The Glass Room (Vera Stanhope 5)
“The hours before tea had been marked as free for students to concentrate on their own work: on the exercises set by tutors or on suggested edits to submitted manuscripts. Downstairs the house was empty and quiet. The residents must be writing in their rooms or searching for inspiration outside. The police had taken up residence in the chapel, so that was now out of bounds.
At the introductory meeting on their arrival at the Writers’ House, Nina had said, only partly joking, that she was there u...nder false pretences. Certainly she could talk about short fiction – the form had been her area of study since she was an undergraduate – but she’d never written crime. Now, with the tension and drama of a real murder investigation in the background, she began to understand the attraction of the genre. Nothing was more shocking than murder, yet the traditional structure of crime fiction provided a way of examining the subject with distance and grace. The idea that she might create her own detective story had grown slowly and insidiously all day, but by mid-afternoon she could think of nothing else.MoreLess
At the introductory meeting on their arrival at the Writers’ House, Nina had said, only partly joking, that she was there u...nder false pretences. Certainly she could talk about short fiction – the form had been her area of study since she was an undergraduate – but she’d never written crime. Now, with the tension and drama of a real murder investigation in the background, she began to understand the attraction of the genre. Nothing was more shocking than murder, yet the traditional structure of crime fiction provided a way of examining the subject with distance and grace. The idea that she might create her own detective story had grown slowly and insidiously all day, but by mid-afternoon she could think of nothing else.MoreLess
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