Publishers Weekly articles from March 2012

Publishers Weekly archives from March 2012

A sense of urgency? Betty White, e-books highlight strong PLA 2012.(News)(Public Library Association)
March 26, 2012... More than 8,700 attendees and over 400 exhibitors gathered in Philadelphia, March 13-17, for the Public Library Association 2012 Biennial Conference, and despite lingering discord with publishers over e-books and ever-tightening budget...

New female novelists draw plaudits.(News)(Madeline Miller, Jennifer DuBois, Grace McCleen and Karen Thompson Walker)
March 26, 2012... This spring and summer readers will see a healthy dose of first-time efforts from (young) female authors. A number of these titles are drawing strong early word-of-mouth, as well as solid reviews. A look at a few of the debuts that have people...

Ruckus ramps up.(Amped)(Ruckus Media Group)
March 26, 2012... Since its launch in September 2010 by former Simon & Schuster executive Rick Richter, Ruckus Media Group had released 20 apps, but the company plans a big increase in 2012, with 100 new titles scheduled. To increase its output, Ruckus is...

Hastings making product shifts.(Hastings Entertainment)(Brief article)
March 26, 2012... For the full year at Hastings Entertainment, sales fell 4.7%, to $496.4 million, and the retailer had a net loss of $17.6 million compared to earnings of $1.7 million in 2010. Hastings said the company "will shift our business model more toward...

Schnittman to Hachette.(Evan Schnittman appointment)(Brief article)
March 26, 2012... Hachette has appointed Evan Schnittman to the newly created role of executive v-p, chief marketing and sales officer.

Godine to publish restored Werfel classic.(Book News)(David Godine on Franz Werfel's "The Forty Days of Musa Dagh")
March 26, 2012... Best known for The Song of Bernadette (1941), which was turned into an Oscar-winning movie, Jewish writer Franz Werfel (18901945) was also the author of one of the most popular Book-of-the-Month Club titles ever, The Forty Days of Musa Dagh....

Ingram agrees with CUP, EPAC.(Cambridge University Press and ePAC Technologies Inc.)(Brief article)
March 26, 2012... Ingram has signed an agreement with Cambridge University Press that will give Ingram management responsibility for CUP's North American warehousing and fulfillment functions. Ingram has also reached an agreement to acquire two EPAC plants and...

Candlewick lands debut.(Deals)(Skila Brown's "Caminar")(Brief article)
March 26, 2012... Winner of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators Work-in-Progress grant, Skila Brown's debut middle grade novel, Caminar, was acquired by Liz Bicknell at Candlewick. Tina Wexler at ICM handled the sale of the book, which is told...

Ballantine hits the 'Kitchen' with QVC.(Deals)(David Venable's In the Kitchen with David)(Brief article)
March 26, 2012... Pamela Cannon at Ballantine took world rights to David Venable's In the Kitchen with David. The cookbook will be spun off Venable's eponymous show on QVC--the cooking program is the network's highest rated--and is slated for fall 2012. The book...

Perigee takes three-hour-tour with Wells.(Deals)(Dawn Wells's Why We Love Mary Ann)(Brief article)
March 26, 2012... John Duff at Perigee bought world rights, at auction, to Dawn Wells's Why We Love Mary Ann. Wells, who played Mary Ann on Gilligan's Island and has since become an inspirational speaker, offers up a work that the Penguin imprint calls "part...

Haruf returns to Knopf.(Deals)(Kent Haruf signs with Knopf for "Benediction")(Brief article)
March 26, 2012... Kent Haruf's longtime editor, Gary Fisketjon, took world English rights to the author's latest novel, Benediction, in a six-figure deal orchestrated by Nancy Stauffer Cahoon at Nancy Stauffer Associates. The novel, set for a February 2013...

Melding warfare with parenting in a tongue-in-cheek style, J.D./Ph.D. Suzanne Evans sold Machiavelli for Moms: A Memoir on the Effective Governance of Young Children to Michelle Howry at Touchstone.(Brief article)
March 26, 2012... Melding warfare with parenting in a tongue-in-cheek style, J.D./Ph.D. Suzanne Evans sold Machiavelli for Moms: A Memoir on the Effective Governance of Young Children to Michelle Howry at Touchstone. Agent Joy Tutela of David Black Literary...

