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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
6:30 p.m.
Washington Square Branch

History buff Dan Johnson has been writing fiction since childhood but had to hit a midlife crisis to get serious about it. His first novel, a historical mystery entitled "The Detroit Electric Scheme," was named one of Booklist's Top Ten First Crime Novels of the year and won a 2011 Michigan Notable Book Award. The New York Times praised Johnson's just-published sequel, "Motor City Shakedown," saying "...scenes of the Motor City, riding high on the industrial wave, are extraordinarily vivid..."