MINOTAUR BOOKS JANUARY 2021

Prodigal Son An Orphan X Novel

Gregg Hurwitz

Forced into retirement, Evan Smoak gets an urgent request for help from someone he didn't even suspect existed—in the latest in the New York Times bestselling Orphan X series

Evan Smoak—a former government assassin who turned to helping the most desperate in their times of trouble—has retired. In exchange for an unofficial pardon, he's agreed to stop his clandestine activities as The Nowhere Man. Struggling to learn how to live a normal life, everything that he thought he knew is called into question when he gets a call for help from the one person he never thought he'd hear from—the woman who originally gave him up for adoption. FICTION / THRILLERS / CRIME Minotaur Books | 1/26/2021 9781250252289 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. Her unlikely request: help for another orphan from the foster home he grew up Hardcover with dust jacket | 432 pages | Carton in. Agreeing to help would put his deal, and his life, in danger. Qty: 16 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Andre, Evan's fellow foster child, is struggling to stay afloat and get his own life Subrights: UK: Aaron Priest Agency back together. In doing his low-level job, he's unwittingly become the target of Translation: Aaron Priest Agency two top-level assassins who will go to any lengths to get rid of him. With Other Available Formats: nowhere to turn, and no safe place to hide, Evan is his only option. But if Evan Ebook ISBN: 9781250252296 returns to his role as The Nowhere Man, he puts his own life in mortal jeopardy. Audio ISBN: 9781250787934 Audio ISBN: 9781250787927 PRAISE "Read the Orphan X series. You'll thank me later!" —David Baldacci MARKETING * National Author Tour "A stellar series...the stories get better with each installment." —Associated Press * National Broadcast Publicity * Trade Advertising on Into the Fire * Pre-Pub Online Advertising * Online Advertising "The best action-thriller you'll read in 2020!" —Providence Journal on Into the * Early Reader Review Campaign * Ebook Bonus Story Fire * Extensive Blog Outreach * NetGalley Campaign GREGG HURWITZ is the New York Times bestselling author of the Orphan X books, including Into * Extensive Social Media Campaign the Fire. Critically acclaimed, his novels have graced top ten lists and have been published in 22 * Email Marketing Campaign * Bookstagrammer Campaign languages. Additionally, he’s written screenplays for and sold scripts to many of the major studios, * Tastemaker Campaign and written, developed, and produced television for various networks. Hurwitz resides in Los * Library Marketing Campaign Angeles. * Author Website: GreggHurwitz.net * Author Facebook: /GreggHurwitzReaders, 12K followers * Author Twitter: @GreggHurwitz, 14K followers

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The Mitford Trial A Mitford Murders Mystery

Jessica Fellowes

A mystery with the fascinating Mitford sisters at its heart, The Mitford Trial is the fourth installment in the Mitford Murders series, inspired by a real-life murder in a story full of intrigue.

It's lady's maid Louisa Cannon's wedding day, but the fantasy is shattered shortly after when she is approached by a secretive man asking her to spy on Diana Mitford—who is having an affair with the infamous Oswald Mosley—and her sister Unity.

Thus as summer 1933 dawns, Louisa finds herself accompanying the Mitfords FICTION / MYSTERY & on a glitzy cruise, full of the starriest members of Society. But the waters run red DETECTIVE / HISTORICAL when a man is found attacked. Minotaur Books | 1/19/2021 9781250316837 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 368 pages | Carton Back in London, the case is taken by lawyer Tom Mitford, and Louisa finds Qty: 20 herself caught between worlds: of a love lost, a family divided, and a country 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W caught in conflict. Subrights: UK: Little, Brown UK Translation: Caroline Michel, PFD PRAISE Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250316851 “With nearly as much period detail as an episode of Downton [Abbey], this Audio ISBN: 9781250789693 delightful romp satisfies like a cup of strong nursery tea accompanied by a Audio ISBN: 9781250789686 Battenburg cake.” —The Washington Post on The Mitford Murders

“Downton Abbey meets Agatha Christie in this witty and twisty mystery.” —In MARKETING Touch Weekly on The Mitford Murders * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity * Pre-Pub Online Advertising “Exactly the sort of book you might enjoy with the fire blazing, the snow falling * Online Advertising etc.” —Anthony Horowitz, New York Times bestselling author of Magpie Murders * Early Reader Review Campaign * Book Community Outreach on The Mitford Murders * Social Media Campaign * Special Backlist Offers Available JESSICA FELLOWES is an author, journalist, and public speaker, best known for her five official * Library Marketing Campaign * Email Marketing Campaign New York Times bestselling companion books to the Downton Abbey TV series. Former deputy * Organizational Outreach director of Country Life, and columnist for the Mail on Sunday, she has written for the Daily * Tastemaker Campaign Telegraph, the Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The Lady. Jessica has spoken at events across the * CriminalElement.com Promotion UK and US, and has made numerous appearances on radio and television. She lives in Oxfordshire * Author Website: JessicaFellowes.com with her family. * Author Facebook: @JessicaFellowesAuthor * Author Twitter: @JessicaFellowes (10.6k followers) * Author Instagram: @Official_Jess...

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Deep into the Dark

P. J. Tracy

New York Times bestseller PJ Tracy returns with a brand new series set in LA and featuring up-and-coming LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan and murder suspect Sam Easton

Sam Easton—a true survivor—is home from Afghanistan, trying to rebuild a life in his hometown of LA. Separated from his wife, bartending and therapy sessions are what occupy his days and nights. When friend and colleague Melody Traeger is beaten by her boyfriend, she turns to Sam for help. When the boyfriend turns up dead the next day, a hard case like Sam is the perfect suspect.

But LAPD Detective Margaret Nolan, whose brother recently died serving overseas, is sympathetic to Sam's troubles, and can't quite see him as a killer. FICTION / THRILLERS / CRIME She's more interested in the secrets Melody might be keeping and the Minotaur Books | 1/12/2021 9781250754943 | $26.99 / $36.50 Can. developments in another murder case on the other side of town. Hardcover with dust jacket | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 20 Set in an LA where real people live and work—not the superficial LA of 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Beverly Hills or the gritty underbelly of the city—Deep Into the Dark features Subrights: UK rights: St. Martin's Press two really engaging, dynamic main characters and explores the nature of Translation rights: Frances Goldin Literary obsession, revenge and grief. Agency

Other Available Formats: PJ Tracy is known for her "fast, fresh, and funny" characters (Harlan Coben) and Ebook ISBN: 9781250783578 her "sizzling" plots (People); the Monkeewrench series was her first, set in Audio ISBN: 9781250790071 Minneapolis and co-written with her mother. Now with Deep Into the Dark she's on her own?—and it's a home run.

