MINOTAUR BOOKS AUGUST 2021
The Guilt Trip A Novel
Sandie Jones
From the New York Times bestselling author of the Reese’s Book Club pick The Other Woman, comes a gripping domestic suspense novel about a group of friends and the secrets they've kept.
Six friends.
Rachel and Noah have been friends since they met at university. While they once thought that they might be something more, now, twenty years later, they are each happily married to other people, Jack and Paige respectively. Jack’s brother FICTION / THRILLERS / DOMESTIC Will is getting married, to the dazzling, impulsive Ali, and the group of six travel Minotaur Books | 8/3/2021 to Portugal for their destination weekend. 9781250265586 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton Three couples. Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W As they arrive at a gorgeous villa perched on a cliff-edge, overlooking towering Subrights: UK Rights: Pan Macmillan waves that crash on the famous surfing beaches below at Nazaré, they try to Translation Rights: Darley Anderson settle into a weekend of fun. While Rachel is looking forward to getting to know Other Available Formats: her future sister-in-law Ali better, Ali can’t help but rub many of the group up the Ebook ISBN: 9781250265593 wrong way: Rachel’s best friend Paige thinks Ali is attention-seeking and Audio ISBN: 9781250818997 Audio ISBN: 9781250819000 childish, and while Jack is trying to support his brother Will’s choice of wife, he is also finding plenty to disagree with Noah about.
MARKETING One fatal misunderstanding . . . * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity But when Rachel discovers something about Ali that she can hardly believe, * Trade Advertising everything changes. As the wedding weekend unfolds, the secrets each of them * Pre-Pub Online Advertising * Online Advertising hold begin to spill, and friendships and marriages threaten to unravel. Soon, * Early Reader Review Campaign jumping to conclusions becomes the difference between life and death. * Special Backlist Promotion * CriminalElement.com Promotion In the vein of The Other Woman, Sandie Jones’s explosive new novel will have * NetGalley Promotion * Library Marketing Promotion readers gripped to the very last page. * Email Marketing Campaign * Social Media Promotion PRAISE * Author Website: SandieJones.co.uk * Author Facebook: /RealSandieJones Praise for The Other Woman: * Author Twitter: @RealSandieJones * Author Instagram: @SandieJones_Author "One of the most twisted and entertaining plots."—Reese Witherspoon * #TheGuiltTrip "A perfect beach read."—Kristin Hannah
"A twisty, deliciously fun read."—Sarah Pekkanen, bestselling co-author of An Anonymous Girl
"The Other Woman is an absolute corker—wickedly relatable story, wonderful 2 MINOTAUR BOOKS SEPTEMBER 2021
The Heron's Cry A Detective Matthew Venn Novel
Ann Cleeves
Ann Cleeves—New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows—returns with the extraordinary follow-up to The Long Call in the Tw...
The summer heat in North Devon is suffocating, and Detective Matthew Venn is called out to a murder scene at a rural artist's home. Dr. Nigel Yeo has been found fatally stabbed with one of his daughter’s exquisite blown-glass vases.
Dr. Yeo had been investigating the suicide of a young man, Mack, from the local FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / TRADITIONAL area in the weeks before he died. Mack suffered from depression for years, and Minotaur Books | 9/7/2021 had lately been drawn into a chilling online group led by a shadowy figure 9781250204479 | $27.99 known as The Crow. Hardcover with dust jacket | 400 pages | Carton Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Then, another man is found killed in the same way. As the sultry heat intensifies, Matthew, along with officers Ross May and Jen Rafferty, finds himself treading Subrights: UK Rights: Pan Macmillan carefully through the lies that smolder at the heart of his community. Translation Rights: Pan Macmillan Other Available Formats: DI Matthew Venn returns, and New York Times bestselling author Ann Cleeves Ebook ISBN: 9781250204493 proves once again that she is a master of her craft. Audio ISBN: 9781250818133 Audio ISBN: 9781250818140 PRAISE Praise for The Long Call: MARKETING * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity "Cleeves's true strength lies in her descriptions of the natural world, gorgeously * Trade Advertising captured."—New York Times Book Review * Pre-Pub Online Advertising * Online Advertising * Early Reader Review Campaign "Cleeves' acclaimed Shetland series may be history, but her newest detective * Social Media Campaign —buttoned-up, gay, married, ex-evangelical Matthew Venn—is a righteous * Promotion on NetGalley.com successor."—People * Email Marketing Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign * Special Backlist Offers "The plotting is complex and intriguing, the location comes alive, and the resolution * CriminalElement.com Promotion satisfies... fans of Cleeves lamenting the end of the 'Shetland' series will find much to * Author Facebook: /AnnCleeves * Author Twitter: @AnnCleeves (32K) love in her new characters and setting."—Library Journal (starred)
"Fans missing detective Jimmy Perez (Wild Fire, 2018, etc.) will find a worthy successor in the eq...
