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When will you guess the big twist?

My new psychological thriller, Where the Night Takes Us, begins with the following proviso.

Psychological thrillers with underdogs facing tough odds and dark, daring twists. That’s my jam and peanut butter on sourdough bread. I hope they are your kind of fiction, too. If you like Mindhunter, you’ll love this.

Bonuses:
1. The ebook is deeply discounted for a limited time. (Also available in paperback and hardcover.)
2. You’ll find trenchant and fun conversation starters for your book club in the back.
3. There are lots of twists and turns along the way, but when will you guess the big twist?

CLICK HERE FOR KILLER SUSPENSE IN MONTANA!

Here’s the book blurb:

Thriller cover

Dr. Simon Fethullah’s weapon was his mind. It is also his torment.

As a forensic psychiatrist working with the FBI, Simon’s testimony helped to convict the Rainy Day Cannibal. After taking a bullet for his trouble, Simon retreats to the wilds of Montana to hide and to heal with his loving wife Carla and Stefano, their massive dog. The good doctor seeks peace, but murderers have long memories. When the President’s Press Secretary is assassinated, a serial killer’s dreams become our nightmares.

Though caged, prison walls cannot contain Rainy Day’s ambitions. The madman has a loyal following and a vendetta that demands a terrible price. When threatening postcards find their way to Simon’s door, it’s clear that dangerous people know how to find him, and they are coming for blood.

The Fear-Death Series features suspenseful thrillers centered on Dr. Simon Fethullah, a complex, haunted character whose love for his wife, Carla, balances him. Simon’s kind of like Dr. Gregory House, but with House hunting serial killers instead of disease. (Also, everybody loves Stefano.)

I’ve been getting lots of lovely feedback on Where the Night Takes Us. Here are a few snippets about the psychological thriller with a big twist:

It is one of those wonderful books where the reader is totally immersed in the story, unaware of their surroundings, going right along beside the characters and almost smelling the fresh brewed coffee in the story. Every part was plausible. It takes the reader through a full range of emotions which a couple of times provoked me to put the book down and digest what I’d read. This five star book is a good stand alone book but the moment I finished it I was eager for a sequel. I’m sure it will be five star too!

I got completely lost in the story. I also found myself wiping away tears and, then, a few pages later, laughing out loud at Simon’s dry, sarcastic humor. This is the first of Mr. Chute’s work that I have read, but it won’t be the last. I can’t wait to read the next in this series. I highly recommend it to fans of serial killers and psychological thrillers. 

The plot twists kept me hooked throughout, whilst the suspense built chapter by chapter. Simon is a complex and realistic character, and I liked the dynamic between him and his wife in the narrative. The wild and isolated setting also added to the overall suspenseful feeling of the storyline. If this was on the tv I would have been watching it from behind a cushion!

I enjoyed the idea that the entire story was a journal and the reader was experiencing it after the fact as the character, Simon, had experienced it. Chute knows how to put little details in to have the reader go mad with questions until he finally decides to take pity and explain. Its an excellent tactic and I am here for it!

More News: The sequel is already available!

Murdered girls get headlines. Missing girls get forgotten.

A bullet drove Dr. Simon Fethullah out of the FBI. A grieving mother’s plea to find her missing daughter drags the brilliant forensic psychiatrist from his solitude. The cops blew the case, the trail’s gone cold, and Simon’s still haunted by his wife’s death. What he uncovers will test his training, his sanity, and the ghosts that refuse to let him go.

With his massive dog and a sharp-tongued driver named Paloma as his unlikely partners, he packs up his RV and heads into the Texas heat. To find the girl, Simon’s search will take him deep into the City of the Dead. When the boundary between reality and delusion blurs, Simon’s mind becomes the most dangerous terrain.

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The first review is in from Canada!

The suspense in this story is outstandingly well written. There are lovely shots of humour that provide moments of relief when things get too dark, and, as always, readers can expect unexpected developments.

This is another five-star novel from Robert Chazz Chute.

Cane Corso dog.

Stefano, the Cane Corso doggie says…well, nothing. He’s a dog.
But if he could speak, he’d say these thrillers put movies in your head.

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Extra hint: These novels make great gifts! Feel free to buy in bulk. 🙂

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The Root of All Our Problems

Every day we’re all asking the same questions about the future. Amid rampant pessimism, what is the root of all our problems, and what happens next?

