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Historical Thrillers
By Dawn Ius
Samurai detective Sano Ichiro is working his last—and most dangerous—case.
For the many fans of bestselling author Laura Joh Rowland, this is perhaps bittersweet. Because after more than twenty years and seventeen books, THE IRIS FAN marks the stunning conclusion to Rowland's series of thrillers set in feudal Japan.
"[These characters] are like family, and saying goodbye to them is heart-wrenching," Rowland says. "But I'm happy as well as sad, because I think it's the right thing to do. In such a long series, the later books can never be as original and fresh as the first few. Some of the later books are better works of art and craft than the earlier ones, but my initial creative excitement has diminished over the years."
That doesn't mean readers aren't in for a triumphant conclusion, though. In THE IRIS FAN, Sano Ichiro is restored to the rank of chief investigator to find the person responsible for stabbing a shogun with a fan made of painted silk and sharp-pointed iron ribs. If he fails, his family and his life are at risk.
"Sano and his long-time enemy, Yanagisawa, make a deal from hell," Rowland says, admitting that this novel is one of her favorites in the series—not only because it's the "end" but also because it's a culmination of everything she's learned about the craft of writing.
"When I wrote the first book (Shinju, published in 1994), I was still learning how to juggle the elements of fiction, and some basic things about the mystery genre slipped by me," she says. "I forgot that a series needs, in addition to a detective, a cast of recurring characters. In subsequent books I gave Sano a boss, a sidekick, an enemy, a wife, and two kids, who all have important roles in the stories. One of the challenges of writing a series character is making him change and grow over time, like a real-life person. That happened to Sano, although I didn't plan it out when I first created him."
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"I tried to concentrate on where I was going and the reason for the trip, but everything around me conspired to catapult me into the dramatic event that placed me on this particular train in this unique moment in time. The clack of the wheels, the hum of the rails, the ebb and flow of the sound of rushing air as the train passed trees, buildings and fields rang in my ears, growing louder and louder with every passing mile, until it transformed into the buzzing of planes, the roar of flames and the cacophony of exploding munitions. Breathing in the air, I inhaled the scent of worn leather upholstery, the musky odors of previous passengers, even a trace of the sweet aroma of fruit eaten by an earlier traveler. The jumbled fragrance was overcome by the noxious scent of fire that incinerated fuel, rubber, and human flesh."
Inspiration is a funny thing—there's no telling when it's going to pop up and take you by surprise. Once I was sitting in Gruene Hall listening to a performance, focused on the lead guitarist when, without warning, my imagination asked: "Can you kill someone with a guitar string?" I talked to a few musicians and found out that, yes, you can. They even told me the best string to use. That became the starting point of a novel, BITE THE MOON.
My latest work of fiction, SCANDAL IN THE SECRET CITY, was inspired less by a flight of fancy and more by hard, cold reality. I was researching a true crime book about Raynella Dossett Leath. She claimed one of her two husbands died in a cattle stampede and the other in a three-shot suicide. The story was tragic and bizarre and included the accidental death of a child, a sordid love affair, an attempted murder, and two medical examiners threatening law enforcement with firearms. But what really stirred up my creativity was learning out that Raynella spent a chunk of her childhood living in the Secret City.
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By Wendy Tyson
DEATH WORKS AT NIGHT, the recently-released novel by Mauro Azzano, is the second installment in the Ian McBriar series. In the first book, THE DEAD DON'T DREAM, readers met homicide police detective McBriar as he investigated the brutal assault of two young boys, one of whom the son of a local underworld figure. In the new book, a fast-paced police procedural, McBriar is back, only this time he's faced with an even more puzzling set of circumstances: a string of murders that span a continent.
Mauro was kind enough to answer a few questions for THE BIG THRILL.
DEATH WORKS AT NIGHT is described as "the story of a Metis police detective who conquered bigotry, prejudice, and his own personal tragedies to succeed." Can you tell us a little more about Ian McBriar and some of the elements of his past that have made him the man he is today?
In the first book, we learn that Ian was studying to be a priest. His mother was killed tragically, and the anger he felt at the person who had caused her death led him to realize he had neither the self-control nor the self-denial required to be a priest. Becoming a police officer was the best compromise for him, allowing him to punish the guilty while staying true to his principles.
In my books, Ian is Scottish/French/Cree Indian. The stories are set in the 1970s, a time when political correctness did not exist, and few positions of trust were available to people of an aboriginal background.
This is the second in the Ian McBriar series. Like the first McBriar novel, DEATH WORKS AT NIGHT is set in Toronto, Canada. You were born in Italy, and you have lived in Australia and Canada, where you currently make your home. How have your own experiences traveling and living in such varied international locales affected your novels?
Ian is a "fish out of water." I moved from Italy to Australia at age three, then back to Italy at age eleven, then to Canada a year later. I had three separate and very jarring culture shocks, and I'm certain that this was the genesis for Ian's difficulties. I briefly thought of making the character an Italian-Canadian, but Ian came to me almost completely formed, and the more I investigated the difficulties faced by Metis, the more this felt like the right way to go.
Both books are set in the 1970s. What inspired you to write historical thrillers?
I am a people-watcher. I also tend to remember details that I witness; THE DEAD DON'T DREAM came from a half dozen snippets of scenes I remember seeing over the past twenty years, and I needed to write it to get the story out of my head.
The reason I set the first book in the 1970s was initially technical: there were some things one could do in the era before computer databases that one cannot do today. Once the first book was underway, I realized that the characters were a lot more alive, more vibrant, as a result of NOT being able to pick up a cell phone or Google an answer. They had to communicate—talk to each other—and I think this human interaction comes through in the story.
In DEATH WORKS AT NIGHT, McBriar is confronted with a perplexing case—a murder with no obvious motive and a suspect with no alibi. When writing the novel, did you outline the plot before you wrote the first draft, or did the plot develop during the writing process itself? What else can you share a about your writing process?
I never write down outlines or flow charts or anything, and I never know where the story is going to go. Often, I type away and am as surprised as anybody at what the characters do. Those scenes are usually the ones I need to tweak the least, the ones that I really enjoy seeing in print.
I research everything, from the score of the hockey game in one scene, to the make of car and type of gun the police used in 1974. My biggest fear is that someone will say that I got some important point wrong. I have heard from a number of retired and active police officers who read THE DEAD DON'T DREAM; to my immense pride they all said that I got the atmosphere of the police department right, that reading the dialog, they could hear the banter in their heads.
For the first three or four rewrites of THE DEAD DON'T DREAM I was not sure just "whodunit," but once the next rewrite was done, I was certain that this was the story that I wanted to share.
When I write, I don't use the "1000 words per day" rule or anything like that, but I do try to keep the momentum going. It's very easy to leave the work for a while and never get back to it, but you have to press on until it's finished. Once you have, you can decide whether it's good enough to proceed with, but until it's finished, it's like an unbaked cake. You'll never know whether it's delicious or not unless it's baked.
As to how I get my ideas, the central plot twist in the first book came from a casual comment I heard on the radio about "tombstoning"—identity theft from a graveyard. The second book's plot contains an interesting psychological condition that I thought would be a really great red herring. Both of these felt right from the first time I wrote them down.
What would you like your readers to take away from your books?
Mystery books are not actuarial tomes. They should be easy to read, entertaining and interesting. If they are also informative, all the better. But the feedback I get is that people see Ian, Frank, and the others in my books as real, solid human beings who are alive to them. If these characters give people a nice warm feeling, then I have done my job well.
What's next for you? Can readers look forward to another McBriar thriller?
The third book in the series, DEATH BY DECEIT, has been sent to the publisher for first edit. It takes place in 1977, and has the same humor and fun banter as the first two books, but the threat in this book comes far closer to home for Ian; the body count is higher, and the culprit is more devious and determined than before.
