Publishers Weekly articles from March 2008

Publishers Weekly archives from March 2008

Random audio's DRM decision renews debate: fears of piracy divide the industry.(Foreword)
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Three little letters still have the audiobook divisions at various houses--and at least one agent--concerned. The use of DRM, or digital rights management, to deliver digital audio files has been debated by...

RH buys Monacelli.(Random House )(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Random House has acquired the visual book book publisher Monacelli Press. Founded in 1994 by Gianfranco Monacelli, the press has a backlist of about 250 books on architecture, fine arts, interior design, landscape architecture, photography and...

Follett buys Varsity.(Varsity Group and Follett Corp.)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... The Varsity Group, which serves as the online bookstore for high schools and small colleges, has agreed to be acquired by Follett Corp. for 20 cents per share, making the value of the deal about $3.9 million. Under terms of the deal, Follett...

At home on the block.(Foreword)(Reed Business Information)
March 3, 2008... Okay, so here's the deal. About 10 days ago, PW's parent company, Reed Business Information, was put up for sale by its parent company, the Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Reed Elsevier. Almost immediately, the media coverage began: Reed said...

Audible sales rise 34%.(Audible Inc. )(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Audible Inc. reported total revenue of $110 million in 2007, an increase of 34% over 2006. The company had an operating loss of $3.7 million, but due to tax credits it finished the year with net income of $2.4 million. In 2006, Audible had an...

Siman resigns from Virgin.(Ken Siman of Virgin Books USA )(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Ken Siman has resigned as publisher of Virgin Books USA and will serve as a consultant. Since Siman's appointment in November 2006, the Virgin Book Group has been acquired by Random House Group, RH's U.K. subsidiary. Richard Cable, chairman of...

Acquisitions impact Donnelley.(R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co.)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... In its first full year report since it acquired several competitors, including Banta Corp. and Von Hoffmann, R.R. Donnelley had total revenue of $11.59 billion in 2007, up 24% over 2006. Excluding acquisitions, sales were ahead 2.5%. Operating...

Records for S&S.(Results 2007)(Simon & Schuster Inc.)(Table)(Financial report)
March 3, 2008... Solid gains in its adult group and double-digit increases in the smaller audio and international divisions combined to boost sales and earnings to record levels at Simon & Schuster in 2007. The weak spot in the year was the children's group,...

Harlequin mixed.(Results 2007)(Table)(Financial report)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Lower overhead and promotional costs combined with strong sales for its major authors led to a solid performance in Harlequin's North American retail segment, which was the publisher's strongest unit in 2007. Debbie Macomber had three big hits:...

Marvel posts gains.(Results 2007)(Table)(Financial report)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... With sales up to both comic shops and bookstores, revenue rose 15.8% in Marvel's publishing division last year, to $125.7 million. Publication of the World War Hulk and Dark Tower series helped drive the gains. In 2008, Marvel expects...

Oxmoor moving sales and marketing.(Oxmoor House)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Oxmoor House is moving the sales and marketing functions of its trade operations from California to New York City. As a result, six positions have been eliminated in Oxmoor's Palo Alto offices, although the editorial team remains in place under...

Moving in.(Farrar, Straus & Giroux)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Over the weekend, Farrar, Straus & Giroux left its longtime home on Union Square to set up in new, more modern offices at 18 West 18th St. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Oscars by the numbers.(Foreword)(Academy Awards, movie adaptations)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... 3: Number of Best Picture nominees based on a book $64.2 million *: Box office revenue of Best Picture winner No Country for Old Men 117,000 *: Number of copies sold, according to Nielsen BookScan, of Vintages tie-in trade paperback of...

Race, adversity, and triumph.(Deals)(Chris Jackson acquires rights on Wes Moore's Book)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Chris Jackson at Spiegel & Grau beat five other houses in an auction for Wes Moore's Elevate; Linda Loewenthal at the David Black Agency sold world rights. The book will recount the author's triumph over a troubled adolescence to become a...

