Jonathan Coan Daifuku

Biography

American born, I spent my adolescence in Paris (the one in France, not Texas) before deciding to return to the US to study Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design followed by a Masters in Urban Design at Columbia U. I was taken by Manhattan’s vibrancy and I hung out there for a decade until I married a Catalana and moved to Spain. After-Franco-Barcelona seemed like a place with a bright future (this was before the current corrupt politicians of today). I’ve taught at a number of BCN universities.
My first contact with writing came in a round-about way: I was hired as the creative director for an important advertising agency, a position that stated out with things visual but rapidly evolved into writing catchy storylines about products with a minimum word-count. This proved to be the beginning of a life-long love affair with books. The Barcelona Journal Murders is my first historical/mystery novel. My second one, A Quid Pro Quo in Paris, is placed in 1960. I’m currently half-way through a third one.
ThrillBrids.
As a reader of well-known thrillers, my interest in “ThrillBrids” is due to my frustration with pacey, but shallow, storylines. A sense of emptiness when the last page is read and the book closed. I vowed to attempt write something catching yet more profound.
A tall order, granted.