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What I lack in infamy I make up for in talent. I love reading, and I love writing even more and have been doing it for twenty years. My books are read by people of all ages from fourteen years and up. They're easy to read and leave you feeling good when you finish. I'm a sucker for a happy ending (most of the time), and what I find, especially with my Neptune King series, is that you can't just read one. Most people who read the first book go on to read the entire series. They're addictive and not just for the reader. I'm currently working on Number 35 of the series. These characters are my babies and I enjoy writing about them and their lives. They're real people to me and I love it when my readers discuss them as though they're actually alive. Although my Sherlock Holmes books are my best sellers, those stories were my early work, when I first got into writing. I'm a huge Sherlock fan and always will be, however he's not my creation, he's Doyle's and that's why I get more satisfaction from stories that feature my original characters.
The very first book I wrote was a nursing thriller called God's Disciple, which won several writing awards. Being a night shift nurse of course I had to write another nursing mystery--Night Moves, involving the night staff. I branched out a little into general crime fiction with a book called Natural Progression. Take a look at the cover. The corpse is portrayed by my sister and the car was the one I had at the time. I had fun staging the scene for that book cover. What surprised me though was that no motorists stopped to see what was going on. They just kept on driving past! I also have a contemporary romantic mystery series set in Melbourne, Australia - The Andromeda Fox series, but of course my favourites are the Neptune King books and I hope they and the others become your favourites as well. Life gets in the way of my writing occasionally but it is something I love and will keep doing as long as I am able. Magda Jozsa
PS: I'm still featuring new releases on the front page so you know at a glance if there's a new one out.
What I lack in infamy I make up for in talent. I love reading, and I love writing even more and have been doing it for twenty years. My books are read by people of all ages from fourteen years and up. They're easy to read and leave you feeling good when you finish. I'm a sucker for a happy ending (most of the time), and what I find, especially with my Neptune King series, is that you can't just read one. Most people who read the first book go on to read the entire series. They're addictive and not just for the reader. I'm currently working on Number 35 of the series. These characters are my babies and I enjoy writing about them and their lives. They're real people to me and I love it when my readers discuss them as though they're actually alive. Although my Sherlock Holmes books are my best sellers, those stories were my early work, when I first got into writing. I'm a huge Sherlock fan and always will be, however he's not my creation, he's Doyle's and that's why I get more satisfaction from stories that feature my original characters.
The very first book I wrote was a nursing thriller called God's Disciple, which won several writing awards. Being a night shift nurse of course I had to write another nursing mystery--Night Moves, involving the night staff. I branched out a little into general crime fiction with a book called Natural Progression. Take a look at the cover. The corpse is portrayed by my sister and the car was the one I had at the time. I had fun staging the scene for that book cover. What surprised me though was that no motorists stopped to see what was going on. They just kept on driving past! I also have a contemporary romantic mystery series set in Melbourne, Australia - The Andromeda Fox series, but of course my favourites are the Neptune King books and I hope they and the others become your favourites as well. Life gets in the way of my writing occasionally but it is something I love and will keep doing as long as I am able. Magda Jozsa
PS: I'm still featuring new releases on the front page so you know at a glance if there's a new one out.
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AUTHOR BIO
Magda Jozsa was born in Ballarat , Australia in 1962 and now lives and works in Melbourne as a Registered Nurse. She has been writing since she was 15 when she had a short piece published in The Woman's Weekly. She won the Gardenia Press Writing competition with her first novel, Nursing thriller God's Disciple and Introducing Neptune King received an Honorable mention in that same competition. She also took out first prize for a sci fi story competition in the Star Trek fan magazine.
She's been writing on and off for the last 20 years, having to take time out for long stretches to care for ailing family members. She has long been a Sherlock Holmes fan as is evidenced by her best selling Sherlock Holmes books, and also her Neptune King detective series has hints of Sherlock in them. She loves reading westerns, mysteries, science fiction and crime fiction so it was only natural that she would end up writing them. To date she has written some 35 novels, with number 36 on the way. She is quite a prolific writer and writes for pleasure not for profit, getting as much enjoyment from writing the books as she hopes her readers get from reading them. Her nursing thrillers are rich with realism thanks to her 30 years of personal experience, while her mysteries keep you entertained as she often interjects touches of humor into her stories. However, her greatest asset as a writer is her natural ability at characterization. The characters she creates are endearing and very human -- none of this political correctness in her books, nor unbelievably perfect heroes and heroines. Her characters sometimes make mistakes, sometimes they say and do the wrong thing; that is what brings them to life and allows you, the reader, to relate to them. It is not uncommon for her fans to talk about the characters as if they truly exist. An all round entertaining author, who is well worth the read. I guarantee that once you start reading her books, you won't be able to stop. NEW RELEASES
Business is a little quiet at K&J Investigations, so Neptune and Shark go to Scotland Yard to access their cold case files. They have a long-standing deal with the Commissioner to work on unsolved cases when they’re bored. When they get there, they find the Commissioner had actually left out a pile of random women killing cases for their attention. While he doesn’t expect them to solve them all, he’s hoping, after their recent success in catching a child serial killer (Neptune King and the Murdered Children), that they might notice a pattern that the police have missed. He suspects there might be a serial killer on the loose.
