AJ Lewis
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AJ Lewis is the pen name of a translator and author born and educated in New England before moving to North Africa and the Indian Subcontinent. He writes mysteries to first confound his readers and then astound them. AJ’s fiction aims to describe the world, not to inform it. But if his writing causes people to think about their own world, then maybe he’s accomplished something.
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A Captive in Algiers (A Muhammad Amalfi Mystery, Book One)
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Mystery, Historical Adventure Fiction
A seventeen-year-old Italian orphan struggles with the elements and his own identity when he is swept out to sea and taken to a slave market by Algerian corsairs. Forced to confront his origins, his beliefs, and his own shortcomings while fighting to survive, he makes a calculated sacrifice in order to aid the companions he finds on the way. 
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An Admirer of Books (A Muhammad Amalfi Mystery, Book Two)
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Mystery, Historical Crime Fiction
When a captive woman kills her attacker in a Turkish bath, a manservant is accused of the murder. In his first court experience, Muhammad is defending the manservant when the Admirer of Books confesses to the murder herself. Idealistic Muhammad surprises and appalls himself when he manipulates the truth to win the cases and freedom for both defendants. 
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