Today we are promoting nearly a dozen titles that for some reason got overlooked . . . either we missed giving them the attention they deserved, or perhaps, you didn’t see the newsletter. We thought we’d give them another chance, and we are cutting the price on each of them by five bucks. All eleven titles are exciting and merit another look, but please give your special attention to three of them.
First is the debut mystery by Jedediah Berry. “Jedediah Berry knows magic.
The Manual of Detection combines intricacy and thoughtfulness with the page-turning excitement of a detective thriller…. This novel is a master puzzle, with all the show-stopping elements of a flock of doves flying out of a magician’s sleeve. It made me laugh, thrill, think, and wonder.” -
Hannah Tinti, author of The Good Thief
Next,
The Piano Teacher by Janice Y.K. Lee. “Evocative, poignant and skillfully crafted, “The Piano Teacher” is more than an epic tale of war and a tangled, tortured love story. It is the kind of novel one consumes in great, greedy gulps, pausing (grudgingly) only when absolutely necessary.”
- Chicago Tribune
And then there is
Help by Kathryn Stockett. “Lush, original, and poignant, Kathryn Stockett has written a wondrous novel. You will be swept away as they work, play, and love during a time when possibilities for women were few but their dreams of the future were limitless. A glorious read.” –
Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Lucia, Lucia
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Amiable and handsome, Kyle Byrne was a star athlete with brilliant prospects until he flunked out of college and ruined his chances to go pro. Now, with his house in foreclosure and his part-time job yanked, he spends his days playing Xbox and his nights in Philly bars, drinking way too much and sleeping with the wrong kind of women. Life is, well, actually pretty damn sweet.
But when his father’s former law partner is murdered, the cops see Kyle as a possible suspect and start asking uncomfortable questions about his father’s death 12 years before. Those questions propel Kyle into a search that leads from his father’s past to the highest pinnacles of power – and force Kyle to lay bare the deceptions and losses in his own life.
Just when it seems he’s close to learning the truth about his father and the murder, Kyle remembers that old adage “Be careful what you wish for.” His desire for answers will either complete him or kill him – and he won’t get to choose.
Order your signed first edition of Blood and Bone at www.vjbooks.com
William Lashner is the New York Times Bestselling author of A Killer’s Kiss, Marked Man, Falls the Shadow, Past Due, Fatal Flaw, Bitter Truth, and Hostile Witness. His thrillers have been translated into more than a dozen foreign languages and have been sold all across the globe.
He also recently published a small existential novel called Kockroach under the pseudonym Tyler Knox, though he resents the heck out of Tyler because he gets invited to better parties.
Before becoming a novelist, he was a prosecutor with the Department of Justice in Washington D.C. A graduate of the New York University School of Law, as well as the Iowa Writers Workshop, he lives with his wife, his three children, and his dog, Chase Muttley, in Philadelphia.
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