On January 28, 2025, Korza Books will publish my first novel, The Last Grand Tour.
Click on the cover or title above to pre-order it on Bookshop.org or click below to pre-order from one of the great independent bookstores that will be hosting me for book-related events:
Powell’s Books, Portland, OR (Tuesday, January 28, 2025)
Edmonds Bookshop, Edmonds, WA (Thursday, January 30)
Village Books, Bellingham, WA (Thursday, February 6)
Third Place Books Ravenna, Seattle, WA (Tuesday, February 11)
Here’s the publisher‘s’‘s description:
The Last Grand Tour
American tour guide Joe Newhouse wants nothing more than to reach Venice. Since moving to Munich after the fall of the Berlin Wall, he’s watched his business fail, his wife leave him, and his love for Europe diminish. Now he faces one last ten-day tour with a surly group that doesn’t want to be there. As he leads them through the mythic lands of Europe’s Romantic past, he grows increasingly disturbed by their stories of earlier lives, puzzled by their desire to be with a man who doesn’t arrive, and entangled in an illicit affair that promises to either save him or plunge his tour-and his life-into madness.
Soaked in the Romantic atmosphere and dark deeds of old Europe-as well as the freedoms and hopes of a new era-The Last Grand Tour takes us on a perilous journey through Hitler’s Berchtesgaden, Mozart’s Salzburg, and Mad King Ludwig’s Bavarian fantasyland before reaching its stunning climax in the murky waters of Venice. Along the way, it explores the often-shifting lines between fidelity and freedom, illusion and reality, regret and desire.
$20
Also available on Amazon.
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