Local author signs her new book at Los Gatos' Borders
Tax-haven trilogy is in the works
A new book has joined the many tomes on law and taxes filling the shelves of longtime Los Gatan and tax attorney Patricia Ladd. It is not another reference book, however, but rather a work of mystery, intrigue and murder that happens to center around an ambitious international tax attorney. It also so happens that Ladd is the book's author.
Written under the pen name V. E. Rosswell, Into the Deep is Ladd's first work of fiction and the first book of what she says will comprise her "tax-haven trilogy." She will be signing the mystery novel on March 11 at 7 p.m. at Borders Books, Music & Cafe in Old Town. Ladd says she chose the Los Gatos Borders for her first signing because she has lived here for many years and has many friends in the community.
Set in the mid-1970s, Into the Deep takes readers from the Cayman Islands to the San Francisco Bay Area as they follow the protagonist, tax attorney Linnell Clare, on 312 pages of adventures that, as Ladd explains, are about "power, property, money and sexuality."
"Let's just say that while most mysteries are at bottom a 'dissection,' this one heads off in the opposite direction and takes the reader, step by step, on a journey to the unknowable," adds Ladd, who grew up in Minnesota in a family who always encouraged her literary pursuits.
"I thought everybody wrote," she recalls of her childhood. "In Minnesota, especially in the winter, people spend a lot of time reading. I also spent a lot of time writing--ever since I was a small child."
The event is free and open to the public. Refreshments with a Caribbean theme will be served. Call 395-6622 for information.
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