ANN CLEEVES is the multi-million copy bestselling author behind two hit television series —Shetland, starring Douglas Henshall, and Vera, starring Academy Award Nominee Brenda Blethyn—both of which are watched and loved in the United States.
Shetland and Vera are available on BritBox in the United States. An adaptation of The Long Call, the first book in her Two Rivers series, will premiere on BritBox in 2022.
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The Missing Hours A Novel
Julia Dahl
A riveting standalone novel from award-winning author Julia Dahl confronts the aftermath of a campus rape and the lengths that some will go to keep the truth hidden
From a distance, Claudia Castro has it all: a famous family, a trust fund, thousands of Instagram followers, and a spot in NYU’s freshman class. But look closer, and things are messier: her parents are separating, she’s just been humiliated by a sleazy documentary, and her sister is about to have a baby with a man she barely knows.
FICTION / THRILLERS / Claudia starts the school year resolved to find a path toward something positive, SUSPENSE maybe even meaningful—and then one drunken night everything changes. Minotaur Books | 9/14/2021 Reeling, her memory hazy, Claudia cuts herself off from her family, seeking 9781250083722 | $25.99 / $34.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton solace in a new friendship. But when the rest of school comes back from spring Qty: 20 break, Claudia is missing. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W
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Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250083739 From the critically acclaimed author of Invisible City and Conviction, The Audio ISBN: 9781250241047 Missing Hours is a novel about obsession, privilege, and the explosive Audio ISBN: 9781250241030 consequences of one violent act.
PRAISE MARKETING * Author Appearances “The Missing Hours is not only a dark and well-paced thriller, but also a thoughtful * National Print Publicity exploration of the meaning of vengeance, survival, and justice.” —Alafair Burke * Online Publicity * Trade Advertising * Pre-Pub Online Advertising "Fast-paced and fierce, The Missing Hours is the gripping story of one woman’s * Online Advertising struggle to determine what she can live with—and what she’ll never stop fighting * National IndieBound Campaign * Widespread Designed ARC Distribution for.” —Elizabeth Little * Early Reader Review Campaign * Tastemaker Campaign "The Missing Hours is propulsive storytelling at its best. With complex characters * Promotion on NetGalley.com * Social Media Campaign and a deft understanding of social dynamics, the novel also captures, in a powerful * Email Marketing Campaign and nuanced way, the rich and complicated now. Highly recommended." —Lou * Library Marketing Campaign Berney * CriminalElement.com Promotion * Discussion Guide Available Online * Author Twitter: @juliadahl Julia Dahl is the author of Conviction, Run You Down, and Invisible City, which was a finalist for * Author Facebook: @JuliaDahlAuthor the Edgar Award for Best First Novel, one of the Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2014, and has been * Author Website... translated into eight languages. A former reporter for CBS News and the New York Post, she now teaches journalism at NYU.
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Marked Man A Joe Gunther Novel
Archer Mayor
The death of a local millionaire becomes suspicious when Joe Gunther learns that he was not who he claimed.
A year ago, local philanthropist and millionaire Nathan Lyon died a natural death in his sprawling mansion, a 150,000 square foot converted mill, surrounded by his loving, attentive family. Or so it seemed at the time. Now Joe Gunther and his Vermont Bureau of Investigation team has discovered that almost nothing about that story was true. Nathan Lyon was actually Nick Bianchi from Providence, Rhode Island. His money came from Mafia-tainted sources. And his family now seems to be dying themselves and their deaths are now revealed to be murders. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / POLICE As Gunther’s team desperately works to uncover what is going on at The Mill, PROCEDURAL who is responsible and what they are trying to accomplish, Joe himself travels to Minotaur Books | 9/28/2021 9781250224163 | $28.99 / $38.99 Can. Rhode Island to look into the original source of the money. While the police are Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton doing their jobs, private investigator Sally Kravitz teams up with reporter Rachel Qty: 20 Reiling to expose the truth behind this tangled and expanding web of duplicity, 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W greed, and obsession. Having betrayed many, it’s no surprise that Nathan Lyon Subrights: UK: The Friedrich Agency was a marked man. But now Gunther has to figure out who, among the many, Translation: The Friedrich Agency killed him, and stop them before their killing spree claims another. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250224170 PRAISE "Outstanding... Mayor keeps the suspense high as he showcases each of his detectives' special talents... in this welcome addition to the long-running series." MARKETING * Special Backlist Offers Available —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Trace * Early Reader Review Campaign * CriminalElement.com Promotion "One of the best series around...with its excellent noir touches, terrific plots, and * Email Marketing Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign really interesting central characters." -- The Globe and Mail on The Price of Malice * Author Website: archermayor.com * Author Facebook: /archermayor (6.4K) * Author Twitter: @ArcherMayor “One of the most sophisticated stylists in the genre." —New York Times on The * Author Instagram: @archermayorbooks Skeleton's Knee
ARCHER MAYOR, in addition to writing the New York Times bestselling Joe Gunther series, is a death investigator for the state medical examiner and has twenty-five years of experience as a firefighter/EMT. He lives near Brattleboro, Vermont.
