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Richard Lord
Hi, Helen,
I am just finishing Volume 2 of the Quartet and hope to have it all sweet and polished by the end of this month. I will then turn it over to the publisher. As my texts tend to be fairly clean (I am also a professional editor and have edited many books by other writers), we may be able to get it out within a month. I myself am looking at an early spring publication date. I will try to let you and other readers know about the release as soon as I have concrete details.
Oh, and thanks for your interest. Did you enjoy Volume I?
I am just finishing Volume 2 of the Quartet and hope to have it all sweet and polished by the end of this month. I will then turn it over to the publisher. As my texts tend to be fairly clean (I am also a professional editor and have edited many books by other writers), we may be able to get it out within a month. I myself am looking at an early spring publication date. I will try to let you and other readers know about the release as soon as I have concrete details.
Oh, and thanks for your interest. Did you enjoy Volume I?
Richard Lord
I am currently writing Volume II of the Vienna Noir Quartet. As the series title suggests this is planned as a tetralogy of crime novels set in Vienna.
The first novel in the series, "The Strangler's Waltz", was set in the capital of the decrepit empire on the eve of the First World War (1913, actually). The second volume, which I'm not working to complete, is set in early 1919, just after the end of the war and the total collapse of the old Habsburg empire.
The two Vienna police inspectors who led the investigation at the heart of "Strangler's Waltz" are back, facing an even more challenging case in a very troubling time for Vienna. And some famous real-life characters from the first novel are back for the second book.
What is challenging for me is trying to make this novel even more interesting than the first. I hope that I'm succeeding in this endeavor, but the readers will have to be the final judges of that.
The first novel in the series, "The Strangler's Waltz", was set in the capital of the decrepit empire on the eve of the First World War (1913, actually). The second volume, which I'm not working to complete, is set in early 1919, just after the end of the war and the total collapse of the old Habsburg empire.
The two Vienna police inspectors who led the investigation at the heart of "Strangler's Waltz" are back, facing an even more challenging case in a very troubling time for Vienna. And some famous real-life characters from the first novel are back for the second book.
What is challenging for me is trying to make this novel even more interesting than the first. I hope that I'm succeeding in this endeavor, but the readers will have to be the final judges of that.
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