Publishers Weekly articles from March 2007

Publishers Weekly archives from March 2007

Borders unveils extreme makeover; focus will be on U.S. superstores.(Foreword)(Borders Group )
March 26, 2007... The extensive reorganization plan outlined by Borders Group CEO George Jones last week includes all the steps necessary to revive the operating performance of the nation's second largest bookstore chain. Although the stock market had little...

Continuities hurts scholastic.(earnings at Scholastic)(Financial report)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Total revenue rose 2% at Scholastic for the third quarter ended February 28, to $497 million, and the company cut the net loss from $15.5 million to $7.7 million. Nonetheless, because the continuities program performed below expectations, the...

B&T forms new group.(Baker and Taylor )(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... With the completion of the purchase of the wholesale operations of AMS, Baker & Taylor has formed Baker & Taylor Marketing Services to sell titles into the warehouse clubs. The purchase also included AMS's wholesaling operations in the U.K....

Smith to run AMS.(Curt Smith )(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Following the sale of its wholesaling operations to Baker & Taylor, AMS CEO Gary Rautenstrauch stepped down from that post. CFO Curt Smith has been placed in charge of "winding down" the remainder of AMS's businesses.

The sweet spot.(Foreword)(paperbacks )
March 26, 2007... One of my favorite little corollaries to one of my favorite little screeds about how we should publish fewer books in any given year is the idea that we should also publish more in paperback original. After all, in many European and Asian...

Boedeker to Chronicle Kids.(Bill Boedeker joins Chronicle Books )(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Bill Boedeker will join Chronicle Books April 2 in the newly created position of children's publishing director. The appointment marks the return to publishing for Boedeker, who has spent the past year traveling in Europe and Africa. Boedeker...

Sharkey joins HarperCollins.(Lisa Sharkey)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... HarperCollins has named Lisa Sharkey to the newly created position of senior vp/director of creative development, where she will be charged with acquiring current events- and personality-driven books. Although Sharkey, who had been president...

Bon Jovi to headline BEA.
March 26, 2007... Jon Bon Jovi will perform with Amy Grant at Town Hall on June 2 during BEA. The rockers, who both have forthcoming titles from the Doubleday imprint Flying Dolphin Press, will hit the stage as part of the Saturday Night Benefit, raising money...

Comparing notes.(conference )(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Nancy Yost and Barbara Lowenstein of the literary agency Lowenstein-Yost Associates flank Norton publishing director Jeanne Luciano at last week's technology breakfast sponsored by PW and Bookspan. More than I00 industry members were on hand...

Valerie Kohler, owner, Blue Willow Bookshop, Houston, Tex.(Galley Talk)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... I picked up Masha Hamilton's The Camel Bookmobile (HarperCollins, Apr.), because she always shows how people in other cultures live out their daily lives. This fascinating and thought-provoking novel is about a young American woman who goes...

Margins up at RH.(Foreword)(Random House Inc.)(Financial report)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Earnings growth outpaced revenue gains at Random House in 2006, due mainly to an improved performance in Random's North America and German subsidiaries, along with continued strong profitability in the U.K., parent company Bertelsmann...

Earnings inch up at B&N.(Foreword)(Barnes and Noble )(Financial report)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Net income at Barnes & Noble rose 2.7% in the fiscal year ended February 3, to $150.8 million. Total sales at the country's largest bookstore chain rose 3.1%, to $5.26 billion. Revenue totals benefited from an extra week in the most current...

Calendar: April 1-7.(Calendar)
March 26, 2007... 4/1 Laura Lippman continues touring for her highly acclaimed stand-alone thriller What the Dead Know (Morrow), with a stop at Mystery Lovers Bookshop in Oakmont, Pa. 4/2 Mary Higgins Clark releases an adult thriller, I've Heard...

Clarkson Potter gives new push to Potter Style.(Gift Market)
March 26, 2007... In an attempt to take advantage of the "visual bounty" of Clarkson Potter books and growing interest in ancillary gift lines among booksellers and other customers, Potter Style is revving up its line of stationery, journals and other gift...

