1–What is the title of your latest release? THE BONE RECORDS 2–What’s the “elevator pitch” for your new book? NYPD academy washout Grigg Orlov must find the murderers of his immigrant father before he’s the next to die – his only clue an eerie artifact of the Soviet black market. 3–How did you decide where your book was going to take place? The idea for the book started with the bone records, which were bootlegs of American rock ‘n’ roll songs cut from X-rays in the Soviet Union from 1945-1963. I loved the idea of including bone records in a story, but I didn’t want to set the book in the Soviet Union in, say, 1962. In Brooklyn, several neighborhoods are called Little Odessa because of the large proportion of Russian immigrants that live there. Older immigrants in these neighborhoods—Coney Island, Sheepshead Bay, Gravesend—would know about the discs, so I set the novel in Coney Island. It helped that I’m a huge Coney Island fan, with many visits over the years. 4–Would you hang out with your sleuth in real life? Yes, but would he want to hang out with me? 5–What are three words that describe your sleuth? Learning, instinctive, undaunted…