Video profile: Rex Burns, author of THE ALVAREZ JOURNAL
We've got a fantastic video profile with Rex Burns, which shows off not just a great author, but the majesty of his hometown, Boulder, CO.
Burns is the author of numerous thrillers set in and around Denver. Born in California, he served in the Marine Corps and attended Stanford and the University of Minnesota before becoming a writer. His Edgar Award-winning first novel, The Alvarez Journal (1975) introduced Gabe Wager, a Denver police detective working in the Organized Crime Unit. Burns continued this hardboiled series through ten more novels, concluding it with 1997’s The Leaning Land. The Avenging Angel (1983) was adapted as a feature film, Messenger of Death, starring Charles Bronson.
Burns other series stars Devlin Kirk, a Denver private detective whose specialty is industrial security. Introduced in Suicide Season, Kirk appeared in two more novels. Once the author of a monthly mystery review column in the Rocky Mountain News, Burns has also written non-fiction and hosted the Mystery Channel’s Anatomy of a Mystery.
