ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN DECEMBER 2021
Without a Doubt Night Moves and This Magic Moment: A 2-in-1 Collection
Nora Roberts
Without a Doubt, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts is “the queen of romantic suspense” (The Columbus Dispatch) with these two novels of secrets and seduction.
Night Moves
When her husband died, Maggie Fitzgerald abandoned her career and place among the wealthy elite for a small town existence where she could grieve in peace and quiet. Her broken heart finds solace in the company of her landscaper, Cliff Delaney. But Cliff has a temperamental side, and when human bones are FICTION / ROMANCE / found on Maggie’s property, he becomes the police’s number one suspect. CONTEMPORARY St. Martin's Griffin | 12/28/2021 Obsessed with learning if the man she’s grown to love is capable of murder, 9781250831781 | $9.99 Maggie puts her own life in a killer’s crosshairs… Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W
Subrights: UK Rights: Writers House This Magic Moment Translation Rights: Writers House Master magician Pierce Atkins has made a career conjuring realistic illusions and escaping elaborate traps, mystifying audiences around the world. Mesmerized by
MARKETING his seemingly otherworldly abilities, Ryan Swan is desperate for a peek behind Launch Advertising the curtain of the brooding, attractive genius—only to uncover a personal tragedy Email Marketing his magic cannot fix. And as she watches Pierce engage in one death-defying act SMP Romance Social Media Promotion after another, Ryan finds herself becoming spellbound by the man, not the Influencer Outreach Author Website: www.noraroberts.com magician. To heal his soul will require a kind of magic invoked by the power of Author Blog: www.fallintothestory.com love. Author Facebook: @NoraRoberts, 640K Author Instagram: @norarobertsauthor, 55.9K NORA ROBERTS is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 230 novels, including Legacy, The Awakening, Hideaway, Under Currents, The Chronicles of the One trilogy, and many more. She is also the author of the bestselling In Death series written under the pen name J.D. Robb. There are more than 500 million copies of her books in print.
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He Said/She Said A Novel
Erin Kelly
"A gripping, twisting, furiously clever read that asks all the right questions, and keeps you guessing until the very end." —Ruth Ware
In the summer of 1999, Kit and Laura travel to a festival in Cornwall to see a total eclipse of the sun. Kit is an eclipse chaser; Laura has never seen one before. Young and in love, they are certain this will be the first of many they’ll share.
But in the hushed moments after the shadow passes, Laura interrupts a man and a woman. She knows that she saw something terrible. The man denies it. It is her FICTION / THRILLERS / SUSPENSE word against his. Minotaur Books | 12/28/2021 9781250836199 | $9.99 / $9.99 Can. The victim seems grateful. Months later, she turns up on their doorstep like a Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 20 lonely stray. But as her gratitude takes a twisted turn, Laura begins to 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W wonder—did she trust the wrong person? Subrights: UK rights: Zoe Pagnamenta Translation rights: Zoe Pagnamenta Fifteen years later, Kit and Laura are living under assumed names and completely Other Available Formats: off the digital grid: no social media, only rudimentary cell phones, not in any Mass Market ISBN: 9781250217578 directories. But as the truth catches up to them, they realize they can no longer Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781250160546 keep the past in the past. Audio ISBN: 9781427288103 Ebook ISBN: 9781250113702 From Erin Kelly, queen of the killer twist, He Said/She Said is a gripping tale of the lies we tell to save ourselves, the truths we cannot admit, and how far we will
MARKETING go to make others believe * Social Media Campaign our side of the story. * Email Marketing Campaign * Author Twitter: @mserinkelly (7.2k This edition is a one-time printing, and is a $9.99 value promotion. followers) * Author Facebook: @ErinKellyAuthor * Author Instagram: @erinjelly PRAISE "Haunting. Mesmerizing. Unforgettable." —Gillian Flynn
“Heart-pounding." —The New York Times
“It’s a tribute to Kelly’s sleight of storytelling hand that the disclosures are incremental but relentless in their chilling effect. Just don’t get too complacent when reading Kelly: she’s always got extra cards up her sleeves.” —The Boston Globe
ERIN KELLY is the Sunday Times bestselling author of He Said/She Said, The Poison Tree, and four other standalone psychological thrillers. She also wrote the novelization of the award-winning TV show Broadchurch. Her work has been critically acclaimed and translated into thirty-one languages. Erin also works as a freelance journalist and creative writing tutor. She lives in London with her family.
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Gone Missing A Kate Burkholder Novel
Linda Castillo
In this chilling thriller from New York Times bestselling author Linda Castillo, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called upon when an Amish teenager disappears without a trace.
Rumspringa is the time when Amish teens are allowed to experience life without the rules. It's an exciting time of personal discovery and growth before committing to the church. But when a young teen disappears without a trace, the carefree fun comes to an abrupt and sinister end, and fear spreads through the community like a contagion.
FICTION / MYSTERY & A missing child is a nightmare to all parents, and never more so than in the DETECTIVE / POLICE Amish community, where family ties run deep. When the search for the PROCEDURAL presumed runaway turns up a dead body, the case quickly becomes a murder St. Martin's Griffin | 12/28/2021 9781250837172 | $9.99 / $9.99 Can. investigation. And Chief of Police Kate Burkholder knows that in order to solve Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 this case she will have to call upon everything she has to give not only as a cop, 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W but as a woman whose own Amish roots run deep. Subrights: UK Rights: NYLA Translation Rights: NYLA Kate and state agent, John Tomasetti, delve into the lives of the missing teen and
Other Available Formats: discover links to cold cases that may go back years. But will Kate piece together Mass Market ISBN: 9781250136480 all the parts of this sinister puzzle in time to save the missing teen and the Amish Audio ISBN: 9781427296085 community from a devastating fate? Or will she find herself locked in a fight to Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781250022226 the death with a merciless killer? Ebook ISBN: 9781250010902
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MARKETING Praise for Linda Castillo and the Kate Burkholder novels: * Social Media Campaign * Email Marketing Campaign * Author Facebook: @LindaCastilloAuthor “Magnetic.” —People Magazine (30k followers) * Author Twitter: @LindaCastillo11 (2.5k “Exquisitely plotted.” —Associated Press followers) * Author Webiste: LindaCastillo.com “Electrifying.” —Publishers Weekly
"A captivating story by a gifted storyteller." —The Washington Book Review
LINDA CASTILLO is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Kate Burkholder series, set in the world of the Amish. The first book, Sworn to Silence, was adapted into a Lifetime original movie titled An Amish Murder starring Neve Campbell as Kate Burkholder. Castillo is the recipient of numerous industry awards including a nomination by the International Thriller Writers for Best Hardcover, the Mystery Writers of America’s Sue Grafton Memorial Award, and an appearance on the Bost...
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The Imposter Bride A Novel
Nancy Richler
An unforgettable novel about a mysterious mail-order bride in the wake of WWII, whose sudden decision ripples through time to deeply impact the daughter she never knew
A young, enigmatic woman—Lily Azerov—arrives in postwar Montreal expecting to meet her betrothed, Sol Kramer. When Sol sees Lily at the train station, however, he turns her down. His brother, Nathan, sees Lily and instantly decides to marry her.
But Lily is not who she claims to be, and her attempt to live a quiet life as Nathan FICTION / HISTORICAL / WORLD WAR II Kramer's wife shatters when she disappears, leaving her baby daughter with only St. Martin's Griffin | 12/28/2021 a diary, an uncut diamond and a need to discover the truth. 9781250836236 | $9.99 Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 Who is Lily and what happened to the young woman whose identity she stole? 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Why did she leave and where did she go? It is up to the daughter Lily abandoned Subrights: UK Rights: The Cooke Agency to find the answers to these questions as she searches for the mother she may Translation Rights: The Cooke Agency never find or truly know. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781429999984 PRAISE “A powerful story of identity, loyalty and loss, of the lies that haunt us and the truth
MARKETING that makes us whole again. Evoking the postwar era to underscore timeless theme, Email Marketing Richler's elegant prose resonates.” —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author Influencer Outreach of The Lost Girls of Paris Social Media Post “Richler is back, and with an elegant, ambitious, accomplished new work.” —Globe and Mail (Canada)
"Richler infuses her work with iconic images from the era she covers, painting a rich image of the Canadian Jewish community, their customs and family relationships, in a past century...A beautiful tale." —Kirkus Reviews
NANCY RICHLER's short fiction has been published in various American and Canadian literary journals, including The Fiddlehead, Room of One's Own, and The New Quarterly. Her previous novel, Your Mouth is Lovely, published in eleven countries, won the 2003 Canadian Jewish Book Award for fiction and Italy's 2004 Adei Wizo Award. Nancy is the cousin of the famed Canadian writer and literary critic Mordechai Richler. She lives in Montreal.
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Jar of Hearts
Jennifer Hillier
A compelling story of murder, betrayal, and the secrets of the past—a new breakout thriller in the vein of The Luckiest Girl Alive and The Good Girl.
At 30 years old, Georgina, known as Geo, is a rising executive when her world comes crashing down. Her high school boyfriend has been identified and arrested for a series of serial murders, including Angela, Geo's best friend in high school. Angela disappeared without a trace at 16 and her body has just been found. Now Geo is under arrest for helping her then-boyfriend hide her best friend's body. And it's one of her other close friends in high school, Kaiser Brody, who arrests her.
FICTION / THRILLERS / CRIME While Geo is sent to prison for her part, Calvin escapes from custody and is on St. Martin's Griffin | 12/28/2021 the run. At 35 years old, Geo is about to be released from prison to try and start 9781250836472 | $9.99 / $9.99 Can. over. But someone has started killing people and dumping their bodies in her old Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W neighborhood, with some of the markers of the missing Sweetbay Strangler—her old boyfriend Calvin. Is these killings some kind of message from Calvin? Are Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: St. Martin's Press they some of revenge? Is she herself now in danger?
Other Available Formats: Everything turns on what really happened that tragic night back when Geo and Mass Market ISBN: 9781250154200 Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781250209023 Angela were 16 years old. Everyone thinks they know the truth, but there are Audio ISBN: 9781427296207 dark secrets buried deep within other secrets, and it may be too late for anyone to Ebook ISBN: 9781250154217 survive the truth.
Jar of Hearts is a compelling edge-of-your-seat thriller, that grabs readers from MARKETING the very beginning and holds them rapt, as the truth of both the past and the * Bookstagrammer Campaign present is skillfully unfolded, until the very last page. * Author Facebook: /JenniferHillierBooks * Author Twitter: @JenniferHillier * Author Instagram: @JenniferHillierBooks PRAISE "A gripping page-turner" —Caroline Kepnes
"Jar of Hearts grabs you by the throat! Hillier has crafted the perfect blend of riveting characters, chilling details, and gasping twists in this stand out thriller that will keep you frantically reading till the explosive end." —Lisa Gardner
Jennifer Hillier locks you in on the first page, and astonishes to the last." —Joseph Finder
JENNIFER HILLIER was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, lived in the Seattle area for years, and has just moved back to Toronto with her husband and son.
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The Recipe Box A Novel
Viola Shipman
Bestselling author of The Charm Bracelet delivers a heartwarming love story about a family recipe box that changes lives.
Growing up in northern Michigan, Samantha “Sam” Mullins felt trapped on her family’s orchard and pie shop, so she left with dreams of making her own mark in the world. But life as an overworked, undervalued sous chef at a reality star’s New York bakery is not what Sam dreamed.
When the chef embarrasses Sam, she quits and returns home. Unemployed, FICTION / WOMEN single, and defeated, she spends a summer working on her family’s orchard. One St. Martin's Griffin | 12/28/2021 beloved, flour-flecked, ink-smeared recipe at a time, Sam begins to learn about 9781250837905 | $9.99 / $9.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 and understand the women in her life, her family’s history, and her passion for 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W food through their treasured recipe box.
Subrights: UK rights: Wendy Sherman Associates As Sam discovers what matters most she opens her heart to a man she left Translation rights: Wendy Sherman Associates behind, but who now might be the key to her happiness.
Other Available Formats: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781250149992 *Includes family recipes from the author Hardcover ISBN: 9781250146779 Ebook ISBN: 9781250165329 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781427293299 "Filled with cherished memories and treasured recipes, The Recipe Box is a touching tribute to the women and food that unite us and connect our past to the MARKETING present." —Richard Paul Evans, #1 New York Times bestselling author Email Marketing Social Media Post Author Website: https://violashipman.com/ "The Recipe Box is as tantalizing as apples baking in butter and cinnamon, Author Website: https://waderouse.com/ enlivening the senses in a way that reminds us that the heart never forgets where it Author Instagram: @viola_shipman/ (1.7k belongs." —Laura Lane McNeal, author of Dollbaby followers) Author Instagram: @AuthorWadeRouse (847 followers) "An easy, delightful novel" —Good Housekeeping Author Twitter: @viola_shipman (543 followers) Author Twitter: @waderouse (1.1k VIOLA SHIPMAN is a pen name for award-winning memoirist Wade Rouse. The Charm Bracelet followers) and The Hope Chest have been translated into over a dozen languages and become international Author Facebook: /authorviolashipman bestsellers. The Charm Bracelet was named a 2017 Michigan Notable Book. Rouse lives in (8.3k followers) Michigan and writes regularly for People, Good Housekeeping and Coastal Living. He is a Author Facebook: /authorwaderouse/ (2.2k contributor for All Things Considered. followers)
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Clean(ish) Eat (Mostly) Clean, Live (Mainly) Clean, and Unlock Your Body's Natural Ability to Self-Clean
Gin Stephens
From the New York Times bestselling author of Fast. Feast. Repeat., the essential guide to supercharging your intermittent fasting lifestyle with simple swaps that can make a powerful difference.
Following up on her bestselling Fast. Feast. Repeat., the bible of Intermittent Fasting, Gin Stephens uses her distinctive and winning blend of research, personal experience, and stories from IF-ers in her large and growing online
HEALTH & FITNESS / DIET & community to take her ideas to the next level. In Clean(ish), Gin digs into not NUTRITION / WEIGHT LOSS only the machinery of our bodies, but the workings of our homes to give simple St. Martin's Griffin | 1/4/2022 swaps and strategies to support healthy weight. 9781250824158 | $18.99 / $25.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Clean(ish) will give readers: - A refresher on IF, or—if they aren’t already trying IF—a primer Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press - Food swaps, from meals to snacks to drinks, that will help anyone stay on their Translation Rights: Park and Fine personal IF track Other Available Formats: - A Break from Fake: key strategies to pursue, from eating whole foods to Ebook ISBN: 9781250824165 recognizing stealthy processed non-foods, for optimum performance from every Audio ISBN: 9781250839169 one of our body’s systems - A new understanding of how our individual environments impact IF and Clean(ish) living: an audit of our medicine cabinets, make-up bags, and the box MARKETING of supplies we all have under our sinks to remove disruptive toxins. * National Broadcast Publicity * National Print Publicity - A trusted voice who is a cheerleader for real-world behaviors * Online Publicity Pre-Order Advertising Campaign As Gin says, “clean-ish” means that we develop a focus on real foods and a Launch Advertising Campaign Social Media Outreach healthier home environment that is free of obvious toxins, without becoming Email Marketing Campaign fixated on perfection. By living Clean-ish, we can maximize our efforts where it Podcast Promotions matters most, while still living an enjoyable lifestyle. Early Adopter Program Author Website: https://www.ginstephens.com/ GIN STEPHENS, author of the bestselling Fast. Feast. Repeat., has been living the intermittent Active on Instagram: @ginstephens (26.2K fasting lifestyle since 2014. Since then, she’s lost over eighty pounds and launched her IF website, followers) four online support groups, and two top-ranked podcasts—Intermittent Fasting Stories and The Active on Twitter: @gin_stephens (2.4K Intermittent Fasting Podcast. A graduate of the Institute of Integrative Nutrition’s Health Coach followers) Training Program, she also earned a a Master's degree in Natural Sciences. She lives in Augusta, Georgia.
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Night Road A Novel
Kristin Hannah
From the author of the smash-hit novels Firefly Lane, The Nightingale, and The Four Winds comes a novel about how one reckless night destroys the lives of three teenagers and their families.
For a mother, life comes down to a series of choices.
To hold on...
To let go... FICTION / WOMEN St. Martin's Griffin | 1/4/2022 9781250838490 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. To forget... Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Carton Qty: 20 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W To forgive... Other Available Formats: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9780312364434 Which road will you take? Ebook ISBN: 9781429965026 For eighteen years, Jude Farraday has put her children's needs above her own, and it shows—her twins, Mia and Zach are bright and happy teenagers. When MARKETING Lexi Baill moves into their small, close-knit community, no one is more * Online Publicity welcoming than Jude. Lexi, a former foster child with a dark past, quickly Online Advertising Campaign Book Club Outreach becomes Mia's best friend. Then Zach falls in love with Lexi and the three Email Marketing Campaign become inseparable. Social Media Outreach Discussion Guide Available Online Jude does everything to keep her kids on track for college and out of harm's way. Author Website: https://kristinhannah.com/ Active on Facebook: It has always been easy—until senior year of high school. Suddenly she is at a @AuthorKristinHannah (200K followers) loss. Nothing feels safe anymore; every time her kids leave the house, she Active on Twitter: @kristinhannahauthor worries about them. (57.3K followers) Active on Instagram: @kristinhannahauthor (60k followers) On a hot summer's night her worst fears are realized. One decision will change the course of their lives. In the blink of an eye, the Farraday family will be torn apart and Lexi will lose everything. In the years that follow, each must face the consequences of that single night and find a way to forget...or the courage to forgive.
Vivid, universal, and emotionally complex, Night Road raises profound questions about motherhood, identity, love, and forgiveness. It is a luminous, heartbreaking novel that captures both the exquisite pain of loss and the stunning power of hope. This is Kristin Hannah at her very best, telling an unforgettable story about the long...
PRAISE "Hannah masterfully details the unraveling of a family." —People Magazine
"Hannah's gripping new novel centers around a tragedy that rocks a family to it's 9 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2022
2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything
Mauro F. Guillen
Wall Street Journal bestseller
A revolutionary analysis of the global trends underway that will end the world as we know it. Will you be prepared for what comes next?
Once upon a time, the world was neatly divided into prosperous and backward economies. Babies were plentiful, workers outnumbered retirees, and people BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / aspiring towards the middle class yearned to own homes and cars. Companies FORECASTING St. Martin's Griffin | 1/4/2022 didn't need to see any further than Europe and the United States to do well. 9781250268198 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. That world—and those rules—are over. Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W By 2030, a new reality will take hold: Includes 9 b+w illustrations throughout Subrights: UK Rights: Aevitas - There will be more grandparents than grandchildren Translation Rights: Aevitas - The middle-class in Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa will outnumber the US and Other Available Formats: Europe combined Hardcover ISBN: 9781250268174 - The global economy will be driven by the non-Western consumer for the first Ebook ISBN: 9781250268181 time in modern history Audio ISBN: 9781250772213 - There will be more global wealth owned by women than men - There will be more robots than workers - There will be more currencies than countries MARKETING * Online Publicity * Online Advertising According to Guillen, the only way to truly understand the global transformations * Email Marketing Campaign underway—and their impacts—is to think laterally. That is, using “peripheral * Academic Marketing Campaign vision,” or approaching problems creatively and from unorthodox points of view. * Social Media Campaign * Author Facebook: /Mauro-Guillen Rather than focusing on a single trend—climate-change or the rise of illiberal * Author Twitter: @MauroFGuillen regimes, for example—Guillen encourages us to consider the dynamic inter-play * Author Instagram: @MauroFGuillen between a range of forces that will converge on a single tipping point—2030 * Author LinkedIn (10.8K followers) AD—that will be, for better or worse, the point of no return. 2030 will * Author Website: mauroguillen.com revolutionize the way we think about cataclysmic change and its consequences.
PRAISE "A must-read for those looking to understand the what, why and so what of transformational global change—that is, new trends that are emerging in a decisive, durable and impactful fashion; why they are doing so; and what this means not just for countries and companies, but also for households and communities.” —Mohamed El-Erian, Chief Economic Adviser, Allianz, and bestselling author of When Markets Collide
MAURO F. GUILLÉN is one of the most original thinkers at the Wharton School, where he holds the Zandman Professorship in International Management and teaches in its flagship Advanced Management Program and many other courses for executives, MBAs, and undergraduates. He is a 10 MINOTAUR BOOKS JANUARY 2022
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It A Mystery
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. A stressed-out single mom of two and a struggling novelist, Finlay finds her life in chaos: the new book she promised her literary agent isn’t written, her ex-husband fired the nanny without telling her, 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. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / WOMEN SLEUTHS Minotaur Books | 1/4/2022 When Finlay is overheard discussing the plot of her new suspense novel with her 9781250830449 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. agent over lunch, she’s mistaken for a contract killer and inadvertently accepts an Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 24 offer to dispose of a problem husband in order to make ends meet. Finlay soon 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W discovers that crime in real life is a lot more difficult than its fictional Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press counterpart, as she becomes tangled in a murder investigation. Translation Rights: Greenhouse Literary Agency
Other Available Formats: Fast-paced, deliciously witty, and wholeheartedly authentic in depicting the Hardcover ISBN: 9781250241702 frustrations and triumphs of motherhood in all its messiness, hilarity, and Ebook ISBN: 9781250242204 heartfelt moments, Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is the first in a brilliant new Audio ISBN: 9781250790057 series from award-winning author Elle Cosimano.
