Learn more about the book and author at Timothy Hallinan's website.How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?
Probably not much. Titles come to me out of the ether. I can easily be halfway through a book before a title declares itself, and when it does, it's rarely as literally germane to the story as, say, Moby-Dick is. It's just as likely to be something purely emotional. In this case, “street music” is one character's term for how the noises of the city – Bangkok – turn orchestral when she's high. It's almost the only experience of beauty left in the life she leads as a homeless person, squatting on baking sidewalks by day and sleeping beneath a bush in the park.
Although the readers of the series have never met her before, this lost soul holds the key to the last great unsolved mystery of the little family of three - an American travel writer, his Thai wife, and the street-child daughter they adopted – that lays at the heart of the books. Every city has street music, but...[read on]
The Page 69 Test: A Nail Through the Heart.
The Page 69 Test: The Fourth Watcher.
My Book, The Movie: The Fourth Watcher.
The Page 69 Test: Breathing Water.
Q&A with Timothy Hallinan.
--Marshal Zeringue
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