About Last Night at the Blue Angel • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (July 1, 2014) Set against the turbulence of 1960s Chicago—a city in transformation—and its legendary jazz scene, Last Night at the Blue Angel is a lush and immensely heartfelt mother-daughter tale about a talented but troubled singer’s relationship with her precocious ten-year-old daughter. It is […]
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 […]
Neil Gaiman, author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, on tour June 2014
About The Ocean at the End of the Lane • Paperback: 208 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (June 3, 2014) #1 New York Times Bestseller in hardcover A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at […]
Dorothea Benton Frank, author of The Hurricane Sisters, on tour June 2014
About The Hurricane Sisters • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (June 3, 2014) Hurricane season begins early and rumbles all summer long, well into September. Often people’s lives reflect the weather and The Hurricane Sisters is just such a story. Once again Dorothea Benton Frank takes us deep into the heart of her magical South Carolina Lowcountry on […]
Boris Fishman, author of A Replacement Life, on tour June 2014
About A Replacement Life Hardcover: 336 pages Publisher: Harper (June 3, 2014) A singularly talented writer makes his literary debut with this provocative, soulful, and sometimes hilarious story of a failed journalist asked to do the unthinkable: forge Holocaust-restitution claims for old Russian Jews in Brooklyn, New York. Yevgeny Gelman, grandfather of Slava Gelman, ”didn’t suffer in […]
Heather Webb, author of Becoming Josephine, on tour September 2014
About Becoming Josephine Paperback: 320 pages Publisher: Plume (December 31, 2013) Rose Tascher sails from her Martinique plantation to Paris to trade her Creole black magic culture for love and adventure. She arrives exultant to follow her dreams of attending Court with Alexandre, her elegant aristocrat and soldier husband. But Alexandre dashes her hopes and abandons her […]
Susan Schoenberger, author of The Virtues of Oxygen, on tour July/August 2014
About The Virtues of Oxygen Paperback: 242 pages Publisher: Lake Union Publishing (July 22, 2014) From the award-winning author of A Watershed Year comes a heartrending story of unlikely bonds made under dire straits. Holly is a young widow with two kids living in a ramshackle house in the same small town where she grew up wealthy. Now barely […]
Mary Vensel White, author of The Qualities of Wood, on tour May/June 2014
About The Qualities of Wood • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: Authonomy (June 17, 2014) When Betty Gardiner dies, leaving behind an unkempt country home, her grandson and his young wife take a break from city life to prepare the house for sale. Nowell Gardiner leaves first to begin work on his second mystery novel. By the time his […]
Mhairi McFarlane, author of Here’s Looking at You, on tour May/June 2014
About Here’s Looking at You • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Avon (June 3, 2014) Despite the oddballs that keep turning up on her dates, Anna couldn’t be happier. As a 30-something with a job she loves, life has turned out better than she dared dream. However, things weren’t always this way, and her years spent as the […]