(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar 23)

The show must go on. on March 16, Randy Wayne White was flying from Ft. Lauderdale to Birmingham, Ala., for a book signing. His connecting flight in Atlanta was canceled, and all other flights were full. White decided to rent a car- only to find that Hertz and Avis were out of vehicles. Finally a rental agency was located and White made the two+-hour trip in two hours flat – in pouring rain. Not surprisingly, he was greeted by thunderous applause when he arrived at Birmingham bookstore – a mere 15 minutes late!

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The Monterey Peninsula is rocked when a killer begins to leave roadside crosses beside local highways . . . not as memorials of past accidents, but as an announcement of his intention to kill. And to kill in a particularly horrific and efficient way: using the personal details about the victims that they’ve carelessly posted in blogs and on social networking web sites. The case lands on the desk of Kathryn Dance, an agent with the California Bureau of Investigation and the state’s foremost kinesics — body language — expert. ROADSIDE CROSSES will be released in the USA and Canada on June 9, and in the UK and Ireland on July 23.

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(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 9)

Bestseller Huston (Secret Justice) grabs the reader by the lapels with the opening sentence of the first chapter of this outstanding thriller: “If my radio alarm had gone off, I would have known the president was dead.” During a violent thunderstorm, President James Adams takes off in Marine One from the White House for a supersecret meeting at Camp David. A few miles out, the helicopter begins to disintegrate and plunges to the ground, killing everyone aboard. The helicopter’s French company, WorldCopter, hires Annapolis attorney Mike Nolan to defend it against charges of criminal responsibility. Mike soon finds there are a number of possible culprits to pin the crash on, including the rabidly conservative Marine Corps pilot and the mysterious men who were awaiting the president at Camp David. Mike powers the case forward, even though the government warns him away and assassins attempt to kill him. This is nonstop legal suspense at its best. (May)

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(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 9)

Kellerman‘s loyal fans can look forward to his newest hardcover, True Detectives, which Ballantine launches on March 24 with a 280,000-copy printing.  That book’s two main characters, Moses Reed and Aaron Fox, were introduced in Bones- sons of the same mother, their respective fathers were cops, partners and friends.  According to Ballantine, “Their turbulent family history has set them at odds, despite their shared calling.”  Copies in print for Bones:  900,000.

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(Publisher’s Weekly, Feb. 2)

PI Aaron Fox and L.A. cop Moe Reed, interracial half-brothers who played minor roles in 2008′s Bones, take center stage in bestseller Kellerman’s routine 24th Alex Delaware novel. When Fox, who used to work for the LAPD, looks into the missing-persons case of 20-year-old Caitlin Frostig, he runs into conflict with Reed. The brothers end up pursuing some predictable lines of inquiry, checking out Rory Stoltz, Frostig’s college boyfriend, as well as links to a filmmaker, Lem Dement, who’s suspected of domestic abuse. More A-list connections surface after the investigators learn Stoltz was the personal assistant for actor Mason Book, whose rumored suicide attempt came shortly after Frostig’s disappearance. The strains between Fox and Reed don’t generate much heat, while the pacing and writing aren’t up to Kellerman’s best. Hopefully, Delaware and detective Milo Sturgis, relegated to cameos, will be back in their usual starring positions next time. (Mar. 24)

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(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 9)

Once again, Precious Ramotswe uses her insights into human nature to unravel problems big and small in Smith‘s charming 10th novel to feature Botswana’s No. 1 lady detective (after The Miracle at Speedy Motors). Leungo Molofololo, the owner of the Kalahari Swoopers, a local soccer team with a lot of athletic talent, suspects a traitor on the squad is deliberately sabotaging games for an unknown reason. Despite her complete ignorance of the sport, Mma Ramotswe agrees to look into the matter. She and her prickly assistant, Grace Makutsi, attend a match and begin interviewing the players in an effort to solve what amounts to the book’s main mystery. The soccer inquiry, though, is secondary to a major event in Mma Ramotswe’s life—the impending demise of the little white van she’s used for many years that’s much more than a machine to her. Fans can look forward to the debut of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency on HBO on March 29. (Apr.)

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(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 9)

Scat, Carl Hiaasen‘s latest novel, takes readers into the Florida Everglades, where crooked developers want to drill for oil in a swamp that’s home to an endangered Florida panther.  In an interview with Children’s Bookshelf, the author commented on the strength of YA fiction sales, at a time when sales of adult books are flat or worse.  “It would have never have occurred to me that with the iPods and Wii and Xboxes and all the other distractions kids have, that there would be this tremendous makret for the kind of books I write,” Hiaasen said.  “I think it shows you kids are insatiable in the same way I was when i was a kid.  If you can tap into that you’ll have readers for life.”

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(Publisher’s Weekly, Mar. 9)

The Whole Truth (copies in print:  1,066,000) leads off a roster of 12 new mass market arrivals – the highest number since March 12, 2007, when a lucky 13 newbies landed. There are 65 million copies of Baldacci’s books in print in 40+ languages an din mor ethan 85 countires.  A stickler for realism, Baldacci is one of only a handful of authors contacted by top government agencies to help them theorize potential terrorist scenarios.  Coming on April21 is his next hardcover, First Family.

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(Publisher’s Weekly, Jan. 2)

Bosnian-born Hemon (The Lazarus Project) again beautifully twists the language in this collection of eight powerful and disquieting stories. The 1992 Bosnian war colors in the background of all the tales, whose settings range from Africa to Chicago and Sarajevo. Arranged chronologically, all but one feature a Hemon-like narrator named Bogdan, first met as a surly teenager during his diplomat father’s assignment in Zaire, where he’s happily corrupted by a degenerate American espionage agent. In each successive story, Bogdan recalls the surreal and salient experiences of his life: his youth with his ironically depicted family; his early determination to be a poet; his accidental sojourn in America, where he was caught after the commencement of hostilities in Bosnia; and his return to a “cesspool of insignificant, drizzly suffering,” where he has a transformative night interviewing a Pulitzer Prize–winning writer. Hemon arranges words like gems in a necklace. A necktie is “stretched across the chair seat, like a severed tendon”; a car is “stickered with someone else’s thought”; a character’s teeth are “like organ pipes.” Writing with steely control and an antic eye, Hemon has assembled another extraordinary work

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from Jeffrey Archer, Sam Bourne, Jilliane Hoffman, James W. Huston, Michael Koryta, Kyle Mills, Walter Mosley and Thomas Perry

Jeffrey Archer firmly established himself as a literary force with the publication of his first novel in 1975.  Now, 33 years later, he continues to defy his critics and delight his fans.  For years VJ Books has attempted to reach out to him in the UK to sign for our customers.  We are pleased to be able to announce that we will be delivering signed copies of his latest bestseller, Paths of Glory!