Soho Press Rights List Current and Forthcoming 2014—2015

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Soho Press Rights List
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Foreign Rights Guide
Current and Forthcoming
2014—2015
Foreign Rights
Soho Press, Inc.
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New York, NY 10003
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SOHO LEAD TITLES
F.H. Batacan
F.H. Batacan was born in Manila and graduated from the University of the Philippines. She worked in the Philippine intelligence community before turning to broadcast journalism. Smaller and Smaller Circles, her debut novel, won the prestigious Palanca Award (which is known as the “Pulitzer of the Philippines”) as well as the Philippine National Book Award.
Smaller and Smaller Circles
This award-winning literary noir, hailed as the first Filipino crime novel, tells the heartbreaking story of two Catholic priests on the hunt
for a serial killer in the notorious dump city of northern Manila.
In northeast Manila's Quezon City is a district called Payatas—a 50-acre dump known
as “Smokey Mountain” that is home to thousands of people who live off of what they
can scavenge there. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in a city whose law enforcement is already stretched thin, devoid of forensic resources and rife with corruption. So when the eviscerated bodies of 10-year-old boys begin to appear in the dump
heaps, there is no one to seek justice on their behalf.
In the rainy summer of 1997, two Jesuit priests take the matter of protecting their
flock into their own hands. Father Gus Saenz has been a priest for three decades, but
he is also a respected forensic anthropologist, one of the few in the Philippines, and
has been tapped by the Director of the National Bureau of Investigations as a backup
for police efforts. Together with his protege, Father Jerome Lucero, a psychologist,
Saenz dedicated himself to tracking down the monster preying on these impoverished
boys.
Cited as the first Filipino crime novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles is a poetic masterpiece of literary noir, a sensitive depiction of a time and place, and fascinating story
about the Catholic Church and its place in its devotees' lives and communities.
Winner of the Palanca Prize
Winner of the Philippine National Book Award
Winner of the Madrigal-Gonzalez Award
Early Praise for Smaller and Smaller Circles
“A dirty, gritty police procedural with a good-guy detective, who also happens to be a Jesuit
priest and a forensic anthropologist . . . Satisfyingly paced, and crime-thriller gruesome.”
—Time Out Beijing
“A well-orchestrated, compact race against time . . . A ‘Smaller’ and smarter thriller.”
—Philippine Daily Inquirer
“Horrifying pleasure . . . The Payatas dumpsite is now given an even more menacing air as the
setting for a series of gruesome murders.”
—Review Circle
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Heda Margolius Kovaly
Heda Margolius Kovaly, a Czech writer and translator, was born in 1919 in Prague to Jewish parents. In 1944 she and her family
were taken to Auschwitz. Her parents were immediately killed, but Heda managed to survive by getting selected for a work detail.
After escaping from a transport to Bergen-Belsen, she was reunited with her husband, who had survived Dachau and become a
devout Communist. In 1952, he would be tried for conspiracy and killed in a Czech jail.
Under a Cruel Star, Kovaly's memoir of her time in Auschwitz and the early years of Czechoslovak communism, was first published
in 1973. It has since been published in many languages all over the world. Her crime novel, Innocence, is based in large part on
her own experiences in early 1950s Prague. Kovaly died in 2010 at age 91.
Innocence
Translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker
Renowned Holocaust memoirist Heda Margolius Kovaly's crime novel of
1950s communist Prague is finally available to the world, three decades after
its first publication in the Czech Socialist Republic.
Heda Margolius Kovaly
(cover coming soon!)
In 1985, Czech Holocaust memoirist, literary translator, and political exile Heda
Margolius Kovaly turned her pen to fiction. Inspired by the stories of Raymond Chandler, Kovaly
knit her own terrifying experiences in early 1950s Socialist Prague—her husband's imprisonment
and wrongful execution, her own persecution at his disgrace—into a gorgeous psychological thrillercum-detective novel. Set in and around a cinema where a murder was recently committed,
Innocence follows the unfolding of the investigation while telling the stories of the women who
work there as ushers, each of whom is forced to support herself in difficult circumstances. As the
novel brings this group alive, it tells their various life stories that have brought them to this job, the
secrets they share with one another, and the secrets they keep. When the detective trying to solve
the first murder is found slain by the cinema, all of their secrets come into the light.
A smart, evocative, and deeply stirring literary crime novel with international appeal.
Praise for Under a Cruel Star
“A tragic story told with aplomb, humor and tenderness . . . Highly recommended.”
—Publishers Weekly
“An exceptionally intimate and poignant memoir . . . Illuminating.” —Library Journal
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Okey Ndibe
Okey Ndibe teaches African and African Diaspora literatures at Brown University. He earned MFA and PhD degrees from the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has taught at Connecticut College, Bard College, Trinity College, and the University
of Lagos (as a Fulbright scholar). He is also the author of Arrows of Rain and has served on the editorial board of Hartford
Courant, where his essays won national and state awards. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Sheri, and their three children.
Foreign Gods, Inc.
Foreign Gods, Inc., tells the story of Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab
driver who sets out to steal the statue of an ancient war deity from his
home village and sell it to a New York gallery.
Ike's plan is fueled by desperation. Despite a degree in economics from a major American
college, his strong accent has barred him from the corporate world. Forced to eke out a living as
a cab driver, he is unable to manage the emotional and material needs of a temperamental
African American bride and a widowed mother demanding financial support. When he turns to
gambling, his mounting losses compound his woes.
And so he travels back to Nigeria to steal the statue, where he has to deal with old friends,
family, and a mounting conflict between those in the village who worship the deity, and those
who practice Christianity.
A meditation on the dreams, promises and frustrations of the immigrant life in America; the
nature and impact of religious conflicts; an examination of the ways in which modern culture
creates or heightens infatuation with the “exotic,” including the desire to own strange objects
and hanker after ineffable illusions; and an exploration of the shifting nature of memory, Foreign
Gods is a brilliant work of fiction that illuminates our globally interconnected world like no other.
“Razor-sharp . . . Ndibe invests his story with enough dark comedy to make Ngene an odoriferous presence in his own right, and certainly not the kind of polite exotic rarity that art collectors
are used to . . . In Mr. Ndibe’s agile hands, he’s both a source of satire and an embodiment of
pure terror.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“A story of sweeping cultural insight and absurd comedy . . . rendered with a stoic power that
moves the reader more than histrionics possibly could.”
—The Washington Post
“Unforgettable . . . Ndibe seems to have a boundless ear for the lyrical turns of phrase of the
working people of rural Nigeria . . . The wooden deity ‘has character, an audacious personality,’
says one non-African who sees it. So does Ndibe's novel, a page-turning allegory about the globalized world.”
—Los Angeles Times
“A morality tale for our time . . . With subtle hints at moral turmoil, a gift for dark humour, and
characterisation that is perceptive and neatly observed, Ndibe manages to persuade the reader
to root for Ike, even as his haphazard plans begin to unravel.”
—The Guardian
“This original [novel] is packed with darkly humorous reflections on Africa’s obsession with the
West, and the West’s obsession with all things exotic.”
—Daily Mail
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“We clearly have a fresh talent at work here. It is quite a while since I sensed creative promise
on this level.”
—Wole Soyinka, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
Jan 2014
World
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Cara Black
Cara Black is the author of fourteen books in the bestselling Aimée Leduc series, all of which are available from Soho Crime. She
lives in San Francisco with her husband and son and visits Paris frequently.
Murder on the Champ de Mars
Cara Black
(cover coming soon!)
Vol. 15
Paris, 1998: Now a mother, Aimée Leduc has her work cut out for her—running her business,
feeding her new bébé, fighting off sleep deprivation and pursuing a personal investigation
with the local Romany (known locally as the “gypsy” population), who are forming ranks and
mysteriously falling silent before her questions.
Mar
2015
A young Romany boy begs Aimée Leduc to take on a case from his ailing mother, promising
her answers to her father’s unsolved murder in a bomb explosion a decade ago. But when
they arrive at the hospital, the boy’s mother has disappeared. Presuming that the
bohémienne has been abducted because she possesses valuable information, Aimée agrees
to investigate.
World
Set in the seventh arrondissment, the quartier of the Parisian elite, Murder on the Champ de
Mars takes us from the highest seats of power in the ministries and embassies to the city’s
secret gardens and the homes of France’s oldest aristocratic families. Aimée discovers more
connections than she thought possible between the clandestine “gypsy” world and the moneyed ancien régime, ultimately leading her to the truth behind her father's death . . . After all,
for Aimée, murder is never far from home.
Praise for the Aimée Leduc series
“Wry, complex, sophisticated, intensely Parisian . . . One of the very best heroines in crime
fiction today.”
─Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series
Also in the New York Times bestselling
Aimee Leduc series:
Murder in the Marais
Murder in Belleville
Murder in the Sentier
Murder in the Bastille
Murder in Clichy
Murder in Montmartre
Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis
Murder in the Rue de Paradis
Murder in the Latin Quarter
Murder in the Palais Royal
Murder in Passy
Murder at the Lanterne Rouge
Murder Below Montparnasse (p. 7)
Murder in Pigalle (p. 7)
For more details on the complete
backlist, see p. 30.
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“Forever young, forever stylish, forever in love with Paris—forever Aimée.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Transcendently, seductively, irresistibly French.”
─Alan Furst, author of Night Soldiers
“So authentic you can practically smell the fresh baguettes and coffee.”
—Val McDermid
“[Black] is on to a good thing: each of her novels is set in a colorful Parisian neighborhood—
and there are a lot of them. The cumulative result of reading this addictive series is a sort of
mini-tour of the city, as seen through a filter of fictional murder . . . Leduc is always a reliable
and charming guide to the city's lesser-known corners.”
—The Seattle Times
“Black creates rich, plausible characters, giving them individuality and depth.”
—San Francisco Gate
Phone: 212.260.1900
Cara Black
Cara Black is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen books in the Aimée Leduc series, all of which are available from
Soho Crime. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son and visits Paris frequently.
Murder in Pigalle Vol. 14
June, 1998: Paris's sticky summer heat is even more oppressive than usual as rowdy French
football fans riot in anticipation of the World Cup. Private Investigator Aimée Leduc has been
trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle—she's five months' pregnant and has the baby's wellbeing to think about now. But then disaster strikes close to home. A serial rapist has been
terrorizing Paris's Pigalle neighborhood, following teenage girls home from junior high school
and attacking them in their own houses. It is sad and frightening but has nothing to do with
Aimée—until Zazie, the 13-year-old daughter of the proprietor of Aimée's favorite café, disappears. The police aren't mobilizing quickly enough, and when Zazie's desperate parents approach Aimée for help, she knows she couldn't say no even if she wanted to.
Mar 2014
World
“The combination of vividly evoked Parisian neighborhoods and a bewitching, stylish heroine
continues to make this series as tasty as a chunk of French chocolate.”
—Booklist
"[Aimée Leduc is] almost six months pregnant and showing it . . . but once the investigation
takes a detour into the cavernous sewers of the city, she proves she can still find her way
home in the dark."
"Leduc is a refreshing and entertaining guide to Parisian neighborhoods and cultures, especially those that well-established tourist routes typically pass by. Let’s hope she never runs out
of districts to scoot around in."
Murder Below Montparnasse Vol. 13
A New York Times bestseller!
Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc is in a tough spot. Her long-time partner and best
friend René has abandoned their company to move to Silicon Valley, and now Aimée has to
handle the whole workload by herself. Her godfather, Commisaire Morbier, has bullied her into
getting involved in a government case against an intelligence hacker. And now, to make matters
worse, she's stumbled into what seems to have been an art heist gone terribly wrong. Some very
dangerous people think Aimée knows too much, and now she must scramble to solve the
mystery of who is really behind the murder before they track her down.
“Francophiles and mystery-novel lovers alike will devour investigator Aimée Leduc's latest
outing, which takes her through the gorgeous if treacherous world of black-market art in
Paris, as she safeguards a long-lost Modigliani painting.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“[Black's] tone is lighter than in most other Euro-noir. After all, this is Paris . . . The spice in this
tale, set in 1998, involves a long-hidden, newly stolen Modigliani that Leduc is hired to
retrieve. Before she can even begin hunting, her client is killed . . . Fortunately, Leduc
has a network of loyal friends to aid in her escapades. Pity the knife-wielding villain
who offends that infallible sense of style.”
—Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal
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John Straley
John Straley, a criminal investigator for the state of Alaska, lives in Sitka with his son and wife, a marine biologist who studies
whales. He is the Shamus Award-winning author of The Curious Eat Themselves and The Woman Who Married a Bear.
Cold Storage, Alaska
An offbeat, often hilarious crime novel set in the sleepy Alaskan town of Cold Storage
from Shamus Award winning author of the Cecil Younger series.
Newly reformed and with the dream of opening a bar-slash-church, Clive “The Milkman” McCahon
returns to his withering Alaska hometown after a 7-year jail stint for dealing coke. He has a lot to
make up to his younger brother, Miles, who has dutifully been taking care of their ailing mother—
and, really, all of Cold Storage.
Feb 2014
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But Clive doesn’t realize the trouble he’s bringing home. His vengeful former business partner is
hot on his heels, and a stick-in-the-mud State Trooper is dying to bust him for narcotics. Will Clive’s
arrival breathe new life into the dying town and its hard-drinking, no-nonsense inhabitants? Or will
the trouble he brings along be the last nail in Cold Storage’s coffin?
Also by John Straley:
The Woman Who Married a Bear
The Curious Eat Themselves
For more details on the complete
backlist, see p. 28.
Germany:
BTB
“Straley strikes the perfect balance of humor and pathos in this story
about the McCahon brothers.”—New York Times Book Review
“[Straley] writes crime novels populated by perpetrators whose hearts are filled with more
poetry than evil.”—The Wall Street Journal
“Straley isn’t prolific, but when he does publish a book, it’s a gem . . . The crime aspect of Cold
Storage, Alaska is pretty casual. Straley’s mostly interested in his characters and how they interact on a personal level . . . It’s always a pleasure to read Straley’s vivid studies of these folks—the
slightly cracked, rugged and very funny characters of the Far North.”—The Seattle Times
The Big Both Ways
Discover the criminal history of Cold Storage, Alaska . . .
It’s 1935. Slip Wilson walks off his jobs at a logging camp after a gruesome accident kills a
coworker. On his way to Seattle to start over, he helps a woman get her car out of a ditch, and his
life takes a serious detour. The woman, Ellie Hobbes, is an anarchist from the docks of Seattle who
takes care of her young niece and dreams of flying planes. But right now she has a dead body in
the trunk of her car and she’s on the run. So begins the action that takes Slip, Ellie, her niece, and
her noisy yellow bird on a heart-stopping adventure up the Inside Passage from Puget Sound to
Alaska. The Big Both Ways is a gripping tale of survival, betrayal, and murder.
“A thrilling journey . . . sure-footed and deeply evocative.”—Seattle Times
“Moving... and utterly absorbing.”—Denver Post
“A riveting, unpredictable ride.”—Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review
“A rich tale . . . Straley hits all the right notes here.”—Booklist, Starred Review
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James R. Benn
James R. Benn is the author of the Billy Boyle World War II mysteries. The debut, Billy Boyle, was named one of the top five mysteries of 2006 by Book
Sense and was a Dilys Award nominee. Subsequent books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, and been listed as
the Bookpage Mystery of the Month. Two have been tagged as a “Killer Book” by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. A librarian for
many years, Benn lives in Hadlyme, Connecticut, with his wife.
The Rest is Silence
The ninth installment in James R. Benn’s hit WWII-era mystery series
A single unidentified body washes ashore on a beach in southwest England. Captain Billy Boyle is
assigned to investigate since the beach is part of a restricted area where US Army troops are
practicing landings in advance of the planned invasion of France. The body leads Billy to a war
between criminal gangs out for control of the black market and access to the cornucopia of supplies
flowing in through ports in southern England. With the aid of a local constable, the mystery of the
one body is solved, but soon many other bodies wash ashore in the same area.
Sept 2014
World
Operation Tiger, a large-scale training exercise for GIs slated to hit Utah Beach in the near future,
has come to grief as German patrol boats attack the convoy and kill nearly a thousand men, ten of
them BIGOTs: men who know the secrets of D-Day. Billy is tasked by Eisenhower himself to locate
the ten men, dead or alive, to be certain none were picked up by the Germans in the Channel
waters. But when Billy finds an 11th BIGOT, he knows he has a murder on his hands in addition to
the disaster of Operation Tiger.
Praise for the Billy Boyle series
“Spirited wartime storytelling.”—The New York Times Book Review
“A fast-paced saga set in a period when the fate of civilization still hangs in the balance.”
—Wall Street Journal
“Captivating . . . Benn does a superb job of simultaneously capturing the personal anguish of war
and creating a splendid adventure novel.”—Library Journal, Starred Review
A Blind Goddess
The eighth installment in James R. Benn’s hit WWII-era mystery series
London, March, 1944: US Army Lieutenant detective Billy Boyle faces two upsetting cases. Sergeant Eugene “Tree” Jackson, an estranged friend of Billy’s, is part of the 617th Tank
Destroyers, a battalion poised to make history by being the US Army's first combatant African American company. But making history isn't easy, and the 617 faces racism at every turn. One of Tree's
men, a gunner named Angry Smith, has been arrested for a crime he almost certainly didn't commit, and faces the gallows if the real killer isn't found. To complicate matters, British intelligence
agent Major Cosgrove assigns Billy a bizarre and delicate murder investigation in a village where a
serial killer might be on the loose. Maybe Billy can get to the bottom of both mysteries—and save
more than one innocent life.
For more books in
James R. Benn’s Billy
Boyle series, see p. 34.
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“Pervasive racism in the U.S. Army during WWII frames Benn’s excellent eighth Billy Boyle
whodunit . . . The superior plot and thoughtful presentation of institutional racism directed
against American soldiers about to risk their lives for their country make this one of Benn’s
best.”
—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“Benn’s thoroughly researched exploration of segregation in the wartime armed services is
revealing and sensitively handled. Another nice mix of human drama and WWII history.”
Sept 2013
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Henry Chang
The long-awaited new novel in the Jack Yu series set in New York’s Chinatown
Henry Chang was born and raised in New York's Chinatown, where he still lives. He is a graduate of Pratt Institute and CCNY. He
is the author of four books in the Detective Jack Yu series: Chinatown Beat, Year of the Dog, Red Jade and Death Money.
Death Money
Apr 2014
When the body of an unidentified Asian man is found in the Harlem River, NYPD Detective
Jack Yu is pulled in to investigate. The murder takes Jack from the benevolent associations
of Chinatown to the take-out restaurants, strip clubs, and underground gambling establishments of the Bronx, to a wealthy, exclusive New Jersey borough. It's a world of secrets and
unclear allegiances, of Chinatown street gangs and major Triad players. With the help of an
elderly fortune teller and an old friend, the unpredictable Billy Bow, Jack races to solve his
most difficult case yet.
“The best Jack Yu mystery yet! Death Money is a lightning-speed sordid tale that travels
through the dark alleys of bygone New York City Chinese restaurants. Chester Himes, the master of Harlem mysteries, would have been proud.”
—Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award-winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series
“Think you know New York? Then let Henry Chang show you around. This is tough crime fiction
that reaches into the darkest corners of Chinatown and beyond, written with a deep understanding of the world through which Detective Jack Yu moves, and a soulful compassion for
those who inhabit it. Every word has the ring of truth about it.”
—Stuart Neville , author of The Ghosts of Belfast and Ratlines
Praise for Henry Chang
“Chang has a cool, measured style that lets in some light . . . On a society that lives by its own rules.”
“For readers who relish noir suspense, it doesn’t get much better than this stunning novel.”
—Boston Globe
“This is a nasty, terse slice of noir, and Yu is a fellow whose adventures should be worth following.”
—Washington Post Book World
“An Asian-flavored The Wire . . . A richly atmospheric panorama of New York’s immigrant demimonde.”
Also in Henry Chang’s Detective Jack Yu series:
Chinatown Beat
Year of the Dog
Red Jade
For more details on the complete backlist, see p. 27.
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Jan Merete Weiss
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The long-awaited follow-up to the Captain Natalia Monte series set in Naples
Jan Merete Weiss grew up in Puerto Rico. She studied poetry and painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and received a
Master's degree from NYU. Her poems have appeared in various literary magazines. She lives in New York and lectures at
Lehman College.
A Few Drops of Blood
When two men are found, naked, brutally murdered, posed on the statue of a horse in the
garden of an elderly countess, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabiniere is assigned the
case, and soon she is plunged into the shadowy world of decadent art galleries on the
Camorrora. If she is to succeed in solving the heinous crime, Natalia must deal with not only
her own complicated past and allegiances, but also those of the city as a whole. A riveting
and poetic exploration of the violence that lurks in the heart of beauty, set in exotic Naples.
Mar 2014
World
“Terrific . . . Memorable characters boost this atmospheric mystery redolent of the city’s
art, architecture, and the détente that permits the Carabinieri and the Camorra to both
operate in a state of tense and fragile peace.”
These Dark Things
When a beautiful college student is found murdered in the catacombs beneath a monastery,
Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabinieri is assigned to investigate. Could the killer be a
professor the student had been sleeping with? A blind monk who loved her? Or perhaps a
member of the brutal Napali criminal organization, the Camorra? As Natalia pursues her
investigation, the crime families of Naples go to war over garbage-hauling contracts; and all
across the city heaps of trash pile up, uncollected. When one of Natalia's childhood friends is
caught up in the violence, her loyalties are tested, and each move she makes threatens her
own life and the lives of those she loves.
“Where better to set a noir police procedural than in streets awash in uncollected trash,
against a backdrop of smoke rising from Vesuvius? . . . Donna Leon owns Venice, and David
Hewson rules Rome. With this formidable debut novel, Weiss lays claim to Naples.”
—Boston Globe
“Weiss has done her homework, walked the pestilent streets, prowled the catacombs below
the city, and created a thoroughly human woman.”
—Margaret Maron, author of The Deborah Knott Series
“Absorbing . . . Weiss invests her debut with a plot replete with shocks, her characters—even
the minor ones—are drawn with care and come alive as complete beings on the page, and her
vivid portrayal of Naples, in its glory and its gloom, is unforgettable . . . These Dark Things tells
a dark story and marks the beginning of what promises to be a bright series.”
—Richmond Times-Dispatch
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Literary Fiction
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Coming soon to Soho:
Seven superb Dale Peck properties, including two exciting new works!
Dale Peck
Dale Peck is a novelist, critic, and columnist. His debut novel, Martin and John, was originally published in 1993, and he
has since written five additional novels, two works of non-fiction, and three children’s novels. Dale Peck lives in New York
City with his boyfriend, Lou Peralta, where he teaches in the Graduate Writing Program of the New School.
Martin and John
Dale Peck’s internationally renowned debut novel back in print!
Two men and two sets of stories weave together to create a haunting,
harrowing portrait of an artist.
Feb 2015
The first story is told episodically by John, a hustler in New York in 1982, who
falls in love with Martin, a man dying of AIDS. The second set of stories are
those John writes in his journal as he learns how to live his life without Martin.
His stories also revolved around Martin and John, two characters who lead
similar existences to their real-life counterparts, but with a few key differences.
World
“Peck's first novel has a dark brilliance and moments of real beauty . . . hard
to ignore.”—Los Angeles Times
“Dale Peck, in his first novel, Martin and John, gives me what I look for most
when I open a new book: a world that is our world and also full of things I
didn't know, characters in scenes that are at once recognizable and indelible.”—Chicago Tribune
Netherlands: Atlas
Italy: Feltrinelli
Germany: Paul List
China: China Times
Japan: Hayakawa
Korea: Myung Kyung
Greece: Odysseas
“How do you write a novel that describes the impact AIDS has had on you and
still take into account all the other people who are suffering the consequences of the disease? Dale Peck has come up with his answer in Martin and
John—a book that marks the debut of a remarkably
accomplished young writer.”—Entertainment Weekly
And announcing two new works by Dale Peck:
Mar 2015
Visions and Revisions
A collection of essays about AIDS in the ‘90s.
World
Forthcoming untitled anthology
April 2015
An engaging political canon of writing from the Reagan-Bush years.
Confirmed contributors include: Rebecca Brown, Dennis Cooper, Robert Glück, Brad Gooch, Amy
Hempel, Gary Indiana, Susan Minot, Eileen Myles, & Lynne Tillman.
