Publishers Weekly articles from November 2011

Publishers Weekly archives from November 2011

Winning the Nobel.(Pick of the week)(The Deleted World)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... * The Deleted World Tomas Transtromer, trans, from the Swedish by Robin Robertson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $13 trade paper (64p) ISBN 978-0-374-53353-3 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] For decades U.S. poets and those in the know have...

In fight with Amazon, libraries caught in the crossfire: e-book lending is dealt another setback in Penguin dispute.(News)
November 28, 2011... When Penguin announced last week that it was disabling library e-book lending on the Kindle and pulling its latest e-book titles from all library lending platforms, libraries and readers took the hit, but to some observers they were collateral...

The 'underground' drives sales at Microcosm.(Indie Publishing)
November 28, 2011... Founded in Cleveland 16 years ago in Joe Biel's bedroom, Microcosm Publishing is a "self-empowerment" and alternative culture publisher and distributor in Portland, Ore., and Lansing, Kansas. Originally a distributor of zincs and records,...

Braided River has 'To the Arctic' tie-in.(Partnering)
November 28, 2011... After working for two years with Warner Bros. Pictures, MacGillivray Freeman Films, and IMAX Corp., Braided River, an imprint of nonprofit Mountaineers Books, in Seattle, has produced To the Arctic, the official companion book to the 3D film of...

Knopf re-ups shields.(Deals)(David Shields)(Brief article)
November 28, 2011... Author David Shields sold How Literature Saved My Life to his longtime editor at Knopf, Ann Close. Janklow & Nesbit agent P.J. Mark brokered the North American rights deal for Shields, and the book is tentatively scheduled for spring 2013....

Thomas Dunne gets its MTV.(Deals)(The Kennedy Chronicles: The Golden Age of MTV Through Rose Colored Glasses)(Brief article)
November 28, 2011... Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, or, as she was known to fans who watched her on MTV, Kennedy, sold a memoir to Rob Kirkpatrick at Thomas Dunne Books. J.L. Stermer at N.S. Bienstock Inc. negotiated the North American rights deal for The Kennedy...

S&S lands 'Hollywood amnesiac' college grad.(Deals)(Simon & Schuster land deal with Su Meck)(Brief article)
November 28, 2011... Molly Lindley and Jonathan Karp, at Simon & Schuster, pre-empted world English rights to a currently untitled memoir by Su Meck, who made headlines this year for graduating from community college at the age of 45, more than 20 years after a...

Perigee 'scavenges' with Smith.(Deals)(Keri Smith's The Pocket Scavenger signs with Perigee Books)(Brief article)
November 28, 2011... Agent Faith Hamlin at Sanford J. Greenburger sold world rights to Keri Smith's The Pocket Scavenger, a new book by the author/illustrator of the bestselling Wreck This Journal, to Perigee's Meg Leder. Wreck This Journal, a tongue-in-cheek guide...

Seal bends for 'Yogalosophy'.(Deals)(Seal Press gets rights for Mandy Ingber's ogalosophy: 28 Days to the Ultimate Body Makeover)(Brief article)
November 28, 2011... Krista Lyons-Gould at Seal Press took North American tights to Mandy Ingber's Yogalosophy: 28 Days to the Ultimate Body Makeover. Agent Jane Dystel, of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management, closed the deal, working with Flutie...

Nan Graham at Scribner bought North American rights to Louisa Hall's debut novel, The Carriage House.(Brief article)
November 28, 2011... Nan Graham at Scribner bought North American rights to Louisa Hall's debut novel, The Carriage House. Susanna Lea at Susanna Lea Associates brokered the deal and Scribner said the novel is about "the struggles and ultimate redemption of a...

Correction.(Deals)(Correction notice)
November 28, 2011... In last week's column, author Laurie Frankel was incorrectly referred to as Laurie Frank. Frankel is the author of the forthcoming novel Goodbye for Now (previously called Deadmail).

