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Dan Fesperman is an American author of fiction. He specializes in thriller and suspense novels.

He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, on September 15, 1955. He resides in Baltimore, Maryland along with his family, which includes his wife and their two children. His wife is Liz Bowie and she also works in journalism as a reporter for the very same publication that he once worked for, Baltimore Sun.

Dan Fesperman is not just a writer of exciting thriller novels but a former reporter. He used to work for The Baltimore Sun. He attended the University of North Carolina and graduated in 1977.

He also was on assignment for journalism at such places such as Bosnia, Germany, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Middle East area. Many of the stories in his books are inspired by his travels. He has been to war zones and thirty countries in the process of traveling as a writer.

Dan Fesperman is the creator and writer of the Vlado Petric series of fictional novels. Lie in the Dark was the debut novel in this series and it came out in 1999. In 2003, the sequel came out. It is titled The Small Boat of Great Sorrows.

The first book of the Petric series won the Memorial Dagger Award in the category of best first crime novel from the Crime Writers’ Association. His sequel would go on to win the best thriller novel category for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award.

Lie in the Dark is the first novel in Dan Fesperman’s Vlado Petric series. Petric is an investigator, and he happens to make a profit whenever someone dies and someone wants to hire him to investigate. But when there are no murders, business can become quite slow. Such is the case when the siege of Sarajevo is in effect.

With killing being condoned, it seems that there are less deaths than ever that are illegal. With fewer crimes of passion hitting the market, Petric is seeing a steady drop in demand for his services. He has made his living working for the civil police and being their official homicide investigator. Lately, things have yet to pick up.

Finally, someone does get murdered and Vlado has something to do. A premeditated death case has landed on his desk and the detective at last gets some work. This time it’s not something domestic in the home such as a lover who has been mistreated. This is something much bigger than the detective is used to. It’s the murder of a government official, which is something new or at least more unusual than the usual case.

The chief of the police of the interior ministry has been shot dead. It’s been done at close range. Can Petric take on this case and find out who did it? With all of Sarajevo in an all-out war, things have gone crazy. The government workers are afraid for their lives and there are journalists appearing out of every corner to briefly cover the chaos and then head out for home.

As the city landscape of Sarajevo is torn apart by bombs, this detective must soldier on and try to solve a murder that is anything but simple. What will happen in the end? You must pick up Dan Fesperman’s first thriller in the acclaimed Vlado Petric series to find out!

The Small Boat of Great Sorrows is the sequel to the first book of the Vlado Petric series written by stellar author Dan Fesperman. Petric used to work in Sarajevo as a homicide detective. That was another life and he is now in exile in Berlin.

Things haven’t turned out quite the way that he expected they would. He’s only able to make enough to survive by working at a construction site there, but things are about to change. Petric is recruited by an American investigator and is asked to return back home– this time on a mission. The investigator is working on behalf of the International War Crimes Tribunal and needs the former detective’s help to get something done.

Petric figures anything is better than working in Berlin and barely getting by. After all, the assignment does not seem that bad. It’s pretty simple when you get down to it. Petric’s job is to try and track someone down. That individual is a former Nazi collaborator. He’s gotten older, but he’s gone on to become a successful war profiteer.

Why does it seem like these things are never as simple as they first appear? Petric has a suspicion that this whole thing is too good to be true, and he would be right. In the Balkans, nothing is ever as easy as you hope it would be.

What is going on is a complicated game of cat and mouse. He does not know it yet, but Petric is also the bait that is going to lure the Nazi collaborator out of the woodwork and into the clear so that he can hopefully be captured. No one bothered to tell him this, of course.

The operation is doomed to go south, and so it does. When that happens, Petric finds himself in a dangerous game that he never intended to start playing. He’ll find himself on a journey across Europe and finding out things that he never thought possible– particularly about his own family.

With dangers at every turn, stolen treasures of gold, secret identities, and a high stakes game in play that he can’t afford to lose, detective Vlado Petric is back again in yet another exciting thriller story from author Dan Fesperman. Whether or not he survives this adventure will be anyone’s guess.

If you really enjoy books that are thought-provoking and full of thrills, you have got to check out the sequel in the Vlado Petric series by Dan Fesperman! With plenty of twists and turns, you can’t afford to miss out on the action. Check out this second installment of the series and find out what all of the fuss is about in this exciting suspense story that can be read again and again.