Will AI empty our bank accounts and spell our doom in its own impenetrable code? What madness is this? Are we spiraling ever further down a misinformation maelstrom that denies science, lies about reality, and defies logic? When is a war not a war? If humans are basically good, how is it that so many believe that might makes right? If the pendulum of politics swings back and forth, when’s the revolution, and what will our daily lives look like when the smoke clears? Are there better days ahead? Is that even possible now?

Here’s the ad break, but hey, it’s relevant!

New release! Better Days Ahead.

What is the root of all our problems?
Here’s your universal link to read Better Days Ahead now.

For years, we turned our technology off and on to reboot it. Now technology is rebooting us.

When a mysterious signal circles the globe, Deborah Goodwin’s Drone Life is over. Many results are lethal. Some are hopeful. What happens next depends on the survivors.

If you loved Station Eleven or you’re curious about artificial intelligence bringing about the end of the world as we know it, this short story is for you.

I’ve been reading a lot of shorter fiction lately. Better Days Ahead is a short story I had on the back burner. I recently revisited it, made some additions, tweaks, and edits and decided to publish it on Amazon. As I write this, it sits at #44 on the 30-minute Science Fiction & Fantasy Short Reads list. (At 99 cents, it would be cheap entertainment at twice the price, so enjoy!)

And now, back to the news/circus

In high school, my social studies teacher thought my worldview was too grim. When I pointed out my reasons, she said, “You have to have faith!” To which I replied, “Why?”

I’m still asking why. True, the privileged enjoy wonders once only dreamed of in science fiction. The cell phone in your hand is a miracle packed full of the world’s knowledge. Unfortunately, that same technology arrives with a dull thud in the thick skulls of hostile apes. Steven Pinker and Bill Maher can assert all they want that there is no better time to live than now. Sure, if you aren’t in Gaza. I’m not in love with how good we have it. My focus is on how much better we could be.

One of my favorite bits from This Plague of Days is, “You’re still fighting the wrong war.” Currently, the United States is waging three wars (four, if you count the economic war on Canada; more if you take into account piracy and other incursions.) But, you see, it’s incredibly expensive to stop Iran from having the nuclear program it didn’t have that Trump repeatedly asserts he’s already destroyed.

The president says the country is rich, rich, rich! But somehow, the US is the only industrialized nation that cannot guarantee healthcare for its citizens. Cancer and heart disease are Americans’ highest threats, but the budget is for bombs.

“But socialism and communism!” If those words make you think of totalitarianism and long bread lines instead of, say, Nordic countries with peaceful mixed economies where tax dollars are used to care for citizens, let’s save some time. Shut the fuck up.

How will it all end?

In 2018, I published a collection of short stories about several ways the world might go poof. Killer meteors, nukes, and pandemics, oh my! In those stories, I did not depict scenarios where big problems get solved. Instead, I focused on individuals facing the end. When you’re in a military bunker in Colorado and the pressure wave from a big meteor strike is rushing your way, how do you react? Or suppose the end of the world is lasting longer than that. How do you get along with your fellow would-be survivors in tight spaces underground? When do the murders begin?

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Our three futures

Imagining the future in the abstract is interesting and fun. The timeline could have many branches, but let’s break it down to three basics:

1. Dystopian AKA The Star Wars Future. You can tell because many of the spaceships aren’t in great condition. Having Wars in the title is another hint.
2. Utopian AKA The Star Trek Future. There are still wars, but the main mission is exploration and expanding knowledge. Also note that the spaceships are super spiffy!
3. Apocalyptic. We follow the path that has been trod before: Extinction.

But how do we get to better days ahead?

We address the root of all our problems. What’s that? Our addiction to the circus. It’s not looking great on several fronts at the moment, but politics could be how problems get solved. Comedian Jimmy Carr once said that debate solves nothing. His answer is not debate, but deliberation.

That shift from Me to We flips the spirit of the work entirely. Actual good work might get accomplished if we don’t go at it as if we’re stepping into the ring. Of course, that’s not the current zeitgeist at all.

We suffer an infection of contrarians and sophists.

Sometimes I wonder if there is anything some people won’t say. RFK Jr. is still spouting conspiracy theories about chemtrails.

