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Segura forgiva1/6/2024 ![]() She mentioned something that kind of turned my whole idea around. I didn't want to rack up a faceless body count to just show how evil the killer could be. But, as I told her, I didn't want it to feel like your typical serial killer book - I wanted to delve into not only the killer's head, but also get to know his victims. It keeps it interesting for me and I hope it keeps readers on their toes.Īlex Segura: I was talking on the phone with my best friend Andrea a few years ago and I mentioned that I was thinking the second book would feature a serial murderer and that I wanted the book as a whole to be a lot darker than the first - which I think is saying a lot. I wanted to reflect that as much as I could in these books. People evolve, their situations and habits change and they pick up more experiences and lessons - some good, some bad. ![]() The Pete we see at the beginning of Silent City is very different from the one we meet at the beginning of Down the Darkest Street and they feed into each other. I didn't want each book to feel interchangeable. I also didn't want him to be static or evergreen. Maybe we drifted apart, but he's a product of the same environment: son of Cuban parents, journalism background, a bit of a music nerd - we do overlap a bit. Pete strikes me as someone I could have known growing up in Miami. When I first started noodling with the idea of a recurring character, I knew two things: that I wanted him to be someone that I could relate to and feel some kind of affinity toward and that I wanted him to evolve from book to book. ![]() Pete didn't appear in my head fully-formed, but it was close. Pete's journey isn't just that of the detective solving the case - he has a lot of his own stuff to resolve, and that's really interesting to me. So, by the time we meet him in the second book, Down the Darkest Street, the hope is that things have gotten better - but in many ways, they've gotten worse. When a coworker asks for help finding his missing daughter, that reenergizes Pete in a way, but it doesn't solve his problems - and while he survives his first case, he doesn't come through unscathed. We meet him at his "bottom" so to speak: his dad's died, his fiancé has left him for someone else, he hates his job and he's drunk much more often than not. That said, he's great at finding things out - when we meet him in Silent City, we learn that he's a bit of a fallen journalistic star, having put together a decent track record as a sports reporter in New Jersey before having to return home to Miami after his father's death. He's also not without personal problems: he drinks too much, he has a lot of baggage and resentments and feels like the world is speeding by him. He's learning as he goes, which comes with some occupational hazards. Alex Segura: Pete's a smart, curious guy who means well but often jumps into things too fast.
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