The fourth book is in the planning stage. That said, the central plot of this book had been in my mind ever since I started writing the second book. I am superstitious, though, so I won't discuss it until I finish the first draft.
Mauro Azzano was born in the Veneto in Northern Italy. He has received recognition as an educator, a communicator and also as an author. The Ian McBriar series of books is still growing, and he is currently working on the fourth in the series.
To learn more about Mauro, please visit his website.
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By Karen Harper
If anyone doubts that the International Thriller Writers is International, this interview with European author Bob Van Laerhoven should help erase those doubts. He has lived and worked all over the world, and his latest prize-winning novel is now available in the US. Van Laerhoven calls himself a Belgian (Flemish) author, but his work is universal.
What is your book about?
BAUDELAIRE'S REVENGE is a crossover between literature and the mystery-novel, mixing a tale of murder and extraneous passions with literary history and history. It goes back to Paris, September 1870, and the Franco-Prussian war. The first Prussian shrapnel hits the city. The workers are starving to death. The nobility seeks refuge in orgies and séances. Artists denounce the impending civil war in France and call for unity in defense against the Prussian armies. The Parisians are trapped in their besieged city.
However, the horror of war is surpassed by a series of gruesome and mysterious murders that makes them forget about everyday reality. Commissioner Lefèvre, a veteran from the French-Algerian war, has to resolve these lurid crimes. On or near each of the corpses, verses out of the contentious anthology THE FLOWERS OF EVIL of the recently deceased Charles Baudelaire are found, written in his exact handwriting. Commissioner Lefèvre's investigation uncovers a plot with ramifications extending as far as the court of the emperor, Napoleon III. It also leads him to discover a bizarre family secret with far-reaching consequences. And to the knowledge that evil is everywhere, and he is not excluded.
BAUDELAIRE'S REVENGE has a unique premise. How did you come to use the French poet Charles Baudelaire—who was already dead at the time of your story—and why did you choose the thriller genre?
To answer this shrewd question, I have to go back in time, more than four decades. At seventeen, by chance—by Fate?—I picked up a volume of poems in the library of the small Flemish village near to the Dutch border where I grew up. It was the Dutch translation of LES FLEURS DU MAL (THE FLOWERS OF EVIL) by Charles Baudelaire. I read those thrilling, enticing verses and I was wowed. I bought the French edition to be able to read those enthralling poems, describing a universe of weird, entangled passions in the original language they were written in. I remember clearly that I read LES FLEURS DU MAL at night in bed with the help of a French-Dutch dictionary. I also began to read more about Baudelaire's twisted and dramatic life, and I vowed that I would become a writer and publish a book about him. At twenty-seven, I tried for the first time, but after a few months I had to admit that the topic was, at that moment, way above my head. I was just a beginner, having recently published my first novel NIGHT GAMES. The complexity of Baudelaire's themes and the decadence of his life, defied my longing to write a novel about him. I moved on, published more and more books, and, to be honest, forgot about the project of that seventeen year old boy who dreamed of becoming an author, a very uncommon goal in my social class: my parents were poor working people.
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Ken Follett's Century Trilogy follows the fortunes of five intertwined families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—as they make their way through the twentieth century. It has been called "potent, engrossing" (Publishers Weekly) and "truly epic" (Huffington Post). USA Today said, "You actually feel like you're there."
EDGE OF ETERNITY, the finale, covers one of the most tumultuous eras of all: the 1960s through the 1980s, encompassing civil rights, assassinations, Vietnam, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, presidential impeachment, revolution—and rock and roll.
East German teacher Rebecca Hoffman discovers she's been spied on by the Stasi for years and commits an impulsive act that will affect her family for generations… George Jakes, himself bi-racial, bypasses corporate law to join Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department and finds himself in the middle of not only the seminal events of the civil rights battle, but also a much more personal battle… Cameron Dewar, the grandson of a senator, jumps at the chance to do some espionage for a cause he believes in, only to discover that the world is much more dangerous than he'd imagined… Dimka Dvorkin, a young aide to Khrushchev, becomes an agent for good and for ill as the Soviet Union and the United States race to the brink of nuclear war, while his twin sister, Tania, carves out a role that will take her from Moscow to Cuba to Prague to Warsaw—and into history.
These characters and many others find their lives inextricably entangled as they add their personal stories and insight to the most defining events of the 20th century. From the opulent offices of the most powerful world leaders to the shabby apartments of those trying to begin a new empire, from the elite clubs of the wealthy and highborn to the passionate protests of a country's most marginalized citizens, this is truly a drama for the ages.
With the Century Trilogy, Follett has guided readers through an entire era of history with a master's touch. His unique ability to tell fascinating, brilliantly researched stories that captivate readers and keep them turning the pages is unparalleled. In this climactic and concluding saga, Follett brings us into a world we thought we knew, but now will never seem the same.
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By Jeremy Burns
The Middle Ages were full of fascinating and often shocking episodes, and few authors are as talented at bringing readers into this intriguing period of history as Karen Maitland. A veteran thriller writer and a member of the Medieval Murderers, Maitland digs into the political intrigue, sabotage, subterfuge, revolutions, conflicts, and secrets of the medieval era like few others. Her latest book, THE VANISHING WITCH, looks to thrill fans once again with her unique take on this tempestuous period of history.
The author recently sat down with THE BIG THRILL to give readers a glimpse into her upcoming medieval thriller.
Tell us a little about yourself.
I've been writing full-time since 2000, and THE VANISHING WITCH is my fifth medieval thriller to be published. As well as my own historical thrillers, I also write a joint medieval crime novel ever year with five other authors—Philip Gooden, Susanna Gregory, Michael Jecks, Bernard Knight, and Ian Morson. Together we are known as the Medieval Murderers and our tenth book, THE DEADLIEST SIN, is also published this summer.
I've recently moved to the beautiful county of Devon in England, not far from Dartmoor, the wild moor that was the inspiration for the famous Sherlock Holmes case—'The Hound of the Baskervilles'. When the mist comes down, you can almost hear the terrible black hound baying across the moors. I've converted an old blacksmith's workshop in which to write, which still has the old anvil and I've filled it with things that inspire me like an old witch ball, a saxon drill, and stuffed owl.
Tell us about THE VANISHING WITCH.
The book is set in Lincoln, England in 1380/81, during the reign of the boy-king Richard II. It was summer of the Peasants' Revolt when thousands of men and women marched on London and seized the Archbishop of Canterbury who was Chancellor of England. They hacked off his head, starting an orgy of rioting, murder and destruction that swept across England. But Robert, a wealthy wool-merchant in Lincoln has his own problems the rebels want him dead, the sheriff questions his loyalty and when people around him start being murdered, who can he trust—his impetuous son, the dark-haired widow, her bewitching daughter or his superstitious servants?
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By Rick Reed
Ken Kuhlken's short stories, features, essays and columns have appeared in Esquire and dozens of other magazines and anthologies, been honorably mentioned in Best American Short Stories, and earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship.
His novels have been widely praised and honored by awards such as the Ernest Hemingway Best First Novel, the St. Martin's/Private Eye Writers of America Best First Novel, and the Shamus Best Novel.
His latest Tom Hickey California Crime novel, THE GOOD KNOW NOTHING, is the seventh in a series of Tom Hickey novels and will be released on August 5:
During the summer of 1936, destitute farmers from the Dust Bowl swarm into California, and an old friend brings L.A. police detective Tom Hickey a book manuscript, a clue to the mystery of his father Charlie's long-ago disappearance.
In his relentless effort to find out what became of Charlie, Tom lures the novelist B. Traven to Catalina Island and accuses him of homicide. Traven's tale is that the Sundance Kid, having escaped from his reputed death in Bolivia, killed Charlie.
Tom crosses the desert pursuing the legendary outlaw. What he learns in Tucson sends him up against newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst.