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Echoes of the Dead A Special Tracking Unit Novel
Spencer Kope
A group of missing friends forces 'Steps' Craig to contend with the most twisted killer he's ever encountered.
Magnus “Steps” Craig is the best 'tracker' in the world, renowned for his ability to follow a person's trail anywhere - no matter the terrain or how old the trail. Steps utilizes his unique talent as part of the elite three-man Special Tracking Unit of the FBI, which is called in on cases that require his unparalleled skills. But there’s a secret to his success. Steps has a kind of synesthesia where he can see the ‘essence’ of a person—which appears to him as a unique color or pattern he calls "shine"—on everything they’ve touched. It's a secret Steps has shared with a rare few people and could, if revealed, endanger not only himself but the FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / POLICE unit that he serves. PROCEDURAL Minotaur Books | 9/21/2021 Steps and the Special Tracking Unit are called in on a new case where the local 9781250179401 | $28.99 / $38.50 Can. law enforcement is baffled. Four friends have vanished while on their annual Hardcover with dust jacket | 320 pages | Carton Qty: 20 fly-fishing trip—a congressman, a district attorney, a CEO of a major accounting 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W firm, and a cofounder of a successful hedge fund. Now, Steps must search some of the most treacherous terrain, the Sierra Nevada range, as one by one time Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: St. Martin's Press begins to run out for the missing men. Desperate to save whoever they can, Steps and his team discover that this is no simple missing persons case, but one with Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250179449 sinister motivations unlike any they've seen before.
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MARKETING "A heart-thumping yarn from a real-life crime analyst" —The Boston Globe * Early Reader Review Campaign * Social Media Campaign * Promotion on NetGalley.com “A winner. Crammed with characters who will capture readers’ attention and * Email Marketing Campaign writing that leaves much of the field in the dust, Kope’s novel features a character * Library Marketing Campaign who is different, talented, sympathetic, and gifted with great heart.” —Kirkus * Special Backlist Offers * CriminalElement.com Promotion Reviews (starred review) on Collecting the Dead * Author Facebook: /Spencer.Kope * Author Website: SpencerKope.com "Endlessly frightening, occasionally funny, Collecting the Dead portends a great future for author and hero in a promised sequel — and beyond." —Richmond Times-Dispatch
SPENCER KOPE is the author of Collecting the Dead (a finalist for the Barry Award for Best Thriller), Whispers of the Dead, and Shadows of the Dead -- the first three novels featuring Steps and the Special Tracking Unit. He is also the Crime Analyst for the Whatcom County Sheriff’s Office in Washington State. Currently assigned to the Detectives Division, he provides case support to the detectives and deputies. He lives in Washington State.
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These Silent Woods A Novel
Kimi Cunningham Grant
A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in this mesmerizing novel of suspense.
No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world.