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The Law of Enclosures
A lyrical, haunting story of love, loss, and the redemptive powers of art journeys inside the marriage of Beatrice
and Henry, the parents of two children, Susan and John, the protagonist of the critically acclaimed debut novel Martin and John.
May 2015
“Remarkable . . . This curious, hump-backed book, with its mixture of private rage
and accomplished world-making, and its absolute reality, is a very rate, original,
and cherishable achievement. There is nothing else like it.”—Guardian
“An astonishing work of emotional wisdom . . . Peck has galvanized his reputation
as one of the most eloquent voices of his generation.”
“Shatteringly honest, disturbing and provocative . . . A masterful confrontation with
truth in the guise of a brilliantly conceived and executed work of fiction.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
World
UK: Vintage
Italy: Feltrinelli
Germany: Luchterhand
Netherlands: Atlas
“Few writers have Dale Peck’s nerve. He writes without secrets, packing his novels
with the intimacies of his life, his family, his sexuality . . . There is an extraordinary
sense of the risk and adventure of writing in every page of this novel.”—The Nation
“The prose is so unobtrusively graceful that it may take you a while to notice how
beautiful it is . . . Peck is as piercing on old age as on youth, as comfortable writing
about women’s bodies as about men’s.”—The New Yorker
Now It's Time to Say Goodbye
A story of violence and prejudice in small-time America, from the author of Martin and John. On the run from the
AIDS epidemic, Colin and Justin move to the tiny Kansas city of Galatea. When a young girl is kidnapped, they
are drawn into the town's dark web of hatred and fear.
“This dark, ferocious book reads like Twin Peaks and Pulp Fiction combined with
Days of Heaven and To Kill a Mockingbird, with some bits of Faulkner, Carson
McCullers and Flannery O’Connor thrown in for good measure. [Peck] has given us
a big, galvanic novel, a novel that stands as the capstone, thus far, of his impressive career.”
“With Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye, Peck has written his most complex, subtle—while
appearing the most literal—and chilling tale to date. And it is monumental, one of the
most disturbing and morally powerful novels of the decade.”
—The Village Voice
“Peck is not only one of the leading literary voices of his generation, but also one
of the few avant-garde writers of any age who is changing the rules for prose
fiction. His novels simultaneously define and defy the genre.”
—Los Angeles Times
“There simply aren’t enough superlatives to describe this great American novel:
erudite and lyrical, Peck’s latest is one of the best books of an outstanding
literary year.”
—Out
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Previously titled What We Lost
Dale Peck has dazzled readers and critics alike with his novels. Now, he examines new territory with a chilling
story of his father's tumultuous childhood. More or less kidnapped at fourteen to his uncle’s farm, Dale Peck, Sr.
finds unexpected contentment there and must choose between his broken family and the new home he loves.
“What We Lost left me wonderfully perplexed: how could so much emotion be
crammed into so few pages? How could something so accessible seem so utterly personalized? How could such a traditional form of storytelling evoke such a
new set of feelings? I could think of only one place to go for my answers: back
to the first page. So that’s where I went. And I bet that’s where you’ll go after
reading this terrific book.”—Jonathan Safran Foer
July 2015
World
UK: Granta
“What We Lost is as slender, fiercely focused and humane as Franzen’s epically
bloated The Corrections was sloppy and self-involved . . . Eloquent and elegiac.”—Philadelphia Gay News
“Every reader knows that time when you simply must close a book in gratitude
and breathe in some of the silence it has created. What We Lost is that sort of
book over and over again . . . This is a book of grace and dignity that will be
around for a long, long time.”—Colum McCann
“Dale Peck may have an ego the size of Montana. He may have annoyed half
the known literary world with his screeds on other writers. But he may also be
one our most adventurous and singularly talented writers working today.”
The Garden of Lost and Found
21-year-old James Ramsay discovers he’s inherited a New York City building upon the death of his mother, who disappeared from his life shortly after his first birthday. James is faced with a choice: sell the building, or attempt to
stave off the mounting tide of taxes that will cause him to forfeit his only connection to a mother he never knew.
Aug 2015
“A strange and wonderful novel [by] a strange and wonderful novelist,”
—Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland
“[Peck] tells the quintessential New York story with his delicious style and piercing ability to move.”
—Martha McPhee, author of Gorgeous Lies
“[Peck is a] brilliant writer, and this perplexing, beguiling, pre-and-post 9/11
Manhattan-set fable could have come from no one else.”
—Booklist
“Peck delivers a novel that explores family, sexuality, AIDS, and the resiliency of
the city, and he does it without kowtowing to the populist sentiment that a character ought to be likable: this one certainly isn’t
. . . In typical fashion, Peck spares no punches. “
—Lambda Literary Foundation
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BOMB Magazine
BOMB: The Author Interviews
Drawing on over 30 years of conversation in BOMB magazine between the writers who have shaped our world,
these interviews are a must for any fiction reader, offering a unique look at the minds and habits of bestsellers
like Jonathan Franzen, Junot Diaz and Salman Rushdie, alongside underground heroes like Dennis Cooper and
Kathy Acker. With an introduction by Francine Prose.
Nov 2014
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Praise for BOMB Magazine
“Reading BOMB interviews was one of the ways I began to conceive of myself as an artist.”
--Miranda July
“No other magazine, no other source of any kind, consistently advances so much vivid and indispensable intelligence into how art actually gets made in America and around the world as
BOMB. Their artist-to-artist conversations reinvented the artist interview as an instrument for
craft and collective autobiography, and exemplify the traditions of practitioner criticism at our
contemporary best--experienced, canny, empathetic, dramatic, and revelatory.”
--Robert Polito, Director of the New School Graduate Writing Program
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Paula Bomer
Paula Bomer is publisher of Sententia Books and the editor of Sententia: A Literary Journal as well as a contributor to the literary
blog, Big Other. Her writing has appeared in The Mississippi Review, Open City, Fiction, Nerve, and Best American Erotica. Her
collection, Baby & Other Stories, received exceptional critical attention. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.
Inside Madeleine
This eagerly awaited lacerating new collection about the curious, complicated relationships girls
have with their bodies, with other girls, and with boys, seethes with alienation, lust, and rage. It’s
even more daring and accomplished than Bomer’s first collection, which Jonathan Franzen described as “some of the rawest and most urgent writing I can remember encountering.”
A young anorexic girl comes to terms with her changing body while lying in the hospital; Polly deals
with her unwelcome puberty whilst falling prey to peer pressure in the suspenseful vein of “Where
Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”; Mary's nice-girl attitude is challenged when she begins a
job at a psych ward; two best friends discover the power of being beautiful and young; Madeleine
discovers menstruation and the power that comes with it; a kinky sexual relationship turns into a
dangerous obsession.
May 2014
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“With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable
and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter--the
bravery of these stories left me breathless.”
—Alissa Nutting, author of Tampa
“So arresting I raced to finish . . . “
—Lorin Stein, Paris Review blog
Nine Months
A bold, unapologetic first novel about a pregnant mother and wife who abandons her family in
search of an identity that is hers alone.
Aug 2012
Nine Months is a fierce, daring page-turner of a debut novel—a lacerating response to the culture
of mommy blogs, helicopter parents, and “parental correctness.” Sonia does everything a pregnant
woman shouldn't do—abandoning her two small children and husband, engaging in casual sex,
and smoking weed while on a road trip to retrace her own past and reclaim her sidelined career as
an artist. Unflinching and hilarious, Bomer skewers modern parenthood while asking serious
questions about what it means to be an artist and a mother.
“Deliciously, dangerously rogue.”—Marcy Dermansky, author of Bad Marie
“A raw, darkly funny, at times appalling page-turner . . . Mommy lit lovers will be horrified, but
Bomer's debut novel will resonate with fans of quirky, character-driven fiction in the vein of
Richard Russo, John Updike, and Tiffany Baker.”—Library Journal
“After reading this powerful, entertaining novel, and Bomer's excellent collection of stories, I'm
convinced. Anything she writes, I want it.”—PANK
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Garth Stein
New York Times bestselling author of The Art of Racing in the Rain
Garth Stein is the author of two other novels, the worldwide bestseller The Art of Racing in the Rain, now published in 30 languages, and Raven Stole
the Moon, as well as a play, Brother Jones. He lives in Seattle with his wife, three sons, and their dog, Comet.
How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets
Tenth Anniversary Edition!
Featuring a conversation between Garth and his editor, Bryan Devendorf,
drummer of the hit rock band The National.
Fathers never forget seeing their kids for the first time. But Evan is greeting his son, Dean, fourteen years late. The boy had been shuttled secretly
to another city, along with his teenaged mother, while still a newborn. Now
his mother has passed away, and Evan is it—Dad. An instant single parent.
Evan was once lead guitarist for a hot band with a hit single; now 31, he
gets by as a guitar instructor to middle-aged guys, and does menial work
in a music shop. With Dean in the picture he has to change fast, which
means facing up to the past, to his own father, and to the epilepsy that
haunts him and threatens his every moment.
BookSense Pick
Winner of the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Award
“Hits all the frets of a powerful story: sharp-witted dialogue, vivid characters, insight into medical challenges and prose that snaps like well-placed
plucks of guitar strings . . . I hold up my lighter and turn it full-flame for
Stein’s latest work. Encore!”
“An engrossing family drama.”
“A funny, bewitching, observant book about families, fathers and sons,
and growing up, no matter how old you are.”
—The Oregonian
“A beautifully un-shiny novel of passion, forgiveness and the life force that
is fatherhood.”
—PNBA Awards Committee
“Captivating, moving, and always observant . . . a wonderful, beautiful
book; I will never forget it!”
—Ben Sherwood, author of The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
“A compelling tale.”
—Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Mike McCormack
Mike McCormack has published a collection of short stories, Getting It In The Head, and a novel, Crowe's Requiem. In 1996,
McCormack was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. In 1998, Getting it in the Head was voted a New York Times Notable
Book of the Year. A story from the collection, “The Terms,” was adapted into an award-winning short film.
Notes from a Coma
“The greatest Irish novel of the decade.”—Irish Times
Mar 2013
Rescued from the squalor of a Romanian orphanage, and adopted by the rural community of
West Mayo, J.J. O'Malley should have grown up happy. The boy has no gift for it, though, and his
new life has a brutal way of giving him plenty to be unhappy about. After a sudden tragedy, J. J.
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suffers a catastrophic mental breakdown. Unable to live with himself, he volunteers for an
(except British
improbable government project which has been set up to explore the possibility of using deep Commonwealth)
coma as a future option within the EU penal system. When his coma goes online the nation turns
Turkey:
to watch, and J.J. is quickly elevated to the status of cultural icon. Sex symbol, existential hero,
Aylak
Kitap
T-shirt philosopher─his public profile now threatens to obscure the man himself behind a swirl of
media profiles, online polls, and EEG tracings.
Five narrators─his father, neighbour, teacher, public representative, and sweetheart─tell us the
true story of his life and try to give some clue as to why he is the way he is now: floating in a
maintained coma on a prison ship off the west coast of Ireland. Brilliantly imagined and artfully
constructed─merging science fiction with an affectionate portrait of small town Ireland─Notes
from a Coma is both the story of a man cursed with guilt and genius and a compassionate
examination of how our identities are safeguarded and held in trust by those who love us.
“A cross between 1984 and The X-Files . . . Notes From a Coma establishes McCormack as one
of the most original and important voices in contemporary Irish fiction.” —Irish Times
“McCormack's language is lovely, lyrical . . . his humor is dark, macabre; the words glimmer like
a spell.”—Time Out
“The testimony about JJ's life is written with a sad and touching simplicity . . . Intriguing.”
─Wall Street Journal
Praise for Mike McCormack
“McCormack's obsessions at times converge with those explored by Ian McEwan, Will Self and
J. G. Ballard, but his clever ideas and fluid, gracefully morbid style are all his own.”—GQ
“When venturing into the realm of the macabre, a writer gains a distinct advantage if he has a
sense of discipline and a sense of humor . . . Mike McCormack has both to spare . . . Like parables in their easy transcendence of setting and time, the most audacious stories are classics.”
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Dan Josefson
Dan Josefson has received a Fulbright research grant and a Schaeffer Award from the International Institute of Modern Letters.
He has an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and lives in Brooklyn.
