The Man of Twists and Turns

The excellent and influential US literary blog The Road to Here has a great review of my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA. “Squirrelqueen” writes: If you love a good mystery the Mozart’s Last Aria is a must-read. I recommend this book to everyone.”

This is a crime fiction blog. So we ought to shoot straight. Here it is: there are lots of crappy detective novels out there. Which is why I say thank God for Arkady Renko. The hero of Martin Cruz Smith’s excellent series set in the Soviet Union and, later, Russia (with stops in Cuba, Ukraine, [...]

Here’s another reading from my new novel Mozart’s Last Aria. Nannerl Mozart, the great composer’s sister, has come to Vienna to find out how her famous brother really died. In this reading, she learns that Wolfgang may have risked his life…But for what? Watch more videos about the book.

My new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA gets a fabulous review on Examiner.com. So often in even good reviews, a writer finds little weirdnesses coming at him out of left field, and wonders how the reviewer came to such odd conclusions. Well, this is a review where I feel the reviewer, Pamela Kramer, has simply got [...]

Last week I was on The Fairness Doctrine, a terrific US radio show. To hear me talking about my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA with the delightful host Dr. Patrick O’Heffernan, click ahead 15:45 minutes into the show to get to the start of my chat.

*Editor’s note: The Man of Twists and Turns has obtained the text of a major exclusive which was set to appear in The News of the World in London earlier this year. However, News Corp. owner Rupert Murdoch shut down the 168-year-old tabloid to dampen a scandal over its reporters hacking into private voicemails, use [...]

My excellent US publisher HarperCollins features a Reading Guide to my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA. It includes topics for discussion by book groups, but also might be interesting for individual readers who’re considering what they think of the book. You can also browse inside the book at the Harper site, if you’re wondering whether [...]

Continuing my readings from my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA. Nannerl, the great composer’s sister uncovers a mysterious letter and the suggestion that her brother’s life may have been at risk. Watch more videos about the book.

Fiction readers are nicer than people who follow politics, who are in turn more thoughtful than people who watch youtube. How do I come up with this ranking of raging rankness? I’ve studied the comments on some websites. Actually I’ve just read the comments following some reviews of my new historical crime novel MOZART’S LAST [...]

NPR includes my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA among its “outstanding selection” of paperbacks for this week, alongside books by Tea Obreht, Walter Mosley and Henning Mankell. “Critics have compared Mozart’s Last Aria to novels of historical conspiracy theories by Dan Brown and Elizabeth Kostova, while praising Rees’ sensitivity to musical and biographical detail,” NPR [...]