Publishers Weekly articles from May 2010

Publishers Weekly archives from May 2010

Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference.(Pick of the week: Brain Matters)(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... * Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference Cordelia Fine. Norton, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-393-06838-2 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With a fabulous combination of wit, passion, and scholarship, Fine (A Mind...

BEA 2010: short but sweet: the annual industry meeting crammed a lot into a few days.(Foreword)(BookExpo America )
May 31, 2010... With less talk than last year about the economy and even less debate over the future of the event itself, BookExpo America concluded its first run as a midweek show May 27 with many calling the show a success. There was one mid-course...

PW moving: will skip June 7 issue.(Packing Up)(Publishers Weekly)(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... There have been lots of changes at Publishers Weekly since we were acquired by George Slowik Jr. at the beginning of April, and more change is coming. On June 3 we are moving our offices and will thenceforth be located at 71 W. 23rd St., Suite...

Digital deals at BEA.(Show Stars)(BookExpo America)
May 31, 2010... From the overflow attendance at the International Digital Publishing Forum to a panel of digitally skeptical publishing CEOs, one way or another e-books and digital publishing were at the heart of this year's BEA. OverDrive CEO Steve Potash said...

Penguin, Amazon settle.(Penguin Books Inc., Amazon.com Inc.)(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... Penguin and Amazon have settled their dispute, and Penguin frontlist e-book titles should begin appearing in the Kindle bookstore no later than Monday. CEO David Shanks said, "The deal is done," without offering details on the dispute. Penguin's...

Schlosser named CEO at HCC.(Haights Cross Communications' Ron Schlosser as chief executive officer)(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... Ron Schlosser, recently a senior adviser to Providence Equity Partners, has been named chair man and CEO of Haights Cross Communications. Interim CEO Paul Crecca, who had a key role in revamping HCC's finances, will return to the position of CFO.

B&N eReader app for iPad.(Barnes and Noble Inc.)(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... An iPad-enhanced version of Barnes & Noble's BN eReader is now available. The app also allows users to share e-books. Users can select certain titles from their library to lend to friends with a Nook, iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch (as well as...

Borders strategy: fewer stores, more digital.(Update)(Borders Group Inc.'s sales)(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... With total revenue and comp sales down again in the first quarter of 2010, Borders Group's two top executives discussed ways to improve the chain's profitability (loss in the quarter was reduced to $64.1 million, from $86.0 million) and its...

AAP March sales report.(Foreword)(Statistical table)
May 31, 2010... AAP March sales Report % CHANGE CATEGORY March YTD Adult Hard (17) * 15.1% 3.7% Adult Paper (9) 38.2 23.5 Adult Mass Mkt. (9) -18.1 -6.6 Children's Hard (4) ...

Alibris debuts author stores.(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... Alibris, the new-and used-book online marketplace, has launched Author Stores, a program that allows self-published authors to sell their books through the Alibris marketplace and its partners.

New Auel deal.(Jean M. Auel)(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... The Land of Painted Caves, the sixth and final book of Jean M. Auel's megabestselling Earth's Children series, will be published March 29, 2011. The deal was announced at BEA by Crown Books and the Jean Naggar Literary Agency. The book will be...

Disney to manage Marvel kids' books.(Disney Publishing Worldwide )(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... Disney Publishing Worldwide has begun managing the global children's licensed book publishing business formerly overseen by Marvel Entertainment. Disney acquired Marvel in 2009. The move is no surprise and covers only licensed children's books;...

Partying in Harlem.(African American writers)(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] African-American writers, publishers, and book professionals got to mix and mingle at the Black Pack Party held in Harlem, an annual BEA event sponsored by AALBC.com

The iPad makes its presence felt.(Shake Up)
May 31, 2010... The spring release of the iPad had an immediate impact on the e-book device market. According to the third and final report of the Book Industry Study Group-sponsored study Consumer Attitudes Toward E-Book Reading, 7% of consumers who read...

