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Back on the Central Coast I have no special news to impart--except that the new Victor Constant Mystery, Death in an Ideal Landscape, runs in lively fashion through my head when I'm walking on the beach. Not bad exercise for a winter's day! The novel is contracted to Sapere Books for 2026.

For the last year I've devoted much time and travel to finding an Executive Producer for the opera with Nicholas Gentile--see the cover of our Pitch Deck above--and securing a future for my historical novels.

I'm delighted to say I've just signed up with Sapere Books, who will be releasing ALL my previously published novels plus TWO NEW historical crime titles this year and in 2026.

I will post the dates as soon as I know them. in the meantime, I rejoice that eBooks and paperbacks of my books are returning to the marketplace.

As it happens, Émilie du Chatelet plays the role of consultant detective in my three crime novels featuring the tenacious mounted gendarme, Victor Constant. You can see a portion of one of her famous portraits in the image above. I found it amusing when an Amazon reviewer once lamented Émilie's dominance over a ballistics discussion in Murder at Cirey--he was expecting Voltaire to be the most useful thinker on the spot. Of course, now we know that Émilie's mind was far more scientific than Voltaire's ...

I so look forward to extending Victor's investigations under the Sapere Books imprint.