20-May-2008
Whew.
That's about all I have to say. But CAVALIER, the third Aristide Ravel novel, is finally finished!
OK, my editor hasn't read it yet. And she'll undoubtedly find all sorts of problems with it, which I'll spend the next two months fixing. But the worst is over. And I can go guilt-free to the Bloody Words mystery conference in Toronto in June. (If you'll be at Bloody Words, please introduce yourself!)
CAVALIER is actually a prequel to the first two Ravel novels, set ten years earlier in 1786. The jacket copy might read like this:
"An early-rising gravedigger finds a man with his throat cut in a Parisian cemetery in the middle of the icy winter of 1786, just a few years before the start of the French Revolution. Struggling writer Aristide Ravel recognizes the strange symbols surrounding the dead man to be Masonic, and is promptly drawn into a bewildering tangle of conspiracy and murder, which is further complicated when the corpse disappears."
A page for the novel will be up shortly at my website. Please visit soon to read a preview and learn publication details as I receive them.
Happy spring,
Susanne
Susanne Alleyn
The French Revolution mysteries @ St Martin's Press
www.susannealleyn.com
