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Patrick D. Joyce

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I write historical thriller novels that combine mystery and suspense with a powerful sense of place.

As the son of a U.S. Foreign Service officer, I grew up in extraordinary places. After early years in Burma (Myanmar), West Germany, and Washington, D.C., I lived in Nicaragua, Cuba, and three times in the Soviet Union. At embassies staffed by diplomats, Marines, and spies, I was surrounded by secrets.

In addition to writing books, I’ve been a newspaper reporter, a political science lecturer, and a medical practice manager. I live in Massachusetts, where I can be found haunting coffee shops, taking long walks with my wife, and practicing martial arts.

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Madeleine Kleppinger's tale of friends and family separated by the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia feels epic and intimate at the same time, like a nineteenth-century classic moved forward a century. The author weaves back and forth through time, a ...more
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The Accident is an excellent book and I recommend it highly, especially to fans of YA psychological thrillers like A Good Girl's Guide to Murder. Lori Miller Kase tells a first-class story and uses a first-person point of view to create powerful feel ...more
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I adored the premise of this book. The moon is full of kids! They’ve been shipped off by their families to learn coding at a massive data center that’s been banned on Earth but thrives on the lunar surface. It’s a brilliant set up, for a wonderful st ...more
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A moving third installment in the author’s wonderful Beat Street Series set in 1950s America. Ruby takes a step closer to her dream of becoming a Beat poet when she travels from New York to San Francisco to help a struggling parent and visit a legend ...more
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I need to sing the praises of The Afterlife Project. This new book by Tim Weed doesn’t come out till June, but it deserves some serious advance buzz. It’s a gorgeous work of speculative fiction that tells a sweeping and intimate tale of survival. Lik ...more
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