March 2026: A Killer Problem

Hello readers of Counios and Gane,

It’s been a productive month, even if it didn’t always feel that way.

We knew working on Wolfe‘s Blood that we’d have to face the killer eventually. We just didn’t expect it to be such a problem getting there.

Undoing the Whodunnit

As you may know, we meet in the mornings—Angie over eggs and her first coffee, David already on his second cup—and dig into the work.

This past month we’ve been deep in the killer’s motivations: Why these victims? Why now? What was the opportunity?

Some days, it felt like we were the killers, and some days the detectives.

We’d work at it until every piece fit. Well, almost. There’d always be that one piece that didn’t, which meant pulling it all apart and starting again.

And after many days and thinking we’d finally solved it, we started asking: maybe we don’t even have the right killer?

Who is the killer now?

That’s when it stopped being a puzzle and became multidimensional chess.

Every piece was moving—the killer, the victims, the suspects. Change one, and you change them all. The motivations shifted. The decoys shifted. Every move on one layer affected all the others.

David loves untangling these sorts of puzzles, and Angie loves making sure the answers actually hold up—so it wasn’t an issue. Just more work.

But we also needed to get it right before we went back to writing—otherwise we’d just be rewriting it all again later.

It meant threading a needle. Too convoluted and the characters’ motivations stopped making sense. Too simple and the reader sees it coming.

In the end, we wanted you, the reader, to get to the answer, put the book down, and say ‘NO!’ out loud to whoever is nearby.

Unexpected Turns

When we finally landed on the answer—the killer, the motives, all the pieces—it almost felt too clean. But we think that once we’ve written it down and it’s on the page—with all its layers—it’ll hold up.

And in the journey to get here, we found things we didn’t expect—truths to reckon with, unexpected phone calls, and a whole new challenge for the boys to stay out of harm’s way. We didn’t plan any of it, but we’re glad we found it.

This is the last book in the series. We want it to end with a bang—that our readers are satisfied. We think—we hope—we’ve got it.

And now, all we have to do is get it all down—hopefully before our eggs and coffee get cold.

Until next time, happy reading!

Angie and David