Paganini’s Ghost by Paul Adam

Sept. 2014

PERSONAL INFORMATION:

Born 1958, in Sheffield, England; married; children: two sons.Education: Studied law at Nottingham University. Addresses:Home: Sheffield, England. Agent: United Agents; 12-26 Lexington St., London W1F 0LE, England; Zoe Pagnamenta, The Zoe Pagnamenta Agency, LLC, 30 Bond St., New York, NY 10012.

CAREER:

Writer, novelist, journalist, and screenwriter. Has worked as a journalist and as a writer for television and film.

WRITINGS:

Gianni Castiglione mysteries

The Rainaldi Quartet (Jan 2004)

Series: Gianni Castiglione mysteries, 1

(First book in series) When an elderly violin-maker is discovered murdered in the peaceful Italian countryside, his friends' investigation into his death sends them on a desperate search to uncover a priceless, long-lost Stradivarius violin as they match wits with a ruthless killer.

Paganini's ghost (Jan 2010)

Series: Gianni Castiglione mysteries, 2

A Parisian art dealer is found dead in his hotel room the day after a Paganini concert. In his wallet is a scrap of sheet music, torn from a page that belongs to the competition's winner. But how did the dead man get hold of it? And why? Detective Antonio Guastafeste asks violin maker Gianni Castiglione to help him navigate the curious world of classical musicians, their priceless instruments, and the unsavory dealers who prey upon them.

"Max Cassidy" Series; Mystery  Novels

• An Exceptional Corpse, Crime Club (London, England), 1993.
• Toxin, HarperCollins (London, England), 1994.
• A Nasty Dose of Death, Crime Club (London, England), 1994.
• Unholy Trinity, Little, Brown (London, England), 1999 , Arcade (New York, NY), 2000.
• Shadow Chasers, Little, Brown (London, England), 2000.
• Genesis II, Little, Brown (London, England), 2001.
• Flash Point, Time Warner (London, England), 2003, published in the United States as Oracle Lake, St. Martin's Minotaur (New York, NY), 2007.
• Sleeper, Time Warner (London, England), 2004, published in the United States as The Rainaldi Quartet, Thomas Dunne Books (New York, NY), 2006.
• Enemy Within, Time Warner (London, England), 2005.
• Knife Edge, Endeavour Publishing (England), 2008.
• Escape from Shadow Island, Corgi (London, England), 2009, Walden Pond Press (New York, NY), 2010.
• Paganini's Ghost, Minotaur Books (New York, NY), 2010.
• Jaws of Death, Corgi Children's (London, England), 2010.

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	English Ballad Mysteries by Deborah Grabien (First book in series) The owner of a restored eighteenth-century cottage, British folk musician Ringan Laine discovers that the property is haunted, and is assisted by his girlfriend Penny in researching the identities of his otherworldly tenants.

Brahms Deception by Louise Marley

When music scholar Frederica Bannister goes back to 1861 to observe Johannes Brahms she soon falls under the spell of the brilliant composer, and when she fails to return, her bitter rival Kristian North is sent back to find her.

Cruel music; the third baroque mystery by Beverly Myers

Tito Amato returns from an operatic tour expecting to relax with his family. Instead he finds his merchant brother Alessandro imprisoned on a trumped-up smuggling charge, a capital crime in 1740 Venice...Spying as he serenades Cardinal Fabiani and his guests, Tito peers into the dark mirror of Roman politics.

Mozart's last aria  by Matt Rees

In 1791 Austria, Madame Maria Anna Berchtold von Sonnenburg journeys to Vienna to pay her final respects to her brother, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who died under mysterious circumstances, and becomes submerged in a world of suspicion and intrigue.