'Fires of London' by Janice Law released today
Fires of London, an original novel from Janice Law that reimagines painter Francis Bacon as a sleuth in War War II-era London, is available today.
Publishers Weekly says that "Law does a bangup job of recreating London during the Blitz and portraying real-life artist Francis Bacon as an unlikely sleuth."
According to SleuthSayers, "Fires of London draws upon art, poetry, history, mythology, and the classics. The author is a literary architect. She builds meticulously, syllabically brick by brick, painting the backdrop, sketching the characters, scene by scene, so the reader sees the novelistic theme park, not the girders underpinning it."
Law also has a blog post up at SleuthSayers, in which she discusses the book. Here's an excerpt:
Among my earliest memories is a great distaste for news broadcasts. Since I was only a toddler I cannot have understood the bulletins but only reacted to the concern and distress of my parents, Scottish immigrants anxious about relatives in Aberdeen, Glasgow, Fife, and points south in England. My other early memory is the big cardboard boxes which were shipped back to the old country during, and for years after, the war, containing coffee, chocolate, various other foodstuffs, wool, clothing, and even garden seeds to replace a blown up allotment garden in Aberdeen.
Click here to see the whole article. And click the cover above to find where it's for sale. It's also available in print at Amazon!
