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Daniel Jacobus is the protagonist in a series of mystery novels by American novelist Gerald Elias. Daniel Jacobus is a blind, reclusive, crotchety violin teacher in rural New England. The series gives the reader a look into the world of classical music, with its backstabbing teachers and performers, venal patrons, and shady violin dealers.

Gerald Elias is an American author of mystery novels. He writes the Daniel Jacobus series. Gerald is also a violinist, associate concertmaster, conductor, composer, and teacher. He has taken his knowledge of the classical music world and brought it to his fiction.

Vicki Stiefel is an American author who is best known for her fantasy romance series, The Made Ones. In addition that that series, she is also the author of the Afterworld Chronicles series.

Craig N. Hooper is the author of the Garrison Chase series of novels. Craig is from Canada where he attended McMaster University, and earned a bachelor’s degree. After that big achievement, he left Canada and moved to Hawaii as he had always wanted to be a surfer.

Vanda Symon is a New Zealand author who is best known for writing crime novels. She is the author of the Sam Shephard series. In addition to working as a writer, she is also the host of the Write On radio show on Toroa Radio.

Gene Kerrigan is an Irish author of fiction and non-fiction books. He is also a journalist. His journalism work has included political commentary on Ireland since the 1970s, and about Ireland for International Socialism magazine. He was chosen as World Journalist of the Year in 1985 and 1990. His book The Rage won the 2012 […]

Valerie V.M. Burns is an American author who writes cozy mysteries and children’s books. She is best known for her series are the Mystery Bookshop series and the A Dog Club Mystery series.

Steven Brust is an American author of science fiction and fantasy. He is best known for his Vlad Taltos series of novels that focus on Vlad who is a human minority working as an assassin in a dangerous world called Dragaera that is filled with magically-empowered Dragaerans who live for a long time. In addition […]

Hi all and welcome to November! Hope everyone had a good Halloween. I dressed up in a Fireball Whiskey costume and stayed home handing out candy to the kids, and fireball jello shots to the parents. Pretty sure I had the most popular house this year! I had some people telling me the newsletter was […]

In the October 2019 Newsletter I asked our readers What was the last book you read and how was it? Here were the responses: