The Enchanter's Theorem

…but whatever you do, don’t call it a horror novel…

Have a snippet of what I’m apparently working on now.

Roy would be a lost boy, if this were Neverland.

But this is Hollywood.

Once upon a time, Roy had a father, a brilliant homicide detective who came to a sticky end. Once upon a time, Roy was attacked by vampires, but no one believes that. Once upon a time, Roy hid himself in the darkest parts of Hollywood that he could find so he could forget his past, stay lost in cheap whiskey and bad memories.

But Roy’s girlfriend, Suzabell, begs him to find out who attacked her best friend and nearly left her for dead–if she was actually the girl they meant to attack. Then Suzabell is killed and her body disappears, only her head left behind for identification–if she’s really dead at all. Roy’s search for clues takes him through all levels of the city, from classy lounges to lowlife dives, from goth bars and strip clubs, to police headquarters and his father’s peers, from the thin blue line to the morgue. “The Night is an Adder” unfolds over ten days on the streets of darkest Hollywood and what Roy finds makes him wish he’d never gone looking for the answers.

May the spirit of Raymond Chandler help me…

Originally published at Angela N. Hunt. You can comment here or there.