Wilson to Little, Brown.(Deals)(David Sloan Wilson's Evolving the City)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... John Parsley, Little, Brown senior editor, preempted world rights to evolutionary biologist David Sloan Wilson's Evolving the City, in which he maps the entire town of Binghamton, N.Y. (he has been a professor at Binghamton University for more...

French again to Viking.(Deals)(Tana French )(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Kendra Harpster bought U.S. rights to the next two novels by Tana French via Darley Anderson. French's debut, In the Woods, published by Viking in 2007 and nominated for an Edgar First Novel Award, introduced readers to Det. Rob Ryan of the...

Jacoby on Hiss.(Deals)(Susan Jacoby, Alger Hiss)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Susan Jacoby, whose The Age of American Unreason hit yesterday's New York Times bestseller list, has made a new deal with Yale University Press for a short book on Alger Hiss, to be part of the publisher's American Icons series. Jonathan Brent...

Faking it.(Deals)(Crown wins rights to the book, 'How to Feel As Bright and Capable As Everyone Thinks You Are')(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Crown's Heather Jackson won an auction for Dr. Valerie Young's first book, How to Feel as Bright and Capable as Everyone Thinks You Are. Elisabeth Weed sold world rights. For almost 30 years, this workshop leader and public speaker has been...

Quills suspended.(Quill Awards)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... PW's parent company, Reed Business Information, has announced plans to suspend support of the Quill Awards program after a three-year run. As part of the dissolution of the Quills, the remaining Quills Literacy Foundation funds will be...

Newmarket to Perseus.(Newmarket Press distribution agreement with Perseus Distribution)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Newmarket Press is moving its sales and distribution for the U.S. and Canada from Norton to Perseus Distribution. The new agreement will go into effect May 1. Newmarket, founded in 1981, has been distributed by Norton since 1999.

Story time.(Photograph)
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 2007 Story Prize winner Jim Shepard (Like You'd Understand, Anyway) is flanked by finalists (l.) Vincent Lam (Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures) and Tessa Hadley (Sunstroke and Other Stories) at the New School in...

Tracing desegregation.(Deals)(rights to Rawn James Jr.'s Free to Hit and Fight: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall and the Battle to End Segregation)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Peter Ginna at Bloomsbury won an auction for Rawn James Jr.'s Free to Hit and Fight: Charles Hamilton Houston, Thurgood Marshall and the Battle to End Segregation; Matthew Carnicelli sold world rights. Houston is considered the legal architect...

Three-book debut.(Deals)(Kelley Ragland acquires rights on Lou Manfredo's works)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Kelley Ragland at St. Martin's Minotaur acquired North American rights to Lou Manfredo's Rizzo's Wars, and two more books, in an auction conducted by Nat Sobel. This crime novel follows a 26-year NYPD detective as he initiates a new partner...

Dog noir.(Deals)(rights to The Unscratchables by Cornelius Kane goes to Scribner)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Anna deVries at Scribner bought North American rights to The Unscratchables by Cornelius Kane, to be the first in a canine noir series, with illustrations by the author. In the book, the cops are dogs, the feds are cats, and a barrel-chested...

The evolution of health.(Deals)(rights to Primal Health by William Meller goes to Perigee)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... John Duff and Marian Lizzi at Perigee won world rights to Primal Health by William Meller, M.D., in an auction conducted by Lorin Rees. An expert in the emerging field of evolutionary medicine, Meller will introduce a radical paradigm to...

Lancaster back to NAL.(Deals)(Jen Lancaster)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Blogger Jen Lancaster (jennsylvania.com) has made a deal with Kara Cesare at NAL for a fourth memoir, Pretty in Plaid, via Kate Garrick at DeFiore & Co., who made the six-figure North American sale. Since 2006, Lancaster has published one book...

Rob Dougherty, Clinton book shop, Clinton, N.J.(Galley Talk)(The Cure for Modern Life)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... I was excited about Lisa Tucker's new novel, The Cure for Modern Life [Atria, Mar. 25], because I loved her last novel, Once Upon a Day. This is her best novel yet, with captivating characters, a progressively intricate plot and unexpected...

