This New York mystery writer has captured the Japanese Maltese Falcon Award and five Shamus Awards for Best P.I. Novel. She’s best known for her mystery series featuring the Chinese-American private eye, Lydia Chin, and her partner Bill Smith, based in New York’s Chinatown. The series has already stretched to 11 books and the 2002 title Winter and Night is one of the most feted modern mysteries. Rozan’s most recent work, Blood of the Lamb, has been described as some unholy profitable combination of The DaVinci Code’s Dan Brown and Twilight’s Stephanie Meyer.
// Mar 6, Writing workshop (part one). 3pm, RMB75. Crystal Room.
Regarding your latest book, Blood of the Lamb, where did you get the idea of merging vampire culture with the Catholic Church?
I wrote this book with a partner who was living in Rome. The idea came to him as he surveyed the art and architecture of the churches there, and began to wonder if there wasn't perhaps an alternative explanation to the whole fascination with blood and rising from the dead...
Does the book draw anything from your personal beliefs?
The real subject of the book is faith, and the difference between faith and religion. In that sense yes, very much, because I believe the difference between the two is often vast.
Do you read the same type of books your write?
I read all types of books. I do read crime novels and paranormal thrillers, and also a good deal of non-fiction. Right now I'm reading a book about the history of first contact between Europeans and the native peoples of the Americas.
What are you working on right now?
Putting the finishing touches on the second "Sam Cabot" book, SKIN OF THE WOLF, set to come out this summer. Vampires and priests again, and this time also... something else.
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