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AOTW: Has there ever been a character in one of your novels that people clamored to see again, but you just didn't want to bring back? If so, which character?
Ridley Pearson: I get requests for different characters to return all the time. Usually, though not always, from the "stand alones" that readers would like to see become series. I also fall in love with secondary characters, and bring them back because I'm curious to keep working with them. John LaMoia and Daphne Matthews are the principles in my novel for 2002 --- I'm having a ball writing this one!
Nevada Barr: Curt Schatz in Blind Descent and Christina from Track of the Cat and A Superior Death get a lot of requests for reprises. I would like to bring them back (I liked them too) and, should opportunity present itself, I probably will.
George Pelecanos: People are beginning to ask about Nick Stefanos, as my last novel, Right as Rain, was the first book I've written in which he did not appear in some form. In my mind he is still out there, drinking in a bar or walking the streets. So he might be back. It's hard to kill off your alter ego, after all.
Carolyn Hart: To this point, the Henrie O books have taken place against different backgrounds so there hasn't been an opportunity to have recurring characters. That may change as I am considering setting the next Henrie O in the university town in which Henrie O lives when not on exotic journeys. There are a number of recurring characters in the Death on Demand series as Annie and Max live on a sea island off the coast of South Carolina and each book occurs there. I have had readers who would like for the visiting British author in The Christie Caper to return but I feel she had her moment on stage.
Ian Rankin: I don't think so... a few people may have wanted Rebus to stick with his one-time partner Patience Aitken, but it was not to be. I've killed off a few characters and these bereavements have saddened some fans.
Robert B. Parker: People often want more of Hawk than I'm going to give them.
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