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James Sulzer

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in Bethesda, MD, The United States
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James Sulzer lives in Nantucket, Massachusetts. A graduate of Yale University, where he was a Yale National Scholar, he is the author of the new mystery All That Smolders. Other published works include a novel about Emily Dickinson, The Voice at the Door and a novel about John Keats, Writ in Water, as well as the novel Nantucket Daybreak and a trilogy of middle grade novels for children, The Card People. He taught elementary and middle school students for 30 years and has produced countless “Sonic id’s” for Public Radio. In his early years on the island, he labored as a commercial scalloper and sang professionally in a barbershop quartet.

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The Voice at the Door

3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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All That Smolders: A Mystery

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WRIT IN  WATER:  A novel of...

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Identity Swap: Card People 2

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Crisis: The Card People 3

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Mom Comes Home: A Memoir

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Nantucket Daybreak

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Review of ALL THAT SMOLDERS from Publishers Weekly

All That Smolders: A Mystery
By Sulzer, James

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Despite being set in 1980, Sulzer’s debut mystery is a clever reworking of golden age detective fiction, with Agatha Christie serving as the inspiration not only for journalist Peter Christie (Agatha’s fictional great-great nephew here), but also in the way his investigation reveals the rotting underpinnings of a closed-off community. Wit Read more of this blog post »
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Review of ALL THAT SMOLDERS from Publishers Weekly

All That Smolders: A Mystery
By Sulzer, James

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Despite being set in 1980, Sulzer’s debut mystery is a clever reworking of golden age dete Read more of this blog post »
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