They start off strong, finding a connection—all the murdered women were members of different dating agencies. They also get side-tracked side-tracked solving several other supposed random murder cases that turn out not to be random. Rachel, Neptune’s wife also gets in on the action, having returned to work full time and now taking an active part in crime solving. She’s starting to build her own reputation as a detective much to Neptune’s delight. The case goes forwards in leaps and bounds until they slowly eliminate their suspects and hit a dead end. It’s Rachel that makes the final connection and puts them on the right path to catching the killer before he has a chance to harm his latest victim.NEPTUNE KING AND THE LONELY HEARTS KILLER |
What People say about her books As noted in other reviews, I have considered Magda Jozsa to be one of the very best writers of Holmes/Watson pastiches and had kept this particular volume next to my chair for an uninterrupted weekend. For a long, long time I had considered 'Sherlock Holmes on the Wild Frontier' to be the very best of the pastiches in my collection. Now that I'm closing in on 200 books in the genre, there is some debate as to whether she still ranks as #1 although her works certainly belong in the top fraction of one percent. - Drstatz
These are entertaining stories and make for enjoyable light reading - Rumple The Dentist -- From the Great Detective by Magda Jozsa was my personal favorite in this book. - AcerAcer This is the first in the Neptune King series and I am definitely going to buy more. I'm hooked. - Hollobrain Re The Adventures of Neptune King It is a pleasant book to read, interesting and not complicated at all by some of the unnecessary twists and complicated plots other authors feel they have to use. Well written and gives you a good feeling when you read it - Roy Baugham The Bizarre cases of Neptune King: Suitably creepy with cannibals and necrophiliacs. Loved it - Cat Sinclair Sherlock Holmes and the Femme Fatales: This collection f stories is first rate with the usual unexpected elements you expect from Miss Jozsa's works. Her characterizations are spot on and even the long-suffering Mrs Hudson shows a side of her that added definite spice to a story. Mycroft Holmes also got to participate and I hope readers will get to see much more of this enigmatic individual. In short, way to rock, Ms Jozsa or at least until I read 'Return To the Wild Frontier.' Stay tuned.- Drstatz Sherlock Holmes and the Femme Fatales: Interesting. Clever. Fresh. Although not your normal Sherlock Holmes and John Watson, it is close enough to canon to be believable. I look forward to more by this author. - Amazon Customer This book is an excellent collection of interesting stories that remain essentially true to the canon, while having a slightly “edgier” feel to them that I found very refreshing. They put a subtle new light on our hero’. I read a great deal of SH pastiche, and in my opinion this is the best I’ve come across in quite some time. In sum, very highly recommended, an outstanding creative read at a bargain price. - Dan - Cleveland, Ohio. |
THE MANY FACES OF NEPTUNE KING
In this the 36th book in the series, Neptune comes into his own as the master of disguise on four different cases calling for his unique talents.
The Nursing Home – In this first case Neptune goes undercover at a nursing home disguised as an 80 year old man to expose allegations of abuse. He finds more tehan just physical abuse going on and sets about changing the lives of the unfortunate residents.
The Fortune Teller – This second case sees Neptune reprising his role as psychic Keeley Simmonds, where he takes her place to trick a superstitious art thief into revealing where he has hidden a stolen masterpiece.
The Diamond Dealer – is the third case. A dishonest diamond dealer from Amsterdam acting as a fence to an international jewel thief ring is accidentally killed in a road accident after arriving n England. This puts Interpol’s case into panic mode as they were hoping he would lead them to the jewel thieves. They turn to Scotland Yard, more precisely Commissioner Pickering for help, who immediately spots the resemblance of the dead man to Neptune. He enlists Neptune’s aid to masquerade as the diamond dealer to keep the meeting with the thieves. Working with the two Interpol agents, Neptune pulls it off and brings the case to a successful conclusion.
The Actor – Neptune is in his element in this fourth case. An actor is being threatened with several attempts on his life. Neptune goes undercover as one of the cast, while Shark goes as himself to investigate the murder attempts. Neptune loves performing on stage and excels as usual. Working from two different angles they manage to catch the would-be murderer.
In this the 36th book in the series, Neptune comes into his own as the master of disguise on four different cases calling for his unique talents.
The Nursing Home – In this first case Neptune goes undercover at a nursing home disguised as an 80 year old man to expose allegations of abuse. He finds more tehan just physical abuse going on and sets about changing the lives of the unfortunate residents.
The Fortune Teller – This second case sees Neptune reprising his role as psychic Keeley Simmonds, where he takes her place to trick a superstitious art thief into revealing where he has hidden a stolen masterpiece.
The Diamond Dealer – is the third case. A dishonest diamond dealer from Amsterdam acting as a fence to an international jewel thief ring is accidentally killed in a road accident after arriving n England. This puts Interpol’s case into panic mode as they were hoping he would lead them to the jewel thieves. They turn to Scotland Yard, more precisely Commissioner Pickering for help, who immediately spots the resemblance of the dead man to Neptune. He enlists Neptune’s aid to masquerade as the diamond dealer to keep the meeting with the thieves. Working with the two Interpol agents, Neptune pulls it off and brings the case to a successful conclusion.
The Actor – Neptune is in his element in this fourth case. An actor is being threatened with several attempts on his life. Neptune goes undercover as one of the cast, while Shark goes as himself to investigate the murder attempts. Neptune loves performing on stage and excels as usual. Working from two different angles they manage to catch the would-be murderer.