PRAISE MARKETING * Online Publicity One of “The Most Anticipated Books of Winter 2021” —Parade * Online Advertising One of “The Most Anticipated Debuts of 2021” —Bustle * Independent Bookstore Outreach * Goodreads Promotion One of “The Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2021” —Goodreads * Social Media Campaign One of “The Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021” —Crimereads * Email Marketing Campaign One of “The Highly Recommended Books of 2021” —Brit + Co * Author Website: ElleCosimano.com * Author Twitter: @ElleCosimano (3.4k One of “The Best Books to Read in 2021” —Betches followers) One of “The Must-Read Mysteries and Thrillers of 2021” —Frolic * Author Instagram: @ElleCosimano (2.3k followers) * Author Facebook: @ElleCosimano “A twisty delight.” —PEOPLE * Hardcover Tie-In: Finlay Donovan Knocks 'Em Dead, on sale 02/2022 “[Cosimano's] main character is so endearing it's easy to surrender...” —New York Times Book Review
“Funny and smart, twisty and surprising—Finlay Donovan is a character to root for. This suspenseful romp made me la...
ELLE COSIMANO is an award-winning author. Her YA debut, Nearly Gone, was an Edgar Award finalist and winner of the International Thriller Award. Her novel Holding Smoke was a finalist for the International Thriller Award and the Bram Stoker Award. Her essays have appeared in The Huffington Post and Time. Elle lives in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with her husband, two sons, and her dog. Finlay Donovan Is Killing It is her adult debut.
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Don't Look for Me A Novel
Wendy Walker
In Wendy Walker's thrilling novel Don't Look for Me, the greatest risk isn’t running away. It’s running out of time.
One night, Molly Clarke walked away from her life. The car abandoned miles from home. The note found at a nearby hotel. The shattered family that couldn’t be put back together. It happens all the time. Women disappear, desperate to leave their lives behind and start over. She doesn’t want to be found. Or at least, that’s the story. But is that what really happened to Molly Clarke?
The night Molly disappeared began with a storm, running out of gas, and a man FICTION / THRILLERS / in a truck offering her a ride to town. With him is a little girl who reminds her of SUSPENSE the daughter she lost years ago. It feels like a sign. And Molly is overcome with St. Martin's Griffin | 1/4/2022 the desire to be home, with her family—no matter how broken it is. She accepts 9781250198716 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. the ride. But when the doors are locked shut, Molly begins to suspect she has Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W made a terrible mistake.
Subrights: UK Rights: Wendy Sherman Associates When a new lead comes in after the search has ended, Molly’s daughter, Nicole, Translation Rights: Wendy Sherman Associates begins to wonder. Nothing about her mother’s disappearance makes sense.
Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250198723 Nicole returns to the small, desolate town where her mother was last seen to find Hardcover ISBN: 9781250198709 the truth. The locals are kind and eager to help. The innkeeper. The bartender. Audio ISBN: 9781250752338 Even the police. Until secrets begin to reveal themselves and she comes closer to the truth about that night—and the danger surrounding her.
MARKETING PRAISE * Online Publicity Online Advertising Campaign “[A] twisty, hair-raising tale.” —Newsweek Book Club Outreach Discussion Guide Posted Online Email Marketing Campaign "[A] fast-paced, twisty psychological drama.” —GMA.com Social Media Outreach Author Website: "This moving look at the bond between a mother and her children reinforces https://www.wendywalkerbooks.com/ Active on Instagram: @wendywalkerauthor Walker’s place at the top of the genre." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) (12.3K followers) Active on Facebook: "Don’t Look For Me is a claustrophobic, anxiety-inducing psychological thriller that @WendyWalkerAuthor (4.5K followers) Active on Twitter: @Wendy_Walker (2.3K will keep you up past your bedtime." —Buzzfeed followers) "This awe-inspiring psychological thriller is not to be missed.” —OK! Magazine
"Addictive." —A.J. Finn, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
WENDY WALKER has worked as an attorney specializing in family law. She lives in Connecticut, where she is at work on her next novel.
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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 a tainted moonshine, Lily knows that someone has gone too far, and—with the help of organizer and moonshiner Marvena Whitcomb—is determined to find out who. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / HISTORICAL But then, Lily’s nemesis, the businessman George Vogel, reappears in town with Minotaur Books | 1/4/2022 his new wife, Fiona. Along with them is also her former brother-inlaw Luther 9781250830456 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 Ross, now an agent for the newly formed Bureau of Prohibition. To Lily, it seems 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W too much of a coincidence that they should all arrive now.
Subrights: UK Rights: The Book Group Translation Rights: The Book Group As fall turns to winter, a blizzard closes in. Lily starts to peel back the layers of deception shrouding the town of Kinship and soon suspects that many around her Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250623409 have betrayed those they hold dear—and that Fiona, too, may have a dark agenda Ebook ISBN: 9781250623416 of her own. With compassion and insight, Jess Montgomery weaves a gripping Audio ISBN: 9781250789891 mystery and portrait of community in the third novel in the powerful Kinship Series.
MARKETING PRAISE * Online Publicity * Social Media Campaign Praise for the Kinship Series: * Email Marketing Campaign * CriminalElement.com Promotion * Author Twitter: @JessM_Author "A beautifully written, finely crafted, character-based mystery that uses historical * Author Facebook: detail to enhance a powerful story." —Kirkus Reviews (Starred) on The Stills /JessMontgomeryAuthor * Author Instagram: @JessMontgomeryAuthor "Like Sharyn McCrumb’s and Julia Keller’s thrillers, this third Lily Ross tale (following The Hollows, 2020) is a fine example of Appalachian storytelling, thoughtfully portraying characters at the intersections of kinship, poverty, power, and survival." —Booklist on The Stills
"Provocative...richly fleshed-out characters..." —Publishers Weekly on The Stills
"A beautifully written tour de force...Part mystery, part character study, The Stills is a treasure ...
JESS MONTGOMERY is the Literary Life columnist for the Dayton Daily News and former Executive Director of the renowned Antioch Writers’ Workshop in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Based on early chapters of the novel, Jess was awarded an Ohio Arts Council individual artist’s grant for literary arts and the John E. Nance Writer-in-Residence at Thurber House in Columbus. She lives in her native state of Ohio.
13 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2022
Bad Luck Bridesmaid A Novel
Alison Rose Greenberg
A delightfully fresh and irreverent women's fiction, celebrating self-love and all the paths life can take, from debut author Alison Rose Greenberg.
This is not a rom com. You’ve been warned.
It’s official: Zoey Marks is the cursed bridesmaid that no engagement can survive. Ten years, three empire waist dresses, and ZERO brides have walked down the aisle.
FICTION / WOMEN After strike three, Zoey is left wondering if her own ambivalence towards St. Martin's Griffin | 1/11/2022 marriage has rubbed off on those she loves. And when her building distrust of 9781250791597 | $16.99 / $22.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 matrimony culminates in turning down a proposal from her perfect All-American 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W boyfriend, Rylan Harper III, she and Rylan are both left heartbroken, leaving Zoey to wonder: what is it exactly about tying the knot that makes her want to Subrights: UK: CAAA Translation: CAAA run in the opposite direction?
Other Available Formats: Enter Hannah Green: Zoey’s best friend, who announces that she’s marrying a Ebook ISBN: 9781250791603 Audio ISBN: 9781250840592 guy she just met. At a castle. In gorgeous, romantic Ireland, where Rylan will be in attendance, and Zoey will be a bridesmaid. It’ll be fine.
Okay, the woman definition of fine (NOT FINE). MARKETING * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity Determined to turn her luck around, Zoey accepts her role and vows to get Pre-order Advertising Hannah down the aisle—all the while praying her best friend’s wedded bliss will Launch Advertising Trade Advertising allow her to embrace marriage and get Rylan back. Targeted Bookseller Outreach Early Reader Review Campaign But as the weekend goes on, Zoey is plagued with more questions than answers. NetGalley Promotion Can you be a free spirit, yet still want a certain future? Can you have love and be Blog Outreach Influencer Outreach loved on your terms? And how DO you wrangle a bossy falcon into doing your Email Marketing Campaign bidding? SMP Romance Social Media Promotion Library Marketing Author Instagram: @alison.greenberg, PRAISE 3.8K Author Twitter: @alisongreenberg, 1.1K "What do you get when you combine a lovable but complicated woman, her well-intended but somewhat flawed mission to marry off her best friend, and a stubborn falcon? A compulsively readable, witty, and humorous novel about the pursuit of a happily ever after...with oneself. Prepare for a night-in of reading!" —Tif Marcelo, USA Today bestselling author of The Key to Happily Ever After
ALISON ROSE GREENBERG is a screenwriter who lives in Atlanta, but is quick to say she was born in New York City. While attending The University of Southern California, Alison took her first screenwriting class and fell head over heels. A journey from screenwriting led to marketing jobs, before coming full-circle back to her first love. Alison speaks fluent rom-com, lives for 90’s WB dramas, cries to Taylor Swift, and is a proud single mom to her two incredible kids and one poorly-trained dog. Ba...
14 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2022
The Immortality Key The Secret History of the Religion with No Name
Brian C. Muraresku, Foreword by Graham Hancock
A groundbreaking dive into the role psychedelics have played in the origins of Western civilization, and the real-life quest for the Holy Grail that could shake the Church to its foundations.
A New York Times bestseller featured on The Joe Rogan Experience.
The Immortality Key connects the lost psychedelic sacrament of Greek religion to early Christianity—reckoning with the true origins of Western Civilization.
Before Jerusalem, before Rome, before Mecca—there was Eleusis: the spiritual HISTORY / ANCIENT capital of the ancient world. It promised immortality to Athens's greatest minds St. Martin's Griffin | 1/11/2022 9781250803986 | $20.99 / $28.50 Can. with a simple formula: drink this potion, see God. Shrouded in secrecy for Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Carton Qty: 20 millennia, the Ancient Greek sacrament was buried when the Christianized 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Roman Empire obliterated Eleusis in the fourth century. Includes 74 black-and-white photographs throughout plus two 8-page color photograph inserts Renegade scholars in the 1970s claimed the Greek potion was psychedelic, as was the original Christian Eucharist that replaced it. In recent years, vindication Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: Janklow & Nesbit Associates for the disgraced theory has been mounting. Archaeological chemistry has proven the ancient use of visionary drugs. And with a single dose of psilocybin, Other Available Formats: the psycho-pharmacologists at Johns Hopkins and NYU are turning Hardcover ISBN: 9781250207142 Ebook ISBN: 9781250270917 self-proclaimed atheists into believers. Audio ISBN: 9781250752987 Was the original Eucharist of Christianity, in fact, a psychedelic Eucharist? Muraresku takes the reader on his twelve-year global hunt for proof. He gains MARKETING access to the hidden collections of the Louvre Museum, unravels the Ancient * National Broadcast Greek of the New Testament, and breaches the secret archives of the Vatican. * Online Publicity And with leads from an elite group of archaeological chemists, he unveils the * Online Advertising * Goodreads Promotion first scientific data for the ritual use of psychedelic drugs i... * NetGalley Promotion * Influencer/Organizational Campaign PRAISE * Email Marketing Campaign * Author Twitter: @BrianMuraresku “Like The Da Vinci Code. Tremendous. Stunning.” —Michael Smerconish, CNN
"Absolutely one of the most fascinating podcasts I've ever done...f*cking sensational." —Joe Rogan, host of The Joe Rogan Experience
BRIAN C. MURARESKU graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University with a degree in Latin, Greek and Sanskrit. As a member of the New York Bar, he has been practicing law internationally for fifteen years. In arbitration with the NFL, he represented the first professional athlete in the United States to request a therapeutic use exemption for cannabis. Muraresku lives outside Washington D.C. with his wife and two daughters. The Immortality Key is his first book.
15 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2022
Robert E. Lee and Me A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause
Ty Seidule
Soldier and head of the West Point history department Ty Seidule challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy—and explores why some of this country’s oldest wounds have never healed.
Ty Seidule grew up revering Robert E. Lee. From his southern childhood to his service in the U.S. Army, every part of his life reinforced the Lost Cause myth: that Lee was the greatest man who ever lived, and that the Confederates were underdogs who lost the Civil War with honor. Now, as a retired brigadier general and Professor Emeritus of History at West Point, his view has radically changed. HISTORY / UNITED STATES / From a soldier, a scholar, and a southerner, American history demands a CIVIL WAR PERIOD (1850-1877) St. Martin's Griffin | 1/11/2022 reckoning. 9781250239280 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 28 In a unique blend of history and reflection, Seidule deconstructs the truth about 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W the Confederacy—that its undisputed primary goal was the subjugation and Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press enslavement of Black Americans—and directly challenges the idea of honoring Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press those who labored to preserve that system and committed treason in their failed Other Available Formats: attempt to achieve it. Through the arc of Seidule’s own life, as well as the culture Hardcover ISBN: 9781250239266 that formed him, he seeks a path to understanding why the facts of the Civil War Ebook ISBN: 9781250239273 have remained buried beneath layers of myth and even outright lies—and how Audio ISBN: 9781250790026 they embody a cultural gulf that separates millions of Americans to this day.
Part history lecture, part meditation on the Civil War and its fallout, and part MARKETING memoir, Robert E. Lee and Me challenges the deeply-held legends and myths of * Online Publicity * Online Advertising the Confederacy—and provides a surprising interpretation of essential truths that * Email Marketing Campaign our country still has a difficult time articulating and accepting. * Goodreads Promotion * Academic Marketing Campaign * Social Media Campaign PRAISE * Author Twitter: @Ty_Seidule “An extraordinary book.” —Los Angeles Review of Books
“A beautiful, often searing meditation on race, history, and the American narrative.” —Rick Atkinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The British are Coming
"Seidule scorches us with the truth." —Ron Chernow, bestselling author of Hamilton
“A must read.” —Mitch Landrieu, bestselling author of In The Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
TY SEIDULE is Professor Emeritus of History at West Point where he taught for two decades. He served in the U.S. Army for thirty-six years, retiring as a brigadier general. He is the Chamberlain Fellow at Hamilton College as well as a New America Fellow. He has published numerous books, articles, and videos on military history including the award-winning West Point History of the Civil War. He graduated from Washington and Lee University and holds a PhD from the Ohio State 16 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2022
In My Bedroom
Donna Hill
A reissue of In My Bedroom, about three unforgettable women and their explosive relationships, at an atrtactive $9.99!
Rayne Holland seems to have it all: a handsome, successful husband, a beautiful five-year-old daughter, and a rapidly rising film career. What everyone doesn't know is that behind closed doors, the picture isn't so perfect. Rayne's marriage is falling apart, her best friend Gayle has betrayed her, and she is harboring a dark secret. When tragedy strikes, the truth comes to light and Rayne discovers that the story of her life is just beginning... Told with Donna Hill's grace, wit and uncomprominsing honesty, this novel explores the strength, passion, hope and healing of three extraordinary women.
FICTION / WOMEN PRAISE St. Martin's Griffin | 1/11/2022 9781250834638 | $9.99 / $9.99 Can. "Hill handles...emotional drama well." —Publishers Weekly Trade Paperback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: 32 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W DONNA HILL has eighteen published novels to her credit and has been featured in Essence, the Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Publishing Group Daily News, USA Today, Today's Black Woman and Black Enterprise, among many others. She Translation: St. Martin's Publishing Group works full-time as a public relations associate for the Queens Borough Public Library system, and her promotions and management company, Image Nouveau. Donna lives with her family in Other Available Formats: Brooklyn, New York. Ebook ISBN: 9781466842397
MARKETING * Online Publicity Social Media Post Email Marketing Author Website: https://donnaohill.com/ Active on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/donnahillfans (2.2K followers)
17 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2022
Wicked Ways
Donna Hill
Wicked Ways is back at an attractive price of $9.99!
Tess McDonald has a score to settle. It was she who set into motion a series of events that caused the murders of two adversaries. Tess even turned complete strangers, Kim and Nikki, into partners of a deadly crime. With life good now that their nemeses are out of the way, they celebrate. But not for long. On the night that the three women reunite, Tess receives a phone call that has the potential to ruin everything that she has put in place. Vincent, the one man that Tess would have changed her life for, has found her and her cohorts and he knows everything. She agrees to meet him with the intention of silencing him for good. But Tess is shocked when Vincent asks her to leave with him and put her criminal past behind her. However, Kim and Nikki aren't about to let her go so easily. FICTION / ROMANCE / SUSPENSE St. Martin's Griffin | 1/11/2022 9781250834621 | $9.99 / $9.99 Can. PRAISE Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 32 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Praise for Wicked Ways: Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Publishing Group "...satisfying sequel to 2006's Getting Hers. Hill's smooth plotting and keen pacing Translation: St. Martin's Publishing Group keeps the pages turning as the consequences of opening 'Pandora's box of revenge' Other Available Formats: are revealed." —Publisher's Weekly Ebook ISBN: 9781429936118 "Suspense permeates this story and the characters are well rounded, giving the reader a chance to empathize with the character's struggle to keep their Wicked MARKETING Ways secret and start anew. Filled with suspense, mystery and romance, this is not a * Online Publicity story to be overlooked." —RomanceJunkies.com Social Media Post Email Marketing Author Website: https://donnaohill.com/ DONNA HILL has been featured in Essence, Daily News, USA Today, Today's Black Woman and Active on Facebook: Black Enterprise, among many others. She lives with her family in Brooklyn, New York, where she https://www.facebook.com/donnahillfans writes full time. (2.2K followers)
18 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2022
How to Love Your Neighbor A Novel
Sophie Sullivan
A frothy, effervescent romantic comedy from the author of Ten Rules for Faking It, Sophie Sullivan delivers another read that will have you delighted from start to finish.
Interior Design School? Check. Cute little house to fix up? Also check.
Sexy, grumpy neighbor who is going to get in the way of all your plans? Check. Unfortunately.
Grace Travis definitely has it all figured out. In between finishing interior design FICTION / ROMANCE / school and working a million odd jobs, she’ll get her degree. She’ll have her ROMANTIC COMEDY dream job. And most importantly, she’ll have a place to belong, something her St. Martin's Griffin | 1/18/2022 9781250624185 | $16.99 / $22.99 Can. cold, manipulative mother could never make for her. When an opportunity to fix Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 up—and live in—an adorable little house on the beach comes along, Grace is all 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W in. Until her biggest roadblock moves in next door. Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Publishing Group Translation: St. Martin's Publishing Group Noah Jansen knows how to make a deal. A real estate developer with a knack for
Other Available Formats: betting and winning big, he’s not one to let a good opportunity slip away. So Ebook ISBN: 9781250624192 when a beachside house with great bones is ripe for a remodel, Noah doesn’t Audio ISBN: 9781250840639 hesitate. Except in order to spruce it up properly (is it even a beach house if it doesn’t have a pool?), he’ll need to take over the house next door. The house with the willful and combative and way-too-intriguing woman living in it. MARKETING * National Print Publicity With the rules for being neighborly going out the window, Grace and Noah are in * Online Publicity an all-out feud. But sometimes, your nemesis can turn out to be the person who Launch Advertising Goodreads Campaign shows you that home is always where the heart is. NetGalley Promotion Early Reader Review Campaign PRAISE Bookseller Outreach Influencer Outreach "A wholesome, slow-burn romance that will warm your heart and offer a glimpse SMP Romance Social Media Promotion Email Marketing Campaign into social anxiety disorder. This is a Hallmark movie in book form." —Helen Author Website: Hoang, USA Today bestselling author of The Kiss Quotient and The Bride Test https://www.sophiesullivanauthor.com/ Author Twitter: @sophieswrites Active on Facebook: “I adored this book! Sophie Sullivan has written a fast-paced, sweet romance full of @SophieSullivanAuthor heart and truth. Once you start reading, you won’t be able to put it down.” —Lyssa Author Instagram: @authorsophiesullivan Kay Adams, author of The Bromance Book Club
"Sophie Sullivan’s writing feels like a warm hug.” —Rachel Lynn Solomon, bestselling author of The Ex Talk
SOPHIE SULLIVAN is a Canadian author as well as a cookie-eating, Diet Pepsi-drinking, Disney enthusiast who loves reading and writing romance in almost equal measure. She writes around her day job as a teacher and spends her spare time with her sweet family watching reruns of Friends. Ten Rules For Faking It is her romcom debut novel, but she's had plenty of practice writing happily ever after as her alter ego, Jody Holford.
19 MINOTAUR BOOKS JANUARY 2022
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 & But when Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli offers him the opportunity to DETECTIVE / HISTORICAL Minotaur Books | 1/18/2022 undertake a diplomatic mission for the Queen, Lenox welcomes the chance to 9781250767158 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. satisfy an unfulfilled yearning: to travel to America. Arriving in New York, he Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 24 begins to receive introductions into both its old Knickerbocker society and its 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W new robber baron splendor. Then, a shock: the death of the season's most Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press beautiful debutante, who appears to have thrown herself from a cliff. Or was it a Translation Rights: The Book Group suicide? Lenox’s reputation has preceded him to the States, and he is summoned Other Available Formats: to a magnificent Newport mansion to investigate the mysterious death. What Hardcover ISBN: 9781250767134 ensues is a fiendish game of cat and mouse. Ebook ISBN: 9781250767141 Audio ISBN: 9781250789129 Witty, complex, and tender, An Extravagant Death is Charles Finch's triumphant 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 MARKETING to America. * Online Publicity * Online Advertising * Goodreads Promotion PRAISE * Bookstagrammer Campaign * Email Marketing Campaign “The novelty of bringing Lenox to America works well...Finch does justice to the * CriminalElement.com Campaign nouveau dazzle of Newport.” —Airmail * Author Facebook: /CharlesFinchAuthor, 14K followers * Author Instagram: @CharlesFinchAuthor “Witty...Finch sketches the manners of this snooty resort town with a Jane Austen-like precision...graceful prose and keen observations.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune
“Lenox’s latest adventure has humanity, heart, and humor...a pleasure to read on every level.” —Booklist (starred review)
"Entertaining...Finch effectively juggles the various plot threads." —Publishers Weekly
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. Martin's Press. Finch received the 2017 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle. His essays and criticism have appeared in the New York Times, Slate, Washington Post, and elsewhere. He lives in Los Angeles.
