Greenfellas in the Mystery Readers Journal

The "Environmental Mysteries" issue of Mystery Readers Journal is out.  It contains my piece about GREENFELLAS: "Saving The Planet, One Novel At A Time."

Me live at Left Coast Crimes 2015

Last year at LCC in Portland, H.S. Clark, author of medical thrillers, was kind enough to interview me.  The video is now up for all to see.  Thank you, H.S.!

Greenfellas on iBooks and All Romance Books

The ownderful folks at Oak Tree Press have made GREENFELLAS available on iBooks and All Romance Books.  Just in case you don't have your own copy yet.

Greenfellas: the video (talk)

Back in November I spoke at Western Washington University about my novel GREENFELLAS.  My talk, "Crime Against Nature: Writing An Environmental Crime Novel," is now available as a video on the web. 

Greenfellas in the Nook

The wonderful folks at Oak Tree Press have just made a Nook edition of Greenfellas available. Wise readers will want to add this to their paper and Amazon copies.

GREENFELLAS in SPAWNews

The good folks at Small Publishers, Artists, and Writers Network invited me to discuss how to fill a novel with facts without boring people  The result is "Farewell My Coastline: or How to Write an Environmental Crime Novel Without Sending Your Reader into the Big Sleep."

KRL: GREENFELLAS is one of the Best Mysteries of 2015

Kings River Life Magazine just put out their list of the Best Mysteries of 2015, and GREENFELLAS is on it.  I am, as the British would say, right chuffed.  Thank you, Sandra Murphy, for your excellent taste!

GREENFELLAS meets THE HERO WITH A THOUSAND FACES

Kevin Tipple was nice enough to invite me to guest blog at his site.  "The Anti-Hero's Journey" explains how my comic crime novel was influenced by Joseph Campbell's theories on mythology. 

Discussing Greenfellas WWU

I had a great time yesterday talking about my novel in the Special Collections Room at Western Washington University.  Thanks to Clarissa Mansfield for the photos!

Crime Against Nature, at Western Libraries, November 19

On Thursday November 19, 4 PM, I will be talking about GREENFELLAS at the Special Collections Room at Western Washington University Libraries.  If you come I won't be all alone.

GREENFELLAS in Kings River Life

Sandra Murphy has a lot of nice things to say about GREENFELLAS at Kings Rive Life.  Also, there's a chance to win a copy of the book!

"Sal is a delight as he figures out ways around what most would consider insurmountable objects. The dialogue and action are fast paced... I’m just jealous I didn’t think of the idea for this book first—'green' with jealousy. "

Crime against nature: GREENFELLAS

I will be talking about GREENFELLAS at Western Libraries on November 19, 4-5:30. The title is "Crime Against Nature: Writing an Environmental Crime Novel."  Should be fun!

GREENFELLAS on a bestseller list

Just found this out.  Guess what book was #6 on the Seattle Mystery Bookshop's Seattle Trade Paperback Bestseller list?  Oh, you guessed.  Well, aren't you the smart one.

Terry Ambrose interviews me

Terry Ambrose interviewed me about GREENFELLAS and it went live today.

GREENFELLAS in Seattle

Had a wonderful time in Seattle yesterday, signing copies of GREENFELLAS at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop.  Fran and Adele were wonderful hosts.  (Here we are with two customers.)

And I got to meet longtime FB friend Sallie Tierney and her pay Judi Burke.  What a treat!

Good times at Village Books

Last night I got to read from GREENFELLAS at Village Books in Fairhaven.  We are incredibly lucky to have one of the country's best independent bookstores right in town.  300-350 author's events a year! 

GREENFELLAS hits Seattle

I will be signing my new novel at the Seattle Mystery Bookshop on Saturday, September 5th, 3-4 PM.  There will be cookies!

GREENFELLAS at The First Two Pages

B.K. Stevens was kind enough to let me talk today about the beginning of my new novel are at her wonderful website The First Two Pages.

Reading GREENFELLAS at Village Books, Sept 3.

I will be doing my first reading from GREENFELLAS at Village Books in Bellingham, 7 PM on Thursday, September 3.  I wrote here about getting ready.  I'm excited!

GREENFELLAS reviewed in Hitchcock's!

Jackie Sherbow, in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine:

"What do you expect when you pick up a novel about New Jersey mobsters?  Robert Lopresti's GREENFELLAS (Oak Tree Books, $17.95) has plenty of genre motifs, but it's the unusual characters, vistas, and twists that will surprise and amuse the reader.

"Legendary Sal 'the Screwdriver' Caetano is vying for the spot as head of the Napolito crime family after the impending demise of the current patriarch.  Sal, a widower, is 'even among Sicilians of his generation...a sentimental type' (despite his growing hit list and well-earned reputation).  After his daughter gives birth, Sal is struck with a crisis of conscience during his grandfatherly celebrations when a news report about the dangers of climate change interrupts musings about his granddaughter's bright future.  He enlists some experts and makes going green his first priority.

"Although Sal has always been known as forward thinking, the reactions to his new passion are mixed, to say the least.  While he tries to convince his compatriots of the cause and gather outside allies, changes in leadership and wavering alliances threaten.

"GREENFELLAS features a colorful host of secondary characters, including a computer geek with a belated realization as to who's payroll he's on, a squirmy double agent known to both sides as a seperate type of vermin, a Battlestar Gallactica-watching second in command, and a feminist rival borgata boss, among others up and down the mafia, law-enforcement and political hierarchy.   The chosen settings are equally quirky: A tense conversation occurs while overlooking a field of brightly clad yoga enthusiasts and a climax of the story hits at a picnic.

"Lopresti's multiple-viewpoint storytelling is peppered with clever juxtapositions and puns, but amidst the humorous aspects the characters also deal with betrayal, loss, and hope for the future. 'Caetano looked mostly like a successful small businessman who had been working too hard and had too much on his mind,' one character observes -- and, as the reader will realize, he is.  This idea is the heart of the book, which raises questions about morality both inside and outside the law.  The characters populating Lopresti's world are progressive and open in one instance, and closed off and ignorant in another.  They're shaking hands one moment, and shooting a gun the next.  They're human.

"In GREENFELLAS, Lopresti defies the reader's expectations in a contemporary way, and the result is a fun and suspenseful read."