Kuhlken recently answered a few questions for THE BIG THRILL.
Tell us about Tom Hickey? What kind of person is he, and how did you create his character?
Tom is a dreamer with an artistic nature who grows up quite aware of the darkness around him and whose essential motive is to help lighten the darkness. He sets out to become an architect and a musician, but circumstances lead him into police work and later to private investigation.
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By Jeremy Burns
She's a veteran novelist. He's a professor in Rome. Together, they write as Sam Cabot, whose debut novel BLOOD OF THE LAMB drew comparisons to THE DA VINCI CODE and THE HISTORIAN. The two members of this writing duo, S. J. Rozan and Carlos Dews, sat down with THE BIG THRILL to discuss SKIN OF THE WOLF, the sequel to BLOOD OF THE LAMB.
Tell us a little about yourselves and how you came to be a writing team.
Rozan: We met in Italy, through a writing workshop where we both teach. I was between projects and Carlos had an idea…
Dews: I was living my life as an expat in Rome and had a dream to write a thriller set here. I had too much respect for the thriller genre to try one on my own. Mutual friends introduced me to S. J., and the dream team (at least from my point of view) was born.
Tell us about your new thriller, SKIN OF THE WOLF.
Rozan: SKIN OF THE WOLF picks up after BLOOD OF THE LAMB, though you don't have to have read the first to read this one. Set in the present in New York city, it involves art collectors, a ritual mask, Native Americans, and a murder at Sotheby's. Oh, and vampires and werewolves.
Dews: SKIN OF THE WOLF sees the team we introduced in last year's BLOOD OF THE LAMB (set in Rome) this time in New York where they race against time to prevent the catastrophic misuse of an important Native American mask. Oh, and did I forget to mention that there are vampires and shape-shifters involved?
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By Brian Knight
October, 1901. Lawyer and private-inquiries agent Karl Werthen accepts an assignment to protect the famous Irish writer Bram Stoker while on a speaking tour of Vienna. Meanwhile, his colleague, criminologist Dr. Hanns Gross, has been called away to advise on a bizarre series of murders near his hometown of Graz in the Austrian province of Styria. Three women have been killed with strange mutilations and scarring patterns left on their bodies. The third and most recent victim has had her unborn baby cut from her womb. Back in Vienna, Werthen's wife Berthe is investigating what seems to be a fraudulent breeding scheme involving the prized Lipizzaner horses. Could these investigations possibly be connected?
Matters become complicated with Werthen and Stoker's arrival in Graz. For, having read wild newspaper accounts of vampire killings, the author of DRACULA insists they investigate.
Welcome Mr. Jones, and thanks for stopping by to visit with us.
Call me Syd, please. And it is a pleasure to chat with you.
Tell us a bit about your new historical thriller, A MATTER OF BREEDING.
In my fifth installment of the Viennese Mystery series, A MATTER OF BREEDING, to be published this month, I again use characters and events inspired by history, primary among them Georg Ritter von Schönerer, the German nationalist whose right-wing rhetoric later influenced the young Hitler when he lived in Vienna (yes, I will include Hitler in an installment in due course). Schönerer is the inspiration for Christian von Hobarty, a primary suspect in the gruesome killings of several young women in the Austrian province of Styria, a place once much associated with vampirism. Indeed, the murders are for a time touted in the press as the work of a vampire. Damned handy that Bram Stoker, author of DRACULA, is in Austria on a speaking engagement and wrangles his way into the investigation with my ongoing protagonists, lawyer and private inquiries agent Karl Werthen and real-life father of criminology, Hanns Gross. Another intriguing—for me, at least—historical tip of the hat is to the so-called Blood Countess, Elizabeth Bathory, accused of killing hundreds of young women at her castle hideaway and bathing in their blood. Von Hobarty is an anagram of the Bathory name; he is, in fact, a distant relation of that infamous clan.
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By George Ebey
In this seventh book in the acclaimed Ethan Gage adventure series, William Dietrich brings us the further exploits of Napoleonic adventurer Ethan Gage.
THE THREE EMPERORS finds our hero traveling to Venice, the battlefield of Austerlitz, and Prague in search of his wife Astiza and son Harry. The two have been taken prisoner by a secret society seeking the Brazen Head, a medieval machine capable of forecasting the future, and first described in the previous novel, THE BARBED CROWN. Rich with historical detail such as castles, and personalities such as Napoleon Bonaparte and Joachim Murat, the novel combines thrilling adventure with an authentic sense of time and place. Can the Gage family reunite and prevent terrible powers from falling into the wrong hands?
THE BIG THRILL recently checked in with William to learn more about Ethan Gage and what it takes to sustain a popular series over the long haul.
THE THREE EMPERORS is the seventh novel in the Ethan Gage series. Please tell us a little about the character and what the series is about?
Ethan is an American adventurer whose hunts for ancient relics play a role in the career of Napoleon and his wars. In addition to being a protégé of Benjamin Franklin, our hero is an electrician (an exotic occupation at the time), a gambler, trader, and a bit of a womanizer until he meets the woman who will become his wife. Unlike some deadly thriller heroes, Ethan has a wry, self-deprecating sense of humor and an opportunistic instinct for self-preservation. The books are funny, as well as exciting. The series begins in 1798 and follows Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, and then goes chronologically through the period, taking our hero from the frontiers of America to Notre Dame. Using an American with no special rank allows me to give an outsider's view of great events, battles, and historical personalities.
How did the Ethan Gage series get its start?
I'm a fan of dashing swashbuckler stories with a humorous touch, such as George MacDonald Fraser's Flashman series about the British Empire or Richard Lester's irreverent movie take on THE THREE MUSKETEERS back in the 1970s. I wanted an American character with a skeptical view of one of my favorite periods of history, the Napoleonic Wars. Ethan has the perspective I had as a journalist—that of perennial outsider. Readers enjoy him because he is imperfect—although always conscious of Franklin's homilies—and determined to (someday) reform. He's likeable because he's so human.
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By Jeremy Burns
Every fiction author has a debut novel, and while some authors slowly make their way onto the scene, perfecting their craft and slowly gathering acclaim, debut author Gary Kriss looks poised to launch into the limelight with THE ZODIAC DECEPTION. A journalist, professor, history enthusiast, and magician, Kriss's intriguing bio has several similarities to that of that of his equally fascinating protagonist, a con man-spy sent to infiltrate Hitler's inner circle. With THE ZODIAC DECEPTION poised to make a splash this month, Kriss sat down with THE BIG THRILL to give readers a glimpse into his extensive bag of tricks.
Tell us a little about yourself.
Let's see: I was born in Brooklyn but spent the early part of my life in Tennessee, so in many ways I'm still a transplanted Southerner. Growing up in the South, with its great literary tradition, gave me a love for reading and writing. It also sparked my social consciousness, which, in turn, significantly influenced my own creative endeavors. I started writing for newspapers when I was 11 and pursued this, on and off, for most of my life, largely for The New York Times. I also served my time as a college administrator and as a professor. And since the book involves astrology, I'm a Libra with Capricorn Rising.
Tell us about your new thriller, THE ZODIAC DECEPTION.
If pressed for a logline, it would go something like this:
Espionage, romance, religion and the paranormal collide in 1942 Berlin when the Allies send an American con man, trained by Houdini, to pull off the greatest scam in history: pose as an astrologer, gain the confidence of SS chief Heinrich Himmler by playing on his fascination with the occult, and then persuade him to kill Adolf Hitler.
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By Stacy Mantle
A former media maven, MJ Rose left the advertising arena to write fiction in the late 90s. It wasn't long before she found herself back in the ad business when she realized marketing is a required activity for authors.