20 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2022
Take It Back A Novel
Kia Abdullah
From author Kia Abdullah, Take It Back is a harrowing and twisting courtroom thriller that keeps you guessing until the last page is turned.
One victim. Four accused. Who is telling the truth?
Zara Kaleel, one of London's brightest legal minds, shattered the expectations placed on her by her family and forged a brilliant legal career. But her decisions FICTION / THRILLERS / LEGAL St. Martin's Griffin | 1/18/2022 came at a high cost, and now, battling her own demons, she has exchanged her 9781250827654 | $17.99 high profile career for a job at a sexual assault center, helping victims who need Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 28 her the most. Victims like Jodie Wolfe. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W
Subrights: UK Rights: HarperCollins UK When Jodie, a sixteen-year-old girl with facial deformities, accuses four boys in Translation Rights: Bookends Literary her class of an unthinkable crime, the community is torn apart. After all, these Other Available Formats: four teenage defendants are from hard-working immigrant families and they all Hardcover ISBN: 9781250273017 have proven alibis. Even Jodie's best friend doesn't believe her. Ebook ISBN: 9781250273024 Audio ISBN: 9781250776174 But Zara does—and she is determined to fight for Jodie—to find the truth in the face of public outcry. And as issues of sex, race and social justice collide, the most explosive criminal trial of the year builds to a shocking conclusion. MARKETING * Online Publicity Book Club Outreach PRAISE Discussion Guide Posted Online Email Marketing Campaign "Completely original...a shocking legal thriller that goes where few legal thrillers Social Media Posts have gone before...stunning." Author Website: https://kiaabdullah.com/ —New York Times Book Review Active on Twitter: @KiaAbdullah (6.5K followers) Active on Instagram: @kiaabdullah (882 "Sex, race and social justice collide in this twisting courtroom thriller." —USA followers) Today
"A fast-paced courtroom drama, Take It Back by Kia Abdullah asks tough questions about race, class, and gender while keeping you guessing until the (truly shocking) last page." —Real Simple
KIA ABDULLAH is an author and travel writer. She has contributed to The Guardian, BBC, Channel 4 News, and The New York Times. Kia currently travels the world as one half of the travel blog Atlas & Boots, which receives over 200,000 views per month
21 MINOTAUR BOOKS JANUARY 2022
Under Pressure A Lucas Page Novel
Robert Pobi
A series of deadly explosions rock the city of New York and with too many victims and no known motive, the F.B.I. turns to Dr. Lucas Page.
On a beautiful October evening, New York City's iconic Guggenheim Museum is closed for a tech company's private gala. Until an explosion rocks the night, instantly killing 702 people, including every single attendee—yet the damage to the building itself was minimal.
An explosion of that precision was no accident and, in response, the FBI FICTION / THRILLERS / CRIME mobilizes its entire team but the sheer number of victims strains their resources. Minotaur Books | 1/18/2022 Were all 702 victims in the wrong place at the wrong time, or was there only one 9781250842718 | $18.99 / $25.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 464 pages target and 701 unlucky bystanders? That many victim files is a staggering 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W amount of data to sort through and Brett Kehoe, Special Agent in Charge of Manhattan, decides that he can't do this without more computational power. Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: Sandra Dykstra Literary Agency Dr. Lucas Page, astrophysicist, university professor, and former FBI agent, is Other Available Formats: uniquely suited for this daunting task. Even moreso when the most obvious Ebook ISBN: 9781250293978 Hardcover ISBN: 9781250293961 theory—terrorism—doesn't pan out. Audio ISBN: 9781250751614 When a second powerful bomb in New York City levels an internet hub, the FBI sees a connection between the two bombings—and starts looking for someone MARKETING with a grudge against tech companies or technology itself. Lucas, however, * Online Publicity thinks the bomber is deliberately misleading the FBI, hiding a more sinister and * Online Advertising heartless motive. And he might be the only one who can find and stop him before * Special Backlist Offers Available * Email Marketing Campaign the city is attacked again. * CriminalElement.com Promotion PRAISE "Stellar...combines a razor sharp sense of humor with surgical use of political and social commentary throughout. This is a must for fans of sophisticated crime fiction." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Moves at a breakneck pace that barely allows you to catch your breath…Lucas Page is quickly becoming one of my favorite characters in modern thriller fiction. “ —Bookreporter.com
ROBERT POBI is the author of four previous novels, including City of Windows. He lives in Canada.
22 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2022
Never Tell
Selena Montgomery
From popular political leader and lawyer Stacey Abrams comes a reissue of her romantic suspense novel, Never Tell, written under the name Selena Montgomery!
Criminal psychologist Dr. Erin Abbott wants nothing more than to live a quiet life. That means no danger, no intrigue-and absolutely no romance. But when Erin suspects a serial killer is roaming New Orleans, her investigation throws her straight into the arms of the only man who can help her.
Journalist Gabriel Moss is hot to find his next huge story-and he knows Erin is on to something big. From the moment they meet, Gabriel senses that Erin is hiding something. One thing is certain: Erin's boxy suits and sensible shoes hide a FICTION / ROMANCE / delicate beauty waiting to emerge...and Gabriel is just the man to reveal the SUSPENSE woman inside. St. Martin's Griffin | 1/25/2022 9781250805829 | $16.99 / $22.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 24 As they join forces to find the killer, Gabriel slowly seduces Erin with his soft 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W kisses. But Erin knows their love can never be. For she is hiding a terrible Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Publishing Group secret-and if Gabriel reveals the truth, Erin's life will be shattered forever... Translation: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Other Available Formats: PRAISE Hardcover ISBN: 9781250847645 "Montgomery has a winning pair in morally flexible Sebastian and principled Kat, Ebook ISBN: 9781250847881 Audio ISBN: 9781250841575 and the tropical gauntlet she runs them through is twisty and satisfying." —Publishers Weekly on Secrets and Lies
MARKETING SELENA MONTGOMERY grew up in southern Mississippi with two incredible parents and five * Online Publicity fascinating siblings. She is a graduate of Spelman College, the LBJ School of Public Affairs, and Launch Advertising Yale Law School. She draws upon her interest in and experiences with social and economic policy, Edelweiss Promotion politics, and creative writing to fuel her novels. Selena is now a proud resident of Atlanta, where Reader “Rediscovery” Campaign she is a lawyer by day and a writer during every waking hour. Bookstagrammer/Blog Outreach Social Media Campaign Email Marketing Campaign
23 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2022
Feeding the Frasers Family Favorite Recipes Made to Feed the Five-Time CrossFit Games Champion, Mat Fraser
Sammy Moniz
A cookbook for CrossFit fanatics by the celebrated wife of 5-time CrossFit champion and legend Mat Fraser, featuring the home recipes that helped build him into the ultimate athlete.
Based on Sammy Moniz's popular Instagram page, Feeding the Frasers is a book that any CrossFit aficionado —or just someone curious about how to cook with whole foods without sacrificing the world—will want to get their hands on. It is filled with 100 terrific recipes of high quality delicious food that promote balance, togetherness, indulgence, and athletic recovery.
COOKING St. Martin's Griffin | 1/25/2022 Sammy Moniz is well known in the Crossfit community as an activist, and she is 9781250776020 | $24.99 / $33.99 Can. also the wife of five time champion Mat Fraser, the winningest athlete in CrossFit Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 32 history and one of the most beloved. 9.3 in H | 7.5 in W Includes color photographs throughout This is her cookbook where she shares the secrets behind feeding the greatest Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press champion of the sport. Translation: St. Martin's Press
Other Available Formats: PRAISE Ebook ISBN: 9781250776037 "When you’re looking for that perfect family gathering recipe, Sammy is the person to turn to." —Tia-Clair Toomey-Orr, 4-Time Fittest Woman on Earth, Olympian, MARKETING Commonwealth Games gold medalist. * National Broadcast Publicity * National Print Publicity "This book, a labor of love from an impossibly generous soul, is the next best thing * Online Publicity * Pre-Pub Online Advertising to sitting around Sammy’s table.” —Katrin Tanja Davidsdottir, 2-Time CrossFit * Online Advertising Games Champion and author of Dottir * Trade Advertising * Independent Bookseller Outreach * Early Reader Review Campaign "Sammy changed my palate. I thought I was a good cook, until I had the luxury of * NetGalley Promotion tasting her food for 3 straight weeks, I realized I suck.” —Kip Moore, American * Preorder Incentive Campaign * Convention Promotion country music singer and songwriter * Organizational Outreach * Influencer Outreach SAMMY MONIZ is a self-taught home cook, author, and the wife of 5-time CrossFit champion * Email Marketing Campaign Mat Fraser. She began cooking as a way to feed her desire to learn and be creative, and she loves * Blog Outreach how food brings people together. Feeding the Frasers is her first cookbook. * Social Media Campaign * Author Website: feedingthefrasers.com * Author Instagram: @feedingthefrasers (387K followers) * Author Instagram: ...
24 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2022
Flowers of Darkness A Novel
Tatiana de Rosnay
New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay explores how artificial intelligence tampers with love, sex, and the basis of artistic creation in a new future Paris
CASA is a brand new artist residency in an ultra-modern apartment, with a view of all of Paris. A dream for any novelist in search of tranquility. But is this residency a dream or a nightmare? Since moving in, Clarissa Katsef has had ominous discomfort, the feeling of being watched. Who is behind CASA? Is Clarissa right to be wary or does she too easily give in to paranoia, falling victim to an overly fertile imagination? Meanwhile, Clarissa is still haunted by the FICTION / FAMILY LIFE / betrayal that led her to divorce. MARRIAGE & DIVORCE St. Martin's Griffin | 1/25/2022 Staying true to her favorite themes—the imprint of the place, the weight of 9781250828705 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 32 secrets—New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay weaves an 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W intrigue of page-turning suspense to explore the threats hanging over a precious
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25 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN JANUARY 2022
Never Tell
Selena Montgomery
FICTION / ROMANCE / SUSPENSE St. Martin's Griffin | 1/25/2022 9781250847645 | $30.99 / $41.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W
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26 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2022
Too Good to Be True A Novel
Carola Lovering
An obsessive, addictive love story for fans of Lisa Jewell and The Wife Upstairs, from Carola Lovering, the beloved author of Tell Me Lies.
ONE LOVE STORY. TWO MARRIAGES. THREE VERSIONS OF THE TRUTH.
Skye Starling is overjoyed when her boyfriend, Burke Michaels, proposes after a whirlwind courtship. Though Skye seems to have the world at her fingertips —she’s smart, beautiful, and from a well-off family—she’s also battled crippling FICTION / THRILLERS / OCD ever since her mother’s death when she was eleven, and her romantic DOMESTIC relationships have suffered as a result. St. Martin's Griffin | 2/1/2022 9781250759900 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 But now Burke—handsome, older, and more emotionally mature than any man 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W she’s met before—says he wants her. Forever. Except, Burke isn’t who he claims Other Available Formats: to be. And interspersed letters to his therapist reveal the truth: he’s happily Hardcover ISBN: 9781250271372 married, and using Skye for his own, deceptive ends. Ebook ISBN: 9781250271389 Audio ISBN: 9781250789839 In a third perspective, set thirty years earlier, a scrappy seventeen-year-old named Heather is determined to end things with Burke, a local bad boy, and make a better life for herself in New York City. But can her adolescent love stay firmly in MARKETING her past—or will he find his way into her future? * Online Publicity Online Advertising Campaign Book Club Promotion On a collision course she doesn’t see coming, Skye throws herself into wedding Discussion Guide Posted Online planning, as Burke’s scheme grows ever more twisted. But of course, even the Influencer Outreach best laid plans can go astray. And just when you think you know where this story Email Marketing Campaign Social Media Post is going, you’ll discover that there’s more than one way to spin the truth. Author Website: http://www.carolalovering.com/ PRAISE Author Twitter: @carolatlovering Author Instagram: @carolatlovering, 3.6K "Lovering, a master of manipulation, does a skillful job of gradually unspooling her Author Facebook: @carolatlovering, 1.5K intricate tapestry of psychological intrigue while deftly juggling her multiple narratives." —Kirkus, starred review
"A head-spinningly devious plot [with] a plethora of twists." —Publishers Weekly
“A firecracker of a novel.” —Booklist, starred review
“Twists, lies, cons, oh my. You’ll be guessing the ending until the last twisty page.” —TheSkimm
CAROLA LOVERING is the author of Tell Me Lies, and her work has appeared in W Magazine, National Geographic, Outside, and Yoga Journal, among other publications. In addition to writing, Carola teaches yoga. She graduated from Colorado College and currently lives in Connecticut with her family.
27 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2022
Good Girl Complex
Elle Kennedy
She does everything right. So what could go wrong?
Mackenzie “Mac” Cabot is a people pleaser. Her demanding parents. Her prep school friends. Her long-time boyfriend. It’s exhausting, really, always following the rules. Unlike most twenty-year-olds, all she really wants to do is focus on growing her internet business, but first she must get a college degree at her parents’ insistence. That means moving to the beachside town of Avalon Bay, a community made up of locals and the wealthy students of Garnet College.
Mac’s had plenty of practice suppressing her wilder impulses, but when she meets local bad boy Cooper Hartley, that ability is suddenly tested. Cooper is rough around the edges. Raw. Candid. A threat to her ordered existence. Their friendship soon becomes the realest thing in her life. FICTION / ROMANCE / CONTEMPORARY St. Martin's Griffin | 2/1/2022 Despite his disdain for the trust-fund kids he sees coming and going from his 9781250796738 | $16.99 / $22.99 Can. town, Cooper soon realizes Mac isn’t just another rich clone and falls for her. Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 Hard. But as Mac finally starts feeling accepted by Cooper and his friends, the 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W secret he’s been keeping from her threatens the only place she’s ever felt at home. Subrights: UK Rights: Brower Literary & Management Translation Rights: Brower Literary & PRAISE Management “Elle Kennedy’s ability to build a college town universe that is delicious, Other Available Formats: complicated and drama-filled, is unparalleled. Cooper and Mack were fire and ice. Ebook ISBN: 9781250796745 The push and pull, banter and high stakes made it impossible to put the book down. Audio ISBN: 9781250839558 I read it in one sitting, and you will, too.” —LJ Shen, USA Today and WSJ bestselling author
MARKETING * National Print Publicity “A deliciously sexy story with a wallop of emotions that sneaks up on you.” —Vi * Online Publicity Keeland, #1 New York Times bestselling author Launch Advertising Pre-order Campaign Goodreads Campaign "Elle Kennedy delivers another sexy and addictive read, and my latest personal NetGalley Promotion favorite from her! Love Cooper. Love Mackenzie. Love the twins!” —Tijan, New Early Reader Review Campaign York Times bestselling author Influencer Outreach SMP Romance Social Media Promotion Email Marketing Campaign A New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, ELLE KENNEDY grew Author Website: up in the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario, and is the author of more than 40 titles of romantic suspense https://www.ellekennedy.com/ and contemporary romance novels, including the international bestselling Off-Campus and Briar U Author Twitter: @ellekennedy, 15.6k followers series. Active on Facebook: @AuthorElleKennedy, 98k followers Author Instagram: @ellekennedy33, 58.1k followers
28 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2022
Crossing the Line A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever
Kareem Rosser
An inspiring memoir of defying the odds from Kareem Rosser, captain of the first all-black squad to win the National Interscholastic Polo championship—now in trade paperback!
Born and raised in West Philadelphia, Kareem thought he and his siblings would always be stuck in “The Bottom," a community and neighborhood devastated by poverty and violence. Riding their bicycles through Philly’s Fairmount Park, Kareem’s brothers discover a barn full of horses. Noticing the brothers’ fascination with her misfit animals, Lezlie Hiner, founder of The Work to Ride BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY stables, offers them their escape: an after school job in exchange for riding / SPORTS St. Martin's Griffin | 2/1/2022 lessons. 9781250837165 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 28 What starts as an accidental discovery turns into a love for horseback riding that 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W leads the Rossers to discovering their passion for polo. Pursuing the sport with Plus one 8-page color photograph insert determination and discipline, Kareem earns his place among the typically Subrights: UK: Janklow & Nesbit exclusive players in college, becoming part of the first all-Black national Translation: Janklow & Nesbit interscholastic polo championship team—all while struggling to keep his family Other Available Formats: together. Hardcover ISBN: 9781250270863 Ebook ISBN: 9781250270870 Audio ISBN: 9781250789983 Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever is the story of bonds of brotherhood, family loyalty, the transformative connection between man and horse, and forging a better future that comes from overcoming impossible odds. MARKETING * Online Publicity * Goodreads Promotion PRAISE * Social Media Campaign * Email Marketing Campaign "A marvelous addition to the literature of inspirational sports stories. It's an * Academic Marketing Campaign occasionally heartbreaking but ultimately uplifting coming-of-age story about the * Author Facebook: @Kareem.Rosser (4.3k followers) bonds of brotherhood and the unique healing powers capable of being generated * Author Instagram: @kareemrosser (5.7k between humans and horses." —Booklist (starred review) followers) "This remarkable and inspiring story shines." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"[A] poetically spun tale of championship...Rosser's aspirational tale, though full of sorrow and hardship, is one that readers will cheer." —Kirkus
KAREEM ROSSER is from Philadelphia, PA. He received a BA in economics from Colorado State University (CSU). While at CSU, he led his collegiate polo team to a national polo championship. At the same time, he was honored as the Intercollegiate Polo Player of the Year. After graduation, Kareem began working as a financial analyst at an asset management firm. Also, he serves as the Executive Director of a non-profit fundraising arm called Friends of Work to Ride.
29 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2022
Secrets of Our House A Novel
Rea Frey
"Brings to mind Jodi Picoult...thought-provoking domestic drama." —Booklist
A thrilling domestic drama set against the power of the wilderness, Secrets of Our House is a deeply-felt novel of long-held secrets and the strength of family.
Desi is the mastermind behind her dream getaway house. Nestled high into the mountains of North Carolina, it is a sleek place, a luxurious place, a dark place.
FICTION / WOMEN A place full of secrets. St. Martin's Griffin | 2/8/2022 9781250241603 | $16.99 / $22.99 Can. Secrets about the man she longs for, a man who is not her husband. Secrets about Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W the roots of her family that must never, ever, see the light of day. When Desi and her family arrive from Chicago to spend the summer in the mountains, the seeds Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Publishing Group for the tumultuous months to follow are planted—her marriage on the rocks, not Translation: St. Martin's Publishing Group knowing which way they’ll go. Her seventeen year-old daughter Jules, falling in Other Available Formats: love for the first time with a local boy—and forging a new path that will take her Ebook ISBN: 9781250241610 to uncharted places. And Carter—a man Desi knew long ago, before she Audio ISBN: 9781250841179 expunged him from her life for good.
All hurtling toward events none of them can undo. MARKETING * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity Engaging, propulsive, and with a dramatic, heart-pounding final act, Secrets of Pre-Publication Advertising Campaign Our House is a dazzling novel, richly-drawn, that shows no matter how hard Launch Advertising Campaign outside forces may shake you, the bonds of family are stronger than the harshest Influencer Campaign Social Media Outreach winds. Bookseller Outreach Early Reader Review Campaign PRAISE NetGalley Outreach Book Club Outreach "Frey is a rising star in the suspense scene, and by telling the story through the eyes Discussion Guide Posted Online of a woman who can't see, she adds a unique element, in addition to pulling at Email Marketing Campaign Bookstagrammer Campaign heartstrings with which every new mother can identify." —Booklist on Until I Find Downprice E-Book Promotions You Author website: https://www.reafrey.com/ Active on Facebook: @reafrey (1.5K followers) Active on Instagram: @reafrey "This emotional roller coaster satisfies." —Publishers Weekly on Until I Find You (13,500 followers) Active on Instagram: @reafrey (1... “A beautifully, poignant, emotional story, Until I Find You examines what it means to trust yourself, even in a world where seeing is believing, and you can’t see to believe. With well-written characters and suffused with emotion, Until I Find You is a riveting story about the power of a mother’s love.” —Christina M...
REA FREY is an award-winning author of several nonfiction books and the novels Not Her Daughter, Because You’re Mine, and Until I Find You. She is also the founder and CEO of Writeway, which teaches writers about the business of publishing—not just the craft. She lives in Nashville with her husband and daughter. 30 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2022
Not the Witch You Wed
April Asher
A fake relationship between a magicless witch and a wolf shifter turns to more in the start of a bewitching new paranormal rom-com series.
Magicless witch Violet Maxwell wants nothing to do with alpha wolf shifter Lincoln Thorne—the man who broke her fragile, teenage heart. But when the two of them are forced by arcane Supernatural Laws to find mates, Violet and Lincoln agree to fake-date their way to a fake-mating in order to conjure themselves some time.
The joke’s on them. When old feelings make a reappearance—along with Violet’s magic—they both realize there’s nothing fake about their feelings. But FICTION / ROMANCE / there are old secrets and looming threats that could snatch away their happily ROMANTIC COMEDY ever after, again. One thing’s for sure: magic doesn’t make dating and love any St. Martin's Griffin | 2/8/2022 easier. 9781250807991 | $16.99 / $22.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W In Not the Witch You Wed, April Asher brings all the hilarity and sweet, sexy moments you love in a romantic-comedy—plus a fun dose of magic—to this Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: St. Martin's Press spell-binding new series about being sexy, single, and supernatural in New York City. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250808004 PRAISE "Wow! I was not expecting Not the Witch You Wed to be such a fun, sexy romp! MARKETING Sweet and sizzling at the time, this book brought true joy to my heart. Vi and * National Print Publicity Lincoln are adorable together, their attraction magical, and reading this made my * Online Publicity Launch Advertising day all the brighter. If you like laughing out loud, scorching chemistry, and falling in Targeted Bookseller Outreach love, pick up this book now!" –Darynda Jones, New York Times bestselling author Early Reader Review Campaign Pre-order Campaign NetGalley Promotion "Not the Witch You Wed is a wickedly delicious brew of juicy conflict, sizzling Blog Outreach chemistry, and witty one-liners that made me smile so hard. Plus, the hero's literally Influencer Outreach Email Marketing Campaign an Alpha (wolf shifter, that is), and I couldn't get enough of his sweet and... SMP Romance Social Media Promotion Library Marketing APRIL ASHER, aka APRIL HUNT, was hooked on romantic stories from the time she first snuck a Author Website: bodice-ripper romance out from her mom's bedside table. She now lives out her own happily- https://www.aprilhuntbooks.com/ ever-after with her college-sweetheart husband, their two children, and a cat who thinks she's more Author Twitter: @AprilHuntBooks Author Facebook: @AprilHuntBooks dog—and human—than feline. By day, April dons dark blue nursing scrubs and drinks way too Author Instagram: @aprilhuntbooks much caffeine. By night, she still consumes too much caffeine, but she does it with a laptop in hand, and from her favorite side...
