Nighthawks Blog Tour: Guest post by Lambert Nagle author of Nighthawks

Huge thanks to Rachel's Random Resources and the authors for allowing me to share in their Blog Tour and for providing such a fascinating article.

Nighthawks Blurb

When art, money and power collide...
A Mafia boss addicted to beautiful art. A Catholic priest who knows too much. A modern-day Jay Gatsby.
And a woman on the run.
Disgraced London detective Stephen Connor is given an ultimatum: take a transfer to Rome or kiss his career goodbye.
With his love life in tatters and his confidence at an all-time low, can Stephen find the world's most valuable painting before it disappears forever?

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Guest Blog post written by Alison Ripley Cubitt for The Crime Warp  

Destination Nighthawks: London, Rome, Boston            

We didn’t make a conscious decision that the novel would start and end in the same

location, but this was the way it ended up. As many of our stories have a circular structure, I find it satisfying that the principal character, Stephen Connor, who set off from London full of self-doubt, returns to the same place, feeling like he’s achieved something. London was also the jumping off point for his adventures in Revolution Earth, book one in the series. 

We know the city well, having lived and worked there on and off for over thirty years. London is big enough to absorb the adventurers, travellers and the displaced people like us who have crisscrossed the globe for work, but who somehow always seem to end up living within striking distance. 

As you may have noticed from the book cover image, much of the story takes place in Rome. Although we’ve never lived there, latterly we’ve been frequent visitors for work. On the last two visits we stayed in areas away from the major tourist sites. We set a couple of important scenes in a warehouse and I put these in the Marconi neighbourhood, where old Rome gives way to the modern city. Stephen shares his thoughts with readers in the following extract:

As they had crossed over the Tiber, Stephen had been struck by the clash of old and new: a magnificent domed church marooned between the autostrada and a concrete and glass block, in a part of Rome where tourists, he supposed, would find little to interest them. Elisabetta had taken the exit slip road closest to the river on the western side, bringing them into the middle of a working-class neighbourhood. The plane trees lining the streets did little to disguise the grey 1970s apartment blocks, the depots, the repair shops and rundown cafes. 

As the car slowed, Elisabetta spotted an empty parking space next to a tiny urban park where old folks exercised their lap dogs. She pulled in, turned off the engine and turned to Stephen. ‘Shall we?’ 

As the book on one level is about the globalised nature of the art trade, we needed a city in North America that had cultural connections to Italy. We chose Boston, where we lived for four months in the fall semester of 2017. As I walked through our neighbourhood in Allston, I realised a place with a diverse culture and a history of welcoming immigrants from across the globe would be a suitable setting for a scene.  

Another of my regular circuits took me along the Charles River, which divides Cambridge and Boston. There are tracks along both sides and in the daytime it was busy with runners, dog walkers and cyclists. As I walked home one evening as it was getting dark, I became more cautious, looking over my shoulder, wondering who might be out and about then. And so, the river became the setting for another incident that happens much later on in the book, a pivotal event which I won’t detail here in case there are readers who want to discover it for themselves! 

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About the authors

Lambert Nagle is the pen-name for Alison Ripley Cubitt and Sean Cubitt, co-writers of international thrillers, mystery and crime. Alison is a former television production executive who worked for Walt Disney and the BBC before pivoting to become a multi-genre author and screenwriter. Her short film drama Waves (with Maciek Pisarek) won the Special Jury Prize, Worldfest, Houston. Sean’s day job is Professor of Film and Television, University of Melbourne, Australia. He writes about film and media for leading academic publishers.

Other titles by Lambert Nagle include Revolution Earth (featuring detective Stephen Connor) and Contained in Capital Crimes, a short story collection from members of ITW (International Thriller Writers) with a foreword by Peter James.

With six passports between them, they set their books in the far-away places they live and work.

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