Calendar March 10-15.(Foreword)(Calendar)
March 3, 2008... 3/10 Grand Central has picked up the self-published success The Woman Who Is Always Tan and Has a Flat Stomach and Other Annoying People by Lauren Allison and Lisa Perry. 3/11 Christopher Rice releases his fourth novel, Blind Fall...

California changes point to new store model.(Retailing)(large bookstore models)
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Is the large bookstore model broken? That's one way to interpret last week's news that one California icon will close--the 5,000-sq.-ft. Dutton's Brentwood Books in Los Angeles--and another--Cody's Books on Fourth...

Young up at Hyperion.(People)(Gretchen Young of Walt Disney Co. Hyperion Press)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Gretchen Young has been promoted to editorial director at Hyperion's ABC Synergy unit. Young will work with Hyperion partner ABC while retaining her role as executive editor of Hyperion.

Marcus to Thomas Dunne.(People)(Karyn Marcus of Thomas Dunne Books)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Karyn Marcus has been named editor at Thomas Dunne Books. She was most recently an associate editor at Doubleday Broadway.

Sagnette to St. Martin's.(People)(Lindsay Sagnette joins St. Martin's Press)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Lindsay Sagnette has been named an editor at St. Martin's Press. Sagnette, who will start at St. Martin's on March 3, arrives from Bloomsbury.

Lindsay to FinePrint.(People)(Colleen Lindsay joins FinePrint Literary Management)(Brief article)
March 3, 2008... Colleen Lindsay has joined FinePrint Literary Management as an agent. Lindsay is a 20-year veteran of the publishing industry. For five years she served as director of publicity for Del Rey Books. As an agent, Lindsay will focus on fantasy and...

Spring show to feature new items.(Mixing It Up)
March 3, 2008... The fourth Spring Book Show, taking place March 28-30 at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, will feature a mix of remaindered titles and sidelines. Larry May, director of the show, expects 550 tables of product from 100 different...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In bestseller Robb 's slick 26th not-so-near-future crime thriller to feature Lt. Eve Dallas, the New York City homicide cop investigates the murder of business tycoon Thomas Anders, whose strangled body is...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
March 3, 2008... Orman's one-hour PBS special on Women & Money is scheduled to re-air during the March pledge drive (some stations began airing it in February). Spiegel & Grau anticipates that the program will air on 80% of all PBS stations nationwide,...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
March 3, 2008... In his new Bestselling hardcover, The Ghost War, Berenson brings back the main character from The Faithful Spy. He explains on his Web site: "John Wells is back. Lucky for him, and for all of us. In truth, I nearly killed him off at the end of...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Oprah named A New Earth her 61st book club selection on January 30 and will join Tolle to teach a flee, live interactive webinar on Oprah.com. Since then, according to Putnam, more than 500,000 people--representing...

Comics bestsellers.
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jeff Smith's acclaimed fantasy/adventure series Bone just keeps rolling along, with Volume 7, Ghost Circles, taking the #3 slot. Bone has sold more than a million copies since Scholastic began publishing it in 2005....

Will Murphy: learns from the masters, edits big ideas.(50 Under 40)(Random House Inc.'s executive editor)
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In high school, Will Murphy would sometimes sneak books under his desk and read during class. He was partial to philosophy; Emerson was a particular favorite. Fast forward about 12 years: Murphy was an editor at...

New life for RFK photos: aperture adds recently found pictures to a classic of photojournalism in time for the 40th anniversary of Robert Kennedy's death.(Robert F. Kennedy)
March 3, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It was meant to be merely a slightly expanded edition of an out-of-print classic of photojournalism, Paul Fusco's RFK Funeral Train, first published in September 2000 by Umbrage Editions. Fusco, a photographer for...

