I probably should have read this book before starting my own story about a former Army intelligence officer turned private investigator who suffers from PTSD and agoraphobia. Fortunately, there’s nothing in Susannah Mintz’s index about either condition. And there’s only one reference to PTSD in the excellent list of fictional detectives and their disabilities at librarybooklists.com. So, I guess I’m on safe ground. Good thing because I’m already 60,000 words into this story, and I don’t want to have to say—like one of Gilda Radner’s SNL characters—“Never mind.”