Her novels combine multiple genres to create an eclectic collection of breathtaking heroines, mysterious heroes, and a deep understanding of history. She takes the reader on a passionate, dangerous journey through time with a writing style that is riveting. The release of her newest novel, THE COLLECTOR OF DYING BREATHS, comes in a hail of critical acclaim.
I was able to catch up with her for a look at the details about being an author, running a business, and how she created the character of Rene' le Florentine while portraying the magical court of Catherine de Medici.
How much of THE COLLECTOR OF DYING BREATHS is based on historical events?
As with most of my work, there is a lot of fact mixed in with this fictional tale.
My story starts at the real life Officina Profumo–Farmaceutica di Santa Maria Novella, one of the world's oldest pharmacies, which was founded in 1221 in Florence by the Dominican Friars who made herbal remedies and potions. The first "eau de Cologne" has been attributed to the pharmacy's 1500s citrus and bergamot scented water created for Catherine de Medici.
René le Florentin, my main character in the past story, was indeed an apprentice at the monastery and there created scents and creams for the young Catherine de Medici. When the fourteen-year-old Duchessina traveled to France to marry the prince, she took René with her. He and Catherine are credited with bringing perfume to their newly adopted country.
I used René's perfume store in Paris and along with perfume he was credited with inventing creative poisons like the ones in the book, which his queen and her subjects used on their enemies.
I stayed true to Catherine de Medici, her aspirations, issues, and superstitions, family as well as her reliance on the astrologer Cosimo Ruggieri and René le Florentin.
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By George Ebey
Michael Kurland's latest novel, WHO THINKS EVIL, represents the fifth in his series featuring Sherlock Holmes' famed nemesis, Professor James Moriarty.Moriarty is awaiting trial for murder when Queen Victoria's grandson mysteriously disappears. In exchange for his release and the murder charges (of which he's innocent) being dropped, the so-called "Napoleon of Crime" must track down the missing prince and find out who is behind his disappearance and the brutal murders left in his wake.
I recently checked in with Michael to learn more about how this series came to be and where it is going from here.
WHO THINKS EVIL is told from the point of view of Sherlock Holmes' archenemy James Moriarty. How did this series begin?
This is the fifth novel in the series, along with a bunch of short stories. It began when Bernie Geis, a New York publisher, needed someone to ghostwrite some star's autobiography. My agent recommended me and sent along a sample of my writing, including the portion and outline of THE INFERNAL DEVICE, the first Moriarty book, which I'd been thinking of submitting to the paperback house that had published a bunch of my science fiction novels. Bernie loved that so much that he bought it for vast amounts of money—at least by the standards of someone who'd been writing paperback science fiction—and found someone else to do the ghosting
THE INFERNAL DEVICE was nominated for an Edgar and an American Book Award, which made me think that perhaps science fiction wasn't my field after all.
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By J. N. Duncan
I'd like to welcome Jess Faraday to ITW's THE BIG THRILL. She's the author of TURNBULL HOUSE, a Victorian era mystery released this month. TURNBULL HOUSE is the second book in the series which began with THE AFFAIR OF THE PORCELAIN DOG. Jess graduated from the University of Arizona and UCLA, andshe works as the mystery editor for Elm Books. In the past, she's worked as a copyeditor, lexicographer, and book translator. She even taught high school Russian. Let's find out what she has to say about her upcoming mystery.
Your series takes place in the late Victorian age. What sparked your interest about 1890s London that made you want to set a story here?
I've always had an affinity for that era. It's hard to explain. It's a fascinating time culturally, scientifically, and politically. It was a time of unprecedented technological development and savage social inequality. Scientific discoveries abounded and philosophy flourished. The detective story was born. A great society surged forward on the backs of multitudes of forgotten laborers—many of them children—who eked out short, difficult lives under the most shocking conditions.It was a time of incredible contrasts—contrasts that must have been reflected both in society and within the individual.
And of course the frock coats =)
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By A.J. Colucci
Following up on the success of his debut novel, THE MIDWIFE'S TALE, Sam Thomas revisits seventeenth century England with midwife Bridget Hodgson and her brassy servant Martha Hawkins in his second novel, THE HARLOT'S TALE.
It is August 1645, one year since York fell into Puritan hands. As the city suffers through a brutal summer heat, Bridget Hodgson and Martha Hawkins are drawn into a murder investigation more frightening than their last. In order to appease God's wrath—and end the heat-wave—the city's overlords have launched a brutal campaign to whip the city's sinners into godliness. But for someone in York, this is not enough. First a prostitute and her client are found stabbed to death, then a pair of adulterers are beaten and strangled. York's sinners have been targeted for execution. Bridget and Martha—assisted once again by Will, Bridget's good-hearted nephew—race to find the killer even as he adds more bodies to his tally.
You probably get this a lot, but I have to ask; how does a male college professor get so interested in midwifery?
It was the first of many coincidences. I was working on my doctoral thesis—which was about religious toleration in seventeenth century England—when I stumbled across the will left by the midwife upon whom I based my protagonist, Bridget Hodgson. As it happened, at the very moment I found the will, the history of midwifery was being rewritten and I was able to get in on a hot topic.
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Lisa Morton's new novel, NETHERWORLD takes readers back to nineteenth-century Victorian England, where a young widow finds that she has inherited more than her late husband's property: The Furnavals serve as the ancestral keepers of supernatural portals scattered around the globe. When demonic entities begin crossing over from the Netherworld, Lady Diana realizes that a war is brewing, and she must be the one to confront it.
Morton graciously agreed to answer some questions from THE BIG THRILL:
Your story is rich with details about the fantastic and the gothic, which showed your interest in supernatural fantasy. What is your attraction to the genre?
I've always loved the darker side of fantasy—as a child I was hopelessly obsessed with the Universal monster movies. But as an adult, I think one of the things I most enjoy about writing within the genre is the way it can be used to comment obliquely on contemporary or relevant topics. In NETHERWORLD, for instance, I got to use a trip around the globe in search of demonic forces to comment on the Industrial Revolution, imperialism, and gender roles.
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By J. H. Bográn
Here's a brief description of Antonio Garrido's new novel THE SCRIBE: The year is 799, and King Charlemagne awaits coronation as the Holy Roman emperor. But in the town of Würzburg, the young, willful Theresa dreams only of following in the footsteps of her scholarly father—a quiet man who taught her the forbidden pleasures of reading and writing. Though it was unthinkable for a medieval woman to pursue a career as a craftsperson, headstrong Theresa convinces the parchment-makers' guild to test her. If she passes, it means access to her beloved manuscripts and nothing less than true independence. But as she treats the skins before an audience of jeering workmen, unimaginable tragedy strikes—tearing apart Theresa's family and setting in motion a cascade of mysteries that Theresa must solve if she hopes to stay alive and save her family.
Mr. Garrido agreed to response a few questions posed to him in Spanish. I trust I kept the spirit of the ideas from his responses, with a bit of luck, nothing got lost in the translation.
How extensive was the research for THE SCRIBE?
Almost as extensive a thesis for a PH.D. You have to consider that in spite of the exciting events told, THE SCRIBE is inspired in real life, which meant that all the data was thoroughly crosschecked. The research lasted four years and took me to various museums and libraries in places like Germany, France, United Kingdom, and Italy.
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By J. H. Bográn
In Judith Rock's latest book, THE WHISPERING OF BONES, the last thing Jesuit Charles du Luc and his elderly confessor expect to find on an autumn day in 1687 when they go to pray in an ancient church crypt outside Paris is a murdered man—a very young man who was about to enter their order. Then another Jesuit disappears from the school Louis le Grand, where Charles teaches. And Charles discovers that a forged document from Poland, source of the dark myth gathering around the Society of Jesus, is circulating illegally in Paris. In the midst of this, the soldier who once saved Charles's life enters the Jesuit Novice House, bringing Charles's most shameful battlefield secret back to haunt him. As he tries to untangle this web, he sees that his efforts may well destroy his Jesuit future.
