Book Launch for Two Mystery Writers

Friday, June 12, 7:00 p.m.
Book launch party for Kathleen George and Kathryn Miller Haines
Mystery Lovers Bookstore
Oakmont, PA

Kathleen George is, in fact, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Both Frank and myself recently took Special Topics in Theater with her. I think she's a fantastic professor, and though I haven't had a chance to read any of her books (to be honest, I didn't even know she wrote mysteries!) here's a look at some things said about her previous novels:

Fallen:
"George . . . writes with the kind of attention to detail that's rare in any genre. Using her stage background, she uses the interior language of her characters like a master psychologist, revealing the story in escalating layers of suspense."
—Rege Behe, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

"Fallen is an absolute page-turner, as well it should be. Let's get that out of the way. But what really lifts this beautifully written book above any limitations of genre is its depth of characterization. The people George brings to life on the page are among the most interesting, complex, and frightening I have encountered anywhere. Never has evil been so seductive, even understandable, and, gasp, almost forgivable. That's what finally makes this wonderful novel so scary in the end. Forgive me, Lord, for I have rooted for the Devil, & Kathy George made me do it."
—Chuck Kinder, HONEYMOONERS

Taken:
A first-class first novel...plenty of suspense....it is George's grasp of the human factor that makes her novel such a pleasure..."
—The Washington Post

"[An] offbeat thriller...Taken boasts three ingredients too often missing from the suspense genre: irony, humor, and plausibly flawed, cliche-free characters."
—Entertainment Weekly