“Kathleen George is not only a crack mystery writer, she is a crack writer. Period. Exciting and elegant. What a combination”
—Pulitzer prize winning author Robert Olen Butler
Mirth
Coming September 27th
Mirth chronicles the struggles of a writer, Harrison Mirth, a romantic man who writes about love and tries to find it through three marriages, in three cities, and always with renewable hope.
About
Kathleen George lives in Pittsburgh where she is a professor of theatre and writing at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of the acclaimed novels Taken, Fallen, Afterimage, The Odds (nominated for an Edgar® award for best novel by the Mystery Writers of America), Hideout, Simple, and A Measure of Blood. All seven of these titles are part of her procedural thrillers set in Pittsburgh. The University of Pittsburgh Press released The Johnstown Girls, her non-series novel about the Johnstown Flood, and in a novel about Lena Horne and jazz, The Blues Walked In. Kathy is the editor of Pittsburgh Noir, a collection of short fiction, the author of her own short story collection The Man in the Buick, and of scholarly theatrical books and articles.
