Publishers Weekly articles from January 2006

Publishers Weekly archives from January 2006

What's ahead for Borders? Change in leadership could foreshadow change in ownership.
January 30, 2006... Last week's news that Borders chairman and CEO Greg Josefowicz will leave the company by the end of fiscal 2007 and that one of his chief lieutenants, executive v-p and chief product officer Mike Spinozzi, will depart February 3 heightened...

Kloske to run Riverhead.(Riverhead Books appoints Geoffrey Kloske )(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Geoffrey Kloske has been appointed v-p and publisher at Riverhead Books, with responsibility for directing the strategy of Riverhead's hardcover and trade paperback imprints. Previously v-p and executive editor of the adult trade group at...

Kennedy leaving Globe Pequot.(Linda Kennedy leaving Globe Pequot Press Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Linda Kennedy will step down as president of Globe Pequot Press January 31 after serving in that role since 1994. Kennedy said she had been thinking about leaving "for quite a while," and was looking forward to spending more time with her...

Talk show blues.(The Oprah Winfrey Show)
January 30, 2006... Here's a newsflash for you: Oprah Winfrey is the most powerful woman in publishing. The talk show host may even have more influence over what readers read and publishers publish than Jane Friedman, Phyllis Grann and Carolyn Reidy. Maybe even...

Big gains at MHE.(McGraw-Hill Education)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Revenue at McGraw-Hill Education rose 11.5%, to $2.7 billion in 2005, while operating profit increased 20.6%, to $410.2 million. Sales in the school group jumped 18.5%, to $1.5 billion, while revenue in its higher education, professional and...

Reorg at Tokyopop.(companywide reorganization)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... As part of a companywide reorganization, Tokyopop has eliminated six positions from its 100-person staff. Among those leaving the company is Steve Kleckner, v-p sales and distribution at Tokyopop, who said his departure stemmed from...

Pearson buys Promissor.(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Pearson has acquired Promissor, Houghton Mifflin's professional testing company, for $42 million. Pearson will combine Promissor with Pearson VUE, its professional testing company.

More charges fly over Books Are Fun.(Litigation)
January 30, 2006... Reader's Digest has filed a lawsuit against Books Are Fun founder Earl Kaplan charging that Kaplan violated his noncompete agreement when he agreed to help his stepson, Stephen Rosebrough, create a display marketing firm, a business similar...

Solid year for Holtzbrinck trade.(Holtzbrinck Publishers' profits)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... As part of his year-end address to U.S. employees earlier this month, Holtzbrinck Publishers CEO John Sargent said all trade divisions "had substantial growth" in 2005, with solid gains in profits as well. Strong sales for The World Is Flat,...

Pohlman up at Harcourt.(Tina Pohlman promoted at Harcourt General Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Tina Pohlman has been promoted from editor of Harcourt's Harvest Books imprint to editorial director. Pohlman took the job after Houghton Mifflin announced she would be coming on board as editorial director of trade paperbacks. At Harvest,...

Singh to HM.(Anjali Singh joined Houghton Mifflin Co.)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Anjali Singh has joined Houghton Mifflin as senior editor. Singh, who worked as a scout for foreign publishers at Mary Anne Thompson Associates, was most recently at Vintage Books, where she acquired for both Knopf and Pantheon. Best known...

Pushing books.(Wendy Werris, An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the Business of Books)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Little did Wendy Werris imagine, when she began a temporary job at a Hollywood bookstore in 1970 at age 19, that she had just embarked on a lifelong career. Now, 36 years later, she will recount An Alphabetical Life: Living It Up in the...

Indy's woman.(Danica Patrick)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Danica Patrick, the 2005 Indy Racing League Rookie of the Year and the first woman to hold that title, will share the story of her extraordinary rise from 10-year-old Go-Kart champion to 23-year old Indy star in Danica: Crossing the Line....

Uncorked.(Deals)(George Taber signs deal with Brant Rumble )(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... George Taber, the author of Judgment of Paris, which recounted the historic wine tasting in 1976 between Californian and French vineyards in which a California wine claimed victory, will return to a related theme in Cork: Yesterday, Today and...