31 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2022
The Damaged
Tijan
Second in a brand new, page-turning trilogy from New York Times and USA Today bestseller Tijan!
Bailey is starting her graduate program late and Kash is struggling to find his new found place with Phoenix Tech and his grandfather. Both Bailey and Kash were used to living in the shadows but now they must live in the public eye. At school, everyone stares at Bailey, trying to figure out if she’s really the whiz kid everyone says she is or if she bought her way into school. Meanwhile, at home, Quinn is in jail, Quinn’s sister, Sarah, is living with them and it appears Chrissy and Peter are sleeping together again.
But then, a new treasure trove of secrets is revealed and Bailey and Kash must FICTION / ROMANCE / decide if they will trust each other or take on the world alone. CONTEMPORARY St. Martin's Griffin | 2/8/2022 PRAISE 9781250210791 | $16.99 / $22.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 “Tijan knows how to create addictive, fun and exciting stories that you simply 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W cannot put down!” —Elle Kennedy, New York Times bestselling author Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Publishing Group Translation: Brower Literary & Management “I can always count on Tijan to write an action-packed, intense, emotional story that Other Available Formats: will have me invested until the very last page.” —Helena Hunting, New York Times Ebook ISBN: 9781250210807 bestselling author Audio ISBN: 9781250840684
"Tijan delivers on the fun, edge, and angst. Her books never fail to please!" —Kylie Scott, New York Times bestseller MARKETING * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity "Obsessed from page one! The Insiders is yet another addicting read from Tijan." Pre-order Advertising —Jennifer L. Armentrout, #1 New York Times bestselling author Launch Advertising Trade Advertising Targeted Bookseller Outreach TIJAN is a New York Times Bestselling author that writes suspenseful and unpredictable novels. Early Reader Review Campaign She’s written multi-bestsellers including the Carter Reed Series, the Fallen Crest Series, and the NetGalley Promotion Broken and Screwed Series among others. She is currently writing a new YA series along with so Blog Outreach many more from north Minnesota where she lives with a man she couldn’t be without and an Influencer Outreach Email Marketing Campaign English Cocker she adores. SMP Romance Social Media Promotion Library Marketing Author Website: http://www.tijansbooks.com/ Author Twitter: @TijansBooks, 14.8K Author Facebook: @Tijansbooks, 85K Author Instagram: @tijansbooks, 49.3K
32 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2022
Meet Me in Bombay
Jenny Ashcroft
All he needs is to find her. First, he must remember who she is.
It's New Year's Eve in Bombay, 1913, and Madeline Bright, new to the sweltering heat of colonial India, is yearning for all she has left behind in England. Then, at the stroke of midnight, Maddy meets Luke Devereaux, and as the year changes so do both their lives.
Bold and charismatic, Luke opens her eyes to the wonders of Bombay, while Maddy's beauty and vivacity captures his heart. Only her mother disapproves, preferring the devoted Guy Bowen as a match for her daughter.
FICTION / WOMEN But while Maddy and Luke are falling in love, the world is falling apart. World St. Martin's Griffin | 2/8/2022 9781250621078 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. War I is on the horizon, and Luke will be given no choice but to fight. They will Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 be continents apart, separated by danger and devastating loss, but bound by 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Luke's promise that they will meet again in Bombay. Subrights: UK Rights: Little Brown UK Translation Rights: Newton Compton (Italy), PRAISE Goldmann (Germany), Arkadia (Russia). “I loved everything about Meet Me in Bombay...a stunning story that echoes long Other Available Formats: after you turn the final page.” —Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling Hardcover ISBN: 9781250270269 Ebook ISBN: 9781250270276 author of The Golden Hour Audio ISBN: 9781250789730 “One of those rare and wonderful books that truly draws you into another place and time, word perfect, pitch perfect, detail perfect.” —Lauren Willig, New York Times MARKETING bestselling author * Online Publicity Book Club Promotion Email Marketing Campaign "From the first intriguing chapter I was hooked...Moving and beautifully written, SMP Romance Social Media Post this enchanting story of love and loss touched my heart." —Dinah Jefferies, author Author Twitter: @Jenny_Ashcroft, 1.1K Author Instagram: @jennyashcroftauthor of The Tea Planter's Wife
JENNY ASHCROFT is a British author of historical fiction, including Under the Golden Sun, Beneath a Burning Sky and Island in the East. She lives in East Sussex with her family and is hard at work on her next novel.
33 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2022
All Girls A Novel
Emily Layden
A kaleidoscopic debut novel from an unforgettable new voice in fiction, exploring the aftermath of a sexual assault allegation at an elite all-girls boarding school.
A keenly perceptive coming of age novel for fans of Sally Rooney, Curtis Sittenfeld, and J. Courtney Sullivan, All Girls follows nine young women as they navigate their ambitions and fears at a prestigious New England prep school, all pitched against the backdrop of a scandal the administration wants silenced.
But as the months unfold, and the school's efforts to control the ensuing crisis fall FICTION / WOMEN short, these extraordinary girls are forced to discover their voices and their St. Martin's Griffin | 2/15/2022 power. 9781250751126 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W A tender and unflinching portrait of modern adolescence told through the shifting perspectives of an unforgettable cast of female students, Emily Layden's All Girls Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250270894 explores what it means to grow up in a place that promises you the world—when Ebook ISBN: 9781250270900 the world still isn't yours for the taking. Audio ISBN: 9781250790040 You grow to love a place...and then you grow up.
MARKETING PRAISE * Online Publicity Book Club Outreach "An insightful prep school drama." —People Discussion Guide Posted Online Email Marketing Campaign Social Media Outreach “Vividly rendered...intriguing until the end.” —Washington Post Author Website: https://www.emilylayden.com/ "The pages turn fast and the girls are complex, compelling and written with Active on Instagram: @emilylayden (979 followers) incredible tenderness. Layden excels at rendering the everyday details of boarding school life." —New York Times Book Review
"Sharp, engrossing." —Town & Country
"If Gossip Girl meets Curtis Sittenfield sounds like your jam then All Girls is extremely your jam. Engrossing.” —E!Online
"A dark and exhilarating debut." —Bustle
"Funny and heartbreaking, fresh and achingly familiar." —Jennifer Weiner, #1 New York Times bestselling author
EMILY LAYDEN is a graduate of Stanford University, and has taught at several girls schools nationwide. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Marie Claire, The Billfold, and Runner's World. All Girls is her first novel.
34 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2022
Overstated A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States
Colin Quinn
Colin Quinn, the popular comedian, social commentator, and star of the shows Red State Blue State and Unconstitutional tackles the condition of our union.
Utah: The Church of States Vermont: The Old Hippie State Florida: The Hot Mess State Arizona: The Instagram Model State Wisconsin: The Diet Starts Tomorrow State
HUMOR / TOPIC / POLITICS The United States is in a fifty-states-wide couples’ counseling session, thinking St. Martin's Griffin | 2/15/2022 about filing for divorce. But is that really what we want? Can a nation composed 9781250803726 | $18.99 / $25.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 32 of states that are so different possibly hang together? 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Colin Quinn, comedian, social commentator, and writer and star of Red State Subrights: UK Rights: WME Translation Rights: WME Blue State and Unconstitutional, calls us out state-by-state, from Connecticut to Hawaii. He identifies the hypocrisies inherent in what we claim to believe and Other Available Formats: what we actually do. Within a framework of big-picture thinking about systems Hardcover ISBN: 9781250268440 Ebook ISBN: 9781250268457 of government—after all, how would you put this country together if you started Audio ISBN: 9781250770691 from scratch today?—to dead-on observations about the quirks and vibes of the Audio ISBN: 9781250770684 citizens in each region, Overstated skewers us all: red, blue, and purple. It’s ultimately infused with the same blend of optimism and practicality that sparked the U.S. into being. MARKETING * Online Publicity * Online Advertising PRAISE * Goodreads Promotion "The author lands his punches...spares neither right- nor left-leaning terrain." * Social Media Campaign * Email Marketing Campaign —Kirkus Reviews * Author Twitter: @iamcolinquinn (536.6k followers) "Quinn pulls off the remarkable feat of being both very informative and thoroughly * Author Instagram: @iamcolinquinn (51.9k followers) entertaining. This delightful read is highly recommended." —Booklist (starred * Author Facebook: @ColinQuinnOfficial review) (27k followers) * Author Website: ColinQuinn.com "Colin Quinn finds humor in the state we're in...mining history for material has become [his] specialty." —NPR
COLIN QUINN is a stand-up comedian, writer, and performer whose thirty-year career has included stints on Saturday Night Live, appearances on every cable comedy showcase and network talk show you can think of, including his own late-night show, and guest-starring roles in a wide swath of television shows and movies. His specials Unconstitutional (2013) and The New York Story (2015, directed by Jerry Seinfeld) are available on Netflix, as is his one-man show Red State, Blue State (2019).
35 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2022
Take the Lead A Dance Off Novel
Alexis Daria
From Alexis Daria, author of the critically acclaimed, national bestseller You Had Me at Hola, comes a fun, sexy romance set against a reality dance show.
Gina Morales wants to make it big. In her four seasons on The Dance Off, she’s never even made it to the finals. But her latest partner, the sexy star of an Alaskan wilderness show, could be her chance. Who knew the strong, silent, survivalist-type had moves like that? She thinks Stone Nielson is her ticket to win it all—until her producer makes it clear they’re being set up for a FICTION / ROMANCE / showmance. MULTICULTURAL & INTERRACIAL St. Martin's Griffin | 2/15/2022 Joining a celebrity dance competition is the last thing Stone wants, but he’ll 9781250817969 | $16.99 / $22.99 Can. endure anything to help his family, even as he fears revealing their secrets. While Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 the fast pace of Los Angeles makes him long for peace and privacy, he can’t deny 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W his growing attraction for his dance partner. Neither wants to fake a romance for Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press the cameras, but the explosive chemistry that flares between them is Translation: St. Martin's Press unmistakable. As Stone and Gina heat up the dance floor, it’s only a matter of Other Available Formats: time until he feels an overwhelming urge to take the lead. Ebook ISBN: 9781250175588 When the tabloids catch on to their developing romance, the spotlight threatens to ruin not just their relationship, but their careers and their shot at the trophy. MARKETING Gina and Stone will have to choose between fame and fortune, or the chance at a * National Print Publicity future together. * Online Publicity Launch Advertising Pre-Order Campaign PRAISE Bookseller Outreach Early Reader Review Campaign A 2018 RITA® winner for Best First Book! NetGalley Promotion Blog Outreach “A sparkling debut.” —Entertainment Weekly Influencer Outreach Email Marketing Campaign SMP Romance Social Media Promotion “Vibrantly written.” —The Washington Post Library Marketing Author Website: https://alexisdaria.com/ Author Twitter: @alexisdaria, 7.3K "[Alexis Daria]'s one to watch." —POPSUGAR Author Instagram: @alexisdaria, 4.4K ALEXIS DARIA writes stories about successful Latinx characters and their (occasionally messy) familias. Her debut Take the Lead won the 2018 RITA® Award for “Best First Book” and her latest release, You Had Me at Hola, is a national bestseller, Target Diverse Book Club Pick, and New York Times Editor’s Choice Pick. Alexis is a lifelong New Yorker who loves Broadway musicals and pizza.
36 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2022
Responding to the Right Quick Replies to 100 Conservative Arguments
Nathan J. Robinson
The editor of Current Affairs artfully and efficiently debunks a series of common right-wing arguments.
Are taxes theft? Is abortion murder? Does regulation destroy jobs? Is white privilege a lie? Conservative talking points are everywhere, and through well-funded media like Fox News, Breitbart, and YouTube’s "Prager University," the right has an impressive record of packaging its views for a general audience. Clearly, the left needs to do a better job of fighting back.
For the last five years, Current Affairs editor and Guardian columnist Nathan J. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Robinson has developed a reputation as a meticulous slayer of irrational and POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES / bigoted arguments. He has tangled with the likes of Ben Shapiro, Jordan CONSERVATISM & LIBERALISM Peterson, and Charles Murray, exposing their flimsy logic and distorted facts with St. Martin's Griffin | 2/15/2022 forensic throughness and savage wit. 9781250777744 | $17.99 / $24.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W In Responding to the Right, Robinson blasts right-wing nonsense with devastating intellectual weaponry, revealing how everyone from Ann Coulter to Subrights: UK Rights: Mark Gottlieb (Trident Media Group) National Review uses fear and lies to manipulate the public. He gives a detailed Translation Rights: Mark Gottlieb (Trident Media explanation of how conservative arguments work and why we need to resist Group) them, then goes through 100 separate talking points, showing precisely why each Other Available Formats: one fails. Ebook ISBN: 9781250777751 Audio ISBN: 9781250821416 This essential handbook is a stimulating source of issues to debate and a comprehensive challenge to dozens of dominant orthodoxies. It will set a new standard for leftist critique and become an invaluable toolkit for the millions of MARKETING progressives fighting the political battles of our age. * National Broadcast Publicity * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity PRAISE * Online Advertising * Early Reader Review Campaign “Robinson’s articles, and Current Affairs generally, are consistently challenging and * NetGalley Promotion thought-provoking...Unusually valuable contributions.” —Noam Chomsky * Email Marketing Campaign * Organizational Outreach * Social Media Campaign "Consistently excellent, writing at a very high standard, and offering serious and * Author Twitter: @NathanJRobinson (74K) compelling alternative perspectives. Very worth following and reading." —Glenn Greenwald, co-founder of The Intercept
"One of the clearest, most insightful writers working today...a scrupulous, carefully- argued work that will challenge liberals and confound conservatives." —Ryan Cooper, National Correspondent for The Week
NATHAN J. ROBINSON is a leading voice of millennial left politics. He is the editor of Current Affairs. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, The Nation, Salon, The Guardian, and elsewhere. A graduate of Yale Law School, he is a PhD student in Sociology and Social Policy at Harvard University, where his work focuses on contemporary left social movements. He is the author of Why You Should Be A Socialist.
37 MINOTAUR BOOKS FEBRUARY 2022
Animal Instinct A K Team Novel
David Rosenfelt
“Rosenfelt smoothly mixes humor with a sharp plot and appealing characters. This series deserves a long run.” —Publishers Weekly
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 Clark, 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 convinced the same abusive boyfriend is responsible for her murder. With some Minotaur Books | 2/15/2022 9781250829429 | $16.99 / $22.99 Can. help from Laurie’s lawyer husband, Andy Carpenter, the K Team is determined to Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 24 prove what the police could not, no matter the cost. What they uncover is much 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W more sinister than they could have imagined. Subrights: Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: Writers House, LLC Known for his dog-loving stories and addictive characters, bestselling mystery
Other Available Formats: author David Rosenfelt presents Animal Instinct, the second installment in this Hardcover ISBN: 9781250257208 engrossing new series about a dynamite investigative team and their canine Ebook ISBN: 9781250257215 partner. Audio ISBN: 9781250788238 Audio ISBN: 9781250788221 PRAISE Praise for Animal Instinct MARKETING * Online Publicity “A solid follow up to [The K Team].” —Red Carpet Crash * Online Advertising * CriminalElement.com Promotion * Email Marketing Campaign “[A]rtfully spun.” —BookPage * Social Media Campaign * Author Facebook: /DavidRosenfelt (10k) “A second outing for Paterson’s preeminent investigators ensnares one of their own members in uncomfortable ways...Though the case is a hot mess, the criminals’ sublimely simple central concept is worth all those subsidiary homicides.” —Kirkus Reviews
DAVID ROSENFELT is the Edgar-nominated and Shamus Award-winning author of more than twenty Andy Carpenter novels, most recently Silent Bite; nine stand-alone thrillers; two non-fiction titles; and two K Team novels, 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.
38 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2022
Divided We Fall America's Secession Threat and How to Restore Our Nation
David French
Now in paperback: David French warns of the potential dangers to the country—and the world—if we don’t summon the courage to reconcile our political differences.
Two decades into the 21st Century, the U.S. is less united than at any time in our history since the Civil War. We are more diverse in our beliefs and culture than ever before. But red and blue states, secular and religious groups, liberal and conservative idealists, and Republican and Democratic representatives all have one thing in common: each believes their distinct cultures and liberties are being threatened by an escalating violent opposition. This polarized tribalism, espoused POLITICAL SCIENCE / by the loudest, angriest fringe extremists on both the left and the right, dismisses POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES / dialogue as appeasement; if left unchecked, it could very well lead to secession. CONSERVATISM & LIBERALISM St. Martin's Griffin | 2/15/2022 9781250836731 | $18.99 / $25.99 Can. An engaging mix of cutting edge research and fair-minded analysis, Divided We Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 Fall is an unblinking look at the true dimensions and dangers of this widening 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W ideological gap, and what could happen if we don't take steps toward bridging it. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press French reveals chilling, plausible scenarios of how the United States could Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press fracture into regions that will not only weaken the country but destabilize the
Other Available Formats: world. Hardcover ISBN: 9781250201973 Ebook ISBN: 9781250201980 But our future is not written in stone. By implementing James Madison’s vision Audio ISBN: 9781250240255 of pluralism—that all people have the right to form communities representing their personal values—we can prevent oppressive factions from seizing absolute power and instead maintain everyone’s beliefs and identities across all fifty MARKETING states. * Online Publicity * Organizational Outreach * Email Marketing Campaign Reestablishing national unity will require the bravery to commit ourselves... * Author Facebook: /DavidAustinFrench, 38K followers PRAISE * Author Twitter: @DavidAFrench, 252K followers "In his admirably measured book, French convincingly argues that polarization is putting America on a perilous path to disunion." —James Kirchick, New York Times Book Review
"French makes a powerful case that the country could be heading toward dissolution—not so much a hot civil war as a bitter domestic cold war leading to an acrimonious divorce through secession." —Jonah Goldberg, The Dispatch
"The United States is more polarized than at any time since the Civil War. [Divided We Fall is] the highly discussed book that best recognizes that—and proposes what to do." —World Magazine
"French laments conspiracy-minded rhetoric from both the right a...
DAVID FRENCH is a senior editor of The Dispatch, a columnist at Time, a former senior writer at 39 MINOTAUR BOOKS FEBRUARY 2022
The Lost Village A Novel
Camilla Sten; translated by Alexandra Fleming
"Come for the mounting horror and scares, but stay for a devastating examination of the nature of family secrets." —New York Times book review
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.
FICTION / THRILLERS / Until now. SUSPENSE Minotaur Books | 2/22/2022 Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing 9781250803290 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 24 residents of the old mining town, dubbed “The Lost Village,” since she was a 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W little girl. Her grandmother’s entire family disappeared in this mysterious
Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Publishing Group tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the dead woman Translation: Nordin Agency AB and abandoned baby have plagued her. She’s gathered a small crew of filmmaking friends to spend a few days in the quiet village and make a film Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250249258 about what really happened. 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 * Online Publicity their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice: they * Online Advertising * Independent Bookstore Outreach are not alone. * Goodreads Promotion * Email Marketing Campaign Addictively gripping and brilliantly chilling, The Lost Village by Camilla Sten is * Hardcover Tie-in: The Resting Place, on a pulse-pounding, riveting thriller from beginning to end. sale 3/29
PRAISE "This gripping psychological thriller is sure to please fans of Shirley Jackson and cinema verité–styled horror." —Publishers Weekly
"Very hard to put down...delivers maximum dread with remarkable restraint, and as the situation goes from bad to worse to terrifying, readers will revel in the chills." —Booklist
"Deliciously creepy and profoundly addictive." —The Free Lance Star
"Legitimately scary." —Air Mail
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, 40 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2022
And in the End The Last Days of The Beatles
Ken McNab
An in-depth look at The Beatles' acrimonious final year.
Ken McNab's in-depth look at The Beatles' acrimonious final year is a detailed account of the breakup featuring the perspectives of all four band members and their roles. A must to add to the collection of Beatles fans, And In the End is full of fascinating information available for the first time.
McNab reconstructs for the first time the seismic events of 1969, when The Beatles reached new highs of creativity and new lows of the internal strife that would destroy them. Between the pressure of being filmed during rehearsals and BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY writing sessions for the documentary Get Back, their company Apple Corps / MUSIC facing bankruptcy, Lennon's heroin use, and musical disagreements, the group St. Martin's Griffin | 2/22/2022 was arguing more than ever before and their formerly close friendship began to 9781250803733 | $18.99 / $25.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 24 disintegrate. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W In the midst of this rancour, however, emerged the disharmony of Let It Be and Subrights: UK Rights: Birlinn Ltd Translation: Birlinn Ltd the ragged genius of Abbey Road, their incredible farewell love letter to the world. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250758750 Ebook ISBN: 9781250758767 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781250775191 "McNab’s straightforward detailing of the demise of the Beatles will appeal to die-hard Beatles’ fans who thrive on the nitty-gritty." —Publishers Weekly
MARKETING * Online Publicity "A great, wildly engrossing read." —Forbes * Promotion on TheHistoryReader.com * Email Marketing Campaign "McNab focuses engagingly, and insightfully, on the band’s final year...and neatly conveys the hazards of fame and the enduring value of youth, talent and a touch of madness." —Wall Street Journal
KEN MCNAB is a lifelong Beatles fan and well-respected journalist with Scotland's Evening Times. He lives in Glasgow with his wife and children.
