num_pages: 190
description: "I've flirted with variations on the mystery form in other books. Mulengro, Angel of Darkness and From a Whisper to a Scream (the latter two first published under the pen name of Samuel M. Key) were all, at their heart, police procedurals, sparked mostly, I'd guess, from years of reading Ed McBain. I'd also touched on spy thrillers (the RCMP sections of Moonheart), tropes such as organized crime (the Mafia in Greenmantle), and various hardboiled characters who've shown up in the pages of various novels and stories. "But this was the first time that I sat down to deliberately write a mystery novel, with a PI as a lead character, and no fantasy elements whatsoever, hedging my bets only slightly by giving Jevon "Jake" Swann a love for Celtic music. (It doesn't matter where you put Celtic music; it always holds a touch of magic to it.) And then I set the story in Ottawa, because that's where I was living at the time and I liked having my characters walk around in the same neighbourhoods that I did, or could."--Charles de LintThe Road to Lisdoonvarna is published only by Subterranean Press, and features full-color dustjacket art by David Mack (of Kabuki fame).
language: English
title: The Road to Lisdoonvarna
titlecomplete: The Road to Lisdoonvarna
genres: Fantasy, Mystery, Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction
ratings_count: 156
places: Ottawa, Ontario
series: Ottawa and the Valley
publisher: Subterranean