MARKETING PRAISE * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity Praise for the Monkeewrench Series * Trade Advertising * Pre-pub Online Advertising * Online Advertising "For those who mourn that Patricia Cornwell ain’t what she used to be, Tracy’s a * Library Marketing Campaign wondrous discovery.” —Entertainment Weekly * Extensive Blog Outreach * Early Reader Review Campaign * NetGalley Promotion “Fans will be eager to see their favorite characters reappear… features strong * Goodreads Promotion doses of humor mixed with 3-D characters and intricate mysteries.” —Associated * CriminalElement.com Promotion * Email Marketing Campaign Press on Off the Grid * Bookstagrammer Campaign * Author Facebook: /PJTracyAuthor “Monkeewrench is a killer read in every way… With its menacing suspense, * Author Website: pjtracy.com snappy dialogue and techno edge, Monkeewrench moves at hyperspeed.” —People (starred review, Critic’s Choice)

P. J. TRACY is the pseudonym of Traci Lambrecht, bestselling and award winning author of the Monkeewrench series, along with her mother, P. J. Traci spent most of her childhood painting and showing Arabian horses and graduated with a Russian studies major from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Traci and P. J. wrote eight novels together before P. J. passed away in 2016. Traci continued the series and has written two Monkeewrench novels on her own. She now lives outside Minneapolis.

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The City of Tears A Novel

Kate Mosse

Following #1 Sunday Times bestseller The Burning Chambers, New York Times bestseller Kate Mosse returns with The City of Tears, a sweeping historical epic about love in a time of war.

August 1572: Minou Joubert and her family are in Paris for a royal wedding, an alliance between the Catholic Crown and the Huguenot King of Navarre that is intended to bring peace to France after a decade of religious wars. Also in Paris is their oldest enemy, Vidal, still in pursuit of a relic that will change the course of history. But within days of the marriage, thousands will lie dead in the streets and Minou’s beloved family will be scattered to the four winds . . . FICTION / HISTORICAL Minotaur Books | 1/19/2021 9781250202185 | $27.99 A gripping, breathtaking novel, the action sweeps from Paris, to London, to the Hardcover with dust jacket | 560 pages | Carton city of tears itself, Amsterdam, as master storyteller Kate Mosse continues the Qty: 16 story of revenge, love and loss that captivated readers in The Burning Chambers. 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W

Subrights: UK: Mantle PRAISE Translation: Inkwell Management Praise for The Burning Chambers: Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250202192 Audio ISBN: 9781250751652 "For fans of juicy historical fiction, this one might just develop into their next Audio ISBN: 9781250751669 obsession." —EW.com

"Mosse is a master storyteller, balancing thrilling suspense with complex MARKETING characters and a thoughtful exploration of a fascinating time in history." *National Print Publicity *Online Publicity —Madeline Miller, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Circe *Trade Advertising *Pre-Pub Online Advertising "This is historical fiction to devour. Nobody does it like Kate Mosse." —Anthony *Online Advertising *Reading Group Gold Promotion Horowitz, New York Times bestselling author of The Magpie Murders *Discussion Guide Available Online *Library Marketing Campaign KATE MOSSE is a multiple New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author with sales of *Extensive Blog Outreach more than seven million copies in thirty-eight languages. Her previous novels include Labyrinth, *NetGalley Promotion *CriminalElement.com Promotion Sepulchre, The Winter Ghosts, Citadel, and The Taxidermist's Daughter. Kate is the Founder *Bookstagrammer Campaign Director of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, a Visiting Professor at the University of Chichester and in *Email Marketing Campaign June 2013, was awarded an OBE for services to literature. She divides her time between the UK and *Organization Outreach France. *Author Website: KateMosse.co.uk *Author Facebook: /KateMosseAuthor (17K Likes) *Author Twitter: @katemosse (59.7K Followers) *Author Instagram: @katemossewriter

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The Stills A Novel

Jess Montgomery

The third in Jess Montgomery's exquisitely written Kinship series, The Stills is a triumph of storytelling by an extraordinary new talent in crime fiction.

Ohio, 1927: Moonshining is a way of life in rural Bronwyn County, and even the otherwise upstanding Sheriff Lily Ross has been known to turn a blind eye when it comes to stills in the area. But when thirteen-year-old Jebediah Ranklin almost dies after drinking tainted moonshine, Lily knows that someone has gone too far, and—with the help of organizer and moonshiner Marvena Whitcomb—she's determined to find out who. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / HISTORICAL Soon Lily’s nemesis George Vogel reappears in town, and to the bootlegging Minotaur Books | 3/9/2021 9781250623409 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. business. So too does her no-good brother-in-law Luther Ross, now an agent for Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton the newly formed Bureau of Prohibition. Lily must choose to help her Qty: 20 community and peel back the layers of deception shrouding the town of Kinship, 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W even while everyone around her seems to be betraying those they hold dear. Subrights: UK Rights: The Book Group Translation Rights: The Book Group PRAISE Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250623416 "The Widows kept me on the edge of my seat. Montgomery is a masterful Audio ISBN: 9781250789907 storyteller." —Lee Martin, author of Pulitzer Prize-Finalist The Bright Forever Audio ISBN: 9781250789891 "The Widows is a gripping, beautifully written novel." —Hallie Ephron, New York Times bestselling author of You'll Never Know, Dear MARKETING * Author Appearances * National Print Publicity "The Hollows is much more than a murder mystery. It weaves racial integration, * Online Publicity prohibition and women's rights through the narrative, set against an authentic * Pre-Pub Online Advertising backdrop crafted by Montgomery's careful attention to historic detail." * Online Advertising * Early Reader Review Campaign —Associated Press * Social Media Campaign * Goodreads Promotion JESS MONTGOMERY is the Literary Life columnist for the Dayton Daily News and former * Email Marketing Campaign * Indie Bookseller Outreach Executive Director of the renowned Antioch Writers’ Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Based on * CriminalElement.com Promotion early chapters of the novel, Jess was awarded an Ohio Arts Council individual artist’s grant for * Library Marketing Campaign literary arts and the John E. Nance Writer-in-Residence at Thurber House in Columbus. She lives in * HistoryReader.com Promotion her native state of Ohio. * Author Twitter: @JessM_Author * Author Facebook: /JessMontgomeryAuthor * Author Instagram: @JessMontgomeryAuthor

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Every Waking Hour A Mystery

Joanna Schaffhausen

The fourth book in Joanna Schaffhausen's heartpounding Ellery Hathaway mystery series.