Planning Shop's new service tracks Amazon sales rankings.(TitleZ)
March 26, 2007... Specializing in publishing books on entrepreneurship and located in the hotbed of technological innovation, Palo Alto, Calif., perhaps it was inevitable that the Planning Shop would create a software program that has the potential to...

Juden to run PA.(People)(Simon Juden joins The Publishers Association)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... The Publishers Association, the leading British book trade group, has named Simon Juden chief executive. Juden, who most recently ran the Professionals Contractors Group (a trade association for freelancers), succeeds Ronnie Williams, who is...

Marshall to Gareth Stevens.(People)(appointed Jim Marshall )(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Jim Marshall has joined Gareth Stevens Publishing as director of marketing. He arrives from Scholastic Library Publishing, where he worked for the Children's Press and Franklin Watts divisions for the last eight years. Gareth Stevens is...

The Caravan Project rolls.(Test Model)(Public Affairs Books' Peter Osnos)
March 26, 2007... When Peter Osnos ran Public Affairs Books, he became convinced that serious nonfiction titles were losing sales either because books were out of stock at the bookstore or not available in the format customers wanted. In a bid to solve that...

Auction winners.(Deals)(selling book rights)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Susan Canavan at Houghton was the winner of an eight-house auction for The Art of Making Money: My Adventures in a Counterfeit Life by Art Williams Jr. with Jason Kersten; agent Scott Waxman sold North American rights. Based on a story by...

Eight more rules.(Deals)(selling book rights)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Trish Todd bought North American rights to Bruce Cameron's 8 Simple Rules for Marrying My Daughter for Fireside, via Trident's Scott Miller. Cameron, whose first book, 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter (Workman) was subsequently...

Prose to head PEN.(People)(Francine Prose joins PEN American Center)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Francine Prose has been chosen to be the next president of the PEN American Center. Prose succeeds Ron Chernow, who for the past year headed up the 3,400-member organization of writers, editors and translators.

Napp to Rizzoli.(People)(Jessica Napp joins Rizzoli New York )(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Jessica Napp has joined Rizzoli New York as publicity manager. Napp, who was publicity manager at Simon & Schuster's Touchstone Fireside imprint, will start at Rizzoli April 9.

Bloomberg hires.(People)(David George, Erica Kochman and Evan Burton joins Bloomberg Press)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... David George, Erica Kochman and Evan Burton have joined Bloomberg Press. George, who was most recently associate managing editor at Prentice Hall, is coming on as managing editor and art director; Kochman, who was at Workman Publishing, has...

AAP sales report.(Statistical table)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... AAP Sales Report % Change Category JAN.2007 Adult Hard (19) * 32.2% Adult Paper (20) -11.7 Adult mass market (10)...

Preempts.(Deals)(book rights)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Erin Moore and Bill Shinker at Gotham preempted Andy Raskin's The Ramen King and I: Searching for God in a Cup of Noodles; agent Smart Krichevsky sold North American rights. NPR commentator Raskin will describe his curious three-year quest to...

Hot in YA.(Deals)(book rights)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Jean Feiwel and Liz Szabla at Feiwel & Friends bought two novels by debut author Andrew Smith in an auction conducted by Laura Rennert at the Andrea Brown Literary Agency, who sold world rights for six figures. The first book, Ghost Medicine,...

New voice.(Deals)(book rights)(Brief article)
March 26, 2007... Ellen Archer and Pamela Dorman have acquired world rights to Julie Metz's Perfection: A Memoir of Widowhood, Betrayal and Renewal for Hyperion's Voice imprint via agent Elaine Markson. Metz, who thought she had the perfect life until her...