ABA teams with Google.(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... Beginning with the launch of Google Editions this summer, Google will provide wholesale support for e-book distribution through the ABA's IndieBound. com site. The agreement is nonexclusive. Google will not sell print titles, but the system will...

A 'PW' app.(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... U.K. digital vendor Exact Editions and Publishers Weekly launched a PWiPhone app at the start of BEA; the app offers free access to PW's pre-BEA issue and subsequent issues, as well as PW's Show Daily. PW also announced content deals with...

Correction.(Correction notice)
May 31, 2010... In last week's "Agents Weigh the Growth of Alternate Publishing Options" story, there was an omission in the references made to a portion of author Joe Konrath's sales for his Jack Daniels series. As he pointed out on his blog, A Newbie's Guide...

Hyperion nabs vet memoir.(Deals)(Luis Carols Montalvan's 'Until Tuesday')(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... Foundry's Peter McGuigan closed a major deal at BEA last week, selling North American rights to retired captain Luis Carols Montalvan's memoir, Until Tuesday, to Hyperion for high six figures. Elisabeth Dyssegaard acquired the book, which...

Miller re-ups at Knopf.(Deals)(Sue Miller)(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... The Senator's Wife author Sue Miller has sold her new novel, The Arsonist, to her longtime editor at Knopf, Jordan Pavlin. Pavlin took North American rights for a high six-figure sum in a deal orchestrated by Miller's agent, Jill Kneerim of...

Meloy kids around.(Deals)(Maile Meloy)(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... Maile Meloy (Both Ways Is the Only Way) has signed to do her first children's book, inking a deal with Jennifer Besser at G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers. ICM's Amanda "Binky" Urban sold world rights to The Apothecary, a YA novel set...

Simon pulse get 'Virtuosic'.(Deals)(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... Mandy Hubbard at D4EO Literary sold Jessica Martinez's debut YA novel, Virtuosity, in a two-book deal, at auction, to Simon Pulse, with Anica Rissi taking world rights. The first book is about a virtuoso violinist whose life begins to fall apart...

Reagan Arthur goes with 'God'.(Deals)(What in God's Name)(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... For her eponymous imprint at Little, Brown, Reagan Arthur acquired world English rights to Simon Rich's What in God's Name. Daniel Greenberg at Levine Greenberg brokered the deal for Rich, who's been published in the New Yorker and is a former...

Briefs.(Deals)(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... Erin Nevius at ABA Book Publishing--the American Bar Association, not the booksellers' group-bought North American rights to Arthur L. Rizer's Lincoln's Counsel: Lessons from America's Most Persuasive Speaker. Agent E.J. McCarthy brokered the...

Susan Wasson, Bookworks, Albuquerque, N.M.(Galley Talk)(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... Wyoming has many treasures, one of which is Craig Johnson's Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery series; Junkyard Dogs (Viking, May) is number six. As SheriffWalt opens up more and more, the reader sees how much he cares about the people of Durant,...

101 and counting.(Brief article)
May 31, 2010... Screenwriter and professor Neil Landau (plaid shirt) holds his book, t01 Things I Learned in Film School surrounded by USC film students and series creator, Matthew Frederick (behind him). [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
May 31, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of these days, Lee Child's myriad fans will be relishing Jack Reacher's derring-do on the big screen: all 14 of the Reacher novels (whose fans are dubbed Reacher creatures) have been optioned for major motion...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
May 31, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Perhaps the most unusual endorsement for Alter's Promise (copies in print: 105,000) came when Sarah Jessica Parker, promoting her Sex and the City 2 on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live, was given a signed copy by the...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.(MIDDLE CLASS)
May 31, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Some men may dream of pitching for the White Sox; Brad Thor's dream has always been to shadow a black ops team, which is what he did to research The Apostle. He traveled throughout Afghanistan and narrowly missed one of...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
May 31, 2010... Here's a double play that we're pretty certain has never occurred on PW's lists--both editions, mass market and trade paper, of the first two titles in Larsson's Millennium trilogy have snagged the #1 and #2 spots on their respective lists. And...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
May 31, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] On revisiting Kindle County and the Sabich family in his follow-up to 1987's smash Presumed Innocent, Scott Turow in conversation with BarnesandNoble.com, said, "I like this book a lot. I suppose it's not surprising to...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
May 31, 2010... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "When I was in high school, I used to dream about having Melissa Morris's legs, Toni Oliver's eyes, and Amy Breyer's hair. I liked my skin, my breasts, and my lips, but everything else had to go. Then, in my 20s, I...

