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A Perfectly Presented Piece of Fiction
Lady
Blues: forget-me-not is a Gus Legarde mystery, the tenth in the series.
Although part of a series it works perfectly as a standalone book, although you
will inevitably want to read more of these novels. This book is probably best
described as a cozy mystery, although that might not do it full justice.
There’s genuine tension and threat, edge of the seat stuff, and the characters
have depth and interest to them, rather more than in some cozies. Yet our hero,
Professor Gus Legarde, is such a comforting sort of person that we feel safe
and secure in his hands, and that’s where the coziness comes.
Gus
is fifty-something, a professor, and lives with his second wife, his step-daughter,
his ex-wife’s brother Siegfried, a variety of dogs, and his daughter and
grandchildren are in the house too at the start of this story. There’s a strong
supportive family atmosphere. Another guest, Lily, arrives, a Korean woman,
after Gus and Siegfried pull her out of her burning house above the shop she
runs with her brother Thom. He’s badly injured in the fire. And Lily has
secrets to hide. That’s one strand of the mystery, and another stems from an
octogenarian Gus meets when playing the piano at a nursing home. Music helps
him remember, as do drugs, although possibly only temporarily, and one of the
memories that comes back is of Bella, the woman he loved, his Lady Blues. Gus
is determined to help him recapture his past before it’s all too late.
It’s
hard to describe the story without giving away too much, but suffice it to say
it’s intelligently and tightly written. I’ll turn my attention to the writing.
This is beautiful – evocative, startling, teasing, terse, soothing and
suspenseful in turns. Author Aaron Paul Lazar has a wonderfully readable style,
empathetic and gentle, but also frank and realistic. The characters he creates
are fully rounded, flaws and all, and it’s hard not to be drawn deep into their
world with them. Good food and music are recurring motifs throughout the story
and so is the Genesee valley. There is so much to admire artistically in this
book, and with a catchy cover and a very high standard of presentation, it is a
perfectly presented piece of fiction. Very, very highly recommended.
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Aaron Paul Lazar writes to soothe his soul. An award-winning,
bestselling Kindle author of three addictive mystery series, writing books, and
a new love story, Aaron enjoys the Genesee Valley countryside in upstate New
York, where his characters embrace life, play with their dogs and grandkids,
grow sumptuous gardens, and chase bad guys. Visit his website at
http://www.lazarbooks.com and watch for his upcoming SPIRIT ME AWAY (2014), DEVIL’S
LAKE(2014), and VIRTUOSO (2014).
Lady
Blues: forget-me-not is a Gus Legarde mystery, the tenth in the series.
Although part of a series it works perfectly as a standalone book,
although you will inevitably want to read more of these novels. This
book is probably best described as a cozy mystery, although that might
not do it full justice. There’s genuine tension and threat, edge of the
seat stuff, and the characters have depth and interest to them, rather
more than in some cozies. Yet our hero, Professor Gus Legarde, is such a
comforting sort of person that we feel safe and secure in his hands,
and that’s where the coziness comes.
Gus is fifty-something, a professor, and lives with his second wife,
his step-daughter, his ex-wife’s brother Siegfried, a variety of dogs,
and his daughter and grandchildren are in the house too at the start of
this story. There’s a strong supportive family atmosphere. Another
guest, Lily, arrives, a Korean woman, after Gus and Siegfried pull her
out of her burning house above the shop she runs with her brother Thom.
He’s badly injured in the fire. And Lily has secrets to hide. That’s one
strand of the mystery, and another stems from an octogenarian Gus meets
when playing the piano at a nursing home. Music helps him remember, as
do drugs, although possibly only temporarily, and one of the memories
that comes back is of Bella, the woman he loved, his Lady Blues. Gus is
determined to help him recapture his past before it’s all too late.
