With the peninsula being located between Lake Michigan and Green Bay, she uses the northern Wisconsin area as the backdrop to her ‘Dave Cubiak’ series. Living in Chicago as well as Door County, she has come to use the area to shape much of her work and stories over the years.
Showing a strong passion for crime stories, she would come to write with a high-degree of authenticity that many writers could only aspire to. This was continued throughout her education and long into her adult career as a full-time writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her attention would mainly be drawn towards mystery and thriller stories, something which she would continue to devote herself towards. This would ferment over the years, as she would come to build upon her love and passion for the craft, creating her own distinctive style of prose. Knowing exactly what is needed, she perfectly understands her craft, and what the mystery genre involves, something that she will continue to do for many years to follow.įrom a very young age, Patricia Skalka held a fascination for reading and all things literature, turning her attention mainly towards writing. Creating an air of tension that constantly builds throughout, she is capable of setting up narratives really twist and turn in numerous directions at every page turn. It is the universality of her themes and ideas that really translate, not to mention the very real human obstacles that face all of her characters. With a new mystery each and every title, she has continually delivered on her premise, keeping legions of devoted fans hooked worldwide. Her main long-running series is currently the ‘Dave Cubiak Mystery’ series of novels, which follows the former homicide detective turned park ranger Dave Cubiak. Spanning over numerous installments, her mysteries really do have an addictive quality, which goes some way towards explaining how she has become so successful.
Speaking directly to the reader, they are easy to relate to, whilst also giving them root for, following them throughout her series, continually coming back for more. Setting up characters that really leap off of the page, she manages to provide them with fully three dimensional personalities that take on a life of their own almost.
Weaving character and suspense together with the greatest of ease, she manages to create mysteries that are at once enticing and compelling in equal measure. Hailing from Chicago, the world renowned American writer Patricia Skalka is highly regarded for her mystery novels.
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