King, 63, laughs as she remembers the trip that inadvertently turned into the 2012 novel Garment of Shadows, which, a starred Booklist review noted, captured the feel of the old city “with sensuous clarity.” Wouldn’t this maze of streets be the perfect setting for a person trying to sort out their past, she thought? Wasn’t it also perfect that Fez was in the midst of a civil war in 1924-the year that is the setting for many of her bestselling mystery novels featuring her intrepid character Mary Russell, the much younger wife and intellectual peer of the legendary Sherlock Holmes? Instead, as she wandered the ancient city’s narrow and twisting streets, she began to think about one of writing’s popular plots: that of a character who suffers from amnesia. King went to the walled Moroccan city of Fez, intending to have a lovely vacation with her daughter and son-in-law.
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