Correction.(People)(Correction notice)
March 26, 2007... In last week's issue Elizabeth Scarpelli was incorrectly listed as joining Cambridge University Press. She is leaving CUP to join Rurgers University Press as sales and marketing director. She was college sales manager for the academic and...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
March 26, 2007... Jodi Picoult celebrated St. Patrick's Day at Borders in Roseville, Minn., where some 225 fans came to meet her. Picoult (center) poses with store staff and district managers. Her latest bestseller, Nineteen Minutes, has 570,000 copies in...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
March 26, 2007... PBS was a great sales tool for The Fiber35 Diet. Author Brenda Watson taped an hour-long PBS special on the book, which aired on more than 160 PBS affiliates nationwide in March. The special will re-air later this year. She also traveled...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
March 26, 2007... "It had been two months since his brother and sister-in-law's funeral, and he'd barely stepped out side the ranch house since he'd been appointed the guardian of their three children. He might as well forget thirty-six years of ranch life and...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
March 26, 2007... Potter reports 170,000 copies after two printings for its new bestseller Everyday Food: Great Food Fast by Martha Stewart Living magazine. Its popularity is based on fast preparation time (30 minutes or less) using fresh ingredients found in...

Children's series and tie-ins bestsellers.(Bibliography)
March 26, 2007... If you don't have a preteen girl, you may not know that Hannah Montana is currently the Disney Channel's # 1 show for girls 6-11 and 9-14. And it's #2 with tween girls among all TV shows, second only to American Idol. Back in October the...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.(Bibliography)
March 26, 2007... Innocent marks Robb's (aka Nora Roberts's) 24th book in the In Death series featuring intrepid police lieutenant Eve Dallas's exploits in a futuristic New York City. 'This series has generated something of a cult following among audio fans,...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.(Bibliography)
March 26, 2007... The Secret, which focuses on the ancient law of attraction, continues to attract similar titles to our list. No fewer than five entries--#1, #2, #3, #7 and #11--capitalize on this same self-help theme--teaching people how to get what they...

Illinois.(United States of Bookselling)
March 26, 2007... Sitting in the center of America's heartland, Illinois comprises 58,583 square miles of flat land spread out on three sides around Chicago, famously nicknamed by the writer Carl Sandburg the "City of the Big Shoulders," a "tall bold slugger...

Indies find a niche.(United States of Bookselling)
March 26, 2007... While Chicagoland's stores dominate the Illinois bookselling scene, several independents have opened in recent years outside the metro area, despite stiff competition from mass merchandise stores. Of the 27 Illinois members of the Great Lakes...

One press gives its all to a reissue: forty-six years later, a Holocaust novel returns.(Independent Publishing)
March 26, 2007... After successfully bringing Virginia Woolf's On Being Ill, Bryher's Visa for Avalon and Muriel Rukeyser's The Life of Poetry back into print, Paris Press, a small press in Northampton, Mass., is now looking to do the same for Czech-born...

Players need platforms.(book sales)(Cover story)
March 26, 2007... Even more than in previous years, if an author wanted to grab a high ranking on these end-of-the-year bestseller charts, he/she had to have been there before. All of the top 30 fiction bestsellers in 2006 were name-brand authors who've been...

Media heavies: the usual paperback suspects: Rachael Ray, movie tie-ins and the still-kicking sudoku.(2006 Bestsellers: Paperbacks)
March 26, 2007... The thing that jumps out at you about PW's 2006 paperback bestsellers is how much they have been helped by the media, especially television. Love it or loathe it, the mainstream media--or MSM, as the bloggers call it--plays an essential part...

Lemony endings, sweet: Snicket finale is king of kids' bestsellers, with Harry at no. 2.(2006 Bestsellers: Children's)
March 26, 2007... For Lemony Snicket and HarperCollins, The End is here--the end, that is, of an extraordinary run that began back in 1999 with The Bad Beginning. The 13th and final Series of Unfortunate Events volume came out last October--appropriately...

