About Five Days of Fear • Paperback: 336 pages • Publisher: Light Messages Publishing (November 9, 2012) During a family picnic, Jessica Britton’s well-ordered world is slammed against a brutal reality and her faith is tested when her mom is kidnapped, her dad is shot, and authorities can find no clues to begin their investigation. Jessica’s own anxiety […]
Jacqueline Winspear, author of Elegy for Eddie, on tour November 2012
About Elegy for Eddie • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (October 30, 2012) Early April 1933. To the costermongers of Covent Garden—sellers of fruits and vegetables on the London streets—Eddie Pettit was a gentle soul with a near-magical gift for working with horses. So who would want to kill him . . . and why? […]
Attica Locke, author of The Cutting Season, on tour September/October 2012
About The Cutting Season • Hardcover: 384 pages • Publisher: Harper (September 18, 2012) In Black Water Rising, Attica Locke delivered one of the most stunning and sure-handed fiction debuts in recent memory, garnering effusive critical praise, several award nominations, and passionate reader response. Now Locke returns with The Cutting Season, a riveting thriller that intertwines two murders separated across […]
On tour in November: two original mysteries from Bourbon Street Books—the new mystery line from Harper Paperbacks!
To celebrate the launch of Harper Paperbacks’ new mystery line, Bourbon Street Books, we have the first two books from that line on tour! About Blood Line Paperback: 480 pages Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (October 23, 2012) Award-winning and international bestselling author Lynda La Plante brings back her popular series character, London Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis of […]
Susan Elia MacNeal, author of Princess Elizabeth’s Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery, on tour October/November 2012
About Princess Elizabeth’s Spy: A Maggie Hope Mystery Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Bantam (October 16, 2012) Susan Elia MacNeal introduced the remarkable Maggie Hope in her acclaimed debut, Mr. Churchill’s Secretary. Now Maggie returns to protect Britain’s beloved royals against an international plot—one that could change the course of history. As World War II sweeps the continent and […]
Laura Lippman, author of And When She Was Good, on tour August/September 2012
About And When She Was Good • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (August 14, 2012) Perennial New York Times and nationally bestselling author and acclaimed multiple–prize winner Laura Lippman delivers a brilliant novel about a woman with a secret life who is forced to make desperate choices to save her son and herself. When Hector Lewis told his daughter […]
Lou Berney, author of Whiplash River, on tour August 2012
About Whiplash River • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (July 10, 2012) Having left his life of crime behind, former getaway driver Charles “Shake” Bouchon has finally realized the dream of owning his own restaurant in Belize. Unfortunately, to do so he’s had to go deep in debt to a murderous local drug lord […]
Tabish Khair, author of The Thing About Thugs, on tour July/August 2012
About The Thing About Thugs • Hardcover: 256 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (July 24, 2012) A subversive, macabre novel of a young Indian man’s misadventures in Victorian London as the city is racked by a series of murders In a small Bihari village, Captain William T. Meadows finds just the man to further his phrenological […]
Paul Harris, author of The Candidate, on tour September 2012
About The Candidate Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Vantage Point (July 1, 2012) The novel begins with an assassination attempt. On a freezing winter’s night Jack Hodges, a little-known U.S. presidential candidate, speaks at a sparsely-attended town hall meeting in Iowa. It is a few weeks before the Iowa caucus, the first contest in the nomination process to […]
Andrew Gross, author of 15 Seconds, on tour July 2012
About 15 Seconds • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (July 10, 2012) 15 seconds can tear your life apart . . . Henry Steadman didn’t know what was about to hit him when he pulled up to a red light. A successful Florida plastic surgeon, he is in town to deliver a keynote address […]