Meister Frantz and the Curse of the Blood Rubies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781974301515)

Edith Parzefall studied literature and linguistics in Germany and the United States and worked in IT. Now a full-time writer, she strives to combine her two passions: writing and traveling. She supports a street kids project in Recife, Brazil. When she vis-ited Grupo Ruas e Pracas, she took part in a music and crafts work-shop with the children. During her stay in Rio de Janeiro, her thriller Strays of Rio, set in this city of contrasts, took shape. In 2008 she traveled through Chile, supposedly the safest country in South America. Stopped at a red light in their rented SUV, she and her partner were sandwiched between two trucks on the Pan-American highway. An unplanned excursion to the local hospital and the Cara-bineros de Chile allowed her insights she never meant to gain but wouldn't want to miss. A new story idea sparked: Crumple Zone. While hiking in the Alps, she had nothing better to do than conjur-ing up the tour guide from hell and the Adventure Trek series, humor-ous action adventures with depth-and heights. Together with British author Francene Stanley, she wrote the Higher Ground series, four fantasy adventures set in a post-apocalyptic future. With Meister Frantz, she traveled back in time for the first time, a journey that took her to museums and libraries and made her see the old town of Nuremberg with different eyes after she'd been living there for fifteen years already.