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Lynne Kaufman
Lynne Kaufman is the author of Slow Hands, Wild Women’s Week-end, Taking Flight, and Divine Madness. The Oxford Affair is her fifth novel, and is currently in development for film. She is also the author of twenty full length, nationally produced, and award winning plays. Her short stories have been published regularly in McCall’s, Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and Good Housekeeping. She lives in California.
The Oxford Affair
When Susan Klein arrives in Oxford England to direct an adult summer school, she finds in the idyllic setting of the Thames River a floating corpse It’s the College Bursar , and that’s just the beginning. Nelson Sinclair, a Southern restaurateur and prospective donor to the College, is experiencing attempts on his life Some of those encounters mirror the events in the class he is taking, “The English Detective Story”. Could the death of the Bursar be connected to Nelson’s peril? Nelson insists that Susan enroll in the same class, and together they attempt to find the source of the crimes. In that pursuit, with wit and verve, a romance is kindled and a Chair of English Gastronomy born.
This latest of several intriguing mysteries set in historic Oxford on the printed page and the big screen presents the ‘dreaming spires’ through distinctly American eyes. Lynne Kaufman ran The Oxford/Berkeley Summer School for 25 years.
Harold Goldberg
Harold Goldberg is a critic for The New York Times. He is co-author of the best-selling non-fiction book, “My Life Among The Serial Killers,'” and the narrative history “All Your Base Are Belong to Us How 50 Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture).”
The Skinny
“The Skinny” is a noir novel about sheer evil in the Big Apple. Stan Kaminski, a down-on-his-luck Polish immigrant, tries to scratch out an existence in 1990s New York City while avoiding the colorful, nefarious characters he encounters at every turn.
When Stan is asked by one of Manhattan’s wealthiest landlords to find a lost woman, he refuses at first. But money lures him in. As Stan searches for the brilliant but troubled Charmaine, he becomes ensnared in a waking nightmare full of mystery, multiple murders and the valuable braquemard of a serial killer.
The Skinny, the first book in a planned trilogy, concerns the conflicts that come with change as one New York vanishes and another appears to take its place. It explores the constant struggle between the rich and the poor, how the addicted mind battles itself for answers, the way one mystery is solved only to open the door to another, and what hope actually means.