A Tan and Sandy Blog: Exploring John D. Macdonald's Novel
Hello Readers! We hope everyone had a relaxing and restoring holiday. Ours was just lovely. We scrapped the turkey and stuffing this year, trading it for Valencia Paella. Steak, shrimp, sausage, and chicken. So good! We're less than two months away from the release of our next novel, An Educated Death, which takes us into the murder mystery genre. Although to be fair, we've made solving a mystery a major theme and plot point for each of our novels. It's the mysteries we love. Since we've been dwelling in the murder mystery genre recently, we've focused our blogs on the topic. Over the holiday, we revisited an old classic sitting on our shelf and decided we should write about it. We ripped through it in two days. It was John D. Macdonald's "A Tan and Sandy Silence". Now, before you go off complaining that we've become a little too obsessed with Mr. Macdonald, consider this blurb we found on the back of the novel: To diggers a thousand years from ...