Goodman Goes Genre
Beijing’s
Forbidden City. Shanghai’s Pearl Tower. Suzhou’s thousand-year old canal villages.
Hangzhou’s West Lake. Xi’an’s Terracotta Army.
What
do these places all have in common, besides being in China? They make up a few
of the many settings in my latest novel-in-progress: Dead and Buried.
For a
couple years now, renowned author Bathsheba Monk and I have talked about
collaborating on a novel. After writing well-reviewed literary fiction for the
likes of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Bathsheba decided to take up genre fiction.
Thus the Swanson Herbinko Cozy Mystery series was born. So far, her popular
mystery novels have included Dead Wrong,
Dead Silence, and Dead Karma.
Each is set in a different country.
When I
returned from my two weeks in China last year, I knew I wanted to set a novel
in some of the exotic locations. I realized my ideas might make for a good
addition to Bathsheba’s series.
Dead and Buried is a bit of a mystery-thriller
hybrid, and my first collaboration with another author. Written from the
perspective of one of the side characters in Bathsheba’s previous books in the
series, Dead and Buried takes the
familiar characters—and new ones—on an adventure throughout China’s most
interesting places in search of an Imperial artifact. Of course, there’s a
murder or two to solve along the way.
Look
for Dead and Buried from Blue Heron Book
Works later in 2015.
Learn
more at www.blueheronbookworks.com/eric-d.-goodman.html.
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