Collected consciousness.(University of California Press and Wesleyan University Press's poetry collections )
March 3, 2008... Poets are the nomads of literary publishing. Poetry books are rarely moneymakers for their publishers; they get published because of a particular house or editor's personal commitment to poetry, to shore up the literary end of a list, or...

The poets' poet: Allen Grossman writes the poems that inspire poets.(Author Profile)
March 3, 2008... How is it that an accomplished poet and scholar, beloved by generations of students, whose work has enjoyed the praise of no less than Harold Bloom, remains, at 76, something of a poet's poet, a secret hero to a few rather than an enthusiasm...

Shining City.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Shining City SETH GREENLAND. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59691-504-6 Greenland's uproarious second novel (after The Bones) follows the manifold ups and downs of Marcus Ripps, an unemployed and ill-fated altruist who inherits from...

The Sand Castle.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... The Sand Castle RITA MAE BROWN. Grove, $18.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1870-7 Feisty Southern sisters Juts and Wheezy, of bestselling author Brown's Six of One trilogy, are back and as irascible as ever. The story unfolds in a single summer...

Time Is a River.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Time Is a River MARY ALICE MONROE. Pocket, $25 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4436-4 Monroe delivers another novel of strong Southern women, and though this one has its share of weak moments, the author's love for her characters is palpable...

The Size of the World.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... * The Size of the World JOAN SILBER. Norton, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-05909-0 War, love and culture shock take various forms, but the size of the world, in Silber's magnificent fiction, is often no larger than the distance to the...

An Absolute Scandal.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... An Absolute Scandal PENNY VINCENZI. Doubleday, $24.95 (640p) ISBN 978-0-385-51989-2 Britain's bestselling Vincenzi (Sheer Abandon, etc.) Sets this doggedly optimistic epic at the sunset of Thatcherism, and the bleak economic landscape...

The Scandal Plan.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... The Scandal Plan BILL FOLMAN. Morrow, $24.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-144765-5 An earnest presidential hopeful's campaign staff invents a sex scandal in Folman's slick debut. After Machiavellian campaign manager Thomas Campman hears a voice...

Stealing Athena.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Stealing Athena KAREN ESSEX. Doubleday, $22.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-385-51971-7 Lord Elgin may be famous for bringing the Parthenon's sculptural masterpieces to England during the Napoleonic wars, but for Essex (Leonardo's Swans), it's Lady...

Stone Creek.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Stone Creek VICTORIA LUSTBADER. Harper, $13.95 paper (384p) ISBN 9-/8-0-06-136921-6 Lily Spencer, Childless married 46, falls for 30-something widower Danny Malloy and his five-year-old son in this would-be Whartonesque marriage tale from...

The Island of Eternal Love.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... The Island of Eternal Love DAINA CHAVIANO, TRANS. FROM THE SPANISH BY ANDREA LABINGER. Riverhead, $25.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59448-992-1 In Chaviano's first English translation, historical fiction is given a strong if awkward shot of the...

Happy Family.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Happy Family WENDY LEE. Grove/Black Cat, $14 paper (240p) ISBN 978-0-8021-7046-0 Lee's debut novel is the heartfelt story of Hua Wu, a young Chinese immigrant who comes to New York City and serendipitously becomes a nanny to an adopted...

Mistress of the Sun.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Mistress of the Sun SANDRA GULLAND. Touchstone, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7432-9887-2 As she did for Napoleon's wife (The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.), Gulland skillfully blends fact and fiction to imagine the life of Louise de...

The Franchise Babe.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... The Franchise Babe DAN JENKINS. Doubleday, $24.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-385-51910-6 In Jenkins's outrageous sports satire (after Slim and None), middle-aged sportswriter Jack Brannon is sick of writing about Tiger Woods and the boring...

December.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... December ELIZABETH HARTLEY WINTHROP. Knopf, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 078-0-307-26830-3 Like her 2006 debut, Fireworks, Winthrop's second novel focuses on the turmoil wrought by the loss of a child. Although Wilson and Ruth Carter's 11year-old...

