The story appears on

Page A9

April 13, 2014

GET this page in PDF

Free for subscribers

View shopping cart

Related News

Home » Sunday » The Week

Creative premise sparks original novel

M.J. Rose’s “The Collector of Dying Breaths” combines fascinating history, torrid romance and a compelling mystery into a marvelous package that will entice fans of Anne Rice and Diana Gabaldon.

In 1573, an apprentice to a perfumer grants the dying wish of his teacher and poisons him to speed his passing so he won’t suffer a slow and lingering death.

In present day, a woman suffers from the devastating loss of her brother. She takes over his perfume business and learns her brother was involved in trying to recreate ancient experiments in an attempt to reanimate life using a combination of certain scents and an individual’s dying breath.




 

Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.

沪公网安备 31010602000204号

Email this to your friend