Halpern reflects on 40 years of Ecco.(Milestones)(Dan Halpern)
November 28, 2011... It was a chance chauffeur job, shuttling a bored author back to his hotel room, that got Dan Halpern into publishing. The author was Paul Bowles, it was the late 1960s, and Halpern agreed to take the writer on the long drive back to Santa Monica...

Cathy Langer, tattered cover book store, Denver, Colo.(Galley Talk)(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Jean Patrick Nkuba, a young Rwandan 800-meter phenom, trains for the Olympics under the watch of his Hutu coach as Hutu-Tutsi violence escalates, in Ranning the Rift (Algonquin, Jan.). Naomi Benaron's Bellwether Prize-winning first novel brings...

Down quarter for BAM!(Books-A-Million)(Brief article)
November 28, 2011... The combination of a 7.7% drop in comparable store sales and the closing of 21 underperforming stores led to an 8.1% decline in sales, to $94.4 million, at Books-A-Million in the third quarter ended October 29. The bookstore chain also took...

Hastings results fall; opens e-bookstore.(Hastings Entertainment)(Brief article)
November 28, 2011... A weak slate of new offerings across the book, movie, and video game businesses as well as the continuing move to e-book sales from print books led to a loss of $5.5 million at Hastings Entertainment in the third quarter ended October 31,...

Amazon launches branded DC comics storefront.(Brief article)
November 28, 2011... DC Comics is teaming with Amazon.com to launch a branded store on the online retailer that will feature print and digital editions of DC Comics' graphic novels. The new DC Comics store will feature the 100 digital graphic novel collections DC is...

Kane Miller, Demibooks team up.(Brief article)
November 28, 2011... Demibooks has partnered with publisher Kane Miller to form a new children's book imprint called InkPad Press. InkPad, which plans approximately 20 titles per year, with a focus on picture books, will release titles in print, while also allowing...

'Cabin Fever' tops one million sold.(Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever)(Brief article)
November 28, 2011... Hardcover sales of Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Cabin Fever, the sixth book in Jeff Kinney's blockbuster series, topped one million copies in its first week on sale, publisher Abrams reported. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

Traverse City is for book lovers: Michigan resort town's bookstores triple in number this fall.(RETAIL NATION)(Traverse City, Michigan)
November 28, 2011... Megan Raphael, executive director of the National Writers Series, a literary nonprofit organization, in Traverse City, Mich., insists that local government leaders should declare it a "book city." After all, there are now three full-service...

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.
November 28, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In a Washington Post review, Lisa Scottoline, who knows a thing or two about mysteries, called Kill Alex Cross "Patterson at the top of his game.... Underneath the fast-and-furious action, Patterson is exploring what it...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.
November 28, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This one was lickety-split out of the gate--two printings, 200,000 copies. Ashton's insider account of the controversial Casey Anthony case was embargoed until Nov. 15--at 12:01 a.m., the Orlando Sentinel and the AP...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.
November 28, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As PW reported back in June, the hardcover edition of Seventeen was smokin' indeed--total first-day sales reached 218,000 copies across print, audio, and digital formats (100,000 hardcovers, 100,000 e-books, and 18,000...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.
November 28, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The publisher's four-page press release for Obreht's widely praised novel--which was chosen as one of PW'S Best Books of 2011--includes more than 30 review excerpts, ranging from Michiko Kakutani's notice in the NYT ("a...

Children's series and tie-ins bestsellers.
November 28, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] November has been a big month for high-profile, and high-volume, children's book releases. First up, on November 8, was Christopher Paolini's Inheritance, the fourth and final in the YA fantasy series that started with...

Audio bestsellers/fiction.
November 28, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The law firm of Finley & Figg referred to itself as a 'boutique firm.' This misnomer was inserted as often as possible into routine conversations, and it even appeared in print in some of the various schemes...

Audio bestsellers/nonfiction.
November 28, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly's Killing Lincoln--a history of the events surrounding the assassination of the 16th president of the United States--tops our audio bestseller list, And while O'Reilly is...