That’s Not a Feeling
Benjamin arrives with his parents for a tour of Roaring Orchards, a therapeutic boarding school
tucked away in upstate New York. Suddenly, his parents are gone and Benjamin learns that he is
there to stay. Sixteen years old and a two-time failed suicide, Benjamin must navigate his way
through a new world of morning meds, popped privileges, candor meetings and cartoon brunches—all run by adults who themselves have yet to really come of age.
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The only person who comprehends the school's many rules and rituals is Aubrey, the founder and
headmaster. Fragile, brilliant, and prone to rage, he is as likely to use his authority to reward
students as to punish them. But when Aubrey falls ill, life at the school begins to unravel.
Benjamin has no one to rely on but the other students, especially Tidbit, an intriguing but untrustworthy girl with a “self-afflicting personality.” More and more, Benjamin thinks about running
away from Roaring Orchards—but he feels an equal need to know just what it is he would be
leaving behind.
New York Times Editors’ Choice
Booklist Editors’ Choice
B&N Discover New Voices selection
“Deft, tempered prose . . . unornamented, but never flat or blunted, so that the characters, not
the sentences, heat the pages.”
“Dan Josefson is a writer of astounding promise and That's Not a Feeling is a bold, funny,
mordant, and deeply intelligent debut.”
—David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest
“The prose is matter-of-fact, even placid, and studded with perfectly phrased
gems, a cool surface to a work that is rich in feeling. A wonderful and noteworthy debut.”
—Booklist, Starred Review
“Funny at times, and more than a little sad, the book’s form perfectly mirrors Benjamin’s profound sense of dislocation and uncertainty. This is a powerful, haunting look at the alternate
universe of an unusual therapeutic community.”
—Library Journal, Starred Review
“If That's Not a Feeling were a fifth novel, it would be a triumph. As a first novel, it is an astonishment. Dan Josefson sails along the scary edge of perfection in this book, and does so with style,
empathy, compassion, humor, and wisdom.”
—Tom Bissell, author of The Father of All Things
“This is a book of enormous intelligence, and even more heart.”
—Jim Shepard, author of Like You'd Understand, Anyway
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David Zimmerman
David Zimmerman was raised in Atlanta, Georgia. After receiving his MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama, he
spent several years living and working in Brazil and Ethiopia. He now teaches at Iowa State University. His debut novel, The Sandbox, was released by Soho in 2010.
Caring is Creepy
Fifteen-year-old Lynn Marie Sugrue is doing her best to make it through a difficult summer. Her
mother works long hours as a nurse, and Lynn suspects that her mother’s pill-popping boyfriend
has enlisted her in his petty criminal enterprises. Lynn finds refuge in online flirtations, eventually
meeting up with a troubled young soldier, Logan Loy, and inviting him home. When he’s forced to
stay over in a storage space accessible through her closet, and the Army subsequently lists him as
AWOL, she realizes that he’s the one thing in her life that she can control. Meanwhile, her mother’s
boyfriend is on the receiving end of a series of increasingly violent threats, which places Lynn
squarely in the cross-hairs.
Alex Award Winner
Apr 2012
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“An engrossing and unforgettable tale based on actual events . . . Those who can empathize with
flawed characters in dire situations will not be able to put this book down.”
—Library Journal
“Lynn’s voice is authentically sardonic and compelling . . . the intersections of Lynn’s and Logan’s
story line with the consequences of Hayes’s shady dealings are consistently exciting.”
“David Zimmerman has written a beautifully menacing novel. I found it impossible to stop reading—as teenage girls flirt with danger online, an AWOL soldier hides out in a closet, and drug deals
go dead wrong—and you will too, as the danger steadily escalates, the sentences unspooling like a
detonator line that sizzles toward an explosive, unforgettable ending.”
—Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding and Refresh, Refresh
“This story is sweet, funny, sad, infuriating, and all too real.” —Tulsa Books Examiner
The Sand Box
“An engrossing and unforgettable tale based on actual events . . . Those who can empathize with
flawed characters in dire situations will not be able to put this book down.” —Library Journal
2010
Operating Base Cornucopia. A three-hundred-year-old fortress in the remote Iraqi desert where a
few dozen soldiers wait for their next assignment, among them
Private Toby Durrant, a selfdescribed “broke nobody.” Then a deadly ambush
touches off events that put Durrant in the
middle of a far-reaching conspiracy.
“[A] gripping first novel.”—The New York Times
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Jacqueline Winspear
Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Among the Mad and An Incomplete Revenge, as well as four other Maisie Dobbs novels. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha, Alex, and Macavity awards for the first book in the series, Maisie Dobbs. Originally from the United Kingdom, she now lives in California.
Maisie Dobbs
Soon to be reissued by Soho Crime in the US are the first
two novels in Jacqueline Winspear’s internationally bestselling Maisie Dobbs series.
Lady Rowan Compton first met Maisie when, at thirteen, she went into
service as a maid at her ladyship’s Belgravia mansion. A suffragette,
Lady Rowan took the remarkably smart youngster under her wing and
became her patron. She encouraged Maisie to study at Cambridge,
and was aided in this by Maurice Blanche, a friend often retained as
an investigator by the elite of Europe when discretion and results were
required. It was he who first recognized Maisie’s intuitive gifts.
The outbreak of war changed everything. Maisie left for France to train
as a nurse, then served at the front, where she fell in love with a handsome young doctor.
Agatha Award Winner
Alex Award Winner
After the Armistice, in the spring of 1929, Maisie hangs out her shingle: M. Dobbs, Trade and Personal Investigations. Her very first case
involves suspected infidelity but turns up something else, a tombstone with only a first name—Vincent. And then she finds another. The
deceased had lived on a cooperative farm called The Retreat, a wellregarded convalescent refuge for those grievously wounded in the war,
ex-soldiers too shattered to resume normal life. When Lady Rowan’s
son makes plans to join the reclusive community, Maisie hurriedly
investigates and finds a disturbing mystery at its core whose resolution gives her the courage to confront the ghost that has haunted her
for ten years.
“Maisie Dobbs is a quirky literary creation. If you cross-pollinated Vera
Britain’s classic World War I memoir, Testament of Youth, with Dorothy Sayers’s Harriet Vane mysteries and a dash of the old PBS series
Upstairs, Downstairs, you’d approximate the peculiar range of topics
and tones within this novel . . . Its intelligent eccentricity offers relief.”
—Maureen Corrigan, “Fresh Air” on NPR
“[A] deft debut novel . . . Romantic readers sensing a story-within-astory won't be disappointed. But first they must be prepared to be
astonished at the sensitivity and wisdom with which Maisie resolves
her first professional assignment.”
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“The reader familiar with Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies
Detective Agency . . . might think of Maisie Dobbs as its British counterpart . . . [Winspear] has created a winning character about whom
readers will want to read more.”
—The Associated Press
June 2014
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Jacqueline Winspear
Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Among the Mad and An Incomplete Revenge, as well as four other Maisie Dobbs novels. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha, Alex, and Macavity awards for the first book in the series, Maisie Dobbs. Originally from the United Kingdom, she now lives in California.
Book 2 in Jacqueline Winspear’s internationally bestselling
Maisie Dobbs series:
Aug 2015
Birds of a Feather: A Maisie Dobbs Novel
London, 1929. Grocery magnate Joseph Waite is a man who knows
what he wants. With his Havana cigars and Savile Row suits, he is one
of Britain's wealthiest men. And the last thing he needs is a scandal.
When his eighteen-year-old daughter runs away from home, he is determined to keep the case out of the hands of the police and the press. So
he turns to a woman renowned for her discretion and investigative ability—the extraordinary Maisie Dobbs.
Maisie soon discovers that there are many reasons why Charlotte might
have left home. Instinctively, Maisie feels the young girl is safe. But
suddenly, she finds herself confronting a murder scene . . .
Agatha Award Winner
“A good second novel is one that like Birds of a Feather, makes you
want to read its predecessor.”
“Birds of a Feather succeeds both as a suspenseful mystery and as a
picture of a time and place.”
—Boston Globe
“[If you] were a fan of the 1970s BBC program Upstairs, Downstairs,
you’ll love Winspear’s Birds of a Feather."
—Denver Post
“If the third time is a charm, then Winspear has a head start . . . Both
heartfelt and thrilling, Birds of a Feather is that rare new breed, a distinctive entry into the crowded mystery genre.
—Bookmarks Magazine
“[A] chilling, suspenseful sequel . . . As in her first novel, the author
gives an intelligent and absorbing picture of the period, providing plentiful details for the history buff without detracting from the riveting mystery. Readers will be eager to see more of the spunky Maisie.”
“Sinking into a novel this good is as satisfying as sinking into a good
leather chair . . . Maisie, who has gone from being in service to a graduate of Girton at Cambridge, is as intelligent and engaging a sleuth as
one might desire: the period touches, from clothing to manners, are not
only elegantly presented but unostentatious.”
—Booklist
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Finland: Tammi
Hungary: Ulpius-Haz
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Qiu Xiaolong
Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai and received an MA in English and American literature in China. He received a
PhD in comparative literature from Washington University in St. Louis, where he now teaches.
Death Of a
Red Heroine
2000
The Inspector Cao Cen Series (Book 1)
A young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the
Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the
Shanghai special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he
finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth.
Chen must tiptoe around his own superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime,
and risk his career—perhaps even his life—if he wants to see justice done.
“Death Of A Red Heroine grabbed my imagination, took me on a slowly, intricately built
journey that nevertheless felt sexy and slick, and kept me turning the pages deep into
the night . . . a refreshingly brave exploration into political China, woven around a tense
thriller and likeable, enigmatic characters.”
—Huffington Post
A Loyal Character
Dancer
2002
Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort US
Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an
important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when
Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this
just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role; he would rather investigate
the triad killing in Shanghai's beauteous Bund Park. But his boss insists that saving face
with Inspector Rohn has priority. So Chen Cao, the ambitious son of a father who imbued
him with Confucian precepts, must tread warily as he tries once again to be a good cop, a
good man, and also a loyal Party member.
“Intriguing . . . the characters manage to achieve an engaging realism and charm, even
while showing the underside of China in transition.”
When Red is Black
2004
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China: Wenyi
Netherlands: Signature
Spanish Language: Tusquets
Italy: Marsilio Editori
Germany: Zsolnay
Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police Bureau is “on vacation.” Actually, he is working for
a triad-connected businessman about to build a vast complex in central Shanghai evoking
the “glitter and glamour” of the 30s. But when former Red Guard, novelist Yin Lige, is
murdered, he must return to duty to apprehend the culprit.
Winner of both the Anthony and Edgar Awards for Best First Novel
“Sublime . . . complex and riveting.”
—Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post Book World
“A vivid picture of modern Chinese society . . . a work of real distinction.”
—The Wall Street Journal
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Japan: Hayakawa
China: Wenyi
Finland: Otava
Denmark: Lindhardt&
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Israel: Yanshuf
Poland: Amber
Greece: Synnchroni Orontes
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Spain: Almuzara
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England: Hodder
France: Liana Levi
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Henry Chang
Henry Chang was born and raised in New York’s Chinatown, where he still lives. He is a graduate of Pratt Institute and
CCNY. He is the author of the Detective Jack Yu series.
Chinatown Beat
2006
A Detective Jack Yu Investigation (Vol. 1)
NYPD Detective Jack Yu was raised in Chinatown. Some of his old friends are criminals now;
some are dead. Recently transferred to his old neighborhood, where ninety-nine percent of the
cops are white, Jack is confronted with a serial rapist who preys on young Chinese girls. Then
Uncle Four, an elderly leader of the charitable Hip Ching Society and member of the Hong
Kong-based Red Circle Triad, is gunned down. To solve these crimes, Jack turns to both modern
police methods and ancient fortune-telling.
World
Italy: Fanucci
“Chinatown Beat is noir at its best, a book that shakes you to the core as you look at a world
where evil has so much more chance of prevailing than good.”
—Mystery News
Year of the Dog
2008
He's been transferred to a different precinct, but Jack cannot get away from Chinatown's
criminals—his old friends—who have hooked up with the Hong Kong-based triads in an elaborate
nationwide credit card fraud, nor from the Chinese victims who cry out for justice, like the
teenage Chinese take-out delivery boy brutally murdered in the projects.
