Publishers Weekly articles from June 2007

Publishers Weekly archives from June 2007

For a week, technology reigns; planning, dealing for the digital future.(Foreword)(Tools of Change for Publishing conference)
June 25, 2007... A three-day conference examining tools that could change book publishing, a daylong seminar about digital distributors, and several deals made for a hectic time in publishing's technology circle last week. In San Jose, Calif., a little...

Record year for Wiley.(John Wiley & Sons)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... With a $106-million contribution from its purchase of Blackwell Publishing, which closed February 2, total revenue at John Wiley & Sons for the year ended April 30 rose 18%, to $1.23 billion, while operating income increased 6%, to $161.3...

Marlowe, Lifelong to merge.(Marlowe & Co. and Lifelong Books)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... The Perseus Books Group will fold its Marlowe & Co. imprint into Da Capo Press's wellness imprint, Lifelong Books. As a result, Matthew Lore, currently v-p and publisher of Marlowe, will become v-p and executive editor of Lifelong, and...

Cochran joining Ballantine.(Marnie Cochran to Ballantine Books)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... Marnie Cochran is leaving as executive editor of Da Capo Press/Lifelong Books to join Ballantine Books, where she will report directly to senior v-p and publisher Libby McGuire. Cochran will continue to work out of Boston and starts with...

Peterson to Multnomah.(Ken Peterson, new publishing director of Multnomah Books)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... Ken Peterson has been appointed v-p/publishing director for Multnomah Books, a new position. Peterson, who will start June 25, will report to Steve Cobb, president of the WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group, and will direct the editorial...

Guild, AAP try to halt bill.(Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... The Authors Guild and the AAP sent letters out last week, slamming a bill on the floor of the New York State Legislature that would allow heirs to block the use of photographs and other likenesses of dead public figures. The guild, which sent...

Soul of a new machine.(Foreword)(Jason Epstein of On Demand Books' new product, the Espresso Book Machine)
June 25, 2007... The group that gathered last Thursday at the New York Public Library's Science, Industry and Business Library for the unveiling of Jason Epstein's Espresso Book Machine was not large. Nor did it comprise many of the industry types who are...

Kensington in e-book deal.(Kensington Publishing and Samhain Publishing)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... Kensington Publishing has signed a deal with Samhain Publishing to publish paperback editions of Samhain's romantic and erotic e-books. Beginning in summer 2008, Kensington will publish up to 12 books annually in trade paperback or mass...

Calendar: July 1-14.(Foreword)(Calendar)
June 25, 2007... 7/2 Ernest Hemingway died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1961. Simon & Schuster Audio's newest unabridged release is The Nick Adams Stories read by Stacy Keach. 7/3 James Patterson's second collaboration with Michael...

Behind the scenes.(Deals)(Putnam Publishing Group Inc. to publish Jeanne Marie Laskas' new book, Hidden America)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... Putnam's Neil Nyren won an auction for Hidden America, a new book by Jeanne Marie Laskas, via agent Andrew Blauner. Laskas, a GQ correspondent and nationally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Magazine, will write about the unseen...

Smuggling flowers.(Deals)(Shell Games by Craig Welch to be published by HarperCollins)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... Marjorie Braman at Harper has pre-empted North American rights to Craig Welch's Shell Games via agent Wendy Strothman. This book will reveal the world of environmental poaching, following an informant-turned-rogue smuggler in the little-known...

Summers to FSG.(Deals)(Lawrence Summers signed deal with Farrar, Straus & Giroux )(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... Former Harvard president Lawrence Summers has signed a two-book deal with Eric Chinski at Farrar, Straus & Giroux via Andrew Wylie, who sold North American rights. The first book is on universities and is scheduled for a 2009 pub, and the...

Toxic farming.(Deals)(Animal Wars by David Kirby )(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... Evidence of Harm author David Kirby has sold a new book, Animal Wars, to George Witte at SMP via agent Todd Shuster, who sold world rights. Kirby will examine the toxic impact of large-scale factory farming, looking at how the waste produced...