JD Vance muses about UAPs being demons, and paraphrasing, “I try to do God’s work, but if it leads to the End of Days, well, okay.”

Donald Trump insists prices are coming down, the war is won (more than 100 times), and everybody loves him, and everybody knows it. Ignore the polls, your lying eyeds, and anyone who criticizes him is a threat to national security and his massive insecurity.

Don’tcha miss when politics was boring? Instead, people who care less about other people treat politics, not as a way out, but as bloodsport. People who think they’re good and righteous practice casual cruelty and blatant racism. Children are suffering, but “well, okay.”

The root of all our problems is found in a Peanuts cartoon.

Lucy’s doing her underpaid and unlicensed psychologist bit on Charlie Brown.

“Do you know what your problem is?” she shouts.

“Your problem is you don’t want to hear what your problem is!”

And there it is: The first step out of addiction is admitting we have a problem.

We can’t begin to solve any problems if we can’t even agree on what the problems are. To veer away from disaster, we must acknowledge our addiction to the circus. Aggression gets clicks. Name-calling has replaced elucidation, deliberation, and problem-solving. To combat decay, regression, and extinction, we need sober and boring.

Or we could listen to the Ringmaster shrieking, “Eyes on the center ring! The world’s circus features monkeys with machine guns!”

Sure, there are great people pursuing solutions and working on the cure for terrible diseases. I just wish they weren’t so outnumbered. This is why I still don’t have faith. Reality as it now stands sucks, but at least there’s still fiction that knows it’s fiction.

Speaking of which:

I just released two new psychological thrillers. Where the Night Takes Us and When the Night Finds Us.

Get them both now. Makes a great gift. Buy in bulk! 🙂

5 out of 5 stars

An excellent serial killer/psychological thriller

Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2026

(reviewed on Amazon by Teresa Collins)

Where the Night Takes Us is an excellent serial killer/psychological thriller that lingers for days after you turn the last page. It will take up bandwidth in your brain and just make itself at home. The characters are so intriguing and realistic that they feel like real people. The story is engrossing, and I found myself reading much longer than I should have, but I couldn’t put it down.

Mr. Chute’s writing flows so smoothly and is so easy to read that I got completely lost in the story. I also found myself wiping away tears and, then, a few pages later, laughing out loud at Simon’s dry, sarcastic humor. This is the first of Mr. Chute’s work that I have read, but it won’t be the last. I can’t wait to read the next in this series. I highly recommend it to fans of serial killers and psychological thrillers. I received a review copy from the author via BookSirens, and this review reflects my honest and voluntary opinion.

~ I’m Robert Chazz Chute, the suspense novelist who writes apocalyptic epics with heart and crime thrillers with muscle. Please allow me to put visions in your brain box.

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What will you do when the night finds you?

If you love psychological thrillers, I now have two for you! The sequel to Where the Night Takes Us is When the Night Finds Us, and it’s out now!

I have to admit, this soft launch is a bit unexpected. The novel is fully edited and ready (thanks again, Gari and Russ!), but I had planned to wait a little longer. Getting the Bookbub campaign changed that strategy. A lot of people will get the link to the first book in the series on Tuesday for just 99 cents. I’m hoping that offering the sequel now will encourage more readers to follow Dr. Simon Fethullah into his next investigation. I’ll do more of a marketing push once more reviews come in and things progress.

The Premise

In When the Night Finds Us, a grieving mother pleads with our not-so-intrepid forensic psychiatrist to find her missing daughter. The game’s afoot! With his massive dog and a sharp-tongued driver named Paloma beside him, Simon climbs into his new RV and heads into the Texas heat to find Wilhelmina Dupree, dead or alive. I love how Simon solves this mystery, but for me, the banter between the good doctor and Paloma is the most fun.

If you think the novel might appeal to someone who enjoys psychological thrillers, missing-person mysteries, or dark, character-driven crime fiction, I’d be grateful if you shared it with them. Even a quick mention, a social post, or a review from anyone who reads it would help more than you know.

Here’s the book: https://mybook.to/WhentheNightFindsUs

Thanks for being a reader!

What’s that you say? You haven’t read the first suspenseful thriller in the Fear-Death Experiences Series? Inconceivable! Here’s the link. (On sale now for just 99 cents!)

