Publishers Weekly articles from October 2008

Publishers Weekly archives from October 2008

A pound of flesh.(Pick of the week)(The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History - And How We Can Fight Back)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... * The Student Loan Scam: The Most Oppressive Debt in U.S. History--and How We Can Fight Back Alan Michael Collinge. Beacon, $22.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8070-4229-8 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Think credit-card debt is a problem? Take...

Can new bookstores survive? A mix of approaches yields mixed results.(Foreword)
October 6, 2008... Since 2006, there's been a mini-boom in independent bookstore openings with more than 250 entering the market. Late last month, however, two of these bookstores closed: Storybook Lane Book Shoppe in San Carlos, Calif., and Under the Sycamore...

ABC-CLIO takes over Greenwood.(ABC-Clio Inc. and Greenwood Publishing Group Inc.'s licensing agreements)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... ABC-CLIO has struck a deal with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt giving the Santa Barbara publisher a perpetual license to publish all the titles published by HMH's reference division, Greenwood Publishing. The agreement, which involves 18,000 titles,...

Gotham, Avery merged.(Gotham Books and Avery Books)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Penguin is putting Gotham Books and Avery Books under a single management team that will be directed by Gotham president Bill Shinker. Lisa Johnson has been named head of publicity and marketing for both imprints as v-p and associate publisher....

Olsson's closes.(Olsson's Books and Records)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Olsson's Books and Records, which at one point had sales of $16 million from its stores in the Washington, D.C., area, has filed for Chapter 7 liquidation and closed its remaining five outlets as of September 30. The retailer applied for...

In these lean times.(Foreword)
October 6, 2008... "The publishing business has always been rather stable. It doesn't soar when things are going crazy and people with a lot of money are spending it... By the same token, when everything goes to hell, books become one of the cheapest forms of...

Dutton signs new 'Dracula'.(Dracula: The Undead)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Dutton publisher Brian Tart has acquired U.S. rights to Dracula: The Undead by Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew Dacre Stoker and Dracula documentarian and historian lan Holt. The deal was made by Danny Baror of Baror International and Ken...

Sony intros new reader.(Sony Reader PRS 700)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Sony will begin shipping an upgraded version of its e-book reader in November. The Sony Reader PRS 700 will be priced at $399, and upgrades include a touch screen, search capability and note taking. The company has also committed to upping the...

Correction.(Correction notice)
October 6, 2008... In our interview with Carolyn Chute (Sept. 29), the publication date of her new novel, The School on Heart's Content Road, was incorrect. It is a November pub.

Sold.(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] At the recent New England Independent Booksellers Association meeting, Emily Crowe of Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Mass., puts in an order with publisher David Godine.

Greenlaw moves to Viking.(Deals)(Linda Greenlaw signs with Viking)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Viking's Wendy Wolf has acquired two new nonfiction books by Linda Greenlaw in a world rights deal with Stuart Krichevsky. The first, to be published in summer 2010, marks her return this fall to swordfishing (the career that brought her to the...

Extreme deal for Weinstein.(Deals)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Weinstein Books editor Richard Florest preempted U.S. rights to John Geiger's The Third Man Factor: The Secret to Survival in Extreme Environments via Patrick Walsh at Conville & Walsh. The title refers to a phenomenon Geiger has been...

Oxford keeps Collier.(Deals)(Oxford University signs Paul Collier for two more books)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Tim Bent at Oxford University Press has signed up the next two books by Paul Collier with a low six-figure offer to Andrew Wylie. The first project, Natural Disorder, will focus on the economic exploitation of the natural environment, commodity...

Galeano to Nation.(Deals)(Eduardo Galeano's Mirrors: An Almost Universal History)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Nation Books editorial director Carl Bromley has acquired a new work by the celebrated Latin American writer Eduardo Galeano, Mirrors: An Almost Universal History; Susan Bergholz sold North American rights. Mirrors is an unofficial history of...