Fantasy deals.(Deals)(Chris McCoy's Scurvy Goonda to be published by Knopf publishing; Ellen Potter's Olivia Kidney and the Secret Beneath the City to be published by Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency Inc.)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... Former Zoetrope editor Chris McCoy has sold a debut middle-grade fantasy novel, Scurvy Goonda, to Cecile Goyette at Knopf in a two-book deal via agent David Kuhn. The book centers on a 15-year-old on Cape Cod whose attempt to finally get rid...

War of words.(Deals)(Robert Patron's Lurid Splendor: American Journalists and the "Little Wars" in Europe Between 1867 and 1887 to be published by Pantheon)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... Victoria Wilson at Pantheon has bought North American rights to Robert Patron's new book, Lurid Splendor: American Journalists and the "Little Wars" in Europe Between 1867 and 1887 via agent Harvey Klinger. Patton, a grandson of Gen. George...

Cursed.(Deals)(Neil Bennun's book, Bad Magic, to be published by )(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... Broadway's Charles Conrad has acquired world rights to Neil Bennun's Bad Magic via Stephanie Cabot at the Gernert Company. This will be an investigative nonfiction account of the history and uses of "assault sorcery," or the dark arts of...

F+W puts the focus on brands.(The Steward Way)(F+W Publications)
June 25, 2007... Shortly after being installed almost two years ago as president of F+W Publications following its purchase by Abry Partners, David Steward began reorganizing the niche book and magazine publisher around its various brands. Although the...

Rachel Ray, Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Lexington, Ky.(Galley Talk)(Bad Monkeys)(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Don't start Matt Ruff's newest title, Bad Monkeys (HarperCollins, Aug.), unless you have an uninterrupted stretch of time to devote to devouring this tasty little treat. Completely different from Ruff's wonderful Set This House in Order from...

Wright named B&T president.(People)(Arnie Wright new president of Baker & Taylor)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... Arnie Wright has been named president of Baker & Taylor. Wright, who was promoted from his position as COO, has served in a number of executive roles for the distributor since joining the company in 1980. Before joining B&T, Wright worked in...

Ross to DreamWorks.(People)(Damon Ross is the new senior development executive of DreamWorks Animation)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... Damon Ross has been named senior development executive at DreamWorks Animation, where he will be focusing on developing literary projects. Ross, who co-produced the Jack Black comedy Nacho Libre, was most recently v-p of development and...

The rights stuff: CCC expands digital services.(Updating)(Copyright Clearance Center)
June 25, 2007... When Copyright Clearance Center was formed at the suggestion of Congress (as part of the 1976 Copyright Act), digital rights weren't even part of the mix. Three decades later, as publishers of all sizes look to monetize their digital assets,...

Baker up at HC.(People)(HarperCollins's Harper Perennial imprint's new marketing director, Amy Baker)(Brief article)
June 25, 2007... Amy Baker has been promoted to marketing director at HarperCollins's Harper Perennial imprint. Baker, who joined the publisher in 2000, has worked on such titles as Josh Kilmer-Purcell's I Am Not Myself These Days and Joyce Carol Oates's The...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
June 25, 2007... King's foreword in Blaze amusingly describes what happened to his novel written around 1973. Addressed to "Dear Constant Reader," he explains that he "thought it was great while I was writing it, and crap when I read it over." He reread the...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
June 25, 2007... Ronald Reagan was the only U.S. president to have kept a daily diary during his presidency. His entries are short and direct. Here is one from October 6, 1981: "Awakened at 7:25 by a phone call from Al Haig with news that Anwar Sadat had been...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
June 25, 2007... In hardcover, Phantom enjoyed a run of eight weeks on PW's charts, the first two in the #1 spot. Fans have more Goodkind to look forward to. Confession will go on sale November 13, and the production of the forthcoming miniseries, Wizard's...

Paperbak bestsellers/trade.
June 25, 2007... Cormac McCarthy's work will be represented in local multiplexes a lot sooner than the planned 2009 film version of The Road with the adaptation of his 2005 novel, No Country for Old Men, due to open nationally on November 21. Written and...