At 50, Lectorum has fresh start: the distributor of Spanish-language titles has a new owner and veteran leadership.(Retail Nation)(Lectorum Publications Inc.)
May 31, 2010... After a couple of reincarnations and a recent move across the Hudson, Spanish-language book distributor nd publisher Lectorum Publications turned 50 this month. Originally an independent bookstore on Manhattan's Union Square--and up until last...

Staff picks: 'PW' makes some suggestions for summer reading.(Staff Picks)(List)
May 31, 2010... Summer's here. Or there. Or on its way. And that means summer books, because there's always more time to read when the weather warms up. On the beach. On the lawn. In the park. The roof? Find your sweet spot and try some of our favorites. ...

Playground Epiphanies.(Author Profile)(Mona Simpson)
May 31, 2010... Mona Simpson was a new mother when she moved back to Los Angeles in 1993. She presumed it would be a temporary relocation, but she's still there and her new book, My Hollywood: A Novel (Knopf, Aug.), Simpson's first full-length work in a decade...

A Curable Romantic.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... * A Curable Romantic Joseph Skibell. Algonquin, $24.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-56512-929-0 Skibell's fat, cheeky, and sweeping latest begins in early 1895 Austria when his endearing protagonist, young Dr. Jakob Sammelsohn, comes face-to-face...

The Pleasure Seekers.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... The Pleasure Seekers Tishani Doshi. Bloomsbury, $15 paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-60819-277-9 Not all that much pleasure is sought (or found) by the characters of Doshi's competently written if thinly conceived debut. The story starts off in...

Juliet.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... * Juliet Anne Fortier. Ballantine, $25 (448p) ISBN 978-0-345-51610-7 Fortier bobs and weaves between Shakespearean tragedy and popular romance for a high-flying debut in which American Julie Jacobs travels to Siena in search of her Italian...

Slicker.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Slicker Lucy Jackson. St. Martin's, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-56500-8 Pampered Manhattan girl Desiree runs away from her privileged life to Kansas, only to find it meaner and more mixed up than the urban jungle she abandoned in the...

Rules of Betrayal.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... * Rules of Betrayal Christopher Reich. Doubleday, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-53154-2 Reich's outstanding third thriller featuring Dr. Jonathan Ransom (after Rules of Vengeance) finds the courageous surgeon, who no longer works for...

Frankenstein: Lost Souls.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Frankenstein: Lost Souls Dean Koontz. Bantam, $27 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-80801-8 Set in Rainbow Falls, Mont., Koontz's goofy, grisly fourth riff on the Frankenstein theme (after Dead and Alive) finds Victor--previously presumed dead but...

The Surf Guru: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... The Surf Guru: Stories Doug Dorst. Riverhead, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59448-761-3 Dorst's acclaimed debut, Alive in Necropolis, folded sci-fi, horror, and noir elements into a layered coming-of-age story, and a similar mix of lively...

PW talks with Dennis Tafoya: city of unbrotherly love.(Q&A)(Interview)
May 31, 2010... Dennis Tafoya's second crime novel, The Wolves of Fairmount Park (Reviews, May 10), explores Philadelphia's drug underworld. How did your experiences lead you to write your novels? When I was an EMT in a Philadelphia emergency room, biker...