A detainee's story.(Enemy Combatant, book distribution rights)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Moazzam Begg is a British Muslim who traveled to Afghanistan as an aid worker before his capture and two-and-a-half-year detainment at Guantanamo Bay, including 18 months in solitary confinement, during which time his wife gave birth to their...

Miller on Lewis.(Laura Miller)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Salon cofounder and frequent NYTBR contributor Laura Miller has sold The Magician's Book--part autobiography; part literary criticism of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; and part meditation on the power of story and the magic of...

Charles Spicer at St. Martin's acquired world English rights to a first novel by Alton Rivers titled Where We Belong.(The Briefing)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Charles Spicer at St. Martin's acquired world English rights to a first novel by Alton Rivers titled Where We Belong, just published in the author's native Australia and depicting a romantic encounter in '70s London between a young American...

Da Capo's Ben Schafer bought world rights to Entertainment Weekly music critic David Browne's Goodbye 20th Century: Sonic Youth and the Rise of the Alternative Nation.(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Da Capo's Ben Schafer bought world rights to Entertainment Weekly music critic David Browne's Goodbye 20th Century: Sonic Youth and the Rise of the Alternative Nation, an authorized biography of this influential band, from Gernert's Erin...

Hyperion's Brenda Copeland has acquired North American rights to Dr. Ira Sacker's Regaining Your Self: A New Approach to Overcoming Eating Disorders, from Adam Chromy at Artists & Artisans.(Walt Disney Co. Hyperion Press)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Hyperion's Brenda Copeland has acquired North American rights to Dr. Ira Sacker's Regaining Your Self: A New Approach to Overcoming Eating Disorders, from Adam Chromy at Artists & Artisans. Sacker, the author of Dying to Be Thin, 'draws on...

Trump sues TWBG.(Warner Books Inc.)(Donald Trump)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Donald Trump has filed a defamation of character lawsuit against Warner Books and one of its authors, Timothy L. O'Brien. Trump is seeking $5 billion in damages for claims that O'Brien, a business reporter at the Times, made in his October...

Gore, Ashcroft make deals.(Al Gore and John Ashcroft )(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Two Beltway heavy hitters have announced book deals. Former Attorney General John Ashcroft has signed on to do his memoir for Warner Books' Center Street imprint. The as-yet-untitled book is set for a 2006 release. Former v-p and onetime...

Big Earth's fourth buy.(Big Earth Publishing acquired Trails Books and Prairie Oak Press from Trails Media Group Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Big Earth Publishing has acquired Trails Books and Prairie Oak Press from Trails Media Group. The deal adds 115 titles on sports, gardening, travel and cooking aimed at the Midwest.

Greenwillow, Hyperion win Newbery, Caldecott.(Lynne Rae Perkins won the 2005 John Newbery Medal for her novel Criss Cross)
January 30, 2006... It's often said that the Newbery and the Caldecott are the Oscars of the children's book world. So move over, Nicole and Sean, Denzel and Halle. Here come Lynne Rae and Chris. At last week's American Library Association's midwinter...

Calendar: Feb. 5-11.(Foreword)(Calendar)
January 30, 2006... 2/5 Josh Kilmer-Purcell's I Am Not Myself These Days (Harper) hilariously chronicles a year in his life as a drunken drag queen living with his crack-addicted male escort boyfriend. 2/7 James L. Swanson's Manhunt: The 12-Day...

What are you reading in Tibet?(Genevieve Kapuler)(Brief Article)(Interview)
January 30, 2006... Genevieve Kapuler, 58 Yoga teacher, New York City * What are you reading? Snow by Orhan Pamuk. * Where did you get it? Shakespeare & Co. * What prompted you to read it? I just found it in the store--the fact that...

Giffin's happy marriage.(Emily Giffin)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Who says cheaters never prosper? In a twist on the traditional rum-com formula, Rachel, the 30-something heroine of Emily Giffin's debut novel, Something Borrowed (St. Martin's, 2004), falls into bed with her best friend's fiance but comes to...

A wildwood walk.(Robert Redford plans two new films)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... As if running the Sundance Film Festival--now celebrating its 25th anniversary--in Park City, Utah, wasn't enough, film legend Robert Redford is actively developing two separate projects based on two disparate books through his Wildwood...

