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ilie-ruby's picture
Jul.08.2010
Gripping, suspenseful, magical, and richly atmospheric . . . Ilie Ruby's haunting debut novel, The Language of Trees, is exhilarating fiction that announces the arrival of a truly extraordinary storyteller. Echo O'Connell knows that the summer holds its secrets. They are whispered in the rustling...
emilie-richards's picture
Jun.30.2010
Join five women connected only by their growing friendship and the road that runs like a lifeline between their cottages in a run-down Florida development called Happiness Key. Tracy Deloche finally gets a chance to swap business for a romantic evening with Marsh Egan, but dinner goes cold when...
robert-frey's picture
Jun.14.2010
When Pete Dyes, the beloved and Academy-Award winning actor, is shot and  killed one night outside a famous director’s Brentwood home, and then America’s Sweetheart, movie actress Allison Rodgers, is gunned down in broad daylight in a public park, Hollywood holds its collective breath. Someone...
sally-koslow's picture
Jun.09.2010
Little Pink Slips is a novel inpspired by real events: I was long the editor-in-chief of McCall's Magazine, which was taken over by a celebrity, which is the backbone of the plot. The Late, Lamented Molly Marx is a mix of fantasy, msytery and love story, set in contemporary New York City. With...
cheri-laser's picture
Jun.08.2010
Cheri Laser's first novel is a seductive page-turner full of emotion and intrigue, rich with characters that are vividly painted, funny, and poetic. The lives and mysteries of an immigrant family are bound to American history as the 20th century's complexities unfold. The past reaches out to claim...
tarquin-hall's picture
May.20.2010
From Publishers Weekly Vish Puri, the head of Delhi's Most Private Investigators Ltd., tackles a rather prosaic domestic case in this first of a projected series, the fiction debut of British author Hall (Salaam Brick Lane). Ajay Kasliwal, a lawyer who has brought cases against corrupt...
tarquin-hall's picture
May.20.2010
Murder is no laughing matter. Yet a prominent Indian scientist dies in a fit of giggles when a Hindu goddess appears from a mist and plunges a sword into his chest. The only one laughing now is the main suspect, a powerful guru named Maharaj Swami, who seems to have done away with his most...
ken-kuhlken's picture
May.06.2010
  In May of 1926, celebrity evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson went swimming at Ocean Park beach and vanished, presumed drowned. Millions mourned or prayed for her miraculous return. On June 23, she walked out of the Mexican desert and crossed the border into Douglas, Arizona. Though her kidnapped...
simon-wood's picture
Apr.24.2010
The road to crime begins with a single decision—the wrong one. Not every decision belongs to the criminally minded. Some belong to the ill-informed, the weak and the plain unlucky. In these tales, trouble isn't an indiscriminate force of nature. It's a manmade occurrence that comes when called upon...
kelli-stanley's picture
Apr.21.2010
New York Times bestselling author Lee Child has teamed up with the International Thriller Writers for FIRST THRILLS, a showcase of many of the organization’s bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre. FIRST THRILLS will include never-before-published stories by New York Times...