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Nom canonique: Lazar, Aaron Paul
Date de naissance: 1953-03-17
Sexe: male
Nationalité: USA
Lieux de résidence: Upstate New York
Études: BSEE Northeastern University
Professions: author
engineer
photographer
writer
Courte biographie: Aaron Paul Lazar resides in Upstate New York with his wife, three daughters, two grandsons, mother-in-law, dog, and four cats. After writing in the early morning hours, he works as an electrophotographic engineer at NexPress Solutions Inc, in Rochester, New York. Additional passions include vegetable, fruit, and flower gardening; preparing large family feasts; photographing his family, gardens, and the breathtakingly beautiful Genesee Valley; cross-country skiing across the rolling hills; playing a distinctly amateur level of piano, and spending “time” with the French Impressionists whenever possible. Although he adored raising his three delightful daughters, Mr. Lazar finds grandfathering his “two little buddies” to be one of the finest experiences of his life.

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The Asylum: a Carmen Garcia novel (Bittersweet… par Aaron Lazar

From gripping first sentence to final resolution, Aaron Paul Lazar’s The Asylum is a mystery filled with warm characters and great sense of Maine coast locations. The story grows from the author’s mystery series, giving life to side characters in a very pleasing way as a young Mexican-American woman loses her job and starts to work at an… asylum. Of course, this is not the old-style asylum. Patients are treated and cared for here, in luxury and safety… But Carmen’s soon convinced there’s something hidden behind the scenes.

Warm family life, honest emotions, great dialog, and some thoroughly scary scenes all add together to make an enticing mystery that feels like being invited to the home of friends. Sitting around the fire, comfortable with the assurance of good writing, which has to mean a good ending, learning what happened, how and why… it’s a dark cozy mystery or a warm dark mystery or… just a seriously good read.

Disclosure: I was given a pre-release edition and I love it.… (plus d'informations)

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SheilaDeeth | 1 autre critique | Mar 4, 2019 |

The Asylum: a Carmen Garcia novel (Bittersweet… par Aaron Lazar

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SheilaDeeth | 1 autre critique | Feb 13, 2019 |

For the Birds par Aaron Paul Lazar

This is a delightful, quirky mystery that moves quickly and keeps you guessing. Marcella Hollister is an antiques dealer whose husband, Quinn, enjoys breeding and showing birds. They're taking a few days off from the antiques business to attend a bird show, where Quinn hopes his parrot, Ruby, will win Best New Color. Marcella's mother Thelma, living with them since the death of Marcella's stepfather Raoul, is along for the trip, and in fact is paying for it from the money she's inherited from Raoul's carefully tended 401(k) plan. Thelma seems unusually jumpy, and is convinced that a certain white van is following them. Once they're at the hotel for the event, things don't calm down. Thelma and Quinn have a silly tug-of-war over Ruby's cage that ends in Ruby and Thelma falling into the pool along with a live electrical wire. They're quickly rescued, and Thelma is rushed to the hospital.

It takes a few days before they figure out that there is now psychic connection between Ruby's mind and Thelma's, and they are likely to unexpectedly spout each other's favorite words and phrases.

Over the next few days, a stranger offers to do a psychic reading of Ruby, Thelma is kidnapped out of the hospitals, and Marcella finds out from the FBI that her mother has been spending currency that was stolen in an unsolved bank robbery in the 1960s. Alarmed by the sinister events suddenly swirling around them, Marcella and Quinn decide they have to get to the bottom of the mystery themselves.

Which is, of course, when things start to really spiral out of control.

Marcella, Quinn, and Thelma are all flawed but likable characters, and digging into the mystery of Raoul's background and the source of his money is in equal measures confusing and fascinating.

Recommended.

I received a free electronic galley of this book from the publisher.… (plus d'informations)

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LisCarey | 3 autres critiques | Sep 19, 2018 |

Murder on the Brewster Flats: a Gus LeGarde Mystery… par Mr. Aaron Paul Lazar

Beautifully evocative and sweetly romantic, Murder on the Brewster Flats takes protagonist and readers to a countryside house near the Eastern seaside town of Brewster Flats. It’s a place to rest and relax. Smooth writing lulls the reader quickly into a sense of calm and beauty—till a car flies off the road, till strangers reveal strange relationships, and till Gus LeGarde is again deeply involved in solving mystery.

As evocative in descriptions of scenery as of emotion and music, Murder on the Brewster Flats is an enticing mystery with an honestly aging protagonist, genuine sensitivity for the trials of all ages, and a great cast of characters. Particularly appealing to fans of the author’s writing, Brewster Flats includes characters both from the Gus LeGarde mysteries and from Paines Creek. But the novel stands alone, with characters and situations introduced very naturally. The mystery revolves, of course, around new characters, murder and local mythology. It’s a cool blend, enjoyably told, and a good, exciting, pleasantly human read.

Disclosure: I was lucky enough to read an early copy and I loved it. I’m voluntarily offering my honest review.… (plus d'informations)

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SheilaDeeth | Mar 16, 2018 |

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