After surviving a serial killer’s abduction as a young teenager, Ellery Hathaway is finally attempting a normal life. She has a new job as a rookie Boston detective and a fledgling relationship with Reed Markham, the FBI agent who rescued her years ago. But when a twelve-year-old girl disappears on Ellery’s watch, the troubling case opens deep wounds that never fully healed.

Chloe Lockhart walked away from a busy street fair and vanished into the FICTION / MYSTERY & crowd. Maybe she was fleeing the suffocating surveillance her parents put on her DETECTIVE / POLICE from the time she was born, or maybe the evil from her parents’ past finally PROCEDURAL caught up to her. For Chloe, as Ellery learns, is not the first child Teresa Minotaur Books | 1/26/2021 9781250249654 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. Lockhart has lost. Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton Ellery knows what it’s like to have the past stalk you, to hold your breath around Qty: 20 every corner. Sending one kidnapped girl to find another could be Chloe’s only 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W hope or an unmitigated disaster that dooms them both. Ellery must untangle the Subrights: UK rights: St. Martin's Press labyrinth of secrets inside the Lockhart household—secrets that have already Translation rights: St. Martin's Press murdered one child. Each second that ticks by reminds her of her own lost Other Available Formats: hours, how close she came to death, and how near it still remains. Ebook ISBN: 9781250249661 PRAISE Praise for the Ellery Hathaway novels: MARKETING * Author Appearances * National Print Publicity “Stunning” —Richmond Times-Dispatch * Online Publicity * Online Advertising * Special Backlist Offers Available “An edge-of-your-seat roller-coaster of a thriller.” —The Washington Book Review * Extensive Blog Outreach * Early Reader Review Campaign “Poignant and gripping.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer * Social Media Campaign * NetGalley Promotion * Goodreads Promotion "Outstanding." —Associated Press * CriminalElement.com Promotion * Email Marketing Campaign * Author Facebook: /JoannaWrites “Crime fanatics and mystery lovers will love this story.” —Huffington Post * Author Twitter: @slipperywhisper * Author Website: "Powerful.” —Publishers Weekly joannaschaffhausen.com

JOANNA SCHAFFHAUSEN wields a mean scalpel, skills developed in her years studying neuroscience. She has a doctorate in psychology, which reflects her long-standing interest in the brain—how it develops and the many ways it can go wrong. Previously, she worked for ABC News, writing for programs such as World News Tonight, Good Morning America, and 20/20. She lives in the Boston area with her husband and daughter. She is also the author of The Vanishing Season, No Mercy, and All the Best Lies.

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The Kaiser's Web

Steve Berry

The next installment in #1 New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series.

In New York Times bestseller Steve Berry’s latest Cotton Malone adventure, a secret dossier from a World War II-era Soviet spy comes to light containing information that, if proven true, would not only rewrite history — it could impact Germany's upcoming national elections and forever alter the political landscape of Europe.

Two candidates are vying to become Chancellor of Germany. One is a patriot having served for the past sixteen years, the other a usurper, stoking the flames of nationalistic hate. Both harbor secrets, but only one knows the truth about the FICTION / THRILLERS / other. They are on a collision course, all turning on the events of one fateful ESPIONAGE day—April 30, 1945—and what happened deep beneath Berlin in the Minotaur Books | 2/23/2021 Fürherbunker. Did Adolph Hitler and Eva Braun die there? Did Martin 9781250140340 | $28.99 / $38.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 432 pages | Carton Bormann, Hitler’s close confidant, manage to escape? And, even more Qty: 16 important, where did billions in Nazi wealth disappear to in the waning days of 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W World War II? The answers to these questions will determine who becomes the Subrights: UK rights: Writers House next Chancellor of Germany. Translation rights: Writers House

Other Available Formats: From the mysterious Chilean lake district, to the dangerous mesas of South Ebook ISBN: 9781250140357 Africa, and finally into the secret vaults of Switzerland, former-Justice Audio ISBN: 9781250788313 Department agent Cotton Malone discovers the truth about the fates of Hitler, Audio ISBN: 9781250788306 Braun, and Bormann. Revelations that could not only transform Europe, but finally expose a mystery known as the Kaiser’s web.

MARKETING PRAISE * National Author Tour * National Broadcast Publicity “Berry has called Dan Brown and raised him, taking the lead in the big-money * Pre-Pub Online Advertising game of the religious-relic thriller.” —Booklist * Online Advertising * Social Media Campaign * Widespread ARC Distribution “Thrillers abound, but Berry has the lock on making history zing with breathless * Special Backlist Offers Available * Extensive Blog Outreach suspense and galloping action.” —Library Journal, starred review on The Malta * Early Reader Review Campaign Exchange * NetGalley Promotion * Email Marketing Campaign * Mass Market Tie-in: The Warsaw "Berry is the master scientist with a perfect formula." —Associated Press Protocol * Author Facebook: /SteveBerryWriter STEVE BERRY is the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author of more than fifteen (53K Likes) Cotton Malone novels and four stand alones. He has 25 million books in print, translated into 40 * Author Website: steveberry.org languages. With his wife, Elizabeth, he is the founder of History Matters, which is dedicated to historical preservation. He serves as an emeritus member of the Smithsonian Libraries Advisory Board and was a founding member of International Thriller Writers, formerly serving as its co-president.

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An Extravagant Death A Charles Lenox Mystery

Charles Finch

In what promises to be a breakout in Charles Finch's bestselling series, Sir Charles Lenox travels to Gilded Age Newport and New York to investigate the death of a beautiful socialite.

London, 1878. With faith in Scotland Yard shattered after a damning corruption investigation, Charles Lenox's detective agency is rapidly expanding. The gentleman sleuth has all the work he can handle, two children, and an intriguing new murder case.

FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / HISTORICAL But when a letter arrives with an unexpected invitation, he's unable to resist the Minotaur Books | 2/16/2021 call of an old, unfulfilled yearning: to travel to America. Arriving in New York, 9781250767134 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. he begins to receive introductions into both its old Knickerbocker society and its Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton new robber baron splendor. Then, a shock: the suicide of the season's most Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W beautiful debutante, who has thrown herself from a cliff. Or was it a suicide? Her closest friend doesn't think so, and Lenox, sacrificing his plans, travels to Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press the family's magnificent Newport mansion in the guise of an idle English Translation Rights: The Book Group gentleman. What ensues is a fiendsh game of cat and mouse. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250767141 Witty, complex, and tender, An Extravagant Death is Charles Finch's triumphant Audio ISBN: 9781250789136 Audio ISBN: 9781250789129 return to the main storyline of his beloved Charles Lenox series—a devilish mystery, a social drama, and an unforgettable first trip for an Englishman coming to America.