Monroe triples with Dafina.(Deals)(Mary Monroe)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Mary Monroe has just signed a new three-book deal with Kensington imprint Dafina; executive editor Selena James bought world rights from Andrew Stuart. Two of the three books will continue Monroe's bestselling God series; God Don't Like Ugly,...

Calendar: Oct. 12-18.(Foreword)(Brief article)(Calendar)
October 6, 2008... 10/12 The Goliath Bone (Harcourt), the final novel by Mickey Spillane (1918-2006), was completed by Max Allan Collins. It's the first Mike Hammer mystery since 1997's Black AIley. 10/13 Put down that TV remote. The Brady Bunch's...

Foundry lands four deals.(Hot Week)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Last week was a big one for Foundry, the literary agency founded a little over one year ago. Mollie Glick, who left Jean Naggar to join Foundry last month, made her first sale at the agency, conducting an eight-house auction for Lenore...

Industry stocks: September performances.(Market Watch)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... The turmoil hitting the stock market in recent weeks dragged down the Publishers Weekly Stock index by nearly 11% in September, a steeper drop than the 6.0% decline recorded by the Dew Jones Industrial Average. Only two of the 16 stocks on the...

Ike dealt heavy blow to Texas booksellers.(Recovering)(hurricane)
October 6, 2008... When Hurricane Ike hit Galveston Island, Tex., a little after midnight September 13, Tim Thompson lost his livelihood. Midsummer Books, the 2,000-sq.-ft. bookstore Thompson had owned since 2004, was completely destroyed. "We had eight feet of...

Wood up at Anova.(People)(Robin Wood at Anova Books)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Robin Wood, chairman and chief executive of the independent U.K. publisher Anova Books, was named chairman of the company. Wood will step into the role on November 24. Also at Anova, Polly Powell will move up from managing director to chief...

Gordon to SharedBook.(People)(Ashley Gordon at SharedBook Inc.)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Ashley Gordon has been named v-p of business development at SharedBook Inc. Gordon arrived from Lightning Source, where she was director of channel development.

Spinelli to Walter Foster.(People)(Kathleen Spinelli )(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Kathleen Spinelli has been named publisher of custom packaging at Walter Foster Publishing. Spinelli had been a principal at Brands-to-Books Inc., a literary agency and packager she co-founded; before that, she worked in marketing roles at...

Brazier, Sandusky to Kaplan.(People)(Tim Brazier and Brett Sandusky at Kaplan Publishing)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Tim Brazier and Brett Sandusky have joined the publicity and marketing department at Kaplan. Brazier, who was at Basic Books, has been named publicity director; Sandusky, who was at Shared Marketing Service, has been named marketing manager.

Web posts earn deals for new authors.(New Platform)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... More than 70,000 fans have read David Wong's urban fantasy John Dies at the End completely online; Thomas Dunne Books will launch a trade paperback in fall 2009 to capitalize on this viral phenomenon. John Schoenfelder bought world rights from...

Getting literary in Ohio.(Foreword)(2008 Dayton Literary Peace Prize)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The 2008 Dayton Literary Peace Prize was presented at a gala ceremony in Dayton, Ohio, on September 28. This year's honorees were (from left to right) Edwidge Danticat for Brother, I'm Dying (Nonfiction); Taylor...

In memoriam: Ilana Pikarski.(People)(In memoriam)(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... Well-known Israeli literary agent liana Pikarski died on Friday, September 26 in Tel Aviv. She was 62. Pikarski, who started her own eponymous agency in Israel in 1982, saw it grow to one of the country's largest, representing a number of major...

Correction.(People)(Correction notice)
October 6, 2008... In a People announcement in one of last week's Dailies, Edward Benitez was incorrectly listed as joining Parragon Books in the position of regional sales manager; he's been brought on as sales director.

Hardcover bestsellers/fiction.(List)
October 6, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "In a splendid flowering of the talent previously demonstrated in his crime fiction, Lehane combines 20th-century American history, a gripping story of a family torn by pride and the strictures of the Catholic...

