The Man of Twists and Turns

A very nice review of my new novel Mozart’s Last Aria on Bookreporter.com has this to say, among other amusing and insightful observations: Music is notoriously difficult to capture in prose; Matt Rees tries valiantly, elegantly, and for the most part successfully to do justice to a composer who is regarded — and not just [...]

My new novel Mozart’s Last Aria has two great reviews on the blogs Reading Lark and Life in the Thumb. I’m delighted because these are the places readers go these days to find out what’s hot. It’s a sign of growing word-of-mouth for the novel. Reading Lark gives it an “I Love It” tag and [...]

I am, as they say back in the UK, chuffed as hell that Mystery Scene magazine gives my new novel an absolutely terrific review. Reviewer Sue Emmons says MOZART’S LAST ARIA deserves “a resounding bravo.” Sue also calls it “beautifully written and diligently researched. Rees makes the musical realm of Mozart sparkle with intrigue.” Well, [...]

The blog Page 69 Test asks writers to look at page 69 of their books and demonstrate if/how it’s representative of the entire work. I did this for my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA. Meanwhile, the book gets a fabulous review on Life is Short, Read Fast: “A powerful story with mystery, romance and amazing [...]

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.”

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 [...]

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 [...]

A couple of new blog reviews for Mozart’s Last Aria, my historical novel in which the great composer’s sister investigates his death. Iceberg Ink rates the book highly for its historical portrayal: Vienna and this entire classical era is handled with absolute precision by Rees. He gets how it should be portrayed and what it [...]

A great review for my new novel MOZART’S LAST ARIA on the Life in Review blog. Blogger Michelle Vasquez writes: I very highly recommend this book! The writing is absolutely beautiful and the story will hook you from the very start. I really love a story like this one that has some real history blended [...]