A Tweeter called FESTIE recently marvelled at what looks like a very subtle Easter Egg in Birth Of A Killer, the first book of my Saga Of Larten Crepsley series.

Mention of a bedpan in the first chapter sent Festive scurrying back to the first chapter of Cirque Du Freak, which mentioned... a toilet! Was this intentional on my part, a little mirrored-scene reward for the most eagle-eyed of my readers?!?

Festie certainly thought it was intentional -- but I'm not so sure!!! I do certainly drop in little callbacks like this, far more regularly than many of my readers might realise, but I don't recall doing it on purpose in this instance. That doesn't definitely mean I didn't -- I may well have done it and then forgot about it later!!! But even if I forget when I do something like this, I usually recall it if someone brings it to my attention years later, but this time there isn't even a small bell of recognition dinging inside my brain.

But ssshhhhh!!! Don't tell Festie! Let them go on thinking I'm a devious little genius!!!!!