I must confess I fell in love with this book from the moment I first read it. I had the privilege to pose some questions to the author.
What can you tell us about Charles Du Luc, and his development for the fourth book in the series?
Charles was wounded in the battle of St. Omer in 1677. While recovering, he read about the life of St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, and decided to become a Jesuit. He's now twenty-nine and nearing the end of the long Jesuit training. After a lot of questioning and risking of his vocation, he knows that he wants to be ordained a priest—even though obedience has always been hard for him, and still is. As he faces the terrible secret from his army past, and is overtaken by the consequences of finding the body at the beginning of this book, he discovers that freedom is the unexpected other side of humility.
Tasha Alexander is the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author of the Lady Emily series and the novel ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE. She attended the University of Notre Dame, where she studied English and Medieval History. Her work has been nominated for numerous awards and has been translated into more than a dozen languages. She and her husband, novelist Andrew Grant, divide their time between Chicago and the UK.
The victim makes a grand entrance at a social gathering and falls dead in the opening pages. You get the reader's attention quickly don't you?
The opening of this book came to me long before I had settled on the overall story. From there, I had to start asking questions about the gentleman in question to figure out what had happened to him…
As the 8th book in the Lady Emily series does it seem the give-and-take between Lady Emily and her mother over a grim topic—such as murder–is something readers have come to anticipate?
Emily and her mother have, at best, a sometimes-peaceful standoff. Their views on most things—women's suffrage, education, appropriate social behavior, and child-rearing—clash, but there is a great deal of humor in their exchanges, and readers are kind enough to tell me they enjoy them. Lady Bromley, however, might not find them quite so amusing.
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Raymond Chandler said that one of the characteristics of crime fiction (for want of a better name) is the unnatural squeezing up of timeframes. The same thing applies to history when it is dragged, willingly or otherwise, into the world of crime writing. But why squeeze all that up at all? The answer to why any of us write anything is always that we all write what we love writing. We take what interests us and intrigues us and we try to turn that into a story. But that doesn't mean there isn't usually a bit more to it as well.
We probably spend too much time putting fiction into genres and sub-genres these days, but the historical crime novel is clearly a genre of some kind, combining as it does two resiliently popular areas of fiction: history and mystery. But it has an odd quality that a contemporary setting doesn't demand. You can't play fast and loose with the past the way you can with the present. Readers expect their history to be historical! Especially if your detective is going to stumble into real events and real people along the way.
When I started the first of a series of crime novels set in Ireland in the 30s and 40s, THE CITY OF SHADOWS, part of the pleasure and part of the purpose was to explore that time, in particular the way the Second World War touched Ireland, and over the series to 'visit' a number of cities that were sometimes at the heart of that war and sometimes at its compromised periphery: Dublin, Danzig, New York, Lisbon, Paris, Berlin, London, Rome.
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By Dawn Ius
Tracey Devlyn doesn't believe in the muse.
"I believe in me," she says. "When the creative side of my brain is being stubborn and the words aren't flowing, I get up, walk around, and sit back down and write—even if I only write three hard-earned words. Then I repeat until I have a sentence, a paragraph, a chapter, a manuscript."
Her latest manuscript is A LADY'S SECRET WEAPON, which can be drilled down to this intriguing tweet-worthy synopsis: A boudoir spy joins forces with a notorious underworld informant to determine why boys are disappearing at one of London's orphanages.
It's the third novel in her series of historical romantic thrillers, a genre that provides her – and her lucky readers – the ultimate in escapism.
"Our modern world has become so complicated, immediate, and violent. It's nice to spend some time in a period where the pace is a little slower and chivalry still exists," she says.
That doesn't mean it's less exciting. Quite the contrary. As a historical writer, Devlyn walks the fine line between fact and fiction, a delicate balance of historic truths and modern suspense. Going back in time may seem daunting, but for Devlyn, it's no more overwhelming than the research that goes into many thriller novels set in modern times.
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Are you ready? The wait for the fourth novel in Raymond Khoury's international bestselling series featuring FBI Agent Sean Reilly is finally over. RASPUTIN'S SHADOW goes on sale in October.
RASPUTIN'S SHADOW opens on a cold, bleak day in 1916. A mining pit in Siberia turns into a bloodbath when its miners attack each other, savagely and ferociously. Minutes later, two men—a horrified scientist and Grigory Rasputin, trusted confidant of the tsar—hit a detonator, blowing up the mine to conceal all evidence of the carnage.
In the present day, FBI agent Sean Reilly is tasked with a new, disturbing case. A Russian embassy attaché seems to have committed suicide by jumping out of a fourth-floor window in Queens. The apartment's owners, a retired high school teacher and his wife, have gone missing, while a faceless killer is roaming New York City, leaving a trail of death in his wake.
Joined by Russian FSB agent Larisa Tchoumitcheva, Reilly's investigation into the old man's identity will uncover a deadly, desperate search for a mysterious device whose origins reach back in time to the darkest days of the Cold War and to Imperial Russia and which, in the wrong hands, could have a devastating impact on the modern world.
Raymond Khoury was born in Beirut. He is a Scorpio, the youngest of three, and he was fourteen when civil war broke out in Lebanon and his parents moved the family to Rye, NY. He stayed there until he graduated from high school, and then moved back to Lebanon to study architecture at the American University of Beirut. Surviving repeated flare-ups of fighting and a couple of invasions, shortly after his college graduation, Khoury was again relocated—this time by the Marine Corp's 22nd Amphibious Unit. He ended up in London. Bouncing around in his career, he eventually turned to his creative side. He wrote a screenplay that shortlisted him for the Fulbright Fellowship in Screenwriting award, and then a second script that was nominated for the same award a year later. Now after working as a screenwriter and a producer on shows like the BBC series SPOOKS, he is solely focused on his novels. I recently had the great fortune of asking him a few questions.
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By Dan Levy
A freelance writer and book author since the early 1970s, J. Sydney Jones routinely cranks out a half-million or more words per year. While his writing career may seem prolific today, Jones didn't seem destined for a career as a scribe. According to Jones, "Unlike most writers–or what most writers say is the case–I did not enjoy reading at all as a kid. There was not a lot of reading for pleasure in my family."
Jones credits his four-plus-decade passion for words to Mrs. Ringnalda, a college English instructor who introduced him to Steinbeck and the importance of writing well, combined with a junior-year-abroad college program that landed him Vienna, Austria. "That gave me a break from expectations imposed by others as well as myself," said Jones. "I had the luxury of time to dream, to explore new things. That year turned me into a writer."
His love for Vienna and history gave him the rich settings for his Viennese Mystery series. But for his latest installment, RUIN VALUE, Jones takes readers to 1945 post-war Nuremberg, Germany—the antithesis of everything Vienna represented. According to Jones, "The scene in 1945 was impressive if not horrific: the inner city totally devastated by Allied bombing. This was Hitler's symbolic German city, home to the vast Nazi rallies of the pre-war years. It was also home to the War Crimes Trials that held the top Nazis accountable for crimes against humanity."
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With their second battle behind them, Leah Tallent and Gareth Lowery find themselves still knee-deep in hell. What should've ended with a celebration of passion wrapped in each others' arms becomes a nightmare once more, as a mysterious man demands Leah to return home, or else her beloved father will be found at the bottom of the sea.This time out, the courageous duo has only seven days to travel to Athens where the original 'Hero's Companion' awaits. From the stage atop the Acropolis where the most brilliant minds once performed to the discovery of a location that was never even proven to exist, 'Great Mysteries' come to life as Leah and Gareth work against time in order to stop a man from attaining the power he so desperately wants.
But as she stands by the side of her own courageous warrior, Leah will soon find out that she's in the crossfire of her own father's secrets; a life of lies that's far more frightening than anything she and Gareth have faced in the past.