It’s hard to describe the story without giving away too much, but
suffice it to say it’s intelligently and tightly written. I’ll turn my
attention to the writing. This is beautiful – evocative, startling,
teasing, terse, soothing and suspenseful in turns. Author Aaron Paul
Lazar has a wonderfully readable style, empathetic and gentle, but also
frank and realistic. The characters he creates are fully rounded, flaws
and all, and it’s hard not to be drawn deep into their world with them.
Good food and music are recurring motifs throughout the story and so is
the Genesee valley. There is so much to admire artistically in this
book, and with a catchy cover and a very high standard of presentation,
it is a perfectly presented piece of fiction. Very, very highly
recommended.
- See more at: http://www.booksarecool.com/2014/perfectly-presented-fiction/#comment-1168
Lady
Blues: forget-me-not is a Gus Legarde mystery, the tenth in the series.
Although part of a series it works perfectly as a standalone book,
although you will inevitably want to read more of these novels. This
book is probably best described as a cozy mystery, although that might
not do it full justice. There’s genuine tension and threat, edge of the
seat stuff, and the characters have depth and interest to them, rather
more than in some cozies. Yet our hero, Professor Gus Legarde, is such a
comforting sort of person that we feel safe and secure in his hands,
and that’s where the coziness comes.
Gus is fifty-something, a professor, and lives with his second wife,
his step-daughter, his ex-wife’s brother Siegfried, a variety of dogs,
and his daughter and grandchildren are in the house too at the start of
this story. There’s a strong supportive family atmosphere. Another
guest, Lily, arrives, a Korean woman, after Gus and Siegfried pull her
out of her burning house above the shop she runs with her brother Thom.
He’s badly injured in the fire. And Lily has secrets to hide. That’s one
strand of the mystery, and another stems from an octogenarian Gus meets
when playing the piano at a nursing home. Music helps him remember, as
do drugs, although possibly only temporarily, and one of the memories
that comes back is of Bella, the woman he loved, his Lady Blues. Gus is
determined to help him recapture his past before it’s all too late.
It’s hard to describe the story without giving away too much, but
suffice it to say it’s intelligently and tightly written. I’ll turn my
attention to the writing. This is beautiful – evocative, startling,
teasing, terse, soothing and suspenseful in turns. Author Aaron Paul
Lazar has a wonderfully readable style, empathetic and gentle, but also
frank and realistic. The characters he creates are fully rounded, flaws
and all, and it’s hard not to be drawn deep into their world with them.
Good food and music are recurring motifs throughout the story and so is
the Genesee valley. There is so much to admire artistically in this
book, and with a catchy cover and a very high standard of presentation,
it is a perfectly presented piece of fiction. Very, very highly
recommended.
Pic from author’s website
Do check out this impressive and prolific author’s website: http://www.lazarbooks.com/
And don’t forget to buy the book from all branches of Amazon. The amazon.com link is here.
- See more at: http://www.booksarecool.com/2014/perfectly-presented-fiction/#comment-1168
Lady
Blues: forget-me-not is a Gus Legarde mystery, the tenth in the series.
Although part of a series it works perfectly as a standalone book,
although you will inevitably want to read more of these novels. This
book is probably best described as a cozy mystery, although that might
not do it full justice. There’s genuine tension and threat, edge of the
seat stuff, and the characters have depth and interest to them, rather
more than in some cozies. Yet our hero, Professor Gus Legarde, is such a
comforting sort of person that we feel safe and secure in his hands,
and that’s where the coziness comes.
Gus is fifty-something, a professor, and lives with his second wife,
his step-daughter, his ex-wife’s brother Siegfried, a variety of dogs,
and his daughter and grandchildren are in the house too at the start of
this story. There’s a strong supportive family atmosphere. Another
guest, Lily, arrives, a Korean woman, after Gus and Siegfried pull her
out of her burning house above the shop she runs with her brother Thom.