MARKETING * National Author Tour PRAISE * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity Praise for The Last Passenger: * Trade Advertising * Pre-Pub Online Advertising * Online Advertising “Smashing...That’s the charm of Finch’s style and [Lenox’s] own manner of * Early Reader Review Campaign sleuthing — a brilliant display of brainy deduction...classy writing and beguiling * Extensive Blog Outreach details.” —The New York Times Book Review * NetGalley Campaign * Extensive Social Media Campaign * Email Marketing Campaign “Atmospheric.” —Seattle Times * Bookstagrammer Campaign * CriminalElement.com Promotion * Library Marketing Campaign "No mystery writer except perhaps Anne Perry is as successful as Charles Finch at * Author Facebook: /CharlesFinchAuthor, evoking the atmosphere of Victorian London." —The Washington Post 8K followers “Seriously satisfying.” —AirMail

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The Last Passenger: A Charles Lenox how American issues have infiltrated British society. [He] also cleverly delves into Mystery Lenox’s personality, which has fueled th... 2/2020 | 9781250312204 Hardcover with dust jacket | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. CHARLES FINCH is the USA Today bestselling author of the Charles Lenox mysteries, including The Vanishing Man. His first contemporary novel, The Last Enchantments, is also available from St. 9 MINOTAUR BOOKS FEBRUARY 2021

Finlay Donovan Is Killing It

Elle Cosimano

Edgar-Award nominee Elle Cosimano’s witty, fast-paced adult debut follows struggling suspense novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan, whose fiction begins to tread dangerously close to the truth.

Finlay Donovan is killing it… except, she’s really not. The new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband went behind her back to fire the nanny, and this morning she had to send her four-year-old to school with hair duct-taped to her head after an incident with scissors.

When Finlay’s overheard discussing the plot of her new novel with her agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer, and inadvertently accepts an FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / WOMEN SLEUTHS offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet... and she Minotaur Books | 2/2/2021 soon discovers that crime in real life is a lot more difficult than its fictional 9781250241702 | $26.99 / $36.50 Can. counterpart. Hardcover with dust jacket | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 20 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W PRAISE

Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press "Funny and smart, twisty and surprising--Finlay Donovan is a character to root Translation Rights: Greenhouse Literary Agency for. This suspenseful romp made me laugh but also kept me on the edge of my seat Other Available Formats: with its many surprises. I can’t wait for the next book!"— Megan Miranda, New Ebook ISBN: 9781250242204 York Times bestselling author of The Girl from Widow Hills and The Last House Audio ISBN: 9781250790057 Guest

ELLE COSIMANO is an award-winning author. Her YA debut, Nearly Gone, was an Edgar Award MARKETING finalist and winner of the International Thriller Award. Her novel Holding Smoke was a finalist for * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity the International Thriller Award and the Bram Stoker Award. Her essays have appeared in The * Pre-Pub Online Advertising Huffington Post and Time. Elle lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with her husband, two * Online Advertising sons, and her dog. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is her adult debut. * National IndieBound Campaign * Early Reader Review Campaign * Tastemaker Campaign * Extensive Blog and Bookstagram Outreach * Social Media Campaign * Email Marketing Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign * Promotion on CriminalElement.com * Author Website: ElleCosimano.com * Author Twitter: @ElleCosimano (3.2k followers) * Author Facebook: @ElleCosimano * Author Instagram: @ElleCosimano

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A Stranger in Town

Kelley Armstrong

In #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong's latest Rockton book, the biggest mystery is the fate of the town itself.

Detective Casey Duncan has noticed fewer and fewer residents coming in to the hidden town of Rockton, and no extensions being granted. Her boyfriend, Sheriff Eric Dalton, presumes it’s the natural flux of things, but Casey’s not so sure. Something bigger is happening in the small town they call home.

When an injured hiker stumbles from the woods, the sole survivor of a hostile attack, it’s all hands on deck. Even a member of the elusive Rockton council comes in to help. This council member also comes bearing news: Rockton is FICTION / MYSTERY & being shut down due to the hostile situation. DETECTIVE / POLICE PROCEDURAL Minotaur Books | 2/2/2021 Casey and Eric must now race to save the town that has allowed residents to 9781250781727 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. have a fresh start, away from the mistakes of their past, while also getting to the Hardcover with dust jacket | 368 pages | Carton bottom of this latest attack. Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W PRAISE Subrights: UK rights: The Knight Agency Translation rights: The Knight Agency Praise for The Rockton Novels

Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250786593 “Kelley Armstrong’s solid Casey Duncan Series… is turning into one of the best Audio ISBN: 9781250788184 new finds of the decade." —The Globe and Mail Audio ISBN: 9781250788177

“The town of Rockton is not merely window dressing, and its characters aren’t superficially drawn. In fact, two elements feed off one another, with the vividness MARKETING * Online Publicity of the place adding depth to the people who inhabit it.” —Booklist * Pre-Pub Online Advertising * Online Advertising "The town of Rockton’s strong, atmospheric presence will interest readers of * Early Reader Review Campaign * CriminalElement.com Promotion Armstrong’s Cainsville series and appeal to new readers, particularly fans of C.J. * Email Marketing Campaign Box." —Library Journal * Extensive Social Media Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign KELLEY ARMSTRONG graduated with a degree in psychology and then studied computer programming. Now, she is a full-time writer and parent, and she lives with her husband and three children in rural Ontario, Canada.

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The Hiding Place A Mercy Carr Mystery

Paula Munier

Mercy and Elvis are back in The Hiding Place, the most enthralling entry yet in USA Today bestselling Paula Munier's award-winning Mercy Carr mystery series. When the man who killed her grandfath...

Some people take their secrets with them to the grave. Others leave them behind on their deathbeds, riddles for the survivors to solve.

