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...Pamela A. Thomas-Graham ’85, whose day job is chief executive officer of CNBC, first introduced readers to Chase in A Darker Shade of Crimson (1998), and she brought Nikki back for an encore performance in Blue Blood (1999). In Thomas-Graham’s latest novel, Orange Crushed, (released next month) an older, wiser Nikki leaves her Cambridge stomping ground to investigate a possible murder at Princeton University. The setting offers a perfect opportunity for Thomas-Graham to contrast her alma mater’s virtues with the New Jersey safety school’s vices...
...novel reaches its literary high-point when Nikki returns home to Harvard, and Thomas-Graham’s prose captures the character of Cambridge. Her vivid descriptions pay homage to Café Algiers, Brattle Street Florists, and the Spare Change hawker in the center of the Square. But in reaching out to a larger audience, Thomas-Graham must unravel the intricacies of Harvardia, and at times these explanatory passages will likely prove tedious for readers in-the-know. Thomas-Graham’s caricatures of Princeton socialites are priceless, but one wonders whether the author has adopted her subjects?...
Perhaps the only institution to emerge sparkling clean from Orange Crushed is The Crimson, which Nikki Chase lauds for its “tightly argued editorial” on the living wage issue. In the novel, Butch Hubbard, the flamboyant, hyperactive chair of Harvard’s African and African-American Studies Department, grants this newspaper an interview. We can only hope that Thomas-Graham—who pulled out of a telephone talk with The Crimson scheduled for last Thursday morning—will follow Hubbard’s lead...
Caldwell and Thomason began writing the novel just a week after their own graduations in 1998. They had originally intending to take a road trip across country after the book’s completion, but “little did we know what it takes to write a novel,” Thomason said...
...years later, using mostly the phone and Internet to communicate, the pair finished the novel, a combinatiaon of mystery, suspense and a little romance. When asked about how they managed to write the novel as a team, Thomason responded, “We had that advantage of knowing each other and each other’s writing styles… It was easy to find a unified voice more quickly...