World
“A vivid, street-level portrait of the community that, in the words of one reviewer, ‘evokes the
spirit, sights, smells and language of his setting in compelling and original fashion.’”
—The New York Times
“Suddenly my life became an orgy of reading pleasure.”
—Slate
Red Jade
2010
Two bodies are discovered at an address on the Bloody Angle, Chinatown's historic Tong battleground. NYPD Detective Jack Yu's investigation takes him across the country to another
Chinatown, this one in Seattle, in pursuit of a cold-blooded Chinese American gangster and a
mysterious Hong Kong femme fatale.
“An action-packed plot and a carefully detailed mystery make this a feast for readers who crave
insight into the cultural melting pot that is the United States.”
—Library Journal, Starred Review
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John Straley
John Straley, a criminal investigator for the state of Alaska, lives in Sitka with his son and wife, a marine biologist who studies
whales. He is the Shamus Award-winning author of The Curious Eat Themselves and The Woman Who Married a Bear.
The Woman Who Married a Bear
Sitka, Alaska, is a subarctic port surrounded by snow-dusted mountains. In addition
to honest work, there is a lot of alcohol consumed and other people’s money appropriated. Bars are loud, fights are mean. Rowdy youths party in the ancient Russian
cemeteries, sitting on overturned gravestones. Sitka is hardly straight-laced, but
murder is uncommon enough to be widely noted—like the Indian big-game guide
killed by an ex-miner obeying voices from the earth’s center. The victim’s mother, a
Tlingit Indian, summons to her nursing home a local investigator named Cecil Younger. The case is old and ostensibly solved. She wants him to investigate anyway. What
he unearths is a virtual fairytale contrived to hide a primal conspiracy.
Set against the modern Alaskan frontier and the surviving pantheism of its indigenous population, The Woman Who Married a Bear is a brooding and exotic novel
that touches on mysteries far beyond the conventional.
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Germany: Rowohlt
France: Gallimard
Italy: Hobby & Work
Japan: Fukutake
“Atmospheric.”
Frontlist titles by John Straley:
Cold Storage, Alaska
The Big Both Ways
For more details, see p. 8.
“Flashes of the dark poetry of Ross MacDonald.”
—Chicago Tribune
“A rich stew of deception and menace.”
—Anchorage Daily News
“Outstanding . . . satisfies on all levels.”
—Kansas City Star
“Straley's evocative prose conjures up both natural wonder and human tawdriness
without slackening the insistent suspense. A promising debut.”
—Library Journal
The Curious Eat Themselves
Cecil Younger is an investigator for the public defender in Sitka, Alaska. A woman
who hired him to investigate her rape is found dead in the estuarial waters of
Ketchikan township, “her throat cut so deeply that the trachea flopped out like a
rubbery white radiator hose.”
1993
“Strong and sobering . . . with his storyteller’s sense of dramatic action [Straley’s]
in his glory.”
World
“One of the strongest series since Hillerman set up shop.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“A love and appreciation of Alaska shine through Straley's quietly compelling
prose.”
-—Library Journal
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Italy: Hobby & Work (reverted)
Phone: 212.260.1900
Robert Hellenga
Robert Hellenga teaches at Knox College, Illinois. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship,
six Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowships, an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award.
The Sixteen Pleasures
“Mud angels” is what the Italians call the selfless young foreigners who come
to Florence in 1966 to save the city's priceless art from the Arno's flooded
riverbanks. Margot Harrington is an American volunteer, an expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a waterlogged convent library, she discovers
a fabulous volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Romano that accompany
sixteen steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino. When published more than four centuries earlier, the Vatican had insisted all copies be destroyed. This one—now
unique—volume has survived. The abbes, with wonderful aplomb, prevails upon
Margot to save the order's finances by selling the magnificently illustrated erotica, discreetly. Meaning: without the bishop's knowledge. The young American's
other clandestine project is a middle-aged Italian who is boldly trying radical
measures to save endangered frescoes. She is 29 and available; he, older and
married. He shares her sense of mission and then her bed in this ambrosial
story of spiritual longing and earthly desire.
“[It] will beguile you, seduce you, spirit you away into another world.”
—NPR.org
“Part mystery, part romance, part guidebook. A lively first novel that communicates the heady peril, as well as the adventure, of Florence after the flood.”
“Elegantly moving. Everything about the narrator and heroine of this novel is
appealing right from the first paragraph.”
—New Yorker
“An erotic book about an erotic book. At the same time, we receive a crash
course in Italian cuisine, convent life, the European railway system and the
delicate labor involved in restoring flood-damaged works of art.”
—Maxine Kumin, author of Where I Live
“A terrific, swift novel about being in love with Italy, Italian art and Italians. If
there’s such a thing as an art thriller, this is it.”—John Casey, author of Spartina
“This novel offers the reader a luxurious feast of pleasures—many many more
than sixteen.”
—Tillie Olsen, author of Tell Me a Riddle
“Though The Sixteen Pleasures is initially in the tradition of American innocent
goes abroad to encounter European experience, Hellenga's depth (and lightness) of characterization and description lift it high above its genre. And what
better book than one about loving and loving books?”
—Amazon
“Fascinating entertainment with a sympathetic heroine, a suspenseful plot, a
cast of colorful characters and illuminating meditations on life, art and love.”
—Chicago Tribune
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Chile: Librería Catalonia
Spain: Editorial Thassalia
England: Hodder and
Stoughton
The Netherlands: Uitgeverij
Vassallucci bv.
Norway: Tiden Norsk Forlag
Tokyo: Fuso Publishing Inc.
Croatia: Mozaik Knija
Italy: Newton & Compton
Editori Srl. (reverted)
Düsseldorf: Econ Verlag
Korea: Sam-Gwa-Ham-Gea
Publishing Co.
France: Editions Payot/
Rivages
Russia: Gayatri Publishers
World Spanish: Libreriá
Catalonia
Phone: 212.260.1900
The Aimée Leduc Investigations
The
New York Times
bestselling series
by Cara Black
A New York Times bestselling series set in the various neighborhoods of Paris featuring Aimée Leduc—a half American, half-French
computer detective who attracts men and murders. Writers who
have loved this series include: Lee Child, Sara Paretsky, George
Pelecanos, Val McDermid, Alan Furst, Linda Fairstein, Robert Barnard, Stuart Kaminsky, Philip Kerr, Marcia Muller, Margaret Maron
and Barbara Nadel. With positive reviews from The New York Times,
Chicago Tribune, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and many other papers. Cara has been compared to Sara Paretsky and Sue Grafton.
Murder at the Lantern Rouge
Vol. 12
Barnes and Noble March Mystery Pick of the Month & Indie Next Pick
Aimée Leduc is happy her long-time business partner René has found a
girlfriend. Really, she is. It’s not her fault if she can’t suppress her
doubts about the relationship; René is moving way too fast, and Aimée’s instincts tell her Meizi, this supposed love of René’s life, isn’t
trustworthy. And her misgivings may not be far off the mark: Meizi
disappears during a Chinatown dinner to take a phone call and never
comes back to the restaurant. Minutes later, the body of a young man,
a science prodigy and volunteer at the nearby Musée, is found shrinkwrapped in an alleyway—with Meizi’s photo in his wallet.
Aimée does not like this scenario one bit, but she can’t figure out how
the murder is connected to Meizi’s disappearance. The dead genius
was sitting on a discovery that has France’s secret service keeping tabs
on him. Now they’re keeping tabs on Aimée. A missing young woman,
an illegal immigrant raid in progress, botched affairs of the heart, dirty
policemen, the French secret service, cutting-edge science secrets, and
a murderer on the loose—what has she gotten herself into? And can she
get herself—and her friends—back out of it? Alive?
“Outstanding . . . readers will relish realistic villains and an evocative
atmosphere that begs for a trip to the City of Lights.”
―Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“Perfectly plotted . . . Filled with evocative details and quirky characters
as delightful as the smell of a fresh-baked baguette.”
—BN.com, Mystery Pick of the Month
“The pace accelerates as fast as Aimee's Vespa . . . Murder at the Lanterne Rouge is wonderfully plotted, and Cara Black ties
together the past and present with élan.”
—New York Journal of Books
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More from Cara Black’s Aimée Leduc series
Murder in Passy
2011
An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 11)
The village-like neighborhood of Passy, home to many of Paris’ wealthiest residents, is the last
place one would expect a murder. But when Aimée Leduc’s godfather, Morbier, a police commissaire, asks her to check on his girlfriend at her home there, that’s exactly what Aimée finds.
Xavierre, an haut bourgeois matron of Basque origin, is strangled in her garden while Aimée waits
inside. Circumstantial evidence makes Morbier the prime suspect, and to vindicate him, Aimée
must identify the real killer. Her investigation leads her to police corruption; the radical Basque
terrorist group, ETA; and a kidnapped Spanish princess.
World
“The ideal mix of the personal, the political, the puzzling and the
Parisian make Aimée’s latest a perfect pleasure.”
—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
Murder in the Palais Royal
2010
Just as Aimée is about to leave for New York City to follow up on a lead about a possible younger
brother, her partner in Leduc Detective, René Friant, is wounded by a near-fatal gun shot. Eyewitnesses identify Aimée as the culprit and the police have pegged her as the guilty party. Aimée is
distraught over René’s condition and horrified to be under suspicion.
At the same time, a large mysterious sum appears in their firm’s bank account, and the tax
authorities descend upon Aimée. She has no idea who would have sent this money. It seems that
someone is impersonating Aimée, someone who wants revenge. But for what?
World
“Forever young, forever stylish, forever in love with Paris— forever Aimée.”
Murder in the Latin Quarter
2009
A Haitian woman arrives at the office of Leduc Detective and announces that she is Aimée’s sister, her father’s illegitimate daughter. Aimée is thrilled. A virtual orphan since her mother’s disappearance and her father’s death, she has always wanted a sister. Her partner, René, is wary of
this stranger, but Aimée embraces her and soon finds herself involved in murky Haitian politics,
which leads to murder. The setting is the Latin Quarter on the Left Bank of the Seine, the old
university district of Paris.
“Postcolonial politics and global commerce ignite the murder of a Haitian academic in Paris’s
bohemian Left Bank . . . Black at her peak, with rich historical background and a vivid
sense of place supporting her compelling narrative.”
—Kirkus Reviews
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Murder in the Rue de Paradis
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2008
Aimée is thrilled when her one-time lover, Yves, an investigative journalist, returns from his assignment in Egypt and proposes marriage. But after a single night of bliss, his body is discovered in a
Paris doorway. His throat has been slit. Aimée is determined to avenge him. The trail leads to a
sleeper jihadist and embroils her in Turkish and Kurdish politics.
Murder on the Île Saint-Louis
2007
Facing a tight deadline on a computer security contract, Aimée responds to a telephone call from
a stranger that leads her to an abandoned infant in a courtyard on the Île Saint-Louis. She brings
the baby home with her, calls her Stella, and awaits contact from the mother. But days pass, and
no one reclaims the infant. Meanwhile, a group of environmental protestors are trying to stop the
government from entering into a contract with an oil company notorious for pollution.
Murder in Montmartre
2006
World
World
Aimée’s childhood friend, Laure, is a policewoman. Her partner, Jacques, has set up a meeting in
Montmartre with an informer. When Laure goes along as backup, Jacques is lured to a rooftop,
where he is shot to death. Laure’s gun has been fired, gunpowder residue is on her hands, and
she is charged with her partner’s murder. The police close ranks against the alleged cop killer.
Aimée is determined to clear Laure’s name. In doing so, she encounters separatist terrori sts,
Montmartre prostitutes, a surrealist painter’s stepdaughter, and a crooked Corsican bar owner,
then learns of “Big Ears”—the French “ear in the sky” that records telephonic and electronic
communications for the security services. Identifying Jacques’ murderer brings her closer to
solving her own father’s death, which still haunts her and she cannot rest until she finds out who
was responsible.
Spain: Factoria
des Ideas
Germany: Thiele &
Brandstattere
Verlag
Murder in Clichy
2005
Spirited Aimée Leduc, a private investigator based in Paris, has been introduced to the Cao Dai
temple by her partner, René, who urges her to learn to meditate as a counterbalance to her
frenetic lifestyle. A Vietnamese nun asks her for a favor—to hand over a check and bring a
package back to the temple. But this act of kindness ends in a stranger’s death and leaves her
with a bullet wound in the arm, a check for 50,000 francs, and a trove of ancient jade artifacts
whose provenance is a mystery. The French secret service, a group of veterans of the war in Indochina, some wealthy ex-colonials, and contending international oil companies all claim the jade.
