In Still Point, my multi-dimensional gumshoe finds himself trapped in an unsolvable labyrinth, playing Scheherazade to a behemoth. As the story unfolds, he realises it'll take more than hardboiled storytelling to save the Still Point of the Turning World from destruction at the hands of a Fool.

Still Point was great fun to write. Not only did I get to include a behemoth, zombie cops and an angel on work-release - plus my favourite character Jimmy the Griff - I also found references to my novels creeping in too. Fans of Stone and Sun will know a little about the Fools, and the Turning World motif is, of course, central to Dragoncharm and its sequels.

But most of all I enjoyed the dialogue between the gumshoe and the behemoth - an unlikely double act that just seemed to work from the word go. That, and imagining what it might be like to kiss an angel ...

"[Rivals] the worlds of Lewis Carroll or Douglas Adams on the strangeness index ... you're in for a treat" - The Fix

"Over-the-toppitude in the New Weird mode" - Internet Review of Science Fiction

Still Point links

• Realms of Fantasy