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By Karen Harper
Karen Harper was recently able to catch up with busy Laura Joh Rowland whose career she has long admired. It takes talent to continue a mystery series for 17 novels, and the novels have grown in popularity with each one. Advice from such a successful writer is like gold. Thanks to Laura for a great interview.
Please give us a short summary of your latest release, THE SHOGUN'S DAUGHTER.
Japan 1704. The shogun's daughter Tsuruhime dies of smallpox. Her death has immediate, serious consequences. Faced with his own mortality and beset by troubles caused by the recent earthquake, the shogun names as his heir Yoshisato, the seventeen-year-old son he only recently discovered is his. Yoshisato was raised as the illegitimate son of Yanagisawa, the shogun's favorite advisor. Yanagisawa is also the longtime enemy of Sano Ichiro (the samurai detective hero in my series). Sano doubts that Yoshisato is really the shogun's son, believing it's a fraud and power-play devised by Yanagisawa. When Sano learns that Tsuruhime's death may have been murder, he sets off on a dangerous investigation that leads to more death and destruction as he struggles to keep his pregnant wife Reiko and his children safe. While seeking the killer, he and his family become the accused. And this time, they may not survive the day.
Sano Ichiro is a samurai detective. Readers might expect a detective hero, but what do his samurai talents add to his character and this story?
Sano is pretty handy with a sword. Thrilling battle scenes are a staple of my series, and he's been known to lop off a villain's head once in a while. His wife Reiko is no slouch, either. That's a little different from contemporary American crime fiction, in which guns and fists are the usual weapons.
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By Stacy Mantle
Laurie R. King began penning stories in 1987 when her youngest child entered school. By 1993, her first novel was published and she was well on her way to being a fulltime author. The award-winning, bestselling author has averaged a novel a year, making THE BONES OF PARIS her 23rd novel.
As a third generation Northern Californian who has lived most of her life in the San Francisco Bay area, her background includes degrees in theology, managing a coffee store, raising children, vegetables, and even the occasional building.
King's writing reflects her background—it is no accident that characters in her books spend time in the Bay Area and England (King's other home) and are interested in theology, architecture, and travel (Her long autobiography goes into this relationship in detail.)
With six stand-alone novels, fourteen novels in the Mary Russell series, five novels in the Kate Martinelli series, and two novels in the Stuyvesant & Grey series, King has become well known in the mystery genre. THE BONES OF PARIS is the latest in the Stuyvesant & Grey series.
Private investigator Harris Stuyvesant is living the dream. His latest assignment is based in Paris, France during the year 1929, and he's paid to troll the cafés of Montparnasse, seeking out beautiful young women. He's an American agent with a healthy appetite for la vie Bohéme, despite years at the US Bureau of Investigation.
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By Jeff Ayers
Will Anderson and Elizabeth Hume get caught up in the political turmoil over women's suffrage in DETROIT SHUFFLE, the fourth book in D. E. Johnson's critically acclaimed 1910s Detroit series
Will Anderson inadvertently breaks up a key suffrage rally when he thwarts a gunman set on killing his lover, Elizabeth Hume. No one else saw the man, and Elizabeth believes he hallucinated the entire incident, a side effect of the radium "treatment" he received at Eloise Hospital. She asks him to sit on the sidelines while she and her companions try to get the women's suffrage amendment passed by Michigan voters.
Instead, Will sets out to protect Elizabeth and prove his sanity. Will's nemesis, Sapphira Xanakis, contacts him with news of a conspiracy to defeat the amendment, led by Andrew Murphy, head of the Michigan Licensed Beverage Association. Against his better judgment, Will believes she is trying to help. The man she directs him to dies under suspicious circumstances. An old acquaintance of Will's, who is working for the MLBA, is shot and killed in front of him. Still, no one believes Will, including his former ally, Detective Riordan, who not only is unwilling to help, but seems to have secrets of his own.
With new death threats against Elizabeth and the next rally only a few days away, Will has to unravel a complicated tapestry of blackmail, double-dealing, conspiracy, and murder—before the killer has his next chance to strike. Johnson's immaculate plotting and high-tension writing make for a spellbinding read set in early twentieth-century Detroit.
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Writing under the pseudonym Sam Cabot, award-winning author S.J. Rozan and Professor Carlos Dews introduce BLOOD OF THE LAMB, the first book in their Novel of Secrets historical thriller series.
In Rome, American Jesuit priest Thomas Kelly searches for an ancient document stolen from the Vatican. An enigmatic letter leads him to the work of a 19th Century poet, where Thomas discovers cryptic messages that might lead to the missing manuscript. His search unexpectedly entwines with that of Italian art historian Livia Pietro, who tells him destructive forces threaten to expose the document's secrets. Mysterious men who would cross any line to obtain the document relentlessly chase Livia and Thomas through Rome. They surmise that the pages hold a devastating, long-buried truth. Livia, though, has a secret of her own: she and her People are vampires, called the Noantri. But all this pales in light of the Secret that Thomas and Livia discover together—a revelation more stunning than either could have imagined.
The authors added, "The novel is ultimately about faith and community. But it's also about vampires and the Catholic Church. Because one of the main characters is a Jesuit priest and two are Noantri (vampires), readers might have come to them with preconceived ideas. Our job was to divest them of this baggage and make each of them a fully human individual."
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By Don Helin
In her historical thriller, THE RIDDLE OF SOLOMON, D.J. Niko spins a story so exciting that Mary Anna Evans, award-winning author of ARTIFACTS AND WOUNDED EARTH says, "Like a sandstorm roaring out of the Judean Desert, THE RIDDLE OF SOLOMON rips readers out of the familiar world, dropping them breathless in a place where ancient kings still keep their secrets. D. J. Niko's storytelling carries the grit of desert dust and the seductive scent of incense on every page as Sarah Weston races with a madman to save the treasures that King Solomon left behind."
Archaeologist Sarah Weston and anthropologist Daniel Madigan are working on the Qaryat al-Fau archaeological site in Saudi Arabia when they uncover a mysterious ancient scroll written in the form of a riddle. Sarah and Daniel follow a trail of clues leading to India, Jerusalem, and the Judean wilderness, where they discover the truth about the scroll: it was written by King Solomon as a map to an ancient manuscript containing an astounding revelation.
Journeying through the worlds of the occult, corporate greed, geopolitical conflict, Judaic mysticism, and biblical archeology, Sarah and Daniel race against time and a formidable enemy to uncover the powerful ancient message that could have an explosive impact on modern Israel. But is the world ready for the revelation it contains?
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By Karen Harper
I caught up with MJ Rose (which is a challenge since MJ is one of the busiest Thriller Writers around!) for an interview to give us a quick peek into her next book, SEDUCTION. MJ writes amazing novels which are difficult to link to any one genre, and she's one of the savviest promoters on the planet. Look for her at ThrillerFest in NYC in July.
What is your book about?
In 1843, novelist Victor Hugo's beloved nineteen-year-old daughter drowned. Ten years later, still grieving, Hugo initiated hundreds of séances from his home on the Isle of Jersey in order to reestablish contact with her. In the process, he claimed to have communed with Plato, Galileo, Shakespeare, Dante, Jesus—and even the Devil himself. Hugo's transcriptions of these conversations have all been published.
Or so it has been believed…
Recovering from a great loss, mythologist Jac L'Etoile thinks that throwing herself into work will distract her from her grief. In the hopes of uncovering a secret about the island's mysterious Celtic roots, she arrives on the Isle of Jersey and is greeted by ghostly Neolithic monuments, medieval castles, and hidden caves.
What she doesn't anticipate is that the mystery surrounding Victor Hugo will threaten her sanity and put her very life at stake.
SEDUCTION has a ghost story at its heart, and a mystery that spans centuries.
