Testimonials

Comments from Professional Writers on Dean Crane's Novel

ELDORADO WRITING

"John Kenny Crane has done a most interesting job of intellectual and historical

narrative. He has taken one of the

most fascinating segments of South African

history,

which I wrote about in chronological sequence in my novel

The

Covenant,

and turned it

inside out, writing it from the present into the past. In performing this

neat trick, he has

written

an exciting and compelling novel."

__James Michener

"The Legacy of Ladysmith

is an intelligent and ambitious first novel, deftly plotted,

imaginatively told. As John Crane's

scholar/hero goes sleuthing into the mystery

of an

enigmatic family's past, fiction weaves into fact, history spills into

the present

with all the

gothic shocks and intrigue of a good thriller, a thriller where the hunt is

not after the silly

secrets

of spies, but the complex, sad, triumphant secrets of

human hearts."

__Michael Malone