Galt Niederhoffer.(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Revolution Studios has snapped up the rights to Galt Niederhoffer's debut novel, A Taxonomy of Barnacles (St. Martin's, 2005). The King Lear meets The Royal Tenenbaums--style tale follows the travails of Upper East Side sisters Bell, Bridget,...

Fall 2006 Putnam release Demon Keeper, prosecutor Royce Buckingham's novel about a Seattle teen who discovers his house is infested with supernatural beings, has been optioned by Fox 2000.(Fox 2000 Pictures)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Fall 2006 Putnam release Demon Keeper, prosecutor Royce Buckingham's novel about a Seattle teen who discovers his house is infested with supernatural beings, has been optioned by Fox 2000. AEI's Ken Atchity and Chi-Li Wong will produce the...

McHugh to Marlowe.(Marlowe and Company appoints Kathryn McHugh)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Kathryn McHugh has joined Marlowe & Company, an Avalon imprint, as editor. McHugh is leaving her post as associate editor at Crown/Three Rivers, where she's been since 2004.

Finch to head Miramax PR.(Miramax Books appoints Katie Finch as public relations director)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... After coming on to helm the split book divisions left in the wake of the Disney/Miramax divorce, Rob Weisbach has named Katie Finch director of publicity. Finch, who will be handling titles for both Miramax Books and the still-unnamed book...

Rosenberg joins MGM.(People)(Jon I. Rosenberg appointed by MGM Consumer Products)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Jon I. Rosenberg has been named executive director of publishing and stationery at MGM Consumer Products. Rosenberg, who was most recently editorial director of Simon & Schuster's Simon Scribbles imprint, is cofounder of Los Angeles-based...

Lyons-Gould to head Seal Press.(Krista Lyons-Gould )(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Krista Lyons-Gould has been promoted to publisher of Seal Press, one of the Emeryville, Calif.-based imprints of the Avalon Publishing Group. Lyons-Gould previously held the title v-p of editorial.

TWBG promotes Murgolo, Ballast.(Time Warner Book Group, Karen Murgolo, Matthew Ballast )(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Karen Murgolo has been promoted to v-p, associate publisher at Time Warner Book Group's soon-to-launch boomer imprint, Springboard Press. Murgolo was bumped up from her role as associate publisher at the house's illustrated book imprint...

The hybrid alternative.(book publishing)
January 30, 2006... The advent of POD has given authors who have been bypassed by traditional publishers or who are interested in keeping control over their work more options than ever for getting into print. Now, a number of publishers that provide more...

Centro looks to make old new.(Centro Books)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... Centro Books, a recently launched independent house that does trade paperback reissues of foreign and out-of-print titles, has announced its first two books. Set to hit stores in May are an out-of-print title from 1972, Miss Thistlebottoms...

New Orleans store's December beats last year.(Garden District Book Shop )(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... "Things in New Orleans are still very strange," said Britton Trice, owner of Garden District Book Shop in the Big Easy. "We're in a slice of normality surrounded by a sea of destruction. It looks fine in our area, but 15 blocks away there's...

Appreciation Day brings in $50,000.(Changing Hands Bookstore)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... For the last 12 years, rather than returning books after the holiday rush, Gayle Shanks, owner of Changing Hands Bookstore in Tempe, Ariz., has held a Customer Appreciation Day on New Year's Day. This year the store made $50,000 during the...

Arab novelist's lit hit.(Elias Khoury's Gate of the Sun )(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... A full-page rave in the New York Times Book Review for Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury is helping three-year-old Archipelago Books break out the renowned Lebanese author. The 532-page tale of two Palestinians who flee their homes in the...