The Wednesday Sisters.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... The Wednesday Sisters MEG WAITE CLAYTON. Ballantine, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-345-50282-7 In her light second novel, Clayton chronicles a group of mothers who convene in a Palo Alto park and share their changing lives as the late 1960s...

Exiles.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Exiles RON HANSEN. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $23 (212p) ISBN 078-0-374-15007-6 Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) wrote some of the most beautiful and innovative poetry in English of the late 19th century. In Hansen's vivid fiction, Hopkins...

Netherland.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... * Netherland JOSEPH O'NEILL Pantheon, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-307-37704-3 Hans van den Broek, the Dutch-born narrator of O'Neill's dense, intelligent novel, observes of his friend, Chuck Ramkissoon, a self-mythologizing...

Attachment.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Attachment ISABEL FONSECA. Knopf, $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-26691-0 In a compelling fiction debut, Fonseca takes syndicated health columnist Jean Hubbard, an Oxford-trained lawyer, through a dramatic demonstration of the limits of...

Silesian Station.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Silesian Station DAVID DOWNING. Soho, $24 (336p) ISBN 978-1-56947-494-5 In Downing's quiet sequel to Zoo Station, set mostly in Berlin in 1939, British journalist John Russell gets involved in multiple intrigues while working as an amateur...

Child 44.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... * Child 44 TOM ROB SMITH. Grand Central, $24.99 (440p) ISBN 978-0-446-40238-5 Set in the Soviet Union in 1953, this stellar debut from British author Smith offers appealing characters, a strong plot and authentic period detail. When war...

The World Before Her.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... The World Before Her DEBORAH WEISGALL. Houghton Mifflin, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-618-74657-6 Two women in Venice, separated by a century, search for love and identity in the latest from novelist (Still Point) and memoirist (A Joyful Noise)...

The Romanov Bride.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... The Romanov Bride ROBERT ALEXANDER. Viking, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-670-01881-9 In this robust historical set during the Romanov twilight, Alexander (The Kitchen Boy) chronicles the careers of two emblematic individuals--the real-life...

Twenty Wishes.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Twenty Wishes DEBBIE MACOMBER. Mira, $24.95 (368p) ISBN 9-/8-0-7783-2550-5 Macomber returns to Seattle's fictional Blossom Street of A Good Yarn (and others) for a hopeful tale of four widows who meet at 38-year-old Anne Marie Roche's...

Island of Lost Girl.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Island of Lost Girls JENNIFER MCMAHON. Harper, $13.95 paper (304p) ISBN 078-0-06-144588-0 At the start of McMahon's haunting second novel (after Promise Not to Tell), recent college grad Rhonda Farr witnesses a child abduction in front of...

Chateau beyond Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... * Chateau Beyond Time MICHAEL TOBIAS. Council Oak, $25 (280p) ISBN 978-1-57178-213-7 At the start of this well-written and sophisticated thriller from Tobias (Deva), a strange one-horned animal breaks out of a storage crate being unloaded...

The Report to the Judiciary.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... The Report to the Judiciary EUGENE SULLIVAN. Forge, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1388-1 A former judge and Washington insider, Sullivan fails to make the most of an intriguing premise in his second political thriller (after The Majority...

Scared to Live.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Scared to Live STEPHEN BOOTH. Bantam, $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-385-33907-0 Two gruesome homicides preoccupy Det. Sgt. Diane Fry and Det. Constable Ben Cooper in Booth's ambitious seventh police procedural (after The Dead Place). In England's...

Secrets.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Secrets JUDE DEVERAUX. Atria, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7434-3718-9 Romance titan Deveraux (Someone to Love, etc.) packs her latest with jagged surprises, but the pieces fail to fall together satisfyingly. At age 12, Cassandra Madden has...

The King of Corsica.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... The King of Corsica MICHAEL KLEEBERG, TRANS. FROM THE GERMAN BY DAVID DOLLEN-MAYER. Other Press, $24.95 (392p) ISBN 978-1-59051-256-2 German writer and translator Kleeberg probes pockets of early 18th-century power in his smartly droll...