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Fight for Books and Revive Reading Culture

I’m worried about literacy. We don’t have enough of it. Too many people either don’t read, obsess over social media, or scan summaries instead of experiencing the immersion of pulling a book and getting movies in their minds. Fewer people make the time or have the patience to enjoy a book, and that’s bad for our brains. It’s bad for all of us.

I’m going to recommend three books. (I wrote two of them.)

One of books I’m enjoying recently is Anthony Hopkins ‘ autobiography, We Did OK, Kid. (If you listen to the audiobook, Kenneth Brannaugh narrates, and his voice work is, as you’d expect, excellent.) Hopkins reminded me of his role in 84 Charing Cross Road. Last night, I ran across the book and I bought it immediately.

This slim volume is an ode to a bygone time when books were valued so much more by many more people. It’s an epistolary story wherein a very literate and funny woman in New York has a back-and-forth with a bookseller in London, England. Beginning in 1949, she requests used books only they can procure to her satisfaction. If you love books, you’ll love the movie and the book.

As soon as I found it at the bookstore, I had to buy a latte and dig in immediately. It’s a funny, plotless book with an unambitious premise. It’s not about dark forces taking over the galaxy. It’s just letters back and forth by bibliophiles who, incidentally, will never meet in person.

And to be honest, I choked up a little. 84 Charing Cross Road takes place in hard times. It’s a time I never lived in, yet I’m nostalgic for: A time when more people loved books, discussed books, and fiction and non-fiction were more centered in the culture. Your phone is full of vitriol. Push back on the brain rot. Reject rage bait that seeks to anger you for clicks. Choose media that informs, entertains, and enriches.

How do we fight forces pushing literacy down? Read books. Make it normal to discuss books. Review books. Support authors. Join a book club. Don’t fall for censorship. Read banned books. Frequent your local library and little libraries. Read to your kids. Put down the phone more and pick up books instead. Make reading ubiquitous again. I don’t know how much we’ll improve literacy, but at least we can try to hold the line and not let reading fall by the wayside completely.

The next book I recommend is mine, and it’s on sale now.

It’s release week for my new psychological thriller, Where the Night Takes Us.

Dr. Simon Fethullah was the FBI profiler who put the Rainy Day Cannibal away. The cannibal’s back, and the madman coming for Simon and his family. Find out more about the plot here.

Or, even better, just do this:

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Another recommendation:

I have entered Endemic for the Booklife Prize. Endemic won the North Street Book Prize in 2022, so I’m hopeful. Part of the deal is that I received a review from a Booklife critic. Here’s what they had to say:

Title: Endemic
Author: Robert Chazz Chute
Genre: Fiction/Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror
Audience: Adult
Word Count: 99876

Assessment:

Plot: Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Robert Chazz Chute’s science fiction follows Ovid as she navigates a transformed society and searches for her place within it. Chute creates a believable setting that gives the story a strong sense of possibility and danger. Fans of apocalyptic fiction and detailed world-building will find much to enjoy.

Prose: Robert Chazz Chute opens in medias res, with Ovid on the streets of New York after a virus has ravaged the city and much of the world. For anyone who lived through COVID-19, the premise carries an unsettling echo of reality: a city under lockdown that emerges permanently changed. Chute’s vivid descriptions give this altered world a strong sense of place, while its specialized jargon reflects the communities that have formed without leaving readers struggling to understand them.

Originality: Chute gives the story its own identity through its attention to group dynamics and the communities that emerge after disaster. Its vision of a world that remains recognizable yet has been permanently altered makes Endemic a strong addition to post-apocalyptic science fiction.

Character Execution: For fans of science fiction and end-of-the-world stories, much of the appeal lies in seeing how people adapt when the rules of ordinary life disappear. Chute portrays the community Ovid must navigate with impressive detail, while making her survival something readers will genuinely root for. Her encounters and conflicts with the people around her reveal how this new world is changing her, making Ovid a memorable protagonist.

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~ Thanks for being a reader! I’m Robert Chazz Chute, the suspense writer who works from a blanket fort in Other London. It would help me immensely if you let me entertain you. Enjoy my books for hours of twisty fun. Books make great gifts, so buy in bulk. 😉

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My New Psychological Thriller!

It’s book launch day!