Hardcover bestsellers/nonfiction.(List)
October 6, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Politics in... America is a money play full of charlatans and crazed ideologues. Once in a while a person of true principle emerges, but the media usually quickly destroys that candidate because honesty always, and...

Paperback bestsellers/mass market.(List)
October 6, 2008... Patricia Cornwell's novels are praised for their meticulous research and an insistence on accuracy in every detail, especially in forensic medicine and police procedures. She is so committed to verisimilitude that, among other accomplishments,...

Paperback bestsellers/trade.(List)
October 6, 2008... Greg Mortenson continues on his mission of education by talking with groups all over the country about his work, which is recounted in Three Cups of Tea. The book, boasting more than 2.3. million copies shipped, continues to be adopted for...

Comics bestsellers.(List)
October 6, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Naruto,Viz Media's bestselling manga juggernaut, is back on top of the list, taking over the top slot from Jeff Kinney's Rodrick Rules, which has been the top seller since February. In Naruto, vol. 31, Naruto and his...

Ungerer relaunched, via Phaidon: long out of print, Tomi Ungerer's picture books are returning to the U.S.(Children's Books)
October 6, 2008... I have been heavily criticized. This idea of the ideal world for the ideal child has nothing to do with reality." So said author/illustrator Tomi Ungerer, reached by phone in Ireland, whose 1962 picture book, The Three Robbers, about a trio of...

Chad Post: the international literature evangelist.(50 UNDER 40)
October 6, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Passionate is a word you often hear bandied about in reference to people who work in book publishing. But optimistic? Not so much. This is one reason Chad Post, 33, seems like such an anomaly. A born-and-bred...

10 minutes to Kindle: platform enables almost anyone to publish a Kindle e-book.(Digital Publishing)
October 6, 2008... Amazon's Digital Text Platform is an online tool (find it at http:// dtp.amazon.com/mn/signin) with which anyone with a Social Security number, a bank account and a book in file format--the tool converts HTML files, unencrypted .mobi eBooks,...

Sudden death: Colts 23, Giants 17: on the 50th anniversary of "the greatest game ever played," publishers pay homage.(New York Giants and Baltimore Colts)(Cover story)
October 6, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There are two games that define the National Football League: the New York Jets monster upset of the Baltimore Colts in Super Bowl III--which brought the upstart American Football League into equal footing with the...

There's gold in them thar Olympic book deals.
October 6, 2008... Go for the gold" has recently taken on a whole new meaning with the recent conclusion of the summer Olympics. Michael Phelps had barely dried off when he landed a seven-figure book deal with the Free Press. Dara Torres, the 41-year-old swimmer,...

Boxing books--a dying niche?(Brief article)
October 6, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] George Kimball, former Boston Herald sports columnist, says that covering boxing is "a bit like working the whorehouse beat for a newspaper--eventually you realize you're dealing with a better class of people." ...

Backcountry Adventures Colorado.(GENERAL TITLES)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Backcountry Adventures Colorado by Peter Massey, Jeanne Wilson and Angela Titus (Adler Publishing, June) Backcountry Adventures Colorado by Peter Massey, Jeanne Wilson and Angela Titus (Adler Publishing, June)...

About Them Dawgs!: Georgia Football's Memorable Teams and Players.(GENERAL TITLES)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] About Them Dawgs!: Georgia Football's Memorable Teams and Players by Patrick Garbin (Rowman & Littlefield, Sept.) "It pulls together in one place the best and most memorable seasons of one of the most storied...

Babe Ruth: Remembering the Bambino in Stories, Photos & Memorabilia.(GENERAL TITLES)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Babe Ruth: Remembering the Bambino in Stories, Photos & Memorabilia by Julia Ruth Stevens and Bill Gilbert (Stewart, Tabori & Chang, Sept.) "Babe Ruth's daughter offers insight into her famous father's life as only she can. The book also...