Sir Ian Kershaw's Fateful Choices: the acclaimed Hitler biographer and chronicler of the cult of Nazism isolates 10 crucial decisions in 1940-41 that turned several unrelated conflicts into "one truly global confrontation.(Author Profile)(Critical essay)
March 26, 2007... Ian Kershaw cuts a gentle figure--soft-spoken, bespectacled and almost stereotypically English in his unwillingness to blow his own horn. Meeting him, it's hard to believe that he is the author of what is, so far at least, the definitive...

Days of our lives.(2008 Calendars)
March 26, 2007... Sure, you can keep track of your appointments on your cell phone, your Palm Pilot or your Blackberry; you can check out dates on an Ipod or a wristwatch; and of course Google is always just a keystroke away. But "old-fashioned" wall...

Loving Frank.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Loving Frank NANCY HORAN. Ballantine, $23.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-345-49499-3 Horan's ambitious first novel is a fictionalization of the life of Mamah Borthwick Cheney, best known as the woman who wrecked Frank Lloyd Wright's first...

New Bedlam.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... New Bedlam BILL FLANAGAN. Penguin, $24.95 (342p) ISBN 978-1-59420-050-2 Elanagan's snarkily entertaining second novel (after A&R) is a smorgasbord of colorful personalities and riotous events that would only be slightly less at-home on a...

Sammy's House.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Sammy's House KRISTIN GORE. Hyperion, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4013-0264-5 The sequel to Gore's debut Sammy's Hill (under film development) finds White House aide Samantha "Sammy" Joyce, now in her late 20s and suffering from irritable...

Last One In.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Last One In NICHOLAS KULISH. Ecco/Harper Perennial, $12.95 paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-06118-939-5 Kulish, a journalist who was embedded with a Marine attack-helicopter unit for the 2003 invasion of Iraq, draws on that experience for this...

Michael Tolliver Lives.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... * Michael Tolliver Lives ARMISTEAD MAUPIN. HarperCollins, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-06076135-6 Maupin denies that this is a seventh volume of his beloved Tales of the City, but--happily--that's exactly what it is, with style and invention...

Tom Bedlam.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Tom Bedlam GEORGE HAGEN. Random, $24.95 (464p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6222-5 Hagen (The Laments) rolls out the entertaining epic tale of the personable protagonist Tom Bedlam, beginning in Victorian London and ending in post-WWI South Africa....

Presence: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Presence: Stories ARTHUR MILLER. Viking, $23.95 (164p) ISBN 978-0-670-03828-2 Alongside his achievements in 20th'century drama, Miller (1915-2005) published four previous works of fiction. This collection brings together six pieces that...

Always.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Always Nicola Griffith. Riverhead, $26.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-59448-935-8 At the start of Griffith's intense third thriller to star Aud Torvinsen (after The Blue Place and Stay), the stylish half-American, half-Norwegian lesbian ex-cop and...

Bad Luck and Trouble: A Jack Reacher Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Bad Luck and Trouble: A Jack Reacher Novel Lee Child. Delacorte, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-0-385-34055-7 At the start of bestseller Child's winning 11th Jack Reacher adventure (after The Hard Way), the bad guys unceremoniously dump Calvin...

PW talks with Justin Evans: everyone where I grew up believed in ghosts.(Q&A)(Interview)
March 26, 2007... Justin Evans's debut, A Good and Happy Child (Reviews, Mar. 12), takes a familiar concept--the young child haunted by a demon no one else can see--and infuses it with rare psychological depth. How did the plot for A Good and Happy Child...

The Unquiet.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... * The Unquiet John Connolly. Atria, $25.95 (418p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9893-3 In this scary, cerebral thriller from bestseller Connolly, his fifth to feature world-weary Maine PI Charlie Parker (after 2005's The Black Angel), Parker is...

No Humans Involved.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... No Humans Involved Kelley Armstrong. Bantam Spectra, $20 (342p) ISBN 978-0-553-80508-6 In Armstrong's assured seventh Otherworld paranormal romance, her first in hardcover (after Broken), pretty Jaime Vegas, a 44-year-old necromancer who...