Children's series and tie-ins bestsellers.
June 25, 2007... Pendragon author D.J. MacHale has been busy. He recently finished an eight-city tour for the eighth title in his fantasy series, created a Pendragon MySpace page, did a pod-cast for fans, and is hard at work on Pendragon #9, which will pub...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
June 25, 2007... Cariou, known as the voice of detective Harry Bosch, earned an Audie Award (bestowed by the Audio Publishers Association on June 4) in the mystery category for his performance on Connelly's previous bestseller, Echo Park. PW's review of The...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
June 25, 2007... "The recordings selected do happen to showcase some especially entertaining telephone queries, including a discussion of what to do when the friendly neighborhood fix-it shop finds out that you have 'cheated' and visited your dealer for...

From print to the Web.(Content Service)
June 25, 2007... India is the dominant player in the estimated $4.1-billion global publishing BPO (Business Process Outsourcing) industry, and this is the second column in a regular feature highlighting companies in the field. The increased use of...

Montana.(United States of Bookselling)(State overview)
June 25, 2007... In Montana, the Continental Divide separates not only the Rocky Mountains and the Great Plains, Glacier National Park and Yellowstone, but also the state's two major markets for books. College towns Missoula, to the west of the Divide, and...

After the drought: PGW publishers look forward to first postbankruptcy payment.(Independent Publishing)
June 25, 2007... In Greek mythology, Perseus, the son of Zeus, killed Medusa, saved Andromeda and founded Mycenae, a great center of commerce and culture. In current American publishing, Perseus is no less dramatic a force, stepping into a situation made...

Reading can make you young; the bookstore as fountain of youth.(books that tout longevity)
June 25, 2007... Last week, Nora Ephron's mordant take on aging, I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (Knopf), returned to PW's bestseller list after three weeks off, marking the book's 38th week on the list since its publication...

Flying starts; three fresh voices make their YA debuts.(Children's Books)(young adult writers)
June 25, 2007... Siobhan Dowd Siobhan Dowd styled herself as a writer from the age of seven, when she began embroidering biblical stories as a Catholic school student in London. After university she went into publishing, and then to work for PEN, along...

The Journal of Dora Damage.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... The Journal of Dora Damage BELINDA STARLING. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-1-59691-336-3 Victorian fascination with forbidden sex and science inspires this first novel from Starling, who died last year in Essex, England, at 34. In...

Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures VINCENT LAM. Weinstein (Hachette, dist.), $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-60286000-1 Winner of Canada's Giller Prize, Lam puts all the sex, and death and sleep deprivation crucial to any hospital drama in his...

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers XIAOLU Guo. Doubleday/Talese, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 078-0485-52029-4 A Young woman from rural China learns how to comprehend "love" and "heartbreak" in English in this quirky, touching novel....

The Godmother.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... The Godmother CARRIE ADAMS. Harper, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-123260-2 While 30-something Londoner Tessa King questions her no-strings-attached lifestyle, she also witnesses her friends' difficulties in marriage and parenthood while...

Maynard & Jennica.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Maynard & Jennica RUDOLPH DELSON. Houghton Mifflin, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-618-83448-8 A heady, slippery dramedy-lite of modern love and urban manners, ex-law-yet Delson's debut puts native New Yorker Maynard Gogarty, a not quite...

Song for Night.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... * Song for Night CHRIS ABANI. Akashic, $12.95 paper (164p) ISBN 978-1-933354-31-6 In his latest novella, Abani renders the inner voice of mute 15-year-old My Luck, the boy leader of a platoon of mine sweepers in an unnamed war-torn...

McCall Smith, Alexander
June 25, 2007... The Careful Use of Compliments ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH. Pantheon, $21.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-375-42301-7 Best known for the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series, bestseller Smith shows he's just as adept at exploring mysteries of the...

