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October 04, 2010

Houston-area paper reviews Back on Murder

Sense of place is important to any crime series, mine included, which is why I got a kick out of seeing Back on Murder reviewed in the Conroe newspaper, which is just north of Houston (where the series is set). Here's an excerpt:

The writing contains great descriptive detail; the author carefully notes the characters’ emotional states, giving the reader an opportunity to better understand the psychological motivation for their behaviors. The crime sites are not pictured as pretty or stimulating; they’re just dirty, bloody, realistic and sad.

With the story based in Houston, author Bertrand was generous with his use of real-life places and things in the city. It was fun reading and easy to imagine the action in familiar settings.

The full review is online here: "Well-constructed 'Back on Murder' based in a Houston setting."

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Suzan

Congrats, Mark. Excellent news.

Posted by: Suzan | October 04, 2010 at 01:44 PM

jose

i like it.

Posted by: jose | November 24, 2012 at 07:03 AM

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  • J. Mark Bertrand is the author of Back on Murder, Pattern of Wounds, and Nothing to Hide, crime novels featuring Houston homicide detective Roland March. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston and lived in the city for fifteen years. After one hurricane too many, he and his wife moved to South Dakota. Mark has been arrested for a crime he didn't commit, was the foreman of a hung jury in Houston, and after relocating served on the jury that acquitted Vinnie Jones of assault. In 1972, he won an honorable mention in a child modeling contest, but pursued writing instead.

The March Series

  • J. Mark Bertrand: Nothing to Hide

    J. Mark Bertrand: Nothing to Hide
    The third book in the series takes March into the world of the paranoid conspiracy thriller: a headless corpse, the Mexican cartels, gun runners, and an ex-spook obsessed with Dante.

  • J. Mark Bertrand: Pattern of Wounds

    J. Mark Bertrand: Pattern of Wounds
    In his second outing, March hunts a vicious killer while trying to keep a decade-old conviction from falling apart. A compulsively readable follow-up that Publisher's Weekly calls "gritty and chilling."

  • J. Mark Bertrand: Back on Murder

    J. Mark Bertrand: Back on Murder
    Back on Murder, the first in a series about Houston homicide detective Roland March, is on bookshelves now.

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