Our Lady of the Overlook: 18 Years in Law Enforcement Built Fiction That Feels Real/R.L. Carpentier
He did not research his characters. He watched them for eighteen years.
R.L. Carpentier spent nearly two decades in law enforcement, watching human beings at their most vulnerable, most desperate, and most revealing. He watched the ones who did the right thing and the ones who did not. He watched the ones who surprised him and the ones who broke his heart. And the voices of all of them stayed with him long after the cases closed.
Then he went to the mountains.
Not as an escape. As a homecoming. The Catskill Mountains of New York, small towns, rural communities, landscapes where everybody…
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