Family Acts.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Family Acts LOUISE SHAFFER. Ballantine, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6063-4 In Shaffer's delightful third novel, lifelong New Yorker Katharine "Katie" Harder works listlessly as a script writer on the same show that made her...

Tree of Smoke.(Book review)
June 25, 2007... * Tree of Smoke DENIS JOHNSON. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27 (614p) ISBN 978-0-374-27912-7 If this novel, Johnson's first in nearly a decade, is--as the promo copy says--about Skip Sands, it's also about his uncle, a legendary CIA...

The Mapmaker's Opera.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... The Mapmaker's Opera BEA GONZALEZ. St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-36466-3 Colorful, exotic birds the enrapture protagonists of this lyrical early 20th-century love story about the life of bird lover, artist and mapmaker...

The Chicago Way.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... * The Chicago Way MICHAEL HARVEY. Knopf, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-26686-6 Harvey's debut delivers a fast-paced thrill ride through Chicago's seedy underbelly, where the lines between cops and criminals become dangerously blurred....

Never Go Back.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Never Go Back ROBERT GODDARD. Delta, $12 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-34063-2 At the start of British author Goddard's well-crafted new thriller, Harry Barnett, the almost too unprepossessing hero of Into the Blue and Out of the Sun,...

Guantanamo.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Guantanamo DOROTHEA DIECKMANN, TRANS. FROM THE GERMAN BY TIM MOHR. Soft Skull, $14 paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-933368-54-2 Dieckmann, born in 1957, makes her U.S. book debut with this novel of prison camp survival: like Solzhenitsyn's One Day...

Swim to Me.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Swim to Me BETSY CARTER. Algonquin, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-56512-492-9 Carter follows her plucky New York journalist's memoir Nothing to Fall Back On and first novel The Orange Blossom Special with another sweet story of...

The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... * The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense JOYCE CAROL OATES. Harcourt/Penzler, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-15-101531-3 The words "gothic" and "macabre" rather than "mystery" and "suspense" might better describe the 10...

Legend: An Event Group Adventure.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Legend: An Event Group Adventure DAVID LYNN GOLEMON. St. Martin's/ Dunne, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-35263-9 Golemon's second thriller fails to deliver on the promise of his first, Event (2006), which introduced the exploits of a...

PW talks with Bob Smith: Nagoonberries to L.A.!(Q&A)(Interview)
June 25, 2007... After a sketch-writing gig for MAD-TV, appearances on The Tonight Show, an HBO comedy special and a Lambda Literary Award for his memoir Openly Bob, the New York-based gay comedian turns in a comic novel, Selfish & Perverse (Reviews, June 4),...

Play Dirty.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Play Dirty SANDRA BROWN. Simon & Schuster, $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7432-8985-1 The seven deadly sins help propel this provocative, sex-fueled thriller from bestseller Brown (Ricochet). Foster Speakman, an eccentric Texas paraplegic...

Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... * Collected Stories of Ivan Bunin IVAN BUNIN, INTRO. AND TRANS. FROM THE RUSSIAN BY GRAHAM METTLINGER. Ivan R. Dee, $19.95 paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-56663-758-9 Russian exile Bunin (1870-1953), who won the Nobel Prize in 1933, becomes...

Frozen Tracks: An Inspector Erik Winter Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Frozen Tracks: An Inspector Erik Winter Novel AKE EDWARDSON, TRANS. FROM THE SWEDISH BY LAURIE THOMPSON. Viking, $25.95 (400p) ISBN 9-78-0-670-06323-9 The reader stays perpetually ahead of the irritatingly slow detectives in Swedish...

American Diva.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... American Diva JULIA LONDON. Berkley Sensation, $14 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-21564-7 London's luscious latest (after Material Girl) provides prime escapist material that's perfect for anyone who reads tabloids in supermarket check-out...

Sweeter Than Honey.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Sweeter Than Honey MARY B. MORRISON. Dafina, $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1511-6 The prolific Morrison launches her new series with a harsh, explicit look at the Las Vegas sex industry. Strong-willed Lace St. Thomas is the madam at...

