Do you plan to write the story of Ed McAvoy and his police work in Detroit?
Only bits and pieces of it have come out in your current novels. Bill: McAvoy’s past will continue to come out in bits and pieces. We didn’t find out until Encore about the details of his injury. And there’s a character from McAvoy’s past who is only briefly referred to in Encore who will be more fully revealed in Wash and Wear, and who we will actually meet in Thin Ice. Bev: Most novels today are filled with graphic sex and violence. Tell us about your decision to keep your novels free of the graphic stuff. Bill: Maybe it’s my age, but, again, I’d like to think it’s about story-telling. Graphic sex and violence don’t move the plot forward in the types of books I write. In fact, if anything, they’d bog them down. McAvoy and his love interest Stevie Henderson go though the door marked Private at the rear of the pub which she co-owns with her brother, and you know where they’re headed and why. No point is served by going into detail if only to titillate and contribute nothing to the move
