British author Quentin Bates spent a decade in Iceland as a young man, working variously as a netmaker, factory hand, and trawlerman. Returning to England, he became a journalist for a nautical trade mag, but never lost his love for Iceland. Now mystery readers can enjoy the country along with Bates in his Officer Gunnhildur [...]
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The Edge of the Habitable World: The Officer Gunnhildur Novels of Quentin Bates
Posted in Interviews, tagged Cold Comfort, Frozen Assets, Gunna, Iceland, Officer Gunnhildur Series, Quentin Bates, Reykjavík on January 21, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Annus Mirabilis in a Mutable World
Posted in Diverse, tagged Karl Wittgenstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Palais Kinsky, Pope Paul VI, The Silence, Tractatus, Vienna 1900 on January 11, 2012 | 4 Comments »
For those of you who may have missed this when it was posted at The Rap Sheet, I reprise here the “Story behind the Story” of my new novel, THE SILENCE, a “splendid third whodunit featuring attorney Karl Werthen and criminologist Hanns Gross,” according to Publishers Weekly. The novel was also picked by Kirkus Reviews [...]
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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