About Motor City Shakedown Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Minotaur Books; First Edition edition (September 13, 2011) Detroit, 1911. Seven months have passed since Will Anderson’s friend Wesley McRae was brutally murdered and Will and the woman he loves, Elizabeth Hume, barely escaped with their lives. Will’s hand, horribly disfigured from the sulfuric acid he used to help […]
Michael Stanley, author of Death of the Mantis, on tour September 2011
About Death of the Mantis • Paperback: 448 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks; Original edition (September 6, 2011) In the southern Kalahari area of Botswana—an arid landscape of legends that speak of lost cities, hidden wealth, and ancient gods—a fractious ranger named Monzo is found dying in a dry ravine from a severe head wound. […]
Samantha Sotto, author of Before Ever After, on tour August 2011
About Before Ever After Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Crown (August 2, 2011) What if ‘til death do us part meant more than you could ever know? In Samantha Sotto’s debut novel BEFORE EVER AFTER (Crown Trade: Aug. 2, 2011) a love story defies the bounds of time and space to redefine our notion of forever. […]
Nicola Upson, author of Two for Sorrow, on tour August 2011
About Two For Sorrow Paperback: 496 pages Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (August 9, 2011) They were the most horrific crimes of a new century: the murders of newborn innocents for which two British women were hanged at Holloway Prison in 1903. Decades later, mystery writer Josephine Tey has decided to write a novel based on Amelia […]
Keith Donohue, author of Centuries of June, on tour June/July 2011
About Centuries of June Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Crown (May 31, 2011) Keith Donohue has been praised for his vivid imagination and for evoking “the otherworldly with humor and the ordinary with wonder” (Audrey Niffenegger). His first novel, The Stolen Child, was a national bestseller, and his second novel, Angels of Destruction, was hailed as […]
John Verdon, author of Shut Your Eyes Tight, on tour July/August 2011
About Shut Your Eyes Tight Hardcover: 528 pages Publisher: Crown (July 12, 2011) When he was the NYPD’s top homicide investigator, Dave Gurney was never comfortable with the label the press gave him: super detective. He was simply a man who, when faced with a puzzle, wanted to know. He was called to the investigative […]
M.J. Rose, author of The Hypnotist, on tour June 2011
About The Hypnotist Paperback: 416 pages Publisher: Mira; Trade Paperback Edition (April 19, 2011) We are celebrating the trade paperback release of The Hypnotist with another tour! The Hypnotist is part of the non-sequential series, The Reincarnationist. Each book is a free standing novel, all set in the same world but with different main characters. […]
Amanda Eyre Ward, author of Close Your Eyes, on tour July/August 2011
About Close Your Eyes Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Random House (July 26, 2011) In Close Your Eyes, the author of the bestselling How to Be Lost spins another mesmerizing tale of buried family secrets. For most of her life, Lauren Mahdian has been certain of two things: that her mother is dead, and that her […]
Alafair Burke, author of 212, on tour June 2011
About 212 • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (June 7, 2011) In New York City, nights are dangerous. Days are numbered. A celebrity mogul’s bodyguard is slain in his boss’s luxurious penthouse at an exclusive Manhattan address. At NYU, a sophomore is menaced on the Internet, stalked, and killed. Phone records reveal a […]
Ellen Horan, author of 31 Bond Street, on tour March 2011
About 31 Bond Street Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 1, 2011) Who killed Dr. Harvey Burdell in his opulent Manhattan town house? At once a gripping mystery and a richly detailed excavation of a lost age, 31 Bond Street is a spellbinding tale of murder, sex, greed, and politics in 1857 New York. […]