(Incidentally, I restarted work on Book 5 just last evening. It got stuck for about a month while I worked on other things, but I think the break helped me to see how to get it into a publishable state.)

I get what you’re saying about Ed, but he’s purposefully kind of a faceless antagonist. He needs to exist so the characters can react to his actions and cope with his interference, but I don’t have much interest in telling anything about Ed himself. Everything has to come from the main characters’ perspective, primarily Davie. I don’t think I’d ever go first-person-Ed in one of these stories; a horrible thought!

There was a little of what you’re talking about at the beginning of Book 2, but I have no facility with writing courtroom scenes, as you’ve seen. Since I’m not likely to do anything better than that thin offering, having no real knowledge of what goes on in courtrooms and an awareness that what I see about this on TV is likely BS, I’m not sure what else I’d show about Ed’s predicament after the authorities grab him here.

It’s probably best left to your imagination anyway. Whatever you think should happen to Ed, that’s what happens to Ed, according to you.

So, mind sharing what happens to Ed with the rest of us? ?