Finding your way through the digital maze: sales of digital content are thriving thanks to a growing cadre of third-party vendors working to support the back-end tech process.(Digital Solutions)
November 28, 2011... Book publishers know that their business is changing, and quickly. Whether it's online publishing through the Web, downloadable e-books, or app development, digital content and the technology that supports it is the newest path to sales growth...

Weighing the options: out with the fat, in with the fit.(Focus on Diet & Fitness)
November 28, 2011... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] With Thanksgiving past and the holiday feasting season underway, there's one category guaranteed to attract repentant readers come the inevitable parade of New Year's resolutions: diet and fitness. In anticipation,...

Anita Desai: telling stories.(Author Profile)(Biography)
November 28, 2011... In the 1960s, Anita Desai was a young mother when she sent her work to a British publisher from her home in India: "I lived in a very ordinary, traditional Indian family. I had four children... I did my writing in secret. I used to pull out my...

Stay Awake.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... * Stay Awake Dan Chaon. Ballantine, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0-345-53037-0 With this arresting collection, Chaon again demonstrates his mastery of the short story. In the hypnotic "The Bees," a young boy screams in his sleep for no reason; he's...

These Dreams of You.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... These Dreams of You Steve Erickson. Europa, $15 trade paper (320p) ISBN 978-1-60945-063-2 Erickson (Zeroville) follows middle-aged Caucasian Alexander "Zan" Nordhoc's adoption of a four year-old Ethiopian girl, beginning on the eve of...

Outside the Lines.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Outside the Lines Amy Hatvany. Washington Square, $15 trade paper (358p) ISBN 978-1-4516-4054-0 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In Hatvany's latest (after Best Kept Secret), vivid and flawed characters struggle with the complexities of family,...

The Sometimes Daughter.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... The Sometimes Daughter Sherri Wood Emmons. Kensington, $15 trade paper (371 p) ISBN 978-0-7582-5325-5 Sweet Judy Blue Eyes is born in a Woodstock tent to free-spirited, "blissfully stoned" hippies Kirk and Cassie in Emmons's second novel...

Liebestod: Opera Buffa with Leib Goldkorn.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Liebestod: Opera Buffa with Leib Goldkorn Leslie Epstein. Norton, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-393-08131-2 Lieb Goldkorn, as followers of his adventures--collected in previous volumes by his amanuensis Epstein--know, is a flautist, graduate of...

Halbman Steals Home.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Halbman Steals Home B. Glen Rotchin. Permanent, $19.99 trade paper (192p) ISBN 978-1-4597-0127-4 Rotchin's talents for character are on fine display in the darkly comical Mort Halbman. At 65, he's an incorrigible curmudgeon yearning to...

PW talks with Dan Chaon: American horror stories.(Q&A)(Publishers Weekly)(Interview)
November 28, 2011... Haunting and intense, Stay Awake, Dan Chaon's latest collection of short stories (Reviews, p. 30), peels back the layers of ordinary lives marked by accidents and isolation, dark pasts, and uncertain futures. Many of the bizarre circumstances...

The Darlings.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... The Darlings Christina Alger. Viking/Pam Dorman, $26.95 (338p) ISBN 978-0-670-02327-1 Two parts Too Big to Fail, one part The Devil Wears Prada, Alger's debut is taut and compelling. The recession-era Manhattan elite are bruised and a...

History of a Pleasure Seeker.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... History of a Pleasure Seeker Richard Mason. Knopf, $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-59947-6 The title of Mason's latest misleads, not only because his story details an interlude in a young man's life, not a history, but also because this man...

Promise Me This.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Promise Me This Cathy Gohlke. Tyndale, $13.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-4143-5307-4 One afternoon, young Michael Dunnagan steals away from his job to see the Titanic off. Through a sudden turn of events, he meets Owen Allen, a young...

Island of Wings.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Island of Wings Karin Altenberg. Penguin, $15 trade paper (312p) ISBN 978-0-14-312066-7 Swedish-born archeologist Altenberg imagines the internal struggles of two historical figures in her debut. In the summer of 1830, Rev. Nell MacKenzie...

