American novelist Judith Rock has been a busy person. Before commencing her Charles du Luc series set in seventeenth-century France, she was variously a dancer, choreographer, actress, playwright, professor, police officer, lecturer, and researcher. “Each of those passions and adventures has deepened and expanded my writing.” she has noted. The first Charles du Lac installment, [...]
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Judith Rock’s Charles du Luc Novels: Seventeenth-Century Paris Comes Alive
Posted in Interviews, tagged A Plague of Lies, ballet, Charles du Luc, Jesuits, Judith Rock, Paris, seventeenth century, The Eloquence of Blood, The Rhetoric of Death on December 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“I Wrote of What I Loved–I Wrote of Korea:” Martin Limón’s Sueño and Bascomb Novels
Posted in Interviews, tagged George Sueño and Ernie Bascom, jade lady, Korea, Martin Limón, michael connelly, Mr. Kill, publishers weekly, slicky boys, South Korea on December 21, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Of Martin Limón’s Korean-based series featuring U.S. Army criminal investigators George Sueño and Ernie Bascom , author Lee Child declared the books “easily the best military mysteries in print today.” Bookpage concurred in the judgment, noting that “Limón has crafted some of the finest military mysteries on offer.” The seven books in that series, all [...]
John Lescroart’s “Zeitgeist” Crime Novels of San Francisco
Posted in Interviews, tagged A Plague of Secrets, Dead Irish, Dismas Hardy, John Lescroart, San Francisco, The Hunter, The Motive, Treasure Hunt, Wyatt Hunt on December 9, 2011 | 2 Comments »
John Lescroart and San Francisco are synonymous. The author of over a score of novels, Lescroart usually bases his action in California’s city by the bay. His long-standing series featuring ex-cop, ex-bartender, ex-PI, and current defense attorney Dismas Hardy, takes place in the courtrooms and mean streets of San Francisco, as does his series featuring [...]
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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