When her late grandfather’s dying deputy calls Mercy to his side, she and Elvis inherit the cold case that haunted him—and may have killed him. But finding FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / WOMEN SLEUTHS Beth Kilgore 20 years after she disappeared is more than a lost cause. It’s a Minotaur Books | 3/30/2021 Pandora’s box releasing a rain of evil on the very people Mercy and Elvis hold 9781250153074 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. most dear. Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W The timing couldn’t be worse when the man who murdered her grandfather escapes from prison and a fellow Army vet turns up claiming that Elvis is his Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press dog, not hers. With her grandmother Patience gone missing, and Elvis’s future Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press uncertain, Mercy faces the prospect of losing her most treasured allies, the only Other Available Formats: ones she believes truly love and understand her. Ebook ISBN: 9781250153081 Audio ISBN: 9781250790095 She needs help, and that means forgiving Vermont Game Warden Troy Warner long enough to enlist his aid. With time running out for Patience, Mercy and Elvis must team up with Troy and his search-and-rescue dog Susie Bear to MARKETING * Author Appearances unravel the secrets of the past and save her grandmother—before it’s too late. * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity Once again, Paula Munier crafts a terrific mystery thriller filled with intrigue, * Early Reader Review Campaign action, resilient characters, the mountains of Vermont, and two amazing dogs. * Book Community Outreach * Organizational Outreach * Email Marketing Campaign PRAISE * Social Media Campaign * Special Backlist Offers Available Praise for Blind Search: * Library Marketing Campaign * Promotion on CriminalElement.com * Author Website: PaulaMunier.com "Readers will look forward to the irresistible Mercy and Elvis’s next adventure." * Author Twitter: @PaulaSMunier —Publishers Weekly

"This page turner will take you on a roller coaster ride through the worst of winter and human nature." —Modern Dog Magazine ALSO AVAILABLE

Blind Search: A Mercy Carr Mystery 11/2019 | 9781250153050 "Blind Search reads like a treatise on how to craft a thriller bursting at the seams Hardcover with dust jacket | $26.99 / $36.50 with converging subplots without ever moving us to throw up our hands in Can. exasperation. Indeed, we’re too busy using our fingers to turn the pages." —Jon A Borrowing of Bones: A Mystery Land for Providence Journal 8/2019 | 9781250229489 Mass Market | $7.99 / $10.99 Can. PAULA MUNIER is the author of the bestselling Plot Perfect, The Writer’s Guide to Beginnings, Writing with Quiet Hands, and Fixing Freddie. She was inspired to write A Borrowing of Bones, the 12 MINOTAUR BOOKS MARCH 2021

A Matter of Life and Death A Robin Lockwood Novel

Phillip Margolin

An indigent man has been set up for the brutal murder of the wealthy wife of a prominent judge in New York Times bestseller Phillip Margolin's latest legal thriller featuring Robin Lockwood

Joe Lattimore, homeless and trying desperately to provide for his young family, agrees to fight in a no-holds illegal bar bout, only to have his opponent die. Lattimore now finds himself at the mercy of the fight's organizers who blackmail him into burglarizing a house. However, when he breaks in, he finds a murdered woman on the floor and the police have received an anonymous tip naming him for the crime. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / WOMEN SLEUTHS Robin Lockwood, an increasingly prominent young attorney and former MMA Minotaur Books | 3/9/2021 9781250258427 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. fighter, agrees to take on his defense. But the case is seemingly airtight—the Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton murdered woman's husband, Judge Anthony Carasco, has an alibi and Qty: 20 Lattimore's fingerprints are discovered at the scene. But everything about the 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W case is too easy, too pat, and Lockwood is convinced that her client has been Subrights: UK: Jean Naggar Agency framed. The only problem is that she has no way of proving it and since this is a Translation: Jean Naggar Agency death case, if she fails then another innocent will die. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250258434 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781250788290 Audio ISBN: 9781250788276 "A smooth, tight narrative with a snappy, old-time whodunit finish. Margolin pulls off his own sleight of hand when the murderer is revealed." —Booklist on A Reasonable Doubt MARKETING * Author Appearances * National Broadcast Publicity “Legal-thriller fans will find it satisfying to see Margolin back at the top of his * Pre-Pub Online Advertising game…his writing has regained its stylistic flourishes, and his pacing is * Online Advertising impeccable.” —Booklist on The Perfect Alibi * Early Reader Review Campaign * Extensive Blog Outreach * NetGalley Campaign "Margolin knows how to pack in the thrills!" —Tess Gerritsen * Email Marketing Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign * Author Website: PhillipMargolin.com PHILLIP MARGOLIN has written over twenty novels, most of them New York Times bestsellers, * Author Facebook: /PhillipMargolinAuthor including Gone But Not Forgotten, Lost Lake, and Violent Crimes. In addition to being a novelist, he was a long time criminal defense attorney with decades of trial experience, including a large number of capital cases. Margolin lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Animal Instinct A K Team Novel

David Rosenfelt

The K Team is back in the second installment in this spinoff series from bestselling author David Rosenfelt's beloved Andy Carpenter mysteries.

Corey Douglas and his K-9 partner, a German shepherd named Simon Garfunkel, are recently retired police officers turned private investigators. Along with fellow former cop Laurie Collins and her investigating partner, Marcus, they call themselves the K Team, in honor of Simon.

The K Team’s latest case – a recent unsolved murder – gives Corey a chance to FICTION / MYSTERY & solve "the one that got away". Corey knew the murder victim from his time on DETECTIVE / PRIVATE the force, when he was unable to protect her in a domestic dispute. Now, he is INVESTIGATORS Minotaur Books | 4/6/2021 convinced the same abusive boyfriend is responsible for her murder. With some 9781250257208 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. help from Laurie’s lawyer husband, Andy Carpenter, the K Team is determined Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton to prove what the police could not, no matter the cost. What they uncover is Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W much more sinister than they could have imagined. Subrights: Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Known for his dog-loving stories and addictive characters, bestselling mystery Translation: Writers House, LLC author David Rosenfelt presents Animal Instinct, the second installment in this Other Available Formats: engrossing new series about a dynamite investigative team and their canine Ebook ISBN: 9781250257215 partner. Audio ISBN: 9781250788238 Audio ISBN: 9781250788221 PRAISE Praise for The K Team MARKETING * Author Appearances * Online Publicity "The K Team makes a strong companion to Rosenfelt’s ongoing series and it should * Pre-Pub Online Advertising be fighting crime for many novels." —Associated Press * Online Advertising * Early Reader Review Campaign * CriminalElement.com Promotion “This strong series launch . . . is a promising start to what’s likely to be a * Email Marketing Campaign long-running series.” —Publishers Weekly * Social Media Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign * Author Facebook: /DavidRosenfelt (10k) “Fans of the "Andy Carpenter" series will find much to enjoy here, including some cameos from Carpenter himself.” —Library Journal

DAVID ROSENFELT is the Edgar-nominated and Shamus Award-winning author of twenty Andy Carpenter novels, most recently Dachshund Through the Snow; nine stand-alone thrillers; two non-fiction titles; and The K Team, the first in a new series featuring some of the characters from the Andy Carpenter series. After years of living in California, he and his wife moved to Maine with twenty-five of the four thousand dogs they have rescued.

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Every Last Fear

Alex Finlay

In this debut psychological thriller, Alex Finlay expertly pulls readers through the Pine family's last days, leaving their surviving son, Matt, to face his Every Last Fear.

