About The Stranger You Know Series: Forensic Instincts Hardcover: 368 pages Publisher: Harlequin MIRA (September 24, 2013) It begins with a chilling phone call to Casey Woods. And ends with another girl dead. College-age girls with long red hair. Brutally murdered, they’re posed like victims in a film noir. Each crime scene is eerily similar to the twisted […]
Liad Shoham, author of Lineup, on tour September 2013
About Lineup • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper (September 3, 2013) International bestselling author Liad Shoham makes his American debut in this compelling, superbly plotted crime thriller. After a brutal rape disturbs a quiet Tel Aviv neighborhood, baffled detectives find no clues, no eyewitnesses, and no suspects. The father of the shattered victim refuses to rest until justice […]
Ovidia Yu, author of Aunty Lee’s Delights, on tour September 2013
About Aunty Lee’s Delights • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (September 17, 2013) This delectable and witty mystery introduces Rosie “Aunty” Lee, feisty widow, amateur sleuth, and proprietor of Singapore’s best-loved home-cooking restaurant After losing her husband, Rosie Lee could have become one of Singapore’s “tai tai,” an idle rich lady. Instead she is building a […]
Attica Locke, author of The Cutting Season, on tour September 2013
About The Cutting Season • Paperback: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (September 17, 2013) Caren Gray manages Louisiana’s stately Belle Vie, an antebellum plantation-turned-tourist attraction where the past and the present coexist uneasily. Outside the gates, an ambitious corporation snaps up sugarcane fields from struggling families, replacing local employees with illegal laborers. Tensions mount when a female migrant […]
Wendy Tyson, author of Killer Image, on tour October/November 2013
About Killer Image Paperback: 316 pages Publisher: Henery Press (October 1, 2013) Philadelphia image consultant Allison Campbell is not your typical detective. She’s more familiar with the rules of etiquette than the rules of evidence, prefers three-inch Manolos to comfy flats and relates to Dear Abby, not Judge Judy. When Allison’s latest Main Line client, the fifteen-year-old […]
Justin Kramon, author of The Preservationist, on tour October 2013
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 […]