They will stop at nothing to gain possession of it. And the nun has disappeared.
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Aimée has promised to avoid danger, but it continues to seek her out.
World
Murder in the Bastille
2003
Phone: 212.260.1900
Aimée Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket, supposedly an “exclusive,” for
dinner with a difficult client at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district. She is chagrined
to see that the woman seated at the very next table is wearing an identical jacket. When the
woman leaves her cell phone on the table, Aimée follows her to return it and is attacked in
the shadowy Passage Boule Blanche. When she regains consciousness, Aimée finds that she
has been temporarily blinded. Nevertheless, she is told she is lucky—the woman she was
following was found in the next passage, murdered. Aimée is determined to identify her
attacker. Was he actually a serial killer targeting showy blondes as the police insist? Was he
really after the other woman? Or was Aimée his intended victim?
Murder in the Sentier
2002
World
England: Constable &
Robinson (reverted)
Germany: Thiele &
Brandstattere Verlag
The third Aimée Leduc investigation is set in the historic Sentier district, where
once-fashionable private mansions now house the Parisian “rag” trade and nightclubs. Members of a 1960s Red gang are seeking their hidden loot, which leads to new murders. Aimée
fears the killers may include her long-lost mother.
World
Robinson (reverted)
France: Editions Anatolia
Italy: Hobby & Work
Murder in Belleville
2000
Tension runs high in this working-class neighborhood as a hunger strike to protest strict
immigration laws escalates among the Algerian immigrants. Aimée barely escapes death due
to a car bombing in this tale of terrorism and greed bred by the shadows of Paris.
World
Robinson (reverted)
Spain: Factoria des
Ideas
Norway: Schibste
Forlag A/S
Murder in the Marais
1999
Aimée Leduc has always sworn she would stick to tech investigation—no criminal cases for
her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But
when an old Jewish man approaches Aimée with a top-secret decoding job on behalf of a
woman in his synagogue, Aimée unwittingly takes on more than she was expecting. When she
drops off her findings at a client's house in the Marais, Paris' historic Jewish quarter, she finds
the old woman strangled to death, a swastika carved on her forehead. With the help of her
partner, René, Aimée sets out to solve this horrendous murder, but finds herself in an increasingly dangerous web of ancient secrets and buried war crimes.
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UK: Robinson
Japan: Hayakawa
Italy: Hobby & Work
Israel: Keter Books
Spain: Factoria des
Ideas
France: City Editions
Norway: Schibsted
Forlag A/S
Germany: Thiele &
Brandstattere Verlag
Phone: 212.260.1900
More from James Benn’s Billy Boyle series
Death’s Door
2012
A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery
(Vol. 7)
When an American monsignor with high-level political contacts is found murdered at the foot of
Death's Door, one of the five entrances to Saint Peter's Basilica, Lieutenant Billy Boyle is assigned
the case. To solve this murder, Billy first has to be smuggled into Rome, while avoiding the Gestapo
and Allied bombs. Then he must navigate Vatican politics and personalities—some are pro-Allied,
others pro-Nazi, and the rest steadfastly neutral—further complicated by the Vatican’s tenuous status as neutral territory in German-occupied Rome. But Billy’s ready to risk it all because of one simple fact: Diana Seaton, his lover and a British spy, has been captured while undercover in the Vatican. Billy must decide whether he dares attempt a rescue, even though a failed effort would surely
alert the Germans to his mission and risk an open violation of Vatican neutrality.
World
“Filled with action and adventure . . . A fine novel with its foot firmly planted in reality.”
—Ted Hertel, Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine
“Consistently entertaining.”—WWII Magazine
A Mortal Terror
2011
(Vol. 6)
Two officers from the American troops stationed in Caserta, Italy, not far from Naples, have
been found murdered. The cases are completely different, and it seems like the officers had
no connection to each other, but one frightening fact links the murders: each body was
discovered with a single playing card.
Billy is sent to Italy to investigate, but he has other things on his mind. Billy's just learned that
his brother is being sent over to Europe as an infantry replacement, an incredibly dangerous
assignment. As the invasion at Anzio begins, Billy needs to keep a cool head amidst fear and
terror as the killer calculates his next moves.
World
“This book has got it all—an instant classic.”—Lee Child
“Stark and poignant.”—The New York Times
Rag and Bone
2010
(Vol. 5)
Billy is sent to London in the midst of a Luftwaffe bombing offensive to investigate the murder
of a Soviet official. There’s reason to believe that the crime is connected to the recent discovery
of mass graves in the Katyn Forest, where thousands of Polish officers were executed.
World
Poland: Bellona S.A.
“[A] lively (and surprisingly thoughtful) adventure series.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Billy Boyle is a meaty, old-fashioned, and thoroughly enjoyable tale of
WWII-era murder and espionage.”
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More from James Benn’s Billy Boyle series
Evil for Evil
2009
(Vol. 4)
The adventures of a former Boston Irish cop as General Eisenhower’s personal investigator: the
“invasion” of Norway; the invasion of Algeria; the invasion of Sicily; the threat of a German-Irish
alliance.
“Benn continues to create fascinating behind-the-scenes mysteries from little-known facets of
World War II history . . . A fast-paced mix of action, adventure, and crime solving . . . A solid
series that keeps getting better.”—Booklist
Blood Alone
2008
World
(Vol. 3)
Billy awakens in a field hospital in Sicily with amnesia. Despite this and numerous
attempts on his life, he manages to carry out his mission to enlist the cooperation of the head
of the Sicilian Mafia on behalf of the Allies. He also foils a plot by Vito Genovese to counterfeit
army scrip.
World
“Another bracing cocktail of period action with a whodunit chaser from the increasingly
authoritative Benn.”
—Kirkus Review
The First Wave
2007
(Vol. 2)
Billy’s task is to help arrange the surrender of the Vichy French forces in Algeria. But
dissension among the regular army, the militia, and DeGaulle’s Free French allows black
marketeers in league with the enemy to divert medical supplies to the Casbah, leading to
multiple murders. Billy must find the killers while trying to rescue the girl he loves—a British spy.
World
“[A] cross-genre tale that is at once spy story, soldier story, and hard-Boyled detective. Bullets,
babes, and bombs give Billy Boyle a bad time before he solves the case, but you'll have a good
time reading about it. Highly recommended.”
—Library Journal
Billy Boyle
2006
(Vol. 1)
What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish cop from Boston doing at Beardsley Hall having lunch with
Haakon, King of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home, he’d just made detective
(with a little help from family and friends) when war was declared. Unwilling to fight—and
perhaps die—for England, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of
a general married to her distant cousin. But the general turns out to be Dwight D. Eisenhower;
his headquarters are in London, which is undergoing the Blitz; and Uncle Ike has a special assignment for Billy: He wants Billy to be his personal investigator.
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Operation Jupiter, the impending invasion of Norway, is being planned. Billy is to catch a spy
amongst the Norwegians. He doubts his own abilities, and a theft and two murders test his
investigation. But to his own surprise, Billy proves to be a better detective than anyone thought.
World
Phone: 212.260.1900
Michael Genelin
Michael Genelin is a graduate of UCLA and UCLA Law School. He has served as a consultant for the US State Department and USAID in Central Europe, Africa, Asia, and Haiti. He lives with his wife in Paris.
Requiem for a Gypsy
2011
A Commander Jana Matinova Investigation
(Book 4)
Commander Jana Matinova must push through her own government's secretiveness to discover
what connects the murder of Klara Boganova to an anonymous man run down in Paris, a dead Turk
with an ice-pick in his eye, an international network of bank accounts, and a mysterious vagabond
girl. To solve the case and stop an ongoing series of murders, Jana must travel to Berlin and Paris
and look back into the darkest period of Slovak history.
World
France: Marabout
“The portrayal of life in post-Communist Slovakia is riveting.”
—USA Today
The Magician’s Accomplice
2010
(Book 3)
Devastated by her lover's death in an explosion—on the same day that an indigent student was
shot and killed in normally sleepy Bratislava—Jana is transferred to The Hague, headquarters of the
international police force Europol. On the flight she encounters a retired magician, the dead
student's uncle, who is determined to help Jana investigate his nephew's death. And his help is
needed as, in this third Jana Matinova investigation, she faces an international conspiracy emanating from Europol itself.
World
France: Marabout
“In Genelin's superb third novel . . . [he] brilliantly blends action and detection, never allowing the
plot twists to overshadow his characters' humanity.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
Dark Dreams
2009
(Book 2)
Jana and Sofia were best friends when they were schoolmates. Now Jana is a commander in the
Slovak police force and Sofia, having made a name as a reformer, is a member of parliament.
Jana has fallen in love with an upright government prosecutor and Sofia is carrying on a notorious
affair with a suave, married, fellow MP. One day Jana finds an enormous diamond gem dangling
from a string fixed to the ceiling of the living room of her house. Was it put there as a present? Or,
more likely, to entrap her? The answer leads Jana across Europe to unravel a criminal conspiracy
involving multiple murders that has entangled her hapless, impulsive friend, Sofia, and which
ultimately leads to the criminal mastermind.
World
France: Marabout
“Masterly . . . Genelin vividly describes a Central European country that remains fearful and subject to political machinations despite the fall of the Soviet Union.”—Library Journal
Siren of the Waters
2008
(Book 1)
Jana entered the Czechoslovak police force as young woman, married an actor, and became a
mother. The Communist regime destroyed her husband, their love for one another, and her
daughter's respect for her. But she has never stopped being a seeker of justice. This investigation
takes her from Kiev in Ukraine to the headquarters of the European Community, Strasbourg in
France; from Vienna to Nice during the Carnival, as she searches for a ruthless killer and the
beautiful young Russian woman he is determined either to capture or destroy.
World
Japan: Tokyo
Sogen-sha
France: Marabout
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“Siren of the Waters is a well-written police procedural. The reader is given wonderful insight into
Jana’s head, into her motivations, her thought processes . . . The plotting is good, the characters
are well-developed. Michael Genelin is an author worth watching.”—Crimespree Magazine
Phone: 212.260.1900
Stan Jones
Stan Jones is a native of Alaska. He has worked as an award-winning journalist and a bush pilot. He is the author of three
previous mysteries in the acclaimed Nathan Active series.
The Village of the
Ghost Bears
2011
A Nathan Active Novel
(Book 3)
An Alaska State Trooper must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake
with a year-old plane crash and an arson fire that killed eight people, including the town’s
basketball star. The case turns out to involve a lucrative polar-bear poaching operation and the
intense bond between a brother and sister from Cape Goodwin, famous in the Arctic for twins,
polar bears, and schizophrenia.
World
“Multilayered characters and an offbeat setting authentically rendered—Jones bids fair to
become the Tony Hillerman of Alaska.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Chilling.... Fascinating.”—USA Today
Shaman Pass
2005
(Book 2)
Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active is regarded as “half-white” by the Inupiats of the village
where he is stationed. He was born in Chukchi but was adopted by Anglos and raised in Anchorage. Now he is called upon to investigate the murder of a tribal leader who was stabbed to death
with an antique harpoon, which had been recently returned to the community under the Indian
Graves Act.
World
“Active maintains his awe of the vast Alaskan tundra, a forbidding region that Jones renders in
all its bone-chilling beauty.”
—Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review
Editions du
Masque
“[Jones’] depiction of a freezing world of tar-paper houses and whaling camps is absolutely convincing.”—Houston Chronicle
White Sky, Black Ice
2003
(Book 1)
In the small Alaskan village of Chukchi, what are the odds of two suicides occurring in a matter of
a few days? State trooper Nathan Active discovers that his suspicions concerning the deaths are
well-founded; the two men were murdered. But what was the motive and who killed them?
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Editions du
Masque
Phone: 212.260.1900
Rebecca Pawel
Law of Return
2004
Death of
a Nationalist
2003
Lieutenant Carlos Tejada has been transferred to Salamanca, the city where he studied law before
the Civil War. His new police duties include monitoring parolees—former professors who were fired
for protesting a Franco decree. Elena Fernandez, having lost her job because of her political
sympathies, has returned home to Salamanca from Madrid where she and Tejada had first been
romantically involved. Her father, one of the parolees, was a distinguished professor of Classics. He
has just received a letter from a Jewish friend, Professor Joseph Meyer, begging for help to cross
into Spain from France before he is forcibly repatriated to Germany. Professor Fernandez cannot
violate his parole by traveling to the border town of San Sebastian so Elena goes in his stead.
