The Mona Lisa Sacrifice

• E433 with Peter Darbyshire (Jamie Tennant, Get Lit, 06/03/2025)
  Peter has a great conversation with Jamie Tennant about The Mona Lisa Sacrifice.
  
• The Mona Lisa Sacrifice (Hollay Ghadery, New Books Network, 23/12/2024)
  A great conversation to listen to at the end of the year – Hollay Ghadery speaks with Peter Darbyshire about his fabulous Cross series.
  
• November 20, 2024: Peter Darbyshire on The Mona Lisa Sacrifice (Michel Elves, Turning Pages, 20/11/2024)
  Peter talks to Michael Elves about cre­at­ing the cen­tral char­ac­ter, the research that went into the depic­tion of the art world and more.
  
• Episode 61: The Chronicles of Amber (Mark A. Rayner, Re-Creative, 06/11/2024)
  Listen to Peter Darbyshire talk about the book that started him down the road to being a writer.
  
• Looking Under the Hood: A Conversation on the Writing Life with Michelle Berry and Peter Darbyshire (River Street Writing, 10/10/2024)
  Peter and Michelle Berry have a refreshingly real conversation about their writing processes and the writing life.
  
• Peter Darbyshire (Nathan Whitlock, What Happened Next, 02/09/2024)
  Peter joins Nathan Whitlock to talk about how running the COVID-19 social media response for a provincial health authority gave him a new perspective on the apocalypse, about the process of getting the Cross series reprinted – and why it needed to be – and about how the stretch of time since his last new work of fiction speaks to something of a crisis of faith when it comes to his own writing‑but also a sense of liberation.

• “A deliriously unhinged roller coaster of a novel, blending fantasy, history, horror and humour with the aplomb of an overfull blender, but all of it smarter than it, truly, has any right – or need – to be.” – National Post
  
• "Sweeps you up with its gallows humour, whether you’re revelling in the pleasures of two-fisted, angel-punching action or the cleverly rendered language." – Quill & Quire
  
• Urban fantasy, mystery, and romp (Zoe McKenna, The British Columbia Review, 04/12/2024)
  "If you come to The Mona Lisa Sacrifice willing to throw genre to the wind and go along for the ride, you may well have quite a bit of fun."
  
• The Mona Lisa Sacrifice by Peter Darbyshire (Jayne Barnard, Bookish, 24/09/2024)
  "The classical allusions, which are many, are intelligent but not off-puttingly erudite. They assume some basic familiarity with Judeo-Roman history. Knowing a bit of basic mythology helps too: Roman, Greek, Arthurian… to name a few. But, like Cross leaving bits of his memories in the library with Alice, you may never feel like you have the whole picture."
  
• Book review: B.C. writer Peter Darbyshire invades Dan Brown territory with gargoyles and angels (Tom Sandborn, Vancouver Sun, 24/09/2024)
  "A pleasurable, fast-moving romp through history and myth, conspiracy, and confusion."
  
• Cool Books for the Height of Summer (Hollay Ghadery, Wolsak & Wynn blog, 29/07/2025)
  Peter's book is included in this cool roundup.
  
• Excerpt: Mona Lisa Sacrifice by Peter Darbyshire (Poplar Press) (Civilian Reader, 13/01/2025)
  Peter shares an excerpt from The Mona Lisa Sacrifice.
  
• Face Out: Our Favourite Book Covers of 2024 (Hamilton Review of Books, 27/12/2024)
  It's lovely to see Peter's book included in the HRB members favourite book covers of 2024.
  
• Under the Cover: Behind the scenes of The Book of Cross series by Peter Darbyshire (Peter Darbyshire, All Lit Up, 23/10/2024)
  Peter gives us a look into the impetus and making of his action-packed series.

Peter Darbyshire is the author of six books and more stories than he can remember. He lives near Vancouver, British Columbia, where he spends his time writing, raising children and playing D&D with other writers. It’s a good life.