The inevitability of life.("At Last" and "The Patrick Melrose Novels: Never Mind, Bad News, Some Hope, and Mother's Milk")(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Early 2012 marks the completion of Edward St. Aubyn's Patrick Melrose cycle. * At Last Edward St. Aubyn. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25 (272p) ISBN 978-0330-43590-1 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Eleanor Melrose has died, and her son Patrick...

Death of Kings.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Death of Kings Bernard Cornwell. Harper, $25.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-196965-2 The sixth installment of Cornwell's Saxon series (after The Burning Land) returns to the days before there was an England---or an English sense of fair...

Reefs and Shoals.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... * Reefs and Shoals Dewey Lambdin. St. Martin's/Dunne, $25.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-312-59571-5 The year is 1805 and Royal Navy Capt. Alan Lewrie is back in all his swashbuckling debauchery, in Lambdin's latest Napoleonic naval warfare novel,...

Nothing Could Be Further.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Nothing Could Be Further Tim Conley. Emerson Street (www.emmersonstreetpress.com), $22.50 (200p) ISBN 978-0-9869605-0-5 In his latest short story collection, Conley (The Encyclopedia of Fictional and Fantastic Languages) creates worlds...

150 Pounds.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... 150 Pounds Kate Rockland. St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-57601-1 Bloggers find common ground on beauty in Rockland's second novel (after Falling Is Like This). For an episode on health and fitness, Oprah invites two...

Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... * Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys D.A. Powell. Graywolf, $22 (80p) ISBN 978-1-55597-605-7 Powell has now turned the corner from promising new poet into established power. This fifth collection condenses his obsessions into poems...

Dear Editor.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Dear Editor Amy Newman. Persea (Norton, dist.), $15 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-892553-87-7 In her fourth collection, Newman mines the awkwardness of composing cover letters for submitting creative writing for publication and the...

The Beds.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... The Beds Martha Rhodes. Autumn House (www.autumnhouse.org), $14.95 trade paper (72p) ISBN 978-1-932870-53-4 Delivered with a disarming nonchalance, the poems of Rhodes's fourth collection lock eyes with grief at the dissolution of a...

Citizen.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Citizen Aaron Shurin. City Lights (Consortium, dist.), $10.95 trade paper (96p) ISBN 978-0-87286-520-4 The title of Shurin's 11th collection sets up expectations of direct political engagement by the 60-odd short, tightly composed, and...

Everyday People.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... * Everyday People Albert Goldbarth. Graywolf, $18 trade paper (178p) ISBN 978-1-55597-603-3 Detractors call Goldbarth prolific to a fault, but admirers say, with great justice, that they just can't get enough: the poet's 20-odd books...

Sherwood Forest.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Sherwood Forest Camille Roy. Futurepoem (SPD, dist.), $16 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-0-9822798-5-4 "All night I spent on my knees," begins one of Roy's poems, "munching the feminine... Love-soaked sweetheart/slutty girl, leaving shiny...

Doppelganger.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Doppelganger Brian Henry. Talisman (SPD, dist.), $13.95 (88p) ISBN 978-1-584-98084-1 A nameless old man who "carries his smell with him / Wherever his smell takes him," the antihero of Henry's latest collection stands as a stark rejoinder...

Exhibit of Forking Paths.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Exhibit of Forking Paths James Grinwis. Coffee House (Consortium, dist.), $16 trade paper (120p) ISBN 978-1-56689-2804 Grinwis's is a surreal world populated by "little faces in/the walls" or an "octopus clasping [a] discarded propeller."...

Nitro Nights.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Nitro Nights W.S. Di Piero. Copper Canyon (Consortium, dist.), $15 trade paper (65p) ISBN 978-1-55659-380-2 Di Piero takes the William Carlos Williams maxim "no ideas but in things" and explodes it into a storm of images in this 10th...

Death of an Artist.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Death of an Artist Kate Wilhelm. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-65861-8 Even in a scenic hamlet on the Oregon coast, there's no dodging death for former NYPD homicide detective Tony Mauricio in this atmospheric, suspenseful...

