Cynthia Robinson is the author of the darkly comic Max Bravo novels. The series follows the reluctant adventures of Max Bravo, an opera singer whose real life adventures are even more dramatic than his stage roles.

In the debut Max Bravo novel, The Dog Park Club, Max becomes involved with a set of regulars at a Berkeley, California dog park. When one of them—a beautiful and beguiling young woman—disappears and is presumed dead, Max and the gang pursue her killer with equal parts zeal and zaniness. In the sequel, The Barbary Dogs, an old friend of Max’s takes a leap off the Golden Gate Bridge, and he is forced to investigate San Francisco’s foggy underworld of artistic manias, crackpots, and vengeful ghosts to find out why.

Cynthia Robinson is currently in Granada, Spain writing her third Max Bravo novel, The Last Matador. In this Iberian adventure, Max must find his missing ex-wife Connie. He’s sent stumbling through Connie’s world; a foreign terrain  peopled with a controlling life coach, Serbian gangsters, Eurovision song contestants, and a matador whose suit of lights has lost it’s shine.

Cynthia Robinson has an M.A. in history from University of British Columbia and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from University of San Francisco where she also taught the art of fiction. She lives in San Francisco.