The Day of the Dandelion: An Arthur Hemmings Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... The Day of the Dandelion: An Arthur Hemmings Mystery Peter Pringle. Simon & Schuster, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4075-5 Pringle puts what he learned in writing Food, Inc.: Mendel to Monsanto--The Promises and Perils of the Biotech Harvest...

Strike Force.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Strike Force Dale Brown. Morrow, $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-117310-3 Bestseller Brown (Edge of Battle) takes the subject of his latest from current headlines--the rapprochement between Iran and Russia (the former wants to secure nuclear...

The Face of Death.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... * The Face of Death Cony McFadyen. Bantam, $24 (464p). ISBN 978-0-553-80466-9 McFadyen's outstanding sequel to his debut, Shadow Man (2006), provides a chilling reminder: "However bad things may become, evil men only triumph in the most...

The Saturday Wife.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... The Saturday Wife Naomi Ragen. St. Martin's, $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-0-312-35238-7 Like Emma Bovary, Delilah Goldgrab longs for a better life. A Queens yeshiva girl, Delilah is prayerfully remorseful after fornicating with young,...

The Manny.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... The Manny Holly Peterson. Dial, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-34000-3 Jamie Whitfield, 36, lives on Park Avenue with her three children and her mostly absent high-powered attorney husband, Phillip, and works part-time as a producer a...

The Infidelity Pact.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... The Infidelity Pact Carrie Karasyov. Broadway, $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7679-2690-4 Four L.A. moms in their mid-30s are bored with marriage and child-rearing. Over meals in trendy eateries, devious Victoria has reasons of her own to...

The Dallas Women's Guide to Gold-Digging with Pride.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... The Dallas Women's Guide to Gold-Digging with Pride J.C. Conklin. Ballantine, $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-345-49294-4 Conklin's acidic debut takes on "master class husband-hunter[s]" prowling the Big D. Ex-New Yorker Jenny Barton, 29, works...

A Little Bit Married.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... A Little Bit Married Debra Borden. Three Rivers, $13.95 paper (292p) ISBN 978-1-4000-8224-7 Borden's middling second novel (following Lucky Me) features Bitsy Lerner, 43 and a mother of two in the 'burbs, gets jolted out of her routines...

Getting Married.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Getting Married Theresa Alan. Kensington, $12.95 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-7582-0996-2 Eva Lockhart, a 31-year-old management consultant who's not outdoorsy and who's very committed to her career, has had trouble finding a man in Denver....

Your Body Is Changing: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Your Body Is Changing: Stories Jack Pendarvis. MacAdam/Cage, $23 (192p) ISBN 978-1-59692-234-1; $13 paper ISBN 978-1-59692-191-7 Pendarvis's second book (after The Mysterious Secret of the Valuable Treasure) sends up the mundane and...

Vain Art of the Fugue.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Vain Art of the Fugue Dumitru Tsepeneag, trans. from the Romanian by Patrick Camiller. Dalkey Archive, $12.95 paper (140p) ISBN 978-1-56478-421-6 Noted Romanian writer Tsepeneag spins out a blizzard of variations on a simple anecdote,...

The Perfect Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... * The Perfect Man Naeem Murr. Random, $13.95 paper (464p) ISBN 978-0-8129-7701-1 Murr elegantly explores small-town insularity and secrecy in this Commonwealth Award-winning third novel, following The Boy and The Genius of the Sea....

The First Stone.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... The First Stone Judith Kelman. Berkley, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-425-21367-4 At the start of this disappointing thriller from Kelman (The Session), artist Emma Colten, pregnant with her second child, is struggling to balance motherhood...

MacArthur's War: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... MacArthur's War: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson. Forge, $27.95 (492p) ISBN 978-0-765-31287-7 Veteran video game designers and coauthors of the World War II alternate histories Fox on the Rhine and Fox at...

Bobbie Faye's Very (Very, Very, Very) Bad Day.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... * Bobbie Faye's Very (very, very, very) Bad Day Toni McGee Causey. St. Martin's Griffin, $12.95 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-35448-0 Set in Lake Charles, La., Causey's hilarious, pitch-perfect debut chronicles one day in the life of...