Faithful Place.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... * Faithful Place Tana French. Viking, $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-670-02187-1 French's emotionally searing third novel of the Dublin murder squad (after The Likeness) shows the Irish author getting better with each book. In 1985, 19-year-old...

Savages.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Savages Don Winslow. Simon & Schuster, $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4391-8336-6 Spare, clipped expository prose and hip, spot-on dialogue propel this visceral crime novel from Winslow (The Dawn Patrol). The future is looking good for Laguna...

Good-bye to All That.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Good-bye to All That Margo Candela. Touchstone, $14 paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-4165-7135-3 Getting ahead in Hollywood poses a challenge for Raquel Azorian, a lowly marketing assistant at a major production company, and while she has ambition,...

Elegies for the Brokenhearted.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... * Elegies for the Brokenhearted Christie Hodgen. Norton, $23.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-393-06140-6 Pushcart Prize--winner Hodgen (Hello, I Must Be Going) builds a stunning melancholic portrait of damaged Mary Murphy in five elegies for people...

Layover in Dubai.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Layover in Dubai Dan Fesperman. Knopf, $25.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-26838-9 Set in Dubai, Fesperman's listless, dialogue-heavy thriller concerns an American businessman, Sam Keller, who gets tangled up in competing criminal interests...

Shadow Zone.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Shadow Zone Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen. St. Martin's, $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-312-61160-6 This disappointing sequel to the Johansens' Silent Thunder (2008) centers on the ancient city of Marinth, submerged in a massive tsunami 4,000...

The Writing Circle.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... The Writing Circle Corinne Demas. Hyperion/Voice, $23.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4013-4114-5 Nancy Markopolis, a medical newsletter editor working earnestly on a novel inspired by her late, beloved father, is invited into an exclusive...

Crying woof.(A Dog's Purpose and Home Is Where the Bark Is )(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Dogs make everything better--from tear-jerkers to romance. A Dog's Purpose W. Bruce Cameron. Forge, $22.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2626-3 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A tail-wagging three hanky boo-booer, this delightful fiction debut by...

Sisters, Strangers, and Starting Over: A Quinceanera Club Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Sisters, Strangers, and Starting Over: A Quinceanera Club Novel Belinda Acosta. Grand Central, $13.99 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-446-54052-0 The second in a captivating series (following Damas, Dramas and Ana Ruiz) focusing not just on girls...

The Whisperers: A Charlie Parker Thriller.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... * The Whisperers: A Charlie Parker Thriller John Connolly. Atria, $26 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4391-6519-5 Ancient artifacts and the second Iraqi War provide the backdrop for Connolly's outstanding ninth novel featuring PI Charlie Parker (after...

The Girls from the Revolutionary Cantina.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... The Girls from the Revolutionary Cantina M. Padilla. St. Martin's Griffin/Dunne, $14.99 paper (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-59308-7 Two best friends from the San Fernando Valley find their friendship tested in Padilla's lively first novel (after...

Blood Men.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Blood Men Paul Cleave. Atria, $16 paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4391-8961-0 New Zealander Cleave's disappointing U.S. debut focuses on the son of a notorious serial killer. When Edward Hunter was nine, his lather, Jack (aka "Jack the Hunter"),...

Platinum.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Platinum Aliya S. King. Touchstone, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4391-6025-1 An entertainment journalist and coauthor of memoirs by Frank Lucas and Faith Hill, King presents a satirical fiction debut thick with multiple plots and lightly...

The Templar.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... The Templar Paul Doherty. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-57683-7 Master of the historical mystery, Doherty (The Spies of Sobeck) tries his hand at a straight historical in this less than impressive first in a new series set during...

Wherever You Go.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Wherever You Go Joan Leegant. Norton, $23.95 (224p)ISBN 978-0-393-05476-7 Leegant's debut novel, after her story collection, An Hour in Paradise, follows three Americans who long for definitive answers from their Jewish faith. Yona Stern...

