Now after the completion of Part Two of the novel series The Mystery of Tompkins Square Park, author Dennis Ambrose believes the story he wrote may not be a bunch of coincidences that took place. I was working on two other novels at the time The Mystery of Tompkins Square Park appeared. I was driving in my auto in late May of 2019, when the thoughts of Tompkins Square Park hit me like a bolt of lightning. This story excited my soul and entered me into another world I had never walked in my writing years. In twenty-four hours I had the story outline and in eight weeks had completed the novel. My last novel took two years.
For the moment I envision a very old church and a young couple looking at the Church of Saint Brigid in a large park across the road. Alex told Maureen about the religious oil paintings in the church. The park, church and the paintings were all true yet the author had never been to Tompkins Square Park or Saint Brigid Church in East Manhattan during his lifetime. As the two-part series continued, more strange coincidences occurred. What began as a fiction novel was entering another level. Writing about places and events you never visited, yet true, is a one-step-beyond encounter.
Maureen, which is her real name, not Bonnie, had married Alex many years ago. She joined Alex’s rock band long ago and married him in three days. Maureen wanted to become a nun in Part One when she was young, which adds to the confusion. This two-part novel series is a comedy and tragedy but one very special love story. Author Ambrose is still asking himself how he knew so much about a place and events that did happen but of which he had no knowledge of such events. Shocking and mysterious, Ambrose also wonders, Did Alex and Maureen really exist? A great deal more strange events were uncovered during the conclusion of Part Two.