Tejada, tracing a missing parolee, finds himself in San Sebastian, too. There Elena and Tejada's
paths fatefully cross again.
World
Netherlands: Uitgeverij Atlas
Italy: TEA
France: Liana Levi
Poland: Sonia Draga
Turkey: Literatur
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel
Madrid 1939. Carlos Tejada Alonso y Lean is a Sergeant in the Guardia Civil, a rank rare for a man
not yet thirty, but Tejada is an unusual recruit. The bitter civil war between the Nationalists and
the Republicans has interrupted his legal studies in Salamanca. Second son of a conservative
Southern family of landowners, he is an enthusiast for the Catholic Franquista cause, a dedicated,
and now triumphant, Nationalist. This war has drawn international attention. In a dress rehearsal
for World War II, fascists support the Nationalists, while communists have come to the aid of the
Republicans. Atrocities have devastated both sides. It is at this moment, when the Republicans
have surrendered, and the Guardia Civil has begun to impose order in the ruins of Madrid, that
Tejada finds the body of his best friend, a hero of the siege of Toledo, shot to death on a street
named Amor de Dios. Naturally, a Red is suspected. And it is easy for Tejada to assume that the
woman caught kneeling over the body is the killer. But when his doubts are aroused, he cannot
help seeking justice.
World
Netherlands: Uitgeverij Atlas
Brazil: Editora Landscape
Italy: TEA
France: Editions Liana Levi
Japan: Hayakawa
Spain: Ediciones B, Leer-e
Portugal: Difel (Gotica 2000)
Poland: Sonia Draga
Turkey: Literatur
E-book: Leer-E
Grace Brophy
A Deadly Paradise
The Commissario Cenni Series (Book 2)
2008
Cenni investigates a mutilation-murder in a small Umbrian village which leads back to WWII
occupied Venice.
“Brophy has a fine budding series here, with winning characters and settings that include Venice
and Murano as well as Umbria, and the ongoing Chiara subplot will have readers anticipating
the next installment.” —Library Journal
World
“The likes of Donna Leon, Magdalen Nabb and David Hewson are joined by Grace Brophy,
author of an outstanding new series featuring handsome Commissario Alessandro Cenni.”—
The Denver Post
The Last Enemy
2007
The Commissario Cenni Series (Book 1)
Commissario Alessandro Cenni investigates a murder in Assisi during Holy Week. Debut of a
series set in Italy.
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“Brophy teases out each layer of clues with a deft hand that betrays few of the usual firstnovel clunkers, helped greatly by strong knowledge of the locale she's chosen. Cenni is well
set up to return, and traditional mystery readers should welcome his continued
investigations.”
—Baltimore Sun
World
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Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Brother, I’m Dying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a National Book Award finalist; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; and The Dew Breaker, winner of the inaugural Story Prize. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times,
and elsewhere. The Farming of Bones won an American Book Award for fiction in 1999.
The Farming of Bones
It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the
Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of a wealthy colonel’s wife. She and Sebastian, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry. But Amabelle's world collapses when a wave of genocidal violence, driven by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo, leads to the slaughter of Haitian workers. Amabelle
and Sebastian are separated, and she desperately flees the tide of
violence for a Haiti she barely remembers.
2003
US paperback: Penguin
(reverted)
UK: Little, Brown
Latin America: Grupo
Editorial Norma
Germany: Econ List
France: Grasset
Already acknowledged as a classic, this harrowing story of love and
survival—from one of the most important voices of her generation—is
an unforgettable memorial to the victims of the Parsley Massacre
and a testimony to the power of human memory.
Italy: Piemme
Netherlands: Wereldbibliotheek
Norway: Pax Forlag
Denmark: Fremad
Finland: Gummerus
Spain: International editores
New York Times Notable Book
Booklist Editor’s Choice
Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
Sweden: Norstedts
Hungary: Europa Kiado
Japan: Sakuhinsha
"A powerful, haunting novel . . . every chapter cuts deep, and you feel it."
—TIME
“Exquisite . . . Passionate and heartrending, Bones lingers in the consciousness like an unforgettable nightmare.”
“A beautifully conceived work, with monumental themes.”
—The Nation
“[With] hallucinatory vigor and a sense of mission . . . Danticat capably
evokes the shock with which a small personal world is disrupted by military mayhem . . . The Farming of Bones offers ample confirmation of
Edwidge Danticat’s considerable talents.”
“A passionate story . . . Richly textured, deeply personal details particularize each of Danticat’s characters and give poignancy to their lives.
Often, her tales take on the quality of a legend.”
—Seattle Times
“A beautiful and tragic book . . . Danticat startles and enraptures read“Steely, nuanced . . . it’s a testament to Danticat’s skill that Amabelle’s ers once again with The Farming of Bones, a novel so mature in its expomusical, sorrowing voice never falters.” sition, so captivating in its spirit that it perpetually astonishes the reader
in every remarkable chapter.”
—The New Yorker
—Orlando Sentinel
“Danticat . . . is a brilliant storyteller. Her language is simple, gorgeous,
and enticing. Her perfect pacing and seamless narrative . . . make each
character’s destiny seem inexorable.”
—Time Out New York
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“[Danticat] infuses the dreamlike prose of her earlier works with a politicized resonance in her second novel . . . An eye-opening and delicately
written testimonial to the ‘nameless and faceless’ who died in a historically overlooked conflict.”
—Wall Street Journal
Phone: 212.260.1900
Edwidge Danticat
Edwidge Danticat is the author of numerous books, including Brother, I’m Dying, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a National Book Award finalist; Breath, Eyes, Memory, an Oprah Book Club selection; Krik? Krak!, a National Book Award finalist; and The Dew Breaker, winner of the inaugural Story Prize. The recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she has been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times,
and elsewhere. The Farming of Bones won an American Book Award for fiction in 1999.
Krik? Krak!
2004
When Haitians tell a story, they say “Krik?” and the eager listeners answer “Krak!” In her
second novel, Edwidge Danticat establishes herself as the latest heir to that narrative
tradition with nine stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of
Haitian life. They tell of women who continue loving behind prison walls and in the face of
unfathomable loss—of a people who resist the brutality of their rulers through the powers
of imagination. The result is a collection that outrages, saddens, and transports the reader with its sheer beauty.
"Steeped in the myths and lore that sustained generations of Haitians, Krik? Krak!
demonstrates the healing power of storytelling."
"Virtually flawless. . . . If the news from Haiti is too painful to read, read this book instead
and understand the place more deeply than you ever thought possible."
England: Little Brown
(reverted)
Germany: Econ
(reverted)
Latin America: Grupo
Norma (reverted)
Denmark: Forlaget
Fremad
Japan: Gogatsu Shobo
Italy: Baldini & Castaldi
Netherlands: Wereldbibliotek
Slovenia: Sanje
"Spare, luminous stories that read like poems. . . . [These] tales more than confirm the
promise of her magical first novel. A silenced Haiti has once again found its literary
voice."
—Paule Marshall, author of Daughters
Breath, Eyes,
Memory
2003
"The voices of Krik? Krak! . . . encapsulate whole lifetimes of experience. Harsh, passionate, lyrical."
—Seattle Times
At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of
Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers.
There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame
that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first reared her.
What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatural and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions,
suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.
Oprah Book Club Selection
"Vibrant, magic . . . wraps readers into the haunting life of a young Haitian girl."
—Boston Globe
"Danticat's calm clarity of vision takes on the resonance of folk art. . . . Extraordinarily
successful."
"A novel that rewards the reader again and again with small but exquisite and unforgettable epiphanies."
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US paperback: Penguin
UK: Little Brown
Israel: Kinneret
Sweden: Natur & Kultur
Phone: 212.260.1900
Susan Richards
Susan Richards was born in New York City. At five years old, she lost her mother to leukemia and was sent to live with various family members along the East Coast. This period instilled in her a deep love of reading, art, nature, animals and above all, horses. She graduated from
the University of Colorado with an English degree, attended a graduate program in teaching certification at Brandeis University, and began
teaching high school in the Boston Public Schools. She then earned her Master of Social Work at Adelphi University and loved her job as a
social worker until she decided to write. She currently lives in the Hudson Valley, and horses continue to enrich her life immeasurably, not
the least of which is by showing her how better to love people.
Chosen by a Horse:
A Memoir
2006
A New York Times Bestseller
When she agrees to take on the care of one of the abused horses just rescued by the
World
local SPCA, a new chapter opens in Susan Richards’s difficult life. She lost her mother at
Netherlands: Uniboek
the age of five and was raised by uncaring relatives; married unhappily and divorced;
Italy: TEA
and suffered from alcoholism. While Susan is trying to capture the horse assigned to
her, Lay Me Down, a skeletal mare, walks into Susan’s horse trailer of her own volition. England: Constable & Robinson
Susan already owns one mare and two geldings—the diva-like Georgia, boyish Tempo
France: Editions du Rocher
and hopelessly romantic Hotshot—but it is with Lay Me Down that she forges a special,
Germany: Integral/Lotos/
healing relationship that alters her life.
Ansata (Random House)
Poignant and evocative, this is a book for anyone who has ever loved a horse, and for
Czech Republic: Columbus
everyone who has ever lost a loved one.
Brazil: Editora Objectiva
Taiwan:
Sun Color Culture
“This is an inspirational story of what family means, and what the loss of one can do to
Greece:
Editions Drepania
us, and for us.”
Portugal:
Noticias
—Naomi Rand, author of It's Raining Men, for the Boston Globe
“Chosen by a Horse contains several extraordinary action sequences [Richards’
strength] . . . It also has moments of great silence and stillness . . . I’ll never forget Lay
Me Down or Hotshot.”
—Newsday
“A tender lesson in courage and dependence.”
—Kirkus Reviews
Chosen Forever:
A Memoir
2008
And the heartwarming sequel to Chosen by a Horse:
Chosen Forever works its magic as a sequel of self-discovery, as Susan Richards continues to grow into her new life, starting with her book tour. Told in charming prose with
her familiar, disarming sense of humor, and featuring a new supporting cast of animal
characters, this is another moving tale for readers facing their own challenges at recreating their lives. Chosen Forever is the story of what happens the day after all of your
dreams come true—how you learn to accept that you deserve to be happy, and how
those we love continue to offer us gifts long after they are gone.
“Richards reflects on how rich life becomes when one travels her own best path . . .
Richards writes more courageously than she perhaps realizes, and each page of this
uplifting book will touch a chord in everyone who enjoyed her first book.”
—Booklist
“Charismatic . . . Engaging writing by an honest self-explorer.”
—Kirkus Reviews
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World
Brazil: Editora Objetiva
Phone: 212.260.1900
Iain Levison
Iain Levison is the author of A Working Stiff’s Manifesto, an account of his post-collegiate work experience, consisting of forty
-two jobs in ten years, and of two previous novels, Since the Layoffs and Dog Eats Dog. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.
How To Rob An
Armored Car
2009
Three friends stuck in dead-end jobs in a depressed Pennsylvania town spend their days
smoking pot and imagining exciting futures. Then one of them gets the idea to steal a plasma TV, and crime suddenly seems like a promising career.
“[Levison] delivers a ticklish novel . . . With a nose for half-baked dreams and a keen ear
for how man-children talk and “think,” Levison offers an honest and humorous romp
through lower-middle class frustration.”
A Working Stiff’s
Manifesto
2003
A Working Stiff's Manifesto is a laugh-out-loud memoir of one man’s quest to stay afloat.
From the North Carolina piedmont to the Alaskan waters, Levison’s odyssey takes him on a
cross-country tour of wage labor: gofer, oil deliveryman, mover, fish cutter, restaurant
manager, cable thief, each job more mind-numbing than the last. A Working Stiff's Manifesto
will resonate with anyone who has ever suffered a demeaning job, worn a name badge, or felt
the tyranny of the time clock.
World
(except France)
Spain: Del Viento
Korea: Human&Books
World
Spain/Galacain:
Alvarellos Editoria
Italy: Edizioni Socrates
“Levison is the real deal . . . bracing, hilarious, and dead on.”