Soul.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Soul TOBSHA LEARNER. Forge, $14.95 paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2010-0 This combination period bodice-ripper and contemporary medical thriller asks if it is possible for a killer trait to be passed down generations. In 2002, Julia...

Chez Moi.(Chez Moi: A Novel)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Chez Moi AGNES DESARTHE, TRANS. FROM THE FRENCH BY ADRIANA HUNTER. Penguin, $14 paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-14311323-2 As the self-proclaimed "biggest fucker-upper the world has ever brought forth," Myriam, 43, is an unlikely restaurateur, but...

The Whole Truth.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... The Whole Truth DAVID BALDACCI. Grand Central, $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-446-19597-3 Usually a sophisticated plotter, bestseller Baldacci (Absolute Power) offers a story line and villain on a par with an average James Bond film in what's...

In the Heat.(In the Heat: A Novel)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... In the Heat IAN VASQUEZ. St. Martin's Minotaur, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-37809-7 At the start of Vasquez's promising first novel, which is set in Belize, fading boxer Miles Young is planning to hang up his gloves and dedicate himself to...

The Fisher Boy.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... * The Fisher Boy STEPHEN ANABLE. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (348p) ISBN 978-1-59058-480-4 Ingenious plotting and witty prose lift Anable's distinctive debut, set mainly on Cape Cod. Soon after Bostonian Mark Winslow and his comedy improv troupe...

The Body in the Gallery: A Faith Fairchild Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... The Body in the Gallery: A Faith Fairchild Mystery KATHERINE HALL PAGE. Morrow, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-076367-1 Is it art or murder? In Page's savory 17th Faith Fairchild mystery (after 2006's The Body in the Ivy), the caterer/chef...

A Deadly Paradise.(A Deadly Paradise: A Commissario Cenni Investigation )(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... A Deadly Paradise GRACE BROPHY. Soho Crime, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56947-491-4 In Brophy's appealing if low-key second mystery to feature Insp. Alessandro Cenni (after 2007's The Last Enemy), the murder ofJarvinia Baudler in the Italian village...

The Mark of the Pasha: A Mamur Zapt Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... The Mark of the Pasha: A Mamur Zapt Mystery MICHAEL PEARCE. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (206p) ISBN 978-1-59058-444-6 The movement for Egyptian independence turns increasingly violent at the end of WWI, in 1918, presenting Gareth Owen (aka the...

Mack to the Rescue.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Mack to the Rescue JIM LEHRER. Univ. of Oklahoma, $24.95 (216p) ISBN 978-0-8061-3915-9 Though billed as a mystery, the broadly satiric eighth entry in PBS news anchor Lehrer's One-Eyed Mack series (Kick the Can, etc.) contains no crimes as such...

Blood Harvest.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Blood Harvest BRANT RANDALL. Capital Crime (www.capitalcrimepress.com), $19.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-9799960-1-6 Set in 1929, Randall's uneven debut explores anti-immigrant prejudice in a small rural New England community. When Angus MacKay...

Trick of the Mind.(Trick of the Mind: A Mystery)(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Trick of the Mind CASSANDRA CHAN. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-36939-2 A solid plot and a view of some of London's more obscure neighborhoods enhance Chan's third contemporary cozy to feature amateur sleuth Phillip...

Something Wild Is Loose: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Vol. Three.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... * Something Wild Is Loose: The Collected Stories of Robert Silverberg, Vol. Three ROBERT SILVERBERG. Subterranean (www.subterraneanpress.com), $35 (408p) ISBN 978-1-59606-143-9 This third of a projected eight volumes of Grand Master...

Kethani.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 3, 2008... Kethani ERIC BROWN. Solaris, $15 paper (304p) ISBN 978-1-84416-473-8 Pleasant but evasive, this episodic novel posits a future where the alien Kethani give humanity a sort of immortality. Upon their deaths, people with K&hani implants are...