Some notes in May…
On April 30th, 2018 I published the last volume of the Chopin Trilogy, “War of the Nocturne’s Widow”. I want to thank all of you who have expressed your feelings for my books, and all the feedback has been extremely supportive, and in several cases almost fanatical. The three volume story which started with an Aerospace Executive’s body being dragged out of the canals of Amsterdam seems to have really captured the minds of my readers, while characters such as Stanley Wisniewski, Diane Sterling, Malcolm Devereaux, Langston Powell and Jack Trellis seem to invoke the readers’ many emotions. I am very grateful for this wonderful response.
The image above was taken by my lovely wife Marie on a recent sojourn as we travelled aboard a ferry from Stresa, Italy to Locarno, Switzerland across Lago Maggiore. Ernest Hemingway set his very famous novel ” A Farewell To Arms” along this same lake. In fact, we stayed in the very same hotel in Stresa where Hemingway had his characters escape the war, before setting off to Switzerland in a rowboat. The lake serves as a major venue for my book “War of the Nocturne’s Widow”, as does Bregenz, (Austria), Nuremberg (Germany) and Berlin – both before and after the wall fell in November 1989.
The story that started just over two years ago with “The Willow’s Bend” is now complete. The overall themes of the story can be told in the seasons of the novels’ setting, as well as the first word of each of the three books :
Darkness (with “The Willow’s Bend” set in the lengthening shadows of Fall);
Death (with “Chasing the Winter’s Wind” set in Winter – the season of survival);
and Duty (with “War of the Nocturne’s Widow” set in Spring – the season of rebirth).
By the way, the last novel came out just in time for the annual Cartersville May Market festival at Rose Lawn. Marie and I were there for the second straight year, and the sales of these books exceeded our every expectation. Thanks to all of you who may have dropped by our booth!
“Do widzenia”,
Dave Trawinski