Pete Maravich: The Authorized Biography of Pistol Pete.(GENERAL TITLES)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Pete Maravich: The Authorized Biography of Pistol Pete by Wayne Federman and Marshall Terrill (Tyndale/ Focus on the Family, Aug.) "This is the only Maravich biography written with the full cooperation of, and...

The Triathlete's Training Bible (Third Edition).(GENERAL TITLES)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Triathlete's Training Bible (Third Edition) by Joe Friel (Velo Press, Jan.) "It's by triathlon's most respected coach and has been the leading training tool for the sport, which at 22% annual growth in...

Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On edited with an intro.(GENERAL TITLES)(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On edited with an intro by Zachary Michael Jack (Nebraska; Nov.) Forty eye-popping accounts of writers taking the field--to return John McEnroe's serve, taking a...

BIG: The 50 Greatest World Record Catches.(GENERAL TITLES)(Book review)(Brief review)
October 6, 2008... BIG: The 50 Greatest World Record Catches by Mike Rivkin, art by Flick Ford (Greenwich Workshop Press, Sept.) "This is the first-ever illustrated book about the top 50 all-tackle world record game fish catches."--Wendy Wentworth, director

Which way for BEA, BEC? All agree change is needed, but what the fixes should be is unclear.(Trade Winds)(BookExpo America and BookExpo Canada)
October 6, 2008... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] As the international publishing community prepares to gather at the annual Frankfurt Book Fair, the North American publishing industry is evaluating the future direction of the continent's two major trade fairs,...

On sale in November.(Buyers guide)
October 6, 2008... As the presidential election cycle winds down, Nobel-winner Toni Morrison, Wally Lamb and Sister Souljah add flavor to an otherwise predictable fiction lineup headed by James Patterson, Stephen King, and Clive and Dirk Cussler. In nonfiction,...

Etta.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Etta Gerald Kolpan. Ballantine, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-345-50368-8 The sketchy details of the life of Etta Place, outlaw and paramour of William "Sundance Kid" Longabaugh, are imaginatively filled in by first-time novelist Kolpan in this...

The Spy Game.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... The Spy Game Georgina Harding. Bloornsbury, $24 (320p) ISBN 978-1-59691-589-3 A British woman returns to the childhood loss of her German emigre mother in this moody, gloomy novel by the author of The Solitude of Thomas Cave. Anna is eight...

Prayers for Sale.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Prayers for Sale Sandra Dallas. St. Martin's, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-38518-7 In her charming new novel, Dallas (The Persian Pickle Club; Tallgrass; etc.) offers up the unconventional friendship between Hennie Comfort, a natural...

Palace Circle.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Palace Circle Rebecca Dean. Broadway, $14.95 paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-7679-3055-0 From London to Cairo, in the glittery world of high society before WWII, Dean taps into an exotic and distant world in her page-turning debut. After...

The Killing Tree.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... The Killing Tree Rachel Keener. Hachette/Center Street, $13.99 paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-59995-111-9 An Appalachian coming-of-age novel detours through a migrant workers camp for an intensely lyrical, emotional debut. Raised on Crooked Top...

Doghead.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... * Doghead Morten Rarnsland,trans. from the Danish by Tiina Nunnally. St. Martin's/Dunne, $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-312-37654-3 For years, Asger Erikkson, the narrator of Ramsland's funny and touching novel, has struggled to keep his family...

The Music Teacher.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... The Music Teacher Barbara Hall. Algonquin, $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-56512-463-9 It's High Fidelity for the orchestra set in this slim, assured drama. Among the clerks and instructors of McCoy's music store is Pearl Swain, a recently...

PW talks with Steve Berry: plot pursuits.(Q&A)(Interview)
October 6, 2008... Steve Berry, co-president of the International Thriller Writers, delivers his fourth novel to feature ex-Justice Department agent Cotton Malone, The Charlemagne Pursuit (Reviews, Sept. 29). Where do you get your wildly inventive ideas? ...

