SAMPLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS FOR THE AUTHOR
- How did you first begin writing murder mysteries that take place at the opera?
- How do your experiences as a Met Opera violinist lend authenticity to your novels?
- What would you like your readers to take away from reading your opera mysteries?
- Are there sequels? If so, where do they take place?
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"I just finished Aria for Murder. Absolutely a great read. I totally enjoyed it. Can't wait to order the next ones in the series."
Patricia Dixon
"My companion and I have now read your "Aria for Murder." We greatly enjoyed it and especially liked being taken on a deep dive into the sinister underworld of the Metropolitan Opera (ho ho ho), behind the scenes, as it were. I'd just finished watching the technicolor version of "The Phantom of the Opera" starring Claude Rains on Turner Classic Movies a month or so ago, and felt quite at home."
Paul Heise
" how fun it was knowing that the quiet and civilized author devilishly devised the murders of singers and conductors in the world of opera."
Michael Kysar, former opera singer
"'I just finished reading Aria for Murder! Let me say, it’s a brilliant piece of work. I had my suspicions about who the perpetrators were but not completely certain until they were revealed. So again, you had me going until the very end! Awesome job! Shat an excellent idea you had when you decided to write about murders in the opera venues! This is certainly an idea that can be endless and will endure!'"
Esthere Tolbert
" Erica Miner, one of the best-prepared, most congenial interviewers with whom I have ever worked "
Daron Hagen, composer
"I finished Aria for Murder and so hope you write another Met opera mystery. Your writing is so vivid, walking up Lincoln Center Plaza, the Chagall panels, even the stage door…for a few hours I was there."
Carol Anderson
"'You bring music realms alive in totally new ways.'"
Mardi Ellen Hill, writer and musician
"Erica Miner is the Agatha Christie of Opera!"
Richard Stilwell, international opera star
"Erica Miner has created a world few people know or have access to. A mystery with. music beyond the words on the page. If all music aspires to the human voice, this author has found hers from the start."
Gabriel Valjan, award-winning author
"Read your book “Aria fpr Murder” and loved it. Had to stay up till the wee hours of the morning to find out the end. Great read and as a former opera singer in Sacramento I enjoyed your opera quotes at the beginning of each chapter. Congratulations!"
Joan Sweet, former opera singer
"OMG, Erica. You did it! Yes, you plunged me into the tale. Who, why, when, how…??? Amazing work and so much you inside! I had to finish and find out. Yes, I was inside with Julia. I could feel her fear, her sudden passion, her confusion, her vertigo.. yes, all emotions grabbed me, the reader. So well written! Your book is amazing!!!"
Patricia Daly-Lipe, author
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