Crisis Weekly, the fifteenth.

Crisis Weekly #15.

Holy crap!  I've been waiting to write the last line of dialogue in this one for months!  That's one of the joys of writing any story, knowing what's coming up and then finally getting to write it.  In that way, the writer's journey isn't so different from the reader's, they just get to get there first.

The whole thing will be explained later, but hopefully some of the clues will start to fall into place, and seem less like clues and more like bludgeons.  I once remarked on someone else's blog that I haven't really tried writing mysteries, but mysteries can come in all kinds of shapes.  We just tend to think of them almost exclusively as detective stories.  But they aren't always.  The Harry Potter books were, essentially, mysteries, so it was probably hugely natural for J.K. Rowling to write more traditional mysteries in the Cormoran Strike series, which I again evoke in this installment by returning the focus to Bloodwynd and his amputated leg.  But there's a lot more in it, too!  There's also a line of dialogue from one of the characters who hasn't really been featured a lot, but nonetheless has been playing a key role, and finally we get to see more of what that is, and again it's inspired by Rowling, something I wished she had done rather than what she did, in this instance.  But more on that later.

I love it when a plan comes together.