Blair picks up Parkway.(John F. Blair, Publisher Inc.)(Brief Article)
January 30, 2006... John F. Blair, in Winston-Salem, N.C., has added nearby Parkway Publishers to its distribution list. The 10-year-old Parkway, located in Boone, has published more than 125 hardcover and paperback titles specializing in North Carolina and the...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
January 30, 2006... "My hometown {Natchez, Miss.} has turned upside down as a result of Turning Angel, with people refusing to believe it's fiction and trying to put real people to the characters. Also, Natchez is upset that I was so ruthlessly honest about race...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
January 30, 2006... "Neither of us had ever nurtured a thing in our lives. Sure, we'd had pets growing up, but they didn't really count. We always knew our parents would keep them alive and well. We both knew we wanted to one day have children, but was either of...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
January 30, 2006... Politics is hampering Geisha's film debut in China; it seems to have fallen victim to anti-Japanese sentiment. According to Variety, the movie was approved by censors at China's powerful regulator, the State Administration of Radio, Film &...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
January 30, 2006... Though very little is what it seemed to be in A Million Little Pieces, book sales have not yet been impacted. Bookscan reported sales of 80,000 copies for the week ending January 22. On Oprah's January 26 show, the publishing powerhouse...

Children's series & tie-ins bestsellers.
January 30, 2006... With the success of the Chronicles of Narnia movie, the books have become HarperCollins's best-selling children's movie property of all time. The movie has grossed $615 million worldwide (with a domestic gross of $272.6 million), it had the...

Betting on gaming.(The Gambler's Book Shop)
January 30, 2006... In a down-on-its luck neighborhood about five miles away from Las Vegas Boulevard, out of sight of the neon palaces filled with weekenders dropping their cash on quarter slots, blackjack and Celine Dion, a one-story red brick building houses...

New York is comics country.(Comic-con Preview)
January 30, 2006... Some of the most iconic moments in comic book history would be unimaginable without their New York setting. From the tragic death of Spider-man's girlfriend Gwen Stacy on the Brooklyn Bridge to the quiet battles of faith fought by the Bronx...

Travel's long, strange odyssey.(travel books publishing)(Cover Story)
January 30, 2006... Travel has changed radically since the days of the Victorian Grand Tour, when the privileged classes would pack their steamer trunks for European journeys that could stretch into years while the common folk contented themselves with a trip to...

Down on the farm: Verlyn Klinkenborg's dispatches from rural America.(Biography)
January 30, 2006... How do you get a 300-pound boar back into his pen? Can chickens be herded like sheep? Where would you find the answers to these questions--in some rural miscellany, a 4-H booth, or the New York Times? The latter, assuming you were on the...

Adverbs.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... * Adverbs DANIEL HANDLER. HarperCollins/Ecco, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 0-06-072441-2 The qualities that draw millions to Lemony Snicket--absurdity, wicked humor, a love of wordplay--get adulterated in this elegant exploration of love. Handler...

The Priest's Madonna.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... The Priest's Madonna AMY HASSINGER. Putnam, $23.95 (336p) ISBN 0-399-15317-9 A historical romance that mixes literary heft and pop-fiction indulgence, Hassinger's ambitious second novel (following Nina: Adolescence) makes for a busy,...

The World Made Straight.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... The World Made Straight RON RASH. Holt, $24 (304p) ISBN 0-8050-7866-5 Rash's finely wrought third novel (after Saints at the River) follows the wayward trajectory of high school dropout Travis Shelton, who stumbles on a neighbor's...

The Horrific Suffering of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... The Horrific Suffering of the Mind-Reading Monster Hercules Barefoot: His Wonderful Love and His Terrible Hatred CARL-JOHAN VALLGREN, TRANS. FROM THE SWEDISH BY PAUL AND VERONICA BRITTEN-AUSTIN. HarperCollins, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 0-06-084199-0...

Cripple Creek.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... * Cripple Creek JAMES SALLIS. Walker, $23 (208p) ISBN 0-8027-3382-4 In Sallis's beautifully written second book to feature Turner, an ex-cop and ex-con (after 2004's Cypress Grove), Turner is working as a deputy sheriff in Cripple Creek,...

Dark Harbor.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... Dark Harbor STUART WOODS. Putnam, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 0-399-15342-X Bestseller Woods's tepid 12th Stone Barrington novel finds the New York lawyer taking a much-needed working vacation after the deadly trials and tribulations of the...

