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Mazurka: a Gus LeGarde mystery (Gus LeGarde #4)

by Aaron Paul Lazar (Goodreads Author)

4.67 of 5 stars 4.67 · rating details · 6 ratings · 3 reviews

When Gus's brother-in-law Siegfried is framed for a neo-Nazi's murder, Gus LeGarde and his wife, Camille, plunge into a cat-and-mouse game where the stakes are lethal.

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Mar 16, 2011 Sheila rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: current_issues, mystery, relationships, romance, suspense

I’d heard of Aaron Lazar’s Gus LeGarde mysteries, but hadn’t read any yet, so I had slightly mixed feelings when I got the chance to read the fourth in the series before trying the others. On the one hand, Mazurka starts in Paris, the location of some especially fond memories for me, so that was certainly an attraction. But on the other hand I was nervous that I might feel I was playing catch-up, chasing after characters that other readers already knew and loved.

I needn’t have worried. Gus, Cami...more

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Dec 17, 2011 Arlene Pineleaf rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The way Aaron writes and his discriptions of places he is taking you, or the food his characters are eating or how Gus LeGarde discribes the music he loves and plays,makes this reader feel like I am right there with them all. It is truy amazing.

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Jan 25, 2013 Eileen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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May 04, 2011 Glenda Bixler rated it 5 of 5 stars

Aug 22, 2010 Aaron Lazar rated it 5 of 5 stars · (Review from the author) · review of another edition

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About Aaron Paul Lazar

Aaron Paul Lazar writes to soothe his soul. The author of LeGarde Mysteries and Moore Mysteries savors the countryside in the Genesee Valley in upstate New York, where his characters embrace life, play with their dogs and grandkids, grow sumptuous gardens, and chase bad guys.

Visit his website at www.lazarbooks.com.

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Aaron Paul Lazar wasn’t always a mystery writer. It wasn’t unt...more Aaron Paul Lazar writes to soothe his soul. The author of LeGarde Mysteries and Moore Mysteries savors the countryside in the Genesee Valley in upstate New York, where his characters embrace life, play with their dogs and grandkids, grow sumptuous gardens, and chase bad guys.

Visit his website at www.lazarbooks.com.

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Aaron Paul Lazar wasn’t always a mystery writer. It wasn’t until eight members of his family and friends died within five years that the urge to write became overwhelming. “When my father died, I lost it. I needed an outlet, and writing provided the kind of solace I couldn’t find elsewhere.”

Lazar created the Gus LeGarde mystery series, with the founding novel, DOUBLE FORTÉ (2004), a chilling winter mystery set in the Genesee Valley of upstate New York. Like Lazar’s father, protagonist Gus LeGarde is a classical music professor. Gus, a grandfather, gardener, chef, and nature lover, plays Chopin etudes to feed his soul and thinks of himself as a “Renaissance man caught in the 21st century.”

The creation of the series lent Lazar the comfort he sought, yet in the process, a new passion was unleashed. Obsessed with his parallel universe, he now lives, breathes, and dreams about his characters, and has written ten LeGarde mysteries in eight years. (UPSTAGED – 2005; TREMOLO:CRY OF THE LOON – 2007 Twilight Times Books; MAZURKA – 2009 Twilight Times Books, with more to come.)

One day while rototilling his gardens, Lazar unearthed a green cat’s eye marble, which prompted the new paranormal mystery series featuring Sam Moore, retired country doctor and zealous gardener. The green marble, a powerful talisman, connects all three of the books in the series, whisking Sam back in time to uncover his brother’s dreadful fate fifty years earlier. (HEALEY’S CAVE, 2010; TERROR COMES KNOCKING, 2011, FOR KEEPS, 2012) Lazar intends to continue both series.

Lazar’s books feature breathless chase scenes, nasty villains, and taut suspense, but are also intensely human stories, replete with kids, dogs, horses, food, romance, and humor. The author calls them, “country mysteries,” although reviewers have dubbed them “literary mysteries.”

“It seems as though every image ever impressed upon my brain finds its way into my work. Whether it’s the light dancing through stained-glass windows in a Parisian chapel, curly slate-green lichen covering a boulder at the edge of a pond in Maine, or hoarfrost dangling from a cherry tree branch in mid-winter, these images burrow into my memory cells. In time they bubble back, persistently itching, until they are poured out on the page.”

Lazar lives on a ridge overlooking the Genesee Valley in upstate New York with his wife, mother-in-law, beloved Cavi-poo, Balto, Cavi-bichon, Amber, and cat, Cameo. Although they were recent empty-nesters for a few years, most of the kids and grandkids have just moved home again (with another dog and two more cats), so now he doesn't have to throw away all those huge pots of food he couldn't seem to stop cooking when there were just two at home.

Lazar maintains several websites and blogs and writes his monthly “Seedlings” columns for the Voice in the Dark literary journal and the Future Mystery Anthology Magazine. He has been published in Absolute Write as well as The Great Mystery and Suspense Magazine. (less)

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