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Actual locales in the San Francisco Bay area
that inspired some of the locales in the novel.
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| Inspiration for Danny's Topanga Canyon Home |
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| This home is known as the Sun Clock house and is located in the San Francisco Bay area. |
From Chapter Twenty-One - TOPANGA CANYON
I pulled up to the address Danny gave me. Then looked to double
check it. Sure enough, the opulent residence rising up before me belonged to
Danny.
His house was nothing short of incredible. A perfectly proportioned composition of stuccoed surfaces and railed decks, angling down across a corner
lot. The peachy-beige exterior contrasted with a tiled overhang of terra cotta. Slivers of deep blue edged narrow metal window frames.
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| Inspiration for Danny's Landscaping |
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| Different home but with the perfect natural landscape I imagined |
From Chapter Twenty-One - TOPANGA CANYON
The house was complemented by a natural landscape of succulents,
wildflowers, and native California grasses, all in muted shades of gray and
sage, with an occasional flare of lapis blue.
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| Inspiration for Sandy Cove locale |
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| The cove at San Pablo Bay |
From Chapter Thirty-Three - SANDY COVE SPORTSMAN'S CLUB
A scattered flock of abandoned vehicles and decaying boats loitered amidst hunks of rusty machinery. A mud-covered bulldozer hunkered down next to a drooping crane. Piles of rubbish were sorted into scrap metal, wood, and huge, gnawed chunks of styrofoam. Not a human being or animal in sight. Only a half dozen cawing
gulls balanced on rotting stumps and a solitary long-legged tern making a tortuous, spiraled track in the mud.
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| Charlie's Final Destination? |
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| An old winery at Point Molate |
Chapter Thirty-Five - POINT MOLATE
As I rounded the next curve, my heart skipped a beat.
Along the shoreline rose a medieval-looking red brick building, stately parapets edging its top.
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| Inspiration for Final Scenes |
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| Officer's Housing at Point Molate |
Chapter
Thirty-Five - POINT MOLATE
Across from it, a row of peaked roofs topped identical yellow houses, set atop gray stone foundations. They had the familiar look of officers housing.
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