THE SCARECROW will have a very cool bonus feature included in the hardcover — an excerpt of Michael’s next book, NINE DRAGONS. This Harry Bosch novel will be released in October 2009.
Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in a robbery. Joined by members of the department’s Asian Crime Unit, Bosch relentlessly investigates the killing and soon identifies a suspect, a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad. But before Harry can close in, he gets the word that his young daughter Maddie, who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, is missing. Bosch drops everything to journey across the Pacific to find his daughter. Could her disappearance and the case be connected? With the stakes of the investigation so high and so personal, Bosch is up against the clock in a new city, where nothing is at it seems.
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In bestseller Gardner‘s gripping 11th thriller, Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren, last seen in 2007′s Hide, looks into the curious disappearance of Sandra Jones, a sixth-grade social studies teacher, from her South Boston home: Sandra’s keys and purse were on the kitchen counter, nothing was disturbed, and her four-year-old daughter, Ree, to whom she was devoted, was asleep upstairs. The missing woman’s reporter husband, Jason, becomes an immediate suspect because he refuses to answer questions and appears to have destroyed evidence. As a media frenzy envelopes the case, Warren’s investigation reveals the couple’s life as anything but perfect or normal. Full of inventive twists, this highly entertaining novel delivers a shocking solution as well as a perfectly realized sense of justice. Fans will appreciate the deft way Gardner weaves in a key character from 2008′s Say Goodbye.
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Edgar-finalist Box’s ninth novel to feature Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett begins with a bombshell: could Pickett’s foster daughter, April, who apparently died six years earlier in a horrific conflagration when overzealous FBI agents confronted a group of dissident survivalists (see 2003′s Winterkill), still be alive? Pickett’s 17-year-old daughter, Sheridan, begins receiving disturbing text messages from someone claiming to be her dead sister, and Pickett’s entire family is forced to relive the tragedy. Even worse, whoever is sending these messages is traveling cross-country with suspected serial killers targeting people whose carbon footprint is too high. Still struggling with the guilt of not protecting April from her nightmarish fate in Winterkill, Pickett vows to save her this time, no matter the cost. Powered by provocative themes of environmental activism, this relentlessly paced powder keg of a thriller could be Box’s best to date. (June)
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Nevada Barr presents an amusingly concise c.v. on her web site: Promising Child, Misspent Youth, Real Job (executive assistant at Morgan Stanley), Actor (“Lord did I love the costumes”), Ranger (“After that summer I was hooked”), Writer (“Ah, yes, this is the life”). Fortunately for her fans, the last two “stuck” – with 76,000 copies in print, Borderline is Barr’s 15th mysteryto star National Park Service ranger Anna Pigeon. PW’s review noted that the author “skillfully blends sticky border issues, martial strife and politics.”
(Publisher’s Weekly, Apr. 20)
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According to Bookscan, the Women’s Murder Club series is the bestselling U.S. detective series in the past decade; Patterson‘s Alex Cross series is #1 over the last 20 years. Publisher’s Weekly review called 7th Heaven “gripping” and said, “fans won’t be disappointed with the twist at the end that not even Lindsay sees coming.” The next installment in the series, the 8th Confession, goes on sale April 27.
(Publisher’s Weekly, Apr. 20)
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T.S. Eliot be damned. April is a most kindly month for Mary Higgins Clark, the acknowledged grande dame of mysteries – Simon & Schuster has been successfully publishing Clark’s hardcovers and mass market reprints in April for many years. Last year, for example, Where Are You Now?, Clark’s 32nd hardcover, landed atop our (Publisher’s Weekly) list on April 21 (and ran for six weeks) that book’s mass market landed at #1 two weeks ago, on April 6. Just take My Heart hits today’s list in second place, narrowly edged out by Jim Butcher. Following local New York and New Jersey events, Clark took to the road on April 18 on an 11-city jaunt, traveling with daughter Carol Higgins Clark. Look for the duo May 1 on Today.
(Publisher’s Weekly, Apr. 20)
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We are pleased to bring you great new titles by some wonderful authors. Larwrence Block, Greg Rucka, and James Huston have been some of our top selling authors for years, and what could we possibly say about a new Chuck Palahnuik title except “stand back!” The Little Stranger, is the eagerly anticipated fifth novel by Sarah Waters.
Peter De Jonge steps out of James Patterson’s shadow with an edgy, electrifying, dark and riveting debut, Shadows Still Remain.
So the buzz has begun with the announcement that Dan Brown‘s The Lost Symbol is to be released on September 15th. With a mega first run of 5 million copies the publisher is pumping truckloads of money hyping this book, riding on what’s left of the Da Vinci Code success, right on the tail of the spring release of Angels and Demons the movie. We are not sure whether we will be able to offer signed copies of this title, but will certainly let you know when we do.
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Julia Valenciano is a young, ambitious Miami prosecutor. Assigned to a hectic trial division with an ornery judge, just getting through the day can be a challenge. When Julia’s asked to second chair a case that could very well make or break her career, she doesn’t hesitate to jump on board. The defendant – a successful Miami surgeon. The victim is his own wife and small children. The plea: Not Guilty By Reason of Insanity.
The perfect father. The perfect husband. Dr. David Marquette seemingly just snapped one night. Or did he? His defense team claims paranoid delusions caused by schizophrenia drove him to slaughter his entire family. But the state suspects Marquetteís insanity defense is being fabricated to disguise murders that were cold-blooded and calculated. And the evidence appears to be mounting that Marquette may be responsible for other unsolved murders around the state as well. Murders that bear the frightening signature of a serial killer. (more…)
The next Eve Duncan thriller (Iris Johansen) now has a title: BLOOD GAME. It will be released on October 20th, and it will expand on the startling development at the end of QUICKSAND.
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So the buzz has begun with the announcement that Dan Brown‘s The Lost Symbol is to be released on September 15th. With a mega first run of 5 million copies the publisher is pumping truckloads of money hyping this book, riding on what’s left of the Da Vinci Code success, right on the tail of the spring release of Angels and Demons the movie. We are not sure whether we will be able to offer signed copies of this title, but will certainly let you know when we do.
John
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