In a book-to-film deal, Jody Hotchkiss of Hotchkiss and Associates sold dramatic rights to Brando Skyhorse's The Madonnas of Echo Park (Free Press) to HBO for series adaptation.(Brief article)
March 26, 2012... In a book-to-film deal, Jody Hotchkiss of Hotchkiss and Associates sold dramatic rights to Brando Skyhorse's The Madonnas of Echo Park (Free Press) to HBO for series adaptation. Hotchkiss handled the deal on behalf of the Susan Golomb Agency....

Poetry and dieting score in February.(Selling Abroad)
March 26, 2012... A surprising success occurred in Italy last month, where the collected poems of Wislawa Szymborska landed at #2. Szymborska, who died February 1 at the age of 88, has a similar collection seeing "steady sales" in the U.S. from Mariner Books...

SXSW: six new ventures: if you can't find an interesting startup at SXSW, you're not really looking.(Startups)
March 26, 2012... What were some of the most interesting startups at SXSW held in Austin, Tex., earlier this month? We certainly did not get a chance to see everyone--if you sneezed in Austin, you'd likely be hitting a tech entrepreneur in the crowd--but we were...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
March 26, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For Star Wars Fans not in the loop, Apocalypse is the ninth and final book in the Fate of the Jedi series, which takes place some 44 years after Star Wars: A New Hope-making Luke and Leia about 62. Denning, who's...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
March 26, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As the Pioneer Woman, Drummond's establishing quite a cottage industry--make that a log cabin industry. Her 2009 bestseller, subtitled Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl, was followed by Black Heels to Tractor...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
March 26, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MOVIE UPDATE. After climbing this list for several weeks, Lucky One landed the top spot last week, and today. GCP's trade paper tie-in has also been upwardly mobile--it's in today's sixth spot. What's interesting about...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
March 26, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Kathryn Stockett, on possibly getting flack for writing black characters although she's white: "Yeah, I get flack. But so far the flack has actually been a part of this important conversation that seems to be taking...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
March 26, 2012... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Bestseller Cornwell's compelling 18th Kay Scarpetta novel (after The Scarpetta Factor), her strongest work in years, involves the chief medical examiner in a case that's both far-reaching in its national security...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
March 26, 2012... "To put it as plain and simple as I know how to make it: no assumption of the feeling of the wish fulfilled, no fulfillment of your wishes. In other words, it is absolutely imperative to learn how to assume, in your imagination, the feeling of...

Is 'buy local' enough? The campaign has helped, but more needs to be done, retailers say.(Retail Nation)
March 26, 2012... Like the Austin Independent Business Alliance, begun by Steve Bercu, co-owner of BookPeople, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, many early shop-local initiatives were started to keep Borders out. In Austin, Borders's attempt to...

Licensing's new balancing act: companies weigh global strategies and local preferences.(Licensing)
March 26, 2012... The adage "think global, act local" is an increasingly apt description for the international publishing strategies of Hollywood film studios, television producers, and digital brand owners when it comes to licensing their content. "We have a...

London briefcase 2012: a rundown of what American agents are bringing to the fair: Frank Langella talks famous friends; Pete Townshend dishes on rock superstardom; Pete Carlin dishes on the Boss; Marcus Samuelsson shares kitchen tales; Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi take on Amanda Knox; and more in this year's roundup of big books the American agencies will be selling at the upcoming London International Book Fair.(London Book Fair)
March 26, 2012... Baror International A project the agency is particularly high on heading into London is Cassandra Clare's the Dark Artifices trilogy (S&S/ Margaret K. McElderry, 2015), a new series from the bestselling author, set in present-day Los...

Fitting poetry to the screen: how one press is working to solve poetry's e-book problems.(Copper Canyon Press)
March 26, 2012... The same problem persists--e-books and poetry just don't get along as well as e-books and prose. It's those line breaks, poetry's defining feature. The problem is a simple sounding one, but really tough to solve. Because the she same e-book has...

