master storyteller’s book, my reader wanted to kidnap and torture me until I agreed to bring the character back from the grave. Quite how I was supposed to do this when the character in question had already been buried was beyond even my imagination. I sent a non-committal reply about the resurrection (although I did promise not to do away with any others from DI Sterling’s team – I’m not stupid, the email sender might have meant what he’d threatened).
