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 […]
Laura Kasischke, author of Mind of Winter, on tour March/April 2014
About Mind of Winter • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper (March 25, 2014) Laura Kasischke, the critically acclaimed and nationally bestselling poet and author of The Raising, returns Mind of Winter, a dark and chilling thriller that combines domestic drama with elements of psychological suspense and horror—an addictive tale of denial and guilt that is part Joyce Carol Oates and part […]
Deborah Crombie, author of The Sound of Broken Glass, on tour February/March 2014
About The Sound of Broken Glass • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 25, 2014) In the past. . .home to the tragically destroyed Great Exhibition, a solitary thirteen-year-old boy meets his next-door neighbor, a recently widowed young teacher hoping to make a new start in the tight-knit South London community. Drawn together by loneliness, the […]
Peter Swanson, author of The Girl with a Clock for a Heart, on tour February 2014
About The Girl with a Clock for a Heart • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (February 4, 2014) An atmospheric tale of romantic noir with shades of Hitchcock about a man who is swept into a vortex of irresistible passion and murder when an old love mysteriously reappears George Foss, a forty-year-old employee of a Boston literary […]
Christopher J. Yates, author of Black Chalk, on tour April 2014
About Black Chalk Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Random House UK; First Edition edition (April 1, 2014) One game. Six students. Five survivors. It was only ever meant to be a game. A game of consequences, of silly forfeits, childish dares. A game to be played by six best friends in their first year at Oxford University. But […]