Peter Nichols is the author of the highly praised account of his solo journey across the Atlantic, Sea Change (Profile, 1998), the William Hill prize shortlisted Voyage for Madmen about the Round the World Yacht Race and his novel Lodestar. He lives in New England with his wife and baby.
Genres: Mystery
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Peter Nichols recommends
The Arizona Triangle (2024)
(Jo Bailen Detective, book 1)
Sydney Graves
"Sydney Graves has crafted a gorgeously written southwestern noir that straddles the line between literary and genre in a landscape whose spaciousness and light contrast sharply with the darkness of crime and the treacherous terrain of personal history. Graves has caught beautifully the complex textures and woodsmoke tang of Tucson and the rich high desert environment, and gone beyond that to create characters and a community as particular and elemental as a great western. And her protagonist, Jo Bailen, is as distinctly wrought and shaped as a Sahuaro cactus. I loved her and this story."
A True Account (2022)
Katherine Howe
"Hannah Masury's pirate tale reads like a fever dream, told in a voice so authentic and with such vivid, authoritative detail, it compels belief that this must indeed be a true account. A fiendish twist pulls its strands apart and braids them back together with the burnished patina of real historic discovery. Katherine Howe writes a story that she knows so truly, it must spring from her DNA. A True Account belongs on the shelf beside Treasure Island."
The Last Cruise (2018)
Kate Christensen
"Kate Christensen has written a tale that is not just a gleefully nightmarish cruise, but a keenly observed microcosm of our disintegrating society and planet. You the reader are SO glad not to be on the Queen Isabella, but you find yourself there – and you hang on with grim delight. Wincingly real and blackly funny all at once."
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