Foreign Influence.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Foreign Influence Brad Thor. Atria, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4165-8659-3 In Thor's formulaic ninth Scot Harvath thriller (after The Apostle), the ex-navy SEAL has lost his job with the disbanding under a new presidential administration of...

The Family Beach House.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... The Family Beach House Holly Chamberlin. Kensington, $15 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7582-3506-0 Larchmere, a seaside estate in Ogunquit, Maine, becomes a bone of contention for its possible heirs in Chamberlin's predictable but pleasant...

Doubles.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Doubles Nic Brown. Counterpoint, $15.95 paper (256p) ISBN 978-1-58243-507-7 Brown (Floodmakers) returns with another excellent ensemble character study, this one focusing on a group of friends and lovers radiating out from former tennis...

Beautiful Malice.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... * Beautiful Malice Rebecca James. Bantam, $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-553-80805-6 "I didn't go to Alice's funeral." So opens Australian author James's impressive debut, a searing coming-of-age novel that deftly intertwines two violent...

03.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... 03 Jean-Christophe Valtat, trans, from the French by Mitzi Angel. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $12 (96p) ISBN 978-0-374-10021-6 A disaffected French teenager identifies with the "slightly retarded" girl he watches from a distance in this...

Blue Has No South: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Blue Has No South: Stories Alex Epstein, trans, from the Hebrew by Becka Mara McKay. Interlink/Clockroot, $15 paper (142p) ISBN 978-1-56656-806-7 The title gives a strong indication of what to expect from this flash fiction collection from...

Passion Becomes Her.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Passion Becomes Her Shirlee Busbee. Zebra, $15 paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0541-4 A headstrong young widow who doesn't want to remarry captivates a dashing rake determined to change her mind in Busbee's latest feverish historical. Asher...

Promise Bridge.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Promise Bridge Eileen Clymer Schwab. NAL $15 paper (432p) ISBN 978-0-451-23003-4 Schwab's promising debut puts an uncommon spin on a runaway slave story. Hannah Blessing has had a privileged upbringing at Hillcrest, her aunt's Virginia...

Kings of the North.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Kings of the North Cecelia Holland. Forge, $27.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2192-3 Raef Corbanson and his companions return to England in this Viking-era sequel to The High City. England is going through tumultuous times as power struggles...

Playing Hard to Get.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Playing Hard to Get Grace Octavia. Dafina, $15 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7582-3226-7 Returning to BAP (Black American Princess) best friends the 3Ts--Tamia, Tasha, and Troy--Octavia (Take Her Man) presents a satisfying New York stoW of...

Todos Santos.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Todos Santos Deborah Clearman. Black Lawrence (Consortium, dist.), $18 paper (232p) ISBN 978-0-9825204-0-6 Humiliated by her husband's recent infidelities, Iowan artist Catherine Barnes journeys to exotic, politically tumultuous...

And One Last Thing...(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... And One Last Thing... Molly Harper. S&S/Gallery, $15 paper (316p) ISBN 978-1-4391-6877-6 Harper's stab at chick lit (after her Nice Girls series of supernatural romance) starts strong before falling into a rut of predictability. After...

A Summer Without Dawn.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... A Summer Without Dawn Agop J. Hacikyan and Jean-Yves Soucy, trans. from the French by Christina Le Vernoy and Joyce Bailey. Interlink, $20 (548p) ISBN 978-1-56656-802-9 In this sweeping, well-crafted historical, Canadian authors Hacikyan and...

Dark in the City of Light.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Dark in the City of Light Paul Robertson. Bethany House, $14.99 paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-7642-0569-9 Baron Ferdinand Harsanyi, an Austrian diplomat stationed in Paris, gets control of his wife's valuable mines after her mysterious death....

