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I never learned to elbow my way to the front of the line, or shout the loudest to get noticed, but my work made the rounds, and I slowly made my way up the ladder. Ha, well…much, like the murders, I made up, but, not surprisingly, there’s quite a bit of myself and my experiences in Franco.Īfter leaving the airline in 2002, and making photography my career, things didn’t always go smoothly. How much is autobiographical or wishful thinking? Your character Franco is a photographer and you’re a photographer by profession. When I read about the massive and tragic blackout in ’77, I instantly knew I wanted that to be a part of my story. The more I learned, the more I got hooked, igniting my passion for the English language, which I wasn’t allowed to take in high school due to my poor French grades, and learned almost entirely from dictionaries, books, movies (and the gutter, as some of my friends love to say). My fascination with all things 70s and the US grew sometime in my late teens, through music (Funk, Soul, R&B…Disco), TV, and movies (many of which made it across the pond (and dubbed into German, no less) years later). Over two hundred trips later, the city still exudes vibrancy, adventure, and danger for me, and I always felt that, for better or worse, anything can happen there. I’ve loved New York ever since my first trip there in ’90 (I was a flight attendant for Swissair for over twelve years). I should rephrase that: two mysteries in New York City because one mystery is contemporary while the other is set in the late 70s.

‘Blackout’ is his first novel.You were born in Switzerland, a country known for alpine snow and skiing, and yet you live in the desert of California and wrote a mystery set in Manhattan. In 2016 he swapped snow-capped mountains, lakes, and lush, green pastures for the charm of the dry California desert, where he lives with his husband. Marco Carocari grew up in Switzerland, where he, over the past fifty-odd years, worked in a hardware store, traveled the globe working for the airlines, and later as an internationally published photographer, and frequently jobbed as a waiter, hotel receptionist, or manager of a professional photo studio. He had challenged himself to write a crime thriller with a gay protagonist that wasn’t about being gay, and he delivered a beach read that’s rich with characters you could expect to meet in life. Marco Carocari joins the show with his first novel, Blackout. It gives us great pleasure to welcome Marco Carocari as the guest on Season 6, Episode 29 – A Dare To Myself! Blackout, crime, detective, Marco Carocari, Thriller, Vance Bastian July 23, 2021