About The Preservationist • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Pegasus (October 15, 2013) To Sam Blount, meeting Julia is the best thing that has ever happened to him. Working at the local college and unsuccessful in his previous relationships, he’d been feeling troubled about his approaching fortieth birthday, “a great beast of a birthday,” as he sees it, but […]
Susan Boyer, author of Lowcountry Bombshell, on tour September 2013
About Lowcountry Bombshell • Paperback: 266 pages • Publisher: Henery Press (September 3, 2013) Private Investigator Liz Talbot thinks she’s seen another ghost when she meets Calista McQueen. She’s the spitting image of Marilyn Monroe. Born precisely fifty years after the ill-fated star, Calista’s life has eerily mirrored the late starlet’s—and she fears the looming anniversary of Marilyn’s death […]
Laura Lippman, author of And When She Was Good, on tour June 2013
About And When She Was Good • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (June 4, 2013) In the comfortable suburb where Heloise Lewis lives, she’s just a mom, the youngish widow with a forgettable job who somehow never misses a soccer game or a school play. In the state capitol, she’s […]
Alafair Burke, author of If You Were Here, on tour June 2013
About If You Were Here • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 4, 2013) Magazine journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the latest urban folktale—the story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenage boy from the subway tracks seconds before the arrival of an oncoming train. When McKenna locates a video snippet that purportedly captures […]
Nancy Bilyeau, author of The Chalice, on tour July/August 2013
About The Chalice Hardcover: 496 pages Publisher: Touchstone; First Edition edition (March 5, 2013) The Chalice is a historical thriller told from the point of view of a young woman caught in the crosswinds of time: She has pledged to become a Dominican nun in an England ruled by Henry VIII, who has ruthlessly smashed his […]
Reba White Williams, author of Restrike, on tour June 2013
About Restrike • Paperback: 350 pages • Publisher: Delos (June 1, 2013) Money and murder go hand in glove in the rarified art world of Reba White Williams’ exciting first novel, Restrike. Cousins Coleman and Dinah Greene moved from North Carolina to New York after college to make their mark on the art world: Coleman is the editor […]
Alafair Burke, author of Never Tell, on tour May 2013
About Never Tell • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (May 14, 2013) Even a perfect family has its secrets. Sixteen-year-old Julia Whitmire appeared to have everything: a famous father, a luxurious Manhattan town house, a coveted spot at the elite Casden prep school. When she is found dead in her bathtub, a handwritten suicide note left on […]
Michael Stanley, author of Deadly Harvest, on tour May 2013
About Deadly Harvest • Paperback: 496 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (April 30, 2013) Girls are disappearing in Botswana. The rumor is they’re being harvested for muti, a witch doctor’s potion traditionally derived from plants and animals—and which, some believe, can be made more potent by adding human remains. Detective David “Kubu” Bengu joins the investigation with […]
Nicola Upson, author of Fear in the Sunlight, on tour April 2013
About Fear in the Sunlight • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: Bourbon Street Books (April 9, 2013) Summer 1936. Mystery writer Josephine Tey joins her friends in the resort village of Portmeirion, Wales, to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma Reville, are there to sign a deal to film Josephine’s novel, A Shilling for Candles. […]
Erika Mitchell, author of Blood Money, on tour May 2013
About Blood Money • File Size: 462 KB • Print Length: 239 pages • Publisher: Champagne Books (February 3, 2013) On the surface, Iraqi-born Azzam Abdullah is nothing more than the unremarkable head of accounting for what is, by all appearances, an innocuous global conglomerate. What’s not so innocuous is the fact that Sun Corp is one of the […]