After a late night out, NYU student Matt Pine returns to his dorm room to devastating news: nearly his entire family—his mom, his dad, his little brother and sister—have been found dead from an apparent gas leak while vacationing in Tulum, Mexico. The local police say it was an accident, but the FBI and State Department seem less certain—and they won’t tell Matt why.

The tragedy makes headlines everywhere, not only because of the senseless nature of it, but also because this isn’t the first time the Pine family has been FICTION / THRILLERS / pierced by the media spotlight. Matt’s older brother, Danny—currently in prison PSYCHOLOGICAL for the murder of his teenage girlfriend Charlotte—had been the subject of a Minotaur Books | 3/2/2021 9781250268822 | $26.99 / $36.50 Can. viral true crime documentary suggesting that Danny is innocent of the crime. Hardcover with dust jacket | 368 pages | Carton Though the country has rallied behind Danny, Matt has a secret he’s never told Qty: 20 anyone: the night Charlotte was killed Matt saw something that makes him 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W believe his brother is indeed guilty of the crime. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250268839 Soon, Matt is in Mexico where the crime scene photos suggest that his family’s Audio ISBN: 9781250790088 death was no accident. And when he returns to his small hometown to bury his parents and siblings—and look deeper into the mystery of their final days—Matt is faced with a hostile community that was villainized by the documentary, a MARKETING frenzied media, and forces that want to keep the truth buried. * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity * Pre-Pub Online Advertising A pacy debut thriller for fans of Harlan Coben and alternating timeline * Online Advertising narratives, Every Last Fear combines a gr... * Early Reader Review Campaign * National IndieBound Campaign * NetGalley Campaign PRAISE * Independent Bookseller Outreach * Influencer Campaign “Brilliant. Finlay weaves a story as mesmerizing as it is heartbreaking. Hooks you * Email Marketing Campaign from the very first page and keeps you guessing until the final explosive twist. * Extensive Blog Outreach Taut, smart, and compelling. A do not miss!” —Liv Constantine, internationally * Library Marketing Campaign * Criminal Element Campaign bestselling author of The Last Mrs. Parrish

ALEX FINLAY is the pseudonym of an author who lives in Washington, D.C. Born in Opelika, Alabama, Alex's formative years were spent traversing the globe, from a tropical island in the Pacific to a small village in the UK to a remote region in the Far East. But it was on a vacation in Tulum, Mexico that Alex was inspired to write Every Last Fear.

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The Dark Heart of Florence A Lady Emily Mystery

Tasha Alexander

Critically acclaimed author Tasha Alexander transports readers to the legendary city of Florence, where Lady Emily and Colin solve a murder with clues leading back to the time of the Medici.

In 1903, tensions between Britain and Germany are starting to loom over Europe, something that has not gone unnoticed by Lady Emily and her husband, Colin Hargreaves. An agent of the Crown, Colin carries the weight of the Empire, but his focus is drawn to Italy by a series of burglaries at his daughter’s palazzo in Florence—burglaries that have caught the attention of his superiors. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / HISTORICAL He and Emily travel to Tuscany, where they are greeted by a shocking death. Minotaur Books | 3/9/2021 Undaunted, they investigate, discovering that the house hides ominous secrets 9781250622068 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. dating back to the days of the Medici—secrets unexpectedly pertinent in the Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton troubled days of the early twentieth century, an uneasy time full of intrigue, Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W duplicity, and warring ideologies. With the assistance of Darius Benton-Stone, Colin’s trusted colleague and fellow agent, they race to untangle the cryptic Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press clues leading them through the Renaissance city. But an unimagined danger Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press follows closely behind, and much more than a family home is at stake… Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250622075 Audio ISBN: 9781250789884 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781250789877 Praise for In the Shadow of Vesuvius:

"Alexander’s precise attention to historical details invests her series about Lady MARKETING * Author Appearances Emily Hargreaves with an unshakeable background that she expertly weaves into * National Publicity solid plots…[her] skills shine in In the Shadow of Vesuvius…pitch-perfect." * Online Publicity —Sun-Sentinel * Pre-Pub Online Advertising * Online Advertising * Library Marketing Campaign "Tasha Alexander brings both eras to life through meticulous research, and the * Extensive Blog Outreach dual stories come together in a chilling finale. Scenes set among the ruins of * Early Reader Review Campaign * CriminalElement.com Promotion Pompeii and in the city pre-disaster have such depth that it feels like we’re * Email Marketing Campaign walking directly into them. This is an urbane thriller with a big heart." * Social Media Campaign —Bookpage * Tastemaker Campaign * Author Website: TashaAlexander.com * AuthorFacebook: /tashaalexanderauthor “[Evokes] the setting’s rich history…lover... (10.8K Likes) * Author Twitter: @talexander (7.8K Followers) TASHA ALEXANDER, the daughter of two philosophy professors, studied English literature and * Author Instagram: @tasha_alexander medieval history at the University of Notre Dame. She and her husband, novelist Andrew Grant, live (1.7K Followers) on a ranch in southeastern Wyoming.

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The Lost Village A Novel

Camilla Sten; translated by Alexandra Fleming

"Spooky premise, great atmospherics, and unexpected twists...for fans of all things relentlessly creepy." - Alma Katsu

One day in 1959, an entire village of people disappeared—leaving behind only the broken body of a woman in the town square, and an abandoned newborn in a schoolroom.

No one knows why they vanished. No one’s been there since.

Until now. FICTION / THRILLERS / SUSPENSE Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing Minotaur Books | 3/23/2021 residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” since she was a 9781250249258 | $26.99 / $36.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 352 pages | Carton little girl. Her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious Qty: 20 tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the dead woman 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W and abandoned baby have plagued her. She’s gathered a small crew of Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Publishing Group filmmaking friends to spend a few days in the quiet village and make a film about what really happened. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250249265 Audio ISBN: 9781250790064 There will be no turning back for them.

Not long after they’ve set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. MARKETING Equipment is destroyed. People begin to go missing. As doubt breeds fear and * National Print Publicity their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice: * Online Publicity they are not alone. * Trade Advertising * Pre-pub Online Advertising * Online Advertising Addictively gripping and brilliantly chilling, The Lost Village by Camilla Sten is * Library Marketing Campaign a pulse-pounding, riveting thriller from beginning to end. * Extensive Blog Outreach * Early Reader Review Campaign * NetGalley Promotion PRAISE * Goodreads Promotion * CriminalElement.com Promotion “THE LOST VILLAGE draws you in with its spooky premise--the disappearance * Email Marketing Campaign of an entire town--but great atmospherics and unexpected twists keep you turning * Bookstagram Campaign the pages. For fans of haunted reality TV shows, Scandinavian thrillers, and all things relentlessly creepy.” —Alma Katsu, author of The Deep and The Hunger

"Very atmospheric and engaging mystery from a new and exciting voice in Scandinavian crime. The reader is drawn into a unique setting from page one and it is impossible to stop reading." —Ragnar Jonasson, author of The Island

CAMILLA STEN has been writing stories since she was a young girl. In 2019, she published the now internationally acclaimed, hair-raising novel The Lost Village. Rights for The Lost Village have been sold to seventeen territories around the world including film and TV. An ever prolific author, Camilla is already working on her next psychologically intense suspense novel, all while travelling the world and putting the finishing touches on the first part of her dark and atmospheric YA series.

