Photo courtesy of Michael Jahn
We recently had a chance to talk with Edgar Award-winning crime novelist Michael Jahn, who recently began releasing Kindle editions of his "Bill Donovan" mysteries under the series title "Michael Jahn's New York City Mysteries". Ten books in the series were originally published between 1982 and 2008.
Four of the titles are currently available: Murder on Theatre Row, Murder in Central Park, Murder on the Waterfront, and Murder in Coney Island. "I'm doing a George Lucas and Kindling them out of sequence," he says. "I'd like to claim there was some grand artistic vision involved in the sequencing, but to be honest they're the ones for which I have decent digital files. Most of the rest were written on a typewriter and I'll have to scan them. I'm putting it off as long as possible." These books are among the middle ones, for which the on-going story is less important, he adds.
Michael's family has been in New York for over 370 years, so don't take lightly his claim to know the terrain better than most mystery writers. A New York Times veteran whose syndicated column was published widely across America, Jahn's Bill Donovan mysteries detail the adventures of this brilliantly intuitive NYPD homicide detective; his wealthy, multiracial, defense attorney wife (who has a secret so deep not even she knows it); the beloved handicapped son who rapidly is becoming a part of Donovan's investigations; his associate, the muscle-bound wisecracking ("Groucho Marx with a nuclear weapon") detective and Brooklyn booster Brian Moskowitz; and his one-time lover, the endearingly raucous Cuban barmaid Rosie. The city itself is also a character, as is its endless supply of amazing locales and occasionally murderous eccentrics.
A simple, shared cover design is being used for these new editions (below; click for more information about each of the books).
To learn more about Michael Jahn and his work, visit his author page on Amazon.com.
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