Mystery and Suspense in Kazakhstan!
Sea Fever is a mystery thriller surrounding clandestine activities on Voz Island in the desiccating Aral Sea of Kazakhstan, when Ayan Kazbekov was growing up in a fishing village by the Aral in Soviet time. When two locals are murdered while taking a couple of strangers to the now-abandoned Voz Island in the post-Soviet era, Ayan and his friend Grace, the wife of an American expatriate, are incited to decipher a coded note secretly passed to Ayan before the fall of the Soviet Union by Victor, his Russian scientist friend from their university days in Moscow. Victor is not heard from again, but his note may hold clues not only to solving the locals’ murders but also thwarting life-threatening dangers to humankind.
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Elsie Sze has spent a good part of her adult life in Canada and the United States. Her first novel, Hui Gui: A Chinese Story was shortlisted for ForeWord Magazine’s Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2005, followed by The Heart of the Buddha, a finalist in ForeWord Magazine’s Book of the Year Award for Multicultural Fiction in 2009. Her third novel, Ghost Cave: A Novel of Sarawak, won the Saphira Prize inaugurated by the Women in Publishing Society, Hong Kong in 2012. Ghost Cave has been translated into French. Elsie holds a master’s degree in English from the University of Toronto and a master’s degree in Library Science from the University of Chicago. She is an alumnus of a creative writing program with Toronto’s Humber School for Writers.
Elsie lives with her husband and family in California.