Fresh.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Fresh Mark McNay. MacAdam/Cage, $23 (276p) ISBN 978-1-59692-211-2; $13 paper ISBN 978-1-59692-233-4 Winner of the 2007 Arts Foundation Fellowship for New Fiction, McNay's uneven debut offers a glimpse into the life of Sean O'Grady, a...

Falling Man.(Book review)
March 26, 2007... * Falling Man Don DeLillo. Simon & Schuster, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4602-3 When DeLillo's novel Players was published in 1977, one of the main characters, Pammy, worked in the newly built World Trade Center. She felt that "the towers...

Tribulation House.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Tribulation House Chris Well. Harvest House, $11.99 paper (300p) ISBN 978-0-7369-1741-4 This quirky apocalyptic gangster novel... wait a minute. Yes, you heard that right. Genre-breaking faith fiction writer Well continues his witty...

The Ocean in the Closet.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... The Ocean in the Closet Yuko Taniguchi. Coffee House, $14.95 paper (268p) ISBN 978-1-56689-194-3 Helen Johnson, the nine-year-old narrator of Taniguchi's slight debut novel, shoulders the burden of her war-scarred family's sadness....

Mr. Darcy's Diary.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Mr. Darcy's DiaryAmanda Grange. Sourcebooks, $14.95 paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4022-0876-8 Joining a growing field of Austeniana--and, particularly, Darcyiana--Grange retells Austen's Pride & Prejudice from Fitzwilliam Darcy's point of...

Simple Gifts.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Simple Gifts Lori Copeland. Zondervan, $12.99 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-310-26350-0 In this enjoyable inspirational romance, Copeland shows the talent that has sold more than three million copies of her books. Marlene Queens returns to her...

Midnight Brunch.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Midnight Brunch Marta Acosta. Pocket, $14 paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4165-2039-9 When last seen in Acosta's debut, Happy Hour at Casa Dracula (2006), aspiring writer Milagro De Los Santos had fallen for wealthy, dashingly handsome Dr....

I Heard That Song Before.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... I Heard That Song Before Mary Higgins Clark. Simon & Schuster, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6491-4 At the start of bestseller Clark's riveting new novel of suspense, Kay Lansing recalls her first visit as a six-year-old to the...

Simple Genius.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Simple Genius David Baldacci. Warner, $26.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-446-58034-2 Last seen in Split Second(2003), former Secret Service agents Sean King and Michelle Maxwell have reached a crisis in their relationship in this less than...

Vineyard Stalker: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Vineyard Stalker: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery Philip R. Craig. Scribner, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7045-8 Secret love affairs and real estate schemes drive Craig's lively 18th Martha's Vineyard mystery featuring retired Boston cop J.W....

The Silent Assassin.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... * The Silent Assassin Lori Andrews. St. Martin's Minotaur, $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-35271-4 In Andrews's outstanding follow-up to 2006's Sequence, geneticist Dr. Alexandra Blake, a forensic specialist working for the Armed Forces...

Suffer the Little Children.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Suffer the Little Children Donna Leon. Atlantic Monthly, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-87113-960-3 In Leon's 16th Commissario Guido Brunerti mystery, at once astringent yet lyrical, two rival police forces--Brunetti and his Venetian colleagues...

A Fall from Grace.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... A Fall from Grace Robert Barnard. Scribner, $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7220-9 Undercurrents of sexual exploitation pervade Diamond Dagger Award-winner Barnard's diverting eighth suspense yarn featuring Insp. Charlie Peace (after 2005's...

Murder with Reservations: A Dead-End Job Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2007... Murder with Reservations: A Dead-End Job Mystery Elaine Views. NAL, $21.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-451-22111-7 Yuppie-turned-menial-job-hunter Helen Hawthorne, still on the run from her deadbeat ex-husband, is keeping a low profile with...