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Dance with Death A Barker & Llewelyn Novel

Will Thomas

Tsar Nicholas is in England for a royal wedding and is the target of conspiracies and an assassin. Can private enquiry agents Barker and Llewelyn protect him from the nefarious forces aligned aga...

In June of 1893, the future Nicholas II travels to London for a royal wedding, bringing with him his private security force and his ballerina mistress, Mathilde Kchessinska. Rumored to be the target of a professional assassin known only as La Sylphide, and the subject of conspiracies against his life by his own family who covet his future throne, Nicholas is protected by not only private security, FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / TRADITIONAL but the professional forces of both England and Russia. Minotaur Books | 4/13/2021 9781250624772 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. All of these measures prove inadequate when Prince George of England is Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton attacked by an armed anarchist who mistakes him for Nicholas. As a result, Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Barker and Llewelyn are brought in to help track down the assassin and others who might conspire against the life of the tsarevitch. The investigations lead Subrights: UK: Maria Carvainis them down several paths, including Llewelyn's old nemesis, the assassin Sofia Translation: Maria Carvainis Ilyanova. With Barker and Llewelyn both surviving seperate attempts on their Other Available Formats: lives, the race to find both the culprit and the assassin they hired is on. Taking Ebook ISBN: 9781250624789 them through high society (including a masked ball at Kensington Palace) and Audio ISBN: 9781250794017 low, chasing down motives both personal and political, Barker and Llewelyn must solve the case of their life before the crime of the century is committed.

MARKETING * Online Publicity PRAISE * Early Reader Review Campaign * Extensive Blog Outreach "The true star power comes from its compatibly mismatched leads. Joy to those * NetGalley Campaign who discover Mr. Thomas’s latest novel this holiday season." —The Wall Street * Email Marketing Campaign Journal * Tastemaker Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign "First-rate!" —Publishers Weekly on Blood Is Blood

“[A] classic detective duo…. The best fun in this Big Boys’ Adventure Book is observing [protagonist Cyrus] Barker in action.” —Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review on Fatal Enquiry

WILL THOMAS is the author of the critically acclaimed Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn series, including Some Danger Involved, Fatal Enquiry, Old Scores, and, most recently, Lethal Pursuit. He lives in Oklahoma.

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The Granite Coast Murders A Brittany Mystery

Jean-Luc Bannalec

In the sixth installment of Jean-Luc Bannalec's bestselling mystery series, Commissaire Dupin returns to investigate a murder at a gorgeous Brittany beach resort.

Inspector Dupin and Claire are on a two-week vacation, but while Claire seems to enjoy the quiet of the beach, Commissaire Dupin takes every opportunity to leave the beach towel. The fabulous dinners on the hotel patio and the rumors about a stolen statue of a saint are the few interesting moments of his days on vacation. But then a tourist vanishes without trace and there’s an attack on a deputy to the local assembly, who is involved in confrontations with local FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / TRADITIONAL farmers. Shortly after that, the Britanny beach resort is shocked by the discovery Minotaur Books | 4/20/2021 of a corpse. Dupin clandestinely begins to investigate with the help of the local 9781250753069 | $26.99 / $36.50 Can. villagers, something he must keep a secret from Claire and his colleagues in Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton Concarneau. Between bewitched valleys and beautiful beaches, an unfathomable Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W case develops.

Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: Verlag Kiepenheuer & Witsch PRAISE GmbH & Co. Praise for the series: Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250753076 "Delicious Brittany mysteries... If this isn't heaven, it's close enough." —The New York Times

MARKETING "Francophiles and art lovers will welcome Bannalec’s good old-fashioned detective * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity story set in Brittany... Bannalec excels at plotting and pacing, as well as vivid * Early Reader Review Campaign descriptions of the Finistère countryside." —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on * Book Community Outreach Death in Brittany * Blog and Bookstagram Outreach * Library Marketing Campaign * Special Backlist Offers Available "Very satisfying…along the lines of Martin Walker’s novels set in Dordogne, or * Email Marketing Campaign * Promotion on CriminalElement.com M.L. Longworth’s Aix-en-Provence mysteries." —Booklist on Murder on Brittany * Paperback Tie In: The Killing Tide, on Shores sale March 2021 Internationally bestselling author JEAN-LUC BANNALEC lives in Germany and the southerly region of the French département of Finistère. In 2016 he was given the award ‘Mécène de Bretagne’. Since 2018 he has been an honorary member of the Académie littéraire de Bretagne. He is also the author of Death in Brittany, Murder on Brittany Shores, The Fleur de Sel Murders, The Missing Corpse, and The Killing Tide.

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Death of a Showman A Mystery

Mariah Fredericks

In the fourth in this absorbing series set in Gilded Age New York lady’s maid Jane Prescott is thrust into the world of show business, where a killer is stalking Broadway.

It's the summer of 1914 and Jane Prescott—lady's maid to Louise Tyler, daughter of a wealthy New York society family—has just arrived home from Independence Day celebrations to find musician Leo Hirschfeld playing the Tylers' piano.