Why I write ...(Poetry Publishing)(Poem)
March 26, 2012... I write poetry as a mode of inquiry, of response, of sounding out, of feeling out, of thinking through, of joining in; I write poetry to communicate and not to communicate--for as D.W. Winnicott wrote, "it is joy to be hidden but disaster not to...

Poetry profiled 2012: in honor of National Poetry Month, here are four poets to watch.(Author Profiles)(Amanda Nadelberg, Eduardo C. Corral, Rowan Ricardo Phillips and Rebecca Lindenberg)
March 26, 2012... Some of this year's best poets are the newest. PW talked to three poets publishing their debut volumes this year, and one whose highly anticipated second collection will appear. Poet: Amanda Nadelberg Book: Bright Brave Phenomena (Coffee...

Artful considerations: buyers in museum shops and galleries share their opinions and predictions.(Art & Photography Books)
March 26, 2012... The world of art and photography books is one of lushly illustrated and exciting titles, many of which are expensive, too. PW recently asked buyers at five bookstores specializing in art and photography titles to comment on the latest trends in...

Lower unit sales, fewer titles.(Facts & Figures 2011)
March 26, 2012... For both fiction and nonfiction hardcover titles, name-brand recognition is the key to bestseller success. While that is not new, the 2011 annual chart had fewer than usual new players. In fiction, there were two novelists debuting in the top...

You Are Not Like Other Mothers.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... * You Are Not Like Other Mothers Angelika Schrobsdorff, trans, from the German by Steven Rendall. Europa (Penguin, dist.), $18 trade paper (528p) ISBN 978-1-60945-075-5 Schrobsdorff's title comes from a poem that describes a mother who...

The Undertow.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... The Undertow Jo Baker. Knopf, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-307-95709-2 Baker's saga about four generations of the British Hastings family, beginning with a young William sailing off to WWI, explores the effects of war, poverty, dreams, and the...

Rain Dragon.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Rain Dragon Jon Raymond. Bloomsbury, $15 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-60819-679-1 Screenwriter and author Raymond (Livability) puts a fresh spin on an old notion in his new novel. Damon and Amy are L.A. professionals who pull up stakes...

Trapeze.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Trapeze Simon Mawer. Other Press, $15.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-l-59051-527-3 Mawer follows his Man Booker-short-listed The Glass Room with another WWII novel based on the fascinating true story of Englishwomen whose French-language...

The Tyrant.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... The Tyrant Jacques Chessex, trans. from the French by Martin Sokolinsky. Bitter Lemon, $14.95 trade paper (202p) ISBN 978-1-904738-94-7 First published in France in 1973, this unbearably sad novel from Swiss author Chessex (1934-2009), the...

Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Jana Bibi's Excellent Fortunes Betsy Woodman. Holt, $15 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9349-0 Woodman's debut novel (the first in a series) follows a quaint patchwork of characters living in smalltown India, with Jana Bibi at its...

The House of Velvet and Glass.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... The House of Velvet and Glass Katherine Howe. Hyperion/Voice, $25.99 (432p) ISBN 978-1-4013-4091-9 The sinking of the Titanic ripples through the lives of a socially prominent Boston family in an impressive historical tale from Howe (The...

Gold.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... * Gold Chris Cleave. Simon & Schuster, $27 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4516-7272-5 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Cleave (Little Bee) goes for the gold and brings it home in his thrillingly written and emotionally rewarding novel about the world of...

Shelter.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Shelter Frances Greenslade. Free Press, $15 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-1-4516-6110-1 Greenslade's beautiful debut novel (after the memoir By a Secret Ladder) chronicles the struggles of sisters Maggie and Jenny as they attempt to make...

Saving Ruth.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Saving Ruth Zoe Fishman. Morrow, $14.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-205984-0 Most teens pack on the dreaded "freshman fifteen" their first year at college, but 19-year-old Ruth's first year triggers an eating disorder that turns the...

