About Maxwell Street Blues: Jules Landau Mystery Publisher: Alibi (August 5, 2014) Pages: 240 Readers of Robert Crais’s Elvis Cole mysteries will love Jules Landau, a college man turned private eye on the Windy City’s mean streets—a virtual school of hard knocks where graduation means just staying alive. Chicago runs in Jules Landau’s veins. So does the […]
Alafair Burke, author of All Day and a Night, on tour June 2014
About All Day and a Night • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 10, 2014) A murder case with ties to a convicted serial killer leads a young defense lawyer and an NYPD homicide detective into parallel investigations with explosive and deadly results in this superb mystery from “one of the finest young crime writers working today” […]
Nicola Upson, author of The Death of Lucy Kyte, on tour June 2014
About The Death of Lucy Kyte • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Bourbon Street Books (June 10, 2014) An unexpected inheritance plunges beloved British mystery author Josephine Tey into a disturbing puzzle of dark secrets connecting the present and the past in this intriguing historical mystery brimming with psychological tension. When Josephine Tey unexpectedly inherits Red Barn Cottage […]
Kate White, author of Eyes on You, on tour June 2014
About Eyes on You • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 24, 2014) From New York Times bestselling author Kate White comes a riveting psychological suspense in which a media star must battle a malevolent enemy who may be disturbingly close to her. After losing her on-air job two years ago, television host Robin Trainer has fought her way […]
Jacqueline Winspear, author of The Care and Management of Lies, on tour May/June 2014
About The Care and Management of Lies • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: Harper (July 1, 2014) The New York Times bestselling author of the Maisie Dobbs series turns her prodigious talents to this World War I standalone novel, a lyrical drama of love struggling to survive in a damaged, fractured world. By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant […]
Susan Spann, author of Blade of the Samurai, on tour July/August 2014
About Blade of the Samurai Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Minotaur Books (July 15, 2014) .June, 1565: Master ninja Hiro Hattori receives a pre-dawn visit from Kazu, a fellow shinobi working undercover at the shogunate. Hours before, the shogun’s cousin, Saburo, was stabbed to death in the shogun’s palace. The murder weapon: Kazu’s personal dagger. Kazu says […]
Jacqueline Winspear, author of Leaving Everything Most Loved, on tour April 2014
About Leaving Everything Most Loved • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial; Reprint edition (April 8, 2014) London, 1933. Two months after Usha Pramal’s body is discovered in the waters of a city canal, her brother, newly arrived in England, turns to Maisie Dobbs for help. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests, but evidence indicates […]
Marty Wingate, author of The Garden Plot, on tour May 2014
About The Garden Plot Publisher: Alibi (May 6, 2014) Sold by: Random House LLC In an entirely appealing mystery debut, Marty Wingate introduces readers to a curious Texas ex-pat whose English gardening expertise on occasion leads her to unearth murderous goings-on. Pru Parke always dreamed of living in England. And after the Dallas native follows an impulse […]
Thomas Shawver, author of The Dirty Book Murder, on tour May 2014
About The Dirty Book Murder: An Antiquarian Book Mystery Publisher: Alibi (May 6, 2014) Sold by: Random House LLC In this smart, fast-paced mystery debut, Thomas Shawver introduces a charming, unlikely hero from the rarefied world of antique books. Book merchant Michael Bevan arrives at the Kansas City auction house hoping to uncover some hidden literary gold. […]
Max Austin, author of Duke City Split, on tour April 2014
About Duke City Split Publisher: Alibi (April 8, 2014) Sold by: Random House LLC A cool, calm, and collected bank robber—with two kids at home—heads a fascinating cast of characters in Duke City Split, the first in a trilogy of white-knuckle thrillers from Max Austin. Bud Knox isn’t your average bank robber. He’s happiest fixing a nice […]