FICTION / MYSTERY & Jane's brief courtship with Leo had ended before the Tylers' vacation to Europe DETECTIVE / HISTORICAL earlier in the summer, so she isn't entirely surprised to see him. She is, however, Minotaur Books | 4/13/2021 shocked to learn that he's been engaged to write a new Broadway show—and 9781250210906 | $26.99 / $36.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton that he's married a chorus girl in his musical. Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Jane and Louise Tyler are pulled into the sparkling and dramatic world of Subrights: UK rights: Levine Greenberg Literary Broadway, with Louise becoming an investor in the show, and Jane Agency accompanying her to rehearsals as her chaperone. But behind the glittering Translation rights: Levine Greenberg Literary facade of costumes and love songs, the cast is restless and prone to deception, Agency culminating in the death of the show's producer: Sidney Warburton. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250210913 The accusation that Leo was involved jolts Jane, and her old friend and tabloid reporter Michael Behan, into action. Determined to close the curtain on these murders, Jane must strip back the masks of these consummate actors until she MARKETING knows the truth. * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity * Early Reader Review Campaign PRAISE * Book Community Outreach * Blog and Bookstagram Outreach "Engrossing. Fredericks's portrait of the social disparities of early 20th century * Special Backlist Offers Available New York and of the appealing Jane make this a winner." —Publishers Weekly on * Library Marketing Campaign Death of an American Beauty * Social Media Campaign * Email Marketing Campaign * Promotion on CriminalElement.com "Fredericks sets Jane's investigation neatly within a larger social context of the * Promotion on HistoryReader.com suffrage movement, and the results are unexpectedly thrilling." —The Wall Street * Author Facebook: @JanePrescottMysteries Journal on Death of a New American * Author Twitter: @MariahFrederick * Author Website: "Murder in the ranks of high society provides heady entertainment for the MariahFredericksBooks.com * Paperback Tie-In: Death of an American servants who toil in obscurity in A Death of No Importance, a lively Beauty, on sale March 2021 upstairs/downstairs mystery." —New York Times Book Review

MARIAH FREDERICKS was born and raised in New York City, where she still lives with her family. She is the author of several YA novels. A Death of No Importance was her first adult novel. Visit her website at MariahFredericksBooks.com, and follow her on Twitter @MariahFrederick.

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Deadly Editions A Scottish Bookshop Mystery

Paige Shelton

A treasure hunt through Edinburgh gives way to a search for a villain terrorizing the city in the sixth Scottish Bookshop Mystery.

Bookseller Delaney Nichols receives a mysterious cloaked visitor one evening at the Cracked Spine Bookshop. He presents to her an even more perplexing note: an invitation to an exclusive treasure hunt hosted by eccentric socialite Shelaigh O'Connor. Delaney is intrigued, but also cautious: Shelaigh, while charming in person, has a reputation for her hijinks as a wealthy young woman in the '70s. She was even once suspected for the murder of a former boyfriend, though FICTION / MYSTERY & ultimately cleared of all charges. DETECTIVE / COZY Minotaur Books | 4/6/2021 9781250203908 | $26.99 / $36.50 Can. But Delaney is enticed by the grand prize at the end of the treasure hunt: a Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton highly valuable first edition copy of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Qty: 20 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson. The winner is also to receive the contents of Shelaigh's vast library, and an unspecified sum of cash. Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: St. Martin's Press The night after the first meeting of the treasure hunters, however, several homes Other Available Formats: in Edinburgh are robbed in a manner reminiscent of Shelaigh's old tricks. And Ebook ISBN: 9781250203915 when a man connected to Shelaigh is killed, suspicion builds. Except Sheilagh herself has disappeared from her home, seemingly kidnapped by the villain.

MARKETING Terror mounts throughout the city as Delaney attempts to solve the mystery, * Online Publicity while trying to stay out of the killer's clutches. For she, it seems, is his next * Early Reader Review Campaign * Blog and Bookstagram Outreach target. * Book Community Outreach * Special Backlist Offers Available * Social Media Campaign PRAISE * Email Marketing Campaign "Vivid descriptions of Edinburgh enhance the well-crafted plot. Cozy fans will * Library Marketing Campaign * Promotion on CriminalElement.com look forward to the further adventures of smart and intuitive Delaney." * Author Twitter: @AuthorPaige —Publishers Weekly on The Stolen Letter * Author Facebook: @AuthorPaigeShelton * Author Website: PaigeShelton.com * Paperback Tie-In: The Stolen Letter, on "Shelton stocks her tale with appealing characters and intriguing Nessie lore. Cozy sale March 2021 fans will be rewarded." —Publishers Weekly on The Loch Ness Papers

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Alexander, Tasha; The Dark Heart of Florence: A Lady Emily Mystery...... 16 Animal Instinct: A K Team Novel; David Rosenfelt...... 14 Armstrong, Kelley; A Stranger in Town...... 11 Bannalec, Jean-Luc; The Granite Coast Murders: A Brittany Mystery...... 19 Berry, Steve; The Kaiser's Web...... 8 City of Tears, The: A Novel; Kate Mosse...... 5 Cosimano, Elle; Finlay Donovan Is Killing It...... 10 Dance with Death: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel; Will Thomas ...... 18 Dark Heart of Florence, The: A Lady Emily Mystery; Tasha Alexander...... 16 Deadly Editions: A Scottish Bookshop Mystery; Paige Shelton...... 21 Death of a Showman: A Mystery; Mariah Fredericks...... 20 Deep into the Dark; P. J. Tracy...... 4 Every Last Fear; Alex Finlay...... 15 Every Waking Hour: A Mystery; Joanna Schaffhausen. . . . . 7 Extravagant Death, An: A Charles Lenox Mystery; Charles Finch...... 9 Fellowes, Jessica; The Mitford Trial: A Mitford Murders Mystery ...... 3 Finch, Charles; An Extravagant Death: A Charles Lenox Mystery...... 9 Finlay Donovan Is Killing It; Elle Cosimano...... 10 Finlay, Alex; Every Last Fear...... 15 Fredericks, Mariah; Death of a Showman: A Mystery...... 20 Granite Coast Murders, The: A Brittany Mystery; Jean-Luc Bannalec...... 19 Hiding Place, The: A Mercy Carr Mystery; Paula Munier ...... 12 Hurwitz, Gregg; Prodigal Son: An Orphan X Novel...... 2 Kaiser's Web, The; Steve Berry...... 8 Lost Village, The: A Novel; Camilla Sten...... 17 Margolin, Phillip; A Matter of Life and Death: A Robin Lockwood Novel...... 13 Matter of Life and Death, A: A Robin Lockwood Novel; Phillip Margolin...... 13 Mitford Trial, The: A Mitford Murders Mystery; Jessica Fellowes...... 3 Montgomery, Jess; The Stills: A Novel...... 6 Mosse, Kate; The City of Tears: A Novel...... 5 Munier, Paula; The Hiding Place: A Mercy Carr Mystery. . . . .12 Prodigal Son: An Orphan X Novel; Gregg Hurwitz...... 2 Rosenfelt, David; Animal Instinct: A K Team Novel...... 14 Schaffhausen, Joanna; Every Waking Hour: A Mystery...... 7 Shelton, Paige; Deadly Editions: A Scottish Bookshop Mystery ...... 21 Sten, Camilla; The Lost Village: A Novel...... 17 Stills, The: A Novel; Jess Montgomery...... 6 Stranger in Town, A; Kelley Armstrong...... 11 Thomas, Will; Dance with Death: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel ...... 18 Tracy, P. J.; Deep into the Dark...... 4