Tenth Witness by Leonard Rosen

April, 2015

Born January 7, 1954, in Baltimore, MD; Education: Trinity College, Hartford, CT, B.A., 1975; American University, Ph.D., 1981. Addresses: Home: 199 Babcock St., Brookline, MA 02146. Office: Department of English, Bentley College, Beaver and Forest Sts., Waltham, MA 02254. Agent: Mark Kramer, 20 Bluewater Hill, Westport, CT 06880.

CAREER:

Bentley College, Waltham, MA, assistant professor of English, 1982--. Consultant to Digital Equipment Organization.

Biography

Leonard Rosen grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, where he taught high school English. Graduate studies in literature followed, and he went on to a university teaching career.  Len writes full time now in the Boston area.  He has contributed radio commentaries to Boston’s NPR station, written best-selling textbooks on writing, and taught writing at Harvard University and Bentley University. The Tenth Witness is a prequel to his award-winning first novel, All Cry Chaos.  Both feature Interpol agent Henri Poincaré, “a protagonist,” wrote one critic, “who reads like a literary figure in a thriller.”  Contact Len through this Web site to arrange for a web-based visit to your book group and to find book-related events, essays on writing, and a sampling of his radio commentaries.

Author’s website     http://lenrosenonline.com/  includes an interesting blog by the author.

WRITINGS:

• The Everyday English Handbook,, 1985.
• (With Larry Behrens) Writing and Reading Across the Curriculum, Pearson/Longman). 2005.
• (With Behrens) Reading for College Writers, 1987.
• (With Behrens) Theme and Variations: The Impact of Great Ideas,, 1988.
• (With Behrens) The Allyn & Bacon Handbook, 1992.
• Discovery and Commitment: A Guide for College Writers,, 1995.
• Decisions: A Writer's Handbook, 1998.
• A Sequence for Academic Writing, 2001.
• The Academic Writer's Handbook, 2006.

All cry chaos: an Henri Poincare mystery (Sep 2011)

When 30-year-old math genius James Fenster is blown up in his Amsterdam hotel room, via the precise detonation of military-grade rocket fuel, shortly before he was due to address a World Trade Organization conference, Henri Poincaré, aging Interpol agent and great-grandson of a legendary mathematician, investigates.

Series: Henri Poincare mysteries, 1

The tenth witness (Sep 2013)

In Rosen's strong prequel to his 2011 debut, All Cry Chaos, Henri Poincaré, not yet an Interpol agent, uncovers a startling secret that brings back the ghosts of WWII. In 1978, Poincaré, then a hydraulic engineer, is busy off the Dutch coast trying to salvage a 1799 shipwreck rumored to be laden with a fortune in gold bars. During his day off, Poincaré takes a walk on a nearby beach that leads to him meeting Liesel Kraus, heir to the Kraus Steel Co. fortune  

Series: Henri Poincare mysteries, 2

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The redbreast (Jan 2000)  By: Nesbo, Jo

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