He’s badly injured in the fire. And Lily has secrets to hide. That’s one
strand of the mystery, and another stems from an octogenarian Gus meets
when playing the piano at a nursing home. Music helps him remember, as
do drugs, although possibly only temporarily, and one of the memories
that comes back is of Bella, the woman he loved, his Lady Blues. Gus is
determined to help him recapture his past before it’s all too late.
It’s hard to describe the story without giving away too much, but
suffice it to say it’s intelligently and tightly written. I’ll turn my
attention to the writing. This is beautiful – evocative, startling,
teasing, terse, soothing and suspenseful in turns. Author Aaron Paul
Lazar has a wonderfully readable style, empathetic and gentle, but also
frank and realistic. The characters he creates are fully rounded, flaws
and all, and it’s hard not to be drawn deep into their world with them.
Good food and music are recurring motifs throughout the story and so is
the Genesee valley. There is so much to admire artistically in this
book, and with a catchy cover and a very high standard of presentation,
it is a perfectly presented piece of fiction. Very, very highly
recommended.
Pic from author’s website
Do check out this impressive and prolific author’s website: http://www.lazarbooks.com/
And don’t forget to buy the book from all branches of Amazon. The amazon.com link is here.
- See more at: http://www.booksarecool.com/2014/perfectly-presented-fiction/#comment-1168
Lady
Blues: forget-me-not is a Gus Legarde mystery, the tenth in the series.
Although part of a series it works perfectly as a standalone book,
although you will inevitably want to read more of these novels. This
book is probably best described as a cozy mystery, although that might
not do it full justice. There’s genuine tension and threat, edge of the
seat stuff, and the characters have depth and interest to them, rather
more than in some cozies. Yet our hero, Professor Gus Legarde, is such a
comforting sort of person that we feel safe and secure in his hands,
and that’s where the coziness comes.
Gus is fifty-something, a professor, and lives with his second wife,
his step-daughter, his ex-wife’s brother Siegfried, a variety of dogs,
and his daughter and grandchildren are in the house too at the start of
this story. There’s a strong supportive family atmosphere. Another
guest, Lily, arrives, a Korean woman, after Gus and Siegfried pull her
out of her burning house above the shop she runs with her brother Thom.
He’s badly injured in the fire. And Lily has secrets to hide. That’s one
strand of the mystery, and another stems from an octogenarian Gus meets
when playing the piano at a nursing home. Music helps him remember, as
do drugs, although possibly only temporarily, and one of the memories
that comes back is of Bella, the woman he loved, his Lady Blues. Gus is
determined to help him recapture his past before it’s all too late.
It’s hard to describe the story without giving away too much, but
suffice it to say it’s intelligently and tightly written. I’ll turn my
attention to the writing. This is beautiful – evocative, startling,
teasing, terse, soothing and suspenseful in turns. Author Aaron Paul
Lazar has a wonderfully readable style, empathetic and gentle, but also
frank and realistic. The characters he creates are fully rounded, flaws
and all, and it’s hard not to be drawn deep into their world with them.
Good food and music are recurring motifs throughout the story and so is
the Genesee valley. There is so much to admire artistically in this
book, and with a catchy cover and a very high standard of presentation,
it is a perfectly presented piece of fiction. Very, very highly
recommended.
Pic from author’s website
Do check out this impressive and prolific author’s website: http://www.lazarbooks.com/
And don’t forget to buy the book from all branches of Amazon. The amazon.com link is here.
- See more at: http://www.booksarecool.com/2014/perfectly-presented-fiction/#comment-1168
Lady
Blues: forget-me-not is a Gus Legarde mystery, the tenth in the series.
Although part of a series it works perfectly as a standalone book,
although you will inevitably want to read more of these novels. This
book is probably best described as a cozy mystery, although that might
not do it full justice. There’s genuine tension and threat, edge of the
seat stuff, and the characters have depth and interest to them, rather
more than in some cozies. Yet our hero, Professor Gus Legarde, is such a
comforting sort of person that we feel safe and secure in his hands,
and that’s where the coziness comes.
