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John Brooke

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in Toronto, Canada

Website

http://www.aliette.ca

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Mystery

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John Brooke lives mainly in Montreal, near Marché Jean-Talon Market and Parc Jarry, and often in an old schoolhouse up the hill from the village of Dunedin, Ontario.

He has been a freelance business writer and translator for twenty-five years.

As of January, 2016, John has published seven Inspector Aliette Nouvelle mysteries.

He gathers information on the world of French police during regular trips to a village in France with his French-born love Annie.

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What books are on your summer reading list this year?

John Brooke So far, I have 2 books set aside for peaceful summer reading:
1. Linda, As in the Linda Murder (that's really the title), a police mystery by mordantly…moreSo far, I have 2 books set aside for peaceful summer reading:
1. Linda, As in the Linda Murder (that's really the title), a police mystery by mordantly funny Swedish author Leif G. W. Persson, whose voice I love.

2. The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie, historical fiction by Canadian author Cecily Ross (who also happens to be a neighbor in the small southern Ontario village community where I will pass the summer). FYI: Susanna Moodie was one of 2 upper class English sisters who came with their families to settle in eastern Ontario in the 1830's, just as Canada was being formed. Her ordeals "in the bush" have turned her into a female (and feminist) icon of sorts, the subject of poetry, much historical investigation, as well as her own actual diaries, Roughing it in the Bush. This book is Cecily's fictional take on Mrs Moodie.(less)

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What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

John Brooke What mystery in my own life could be a plot for a book?

Who left the copy La Presse (which I could barely read at the time) in the empty Montreal apart…moreWhat mystery in my own life could be a plot for a book?

Who left the copy La Presse (which I could barely read at the time) in the empty Montreal apartment I had just rented? – a copy which had a short report about a female cop in France who tracked and arrested Jacques Mesrine, France’s celebrated Public Enemy No 1 – a small bit of news which inspired me to create my Inspector Aliette Nouvelle mystery series, now 7 books and counting.

Was it my new landlord? the former tenant? or another apartment hunter who’d been there before me but said no thanks? Or was it someone more spiritually tuned-in to Me? Who saw where I was headed, got there first and laid a literary trap? ... I never did find out. So this could be a “prequel”, a literary mystery in advance of a literary mystery series, a search for a vital source who brought me to my new life. Voila... and merci!
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Average rating: 3.41 · 32 ratings · 11 reviews · 8 distinct works

	The Unknown Masterpiece: An Aliette Nouvelle Mystery (Aliette Nouvelle #4) 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Last Days of Montreal 3.13 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2003 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Voice of Aliette Nouvelle (Aliette Nouvelle #1) 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stifling Folds of Love: An Aliette Nouvelle Mystery (Aliette Nouvelle #3) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	All Pure Souls: An Aliette Nouvelle Mystery (Aliette Nouvelle #2) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walls of a Mind: An Aliette Nouvelle Mystery (Aliette Nouvelle #5) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tropéano’s Gun: An Aliette Nouvelle Mystery (Aliette Nouvelle # 6) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	While the Music Lasts (Aliette Nouvelle # 7) it was ok 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

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message 1: by Tom

Oct 16, 2012 04:40AM

THANKS JOHN...SORRY FOR DELAY, I'VE BEEN UNDER THE WEATHER. PLEASE SEE MY PRINT DEBUT AT http://bookstore.iuniverse.com/Produc... AND WEBSITE www.tomufert.com

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