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How a Sketchy, Unsourced Claim in a Government Report Became Part of the Case Against Iran
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Several media outlets reported this month on an alarming finding from a new U.S. government study: Iran's intelligence ministry, as CNN put it, constitutes "a terror and assassination force 30,000 strong."
The claim that the intelligence ministry has a whopping 30,000 employees, first reported by a conservative website, spread to other outlets including Wired and the public radio show the Takeaway and landed elsewhere online, even on the intelligence ministry's Wikipedia page. All cited the new government study, put out by an arm of the Library of Congress called the Federal Research Division.
So how did the government researchers come up with the number? They searched the Internet — and ended up citing an obscure, anonymous website that was simply citing another source.
The trail on the 30,000 figure eventually ends with a Swedish terrorism researcher quoted in a 2008 Christian Science Monitor article. But the researcher, Magnus Ranstorp, said he isn't sure where the number came from. "I think obviously that it would be an inflated number" of formal employees, said Ranstorp.
We inquired with six Iran experts, and none knew of any evidence for the figure. Some said it might be in the ballpark while others questioned its plausibility.
"Whether the figures emanate from Iran or from western reporting, they are generally exaggerated and either meant as self-aggrandizing propaganda, if self-reported by Iran, or just approximations based on usually scant data or evidence," said Afshon Ostovar, a senior Middle East analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses who writes frequently on Iran. The number "could be more or less accurate, but there's no way to know."
Gary Sick, a longtime Iran specialist in and out of government, said the entire Federal Research Division study "has all the appearance of a very cheap piece of propaganda and should not be trusted."
Sick pointed to the study's use of questionable Internet sources as well as flat-out errors. In one section, for example, the study lays out in detail how "Iran's constitution defines" the intelligence ministry's official functions. The problem, as Sick notes: Iran's constitution doesn't mention an intelligence ministry, let alone define its functions.
Federal Research Division Chief David Osborne said in an email the report "was leaked to the media without authorization" and declined to comment further "because it is proprietary to the agency for which it was written."
This is that we know about the 30,000 figure and its provenance:
On the morning of Jan. 3, the conservative Washington Free Beacon ran a story headlined, "Iran Spy Network 30,000 Strong." The outlet said it had obtained a "64-page unclassified report" on the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, and published it with the story.
The Federal Research Service of the Library of Congress, which produced the study,provides "fee for service" research to other government agencies using the resources of the library. The study's title page names no author but says it was produced under an agreement with an arm of the Pentagon called the Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office. (That office did not respond to requests for comment.)
The study flatly states that Iran's intelligence ministry has "more than 30,000 officers and support personnel."
But it also hedges. It notes Iranian intelligence is "a difficult subject to study because so little information about it is publicly available." The study does not claim to feature any original intelligence or reporting. It says its main sources are news websites and Iranian blogs.
"The reliability of blog-based information may be questionable at times," says the report. "But it seems prudent to evaluate and present it in the absence of alternatives."
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The former CEO of the old Parkway Hospital in Forest Hills pleaded guilty Tuesday to bribing former State Senator Carl Kruger.
Dr. Robert Aquino, 54, of Glen Head, LI, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery before U.S. District Court Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan. He faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 or double the gross gain or loss from the offense.
"Robert Aquino was all too willing to make sure a bribe was paid to preserve his job as CEO of a hospital," Preet Bharara, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said on Tuesday in a statement issued by his office.
"Like others in this case, he chose to fight his battle with money under the table rather than play by the rules," Bharara said. "And like others in this case, he now faces the prospect of jail."
Bharara said his office remains committed to "breaking the chains of corruption that weigh down New York politics."
He said Aquino caused Parkway Hospital, which closed in 2009, to make payments of $60,000 to Adex Management, Inc., a company in which Kruger (D-Brooklyn) had a financial interest.
Adex then paid half that money to Olympian Strategic Development Corp., a consulting firm controlled by Michael Turano, who has a close relationship with Kruger.
In Tuesday's plea, Aquino said he understood that in exchange for making payments to Adex, Kruger would undertake official action in his capacity as a state senator to keep Parkway Hospital open.
Kruger pleaded guilty to corruption-related charges on Dec. 20, while Turano pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery. Both will be sentenced by Rakoff on April 26.
Aquino, Kruger and Turano were charged on March 10, 2011, along with lobbyist Richard Lipsky; Adex owner Solomon Kalish; David Rosen, the former CEO of MediSys Health Network, which operates Jamaica and Flushing hospitals; real estate developer Aaron Malinsky; and state Assemblyman William Boyland Jr. (D-Brooklyn).
Rosen, 64, of Harrison, NY, was convicted on Sept. 12 in connection with a scheme to bribe Kruger, Boyland and former state Assemblyman Anthony Seminerio.
Rosen is scheduled to be sentenced on Friday. Seminerio died in prison last year less than one year into a six-year sentence.
Boyland, 41, was acquitted after a four-day trial on Nov. 10, but was arrested by the FBI on new bribery-related charges less than a week later.
The government entered into a deferred prosecution agreement with Malinsky, 63, of Manhattan, on Nov. 22. The statement issued by Bharara's office did not stipulate the conditions of Malinsky's agreement.
Charges against Lipsky, 64, of Manhattan, and Kalish, 61, of Rockville Centre, LI, still are pending.
Parkway Hospital is the subject of a licensing dispute between the state and a group attempting to reopen it.


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|November 2, 2013, 04:30 PM
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I did not know him half as well as I would have liked, but I will miss him.
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|November 2, 2013, 07:10 PM
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Adios Brent.
|November 2, 2013, 09:37 PM
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Here's to you buddy, rest in peace.
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|November 2, 2013, 11:54 PM
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Oh, no.
I just came upon this thread. I remember reading lots of his posts--they were both educational and entertaining.
I am so, SO sorry to hear of another of our friends passing. In God's good time, and His good grace, we will see our friends again.
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|November 4, 2013, 12:03 AM
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Very sad news.
|November 4, 2013, 06:59 AM
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I am saddened by the loss, he was always helpful on the forum and I enjoyed all of his posts.
He will be missed.
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|November 4, 2013, 11:27 PM
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Réquiem ætérnam dona ei Dómine;
et lux perpétua lúceat ei.
Requiéscat in pace.
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|November 6, 2013, 08:07 AM
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Sad news indeed. Go easy Bro. You will be missed.
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|November 7, 2013, 01:31 PM
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Well, darn. Brent was always a good guy to talk to and his posts were always humorous and insightful.
Perhaps he and Dave can now go a round of sporting clays.
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|November 18, 2013, 02:19 PM
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I don't look at the stickies often, so I just saw this.
Brent always had a unique way of speaking up and I always enjoyed hearing from him here. I can only assume he had that effect in person.
It will be a little strange knowing he's not there to respond anymore, even as someone who had never met him.
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|November 18, 2013, 03:07 PM
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Rest in peace Brent. So sorry...
"You would know the secret of death.
But how shall you find it unless you seek it in the heart of life?
The owl whose night-bound eyes are blind unto the day cannot unveil the mystery of light.
If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life.
For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.
In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond;
And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.
Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.
Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall wear the mark of the king?
Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling?
For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun?
And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered?
Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance." - Kahlil Gibran
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|November 19, 2013, 01:50 PM
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Wow.. Shocked to read this. I used to trade messages with Brent from time to time. I think he even offered to take me hunting if I was ever down his way.
I haven't been on TFL much in the last year or two... Busy with other hobbies and life in general.
He always seemed as genuine as could be. He'll be missed on these pages.
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|December 7, 2013, 10:10 PM
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Another Friend Has Left This World
I didn't know the fellah. That being said, I recognize the screen name and have enjoyed reading his posts immensely.
Rest in peace.
|December 12, 2013, 11:50 AM
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Good night, Brent
I don't usually visit this section of the forum, but something made me do it tonight.