Disturbance-Loving Species.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... * Disturbance-Loving Species PETER CHILSON. Mariner, $13.95 paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-618-85870-5 Chilson makes a promising fiction debut with these stories about Americans and Africans who come to realize the gulf between their cultures...

Getting Some of Her Own.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Getting Some of Her Own GWYNNE FORSTER. Dafina, $14 paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1310-5 The prolific Forster (Blues from Down Deep; When You Dance with the Devil; etc.) delivers a simplistic story of love and parenthood. Susan Pettiford,...

Force of Nature.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Force of Nature SUZANNE BROCKMANN. Ballantine, $21.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-48016-3 Ex-cop Ric Alvarado, after receiving word that Florida mobster Gordon Burns may be working with international terrorists, manages to gain access to...

The Night Birds.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... * The Night Birds THOMAS MALTMAN. Soho, $24 (384p) ISBN 978-1-56947-462-4 Set in the 1860s and '70s, Maltman's superb debut evokes a Midwest lacerated by clashes between European and Native American, slaveowner and abolitionist, killer...

On the Road to Heaven: An Autobiographical Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... On the Road to Heaven: An Autobiographical Novel COKE NEWELL. Zarahemla (Ingram, dist.), $15.95 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-9787971-3-3 The title, epigraphs and style of this fictionalized memoir pay tribute to Jack Kerouac, a surprising muse...

Hood.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Hood NOIRE. Atria, $15 paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3303-0 Blood, lust and loyalty are at the heart of this latest pulp offering from Noire. At 18, Lamont Mason, aka "Hood," rises up in the hierarchy of the Brownsville, Brooklyn, drug...

Diamondback McCall: Island Lost.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Diamondback McCall: Island Lost ROBERT MIDDLETON. Avalon, $21.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8034-9880-1 Middleton reprises his eponymous cowboy hero in a western adventure with more narrow escapes than a movie serial. Jack "Diamondback" McCall...

Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Franklin Evans, or The Inebriate: A Tale of the Times WALT WHITMAN, EDITED AND INTRO. BY CHRISTOPHER CASTIGLA AND GLENN HENDLER. Duke Univ., $21.95 paper (232p) ISBN 978-0-8223-3942-7 The only novel by America's eventual apostle of...

Vertigo.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Vertigo MARTHA RONK, Coffee House, $15 (86p) ISBN 978-1-56689-205-6 An airy, evanescent tone and long, drifting sentences that blend memory with the present characterize Ronk's eighth book, selected by C.D. Wright for the National Poetry...

Peeping Tom's Cabin: Comic Verse 1928-2008.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Peeping Tom's Cabin: Comic Verse 1928-2008 X.J. KENNEDY. BOA (Consortium, dist.), $21.95 cloth (118p) ISBN 978-1-929918-95-9; paper $16.95 ISBN 978-1-929918-96-9 Accompanying Kennedy's forthcoming selected (serious) poems, this agreeably...

Fragment of the Head of a Queen.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Fragment of the Head of a Queen GATE MARVIN. Sarabande (Consortium, dist.), $13.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-932511-51-2 From the blood-soaked cover image of a Snow White-like figure to the final poem ("You Cut Open"), there is both violence and...

Quantum Lyrics.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Quantum Lyrics A. VAN JORDAN. Norton, $23.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-393-06499-5 The principles of physics, the lives of physicists (especially Albert Einstein) and the dilemmas of classic comic book heroes provide Van Jordan (M-A-C-N-O-L-I-A)...

The Clean Shirt of It.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... The Clean Shirt of It PAULO HENRIQUES BRITTO, TRANS. FROM THE PORTUGUESE BY IDRA NOVEY. BOA (Consortium, dist.), $22.95 (140p) ISBN 978-1-929918-93-5, $16.95 paper ISBN 978-1-929918-94-2 Esteemed in Brazil both as a poet and the...

The Lyrics.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... The Lyrics FANNY HOWE. Graywolf, $14 (96p) ISBN 978-1-55597-472-5 In her latest collection, the prolific Howe continues her career-long pursuit of moral clarity and spiritual insight: "What is a poet but a person/Who lives on the...