“There is a naked, pitiless power in his work.”—USA Today
France: Editions Liana
Levi
Germany: Matthes &
Seitz Berlin Verlag
Since the
Layoffs
2004
Like Donald Westlake in The Ax (1997), about an insurance executive turned hit man, Levison
brings a burning rage to this accomplished debut novel. Ever since Jake Skowran lost his job
when the town factory closed, he has been fending off his creditors with increasingly vitriolic
rants. His longtime girlfriend has left him, and his unemployment is due to run out. So when
Ken Gardocki, a backwater bookie and drug dealer, offers Jake $5,000 to kill Ken's wife, Jake
accepts without hesitation. He goes on to kill three more people, including a corporate flack
who hassles Jake about wearing a smock at his new minimum-wage job at the Gas 'n' Go.
“Levison’s irony is acute as he caricatures the working world’s groundlings.”
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World
Spain: Suma de
Letras
Germany: Matthes
&Seitz Berlin Verlag
(reverted)
Italy: Blu /Instar
Edizioni
France: Editions
Liana Levi
Netherlands:
Uitgeverij DE GEUS
Phone: 212.260.1900
Kiyo Sato
Kiyo’s Story: A JapaneseAmerican Family’s Quest for
the American Dream
2010
Winner: William Saroyan Prize for Non-Fiction
Kiyo's father arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the land of opportunity
after leaving Japan. He, his wife, and their nine American-born children labored in the fields
together, building a successful farm. Yet at the outbreak of World War II, Kiyo's family was
ordered to Poston Internment Camp. This memoir tells the story of the family's struggle to
endure in these harsh conditions and to rebuild their lives afterward in the face of lingering
prejudice.
World
“Kiyo's Story is unforgettable.”—Sacramento News & Review
Katharine Beutner
Aclestis
2010
In Greek myth, Alcestis is known as the ideal good wife; she loved her husband so
much that she died to save his life and was sent to the underworld in his place. In this
poetic and vividly-imagined debut, Katharine Beutner gives voice to the woman behind
the ideal, bringing to life the world of Mycenaean Greece, a world peopled by
capricious gods, where royal women are confined to the palace grounds and passed
as possessions from father to husband.
World
Turkey: Epsilon
Elliot Krieger
Exiles
2009
Sweden has granted asylum to American protesters against the Vietnam War. Some
are draft resisters, some are wanted by the FBI for acts of violence, some are AWOL
soldiers, some are actually working for the CIA—or so everyone suspects. They are
eking out their lives in Uppsala on a meager dole. Each thinks he would be a better
group spokesperson than Aronson, who is the current leader of the Americans in
exile.
“Engaging . . . tension and delicious intrigue [are] meticulously constructed.”
—Chicago Sun-Times
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World
The Devil’s Cup
2003
Phone: 212.260.1900
Steward L. Allen
What is this elixir that fuels our destiny? Stewart Lee Allen's insatiable, unquenchable thirst for the
answer carries him across forbidden borders and several continents as he pursues the precious and
little-known catalytic effect of the ambrosial brew upon world empires and mankind. He also
documents the unconscionable attempts to suppress coffee. With Paris one “vast caf,” for instance,
Napoleon banned coffee, but then was summarily overthrown and exiled. His last request: a cup of
St. Helena's best. Likewise, Germany's long anti-coffee campaigns kept java from offering its solace
to the lower classes. In 1930 German workers voted Adolf Hitler into power. In America the military
tried for fifty years to produce an easily brewed cup for battlefield use, and did. The perfection of
instant coffee triggered a 3,000 percent jump in consumption during World War I and stimulated the
rise of the United States to world-class power.
World
Germany: Campus
Verlags GmbH
(reverted)
“Chef-turned-journalist Allen’s debut book is a thoroughly entertaining, absorbing, and often hilarious jaunt through the history and geography of coffee . . . Allen enjoys his cup to the last drop, and
there's nothing decaffeinated about his wonderfully tasty brew. A must for both Java junkies and
travel lovers.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Written in a style recalling the best travel writing, the hidden connections Allen uncovers in this
book often astound, making it, in its way, a small treasure.”
—BookForum
Caroline Petit
Deep Night
2008
Leah Kolbe escapes to Macao as the Japanese occupy Hong Kong. Her fiancé is interned in a
prisoner of war camp. She becomes a spy for the British and takes a Japanese lover. When she
returns with provisions to her beloved Hong Kong on the first boat, she finds the surviving English,
including her fiancé, totally altered. He cannot bear to stay in Hong Kong; she chooses to remain
and rebuild.
“Vivid . . . the journey into womanhood as exotic action-adventure.”—Publishers Weekly
World
“The extraordinary journey of Leah Kolbe, a compelling character.”—Jacqueline Winspear
“An excellent suspense story, a bona fide tour of China as it was then, with menacing characters
and swift, sure punishment.”—Orange County Register
The Fat Man’s Daughter Hong Kong, 1937: Orphaned by the sudden death of her father, a shady Hong Kong dealer in
2005
antiquities, 19-year-old Leah Kolbe finds she has been left penniless. Her only assets are the skills
her father taught her: connoisseurship, secretiveness, and duplicity.
She is approached by a Mr. Chang, who claims to have known her father and offers her a
commission to go to Manchukuo (the Japanese puppet kingdom recently established in Manchuria)
to smuggle out Chinese Imperial treasures. She consents and, accompanied by her faithful amah
and a White Russian woman in Chang’s pay, takes the train north. The trip is perilous, as is her
return through besieged Nanking and by sampan across the South China Sea. But it is not until she
reaches the empty house back in Hong Kong that Leah becomes her own “country of one.”
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“This debut novel views the Japanese invasion of China through a Westerner's eyes and gets its
vivid details right.”—Publisher’s Weekly
World
Phone: 212.260.1900
Deborah McKinlay
Deborah McKinlay has published half a dozen nonfiction titles in the UK, and her books have been translated into numerous languages. Her work has appeared in British Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire. She lives in South West England. The View from Here
is her first novel.
The View from Here
When Frances was twenty-two, she was drifting, scraping by giving English lessons in Mexico,
when she met up with a glamorous group of vacationing Americans staying in a mansion on a
private beach. Two decades later in rural England, she discovers a love letter from a younger
woman addressed to her husband almost at the same time as she learns that she’s facing a lifethreatening illness.
As her contented existence begins to unravel and she tries to decide how and if she will confront
her husband about his infidelity, Frances finds herself haunted by the memory of her heady desert encounter with the charmed circle of the Severance family. That summer in 1976 seemed,
until now, like another lifetime. As she recalls this long buried episode from her past, she is forced
to face for the first time her own role in an illicit romance and the betrayal and tragedy that
marked its ending.
Feb 2011
World
“The View from Here is an unexpected character study, an examination of people caught
between the wiles of youth and the wisdom of age and of one woman who learns to accept the
intrinsic value of both.”
—Booklist
Adam Schwartz
Adam Schwartz is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. His stories have been widely anthologized and portions of A
Stranger on the Planet have previously been published as stories in The New Yorker. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Writers’
Workshop. This is his first novel.
Stranger on the Planet
In the summer of 1969, Seth Shapiro is twelve years old, and the personal tumult of his and his
family’s lives plays out against the backdrop of the moon landing and Woodstock.
His father lives with his new wife in a ten-room house and has no interest in Seth and his siblings.
Seth is dying to escape from his mother’s craziness and suffocating love, her marriage to a man she’s
known for two weeks, and his father’s cold disregard.
Jan 2011
Over the next four decades, Seth becomes the keeper of his family’s memories and secrets. At the
same time, he emotionally isolates himself from all those who love him, especially his mother. But
Ruth is also Seth’s muse, and this enables him to ultimately find redemption, for both himself and his
family.
World
“A Stranger on the Planet is charming, even if Schwartz stumbles occasionally—his sex scenes, in
particular, can be distracting and almost absurd. And the dialogue of some of Seth's AfricanAmerican college students at times rings painfully false. But Schwartz's careful, generous prose
makes up for it, and his sincerity is genuinely winning. This might not be the best debut novel of the
year, but it's original, sensitive and, unlike its hero, it's always, always likable.”—NPR
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Phone: 212.260.1900
Chris McKinney
These two novels have previously been published only in Hawaii. They are written by a Hawaiian of mixed Korean and native ancestry
and faithfully convey the reality of the Hawaiian experience. The Queen of Tears is the story of a former Korean film star and her Hawaiian children. The Tattoo takes place in prison and deals with the Hawaiian underclass; it is under option to Melvin van Peebles for film.
The Queen of Tears
2006
By age fourteen she was on her own, fleeing the communists, a waif living in the streets of
Seoul, begging from American soldiers and stealing food. Then fate intervened; she was
hit by a car driven by a prominent filmmaker. He mentored her into an acting career. By
age nineteen, Park Soong Nan was the brightest star of Korean cinema. They called her
“The Queen of Tears.” Many years later her three grown children are settled in Hawaii. She
comes to visit. Soong's presence is catalytic, setting off smoldering jealousies, dormant
longings, and the unending contest for primacy in her affection.
The Tattoo
2007
Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He’s tough-looking and a
hard case, observing his cellmate Cal—the mute tattoo artist of the prison, a wife murderer.
SYN, a gang symbol, is tattooed on his hand, and he has a Japanese emblem inscribed on
his left shoulder. He asks Cal for a tattoo on his back, in kanji script, of Musashi’s Book of
the Void.
While he is being worked on, he tells Cal his life story, a tale of hardship and abuse.
Motherless, he was raised by a distant father, a Vietnam War veteran, in the impoverished
hinterlands. In his teen years he hung out with the native Hawaiian gangs and was drawn
into the Hawaiian-Korean underworld of strip bars and massage parlors. His ambition and
proud samurai spirit seem, inevitably, to lead to his downfall.
“Rough-and-tumble, rife with fully drawn badass characters and plenty of action,
McKinney’s novel is powerful and strong.”
—Time Out Chicago
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World
World
Phone: 212.260.1900
Camilla Trinchieri
The Price of Silence
2007
E-mails from beyond the grave incriminate a grief-stricken mother. As Emma Perotti’s trial for murder begins, her family recalls how young An-ling Huang walked into Emma’s ESL class and into the
family’s life. Now the girl is dead. What happened?
“[A] taut psychological thriller . . . a gripping, intelligent read.”
World
Italy:
Marcos y Marcos
“Prolific as Trella Crespi and Camilla T. Crespi, Trinchieri here debuts most auspiciously as herself.”
—Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review
“The Price of Silence is an absolute jewel—a dark tale, intricately woven . . . It’s an intelligent novel—
written with great skill and ingeniously plotted.”
—Linda Fairstein, author of Bad Blood
Teresa de la Caridad Doval
A Girl Like Che Guevara
A novel about growing up in Cuba under Castro by a writer who did; semi-autobiographic.
2004
Sixteen-year-old Lourdes is a dedicated and proud revolutionary who spends the summer of 1982,
along with her peers, at the “School-in-the-Fields,” tilling tobacco fields to prove her dedication to
Fidel and the revolution.
But she is also a study of contradictions. Lourdes outwardly scoffs at the old ways but wears
an azabache amulet under her clothing, next to her Che medallion, to ward off evil spirits. She
secretly prays to the orisha Yemayá while she pledges her fealty to Fidel and the secular socialist
ideals of her father, a professor of scientific Communism at the University of Havana. She
develops a crush on her roommate at the camp, but, like many other things in the socialist regime
under which she lives, same-sex relationships are forbidden. Like other girls her age, she longs to
wear smuggled Jordache jeans and drink Cuban coffee, to watch American cartoons and eat steak
whenever she wants. All simple pleasures, all denied her by the same revolution she serves. What
she has are the harsh realities of life in a glorified work camp, which lead her to question her
allegiances. Why does she want to be like Che?
“Amusing, observant . . . Doval’s sense of place and devastating depiction of prejudice in 1980s Cuba make this a worthwhile debut.”
—The Miami Herald
“[A] piquant coming-of-age novel.”
—O, the Oprah magazine
“Absolutely remarkable . . . explodes with brilliance.”
—Carlos Eire, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana
“A rich and perceptive portrayal of daily life in Cuba.”
—Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
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World
Netherlands:
Arena

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