Unlike Darlene O’Hara, the fictional detective at the center of his novels, Peter de Jonge has opened Milano’s only once. “For research,” he said, sitting in the century-old dive bar on East Houston Street in Manhattan early one recent morning.
Read MorePeter de Jonge’s first solo novel, “Shadows Still Remain,” comes with a blurb from James Patterson, who says, “This novel is an absolute knockout and a half.” That’s high praise from an author who so towers over the best-seller lists that a couple of years ago he estimated that he earned royalties on one out of every 15 hardcover books published in this country.
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