Of Harry Bosch and Sherlock Holmes: Readers Will Never Say Goodbye

‘Desert Star’ Debuts at Number One

Butterfly attempts to drink from a drying creek bed, Texas 2007 / photo by the author Amethyst Qu

In March, I wrote an in-depth story for The Writing Cooperative about a problem that eventually hits every author of a long-running mystery series. If readers love your detective, they keep demanding new stories in the series. Three books, six books, nine books… Sure, why not? Most fiction…