41 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2022
Turn a Blind Eye A Detective William Warwick Novel
Jeffrey Archer
The third installment in the William Warwick series, Turn a Blind Eye is another gripping page-turner by the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Clifton Chronicles.
Newly promoted to Detective Inspector, William Warwick is tasked with a dangerous new line of work: to go undercover and expose corruption at the heart of the Metropolitan Police Force. Along with detectives Rebecca Pankhurst and Nicky Bailey, his team is focused on following Detective Jerry Summers, a young officer whose lifestyle exceeds his income. But the investigation risks being compromised when Nicky falls for Summers. FICTION / SAGAS St. Martin's Griffin | 2/22/2022 Meanwhile, notorious drug baron Assem Rashidi goes on trial, defended by 9781250829412 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 Booth Watson QC, while William’s father, Sir Julian, and sister, Grace, lead the 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W prosecution case. And William’s wife, Beth, now a new mother to twins, makes a surprising new friend in Christina Faulkner—the ex-wife of William’s former Subrights: UK rights: Macmillan UK Translation rights: Macmillan UK rival, criminal financier Miles—who has not only turned over a new leaf but also has a newfound source of income when Miles dies suddenly of a heart attack and Other Available Formats: she stands to be sole inheritor of his estate. Mass Market ISBN: 9781250801203 Hardcover ISBN: 9781250200808 Ebook ISBN: 9781250200815 As the undercover officers start to draw the threads together, William realizes Audio ISBN: 9781250805744 that the corruption may go deeper still, and more of his colleagues than he first thought might be willing to turn a blind eye.
MARKETING PRAISE * Online Publicity * Author Website: JeffreyArcher.co.uk Praise for Jeffrey Archer and the William Warwick Series * Book Website: JeffreyArcherBooks.com * Author Facebook: @JeffreyArcherAuthor (200k followers) “Jeffrey Archer really can spin a cracking yarn.” —Reader’s Digest * Author Twitter: @Jeffrey_Archer (33.6k followers) “Archer knows how to dole out tiny crumbs of suspense right up to the last page.” * Author Instagram: @jeffrey_archer_author (11.6k followers) —The Washington Post
“Cunning plots, silken style...Archer plays a cat-and-mouse game with the reader.” —The New York Times
JEFFREY ARCHER was educated at Oxford University. He served five years as a Member of Parliament in the House of Commons and has served twenty-nine years as a Member of the House of Lords. Now published in ninety-seven countries and more than thirty-seven languages, all of his novels and short story collections have been international bestsellers. Jeffrey is married with two sons and four grandchildren, and lives in London, Cambridge, and Majorca.
42 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN FEBRUARY 2022
A Million Reasons Why A Novel
Jessica Strawser
"A fascinating foray into the questions we are most afraid to ask." —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Caroline lives a full, happy life—thriving career, three feisty children, enviable marriage, and a close-knit extended family. She couldn’t have scripted it better. Except for one thing: She’s about to discover her fundamental beliefs about them all are wrong.
Sela lives a life in shades of gray, suffering from irreversible kidney failure. Her marriage crumbled in the wake of her illness. Her beloved mother and lifelong FICTION / WOMEN best friend passed away. She refuses to be defined by her grief, but still, she St. Martin's Griffin | 2/22/2022 worries about what will happen to her two-year-old son if she doesn’t find a 9781250620484 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. donor match in time. She’s the only one who knows Caroline is her half-sister. Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 24 That Caroline may be her best hope for a future. But Sela’s world isn’t as 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W clear-cut as it appears—and one misstep could destroy it all. Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: St. Martin's Press After all, would you risk everything to save the life of the person who turned Other Available Formats: yours upside down? Hardcover ISBN: 9781250241627 Ebook ISBN: 9781250241634 Audio ISBN: 9781250789815 PRAISE "A fascinating foray into the questions we are most afraid to ask." —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author MARKETING * Online Publicity Social Media Post "A novel that examines the most profound questions of our hearts. This is a story Book Club Outreach that will stay in your heart long after the last page is turned." —#1 New York Times Email Marketing bestselling author Susan Wiggs Discussion Guide Posted Online Author Website: www.jessicastrawser.com Active on Twitter: @jessicastrawser JESSICA STRAWSER is the editorial director of Writer’s Digest magazine and the author of Active on Facebook: Almost Missed You, named to Barnes & Noble’s Best New Fiction list for March 2017 and /jessicastrawserauthor PopSugar’s Best Spring Reads. She has written for The New York Times Modern Love, Publishers Weekly and other fine venues, and lives with her husband and two children in Cincinnati.
43 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2022
The Good Sister A Novel
Sally Hepworth
The author of The Mother-In-Law delivers a knock-out of a novel about the lies that bind two sisters.
From the outside, everyone might think Fern and Rose are as close as twin sisters can be: Rose is the responsible one, with a home and a husband and a fierce desire to become a mother. Fern is the quirky one, the free spirit, the librarian who avoids social interaction and whom the world might just describe as truly odd. But the sisters are devoted to one another and Rose has always been Fern's protector from the time they were small. Fern needed protecting because their mother was a true sociopath who hid her true nature from the world, and only FICTION / THRILLERS / Rose could see it. Fern always saw the good in everyone. Years ago, Fern did DOMESTIC something very, very bad. And Rose has never told a soul. When Fern decides to St. Martin's Griffin | 3/1/2022 help her sister achieve her heart's desire of having a baby, Rose realizes with 9781250120960 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. growing horror that Fern might make choices that can only have a terrible Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W outcome. What Rose doesn't realize is that Fern is growing more and more aware of the secrets Rose, herself, is keeping. And that their mother might have the last Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: Rob Weisbach Creative word after all. Spine tingling, creepy, utterly compelling and unpredictable, The Management Good Sister is about the ties that bind sisters together...and about the madness that lurks where you least expect it. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250120953 Ebook ISBN: 9781250120977 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781250788108 Audio ISBN: 9781250788092 "Hepworth's latest further solidifies her place among the top domestic suspense authors...Fern is drawn as smart, capable, and probably on the spectrum, and she is multilayered and relatable, illustrating Hepworth's talent for page-turners with MARKETING depth." —Booklist * Online Publicity Online Advertising Campaign Book Club Outreach "It's a warped tale of twisted memories and skewed perceptions that will make fans Discussion Guide Posted Online of psychological thrillers say, 'Wow, I didn't see that coming.'" —Library Journal Email Marketing Campaign Social Media Outreach Author Website: "Punchy prose helps propel the twisty plot to a creepy but satisfying conclusion. For https://www.sallyhepworthauthor.com/ fans of domestic dramas, this is a treat." —Publishers Weekly Active on Instagram: @sallyhepworth (14.2K followers) Active on Facebook: “Fans of Hepworth’s The Mother-in-Law will quickly be drawn into this family... @sallyhepworthauthor (3.7K followers) Active on Twitter: @SallyHepworth (2K SALLY HEPWORTH has lived around the world, spending extended periods in Singapore, the followers) United Kingdom and Canada. She is the author of The Secrets of Midwives, The Things We Keep, The Mother's Promise, The Family Next Door and The Mother-in-Law. Sally now lives in Melbourne with her husband, three children, and one adorable dog.
44 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2022
A Brush with Love A Novel
Mazey Eddings
Nine out of ten dentists agree, A Brush with Love makes your smile brighter!*
*not scientifically proven
Harper is anxiously awaiting placement into a top oral surgery residency program when she crashes (literally) into Dan. Harper would rather endure a Novocaine-free root canal than face any distractions, even one this adorable. A first-year dental student with a family legacy to contend with, Dan doesn’t have the same passion for pulling teeth that Harper does. Though he finds himself FICTION / ROMANCE / falling for her, he is willing to play by Harper’s rules. So with the greatest of ROMANTIC COMEDY St. Martin's Griffin | 3/1/2022 intentions and the poorest of follow-throughs, the two set out to be “just friends.” 9781250805980 | $16.99 / $22.99 Can. But as they get to know each other better, Harper fears that trading fillings for Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 28 feelings may make her lose control and can't risk her carefully ordered life 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W coming undone, no matter how drool-worthy Dan is. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press Blood, gore, and extra-long roots? No problem. The idea of falling in love? Other Available Formats: Torture. Ebook ISBN: 9781250805997 Audio ISBN: 9781250842701 PRAISE “An adorable love story. A Brush with Love blends sweetness, breathless romance,
MARKETING and moments of striking vulnerability.” —Helen Hoang, USA Today bestselling * National Print Publicity author of The Kiss Quotient * Online Publicity Launch Advertising Trade Advertising "Mazey Eddings stole my heart with this laugh out loud funny, almost unbearably Goodreads Campaign cute debut (and she made me care about dentistry).” —Rosie Danan, bestselling Pre-order Campaign author of The Intimacy Experiment NetGalley Promotion Early Reader Review Campaign Bookseller Outreach “The most intoxicating slow burn I’ve read in ages.” —Rachel Lynn Solomon, Influencer Outreach author of The Ex Talk SMP Romance Social Media Promotion Email Marketing Campaign Author Website: "Tenderly written and oh-so-sexy, A Brush with Love brims with emotional depth, https://mazeyeddings.com/ whip-smart banter, and sizzling chemistry.” —Chloe Liese Author Twitter: @foxygrandpa27 Author Instagram: @romance.in.the.wild/, 4.2k followers "Funny and cute while also exploring serio...
MAZEY EDDINGS is a neurodiverse author, dentist, and (most importantly) stage mom to her cats, Yaya and Zadie. She can most often be found reading romance novels under her weighted blanket and asking her boyfriend to bring her snacks. She’s made it her personal mission in life to destigmatize mental health issues and write love stories for every brain. With roots in Ohio and North Carolina, she now calls Philadelphia home.
45 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2022
The Suite Spot
Trish Doller
The bighearted companion novel to Float Plan, one of the most anticipated romances of 2021
Rachel Beck has hit a brick wall. She’s a single mom, still living at home and trying to keep a dying relationship alive. Aside from her daughter, the one bright light in Rachel’s life is her job as the night reservations manager at a luxury hotel in Miami Beach—until the night she is fired for something she didn’t do.
On impulse, Rachel inquires about a management position at a brewery hotel on an island in Lake Erie called Kelleys Island. When she’s offered the job, Rachel packs up her daughter and makes the cross country move.
FICTION / ROMANCE / What she finds on Kelleys Island is Mason, a handsome, moody man who knows CONTEMPORARY everything about brewing beer and nothing about running a hotel. Especially one St. Martin's Griffin | 3/8/2022 that’s barely more than foundation and studs. It’s not the job Rachel was looking 9781250847423 | $30.99 / $41.99 Can. for, but Mason offers her a chance to help build a hotel—and rebuild her own Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W life—from the ground up.
Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Trish Doller’s The Suite Spot is about taking a chance on a new life and a new Translation: St. Martin's Press love. Other Available Formats: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781250809476 Ebook ISBN: 9781250809483 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781250841131 Praise for Float Plan:
“Doller’s expert balance of the sweet and the serious make this touching romance a sure success.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“The perfect escape. Fresh, funny, and romantic. Trish Doller creates smart and sensitive characters who seem all too heartbreakingly real. I wish I could sail away with this book.” —Meg Cabot, New York Times bestselling author of The Princess Diaries and Little Bridge Island series
TRISH DOLLER is the author of novels for teens and adults about love, life, and finding your place in the world. A former journalist and radio personality, Trish has written several YA novels, including the critically acclaimed Something Like Normal, as well as Float Plan, her adult women's fiction debut. When she’s not writing, Trish loves sailing, traveling, and avoiding housework. She lives in southwest Florida with an opinionated herding dog and an ex-pirate.
46 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2022
A Good Day for Chardonnay A Novel
Darynda Jones
"Laugh-out-loud funny, intensely suspenseful, page-turning fun." —New York Times Bestselling author Allison Brennan
Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriff—and even fuller-time coffee guzzler—Sunshine Vicram, didn’t get that memo.
All Sunshine really wants is one easygoing day. You know, the kind that starts with coffee and a donut (or three) and ends with take-out pizza and a glass of chardonnay (or seven). Turns out, that’s about as easy as switching to decaf. (What kind of people do that? And who hurt them?)
FICTION / MYSTERY & Before she can say iced mocha latte, Sunny’s got a bar fight gone bad, a teenage DETECTIVE / WOMEN SLEUTHS St. Martin's Griffin | 3/8/2022 daughter hunting a serial killer and, oh yes, the still unresolved mystery of her 9781250233127 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. own abduction years prior. All evidence points to a local distiller, a dangerous Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Carton Qty: 20 bad boy named Levi Ravinder, but Sun knows he’s not the villain of her story. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Still, perhaps beneath it all, he possesses the keys to her disappearance. At the Subrights: UK Rights: ICM Partners very least, beneath it all, he possesses a serious set of abs. She’s seen it. Once. Translation Rights: ICM Partners Accidentally. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250233110 Between policing a town her hunky chief deputy calls four cents short of a Ebook ISBN: 9781250233134 nickel, that pesky crush she has on Levi which seems to grow exponentially Audio ISBN: 9781250788160 Audio ISBN: 9781250788153 every day, and an irascible raccoon that just doesn’t know when to quit, Sunny’s life is about to rocket to a whole new level of crazy.
Yep, definitely a good day for chardonnay. MARKETING * Online Publicity Launch Advertising PRAISE Email Marketing Campaign Social Media Post "A Bad Day For Sunshine is a great day for the rest of us—captivating characters, Bookstagrammer On Sale Mailing great writing, pace, humor and suspense." —Lee Child, New York Times bestselling Author Website: http://www.daryndajones.com author Author Facebook: @darynda.jones.official, 48K "Fans of Jones’ bestselling Charley Davidson series and Janet Evanovich’s romps Author Twitter: @Darynda, 17K Author Instagram: @daryndajonesofficial, will devour this steamy series launch, which introduces both an irresistible pair 10.8K crime-busting Gilmore Girls and a quirky, mysterious setting.” —Booklist
"Compelling characters and a sexy, angst-filled bunch of mysteries add up to a winning series debut." —Kirkus
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author DARYNDA JONES won a Golden Heart and a RITA for her manuscript First Grave on the Right. A born storyteller, she grew up spinning tales of dashing damsels and heroes in distress for any unfortunate soul who happened by, annoying man and beast alike. Darynda lives in the Land of Enchantment, also known as New Mexico, with her husband and two beautiful sons, the Mighty, Mighty Jones Boys.
47 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2022
The Hospital Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Town
Brian Alexander
"Nimbly and grippingly translates the byzantine world of American health care into a real-life narrative with people you come to care about." —New York Times
By following the struggle for survival of one small-town hospital, and the patients who walk, or are carried, through its doors, The Hospital takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book has done before. Americans are dying sooner, and living in poorer health. Alexander argues that no plan will solve America’s health crisis until the deeper causes of that crisis are addressed. SOCIAL SCIENCE / DISEASE & HEALTH ISSUES Bryan, Ohio's hospital, is losing money, making it vulnerable to big health St. Martin's Griffin | 3/8/2022 systems seeking domination and Phil Ennen, CEO, has been fighting to preserve 9781250828682 | $18.99 / $25.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 its independence. Meanwhile, Bryan, a town of 8,500 people in Ohio’s northwest 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W corner, is still trying to recover from the Great Recession. As local leaders
Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press struggle to address the town’s problems, and the hospital fights for its life amid a Translation Rights: Ross Yoon Agency rapidly consolidating medical and hospital industry, a 39-year-old diabetic literally fights for his limbs, and a 55-year-old contractor lies dying in the Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250237354 emergency room. With these and other stories, Alexander strips away the Ebook ISBN: 9781250237361 wonkiness of policy to reveal Americans’ struggle for health against a powerful Audio ISBN: 9781250796554 system that’s stacked against them, but yet so fragile it blows apart when the pandemic hits. Culminating with COVID-19, this book offers a blueprint for how we created the crisis we're in. MARKETING * Online Publicity PRAISE * Email Marketing Campaign * Organizational Outreach "Takes readers into the world of the American medical industry in a way no book * Author Twitter: @BrianRAlexander * Author Website: BrianRAlexander.com has done before...details how we’ve created the dilemma we’re in." —Fortune
"America is broken...it takes looking at the smallest shattered pieces to realize how broken. That is the sad lesson at the core of The Hospital." —Rolling Stone
“Superb...Deeply insightful.” —Kirkus (Starred)
"Ambitious...An absorbing story of one small hospital in a state of rapid transition." —The Columbus Dispatch
"A richly researched, highly contextualized, deeply compelling narrative." —Chicago Tribune
BRIAN ALEXANDER, the author of Glass House and winner of the Ohioana Book Awards, is a contributing writer to The Atlantic. He’s written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, among others. He’s spoken at The Obama Foundation Summit, and in Washington to members of the Senate and House of Representatives. He lives in San Diego.
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The Suite Spot
Trish Doller
The bighearted companion novel to Float Plan, one of the most anticipated romances of 2021
Rachel Beck has hit a brick wall. She’s a single mom, still living at home and trying to keep a dying relationship alive. Aside from her daughter, the one bright light in Rachel’s life is her job as the night reservations manager at a luxury hotel in Miami Beach—until the night she is fired for something she didn’t do.
On impulse, Rachel inquires about a management position at a brewery hotel on an island in Lake Erie called Kelleys Island. When she’s offered the job, Rachel packs up her daughter and makes the cross country move.
FICTION / ROMANCE / What she finds on Kelleys Island is Mason, a handsome, moody man who knows CONTEMPORARY everything about brewing beer and nothing about running a hotel. Especially one St. Martin's Griffin | 3/8/2022 that’s barely more than foundation and studs. It’s not the job Rachel was looking 9781250809476 | $16.99 / $22.99 Can. for, but Mason offers her a chance to help build a hotel—and rebuild her own Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 32 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W life—from the ground up.
Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Trish Doller’s The Suite Spot is about taking a chance on a new life and a new Translation: St. Martin's Press love. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250809483 Hardcover ISBN: 9781250847423 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781250841131 Praise for Float Plan:
“Doller’s expert balance of the sweet and the serious make this touching romance a MARKETING sure success.” - Publishers Weekly (starred review) * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity Pre-order Advertising "I devoured Float Plan in a day. It’s the kind of story that takes you away and Launch Advertising Trade Advertising brings you back grateful for the journey.” - Katherine Center, New York Times Targeted Bookseller Outreach bestselling author of How to Walk Away Early Reader Review Campaign NetGalley Promotion Blog Outreach TRISH DOLLER is the author of novels for teens and adults about love, life, and finding your Influencer Outreach place in the world. A former journalist and radio personality, Trish has written several YA novels, Email Marketing Campaign including the critically acclaimed Something Like Normal, as well as Float Plan, her adult women's SMP Romance Social Media Promotion fiction debut. When she’s not writing, Trish loves sailing, traveling, and avoiding housework. She Library Marketing lives in southwest Florida with an opinionated herding dog and an ex-pirate. Author Website: https://www.trishdoller.com/ Author Twitter: @TrishDoller, 4.9K Author Instagram: @trishdoller, 1.4K
49 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2022
Blood and Treasure Daniel Boone and the Fight for America's First Frontier
Bob Drury & Tom Clavin
The explosive true saga of the legendary figure, Daniel Boone, and the bloody struggle for America's frontier by two bestselling authors at the height of their writing power.
The Instant New York Times Besteller and National Bestseller
It is the mid-18th Century, and in the 13 colonies founded by Great Britain, anxious colonists desperate to conquer and settle North America’s “First Frontier” beyond the Appalachian Mountains engage in a never-ending series of bloody battles. These violent conflicts are waged against the Native American HISTORY / UNITED STATES / tribes whose lands they covet, The French, and finally against the mother country 19TH CENTURY St. Martin's Griffin | 3/15/2022 itself in an American Revolution destined to reverberate around the world. 9781250247155 | $18.99 / $25.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Carton Qty: 20 This is the setting of “Blood and Treasure” and the guide to this epic narrative is 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W none other than America’s first and arguably greatest pathfinder Daniel Includes maps throughout and one 16-page black-and-white photograph section Boone—not the coonskin cap-wearing caricature of popular culture but the flesh- and-blood frontiersman and Revolutionary War hero whose explorations into the Subrights: UK: Nat Sobel at Sobel Weber Associates forested frontier beyond the great mountains would become the stuff of legend. Translation: Nat Sobel at Sobel Weber Now, thanks to painstaking research by two award-winning authors, the story of Associates the brutal birth of the United States is told through the eyes of both the ordinary Other Available Formats: and larger-than-life men and women, white and Native American, who witnessed Hardcover ISBN: 9781250247131 it. Ebook ISBN: 9781250247148 Audio ISBN: 9781250788122 This fast-paced and fiery narrative, fueled by contemporary diaries and journals, Audio ISBN: 9781250788115 newspaper reports, and eyewitness accounts, is a stirring chronicle of the conflict over America’s “First Frontier” that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epoch and its gripping tales of courage... MARKETING * Online Publicity * Online Advertising PRAISE * Goodreads Promotion * Promotion on TheHistoryReader.com "[The] authors’ finest work to date." —Peter Cozzens for The Wall Street Journal * Email Marketing Campaign * Author Website: tomclavin.com "Popular historians Drury and Clavin deliver a ripsnortin’ tale of the early frontier * Author Website: rfxdrury.com and its first and most powerful legend. [Blood and Treasure] offers a vivid account of Boone’s frontier years, one that may not be for the faint of heart." —Kirkus
ALSO AVAILABLE BOB DRURY and TOM CLAVIN are the #1 New York Times bestselling authors of The Heart of Tombstone: The Earp Brothers, Doc Holliday, Everything That Is, Lucky 666, Halsey's Typhoon, Last Men Out, and The Last Stand of Fox and the Vendetta Ride from Hell Company, which won the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's General Wallace M. Greene Jr. 1/2021 | 9781250214607 Award. Tom Clavin is also the standalone author of several bestselling St. Martin’s Press titles Trade Paperback | $18.99 / $25.99 Can. including Dodge City, Wild Bill, and Tombstone. They live in Manasquan, New Jersey, and Sag Wild Bill: The True Story of the American Harbor, New York, respectively. Frontier's First Gunfighter 1/2020 | 9781250178169 Trade Paperback | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West 50 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2022
The Tsarina's Daughter
Ellen Alpsten
Ellen Alpsten's The Tsarina's Daughter is the dramatic story of Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, who ruled Russia during an extraordinary life marked by passion and scandal.
Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and his wife, Catherine, a former serf, beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the envy of the Russian empire. She is insulated by luxury and spoiled by her father, who dreams for her to marry King Louis XV of France and rule in Versailles. But when a woodland creature gives her a Delphic prophecy, her life is turned upside down. Her volatile father suddenly dies, her only brother has been executed and her mother takes the throne of Russia.
FICTION / HISTORICAL As friends turn to foe in the dangerous atmosphere of the Court, the princess St. Martin's Griffin | 3/15/2022 must fear for her freedom and her life. Fate deals her blow after blow, and even 9781250214416 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. loving her becomes a crime that warrants cruel torture and capital punishment: Trade Paperback | 464 pages | Carton Qty: 24 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Elizabeth matures from suffering victim to strong and savvy survivor. But only her true love and their burning passion finally help her become who she is: When Subrights: UK Rights: Bloomsbury UK Translation Rights: Gelfman/Schneider the Imperial Crown is left to an infant Tsarevich, Elizabeth finds herself in mortal danger and must confront a terrible dilemma—seize the reins of power and harm Other Available Formats: an innocent child, or find herself following in the footsteps of her murdered Hardcover ISBN: 9781250214409 Ebook ISBN: 9781250214423 brother. Audio ISBN: 9781250820808 Audio ISBN: 9781250219220 Hidden behind a gorgeous, wildly decadent façade, the Russian Imperial Court is a viper’s den of intrigue and ambition. Only a woman possessed of boundless courage and cunning can prove herself worthy to sit on the throne of Peter the MARKETING Great. * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity Pre-order Advertising PRAISE Launch Advertising Trade Advertising Praise for Tsarina: Digital Indie Bound Whitebox Mailing Targeted Bookseller Outreach “Astonishing...the ultimate Cinderella story.” —Daisy Goodwin, bestselling author Early DRC Posting on Edelweiss Early Reader Review Campaign of The Fortune Hunter NetGalley Promotion Blog Outreach "A fascinating and extraordinary ride." —Booklist (starred) Influencer Outreach Book Club Promotion Discussion Guide Available Online "As detailed as the jewels and enamel inlay on the creations of Faberge." —Adriana Email Marketing Campaign Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife Social Media Campaign Library Marketing Author Facebook: “Masterfully researched and beautifully written.” —Nancy Goldstone, author of Facebook.com/EAlpstenAuthor Rival Queens Author Twitter: @EAlpsten_Author Author Instagram: @ellenalpstenauthor ELLEN ALPSTEN was born and raised in the Kenyan highlands. Upon graduating from L'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, she worked as a news anchor for Bloomberg TV London. Whilst working gruesome night shifts on breakfast TV, she started to write in earnest, every day, after work and a nap. Today, Ellen works as an author and as a journalist for international publications such as Vogue, Standpoint and CN Traveller. She lives in London with her husband, three sons and a moody fox red Labrador. 51 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2022
Nöthin' But a Good Time The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion
Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock
Nöthin' But a Good Time is the definitive, no-holds-barred oral history of 1980s hard rock and hair metal, told by the musicians and industry insiders who lived it.
Hard rock in the 1980s was a hedonistic and often intensely creative wellspring of escapism that perfectly encapsulated—and maybe even helped to define—a spectacularly over-the-top decade. Indeed, fist-pumping hits like Twisted Sister’s “We’re Not Gonna Take It” are as inextricably linked to the era as Reaganomics.
From the do-or-die early days of self-financed recordings and D.I.Y. concert MUSIC / GENRES & STYLES / productions, to the MTV-powered glory years of stadium-shaking anthems and HEAVY METAL chart-topping power ballads, Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock's Nöthin' But St. Martin's Griffin | 3/15/2022 9781250830074 | $20.99 / $28.50 Can. a Good Time captures the energy and excess of the hair metal years in the words Trade Paperback | 560 pages | Carton Qty: 16 of the musicians, managers, producers, label executives, publicists, stylists, 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W journalists, video directors, club bookers, roadies, groupies, and hangers-on who Plus one 16-page color photograph insert lived it. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: David Dunton at Harvey Featuring an impassioned foreword by Slipknot and Stone Sour vocalist and Klinger avowed glam metal fanatic Corey Taylor, and drawn from over 200 new Other Available Formats: interviews with members of Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Poison, Guns N’ Roses, Hardcover ISBN: 9781250195753 Bon Jovi, Ratt, Twisted Sister, Winger, Cinderella, Quiet Riot and others, as well Ebook ISBN: 9781250195760 Audio ISBN: 9781250797629 as Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford and many more, this is the ultimate, uncensored, and often unhinged chronicle of a time where excess and success walked hand in hand, told by the men and women who created a sound and style that came to define a musical era—one in which the bands and their fans went looking for MARKETING * Online Publicity nothin’ but a good time…and found it. * Online Advertising * Influencer Campaign PRAISE * Email Marketing Campaign * Author Facebook: /NothinButAGoodTime, "A backstage pass to the wildest and loudest party in rock history—you'll feel like 5K followers you were right there with us!" —Bret Michaels of Poison
“If you want to relive the explosive decade, this is as close as you're gonna get. All right here, right now.” —Stephen Pearcy of Ratt
"Revolver cofounder Beaujour and former Guitar World editor Bienstock give heavy metal a flamboyant retrospective in this raucous oral history...Metalheads and those with a fondness for the over-the-top antics that marked the genre and era are in for a treat." —Publishers Weekly
TOM BEAUJOUR is a journalist as well as a co-founder and former editor-in-chief of Revolver, America’s premier hard rock and heavy metal monthly. Beaujour has produced and mixed albums by Nada Surf, Guided by Voices, the Juliana Hatfield Three, and many others. RICHARD BIENSTOCK is a journalist whose writing has appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone, Billboard, Spin, and other publications. He is a former senior editor of Guitar World magazine and 52 MINOTAUR BOOKS MARCH 2022
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 is the summer of 1914 and lady’s maid Jane Prescott is back in New York with the Tylers after a glittering society wedding in Europe. On their return, Jane learns another wedding has taken place. Her old dancing partner, Leo Hirschfeld, has married a chorus girl in his new Broadway musical.
Jane and Louise Tyler are pulled into the sparkling and scandalous world of FICTION / MYSTERY & Broadway as a starstruck Louise invests in Leo’s show and Jane chaperones her DETECTIVE / HISTORICAL at rehearsals. But behind the glittering facade of the theater, there are rivalries, Minotaur Books | 3/15/2022 secret romances, and some very dodgy business practices. When the show’s 9781250830432 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 abusive producer, Sidney Warburton, is murdered, the list of suspects is long. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Was it the comedic star or her gambler boyfriend? The disgruntled costume
Subrights: UK rights: Levine Greenberg Literary designer? The beautiful, blond dancer, her jealous husband? Or was it Leo Agency himself, who had more reason than anyone to hate Sidney Warburton? Translation rights: Levine Greenberg Literary Agency As the First World War looms in the distance, Jane and tabloid reporter Michael Other Available Formats: Behan must strip back the masks of these consummate performers before one of Hardcover ISBN: 9781250210906 them kills again. Ebook ISBN: 9781250210913
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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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The Tsarina's Daughter A Novel
Ellen Alpsten
Ellen Alpsten's The Tsarina's Daughter, is the dramatic story of Elizabeth, daughter of Peter the Great, who ruled Russia during an extraordinary life marked by passion and scandal.
Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and his wife, Catherine, a former serf, beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the envy of the Russian empire. She is insulated by luxury and spoiled by her father, who dreams for her to marry King Louis XV of France and rule in Versailles. But when a woodland creature gives her a Delphic prophecy, her life is turned upside down. Her volatile father suddenly dies, her only brother has been executed and her mother FICTION / HISTORICAL takes the throne of Russia. St. Martin's Griffin | 3/15/2022 9781250214409 | $30.99 / $41.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 352 pages | Carton As friends turn to foe in the dangerous atmosphere of the Court, the princess Qty: 20 must fear for her freedom and her life. Fate deals her blow after blow, and even 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W loving her becomes a crime that warrants cruel torture and capital punishment: Subrights: UK Rights: Bloomsbury UK Elizabeth matures from suffering victim to strong and savvy survivor. But only Translation Rights: Gelfman/Schneider her true love and their burning passion finally help her become who she is: When the Imperial Crown is left to an infant Tsarevich, Elizabeth finds herself in mortal Other Available Formats: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781250214416 danger and must confront a terrible dilemma—seize the reins of power and harm Ebook ISBN: 9781250214423 an innocent child, or find herself following in the footsteps of her murdered Audio ISBN: 9781250820808 brother. Audio ISBN: 9781250219220 Hidden behind a gorgeous, wildly decadent façade, the Russian Imperial Court is a viper’s den of intrigue and ambition. Only a woman possessed of boundless MARKETING courage and cunning can prove herself worthy to sit on the throne of Peter the National Print Publicity Online Publicity Great. Launch Advertising Trade Advertising PRAISE Digital Indie Bound Whitebox Mailing Targeted Bookseller Outreach Praise for Tsarina: Early DRC Posting on Edelweiss Early Reader Review Campaign NetGalley Promotion “Astonishing...the ultimate Cinderella story.” —Daisy Goodwin, bestselling author Blog Outreach of The Fortune Hunter Influencer Outreach Book Club Promotion Discussion Guide Available Online "A fascinating and extraordinary ride." —Booklist (starred) Email Marketing Campaign Social Media Campaign Library Marketing "As detailed as the jewels and enamel inlay on the creations of Faberge." —Adriana Author Facebook: Trigiani, bestselling author of The Shoemaker's Wife Facebook.com/EAlpstenAuthor Author Twitter: @EAlpsten_Author Author Instagram: @ellenalpstenauthor “Masterfully researched and beautifully written.” —Nancy Goldstone, author of Rival Queens
ELLEN ALPSTEN was born and raised in the Kenyan highlands. Upon graduating from L'Institut ALSO AVAILABLE d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, she worked as a news anchor for Bloomberg TV London. Whilst Tsarina: A Novel working gruesome night shifts on breakfast TV, she started to write in earnest, every day, after work and a nap. Today, Ellen works as an author and as a journalist for international publications such as 54 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN MARCH 2022
The Little French Bridal Shop A Novel
Jennifer Dupee
In this heartfelt debut, can a woman discover her true self—and find love between her lies?
Larissa Pearl returns to her hometown on Massachusetts' north shore. Her great aunt has died, leaving behind her old colonial home which Larissa plans to renovate for a quick sale. At least, that's what she is telling herself. Unable to cope with her aging parents' difficulties, and reeling from losing both her job and boyfriend, Larissa is desperate to have control over something.
On a whim, she enters the local bridal shop run by her eighth grade teacher, who FICTION / WOMEN presumes Larissa is a bride-to-be. Amused, she encourages the idea and buys a St. Martin's Griffin | 3/22/2022 wedding gown. Soon word about her upcoming nuptials spreads around town, 9781250621085 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. and reaches the ear of Jack Merrill. As teenagers, they spent time together on her Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W aunt's estate, building a friendship that could have become something more had they chosen different paths. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press Now, lost in a web of her own lies, Larissa must first face difficult truths before Other Available Formats: she can embrace family and open her heart to finding love. Hardcover ISBN: 9781250271525 Ebook ISBN: 9781250621870 Audio ISBN: 9781250790019 PRAISE "The Little French Bridal Shop is a compelling debut that explores grief, love, and finding yourself." —Booklist MARKETING * Online Publicity Launch Advertising "Crisply written...strung through with the hope that life's hard times don't last Email Marketing Campaign forever. Readers will enjoy seeing Larissa and Jack find that hope." —Library Social Media Campaign Journal Bookstagrammer On Sale Mailing Author Website: https://www.jenniferdupee.com/ "Utterly charming...Never sentimental, and yet wonderfully infused with heart and Author Twitter: @JenniferDupee, 1.4K whimsy." —Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Never Have I Author Instagram: @jendupee Author Facebook: @jenniferdupeeauthor, Ever 189 "Tender moments add levity to Jennifer Dupee's appealing first novel." —Shelf Awareness
JENNIFER DUPEE grew up on the North Shore of Boston near the seaside communities of Manchester-by-the-Sea and Beverly Farms. She is a graduate of Brown University with honors in creative writing. She is an active member of the GrubStreet writing community in Boston and has published by the Feminist Press. She was a semi-finalist for the 2016 James Jones First Novel Competition and a semi-finalist for the 2016 Faulkner-Wisdom competition. Jennifer lives just outside of Boston with her family. Her...
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C.R.E.A.M.
Solomon Jones
C.R.E.A.M. returns at a $9.99 price!
Karima "C.R.E.A.M." Thomas is an ex-convict whose only crime was falling for a drug dealer and refusing to testify against him. Sexy, intelligent, and street smart, Karima is looking for a fresh start. She asks for a job from her aunt, Marilyn Johnson, who is a powerful figure in the rough world of Philadelphia politics. Marilyn has forged questionable alliances, including her long-running affair with the married mayor. And Karima's criminal record is one of the many secrets Marilyn has hidden from the public. So Marilyn hatches a plan to get rid of Karima. When the mayor is murdered and Marilyn is sworn into office, Karima's criminal past comes out and she is quickly the prime suspect. In order to save her own name and get to the bottom of the story, Karima must return to the streets. FICTION / AFRICAN AMERICAN & BLACK / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE PRAISE St. Martin's Griffin | 3/22/2022 9781250834713 | $9.99 / $9.99 Can. Praise for Solomon Jones: Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Carton Qty: 36 "Fast-paced and gritty." —Philadelphia Inquirer on C.R.E.A.M. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W "[Jones's] timeless story and some strong action sequences make this quick, Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Publishing Group satisfying entertainment. " Translation: St. Martin's Publishing Group —Publisher's Weekly on Ride or Die Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781429905855 SOLOMON JONES is the Essence bestselling author of the critically acclaimed novels, The Bridge, Ride or Die and Pipe Dream and short story collection Keeping Up with the Jones. He is a spoken word artist whose debut CD is titled Wisdom, and a veteran journalist whose work has been MARKETING published in Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Philadelphia Weekly. Jones teaches creative Social Media Post writing at Temple University and serves on the board of the Philadelphia Committee to End Email Marketing Homelessness. He lives in Ph... Author website: https://solomonjones.com/ Active on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Solomon-Jones- 60378036508/ (3K Followers) Active on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com /solomonjones1/ (4.7K followers) Active on Twitter:https://twitter.com /solomonjones1 (10K followers)
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Payback The Return of C.R.E.A.M.
Solomon Jones
Payback returns at an attractive price of $9.99!
Karima "C.R.E.A.M." Thomas, who has been held as an accomplice in the murders of two drug dealers, is acquitted based on the deathbed confession of her lover, Duane Faison. But triumph soon turns to tragedy when Karima's mother is found dead of an apparent suicide. Karima refuses to believe that things are as they seem. She thinks that her mother was murdered, and when the police won't listen, she takes matters into her own hands. She soon finds that her mother's death is just the first indication of a scandal that could rock the very halls of power. Captain Kevin Lynch joins Karima in the search for the truth, despite his family and career on the line. FICTION / AFRICAN AMERICAN & BLACK / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE PRAISE St. Martin's Griffin | 3/22/2022 9781250834720 | $9.99 / $9.99 Can. "[E]xplosive." —Publisher's Weekly on Payback Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Carton Qty: 32 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W "Fast-paced and gritty." —Philadelphia Inquirer on C.R.E.A.M. Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Publishing Group Translation: St. Martin's Publishing Group "[Jones's] timeless story and some strong action sequences make this quick, Other Available Formats: satisfying entertainment." Ebook ISBN: 9781429994859 —Publisher's Weekly on Ride or Die
SOLOMON JONES is the Essence bestselling author of the critically acclaimed novels C.R.E.A.M., MARKETING The Bridge, Ride or Die, and Pipe Dream, and the short story collection Keeping Up With The Social Media Post Jones. He is a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News, and a spoken-word artist whose debut Email Marketing CD is titled Wisdom. Jones teaches creative writing at Temple University. He lives in Philadelphia Author website: https://solomonjones.com/ with his family, and is currently at work on his next novel. Active on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Solomon-Jones- 60378036508/ (3K Followers) Active on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com /solomonjones1/ (4.7K followers) Active on Twitter:https://twitter.com /solomonjones1 (10K followers)
57 MINOTAUR BOOKS MARCH 2022
Badlands A Novel
C. J. Box
“If Box isn’t already on your list, put him there.” —USA Today
THE EDGAR AWARD–WINNING, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR IS BACK WITH A MASTERPIECE OF SUSPENSE SET IN A TIME AND PLACE THAT READERS WON’T SOON FORGET.
Twenty miles across the North Dakota border, where the scenery goes from rolling grass prairie to pipeline fields, detective Cassie Dewell has been assigned to be the new deputy sheriff of Grimstad—a place people used to be from but were never headed to. Grimstad is now the oil capital of North Dakota. With oil comes money, with money comes drugs, and with drugs come the dirtiest FICTION / THRILLERS / CRIME Minotaur Books | 3/29/2022 criminals hustling to corner the market. 9781250829436 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 In the small town resides twelve-year-old Kyle Westergaard. Even though Kyle 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W has been written off as the “slow” kid, he has dreams deeper than anyone can Subrights: UK Rights: Ann Rittenberg Literary imagine. He wants to get out of town, take care of his mother, and give them a Agency better life. While delivering newspapers, he witnesses a car accident and takes a Translation Rights: Ann Rittenberg Literary Agency mysterious bundle from the scene. Now in possession of a lot of money and packets of white powder, Kyle wonders if his luck has changed. Other Available Formats: Mass Market ISBN: 9781250801005 Mass Market ISBN: 9780312546908 When the temperature drops to 30 below and a gang war heats up, Cassie realizes Ebook ISBN: 9781466881501 that she may be in over her head. As she is propelled onto a collision course with Audio ISBN: 9781427260932 a murderous enemy, she finds that the key to it all might come in the most unlikely form: an undersized boy on a bike who keeps showing up where he doesn’t belong. Because a boy like Kyle is invisible. But he sees everything. MARKETING * Online Advertising PRAISE * Independent Bookstore Outreach * Goodreads Promotion Praise for Badlands * Email Marketing Campaign * Author Twitter: @CJBoxAuthor * Author Facebook: /AuthorCJBox “Suspenseful—you can’t put it down.” —Library Journal (starred review)
“Brilliant...the most effective of his thrillers since his Edgar-winning Blue Heaven.” —Booklist (starred review)
“Absorbing...strong and compelling.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune
C. J. BOX is the author of twenty-one Joe Pickett novels, seven stand-alone novels, and a story collection. He has won the Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry Awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38. A Wyoming native, Box’s books have been translated into twenty-seven languages. He’s an executive producer of ABC TV’s Big Sky, which is based on his Cody Hoyt/Cassie Dewell novels, as well as executive producer of the upcoming Joe Pickett television series for Spectrum Originals.
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The Next Everest Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again
Jim Davidson
A dramatic account of the deadly avalanche on Everest—and a return to reach the summit.
On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8 magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed nearly 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest, with eighteen people losing their lives on the mountain. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / ADVENTURERS & EXPLORERS After spending two unsettling days stranded on Everest, Davidson's team was St. Martin's Griffin | 3/29/2022 9781250836755 | $19.99 / $26.99 Can. rescued by helicopter. The experience left him shaken, and despite his Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Carton Qty: 20 thirty-three years of climbing and serving as an expedition leader, he wasn’t sure 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W that he would ever go back. But in the face of risk and uncertainty, he returned in Plus one 16-page color photograph insert 2017 and finally achieved his dream of reaching the summit. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Publishing Group Suspenseful and engrossing, The Next Everest portrays the experience of living Translation Rights: St. Martin's Publishing Group through the biggest disaster to ever hit the mountain. Davidson's background in Other Available Formats: geology and environmental science makes him uniquely qualified to explain why Hardcover ISBN: 9781250272294 the seismic threats lurking beneath Nepal are even greater today. But this story is Ebook ISBN: 9781250272300 Audio ISBN: 9781250789976 not about "conquering" the world’s highest peak. Instead, it reveals how embracing change, challenge, and uncertainty prepares anyone to face their "next Everest" in life.
MARKETING * Online Publicity PRAISE * Email Marketing Campaign * Book Club Outreach “In this deft and honest memoir, Jim Davidson exorcises the demons of a tragedy. * TheHistoryReader.com Promotion He turns personal disappointment into humanitarian witness after the disastrous * Social Media Campaign Everest season of 2015, when an earthquake shut down climbing and took a far * Author Website: speakingofadventure.com more horrendous toll on a whole nation. Returning two years later and at last * Author Twitter: @ClimberJim (7.1K reaching the summit, Davidson sagely weighs the rewards of individual achievement followers) against moral questions that transcend mountaineering.” * Author Facebook: @Resliencewithclimberjim —David Roberts, author of The Mountain of My Fear and Limits of the Known * Author Instagram: @resiliencewithclimberjim "Among all outdoor pursuits, climbing mountains offers the purest, most direct challenge. Jim Davidson weaves his experience...
