Well, Nelson DeMille is, I would say, the greatest novelist in America. And he doesn't do a lot of

interviews because he doesn't have to. The last 12 books all debuted at number one on the bestseller list,

New York Times bestseller list. But his new book is The Maze, this brand new novel. It's a new

John Corey novel. Get the book right now, The Maze, Nelson DeMille, and it takes place in Long

Island. I love that. And, of course, he is one of the great figures from Long Island. Nelson

DeMille, how you doing? Very good, Ma. Good to be with you. Oh, when you write about Long Island,

I love that. Gold Coast, of course, took place in Long island and some others and it's much easier to

research isn't it yeah yeah because i actually live here so but i wouldn't mind i wouldn't mind

researching in tahiti you know but yeah well i was okay so i don't want to give way too much

but the books based on a true story, right? The maze.

Yeah, it's kind of based on it, but maybe inspired by the Gilgo Beach murders that we all remember.

About it's 11 years now.

Ten prostitutes, sometimes called sex workers, were found in the bramble along the deserted section of Gilgo Beach,

which is on Fire Island, not too far from the Hamptons, on the south shore of Oregon Island.

And they'd all been, obviously, murdered, but dumped in the same place.

And obviously this was being used as a dumping ground, but nobody knew who they were.

They found out some of them were, so they knew they were sex workers, but nobody knew who did it.

And the case is 11 years old, and usually a case like this would be a cold case now, but it's not.

It's still very active, and Suffolk County police out there working on it,

and it became national because there was two documentaries made on it, and became national news only because of the bizarre nature of it, and still unsolved. So I said, you know, I've been reading

about it for 10 years. Let me try to do a book on this.

I kind of fictionalize it, though, obviously.

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