D/C Mike O’Shea, a young cop with a knack for working hard and following hunches, is on the verge of cracking a prostitution ring when an undercover from another unit burns him.
With only days left before their pimps shuttle the girls out of the country, Mike pushes his team into overdrive. Hours later, with too little information, sleep, or luck, the unthinkable happens.
And now, the chase is personal.
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Q&A
Whom did you inherit your love for books/reading from?
I don’t recall reading being a big part of my childhood, although I remember my grandmother always having a stack of Harlequin Romances close by! As such, I didn’t actually read anything of consequence until I went to university and realized that, if I was ever going to read anything of consequence, this was the time. I ended up doing a degree in English Lit and was amazed to discover that most of the other students in my classes seemed to have already read the books on the reading lists and felt like I’d missed out on something important.
Can you name one of the best books you ever read?
A.A. Milne’s The House at Pooh Corner. I love the flow of the language, the depth of characters so gently developed, and the morality of the stories.
Do you write every day?
Almost, which is to say: no. I’d like to think I do, but I don’t. I have a routine that I stick to for a couple of weeks, and then I take a break for about a week, and then I come up with a more rigorous routine to make up for the lost time. Then I get ahead of my schedule and decide to take a week or so off, and then…. No, I suppose I don’t.
Which character would you like to be in this book?
Great question. Well, of course, Mike O’Shea is pretty great, but Julia Vendrameni is kind of the one who holds everything together in this book. Now that I think about it, I should bring her back in a more meaningful way in the remainder of the series. Maybe in Book Five….
How do you come up with names for your characters?
One of the great things about writing a series is that you only have to come up with the main characters’ names once. I consciously avoid not using the names of people I dislike as antagonists, although I’m sorely tempted! I consider the ethnicity of the character, the age (not many sixty-year-olds named Tiffany) and the ease of repeatedly typing the name (major fail on choosing the name of Mike’s mother, Mary-Margaret!), and that no two characters in one book have similar-sounding names.
If you should travel to a foreign country to do research for your next book, which one would it be and why?
I would love to go to Ireland because it’s lovely there (you have to love a country whose heroes are writers and poets), although somewhere warm and sunny, like Greece or Italy sound pretty great in the middle of a Canadian winter! I’ve got to do a book that involve the theatre so I can go to London and/or NYC as well.
Do you always take a book wherever you go?
Don’t hate me when I say: I’m an audiobook fan. I drive a lot, so being able to have someone read to me is lovely.
Do you go to the library?
Almost daily. I live about ten minutes’ walk from a branch of the Toronto Public Library, where I can actually have them pull a book from any branch in the city, send it to my branch, and pick it up. For free! I’m a super fan!
Have you already started writing a new book?
I have two series on the go and the deadlines are quite tight, so I’m always writing. I’ve got the fourth in The Mike O’Shea Series, tentatively titled Blind Spot, and the third in the as-yet released Pint of Trouble Mysteries, which is a traditional/light mystery series featuring Mary-Margaret O’Shea (Mike’s mom) on the go.
What is the title of the next book on your to read pile?
I’ve got Simon Parkin’s The Island of Extraordinary Captives and Andrew Meier’s Morgenthau staring me down as we speak.
Thank you
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About the author
Born and raised in Toronto, Desmond P. Ryan graduated from UofT and joined what was then the Toronto Police Force. He has been a front-line officer, a beat cop, a patrol sergeant, an instructor at the Toronto Police College, and a detective over the almost thirty years of his career.
Whether as a beat cop or a plainclothes detective, Desmond dealt with good people who did bad things and bad people who followed their instincts. Now a retired detective, he writes crime fiction. Des is presently working on the Mike O’Shea Series and the Mary-Margaret Series, both published by Level Best Books.
Desmond lives in the Toronto neighbourhood known as Cabbagetown, where he can be seen wandering about, considering his next plot point or on his way to the pub.
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Author Links
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Website : http://www.RealDesmondRyan.com
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