The Lucky Dog Matchmaking Service.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... The Lucky Dog Matchmaking Service Beth Kendrick. NAL, $15 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-45:1-23666-1 Kendrick (The Bake-Off) not only shines in portraying the subtleties of female friendships, but also at rendering the unbreakable bond...

PW talks with Robert Goolrick: passion play.(Q&A)(Interview)
March 26, 2012... In Robert Goolrick's second novel, Heading Out to Wonderful (Reviews, Feb. 27; pub date, June 12), WWII vet Charlie Beale arrives in rural Virginia hoping for a bright future, but gets mixed up with Sylvan, a dreamer married to a wealthy and...

Divorce Islamic Style.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Divorce Islamic Style Amara Lakhous, trans, from the Italian by Ann Goldstein. Europa (Penguin, dist.), $15 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-60945-066-3 Lakhous (Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio) deftly satirizes...

A Dog's Journey.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... * A Dog's Journey W. Bruce Cameron. Tor/Forge, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3053-6 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In this utterly charming and often heartbreaking follow-up to A Dog's Purpose, Buddy, a faithful dog who, through numerous...

Abdication.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Abdication Juliet Nicolson. Atria, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4516-5883-5 Set in England in 1936, historian Nicolson's debut novel explores the tumultuous love lives of two couples, set against the backdrop of a world bracing for another global...

Home.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... * Home Toni Morrison. Knopf, $24 (160p) ISBN 978-0-307-59416-7 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winner Morrison's immaculate new novel (after A Mercy), Frank Money returns from the horrors of the Korean War to an...

Menage.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Menage Alix Kates Shulman. Other Press, $14.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-59051-520-4 On a whim, trusting, childlike, gullible Mack McKay decides to install Zoltan, the once-famous emigre writer he meets at a funeral, in his sprawling...

Harriet Beamer Takes the Bus.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Harriet Beamer Takes the Bus Joyce Magnin. Zondervan, $14.99 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-310-33355-5 Magnin (Bright's Pond series) continues her quirky ways with the titular character, a 72-year-old widow who takes the long way across...

Dirt.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Dirt David Vann. Harper, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-212103-5 There's a kind of sadistic integrity to this story of putrefying family life and mental breakdown in 1980s Northern California, Vann's follow-up to last year's Caribou Island....

True Faith.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... True Faith Ira Sadoff. BOA Editions (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-1-934414-82-8 "I think I want everyone and everything to be loved so much/I get dour," Sadoff writes in his eighth collection. Sadoffsees himself and...

After Urgency.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... * After Urgency Rusty Morrison. Tupelo (www.tupelopress.org), $16.95 trade paper (82p) ISBN 978-1-932195-41-5 This third--and best--volume from California resident Morrison (Whethering) is also by far her saddest, reacting to the deaths of...

That Said: New and Selected Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... * That Said: New and Selected Poems Jane Shore. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-547-68711-7 In Shore's first retrospective collection, fortunes and fairy tales converge with real experiences--a daughter growing up, a...

Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Hotel Lobby at the Edge of the World Adam Clay. Milkweed Editions (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-1-57131-441-3 Immediately striking about the poems in Clay's second book is their lack of self-consciousness. The poet's...

Madame X.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Madame X Darcie Dennigan. Canarium (SPD, dist,), $14 trade paper (112p) ISBN 978-0-98223-768-7 In Dennigan's poem "Matriarchy," the mysterious Madame X makes an appearance, asking the bewildering question, "Why Have There Been No Great...

Poetry & prose.(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Acclaimed poet Lucia Perillo makes her fiction debut alongside the publication of her most powerful collection of poems. * Happiness Is a Chemical in the Brain Lucia Perillo. Norton, $23.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-393-08353-8 [ILLUSTRATION...

Exit, Civilian.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Exit, Civilian Idra Novey. Univ. of Georgia, $16.95 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-0-8203-2898-0 Novey (The Next Country) devotes her spare, angry and careful second book to imprisonment: incarceration as a metaphor, the literal troubles of...

