JANICE WEBER, AUTHOR
Janice Weber’s novels have a worldwide following. Her latest, Meat Cove, is her third thriller and introduces Constable Fundy Sutherland, a former JTF 2 sniper turned Mountie investigating a case that unravels along the Cape Breton coast. Kirkus Reviews called it “a crime drama with a winning combination of thrills, defeats, and hard earned victories.”
Her earlier thrillers, Frost the Fiddler and Hot Ticket, follow Leslie Frost, a concert violinist turned spy. Her debut, The Secret Life of Eva Hathaway, enjoys near cult status and is widely recognized as iconic Chick Lit, though it appeared years before the genre was invented. Its colorful characters, verbal virtuosity, wit, and sensuality established the hallmarks of a style that has earned Weber comparison with Mark Twain, Fran Lebowitz, Harold Pinter, and Robert Ludlum (if such a hybrid can be imagined).
Music infiltrates almost every book, even Meat Cove, where Fundy keeps an accordion she can’t quite bring herself to sell. Weber’s characters without music in their lives fill the void with swinging, murder, and treason, activities musicians tend to eschew since this would detract from practice time.
Her earlier thrillers, Frost the Fiddler and Hot Ticket, follow Leslie Frost, a concert violinist turned spy. Her debut, The Secret Life of Eva Hathaway, enjoys near cult status and is widely recognized as iconic Chick Lit, though it appeared years before the genre was invented. Its colorful characters, verbal virtuosity, wit, and sensuality established the hallmarks of a style that has earned Weber comparison with Mark Twain, Fran Lebowitz, Harold Pinter, and Robert Ludlum (if such a hybrid can be imagined).
Music infiltrates almost every book, even Meat Cove, where Fundy keeps an accordion she can’t quite bring herself to sell. Weber’s characters without music in their lives fill the void with swinging, murder, and treason, activities musicians tend to eschew since this would detract from practice time.
