John Lantigua is the author of a Miami-based crime series featuring PI Willie Cuesta. Praised by Carl Hiaasen as “fresh” and “authentic,” the Edgar Award-nominated novels of John Lantigua present a sizzling slice of Cuban-American life. The 1999 Player’s Vendetta introduces readers to Cuesta’s and Miami’s Little Havana, and the action is carried forward in [...]
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Melting Pot Miami: Scene of John Lantigua’s PI Willie Cuesta Crime Novels
Posted in Interviews, tagged Florida, John Lantigua, Little Havana, Miamia, On Hallowed Ground, PI Willie Cuesta, Player's Vendetta, The Lady from Buenos Aires, The Ultimate Havana on June 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Being Alone in a Crowd: Alafair Burke’s New York Crime Fiction
Posted in Interviews, tagged 212, Alafair Burke, Alice Humphrey, Dead Connection, Ellie Hatcher, Long Gone, Manhattan, New York, Oregon, Portland, Samantha Kincaid on June 19, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Alafair Burke, a former deputy district attorney and current professor of criminal law at New York’s Hofstra Univesity, is the author of two crime series, one featuring featuring Portland prosecutor Samantha Kincaid, and the second focusing on NYPD detective, Ellie Hatcher. Publishers Weekly dubbed the third installment of the latter series, the 2010 novel 212, [...]
The Charlie Fox Thrillers by Zoë Sharp: “One of the most enigmatic − and coolest − heroines in contemporary genre fiction”
Posted in Interviews, tagged Charlie Fox, Fifth Victim, First Drop, Fourth Day, Killer Instinct, Second Shot, Third Strike, Zoe Sharp on June 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Zoë Sharp is the author of nine novels in the hard-hitting thriller series featuring Charlie Fox, a protagoist many reviewers have described as a female equivalent to Lee Child’s Jack Reacher. The Chicago Tribune noted of Charlie Fox: “Ill-tempered, aggressive and borderline psychotic, Fox is also compassionate, introspective and highly principled: arguably one of the [...]
Michael Robertson’s Reggie Heath Novels: Coming to You from 221b Baker Street
Posted in Interviews, tagged Baker Street, London, Los Angeles, Michael Robertson, Sherlock Holmes, The Baker Street Letters, The Brothers of Baker Street on June 3, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Michael Robertson is the author of two novels featuring barrister Reggie Heath, whose chambers are located at Sherlock Holmes’s legendary address. Set a century after the demise of Holmes, these novels find Heath becoming an unwilling sleuth, set on his task by letters sent to the famous detective. The series opener, The Baker Street Letters, from [...]
J. Sydney Jones
J. Sydney Jones is the author of the acclaimed "Viennese Mystery" series, set in Vienna 1900. Novels include THE EMPTY MIRROR, REQUIEM IN VIENNA, and THE SILENCE.
“What Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did for Victorian London and Caleb Carr did for old New York, J. Sydney Jones does for historic Vienna.”
-Karen Harper, New York Times bestselling authorVisit him at his Web site: www.jsydneyjones.com
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