Fjords, Vol. 1.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Fjords, Vol. 1 Zachary Schomburg. Black Ocean (SPD, dist.) $14.95 trade paper (72p) ISBN 978-0-9844752-5-4 It's said that insanity is doing the same thing over and over while expecting different results, something Schomburg understands. In...

Still: Of the Earth as the Ark Which Does Not Move.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Still: Of the Earth as the Ark Which Does Not Move Matthew Cooperman. Counterpath (SPD, dist.), $15.95 trade paper (116p) ISBN 978-1-933996-24-0 For his third full-length collection, Cooperman mines the language of reportage to create a...

After the Point of No Return.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... After the Point of No Return David Wagoner. Copper Canyon Press (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (144p) ISBN 978-1-55659-382-6 In his latest collection, Wagoner riffs on his titles--"My Father's Body," "Driving," "Playground," "What...

This Morning.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... This Morning Michael Ryan. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $20 (96p) ISBN 978-0-547-68459-8 Sometimes, the poems in Michael Ryan's fifth book--the first since his New and Selected Poems won the Kingsley Tufts Award in 2004--concentrate on...

The Collected Writings.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... The Collected Writings Joe Brainard, edited by Ron Padgett, with a preface by Paul Auster. Library of America, $35 (576p) ISBN 978-1-59853-149-7 Uncommonly versatile and uncommonly funny, Brainard (1942-1994) might be best-known for I...

Left-Handed.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Left-Handed Jonathan Galassi. Knopf, $26 (128p) ISBN 978-0-307-95708-5 FSG president and noted translator Galassi, in his third collection of poems, tells a tale of love--and a lifestyle--ended and new love and life found. The four-line...

Ice Cap.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Ice Cap Chris Knopf. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-00517-5 At the start of Knopf's breezy third Southampton mystery featuring defense attorney Jackie Swaitkowski (after 2011's Bad Bird), client Franco Raffini summons Jackie during...

The Solitary House.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... * The Solitary House Lynn Shepherd. Delacorte, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-0-345-53242-8 Shepherd follows her 2010 debut, Murder at Mansfield Park, which successfully channeled Jane Austen, with an equally satisfying reworking of Bleak House,...

Alpha.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Alpha Greg Rucka, Little, Brown/ Mulholland, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-316-18228-7 This pulse-pounding first in a new thriller series from bestseller Rucka (The Last Run) introduces special operative Jonathan "Jud" Bell. Back in the States...

PW talks with Brian Freeman: murder in the Midwest.(Q&A)(Interview)
March 26, 2012... Two fictional Minnesota towns, one rich, one poor, clash in Brian Freeman's novel of psychological suspense, Spilled Blood (Reviews, Feb. 20; pub date, May). What is it about the rural Midwest that prompted you to set all your novels there?...

Don't Cry Tai Lake: An Inspector Chen Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Don't Cry Tai Lake: An Inspector Chen Novel Qiu Xiaolong. Minotaur, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-312-55064-6 Edgar-finalist Qiu's enjoyable seventh Inspector Chen novel (after 2009's The Mao Case) takes the vacationing Shanghai police officer...

The Inquisitor's Key.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... The Inquisitor's Key Jefferson Bass. Morrow, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-06-180679-7 Dr. Bill Brockton too often acts like a cookie-cutter action hero in the pseudonymous Bass's seventh novel featuring the Tennessee bone expert (after 2011's...

A Deeper Darkness.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... A Deeper Darkness J.T. Ellison. Mira, $14.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1320-5 Thriller Award-winner Ellison (Where All the Dead Lie) introduces Dr. Samantha Owens, Tennessee's head medical examiner, in this scintillating first in...

Last Call for the Living.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Last Call for the Living Peter Farris. Forge, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-07653-3007-9 Those who savor violent action will welcome Farris's debut, a bleak crime thriller. Shortly after Hobe Hicklin, a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, gets out...

The Chessman.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... * The Chessman Jeffrey B. Burton. MacAdam/Cage, $25 (352p) ISBN 978-1-59692-370-6 Burton (Sleuth Slayer) delivers an outstanding serial killer thriller that will impress even seasoned practitioners of this subgenre. Three years earlier,...

