Shadows of Eden

10 Dec 2009 – Three years ago, I was on my ferry commute to Seattle, looking down at the first (of many) blank legal pads that would eventually hold a 250-page novel.  Today, I still have pen in hand—but this time it’s to sign copies of Shadows of Eden, my first book following Boston PI Del Price. The ferry bench is now a high-backed, tan leather chair, set behind a table in the crowded, comfortable Seattle Mystery Book Shop. It is my first book signing, and I am glad that it is with a small, independent bookseller that hosts the hundreds of writers who gladly come to sign their works. J.B., Fran and the staff have made me welcome and the event is a success (we sell books).  A century’s worth of private detectives, cops, spies, amateurs and nosy neighbors surround me along the walls, and scrunch together to find place for one more comrade-in-arms.

Tim Bone