Children of Wrath.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... * Children of Wrath Paul Grossman. St. Martin's, $25.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-60191-1 Set in 1929, Grossman's brilliant second historical featuring Berlin policeman Willi Kraus (after 2010's The Sleepwalkers, which was set in 1932) finds...

Timebomb.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Timebomb Gerald Seymour. Overlook, $25.95 (432p) ISBN 978-1-59020-699-7 In the prologue to this dense spy novel from Seymour (The Collaborator), a disgruntled KGB agent who's recently lost his job, Maj. Oleg Yashkin, secretly buries a...

Budapest Noir.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Budapest Noir Vilmos Kondor, trans, from the Hungarian by Paul Olchvary. Harper, $13.99 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-185939-7 Set in the fall of 1936, Hungarian author Kondor's atmospheric debut introduces Zsigmond Gordon, the crime...

No Mark upon Her.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... * No Mark upon Her Deborah Crombie. Morrow, $24.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-199061-8 Macavity Award-winner Crombie examines the corrupting nature of power in her riveting 14th novel featuring Scotland Yard Supt. Duncan Kincaid and Det. Insp....

PW talks with Michael Sims: birth of a benre: Michael Sims surveys the development of the mystery tale in The Dead Witness: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Detective Stories (Reviews, Nov. 28).(Q&A)(Interview)
November 28, 2011... How did you come to be such a voracious reader? I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I...

The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... The Eighth Veil: A Jerusalem Mystery Frederick Ramsay. Poisoned Pen, $14.95 trade paper (286p) ISBN 978-0-9677590-5-0 A first-century rabbinic leader, Rabban Gamaliel, serves as sleuth, perhaps a first for a historical, in Ramsey's...

Left for Dead.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Left for Dead J.A. Jance.Touchstone, $25.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4516-2858-6 Bestseller Jance's engaging seventh Ali Reynolds novel (after 2011 's Fatal Error) offers plenty of scope for the widowed former reporter, anchorwoman, and graduate...

Robert Ludlum's The Janson Command.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Robert Ludlum's The Janson Command Paul Garrison. Grand Central, $27.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-446-56450-2 Robert Ludlum (1927-2001) would have been proud of Garrison's fine thriller that picks up where his The Janson Directive (2002) left off....

Available Dark.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... * Available Dark Elizabeth Hand. Minotaur, $23.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-58594-5 Hand has described Cass Neary, the protagonist of 2007's Generation Loss, as "your prototypical amoral speedfreak crankhead kleptomaniac murderous ragefilled...

The Third Coincidence.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... The Third Coincidence David Bishop. Oceanview (Midpoint, dist.), $25.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-60809-034-1 What works on the big screen doesn't necessarily work on the page, as shown by this crude political thriller from Bishop (The Beholder)....

Covert Warriors.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Covert Warriors W.E.B. Griffin and William E. Butterworth IV. Putnam, $27.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-399-15780-6 The leisurely seventh presidential agent thriller starring Lt. Col. Charley Castillo from Griffin and Butterworth (after 2010's The...

Believing the Lie.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Believing the Lie Elizabeth George. Dutton, $28.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-525-95258-9 Lord Bernard Fairclough, a wealthy industrialist, asks Det. Insp. Thomas Lynley to secretly delve into the accidental death of his gay nephew, Ian Cresswell,...

Gideon's Corpse.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Gideon's Corpse Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Grand Central, $26.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-446-564373 Fans of Preston and Child's bestselling Aloysius Pendergast novels (Relic, etc.) may want to take a pass on the unremarkable second...

Breakdown.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... * Breakdown Sara Paretsky. Putnam, $26.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-399-15783-7 At the start of MWA Grand Master Paretsky's riveting 15th novel featuring Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski (after 2010's Body Work), Warshawski goes in search of several 12-...

Curse the Names.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Curse the Names Robert Arellano. Akashic, $15.95 trade paper (188p) ISBN 978-1-61775-030-4 In this unsettling mix of noir and paranormal obsession from Edgar-finalist Arellano (Havana Lunar), James Oberhelm, who writes banal feel-good...

