Book Covers for The Orphan's Tale
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Originally, the series had only two parts, with the second, with the title Maelstrom, bringing the story to a close nearly a year after the events of Assassination. In the course of finalizing the third book, however, events that led to the summer after Assassination caught my interest. I think they will, catch yours, as well.
Maelstrom is mostly finished/ It only remains to bring the story lines together and verify that I have missed nothing. I'll be sorry to see these characters go. ...although, as any writer can tell you, some characters linger with you, and you find yourself learning more about them and their adventures after your story has drawn to a close. |
The bright building behind Elise is the Tuileries Palace. which stood opposite the Louvre until it was destroyed in 1870. She is dressed for a ball.
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...which is perhaps why Larouche, the street urchin who stepped in to help Malet, is in Alsace thirty-five years later, serving as military surgeon in a fortress beseiged by Prussian forces, and sheltering the entire town, which was forced to take refuge in the fort. How did he get there? The seeds are sown in Vengeance, if you look carefully.
Meanwhile, here are the covers for the series.
Meanwhile, here are the covers for the series.
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Vengeance ends Christmas Eve. Larouche has paused on his way home from the cathedral to look into a brightly lit window. Back at his lodgings, he thinks of what he has seen, a mother telling her children a story, and it seems to him that it might happen to him. some day.
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Maelstrom is well underway. It has, in fact, the earliest writings I did on The Orphan's Tale but in learning of Paul Malet's past I found myself turning back to that past to explore how he came to the present. It has been enjoyable. Meanwhile, the cover shows him stranded in the middle of one of the Paris riots that sprang up without warning, cursing himself for wearing boots when there was a chance that he might be unhorsed and forced to go afoot.
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