Lip Wolf.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Lip Wolf LAURA SOLORZANO, TRANS. FROM THE SPANISH BY JEN HOVER. Action (SPD, dist.), $14 (118p) ISBN 978-0-97656927-8 In her first collection available to English-language readers, rising Mexican poet Laura Solorzano explores the risks...

The Transformation.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... The Transformation JUUANA SPAHR. Atelos (SPD, dist.), $13.50 (232p) ISBN 978-1-891190-26-1 Spahr's latest is a fascinating poetic memoir along the lines of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, charting the personal and political...

The Line.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... The Line JENNIFER MOXLEY. Post-Apollo (SPD, dist.), $15 paper (64p) ISBN 978-0-942996-61-6 A seriously depressing book of prose poems from a tremendously talented poet, Moxley's fourth collection laments the "horrors of wasted potential"...

Filibuster to Delay a Kiss.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Filibuster to Delay a Kiss COURTNEY QUEENEY. Random, $19.95 (112p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6563-9 In Queeney's passionate, fast-moving first volume, autobiographical poems, sketches of archetypes and pieces about a persona she calls "the...

Poetry notes.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... July Publications Over his long career, W.S. Merwin has written--well--in a staggering number of genres, including lost ones, like the fable. The Book of Fables brings back into print two classic books of short, haunting, mythic prose by...

Strike Dog: A Woods Cop Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Strike Dog: A Woods Cop Mystery JOSEPH HEYWOOD. Lyons, $19.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-59921-160-2 Heywood brings to life Michigan's Upper Peninsula in his predictable fifth novel to feature conservation detective Grady Service (after 2005's...

Bloodshot.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... * Bloodshot STUART MACBRIDE. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-33999-9 At the start of McBride's vivid third Det. Sgt. Logan MacRae police procedural (after 2006's Dying Light), the Aberdeen police, on the trail of a...

End Games: An Aurelio Zen Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... End Games: An Aurelio Zen Mystery MICHAEL DIBDIN. Pantheon, $23.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-375-42521-9 The wry 11th and final Insp. Aurelio Zen mystery (after 2006's Back to Bologna) will leave the series' many fans in renewed mourning for...

A Few Good Murders.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... A Few Good Murders CADY KALIAN. Forge, $13.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1365-2 The hyper-fab Maggie Mars discovers the dangers of screenwriting in Kalian's snazzy sequel to 2006's As Dead as It Gets. After tantrum-throwing diva...

Ammunition.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Ammunition KEN BRUEN. St. Martin's Minotaur, $13.95 paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-34145-9 The seventh Inspector Brant noir from Shamus-winner Bruen (after 2006's Calibre) maintains the feverish pacing that has become Bruen's trademark. As...

Shinjuku Shark.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Shinjuku Shark ARIMASA OSAWA, TRANS. FROM THE JAPANESE BY ANDREW CLARE. Vertical, $14.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-932234-37-4 Osawa's popular Japanese police procedural series makes its U.S. debut with this translation of the first volume....

Death Under the Dryer: A Fethering Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Death Under the Dryer: A Fethering Mystery SIMON BRETT. Five Star, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-1-59414-631-2 The popular and prolific Brett takes us into the world of cut, color and curl in his witty eighth Fethering cozy (after 2006's The...

Many Bloody Returns.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... Many Bloody Returns EDITED BY CHARLAINE HARRIS AND TONI L.P. KELNER. Ace, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-441-01522-1 This patchwork anthology of 13 new vampire stories proves that heavyweight contributors can give some substance to a relatively...

The Elves of Cintra.(Brief article)(Book review)
June 25, 2007... * The Elves of Cintra TERRY BROOKS. Del Rey, $26.95 (400p) ISSN 978-0-345-48411-6 Extinction or survival? Brooks keeps readers hanging with the hair-raising second installment (after 2006's Armageddon's Children) of a trilogy blending...