Please welcome my friend and fellow historical mystery author Annamaria Alfieri, whose fantastic new novel, STRANGE GODS (Minotaur Books, June 2014), is the first in a brand-new mystery series set in British East Africa during the early years of the 20th century. What inspired you to set your new series in Africa? The irresistibility of Africa itself. I read Out of Africa as an adolescent who had never traveled farther from my New Jersey home than the coast of Maine. That book gave me a nostalgic longing for a place I experienced only in my dreams and had no prospects of ever
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An Interview with Annamaria Alfieri
Today I’m honored to welcome Annamaria Alfieri, author of BLOOD TANGO (Minotaur Books, June 25, 2013), a fabulous new mystery that I loved and absolutely recommend! Annamaria Alfieri is the author of Blood Tango, which takes place in Buenos Aires in 1945 and imagines the murder of an Evita Perón lookalike. Kirkus Reviews said of her Invisible Country, “Alfieri has written an anti-war mystery that compares with the notable novels of Charles Todd.” Deadly Pleasures Magazine called her City of Silver one of the best first novels of the year. The Washington Post said, “As both history and mystery, City
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