JIM DAVIDSON is an accomplished high-altitude climber, motivational speaker, and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Ledge. Along with his teammates, he has been commended twice by the U.S. National Park Service for volunteering on risky and remote mountain rescues. He has inspired audiences across the United States and internationally through his business, Speaking of Adventure. Davidson has two adventurous children and lives in Colorado with his wife.
59 MINOTAUR BOOKS MARCH 2022
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 & farmers. Shortly after that, the Britanny beach resort is shocked by the discovery DETECTIVE / TRADITIONAL of a corpse. Dupin clandestinely begins to investigate with the help of the local Minotaur Books | 3/29/2022 villagers, something he must keep a secret from Claire and his colleagues in 9781250830180 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 28 Concarneau. Between bewitched valleys and beautiful beaches, an unfathomable 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W case develops.
Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Translation Rights: Verlag Kiepenheuer & PRAISE Witsch GmbH & Co. Praise for the series: Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250753069 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 * Online Publicity story set in Brittany... Bannalec excels at plotting and pacing, as well as vivid * Email Marketing Campaign * Social Media Campaign descriptions of the Finistère countryside." —Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) on * Hardcover Tie-In: The Round Table Death in Brittany Murders, on sale 4/2022 "Very satisfying…along the lines of Martin Walker’s novels set in Dordogne, or M.L. Longworth’s Aix-en-Provence mysteries." —Booklist on Murder on Brittany Shores
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.
60 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN APRIL 2022
The Date from Hell A Novel
Gwenda Bond
In this hilarious, romantic sequel to Not Your Average Hot Guy, Callie and Luke’s date is thwarted when Lucifer gives them three days to redeem a soul.
After saving the world and stopping the apocalypse, Callie and Luke are looking forward to a quiet, romantic weekend together. When you’re human and dating the Prince of Hell, quiet moments are hard to come by. But their romantic weekend in Hell takes a turn when Lucifer tasks Callie and Luke with chasing a wayward soul around the world. If they can prove it’s possible to redeem a soul, Lucifer will allow the two of them to make some changes in Hell. FICTION / ROMANCE / ROMANTIC COMEDY But this wayward soul, Sean, doesn’t have any interest in being redeemed. St. Martin's Griffin | 4/5/2022 Instead, now that he’s back on Earth, he’s decided to take a leaf out of Callie and 9781250771766 | $16.99 / $22.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 24 Luke’s book and wants to find the Holy Grail. Now Callie, Luke, their 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W friends—and enemies—must race Sean around the globe on a Grail quest and
Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press bring peace between Heaven and Hell before they can finally (maybe) get around Translation: Andrea Brown Literary Agency to that date.
Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250771773 In The Date from Hell, the sequel to Not Your Average Hot Guy, New York Times bestselling author Gwenda Bond brings the journey of Callie, Luke, and their friends to a wonderful close. This is another laugh out loud, action packed romantic adventure you won’t want to miss. MARKETING * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity PRAISE Launch Advertising Bookseller Outreach Praise for Not Your Average Hot Guy Early Reader Review Campaign Preorder Campaign NetGalley Promotion "Fun, funny, hot, and heartfelt: Not Your Average Hot Guy is The Good Place but Influencer Outreach 20% nerdier and 200% sexier. The apocalyptic beach read that everyone needs." Email Marketing Campaign —Alix E. Harrow, Hugo Award-winning author SMP Romance Social Media Promotion Author Website: http://www.gwendabond.com/ "I never knew the Apocalypse could be so much fun! I absolutely loved spending Author Twitter: @Gwenda, 15k followers time with these characters, and in this world. Even if it is almost ending." —Kat Author Instagram: @gwendabond, 2.9k followers Howard, author of the Alex Award-winning An Unkindness of Magicians
GWENDA BOND is the New York Times bestselling author of many novels, including the Lois Lane and Cirque American trilogies. She wrote the first official Stranger Things novel, Suspicious Minds. She also created Dead Air, a serialized mystery and scripted podcast written with Carrie Ryan and Rachel Caine. Not Your Average Hot Guy is her first romantic comedy for adults. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in Publishers Weekly, Locus Magazine, Salon, the Los Angeles Times, and many other publicati...
61 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN APRIL 2022
Reputation A Novel
Lex Croucher
Bridgerton meets Gossip Girl with a dash of Jane Austen, in this Regency-era historical romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist twist, from a hilarious new British voice.
Abandoned by her parents, middle-class Georgiana Ellers is spending the summer with her stodgy aunt and uncle at their home in the English countryside. At a particularly dull party, she meets the enigmatic Frances Campbell, a wealthy member of the in-crowd who delights Georgiana with her disregard for so-called “polite society.” FICTION / ROMANCE / ROMANTIC COMEDY Lonely and vulnerable, Georgiana quickly falls in with Frances and her wealthy, St. Martin's Griffin | 4/5/2022 9781250832832 | $16.99 / $22.99 Can. wild, and deeply improper friends, who introduce her to the upper echelons of Trade Paperback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 28 Regency aristocracy, and a world of drunken debauchery, frivolous spending, and 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W mysterious young men. One, in particular, stands out from the rest: Thomas Other Available Formats: Hawksley, who has a tendency to cross paths with Georgiana in her most Ebook ISBN: 9781250832849 embarrassing moments. Sparks fly, but Thomas seems unimpressed with the Audio ISBN: 9781250839633 company she is keeping. And soon, Georgiana begins to wonder whether she’ll ever feel like she fits in—or if the price of entry into Frances’s gilded world will ultimately be higher than she is willing to pay. MARKETING * National Print Publicity Set against a backdrop of lavish parties, handsome men on horseback—and in a * Online Publicity Pre-order Advertising time when one’s reputation was everything—this edgy, hilarious romantic Launch Advertising comedy explores sex, consent, belonging, and status through the eyes of an Trade Advertising unforgettable heroine that Austen herself would have cheered for. Targeted Bookseller Outreach Early Reader Review Campaign NetGalley Promotion LEX CROUCHER grew up in Surrey, reading a lot of books and making friends with strangers on Blog Outreach the internet. She now lives in London with her cat, producing videos by day and watching period Influencer Outreach dramas by night. Reputation is her first novel. Email Marketing Campaign Discussion Guide Posted Online SMP Romance Social Media Promotion Library Marketing Author Website: https://www.lexcroucher.co.uk/ Author Twitter: @lexcanroar, 108.4K Author Youtube: Lex Croucher, 125K Author Instagram: @lexcanroar, 24.6K
62 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN APRIL 2022
Grace & Steel Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the Women of the Bush Dynasty
J. Randy Taraborrelli
From New York Times bestselling biographer J. Randy Taraborrelli comes the epic, hidden history of the exceptional women behind the greatest political dynasty of all time—the Bush family.
Bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals the unsung heroines of the inimitable Bush family dynasty: not only First Ladies Barbara and Laura, but other colorful women whose stories have been left out of history for far too long, including Barbara’s mother-in-law, the formidable Dorothy Bush; the enigmatic BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY Columba and the controversial Sharon; and Laura’s twins, Jenna and Barbara. / PRESIDENTS & HEADS OF STATE No matter the challenges related to power and politics, the women of the Bush St. Martin's Griffin | 4/5/2022 dynasty always fought for equality in their marriages as they raised their children 9781250248695 | $21.99 / $29.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 576 pages | Carton Qty: 16 to be true to American values. In doing so, they inspired everyday Americans to 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W do the same. Or, as Barbara Bush put it, “The future of this nation does not Includes two 8-page black-and-white depend on what happens in the White House, but what happens in your house.” photograph sections
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Other Available Formats: —The tragedy Barbara faced in burying her three-year-old daughter, Robin, and Ebook ISBN: 9781250248701 her struggle with depression over the decades that followed. Hardcover ISBN: 9781250248718 Audio ISBN: 9781250788061 —The tragic night a teenage Laura Bush accidentally killed a good friend—a story she did not discuss publicly for decades.
MARKETING —The revelation of the affair that almost doomed George HW's hopes for the * Online Publicity * Online Advertising presidency. * Email Marketing Campaign * Promotion on TheHistoryReader.com —The truth behind the fraught relationship between Nancy Reagan and Barbara * Author Website: jrandytaraborrelli.com Bush that culminated in an angry phone call during which Barbara told her she * Author Twitter: @JRTaraborrelli would never speak to her again—and she didn't.
PRAISE “Where Taraborrelli excels is in excavating the personal histories of the three women...this book portrays them as genuine, struggling human beings.” —Washington Post
“A unique and colorful look at one of America’s most powerful political families.” —Publishers Weekly
“Taraborrelli gives the Bushes the royal treatment...a glossy dissection of the women members of a family that has loomed large over decades of U.S politics.” —Kirkus Reviews
63 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN APRIL 2022
The Perfect Daughter A Novel
D. J. Palmer
A thriller that explores the truth or lies behind a teenage girl's multiple personality disorder, from the author of The New Husband.
Grace never dreamt she’d visit her teenaged daughter Penny in the locked ward of a decaying state psychiatric hospital, charged with the murder of a stranger. There was not much question of her daughter’s guilt. Police had her fingerprints on the murder weapon and the victim’s blood on her body and clothes. But they didn’t have a motive.
FICTION / THRILLERS / Grace blames herself, because that’s what mothers do—they look at their choices SUSPENSE and wonder, what if? But hindsight offers little more than the chance for regret. St. Martin's Griffin | 4/5/2022 9781250267948 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 24 None of this was conceivable the day Penny came into her life. Then, it seemed 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W like a miracle. Penny was found abandoned, with a mysterious past, and it felt
Other Available Formats: like fate brought Penny to her, and her husband Arthur. But as she grew, Penny's Hardcover ISBN: 9781250267924 actions grew more disturbing, and different "personalities" emerged. Ebook ISBN: 9781250267931 Audio ISBN: 9781250788139 Arthur and Grace took Penny to different psychiatrists, many of whom believed she was putting on a show to help manage her trauma. But Grace didn’t buy it. The personas were too real, too consistent. It had to be a severe multiple MARKETING personality disorder. One determined psychiatrist, Dr. Mitch McHugh, helped * Online Publicity discover someone new inside Penny—a young girl named Abigail. Is this the * Online Advertising * Book Club Outreach nameless girl who was abandoned in the park years ago? Mitch thinks Abigail is * Social Media Promotion the key to Penny’s past and to the murder. But as Grace and Mitch dig deeper, * Email Marketing Campaign they uncover dark and shocking secrets that put all their lives in grave danger. * Author Facebook: /djpalmerauthor (6K Likes) * Author Twitter: @djpalmerauthor PRAISE * Author Instagram: @djpalmerauthor * Author Website: djpalmerauthor.com Praise for Saving Meghan:
"Mother doesn't always know best in this thrill ride of a novel...gripping and twisted." —Karin Slaughter, bestselling author of The Good Daughter
"Plenty of twists...will keep you turning the pages as you guess...and guess again." —Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author of After Anna
"An acute, sensitive portrayal of family love under extreme stress...[with] a touch of Hitchcock." —William Landay, New York Times bestselling author of Defending Jacob
D.J. PALMER is the author of numerous critically acclaimed suspense novels, including Delirious and Desperate. After receiving his master’s degree from Boston University, he spent a decade as an e-commerce pioneer before turning his attention to writing. He lives with his wife and two children in New Hampshire where he is currently at work on his next novel.
64 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN APRIL 2022
The Unwilling A Novel
John Hart
Set in the South at the height of the Vietnam War, The Unwilling combines crime, suspense and searing glimpses into the human mind and soul in NYT bestselling author John Hart's singular style.
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Gibby's older brothers have already been to war. One died there. The other came back misunderstood and hard, a decorated killer now freshly released from a three-year stint in prison. FICTION / THRILLERS / HISTORICAL St. Martin's Griffin | 4/5/2022 Jason won't speak of the war or of his time behind bars, but he wants a 9781250168382 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. relationship with his younger brother. He coaxes Gibby into a day at the lake: Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 24 long hours of sunshine and whisky and older women. But the day turns ugly 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W when the four encounter a prison transfer bus on a stretch of empty road. Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press Beautiful but drunk, one of the women taunts the prisoners. The woman is Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press savagely murdered soon after. Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250167729 Given his violent history, suspicion turns first to Jason; but when the second Ebook ISBN: 9781250167736 woman is kidnapped, the police suspect Gibby, too. To prove Jason innocent, Audio ISBN: 9781250752215 Audio ISBN: 9781250752208 Gibby must avoid the cops and dive deep into his brother's hidden life, a dark world of heroin, guns and outlaw motorcycle gangs. What he discovers there is a truth more disturbing than he could have imagined: not just the identity of the killer and the reasons for Tyra's murder, but the forces that shaped his brother in MARKETING * Online Publicity Vietnam, the reason he was framed, and why the most dangerous man alive * Book Club Outreach wants him back in prison. This is crime fiction at its most raw, an exploration of * Social Media Promotion family and the past, of prison and war and the indelible marks they leave. * Email Marketing Campaign * Author Facebook: /JohnHartAuthor (10K Likes) PRAISE * Author Twitter: @JohnHartAuthor * Author Website: JohnHartFiction.com "Often, the most gripping historicals take place during our immediate past as John Hart demonstrates in The Unwilling...Hart skillfully mines the details of the early 1970s and the impact the Vietnam War had on the country...the story’s strength is its deep examination of characters and the country. Each is a product of the times ALSO AVAILABLE while trying to look to the future." —Oline H. Cogdill for the Sun Sentinel The Hush: A Novel 2/2019 | 9781250012289 Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $22.50 Can. “John Hart creates novels that are somehow raw, tender, brutal, and exquisite all at the same time. Exceptional.” —C.J. Box, #1 New York Times bestselling author Redemption Road: A Novel 5/2017 | 9781250132116 Trade Paperback | $16.99 / $23.99 Can. JOHN HART is the author of several New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Hush. The The Last Child: A Novel only author in history to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel consecutively, John has also won the 1/2017 | 9781250134998 Barry Award, the SIBA for Fiction, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, and the North Carolina Trade Paperback | $9.99 / $13.99 Can. Award for Literature. His novels have been translated into thirty languages and can be found in more than seventy countries.
65 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN APRIL 2022
Three Wise Men A Navy SEAL, a Green Beret, and How Their Marine Brother Became a War's Sole Survivor
Beau Wise and Tom Sileo
An incredible memoir of family, service and sacrifice by a Marine who lost both his brothers in combat—becoming the only "Sole Survivor" during the war in Afghanistan.
Shortly after the 9/11 attacks, three brothers by blood became brothers in arms when each volunteered to defend their country. No military family has sacrificed more during the ensuing war, which has become the longest ever fought by America’s armed forces.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY While serving in Afghanistan, US Navy SEAL veteran and CIA contractor / MILITARY St. Martin's Griffin | 4/5/2022 Jeremy Wise was killed in an al Qaeda suicide bombing that devastated the US 9781250253460 | $18.99 / $25.99 Can. intelligence community. Less than three years later, US Army Green Beret sniper Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 24 Ben Wise was fatally wounded after volunteering for a dangerous assignment 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W during a firefight with the Taliban. Ben was posthumously awarded the Silver Plus one 16-page color photograph insert Star, while Jeremy received the Intelligence Star—one of the rarest awards Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press bestowed by the U.S. government—and also a star on the CIA’s Memorial Wall. Translation: St. Martin's Press Other Available Formats: United States Marine Corps combat veteran Beau Wise is the only known Hardcover ISBN: 9781250253446 American service member to be pulled from the battlefield after losing two Ebook ISBN: 9781250253453 Audio ISBN: 9781250789990 brothers in Afghanistan. Told in Beau’s voice, Three Wise Men is an American family’s historic true story of service and sacrifice.
MARKETING PRAISE * Online Publicity “Three Wise Men is a story of uncommon heroism by an American family in defense * Goodreads Promotion * Blog Outreach of our freedom...I will never forget the day we lost Jeremy, and I will never forget * Email Marketing Campaign learning that his brother Ben had also made the ultimate sacrifice. The most * Author Facebook: /TomSileo (6.4K difficult responsibility I had was to write notes of condolence to their mother on the followers) * Author Twitter: @TSileo (6.9K followers) loss of her sons. This book by Beau Wise and Tom Sileo is a tribute to the Wise * Author Twitter: @3WiseMenBook brothers, their family, and the legacy of patriotism they left in their service to our great nation.” —Leon Panetta, former Director of the CIA and Secretary of Defense
SERGEANT BEAU WISE served on active duty in the Marine Corps from 2008 to 2016 with 1st Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division. He is the only known American service member to receive the Department of Defense’s “Sole Survivor” designation as a result of the seventeen-plus-year war in Afghanistan. TOM SILEO is an author, senior editor of The Stream, and recipient of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation’s 2016 General Oliver P. Smith Award for distinguished reporting. Tom has written...
66 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN APRIL 2022
Rust & Stardust A Novel
T. Greenwood
A gripping, heart-wrenching read for fans of Kristina McMorris and Lisa Wingate.
Camden, NJ, 1948. When Sally Horner steals a notebook from the local Woolworth's, she’s accosted by an FBI agent. Sally dutifully follows his orders, only to be faced with a haunting realization: He’s not an FBI agent. And he’s going to kidnap her.
This gripping novel traces the next two harrowing years for Sally as she’s held captive, forever altering her life and the lives of her family, friends, and those she FICTION / LITERARY meets along the way as they travel from Camden to San Jose. Sally must St. Martin's Griffin | 4/12/2022 9781250164209 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. overcome the impossible when all hope seems lost, waiting for the day she can Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 24 return home and tell her story. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W
Subrights: U.K. Rights: St. Martin's Press Based on the experiences of real-life kidnapping victim Sally Horner and her Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press captor, whose story shocked the nation, this heart-pounding story by award- winning author T. Greenwood at last gives a voice to Sally herself. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250164216 Audio ISBN: 9781427297778 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781427297761 “[A] glowing dark ruby of a novel...So ferociously suspenseful, I found myself holding my breath, and so gorgeous and so unsettling in all the roads it might have
MARKETING taken, I kept rereading pages.” —Caroline Leavitt, New York Times bestselling * Online Publicity author of Pictures of You and Cruel Beautiful World Book Club Outreach Discussion Guide Posted Online Email Marketing Campaign "A harrowing, ripped-from-the-headlines story of lives altered in the blink of an Social Media Outreach eye, once again proving her eloquence and dexterity as an author.” —Mary Kubica, Author Website: New York Times bestselling author of The Good Girl https://www.tgreenwood.com/ Active on Facebook: @tgreenwoodauthor (2.4K followers) T. GREENWOOD's novels have sold over 250,000 copies. She has received grants from the Active on Instagram: @tgwood505 (1.2K Sherwood Anderson Foundation, Christopher Isherwood Foundation, National Endowment for the followers) Arts, and the Maryland State Arts Council. Her novel Bodies of Water was a 2014 Lambda Literary Active on Twitter: @tgwood505 (1.1K Awards Finalist; Two Rivers and Grace were each named Best General Fiction Book at the San followers) Diego Book Awards, and Where I Lost Her was a Globe and Mail bestseller in 2016. Greenwood lives with her family in San Diego.
67 MINOTAUR BOOKS APRIL 2022
Murder in Old Bombay A Mystery
Nev March
In 19th century Bombay, Captain Jim Agnihotri channels his idol, Sherlock Holmes, in Nev March’s Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut.
In 1892, Bombay is the center of British India. Nearby, Captain Jim Agnihotri lies in Poona military hospital recovering from a skirmish on the wild northern frontier, with little to read but newspapers. The case that catches Jim's attention is being called the crime of the century: Two women fell from the busy university’s clock tower in broad daylight. Moved by the widower of one of the victims — his certainty that his wife and sister did not commit suicide — Jim approaches FICTION / MYSTERY & the Framjis and is hired by the Parsee family to investigate what happened that DETECTIVE / INTERNATIONAL terrible afternoon. CRIME & MYSTERY Minotaur Books | 4/12/2022 9781250813824 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. But in a land of divided loyalties, asking questions is dangerous. Jim's Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 20 investigation disturbs the shadows that seem to follow the Framji family and 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W triggers an ominous chain of events. Subrights: UK rights: St. Martin's Press Translation rights: St. Martin's Press Based on real events, and set against the vibrant backdrop of colonial India, Nev
Other Available Formats: March's lyrical debut brings this tumultuous historical age to life. Hardcover ISBN: 9781250269546 Ebook ISBN: 9781250753779 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781250775047 “Murder in Old Bombay delivers a gripping look at India’s history, resplendent with meticulous research and depicting its social structure enhanced with realistic MARKETING characters who put the past in context with modern times.” —South Florida Sun * Online Publicity Sentinel * Goodreads Promotion * Email Marketing Campaign * Author Facebook: /NevMarch “Based on true events, March’s crisply written debut combines fascinating historic * Author Twitter: @NevMarch details with a clever puzzle.” —Kirkus Reviews * Author Instagram: @NevMarch * Author Website: NevMarch.com “March fills the story with finely developed characters, particularly Agnihotri, who proves a zealous investigator...Readers won’t be surprised this won the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award.” —Publishers Weekly
NEV MARCH is the winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award. Leaving a long career in business analysis in 2015 she returned to her passion, writing fiction. She is a member of MWA and the Hunterdon County Library Write-Group. A Parsee Zoroastrian herself, Nev lives with her husband and two sons in New Jersey. Murder in Old Bombay is her debut novel.
68 MINOTAUR BOOKS APRIL 2022
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 Barker and Llewelyn protect him from the nefarious forces aligned against the future Tsar?