Alternatives to Sex.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... Alternatives to Sex STEPHEN McCAULEY. Simon & Schuster, $24 (304p) ISBN 0-7432-2473-6 McCauley's latest blunt and funny novel lays bare the inner life and obsessive-compulsive behavior of William Collins, a gay 40-something Boston...

A wise child: PW talks with Yannick Murphy: Yannick Murphy's third book follows a 13-year-old girl living with her eccentric family in 1970s New York City.(Interview)
January 30, 2006... Why do you often write in the voice of children and adolescents? At that age, you can say what you're seeing but not know how to explain it because you don't have the perspective. All that experience gets stored and later you have years...

The Nimrod Flipout.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... The Nimrod Flipout ETGAR KERET, TRANS. FROM THE HEBREW BY MIRIAM SCHLESINGER AND SONDRA SILVERSTON. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $12 paper (176p) ISBN 0-374-22243-6 Keret, an Israeli writer who also writes children's books and collaborates...

Brandenburg Gate.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... * Brandenburg Gate HENRY PORTER. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (448p) ISBN 0-87113-940-5 Set in East Germany during the bleak, waning days of 1989, this standalone thriller from British author Porter (A Spy's Life) combines impeccable research...

The Hanging in the Foaling Barn.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... The Hanging in the Foaling Barn SUSAN STARR RICHARDS. Sarabande, $14.95 (168p) ISBN 1-932511-33-4 The sharpest stories in Richards's fresh but uneven debut collection of nine stories (mostly set in Kentucky) ride on the daily rhythms of...

Savannah Breeze.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... Savannah Breeze MARY KAY ANDREWS. HarperCollins, $24.95 (448p) ISBN 0-06-056466-0 In this spirited sequel to 2001's Savannah Blues, Southern belle BeBe Loudermilk continues to attract the wrong kind of man. Thrice married and divorced,...

Quite Honestly.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... Quite Honestly JOHN MORTIMER. Viking, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 0-670-03483-5 The indomitable Mortimer (Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders, etc.) is back with a new cast of quixotic characters. Lucinda Purefoy (Lucy), daughter of a liberal...

What I Did Wrong.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... What I Did Wrong JOHN WEIR. Viking, $23.95 (243p) ISBN 0-670-03484-3 Sixteen years after The Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, Weir checks in with a follow-up that sparkles episodically but lacks the narrative drive of its celebrated...

Here They Come.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... * Here They Come YANNICK MURPHY. McSweeney's, $22 (256p) ISBN 1-932416-50-1 Told by a precocious unnamed 13-year-old girl who bends spoons with her mind, Murphy's gorgeous third book of fiction recounts the story of a poor family's...

Apex Hides the Hurt.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... Apex Hides the Hurt COLSON WHITEHEAD. Doubleday, $22.95 (208p) ISBN 0-385-50795-X Following the novels The Intuitionist (1998) and John Henry Days (2001), and the nonfiction The Colossus of New York (2004), a paean to New York City,...

The Island.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... The Island HEATHER GRAHAM. Mira, $21.95 (384p) ISBN 0-7783-2283-1 Modern-day piracy, decomposing human remains and a swanky Miami yacht club set the mood for another top-notch thriller from romance icon Graham (Killing Kelly). During a...

The Booster.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... * The Booster JENNIFER SOLOW. Atria, $24 (320p) ISBN 0-7432-8183-7 Solow's spectacular debut sounds a warning to fashionista shopaholics while providing a healing catharsis that anyone grieving over the loss of a loved one can appreciate....

The Last Refuge.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... The Last Refuge CLIVE EGLETON. Severn, $27.95 (224p) ISBN 0-7278-6182-4 First published in the U.K. in 1972 under the title The Judas Mandate, Egleton's third alternative history set in a Soviet-occupied Britain blends, like its...

The Penultimate Chance Saloon.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... The Penultimate Chance Saloon SIMON BRETT. Toby, $14.95 paper (242p) ISBN 1-59264-162-8 In this comedy of sexual manners from prolific British author Brett (the Charles Paris mystery series, etc.), a man closing in on 60 experiences a...

The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... * The Man Who Could Fly and Other Stories RUDOLFO ANAYA. Univ. of Oklahoma, $19.95 (199p) ISBN 0-8061-3738-X This collection of 18 short stories spanning the past 30 years showcases Anaya's literary voice, at once innocent and omniscient,...

