FANCY LIVING MAGAZINE. OCTOBER 2005. Page 91

 

ROCHELLE KRICH: A WALKING ENCYCLOPEDIA AND LIVING CHRONICLE OF THE HUMAN DRAMA

Rochelle Krich is more than a mystery writer and a suspense novel "maitre extraordinaire". This woman is a remarkable social thinker, a defender of social justice and...of course a walking encyclopedia written in so many inner human languages.

You will be entertained, intrigued, captivated, excited and perhaps amused by her mysteries and suspense. But, also, you will be touched by  -whether factual or fictional- by her heart-felt style, depth of the analyses of the people, characters and events that create that Krich's sacred and damned milieux and life's fatale and tragicomic circumstances. True, the cache of her novels is "fiction par excellence", but through this most original fictional depiction of life, people, and events, a bleeding "verita humana" hits you in the face like a mad tornado if you are "not a good boy", or simply like a fresh breeze in an Indian summer if you are "un bon garcon". The plots of her mysteries are found in the deep of human psyche,  on the dusty shelves of bitter-sweet remembrance and some times, as Rochelle candidly said: "I'm an avid newspaper reader and clip articles from newspapers and magazines all the time. Sometimes an article will find its way into a book (in Blood Money I mention the hijacking of elderly residents of board and care facilities, something I read about in the LA Times). Other times a small nugget in an article will lead to an entire plot."

Photo:  Writer extraordinaire, Rochelle Krich with  K.C. Cole, Quang X. Pham, and (at podium) Ellen Newman Saddleback Chapter, BUNWC Book & Author Lunch, August 31, 2005

Rochelle Krich found herself drawn to vital social issues. She is deeply concerned with infertility and the assisted reproduction industry. She dealt with those issues in her book "Fertile Ground". The  date rape alarmed this magnificent writer and thinker. With depth and profound mental and emotional tenacity, Rochelle addressed the issue in her  "Speak No Evil".   In "Fair Game", she condemned child abuse. In " Bead Air", she wrote about domestic violence. In "Blood Money", dirty money deals and Swiss bank accounts went almost bankrupt. She nailed the bastards. And the burning shadows of the Holocaust burst in her "Angel of Death". Rochelle's parents, both Polish Jews, had been interned in various labor camps during the Holocaust (her father lost a wife and two daughters). In a  previously given interview, Rochelle Krich said: "One of my goals in writing Angel of Death was to illuminate readers about the veracity of the Holocaust, particularly readers who might not pick up a work of non-fiction. I'm particularly offended and frightened by Holocaust deniers, who title themselves revisionists (á la David Irving, who was soundly defeated in April in his libel suit against historian Debra Lipstadt by a London judge who called him a 'liar' and 'anti-Semite.')

Rochelle Krich is a national treasure. No library is complete without her books.

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