Futureproof.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Futureproof N. Frank Daniels. Harper Perennial, $13.95 paper (352p) ISBN 978-0-06-165683-5 Daniels's resolutely grim portrayal of "the unclassified the oversimplified the target market the failing demographic" early to mid-'90s first...

A Day and a Night and a Day.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... A Day and a Night and a Day Glen Duncan. Ecco, $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-06-123999-1 British writer Duncan's cerebral, propulsive seventh novel (after The Bloodstone Papers) digs with philosophical intensity into the timely question of what...

Daemon.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... * Daemon Daniel Suarez. Dutton, $25.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-525-95111-7 Originally self-published, Suarez's riveting debut would be a perfect gift for a favorite computer geek or anyone who appreciates thrills, chills and cyber suspense....

Shelter Me.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Shelter Me Juliette Fay. Avon A, $13.95 paper (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-167339-9 After Janie LaMarche's husband, Robby, dies in a motorcycle accident, the 38-year-old Pelham, Mass., widow embarks on a year of transformations in Fay's wise and...

Another Life: A Burke Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Another Life: A Burke Novel Andrew Vachss. Pantheon, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-307-37741-8 After a nicely gritty opening ("Revenge is like any other religion: There's always a lot more preaching than there is practicing"), Vachss's 18th...

Disguise.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Disguise Hugo Hamilton. Harper, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-078468-3 As in his memoirs The Speckled People and The Harbor Boys, Hamilton's dominant theme in this absorbing and introspective novel is identity. His protagonist, Gregor...

Fidel's Last Days.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Fidel's Last Days Roland Merullo. Crown/Shaye Areheart, $23 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4868-7 After two light comedies with spiritual overtones, American Savior (2008) and Breakfast with Buddha (2007), Merullo mines far darker material to...

Bad Traffic: An Inspector Jian Novel.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Bad Traffic: An Inspector Jian Novel Simon Lewis. Scribner, $24 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9353-9 British author Lewis does a splendid job in this compelling thriller, his second novel (after Go), of dramatizing the challenges of strangers in...

Show No Fear.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Show No Fear Perri O'Shaughnessy. Pocket, $25 (368p) ISBN 978-1-4165-4439-5 Set in 1990, O'Shaughnessy's intriguing 12th legal thriller to feature crusading lawyer Nina Reilly (after Case of Lies) takes a look at Nina's early career. An...

The Fortune Teller's Daughter.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... The Fortune Teller's Daughter Lila Shaara. Ballantine, $25 (448p) ISBN 978-0-345-48567-0 Shaara's follow-up to Every Secret Thing tries to be many things--mystery, romance, Southern Gothic, scientific exploration--but remains a disjointed...

Dreams Beneath Your Feet.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Dreams Beneath Your Feet Win Blevins. Forge, $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0578-7 This is the sixth and best in Blevins's exciting Rendezvous series (following A Long and Winding Road) featuring mountain man Sam Morgan. It's 1840 and Sam,...

Noir.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Noir Olivier Pauvert, trans, from the French by Adriana Hunter. Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $14.95 paper (224p) ISBN 978-1-58243-447-6 In this atmospheric quest through a nightmarish, right-wing--ruled France, an unnamed man discovers he's...

A Deadly Silver Sea.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... A Deadly Silver Sea Bob Morris. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-312-37725-0 A luxury cruise runs afoul of a terrorist plot in the less than stellar fourth entry in Morris's Edgar-nominated series featuring...

Deep Night.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Deep Night Caroline Petit. Soho, $24 (288p) ISBN 978-1-56947-530-0 Reconnecting with beautiful antiques dealer Leah Kolbe and her fiance, Jonathan Hawatyne, Petit's sequel to The Fat Man's Daughter opens with a scene of Hong Kong splendor,...

The Precious Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... The Precious Life Che Parker. Atria/Strebor, $14 paper (176p) ISBN 978-1-59309-210-8 In Parker's latest portrait of urban angst (after The Tragic Flaw) a young African-American married couple in turmoil hurtle toward a violent showdown....

Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind Heidi Ashworth. Avalon, $23.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8034-9926-3 A dashing rogue and a fiery heroine spar in Ashworth's charming Regency-era historical romance debut. Sir Anthony Crenshaw reluctantly accompanies...

The King's Pleasure.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... The King's Pleasure Norah Lofts. Touchstone, $15 paper (448p) ISBN 978-1-4165-9089-7 The story of tyrant king Henry VIII is told from the perspective of his first wife, Spanish princess Katharine of Aragon, in this re-released 1969 novel....

The Grid.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... The Grid Jeremy Reed. Peter Owen (Dufour, dist.), $27.95 paper (278p)ISBN 978-0-7206-1303-2 Kit, the scheming screenwriter at the center of Reed's latest novel, inhabits a future London where a militant Commissar is in power, the Japanese...

Legend of a Suicide: Stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Legend of a Suicide: Stories David Vann. Univ. of Massachusetts, $24.95 (182 p) ISBN 978-1-55849-672-9 This well-crafted debut collection, five stories and a novella, from award-winning writer and memoirist Vann (A Mile Down) revolves...

The Man for Me.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... The Man for Me Gemma Bruce. Kensington/Brava, $14 paper (336p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1623-6 Writer J.T. Green desperately wants to be taken seriously at national weekly Sports Today, both for her and her father (the Coach), but a locker-room...

Everything but a Wedding.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Everything but a Wedding Holly Jacobs. Avalon, $23.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8034-9924-9 In Jacobs's third installment in her cream puff Everything But series, Hungarian matriarch Nana Vancy continues to worry about the Salo family wedding...

Crossroads.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Crossroads Belva Plain. Delacorte, $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-33684-0 Plain's tepid latest focuses on two women--privileged but plain Gwen Wright and beautiful but poor Jewel Fairchild. Their lives occasionally intersect, and eventually...

Lost River: A Valentin St. Cyr Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Lost River: A Valentin St. Cyr Mystery David Fulmer. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-15-101187-2 In Shamus-winner Fulmer's enjoyable fourth mystery to feature Valentin St. Cyr (after 2006's Rampart Street), the Creole...

A Dead Man in Barcelona.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... A Dead Man in Barcelona Michael Pearce. Soho Constable, $25 (208p) ISBN 978-1:56947-537-9 Pearce's solid fifth pre-WWI historical to feature Sandor Seymour of Special Branch (after 2007's A Dead Man in Tangier) takes the Scotland Yard...

Teaser.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Teaser Jan Brogan. St. Martin's Minotaur, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-35998-0 Troubles abound for Hallie Ahern in Brogan's satisfying third mystery starring the intrepid Rhode Island reporter (after 2007's Yesterday's Fatal). A chance...

Chasing Smoke.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Chasing Smoke Bill Cameron. Bleak House (www.bleakhouse books.com), $24.95 (300p) ISBN 978-1:60648-018-2; $14.95 paper ISBN 978-1-60648-019-9 Irascible homicide detective Thomas "Skin" Kadash battles cancer while drawn into investigating a...

Blood Substitute: A Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Blood Substitute: A Patrick Gillard and Ingrid Langley Mystery Margaret Duffy. Severn, $28.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6688-2 In British author Duffy's 12th mystery to feature husband-wife team Ingrid Langley and Patrick Gillard (after 2007's...

Where Serpents Sleep: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... * Where Serpents Sleep: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery C.S. Harris. NAL/Obsidian, $23.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-451-22512-2 The savage murder of eight prostitutes at a London house of refuge provides Sebastian St. Cyr with yet another challenging...

Ringing in Murder.(Brief article)(Book review)
October 6, 2008... Ringing in Murder Kate Kingsbury. Berkley Prime Crime, $14 paper (256p) ISBN 978-0-425-22399-4 At the start of Kingsbury's engaging fourth holiday Pennyfoot Hotel mystery set during the Edwardian era (after 2007's Shrouds of Holly),...