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 & but the professional forces of both England and Russia. DETECTIVE / TRADITIONAL Minotaur Books | 4/12/2022 9781250828385 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. All of these measures prove inadequate when Prince George of England is Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 28 attacked by an armed anarchist who mistakes him for Nicholas. As a result, 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Barker and Llewelyn are brought in to help track down the assassin and others Subrights: UK: Maria Carvainis who might conspire against the life of the tsesarevich. The investigations lead Translation: Maria Carvainis them down several paths, including Llewelyn's old nemesis, the assassin Sofia Other Available Formats: Ilyanova. With Barker and Llewelyn both surviving separate attempts on their Hardcover ISBN: 9781250624772 lives, the race is on to find both the culprit and the assassin they hired. 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 PRAISE * Online Publicity * Goodreads Promotion "The true star power comes from its compatibly mismatched leads. Joy to those who * NetGalley Promotion * Bookstagrammer Campaign discover Mr. Thomas's latest novel this holiday season." —The Wall Street Journal * Email Marketing Campaign on Lethal Pursuit * CriminalElement.com Campaign "Masterful." —Booklist (starred review) on Dance with Death
"Thomas expertly entwines historical details, exciting action sequences, and a tender love story. This ripping yarn is sure to please series fans and garner new enthusiasts." —Publishers Weekly on Dance with Death
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.
69 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN APRIL 2022
Ticking Clock Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes
Ira Rosen
Two-time Peabody Award-winning writer and producer Ira Rosen reveals the intimate, untold stories of his decades at America’s most iconic news show. It’s a 60 Minutes story on 60 Minutes itself.
When producer Ira Rosen walked into the 60 Minutes offices in June 1980, he knew he was about to enter television history. His career catapulted him to the heights of TV journalism. But behind the scenes was a war room of clashing producers, anchors, including legendary correspondent Mike Wallace.
PERFORMING ARTS / With surprising humor, charm, and an eye for colorful detail, Rosen delivers an TELEVISION / GENRES St. Martin's Griffin | 4/19/2022 authoritative account of the unforgettable personalities that battled for prestige, 9781250830463 | $19.99 / $26.99 Can. credit, and the desire to scoop everyone else in the game. As Mike Wallace’s top Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 24 producer, Rosen reveals the interview secrets that made Wallace’s work 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W legendary, and the flaring temper that made him infamous. He exposes the Includes one 8-page black-and-white photograph section competitive environment among famous colleagues like Diane Sawyer and Barbara Walters, and the power plays between correspondents Chris Wallace, Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Anderson Cooper, and Chris Cuomo. Translation: St. Martin's Press Other Available Formats: Rosen shows readers how 60 Minutes puts together a story when sources are Hardcover ISBN: 9781250756428 Ebook ISBN: 9781250756435 explosive, unreliable, and even dangerous. From unearthing shocking revelations Audio ISBN: 9781250789914 from inside the Trump White House, to an outrageous proposition from Ghislaine Maxwell, to interviewing gangsters Joe Bonanno and John Gotti Jr., Ira Rosen was behind the scenes of 60 Minutes' most sensational stories.
MARKETING * Online Publicity Highly entertaining, dishy, and unforgettable, Ticking Clock is a never- Social Media Post before-told account of the most successful news show in American history. Email Marketing
PRAISE "Rosen grapples in the final pages with the pair of TV news giants [Hewitt and Mike Wallace] who shaped his career." —The New York Times
"[A] revealing portrait of American television’s most famous and successful news show." —Associated Press
"[Mike] Wallace might have been the Picasso of interviewers, but his producer had to be the master of landing them in the first place...the essence of the book involves the stories behind those stories." —Washington Post
For nearly twenty-five years, IRA ROSEN has produced some of the most memorable, important, and groundbreaking stories for 60 Minutes. A former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Rosen was a senior producer of Primetime Live with Diane Sawyer. Rosen has won 24 National Emmys, four duPont Awards, two RFK Awards, and two Peabodys for his work. He is the coauthor of The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island.
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Sacred Paris A Guide to the Churches, Synagogues, and the Grand Mosque in the City of Light
Susan Cahill; photographs by Marion Ranoux
From the author of Hidden Gardens of Paris and The Streets of Paris comes a beautifully illustrated guide to the history of Paris through its renowned and beloved places of worship.
When visiting the City of Light, the spirit of Paris can be felt everywhere. It holds a sacred history that goes beyond words, beyond religion, and its legendary places of worship are truly its crown jewels.
Sacred Paris is a guide for seasoned Parisian visitors, novices, and armchair TRAVEL / EUROPE / FRANCE St. Martin's Griffin | 4/19/2022 travelers to the historic religious sites of the city, from the well-known landmarks 9781250239686 | $24.99 / $33.99 Can. to the sacred spots off the beaten track, from the magnificent towers of Notre Trade Paperback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 26 Dame and the sweeping arches of the Grand Mosque to the serenity of St. Julien 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Includes 25 color photographs throughout le Pauvre. This spiritual tour is interwoven with the artistic and cultural history of Paris from the medieval Crusades through the Resistance of World War II: stand Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press in the basilica of Saint Denis, where Joan of Arc prayed with her soldiers in the Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press Hundred Years War, and gaze at the murals of Saint Sulpice painted by Eugene Other Available Formats: Delacroix or climb the hill to the Gothic Notre Dame d’Auvers that inspired Ebook ISBN: 9781250239693 Vincent van Gogh’s beloved works.
Organized by the major geographical sections of the city—Ile de la Cite; the MARKETING Latin Quarter on the Left Bank; Montparnasse; Northern Paris on the Right * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity Bank; the Marais—each chapter is accompanied by Marion Ranoux’s beautiful * Pre-Pub Online Advertising four-color photographs. Also included are lists of “Nearbys”: gardens, bistros, * Online Advertising librairies, museums, and other points of interest to round out your visit. * Early Reader Review Campaign * Email Marketing Campaign * Blog Outreach PRAISE * Netgalley Promotion * Goodreads Promotion Praise for The Streets of Paris: * Independent Bookseller Outreach * Bookstagrammer Campaign "This elegantly written book is absolutely essential reading for all travelers bound * Social Media Post * Author Website & Blog: SusanCahill.net for Paris." —Alexander Lobrano, author of Hungry for Paris and Hungry for * Author Facebook: @SusanCahillWriter France * Author Twitter @SCahillWrites "Armchair travelers will delight in the histories and may find further inspiration in the bibliography." —Library Journal
“Witty, colorful and always enlightening, The Streets of Paris is essential, whether you're visiting for the first or fiftieth time.” —Donald Spoto, bestselling author of The Redgraves: A Family Epic
SUSAN CAHILL has published several travel books on France, Italy, and Ireland, including Hidden Gardens of Paris. She is the editor of the bestselling Women and Fiction series and author of the novel Earth Angels. She spends a few months in Paris every year.
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Buses Are a Comin' Memoir of a Freedom Rider
Charles Person with Richard Rooker
A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward—written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers.
At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists—including future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of Racial Equality Director James Farmer, Reverend Benjamin Elton Cox, journalist and pacifist James Peck, and CORE field secretary Genevieve Hughes—set out to BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY discover whether America would abide by a Supreme Court decision that ruled / CULTURAL, ETHNIC & segregation unconstitutional in bus depots, waiting areas, restaurants, and REGIONAL / AFRICAN AMERICAN restrooms nationwide. & BLACK St. Martin's Griffin | 1/11/2022 9781250836762 | $17.99 / $24.50 Can. The Freedom Riders found their answer. No. Southern states would continue to Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 28 disregard federal law and use violence to enforce racial segregation. One bus was 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W burned to a shell; the second, which Charles rode, was set upon by a mob that Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Publishing beat the Riders nearly to death. Group Translation Rights: St. Martin's Publishing Group Buses Are a Comin’ provides a front-row view of the struggle to belong in Other Available Formats: America, as Charles leads his colleagues off the bus, into the station, into the Hardcover ISBN: 9781250274199 mob, and into history to help defeat segregation’s violent grip on African Ebook ISBN: 9781250274205 Audio ISBN: 9781250789921 American lives. It is also a challenge from a teenager of a previous era to the young people of today: become agents of transformation. Stand firm. Create a more just and moral country where students have a voice, youth can make a difference, and everyone belongs. MARKETING * Online Publicity * Email Marketing Campaign PRAISE * Bookstagrammer Campaign * Social Media Post “A compelling narrative, rich in its description of the searing brutality of white * Academic Marketing Campaign racists opposed to the Freedom Rides of 1961, powerful in its depiction of the courage of civil rights protestors.” —William H. Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History, emeritus, Duke University; former president, Organization of American Historians, author of Civilities and Civil Rights and The Rise and Fall of the American Century
"Charles Person's book is a very personal, poignant and political account of his life's evolution. It is especially revelatory for young males (of any ethnicity) in their sacred search for 'self, relevance and calling.' It is ...
CHARLES PERSON is one of two living Freedom Riders who remained with the original Ride from its start in Washington, DC to New Orleans. This historic event helped defeat Jim Crow laws in the US. A sought-after public speaker, Person maintains active contact with schools, museums and the activist community. He lives in Atlanta.
RICHARD ROOKER is an English and history educator, writing coach, and longtime personal 72 ST. MARTIN'S GRIFFIN APRIL 2022
The Lost Manuscript A Novel
Cathy Bonidan
A charming epistolary novel about the love of books and magical ability they have to bring people together.
Sometimes a book has the power to change your life…
When Anne-Lise Briard books a room at the Beau Rivage Hotel for her vacation in Brittany, she has no idea this trip will start her on the path to unearthing a mystery. In search of something to read, she opens up her bedside table drawer in her hotel room, and inside she finds an abandoned manuscript. Halfway through the pages, an address is written. She sends pages to the address, in hopes of FICTION / ROMANCE / potentially hearing a response from the unknown author. But not before she reads CONTEMPORARY the story and falls in love with it. The response, which she receives a few days St. Martin's Griffin | 4/26/2022 later, astonishes her… 9781250830166 | $16.99 / $22.99 Can. Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 28 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Not only does the author write back, but he confesses that he lost the manuscript 30 years prior on a flight to Montreal. And then he reveals something even more Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9781250256300 shocking—that he was not the author of the second half of the book. Ebook ISBN: 9781250256317 Anne-Lise can’t rest until she discovers who this second mystery author is, and in doing so tracks down every person who has held this manuscript in their hands.
MARKETING Through the letters exchanged by the people whose lives the manuscript has * Online Publicity touched along the way, she discovers long-lost love stories and intimate secrets. Book Club Promotion Romances blossom and new friends are made. Everyone's lives are made better Social Media Post by this book—and isn't that the point of reading? And finally, with a plot twist Email Marketing Author Twitter: @cbonidan you don't see coming, she uncovers the astonishing identity of the author who finished the story.
PRAISE "The epistolary form allows Bonidan to incorporate myriad emotional love stories, resulting in a sweeping, heart-tugging romance. Readers will be thrilled." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"This epistolary work is a charming boulevard of twists and turns. A magnifique French tale of letters, romance, and the love of books, it will be a welcome escape for all." —Library Journal
"The Lost Manuscript has a clever structure scaffolding a familiar theme: the power of stories to connect and reconnect flawed people and open their hearts." —Shelf Awareness
"Eternally hopeful, this buoyant epistolary novel is refreshingly devoid of cynicism and inste...
CATHY BONIDAN works as a teacher in Vannes and has been writing since the age of 14. Her debut novel, The Perfume of Hellebore Rose, won 11 literary awards in France. 73 Index
2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Finch, Charles; An Extravagant Death: A Charles Lenox Reshape the Future of Everything; Mauro F. Guillen...... 10 Mystery...... 20 Abdullah, Kia; Take It Back: A Novel...... 21 Finlay Donovan Is Killing It: A Mystery; Elle Cosimano. . . 11 Alexander, Brian; The Hospital: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Flowers of Darkness: A Novel; Tatiana de Rosnay...... 25 Small American Town...... 48 Fredericks, Mariah; Death of a Showman: A Mystery...... 53 All Girls: A Novel; Emily Layden...... 34 French, David; Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat Alpsten, Ellen; The Tsarina's Daughter...... 51 and How to Restore Our Nation...... 39 Alpsten, Ellen; The Tsarina's Daughter: A Novel...... 54 Frey, Rea; Secrets of Our House: A Novel...... 30 And in the End: The Last Days of The Beatles; Ken McNab Gone Missing: A Kate Burkholder Novel; Linda Castillo. . . .4 ...... 41 Good Day for Chardonnay, A: A Novel; Darynda Jones. . . 47 Animal Instinct: A K Team Novel; David Rosenfelt...... 38 Good Girl Complex; Elle Kennedy...... 28 Archer, Jeffrey; Turn a Blind Eye: A Detective William Warwick Good Sister, The: A Novel; Sally Hepworth...... 44 Novel...... 42 Grace & Steel: Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the Women of Ashcroft, Jenny; Meet Me in Bombay...... 33 the Bush Dynasty; J. Randy Taraborrelli...... 63 Asher, April; Not the Witch You Wed...... 31 Granite Coast Murders, The: A Brittany Mystery; Jean-Luc Bad Luck Bridesmaid: A Novel; Alison Rose Greenberg . . . . Bannalec...... 60 ...... 14 Greenberg, Alison Rose; Bad Luck Bridesmaid: A Novel. . . . 14 Badlands: A Novel; C.J. Box...... 58 Greenwood, T.; Rust & Stardust: A Novel...... 67 Bannalec, Jean-Luc; The Granite Coast Murders: A Brittany Guillen, Mauro F.; 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Mystery...... 60 Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything...... 10 Beaujour, Tom; Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored Hannah, Kristin; Night Road: A Novel...... 9 History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion...... 52 Hart, John; The Unwilling: A Novel...... 65 Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight for He Said/She Said: A Novel; Erin Kelly...... 3 America's First Frontier; Bob Drury...... 50 Hepworth, Sally; The Good Sister: A Novel...... 44 Bond, Gwenda; The Date from Hell: A Novel...... 61 Hill, Donna; In My Bedroom...... 17 Bonidan, Cathy; The Lost Manuscript: A Novel...... 73 Hill, Donna; Wicked Ways...... 18 Box, C.J.; Badlands: A Novel...... 58 Hillier, Jennifer; Jar of Hearts...... 6 Brush with Love, A: A Novel; Mazey Eddings...... 45 Hospital, The: Life, Death, and Dollars in a Small American Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider; Charles Town; Brian Alexander...... 48 Person...... 72 How to Love Your Neighbor: A Novel; Sophie Sullivan. . . . 19 C.R.E.A.M.; Solomon Jones...... 56 Immortality Key, The: The Secret History of the Religion Cahill, Susan; Sacred Paris: A Guide to the Churches, with No Name; Brian C. Muraresku...... 15 Synagogues, and the Grand Mosque in the City of Light. . . . 71 Imposter Bride, The: A Novel; Nancy Richler...... 5 Castillo, Linda; Gone Missing: A Kate Burkholder Novel...... 4 In My Bedroom; Donna Hill...... 17 Clean(ish): Eat (Mostly) Clean, Live (Mainly) Clean, and Jar of Hearts; Jennifer Hillier...... 6 Unlock Your Body's Natural Ability to Self-Clean; Gin Jones, Darynda; A Good Day for Chardonnay: A Novel. . . . . 47 Stephens...... 8 Jones, Solomon; C.R.E.A.M...... 56 Cosimano, Elle; Finlay Donovan Is Killing It: A Mystery. . . . . 11 Jones, Solomon; Payback: The Return of C.R.E.A.M...... 57 Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever; Kareem Rosser . . Kelly, Erin; He Said/She Said: A Novel...... 3 ...... 29 Kennedy, Elle; Good Girl Complex...... 28 Croucher, Lex; Reputation: A Novel...... 62 Layden, Emily; All Girls: A Novel...... 34 Damaged, The; Tijan...... 32 Little French Bridal Shop, The: A Novel; Jennifer Dupee . . . Dance with Death: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel; Will Thomas ...... 55 ...... 69 Lost Manuscript, The: A Novel; Cathy Bonidan...... 73 Daria, Alexis; Take the Lead: A Dance Off Novel...... 36 Lost Village, The: A Novel; Camilla Sten...... 40 Date from Hell, The: A Novel; Gwenda Bond...... 61 Lovering, Carola; Too Good to Be True: A Novel...... 27 Davidson, Jim; The Next Everest: Surviving the Mountain's March, Nev; Murder in Old Bombay: A Mystery...... 68 Deadliest Day and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again. . . 59 McNab, Ken; And in the End: The Last Days of The Beatles . . de Rosnay, Tatiana; Flowers of Darkness: A Novel...... 25 ...... 41 Death of a Showman: A Mystery; Mariah Fredericks...... 53 Meet Me in Bombay; Jenny Ashcroft...... 33 Divided We Fall: America's Secession Threat and How to Million Reasons Why, A: A Novel; Jessica Strawser...... 43 Restore Our Nation; David French...... 39 Moniz, Sammy; Feeding the Frasers: Family Favorite Recipes Doller, Trish; The Suite Spot...... 46, 49 Made to Feed the Five-Time CrossFit Games Champion, Mat Don't Look for Me: A Novel; Wendy Walker...... 12 Fraser...... 24 Drury, Bob; Blood and Treasure: Daniel Boone and the Fight Montgomery, Jess; The Stills: A Novel...... 13 for America's First Frontier...... 50 Montgomery, Selena; Never Tell...... 23, 26 Dupee, Jennifer; The Little French Bridal Shop: A Novel. . . . 55 Muraresku, Brian C.; The Immortality Key: The Secret History Eddings, Mazey; A Brush with Love: A Novel...... 45 of the Religion with No Name...... 15 Extravagant Death, An: A Charles Lenox Mystery; Charles Murder in Old Bombay: A Mystery; Nev March...... 68 Finch...... 20 Never Tell; Selena Montgomery...... 23, 26 Feeding the Frasers: Family Favorite Recipes Made to Next Everest, The: Surviving the Mountain's Deadliest Day Feed the Five-Time CrossFit Games Champion, Mat Fraser and Finding the Resilience to Climb Again; Jim Davidson . . ; Sammy Moniz...... 24 ...... 59 Night Road: A Novel; Kristin Hannah...... 9 Not the Witch You Wed; April Asher...... 31 Wicked Ways; Donna Hill...... 18 Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the Wise, Beau; Three Wise Men: A Navy SEAL, a Green Beret, '80s Hard Rock Explosion; Tom Beaujour...... 52 and How Their Marine Brother Became a War's Sole Survivor . Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States; Colin ...... 66 Quinn...... 35 Without a Doubt: Night Moves and This Magic Moment: A Palmer, D.J.; The Perfect Daughter: A Novel...... 64 2-in-1 Collection; Nora Roberts...... 2 Payback: The Return of C.R.E.A.M.; Solomon Jones. . . . . 57 Perfect Daughter, The: A Novel; D.J. Palmer...... 64 Person, Charles; Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider...... 72 Pobi, Robert; Under Pressure: A Lucas Page Novel...... 22 Quinn, Colin; Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States...... 35 Recipe Box, The: A Novel; Viola Shipman...... 7 Reputation: A Novel; Lex Croucher...... 62 Responding to the Right: Quick Replies to 100 Conservative Arguments; Nathan J. Robinson...... 37 Richler, Nancy; The Imposter Bride: A Novel...... 5 Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause; Ty Seidule...... 16 Roberts, Nora; Without a Doubt: Night Moves and This Magic Moment: A 2-in-1 Collection...... 2 Robinson, Nathan J.; Responding to the Right: Quick Replies to 100 Conservative Arguments...... 37 Rosen, Ira; Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes ...... 70 Rosenfelt, David; Animal Instinct: A K Team Novel...... 38 Rosser, Kareem; Crossing the Line: A Fearless Team of Brothers and the Sport That Changed Their Lives Forever ...... 29 Rust & Stardust: A Novel; T. Greenwood...... 67 Sacred Paris: A Guide to the Churches, Synagogues, and the Grand Mosque in the City of Light; Susan Cahill. . . . . 71 Secrets of Our House: A Novel; Rea Frey...... 30 Seidule, Ty; Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause...... 16 Shipman, Viola; The Recipe Box: A Novel...... 7 Sten, Camilla; The Lost Village: A Novel...... 40 Stephens, Gin; Clean(ish): Eat (Mostly) Clean, Live (Mainly) Clean, and Unlock Your Body's Natural Ability to Self-Clean ...... 8 Stills, The: A Novel; Jess Montgomery...... 13 Strawser, Jessica; A Million Reasons Why: A Novel...... 43 Suite Spot, The; Trish Doller...... 46, 49 Sullivan, Sophie; How to Love Your Neighbor: A Novel...... 19 Take It Back: A Novel; Kia Abdullah...... 21 Take the Lead: A Dance Off Novel; Alexis Daria...... 36 Taraborrelli, J. Randy; Grace & Steel: Dorothy, Barbara, Laura, and the Women of the Bush Dynasty...... 63 Thomas, Will; Dance with Death: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel ...... 69 Three Wise Men: A Navy SEAL, a Green Beret, and How Their Marine Brother Became a War's Sole Survivor; Beau Wise...... 66 Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes; Ira Rosen ...... 70 Tijan; The Damaged...... 32 Too Good to Be True: A Novel; Carola Lovering...... 27 Tsarina's Daughter, The: A Novel; Ellen Alpsten...... 54 Tsarina's Daughter, The; Ellen Alpsten...... 51 Turn a Blind Eye: A Detective William Warwick Novel; Jeffrey Archer...... 42 Under Pressure: A Lucas Page Novel; Robert Pobi...... 22 Unwilling, The: A Novel; John Hart...... 65 Walker, Wendy; Don't Look for Me: A Novel...... 12