The Shattered Portrait

About Alice Quinn

Alice Quinn lives on the French Riviera surrounded by her family and cats. After achieving great success with the Rosie Maldonne mystery series featuring Queen of the Masquerade Queen of the Hide Out and Queen of the Trailer Parkwhich was a #1 bestseller in Franceshe changed her register and plunged with delight into historical intrigue in Cannes in the belle époque an era full of intriguing contrasts. The Shattered Portrait is the second novel in her Belle Époque Mystery trilogy. For more information about the author visit her at www.alice-quinn.com. Back in 2001 after having read philosophy and French at the University of Leeds and realizing that being able to write a decent essay on Kants categorical imperative didnt leave her with a great many career options Alexandra Maldwyn-Davies decided to move to Paris where she embarked on a career in writing and translationworking on projects including widely enjoyed video games (Game of Thrones In Memoriam Shiness and Men of War: Assault Squad); top-rated apps (Human Defense Le Déserteur and Chocolapps); bestselling fiction (the Rosie Maldonne seriesQueen of the Trailer Park Queen of the Hide Out and Queen of the MasqueradeThe Crumpled Letter Six Months to Kill and Versus); and seductive travel books (Fermes-Manoirs du Bessin). She has also contributed to translation guides (The Book of Standing Out: Travels through the Inner World of Freelance Translation and The Bright Side of Freelance Translation). She is currently working on two projects of her own: her first novel and a sourcebook Women in Translation (a collection of writings and articles on translation from the female perspective). She has steadily built a successful freelance French-to-English literary translation business and can now boast that she does what she loves every day of her lifeshe tells stories. She lives in rural Finistère France with her daughter (a future bilingual genius if ever she met one) and a motley crew of thirteen rescued dogs and cats.