Meet the new post ...

It's not quite the same as the old posts, but it does shed light on them. Recent discussions on Detectives Beyond Borders here and here touched on authors who shift protagonists and point-of-view characters from book to book in a series, bringing minor or supporting characters forward into larger roles.

Damien Gay at Crime Down Under has just cited one such shift, in Kathryn Fox's novel Skin and Bone, whose detective protagonist had been a minor character in Fox's earlier work:

"[Fox] has moved the focus away from the forensic pathology side of criminalistics and moved to the coal-face of the homicide detective office in a police procedural story that twists behind a series of cunning facades."

I'd asked for examples of authors who changed protagonists. Damien shows the practical effect of one such change. Thanks, mate.

© Peter Rozovsky 2007

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