“I’ll bet you $1 that Buried on Avenue B is as good, or better, than any mystery novel that comes out of Scandinavia, the rest of Europe, or America from sea to shining sea this year. It isn’t exactly realism – but that’s because the dialogue is too sharp and funny.” -Bestselling author James Patterson
Meet
Peter de Jonge
IN CONVERSATION WITH
James Patterson
About their history as friends, co-authors, writing noir, and de Jonge’s most recent novel,
Buried on Avenue B
(Harper, $25.99)
| Wednesday, April 10, 7:30pm Temple Judea, 5500 Granada Boulevard, Coral Gables |
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| Signing Guidelines: This event is FREE and open to the public and will be followed by a book signing with de Jonge and Patterson. Purchase a copy of Buried on Avenue B and Patterson will sign (1) one copy of his newest book, either for adults: Alex Cross, Run or for children: MS: My Brother’s a Big Fat Liar plus (1) one copy of one of his backlist titles. Pictures may be taken in passing, but not posed. |
When Peter de Jonge, co-author of James Patterson’s #1 New York Times bestsellers Beach Road and The Beach House, published his first solo thriller Shadows Still Remain in 2009, it quickly established de Jonge as a standalone force in the suspense genre. The Washington Post named Shadows Still Remain a Book of the Year and called de Jonge’s first O’Hara novel “first-rate crime fiction,” while The New York Times compared Peter de Jonge to Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly.
Using his skills as a reporter for the Associated Press and contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine, not to mention his work with Patterson, de Jonge has proved himself adept at creating page-turning narratives, and returns with Buried on Avenue B.
Featuring gritty homicide detective Darlene O’Hara, who was hailed by the Chicago Tribune as an “utterly irresistible heroine,” the story returns to Manhattan’s colorful Lower East Side, and paints a picture that highlights the neighborhood’s hard-working immigrants, its drug-addled past, and its growing gentrification, while telling the story of a young street urchin who got mixed up with the wrong crowd. Patterson calls Darlene O’Hara “one of the freshest, hippest detective creations in many a year.”
About the Authors:
PETER DE JONGE is the author of Shadows Still Remain (2009), a Washington Post Book of the Year, and co-author, with James Patterson, of three books: Miracle on the 17th Green (Little, Brown, 1996), and the #1 New York Times bestsellers Beach Road (Little, Brown, 2003) and The Beach House (Little, Brown, 2006). He worked as a reporter at the Associated Press, and has been a contributing writer to the New York Times Magazine since 1986. His magazine writing has appeared in Best American Sports Writing, National Geographic, New York magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Details, and Manhattan, Inc. He lives in New York City.
JAMES PATTERSON has had more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977 James Patterson’s books have sold more than 240 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels, the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. Mr. Patterson also writes the bestselling Women’s Murder Club novels, set in San Francisco, and the top-selling New York detective series of all time, featuring Detective Michael Bennett. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.