I didn't know Brent that well, but I do remember coming across his posts when I was researching my shotguns. It's sad when a fellow member goes, but I believe we can all take comfort in the fact that what he wrote will survive on these forum pages.
Long after a man is gone, what he has written lives. These writings become part of his legacy --- permanent proof that at a certain point in time, he lived and breathed and shared what he thought with others. Quite generously, too, in Brent's case.
Now I'll do a search of the things he wrote, and think of him as if he were still with us. Because the truth is, he always will be.
|December 30, 2013, 01:03 AM
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My deepest condolences to the family, may he rest in peace. He will surely be missed.
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2001 Chevrolet Camaro User Reviews
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Displaying 1 - 10 of 35 2001 Chevrolet Camaro reviews.
Trey writes:
2001 Chevrolet Camaro Base Review
Gas Mileage and Insurance
My Car — Well, what can I say? Its a Camaro. Sure, its not the big ol 5.7 V8, but for a V6 it can go pretty quick. Gas mileage isnt terrible. 19 city 31 highway. That just means I have to drive a bit faster. Its probably got around 230 hp after all my modifications to it. I put on a K&N Cold Air Intake, and a Flowmaster 80 Series Crossflow Dual Tip exhaust sytem. And its suprisingly loud for a V6. A lot of people ask me if I have a V8 in there when Im at a stoplight. Its a nice, clean white body with 30% tint on the windows. Its sexy. As for repairs, the only big ones were the differential (because the guy who owned the car previously had barely and fluid in the diff and the gears were grinding down) and the fuel pump, which is a pretty standard repair on a car with over 100,000 miles on it. I love this car. I love looking at it, I love sitting in it, I love driving it, and I especially love opening up the throttle on the highway to hear that exhaust as I fly down the road. Its amazing.
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MrJimmyEllis83 writes:
2001 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Convertible Review
Doesn't get much better than an LS1 and a T56 manual transmission. All the power and speed you could want from a stock vehicle.
Handling isn't always the best, but these cars are built for straight line performance, and they do that well.
Real Out Of Box Speed Machine For A Low Price! — Always been a fan of Camaro's since I drove my first 1984 Z28 H/O. I graduated to a 1997 Z28, LT1 power, and I was very much impressed. When I heard about the power and reliability of the LS1 over the LT motors, I had to try one out. When I did I was yet again impressed. I've owned 2 LS1 Camaro's since. The sheer power and reliability of these motors is proven again and again, in numerous swaps and stock setups since 1997. You can throw everything your foot can handle at these motors, and they keep on kicking. 4th generation LS1 cars are a fan favorite, and they scream with power with simple bolt-ons. For the price, your getting everything you could ever want out of a sports car. Loads of HP, loads of torque, and room to play. The stock suspension hasn't always impressed me in 4th gens, so upgrading it is a must, sometimes not cheaply done. But nothing to gripe about compared to everything else these cars offer. If you ever wanted to own one, now is the time with 4th gen prices at a very affordable rate as of recent years.
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
DKR writes:
2001 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Review
Fast and Fun to Drive
Not for all driving conditions
This Is The Classic Muscle Car Experience! — The 2001 Camaro Z28 combines good looks and great performance resulting in a fast and fun driving experience. Powered by the (Corvette) LS1 5.7-liter V-8 engine, acceleration is not a problem. The positives: The black leather interior looks great paired with the red exterior. (Leather) seats (front & back) and power windows. Fun, good-looking and affordable. The negatives: The back seats are functional, but too compact to be comfortable for anyone other than a child or small adult. Not a good vehicle for driving in rain, snow or ice.
Primary Use: Commuting to work
Chris writes:
2001 Chevrolet Camaro Review
Sleek sexy fast and dependable.
Cant feel comfortable driving in winter.
The Best Gm Product Other Than A Truck Or Vette Hands Down. — The best GM product other than a truck or vette hands down. With the power of a LS1 to boot you will not find a better sports car from 2001 other than a Corvette, GT40, or Viper made by a American automotive group. Only downfall to these rides is the 10 bolt rear posi unit which cannot withstand a good thrashing. They should have went with a 12 bolt posi unit instead. Also, the 4L60E transmission should have been a 4L80E due to the thrashing purposes again. Reason why I believe Chevrolet didnt use these options? WEIGHT! Not a family car by any means, but with gas mileage of 24-28 mpg's for a car that is now 10 years old bordering 11 years old you cannot go wrong.
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
Brandon writes:
2001 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Review
Its nice and fun to drive
none its a chevy camaro
Love It — It was fast and nice till i broke the transmission (man i miss her) thats ok i got a procharger, moser 9" rear, and a 4l80e truck trans that im putting on when the time and money are right. Hope soon
Primary Use: Family transportation
Justin writes:
2001 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Review
LS1 power, and great price vs performance.
body tends to twist up without subframe connectors, and weak 4l60e transmission.
2001 Camaro Ss — Solid F-Body altho like all others i wish they would have addressed the subframe connector issue from the factory. The transmission they gave it has to be the weakest automatic ever put into an F-Body. Other then that, can keep with any other mustang or import on its price level.
antperri1222 writes:
2001 Chevrolet Camaro Base Review
Looks amazing. A head turner and very unique car. Sound system is amazing and the bass is incredible. The 22" rims catch your eye and the winter rims i have are very sporty too. The T-tops are prefect for the summer. Such and enjoyable car to drive
Just the moderately high miles
Perfect Summer Car — Overall very well maintained and enjoyable car. A blast to drive. Its a Camaro! Looks amazing. A head turner and very unique car. Sound system is amazing and the bass is incredible. The 22" rims catch your eye and the winter rims i have are very sporty too. The T-tops are prefect for the summer. Such and enjoyable car to drive
Primary Use: Commuting to work
johnmbrannen writes:
2001 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Review
This car is a real head turner.
two seater
Dairwreck writes:
2001 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Review
amazing car, love the looks and power.
too tempting to roast your tires every time you drive it
01 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 — I recently purchased this Camaro with 45,000 original miles on it, the car has the LS1 with the t-56 6 speed transmission. This is a great car to drive. If you like sports cars and making them go faster this is the perfect platform with endless possibilities and a decently priced aftermarket as well since its such a common platform. I drove this car back from atlanta and not only was it fun to drive but it also got 30mpg on the highway thanks to the 6th gear. also drove it through the twisties in north carolina and it handled like a dream.
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
Ross writes:
2001 Chevrolet Camaro Base Review
One thing that really makes this car awesome is the history behind camaro's and the fact that Chevy is the best car company around.
The only thing that sucks about this car is that it is only a v-6 instead of a v-8.
My Camaro Is The Bomb!!! — This car is an overall great first car. It has the starting power of a classic muscle car, but still lacking on the upper end only because it's a v-6. It does make up for the lack of top end with a great acceleration rate. It handles like a charm and can stop on a dime. It does have a few squeaks but nothing really big. It is lacking a little bit in the interior but makes up for it with a very clean slick exterior style. For a sport/muscle car it does really well with gas mileage about 18-21 around town and 30-31 on long trips. With it being a domestic car the cost of parts is not extremely expensive. This car is definitely a fun car to drive. During the summer time it is really fun to have the T-Tops out and the windows rolled down. And with the acceleration it is really a fun car to drive.
Primary Use: Sport/fun (spirited driving, track racing, off-roading, etc.)
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Love It!!
This is my second camaro. I really love that it fits me and all my friends, and family. I was really worried that the car would be to manly for a girl but its not. Lots of people ask me about my car a... Read More
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A Hot Looking Retro Camaro That Turns The Ladies Eyes
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Nice Cruiser, But Take It For What It Is Worth And Don't Think You're Getting A Sports Car...
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A Fun Classic Car
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