Gus is fifty-something, a professor, and lives with his second wife,
his step-daughter, his ex-wife’s brother Siegfried, a variety of dogs,
and his daughter and grandchildren are in the house too at the start of
this story. There’s a strong supportive family atmosphere. Another
guest, Lily, arrives, a Korean woman, after Gus and Siegfried pull her
out of her burning house above the shop she runs with her brother Thom.
He’s badly injured in the fire. And Lily has secrets to hide. That’s one
strand of the mystery, and another stems from an octogenarian Gus meets
when playing the piano at a nursing home. Music helps him remember, as
do drugs, although possibly only temporarily, and one of the memories
that comes back is of Bella, the woman he loved, his Lady Blues. Gus is
determined to help him recapture his past before it’s all too late.
It’s hard to describe the story without giving away too much, but
suffice it to say it’s intelligently and tightly written. I’ll turn my
attention to the writing. This is beautiful – evocative, startling,
teasing, terse, soothing and suspenseful in turns. Author Aaron Paul
Lazar has a wonderfully readable style, empathetic and gentle, but also
frank and realistic. The characters he creates are fully rounded, flaws
and all, and it’s hard not to be drawn deep into their world with them.
Good food and music are recurring motifs throughout the story and so is
the Genesee valley. There is so much to admire artistically in this
book, and with a catchy cover and a very high standard of presentation,
it is a perfectly presented piece of fiction. Very, very highly
recommended.
Pic from author’s website
Do check out this impressive and prolific author’s website: http://www.lazarbooks.com/
And don’t forget to buy the book from all branches of Amazon. The amazon.com link is here.
- See more at: http://www.booksarecool.com/2014/perfectly-presented-fiction/#comment-1168
Lady
Blues: forget-me-not is a Gus Legarde mystery, the tenth in the series.
Although part of a series it works perfectly as a standalone book,
although you will inevitably want to read more of these novels. This
book is probably best described as a cozy mystery, although that might
not do it full justice. There’s genuine tension and threat, edge of the
seat stuff, and the characters have depth and interest to them, rather
more than in some cozies. Yet our hero, Professor Gus Legarde, is such a
comforting sort of person that we feel safe and secure in his hands,
and that’s where the coziness comes.
Gus is fifty-something, a professor, and lives with his second wife,
his step-daughter, his ex-wife’s brother Siegfried, a variety of dogs,
and his daughter and grandchildren are in the house too at the start of
this story. There’s a strong supportive family atmosphere. Another
guest, Lily, arrives, a Korean woman, after Gus and Siegfried pull her
out of her burning house above the shop she runs with her brother Thom.
He’s badly injured in the fire. And Lily has secrets to hide. That’s one
strand of the mystery, and another stems from an octogenarian Gus meets
when playing the piano at a nursing home. Music helps him remember, as
do drugs, although possibly only temporarily, and one of the memories
that comes back is of Bella, the woman he loved, his Lady Blues. Gus is
determined to help him recapture his past before it’s all too late.
It’s hard to describe the story without giving away too much, but
suffice it to say it’s intelligently and tightly written. I’ll turn my
attention to the writing. This is beautiful – evocative, startling,
teasing, terse, soothing and suspenseful in turns. Author Aaron Paul
Lazar has a wonderfully readable style, empathetic and gentle, but also
frank and realistic. The characters he creates are fully rounded, flaws
and all, and it’s hard not to be drawn deep into their world with them.
Good food and music are recurring motifs throughout the story and so is
the Genesee valley. There is so much to admire artistically in this
book, and with a catchy cover and a very high standard of presentation,
it is a perfectly presented piece of fiction. Very, very highly
recommended.
Pic from author’s website
Do check out this impressive and prolific author’s website: http://www.lazarbooks.com/
And don’t forget to buy the book from all branches of Amazon. The amazon.com link is here.
- See more at: http://www.booksarecool.com/2014/perfectly-presented-fiction/#comment-1168
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