Chris:
Sorry to be so late responding to you -- never a good idea to make a new reader feel like his or her kind words are being ignored
I'm so glad you enjoyed MR. HANDS and hope you like COFFIN COUNTY, as well. You'll find that, aside from the novels being directly connected to one another, the 2 short stories that follow CC are directly connected to the novella "Kiss of the Mudman" that follows MR. HANDS.
Please let me know what you think of CC -- and always bear in mind, I almost never follow traditional structure in my novels. The 4 Cedar Hill novels from Leisure have, in fact, become increasingly non-linear as they progress, and the 5th novel, FAR DARK FILEDS (to be released Fall 2009), will be the most experimental in structure of the bunch (think of the first 80 pages of COFFIN COUNTY -- that mosaic-like structure -- and apply it to an entire novel; yup, gonna be like that
)I am honored that you now call yourself a new fan, and hope that you'll remain a reader of my work. Thank you.
Gary
