How much work does your title do to take readers into the story?Learn more about the book and author at Thomas Perry's website and Facebook page.
The title Eddie's Boy operates differently for two kinds of readers. This is the fourth volume of the Butcher's Boy series, which I wrote over nearly forty years. Many readers will be familiar with the book and will know Eddie, the neighborhood butcher who raised the boy, and know that the Butcher's Boy isn't as threatening a name as some characters think. Or is it? For anyone, the title should hint at the fact that this is going to be a story about a man in the present, but that many things that are parts of it happened in the distant past, when this elderly man was a boy. Maybe a reader will come to the thought that even when a man has white hair, he's still...[read on]
The Page 69 Test: Silence.
The Page 99 Test: Nightlife.
The Page 69/99 Test: Fidelity.
The Page 69/99 Test: Runner.
The Page 69 Test: Strip.
The Page 69 Test: The Informant.
The Page 69 Test: The Boyfriend.
The Page 69 Test: A String of Beads.
The Page 69 Test: Forty Thieves.
The Page 69 Test: The Old Man.
The Page 69 Test: The Bomb Maker.
The Page 69 Test: The Burglar.
The Page 69 Test: A Small Town.
Writers Read: Thomas Perry (December 2019).
Q&A with Thomas Perry.
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