Road to Here: Mozart novel ‘must-read’
The excellent and influential US literary blog The Road to Here has a great review of my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA. “Squirrelqueen” writes: If you love a good mystery the Mozart’s Last Aria is a...
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Invited to Speculate about Julia Roberts
Marshal Zeringue’s Campaign for the American reader continues with an invitation for me to speculate about which actress ought to play the lead in a movie version of my new historical crime novel...
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The Other Mozart, No Longer Forgotten
On the Wall Street Journal‘s Speakeasy arts blog, I’ve written a piece about why artistic attention is finally being paid to Nannerl Mozart, sister of the great composer and an important musical figure...
View ArticleCreating a Sense of Imperial Vienna
The blog Page 69 Test asks writers to look at page 69 of their books and demonstrate if/how it’s representative of the entire work. I did this for my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA. Meanwhile, the book...
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Mystery Scene: ‘resounding bravo’ for MOZART’S LAST ARIA
I am, as they say back in the UK, chuffed as hell that Mystery Scene magazine gives my new novel an absolutely terrific review. Reviewer Sue Emmons says MOZART’S LAST ARIA deserves “a resounding...
View ArticleReading Olen Steinhauer, Barry Unsworth; interview with a Dark Mind
My pal detective novelist B.R. Stateham features an interview with me on his blog In the Dark Mind of B.R. Stateham. He asked some very interesting questions about how a writer does what he does. I...
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Two more blogs love Mozart’s Last Aria
My new novel Mozart’s Last Aria has two great reviews on the blogs Reading Lark and Life in the Thumb. I’m delighted because these are the places readers go these days to find out what’s hot. It’s a...
View ArticleBookreporter: Mozart’s Last Aria ‘elegant’; Rees ‘gently eccentric’
A very nice review of my new novel Mozart’s Last Aria on Bookreporter.com has this to say, among other amusing and insightful observations: Music is notoriously difficult to capture in prose; Matt Rees...
View ArticleMozart’s brains and Caravaggio’s balls
I’ve a guest post on the Fresh Fiction blog and also there’s an interview with me on the CBS columnist Jeff Glor’s blog about my new novel Mozart’s Last Aria. Read the Fresh Fiction post to find out...
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Blogs love my Mozart book — and Glasgow and Calcutta do too
My latest novel Mozart’s Last Aria has been getting still more excellent reviews on fiction blogs. I’ve noticed that people like the fact that it brings to life Mozart’s times and his music — and that...
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