For readers who love forensic minds, damaged heroes, dastardly villains, isolated settings, and the kind of suspense that makes you check the locks twice. Where the Night Takes Us is waiting in the darkness. I hope you’ll find it the best psychological thriller you’ve read in a long time.

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What do you want to know about my new suspense novel?

There is a particular kind of fear at the heart of psychological thrillers: the fear that escape is an illusion.

In Where the Night Takes Us, Dr. Simon Fethullah tries to step away from the violent world he knows. As a forensic psychiatrist working with the FBI, he used his expertise to understand dangerous minds. Simon’s testimony helped convict the Rainy Day Cannibal, but the victory came at a terrible cost. After taking a bullet, Simon retreats to Montana with his wife, Carla, and their enormous dog, Stefano.

Montana seems like the perfect place to begin again. But can physical isolation ever provide emotional safety? Simon is far from the courtroom and the FBI, but he is not free from memory. The people he studied — and the consequences of helping put them away — haunt him. This thriller explores the weaponization of knowledge. Simon’s mind made him valuable in the fight against criminals, but it is also his torment. Knowledge offers little comfort when it confirms your worst fears.

The big bad is the Rainy Day Cannibal. Though in prison, he is not powerless. His loyal followers have become eager accomplices. A prison cell may hold a body, but it cannot necessarily contain an idea or curb a vendetta.

For readers drawn to stories about damaged minds, moral uncertainty, and the long shadow of violence, Where the Night Takes Us offers unsettling questions: Are you safe? Is anyone? And what are you willing to do when danger comes knocking on your front door?

~ I’m Robert Chazz Chute, the suspense novelist who writes from a blanket fort in Other London. Feel free to buy paperbacks and hardcovers in bulk. 🙂

P.S. Makes a great gift!

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Lowest Prices and New Books for Your Fall Reading

New Books for you!

This month I’m promoting books, and not just my own. Kerrie, at Booklinker, set up a promotion for a bunch of sci-fi and fantasy books. We can all slide into fall at a steep discount and build our TBR piles. (One person reading this is asking, so let me soothe that person right now. TBR means To Be Read.)

My contribution is to set the price for This Plague of Days, Season One, at just 99¢! That’ll give you a great start to my bestselling trilogy. When a bioterrorist’s killer virus turns most survivors into a zombie horde, one mute boy on the spectrum is humanity’s only hope. The battle of Good versus Evil begins here. If you enjoyed The Stand, you’ll love This Plague of Days.

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And speaking of upcoming books, my new release is almost here!

Where the Night Takes Us launches on September 14th!

My new thriller is perfect for Mindhunter fans!

Dr. Simon Fethullah testified against Roderick Shane, the Rainy Day Cannibal. Shot on the witness stand, the brilliant forensic psychiatrist retired to the remote woods of Montana. For years, the good doctor thought he and his family were safe. Then the threatening postcards arrive.

The Rainy Day Cannibal is still in prison, but his madness reaches far beyond the walls of his cell. And he’s coming for Simon.

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Not sure? Learn more about Where the Night Takes Us here.

~ I’m Robert Chazz Chute, your friendly neighborhood suspense writer. Reality often sucks, right? Buy fiction. You’ll become a happier person.

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Does a Canadian Setting Hurt Sales of Crime Thrillers?

We are always scanning the horizon for what’s new. Last night, I rediscovered a gem at the bottom of the jewelry box. I found the answer to my question there, too.

A cop once asked me, how can you write crime thrillers without a cop as the central character?

“Easily,” I replied. “A team of crack investigators with all the power and authority of the badge is playing on god mode. I write about underdogs. The police may show up in my fiction, but they’re only batting cleanup after some crazed characters do the interesting things crazed characters do.”

The protagonist of my new release is a former FBI profiler, but he’s got PTSD, a bum hip, and a slippery grip on reality. Dr. Simon Fethullah relies much more on his wits than his gun.

In Where the Night Takes Us, all the action takes place at Dr. Simon Fethullah’s hideaway in Montana. He thought he was safe there. He was mistaken.

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The second book in the Fear-Death Series is titled When the Night Finds Us. The novel is in the editorial pipeline. (I’m going over edits and suggestions today.) The story is set in Texas.


How the Night Claims Us is a pile of notes, character descriptions, and plot points at the moment. But what setting will be best for the third in this series?

This is not my first foray into crime fiction.

