Elmore has just completed his 41st novel,

Up in Honey’s Room.
It will be published by William Morrow on May 8, 2007.

The novel is part of what could be called, “The Webster Saga.” The Webster in question is of course Carl Webster, the Hot Kid of the Marshal Service, who in the novel, The Hot Kid, becomes a legendary lawman going after Depression era bandits and the like.

Carl’s legend continued in Comfort to the Enemy, a serial novel published by the New York Times in 2005.  In this story, Carl helped the government find escaped German POWs in Oklahoma particularly at Deep Fork near his family home.

Now in, Up in Honey’s Room, Carl comes to Detroit to find a couple escaped German POWs and finds first a degenerate Nazi spy ring and some hot women who are as dangerous as they are fun.  Plenty of surprises in this book.

Should’ve known it was a Webster book.  Heard about ‘Comfort’ here but didn’t get a chance to read it.  He really hit one out of the park with Carl Webster.  Glad to see the saga continue.

Interest in Comfort to the Enemy will grow after Up in Honey’s Room.  I expect to see it in a Webster Saga collection in 2008 or 2009.

Mr. Sutter,

Will we get a couple of teaser short stories for UP IN HONEY’S ROOM like we did for THE HOT KID?

THE HOT KID gave us “Louly and Pretty Boy” and “Showdown at Checotah”.

COMFORT TO THE ENEMY is awfully nice.  He spoiled us with that.

Thanks.

Up in Honey’s Room is a continuation of Comfort to the Enemy.  He considered modifying and expanding the serial but thought it would be more interesting to pick up the story in Detroit.  There are many references to events from Comfort to the Enemy in Honey’s Room but it is a serious departure from where the story might have gone if he had followed the path he was on with Comfort.  We are better for it, because we have a totally different story to add to the list.