God Doesn't Shoot Craps: A Divine Comedy of Dice, Deception and Deliverance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... God Doesn't Shoot Craps: A Divine Comedy of Dice, Deception and Deliverance RICHARD ARMSTRONG. Sourcebooks, $14 paper (352p) ISBN 1-4022-0656-9 After years of peddling profitable direct-mail get-rich-quick schemes to gullible customers,...

The Unsettling.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... The Unsettling PETER ROCK. MacAdam/Cage, $21 (329p) ISBN 1-59692-171-4 Novelist Rock (The Ambidextrist) gathers 13 odd, haunting tales in a patchwork collection that borrows elements from genre fiction (the ghost; the stalker; the...

Prior Bad Acts.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... * Prior Bad Acts TAMI HOAG. Bantam, $26 (384p) ISBN 0-553-80198-8 A simple court hearing explodes into a multifaceted case at the start of this stunning meld of thriller and police procedural from bestseller Hoag. Shortly after...

Pike's Folly.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... Pike's Folly MIKE HEPPNER, Knopf, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 0-375-41289-1 An indictment of wasteful American capitalism, a satire of political correctness, an exploration of America's guilt for unspeakable slavery-era crimes--Heppner's second...

Intoxicated.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... Intoxicated JOHN BARLOW. Morrow, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 0-06-059176-5 Part fable and part vaudeville, this history of the fictional Rhubarilla, "one of the most popular carbonated soft drinks in the world," begins in 1860s England, when...

Dying Flames.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... Dying Flames ROBERT BARNARD. Scribner, $24 (288p) ISBN 0-7432-7219-6 The latest mystery thriller from prolific British master Barnard (The Graveyard Position) may skimp on his trademark mordant humor, but it offers characters with more...

The Torso.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... * The Torso HELENE TURSTEN, TRANS. FROM THE SWEDISH BY KATARINA EMILIE TUCKER. Soho, $24 (368p) ISBN 1-56947-425-7 In Swedish author Tursten's outstanding second police procedural to feature Irene Huss of the Goteborg Violent Crimes Unit...

The Lost Gardens: An English Garden Mystery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... The Lost Gardens: An English Garden Mystery ANTHONY EGLIN. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 0-312-32872-9 Lawrence Kingston once again mixes horticulture with crime solving in Eglin's agreeable second cozy to feature the...

The Last Full Measure: A Katy Green Mystery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... The Last Full Measure: A Katy Green Mystery HAL GLATZER. Perseverance, $13.95 paper (296p) ISBN 1-880284-84-7 Those who love the music of the big band era will enjoy Glatzer's lightweight third Katy Green historical (after 2004's A Fugue...

Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... Have Your Cake and Kill Him Too: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery NANCY MARTIN. NAL, $19.95 (272p) ISBN 0-451-21763-2 The three sisters Blackbird--Nora, Emma and Libby--return in Martin's charming and funny fifth novel (after 2005's Cross...

Statute of Limitations: A Posadas County Mystery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... Statute of Limitations: A Posadas County Mystery STEVEN F. HAVILL. St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 0-312-33630-6 Things go from bad to worse in Posadas, N.Mex., at the start of Havill's appealing fourth Posadas County...

Death du Jour.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... Death du Jour LOU JANE TEMPLE. Berkley Prime Crime, $22.95 (272p) ISBN 0-425-20806-0 After chronicling Civil War--era New York City in The Spice Box (2005), Temple brings revolutionary Paris to life in her winning second culinary...

Witch Cradle.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... Witch Cradle KATHLEEN HILLS. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (344p) ISBN 1-59058-254-3 Constable John McIntire, Sheriff Pete Koski and their neighbors in St. Adele, a small town on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, must deal with the effects of isolation...

The Old Wine Shades: A Richard Jury Mystery.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 30, 2006... * The Old Wine Shades: A Richard Jury Mystery MARTHA GRIMES. Viking, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 0-670-03479-7 At the start of bestseller Grimes's compelling 20th Richard Jury mystery, the Scotland Yard detective is on suspension because he...