The Whisperer.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... The Whisperer Donato Carrisi, trans. from the Italian by Shaun Whiteside. Little, Brown/Mulholland, $25.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-316- 19472-3 An unorthodox cop joins forces with an elite investigative team led by a brilliant profiler in...

Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktaill! Stories of Crime, Love and Rebellion.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktaill! Stories of Crime, Love and Rebellion Edited by Gary Phillips and Andrea Gibbons. PM Press (IPG, dist.), $19.95 trade paper (368p) ISBN 978-1-60486-096-2 The 18 mostly original stories in this...

Hard Target.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Hard Target Howard Gordon. Touchstone, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-4391-7582-8 Gordon's second Gideon Davis foil-the-terrorists thriller (after 2011's Gideon's War) lacks the nail-biting tension that was the hallmark of the TV series 24, of...

Boston Cream.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... * Boston Cream Howard Shrier. Vintage Canada, $17.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-307-35956-8 Boston serves as the backdrop for Shrier's explosive third crime novel featuring Jonah Geller, a Toronto PI with a penchant for cases south of...

Chocolate Covered Murder: A Lucy Stone Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Chocolate Covered Murder: A Lucy Stone Mystery Leslie Meier. Kensington, $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2933-5 The discovery of fisherman Max Fraser's body under the ice of a lake in wintry Tinker's Cove, Maine, propels Meier's fast-paced 18th...

Ghoul Interrupted: A Ghost Hunter Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Ghoul Interrupted: A Ghost Hunter Mystery Victoria Laurie. HAL/Obsidian, $7.99 mass market (352p) ISBN 978-0-451-23550-3 Laurie's diverting sixth Ghost Hunter mystery (after 2010's Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls) takes Mary Jane "M.J." Holliday,...

The Burning Edge.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... The Burning Edge Rick Mofina. Mira, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-0-7783-1301-4 In Mofina's strained fourth Jack Gannon thriller (after 2011's In Desperation), the $6 million robbery of an armored truck at a New Jersey highway service...

It Takes a Witch: A Wishcraft Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... It Takes a Witch: A Wishcraft Mystery Heather Blake. NAL/Obsidian, $7.99 mass market (320p) ISBN 978-0-451-23552-7 Blake successfully blends crime, magic, romance, and self-discovery in her lively debut, set in the Enchanted Village, a...

Switchblade Goddess.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Switchblade Goddess Lucy A. Snyder. Del Rey, $7.99 mass market (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-51211-6 Snyder's third story of trouble-prone mage Jessie Shimmer picks up where Shotgun Sorceress left off. Jessie may have helped free the town of...

Empire State.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Empire State Adam Christopher. Angry Robot (www.angryrobotbooks.com), $12.99 trade paper (400p) ISBN 978-0-85766-193-7 Angry Robot launches its WorldBuilder project, which invites sanctioned fan fiction for certain works, with...

Dust of the Damned.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Dust of the Damned Peter Brandvold. Berkley, $15 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-425-24517-0 Brandvold (Bullets over Bedlam) imagines an alternate America where Abraham Lincoln brought powerful werewolves and vampires from Europe in order to...

Shadows in Flight.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Shadows in Flight Orson Scott Card. Tor, $21.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-7653-3200-4 Card's fifth novel narrated by Julian "Bean" Delphiki (after Shadow of the Giant) mingles transcendent strangeness and didacticism. On a spaceship cut off from...

Boneyards.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Boneyards Kristine Kathryn Rusch. Pyr, $16 trade paper (302p) ISBN 978-1-61614-543-9 Rusch follows Diving into the Wreck and City of Ruins with another fast-paced novel of the far future. Lost Souls Corporation owner Boss, her employees,...

Heir of Novron: Vol. 3 of the Riyria Revelations.(Brief article)(Book review)
November 28, 2011... Heir of Novron: Vol. 3 of the Riyria Revelations Michael J. Sullivan. Orbit, $14.99 trade paper (960p) ISBN 978-0-316-18771-8 Sullivan's third duology (after Theft of Swords and Rise of Empire) includes his originally self-published fifth...