My backlist includes the four books in the Hit Man Series, The Night Man, Brooklyn in the Mean Time, Vengeance Is Hers, Murders Among Dead Trees, and Sometime Soon, Somewhere Close. (Ahem! See the sales links to the right.) Most are set in the United States.

Initially, When the Night Finds Us was going to be set in Florida. As a proud and thankful Canadian (and a member of the Crime Writers of Canada) I reconsidered. I grew up in Nova Scotia. It’s not an exotic destination to me, but it is unfamiliar or much loved by many. Dad always referred to the Annapolis Valley as “God’s Country” and, though he’d traveled the world, he couldn’t imagine the allure of living anywhere else.

Where the Night Takes Us is set in a fictional, rural area of Montana. When the Night Finds Us is set in Defiant, Texas. (That name sounds redundant, doesn’t it?) Is it time to add an international flavor to my forensic psychiatrist’s investigations? Would a Canadian setting hurt sales with my American readers?

Retrieving the Forgotten: In Praise of the Backlist

To taste that Nova Scotian flavor again, I revisited an anthology I published in 2019. Sometime Soon, Somewhere Close explores the minds and methodologies of some messed-up people. The first story is set in Port George, Nova Scotia. When I was a kid, my parents often drove the few miles up the mountain and to the shore there to take in the sunset over the Bay of Fundy. (Motto: Highest Tides in the World!)

The sunsets were lovely, especially that sumer the dust from Chinese nuclear tests colored the sky. (Not kidding.) We could see the lights of New Brunswick across the waves. It looks closer than it really is, but it would not be an easy swim. It was cooler on the shore, so while descending the South Mountain back down into the Valley’s summer heat, all the car windows would fog up in a flash. The fogged windows hit about the same moment your ears would pop from the change in elevation.

It’s the sort of drive you take with your parents when you’re little, and if you’re good, you might get ice cream in Margaretsville. Later, after you get your driver’s license, you take your girlfriend on those same forays to the Bay of Fundy to see the sunset and wait for the stars to come out.

Revisiting old work can produce a very particular anxiety: Is this how I finally discover a typo previously missed?

However, thankfully, no typos! Rereading that story after all this time was wonderful. And it pulled me into the next short story, and the next, and the next! It wasn’t mere nostalgia. Details I’d forgotten came flooding back. Not to toot my own horn too hard, but damn, that Robert in 2019 turned some good phrases and added clever twists. I’d like to think I’ve only improved, of course, but time and distance from a previously published title added to my appreciation of what I was doing with that book. I’ve had time, and many books since. I was nice to come at it anew.

In short, Somewhere Soon, Somewhere Close holds up.

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So, what’s next?

There are logistics to consider, and a few minor adjustments. I think I can get Dr. Simon Fethullah, his driver Paloma, and Simon’s enormous dog, Stephano, up into the Great White North. There are rich settings in Nova Scotia, and I know them well, so why not? My impulse for the change started with an Elbows Up attitude, but the place will serve the story well, too.

But a haunting question chewed at the back of my brain. Most of my readers are US citizens. Will they be interested in a setting outside the United States?

After graduating from journalism school, I got my first training in publishing at the Banff Publishing Workshop decades ago. I remember two lessons from that bootcamp experience:

1. Unless it’s a book about golf or gardening, green covers don’t sell.
2. American readers want American settings (not North American settings).

I’m not sure about #1, but #2 has changed. For those who disagree, maybe I’ll change their minds.

Last weekend I visited a very small but very well-curated bookstore. Scanning the Mystery/Thriller/Suspense sections, it was remarkable how many vicars in Yorkshire are sticking their big noses into murder investigations. Book clubs across the UK are embarrassing Scotland Yard with their amateur sleuthing. The lessons I learned at the Banff School of Fine Arts was a wonderful introduction to publishing (and got me jobs in book publishing the moment I moved to Toronto). But some stale advice has become old tattered hat, ready for the bin.

People want a good, well-written story that keeps them up at night turning pages. I can deliver that, no matter where Dr. Simon Fethullah hunts serial killers.

The pre-order for Where the Night Takes Us is up now, only 99 cents for a limited time.

~ I am Robert Chazz Chute. I write suspenseful novels about evildoers now and at the end of the world. Or is “now” and “the end of the world” redundant?