Sizzling Sixteen.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Sizzling Sixteen Janet Evanovich. St. Martin's, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-38330-5 In this tepid Stephanie Plum adventure from Evanovich (Finger Lickin' Fifteen, etc.), a personal case distracts the Trenton, N.J., bondswoman from...

Raptus.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... * Raptus Joanna Klink. Penguin, $18 paper (80p)ISBN 978-0-14-311772-8 What happens when a relationship fails? Klink gets into the nooks and crannies of that question in her third collection. She sinks into every aspect of the life past and...

Wait.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... * Wait C.K. Williams. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, $25 (128p) ISBN 978-0-374-28591-3 In his first new collection since his monumental Collected Poems, Pulitzer-winner and septuagenarian Williams delivers his best book in a decade, and one...

Toxic Flora.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... * Toxic Flora Kimiko Hahn. Norton, $24.95 (128p)ISBN 978-0-393-07662-2 Hahn's eighth book of poems takes its inspiration from the science section of the New York Times. These sharp, gut-punching lyrics quote from and/or borrow the diction...

Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Slow Trains Overhead: Chicago Poems and Stories Reginald Gibbons. Univ. of Chicago, $20 (120p) ISBN 978-0-22629-058-4 Gibbons's latest collection combines new poems and prose with selections from his previous books to create an homage to...

Scared Stiff.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Scared Stiff Annelis Ryan. Kensington, $22 (336p) ISBN 978-0-7582-3454-4 When shocked trick-or-treaters discover the body of model Shannon Tolliver one Halloween night, Mattie Winston investigates in Ryan's sharp second mystery to feature...

Love Songs from a Shallow Grave.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... * Love Songs from a Shallow Grave Colin Cotterill. Soho Crime, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-56947-627-7 Set in 1978, Cotterill's superb seventh mystery to feature Dr. Siri Paiboun (after 2009's The Merry Misogynist) finds "the national and only...

The Good Thief's Guide to Las Vegas.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... The Good Thief's Guide to Las Vegas Chris Ewan. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0412-58082-7 Charlie Howard, the self-mocking narrator of Ewan's Good Thief Guide series who's both a mystery writer and small-scale thief, once again shows...

The Koala of Death: A Gunn Zoo Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... The Koala of Death: A Gunn Zoo Mystery Betty Webb. Poisoned Pen, $24.95 (274p) ISBN 978-1-59058-756-0; $14.95 paper ISSN 978-1-59058-758-4 At the start of Webb's playful second Gunn Zoo mystery (after 2008's The Anteater of Death), a dead...

A Brush with Death: A Penny Brannigan Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... A Brush with Death: A Penny Brannigan Mystery Elizabeth J. Duncan. Minotaur, $23.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-62282-4 In Duncan's absorbing second Penny Brannigan mystery (after 2009's The Cold Light of Mourning), the Canadian ex-pat and...

Listen to the Dead: A Cape Islands Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Listen to the Dead: A Cape Islands Mystery Randall Peffer. Tyrus (Consortium, dist.), $24.95 (328p) ISBN 978-1-935-56219-1; $14.95 paper ISBN 978-1-935-56218-4 Drugs, sex, and murder fuel Peffer's fervid fifth Cape Islands mystery (after...

Deb on Arrival: A Debutante Detective Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... * Deb on Arrival: A Debutante Detective Mystery Laurie Moore. Five Star, $25.95 (328p) ISBN 978-1-59414-877-4 Moore (Woman Strangled--News at Ten) smoothly mixes mystery, romance, and humor in this excellent first in a new series set in...

Shoot the President, Are You Mad?(Brief article)(Book review)
May 31, 2010... Shoot the President, Are You Mad? Frank McAuliffe. The Outfit (www.outfitcrime.com), $16.95 paper (180p)ISBN 978-1-60701-151-4 This over-the-top farce, the fourth and final book featuring assassin-for-hire Augustus Mandrell (after 1971 's...