Tuesday, April 4, 2023

Laurie Buchanan's "Impervious"

A cross between Dr. Dolittle, Nanny McPhee, and a type-A Buddhist, Laurie Buchanan is an active listener, observer of details, payer of attention, reader and writer of books, kindness enthusiast, and red licorice aficionado. Her books have won multiple awards, including the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Gold Winner, the International Book Award Gold Winner, the National Indie Excellence Awards Winner, the Crime Fiction/Suspense Eric Hoffer Awards Finalist, and the PenCraft Award for literary excellence; they’ve also been a finalist for the CLUE Suspense/Thriller Book Awards.

Here Buchanan dreamcasts an adaptation of Impervious, her newest Sean McPherson novel:
The bride, the groom, the toast, the explosion... What should be a joyous occasion turns lethal.

In the village of Fairhaven—nestled between Washington State’s Bellingham Bay and the Cascade Mountains, home to writers’ retreat Pines & Quill, friends and family have gathered for the union of Sean McPherson and Emma Benton.

Sean, ex-cop turned PI, works with the FBI and local police to help solve crimes, particularly murders bearing the mark of crime boss Georgio “The Bull” Gambino. Emma, who has just learned to walk again, has begun to feel at home in Fairhaven and hopes to one day raise a family.

But just as the festivities begin and corks fly, an explosion shatters everything, killing one and injuring others. From Bellingham to San Francisco and New Orleans, the chase is on to discover who's dead set on ensuring the newlyweds don't lie happily ever after.

The Sean McPherson novels have been likened to “Chief Inspector Gamache meets The Last Mrs. Parrish.” So I would love to have Louise Penny’s Gamache series-to-television adaption, Three Pines, directed by the same team of directors: Sam Donovan as the lead, with Mohawk director Tracey Deer and Daniel Grou.

Character Casting:

Sean “Mick” McPherson, private investigator, played by Henry Cavill

Emma Benton, a famous potter, played by Amy Adams

Joe Bingham, homicide detective, played by Alex Carter (of CSI)

Rafferty, FBI special agent, played by Oliver Bjerrehuus (Danish model)
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The Page 69 Test: Impervious.

--Marshal Zeringue