A Death in Mexico.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... A Death in Mexico Jonathan Woods. New Pulp (www.newpulppress.com), $15 trade paper (218p) ISBN 9780-9828436-8-0 Brutal as the kick of raw mescal, tile first novel from Woods (the short fiction collection Bad Juju & Other Tales of...

Lady, Go Die!: A Mike Hammer Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Lady, Go Die!: A Mike Hammer Novel Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins. Titan (www.titanbooks.com), $25.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-85768-465-3 A clever, fast-moving plot drives Collins's gritty fifth posthumous collaboration with MWA Grand...

Gone Girl.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... * Gone Girl Gillian Flynn. Crown, $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-307-58836-4 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There's the evil you can see coming--and then there's Amy Elliott. Superficially, this privileged Gotham golden girl, inspiration for her...

Instinct: A Henry Christie Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Instinct: A Henry Christie Mystery Nick Oldham. Severn, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7278-8132-8 Oldham's solid 17th Henry Christie mystery (after 2011's Facing Justice) finds the Lancashire detective superintendent living with his 23-year-old...

Nightworld.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Nightworld F. Paul Wilson. Tor, $24.99 (400p) ISBN 978-07653-2167-1 Revised significantly since its first printing in 1992, this apocalyptic horror thriller makes a dazzling finale to Wilson's long-running saga of Repairman Jack and his...

A Mind of Winter.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... A Mind of Winter Shira Nayman. Akashic, $15.95 trade paper (332p) ISBN 978-1-61775-103-5 Three people whose lives touched during WWII take turns narrating this haunting psychological thriller from Nayman (The Listener): Oscar, an enigmatic...

The Constant Lovers: A Richard Nottingham Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... * The Constant Lovers: A Richard Nottingham Mystery Chris Nickson. Severn/Creme de la Crime, $28.95 (224p) ISBN 978-1-78029-518-3 In Nickson's excellent third 18th-century historical featuring Leeds constable Richard Nottingham (after...

What Comes Next.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... * What Comes Next John Katzenbach. Grove/Atlantic/Mysterious, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-0-8021-2611-5 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Set in a small western Massachusetts college town, bestseller Katzenbach's impressively powerful and emotional...

Viva La Madness.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Viva La Madness J.J. Connolly. Overlook, $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-59020-859-5 Set in 2001, Connolly's follow-up to his well-received debut, Layer Cake (2001), offers plenty of violence, graphic sex, and coarse, colorful language, but...

A Fatal Fleece: A Seaside Knitters Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... A Fatal Fleece: A Seaside Knitters Mystery Sally Goldenbaum. NAL/Obsidian, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-451-23675-3 Near the start of Goldenbaum's beguiling sixth knitting cozy set in Sea Harbor, Mass. (after 2011's The Wedding Shawl), Birdie...

Murder on Fifth Avenue: A Gaslight Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Murder on Fifth Avenue: A Gaslight Mystery Victoria Thompson. Berkley Prime Crime, $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-425-24741-9 At the outset of Thompson's fine 14th mystery set in late 19th-century New York City (after 2011's Murder on Sisters...

Spoiled Rotten: A Liz Walker Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Spoiled Rotten: A Liz Walker Mystery Mary Jackman. Dundurn, $11.99 mass market (232p) ISBN 978-1-45970-141-0 Jackman's entertaining debut, centered on a cozy Toronto bistro, is sure to appeal to anyone interested in the restaurant...

Deadlocked.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Deadlocked Charlaine Harris. Ace, $27.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-937007-44-7 The events of Dead Reckoning--particularly the death of the despicable but powerful vampire Victor--have consequences for Sookie Stackhouse and her supernatural gang in...

Orb Sceptre Throne.(Brief article)(Book review)
March 26, 2012... Orb Sceptre Throne Ian C. Esslemont. Tor, $29.99 (720p) ISBN 9780-7653-2996-7 Continuing the chronicles of the Malazan Empire, Esslemont (Stonewielder) spins a tale of adventure and history that is both weighty and electrifying, both...