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Matt Beynon Rees is an award-winning crime novelist who lives in Jerusalem. The French magazine L’Express called him “the Dashiell Hammett of Palestine.” As a journalist, Matt covered the Middle East for over a decade for Time, The Scotsman and Newsweek. He was born in Newport, Wales, in 1967 and studied at Oxford University and the University of Maryland. His first Soho novel, THE COLLABORATOR OF BETHLEHEM, won the Crime Writers Association's New Blood Dagger. The Omar Yussef series continues with A GRAVE IN GAZA in 2008 and THE SAMARITAN'S SECRET in Feb. 2009.

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    Matt Rees NY book reading Feb. 2

    Award-winning crime writer Matt Beynon Rees reads from THE FOURTH ASSASSIN, his new novel, Feb. 2 in New York.

    The fourth installment in Matt’s Crime Writers Association Dagger-winning series about Palestinian sleuth Omar Yussef is published Feb. 1. In New York for a UN conference, Omar uncovers an assassination plot. The suspect: his own son. Omar’s most personal investigation so far.

    Matt will read from the book Feb. 2 at 7 p.m.
    Location: Partners & Crime bookstore, 44 Greenwich Avenue (note, the bookstore is on Greenwich Avenue, not Greenwich Street), in Greenwich Village, NYC

    Matt Beynon Rees is the award-winning author of the Omar Yussef series. A prize-winning journalist, he has reported for 14 years from the Middle East for Time, Newsweek and British newspapers. His novels have been translated into 23 languages. He lives in Jerusalem.

    Read more about THE FOURTH ASSASSIN. Watch a video about the book. Order it from amazon.com or from amazon.co.uk. For publicity contact Grace McQuade (212) 446-5101 gmcquade@goldbergmcduffie.com

    Posted on Sunday, January 24th, 2010 at 7:59 am

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