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Someone mentioned The Searcher on another thread here, and I wondered what Tana French was up to. She's due to release a new book in March, The Hunter, which will be a sequel to The Searcher.
It's her first novel to be written in third person, and only her second stand-alone novel. It IS very different than her earlier work.
It had the wrong feel entirely and nothing about it - not the plot, or characters, pacing, nothing - reminded me of any of her other work. I've followed other authors who get big and just sell their name and don't write anything anymore. A shift from first to third person, or vice versa, is usually a red flag.
It had the wrong feel entirely and nothing about it - not the plot, or characters, pacing, nothing - reminded me of any of her other work. I've followed other authors who get big and just sell their name and don't write anything anymore. A shift from first to third person, or vice versa, is usually a red flag.
I've seen that with James Patterson, Lee Child, Catherine Coulter, Patricia Cornwell, etc....but when you read their co-authored books, they seem nothing like the books written by that author alone. I'm about half way through The Hunter, and her style of writing is very similar to her earlier work such as Faithful Place, but with an entirely different focus.
It sounds as if she has a lot of resources upon which she draws.
I've seen that with James Patterson, Lee Child, Catherine Coulter, Patricia Cornwell, etc....but when you read their co-authored books, they seem nothing like the books written by that author alone.
Any time you see a book that has the attribution ...
BY FAMOUS AUTHOR (in big type, followed by...)
WITH AUTHOR YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD OF (in much smaller type)
... you can bet money the author you never heard of did 99% of the work and the famous person read the draft, maybe made a few comments, stuck their name on it, and collected most of the cash.
Years ago, I read, on a recommendation, a novel titled No Lesser Plea by Robert K. Tananbaum, and it was very good. The author was supposed to have worked with the DA's office, had his picture on the flyleaf, blah blah. I followed the series for years over a bunch of novels until I picked one up that was so obviously not written by the same person that I did a little digging - and what I found was that not only was he not the author of the current novel, neither had he been the author of any of the preceding novels. So the writer I had been following and enjoying was a writer, not a "name" and now I'm very cynical of authors with a following.
The same happened with a Florida author (not Hiaasen, can't remember), whose books I ate up over a decade or more, until I picked up with one that I knew was not the same author. By then I didn't care who wrote the first 10 or so, but I knew they had moved on and I never read another with that "author's" name on it.
Scott Turow.
I've also read the above: those double author things and I don't care who did the work, I'm not interested.
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