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Rand Durand

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I have left eighteen of twenty three chapters on this site, partly to hear reader comments (of which there have been none for a long time), but mainly because when people in the real world ask about my novel, I can direct them here.

Devils Lake is complete at about 75,000 words.

If you are looking for a backing or comment, please read some of Devils Lake before asking.

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Devils Lake

Rand Durand

On the surface, Devils Lake is a crime story, but floating in the depths are allusions to John Milton’s epic poem - Paradise Lost.



Stan Maxim is devastated when his brother Jay is chosen to succeed their father as president of Maxim Corporation. After gunfire in the boardroom Stan flees, vowing revenge.

Toronto police detective Jack Royce investigates while Stan travels to the Muskoka vacation town of Bala, where police corporal Don Simon and his wife Eva live in a wilderness paradise.

Simon and Royce team up to solve more than one murder during a heat wave as hot as the action in Devils Lake.

 

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I wrote 93 days ago

Hi, Just found your comments. Thanks for taking the time. The story becomes less demanding the farther along you get. The writing becomes less "ornate" and the pace picks up. The references to Paradise Lost become vaguer as the crime story takes over but the ending brings it all together. And o... view book

I wrote 93 days ago

Hi, Just found your comments. Thanks for taking the time. The story becomes less demanding the farther along you get. The writing becomes less "ornate" and the pace picks up. The references to Paradise Lost become vaguer as the crime story takes over but the ending brings it all together. And o... view book

I wrote 213 days ago

Hi, Had a chance to read some of your book. You asked for comments, so here goes. i.e. The “damaged” body is found “washed up on the banks of Hebden Waters” which I assume is a river. What was the damage? How caused, if death is deemed accidental? i.e.“His heart was beating fast. He was a... view book

I wrote 520 days ago

Hi, I read most of Ch 1 and excerpts from Ch 5,9,13,16 to see how your writing changed. You have a easy, sophomoric style that suits the subject matter. Apparently what you are saying is more important than how you say it. I saw some juvenile "folly" but must have missed the "madness". If this i... view book

I wrote 525 days ago

Well written. Worth backing and worthy of HC review. Good luck. Rand view book

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