For eight years, Cooper and his young daughter, Finch, have lived in isolation in a remote cabin in the northern Appalachian woods. And that's exactly the way Cooper wants it, because he's got a lot to hide. Finch has been raised on the books filling the cabin’s shelves and the beautiful but brutal code of life in the FICTION / THRILLERS / wilderness. But she’s starting to push back against the sheltered life Cooper has SUSPENSE created for her—and he’s still haunted by the painful truth of what it took to get Minotaur Books | 10/26/2021 9781250793393 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. them there. Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton Qty: 24 The only people who know they exist are a mysterious local hermit named 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Scotland, and Cooper's old friend, Jake, who visits each winter to bring them Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press food and supplies. But this year, Jake doesn't show up, setting off an irreversible Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press chain of events that reveals just how precarious their situation really is. Suddenly, Other Available Formats: the boundaries of their safe haven have blurred—and when a stranger wanders Ebook ISBN: 9781250793409 into their woods, Finch’s growing obsession with her could put them all in Audio ISBN: 9781250823809 danger. After a shocking disappearance threatens to upend the only life Finch has ever known, Cooper is forced to decide whether to keep hiding—or finally face the sins of his past. MARKETING * National Print Publicity Vividly atmospheric and masterfully tense, These Silent Woods is a poignant * Online Publicity * Pre-Pub Online Advertising story of survival, sacrifice, and how far a father will go when faced with losing it * Online Advertising all. * Early Reader Review Campaign * Promotion on NetGalley.com * Tastemaker Campaign PRAISE * Social Media Campaign * Email Marketing Campaign “Gorgeously written, taut and compelling.” –John Hart, bestselling author of The * Library Marketing Campaign Hush * CriminalElement.com Promotion * Discussion Guide Available Online * Author Twitter: @kimicgrant “An exceptional novel, filled with vivid prose and surprising revelations of * Author Website: character.” –Ron Rash, bestselling author of Serena kimicunninghamgrant.com * Also Available from Macmillan Audio: 9781250823809 “A beautifully rendered tale of guilt and grace.” –Laura McHugh, bestselling author of The Weight of Blood
“Grant’s atmospheric novel masterfully ratchets the quietest of tense moments into powerful suspense.” –Jess Montgomery, author of The Hollows
KIMI CUNNINGHAM GRANT is the author of Fallen Mountains, Silver Like Dust, and These Silent Woods. Kimi is a two-time winner of a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize in Poetry and a recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts fellowship in creative nonfiction. Her poems and essays have appeared in Fathom, Literary Mama, RATTLE, Poet Lore, and Whitefish Review. 7 MINOTAUR BOOKS OCTOBER 2021
Down the Hatch An Agatha Raisin Mystery
M. C. Beaton with R.W. Green
Beloved New York Times bestseller M. C. Beaton's cranky, crafty Agatha Raisin—the star of her own hit T.V. series—is back on the case again in Down the Hatch.
Private detective Agatha Raisin, having recently taken up power-walking, is striding along a path in Mircester Park during her lunch break when she hears a cry for help. Rushing over, she finds an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Swinburn, in the middle of the green—with the body of an old man lying at their feet.
The man, who the coroner determines died by poisoning, was known as "the FICTION / MYSTERY & Admiral," a gardener notorious for his heavy drinking, and Chief Inspector DETECTIVE / COZY Wilkes writes the death off as an accident caused by the consumption of Minotaur Books | 10/26/2021 weedkiller stored in a rum bottle. Agatha is not convinced that anyone would 9781250816139 | $26.99 / $36.50 Can. mistake weedkiller for rum but carries on with her work at Raisin Investigations, Hardcover with dust jacket | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 24 until she receives an anonymous tip that the Admiral’s death was no accident. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W
Subrights: UK Rights: Constable/Little Brown, Local gossip points to the Swinburns themselves as the killers, spurred by a feud UK at the club where they, as well as the Admiral, were members. Distraught at this Translation Rights: Lowenstein Associates Inc. accusation, they turn to Agatha to clear their name, and she takes the Other Available Formats: case—despite the warnings of Chief Inspector Wilkes. Ebook ISBN: 9781250816146 Agatha encounters one suspicious character after another, becoming further enmeshed in the Admiral’s own dark and shady past. And when she's run off the MARKETING road, narrowly escaping with her life, and then another attack occurs, it becomes * National Print Publicity clear that someone doesn’t want the case closed—and will stop at nothing to * Online Publicity prevent Agatha from solving it. * Pre-Pub Online Advertising * Online Advertising * Early Reader Review Campaign PRAISE * Social Media Campaign * Promotion on NetGalley.com "Superb." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on Hot to Trot * Email Marketing Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign "Once you meet Agatha Raisin, you'll keep coming back." —New York Journal of * Special Backlist Offers * Minotaur Cozy Program Books * CriminalElement.com Promotion * Author Facebook: /MCBeatonAuthor (28K) "M.C. Beaton has a foolproof plot for the village mystery." —The New York Times Book Review
"Beaton has a winner in the irrepressible, romance-hungry Agatha." —Chicago Sun-Times
M. C. Beaton (1936-2019), the “Queen of Crime” (The Globe and Mail), was the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestselling Agatha Raisin novels—the basis for the hit show on Acorn TV and public television—as well as the Hamish Macbeth series and the Edwardian Murder Mysteries featuring Lady Rose Summer. Born in Scotland, she started her career writing historical romances under several pseudonyms and her maiden name, Marion Chesney.
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Best in Snow
David Rosenfelt
In this Christmas mystery, lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, are on the beat after a body turns up in the snow and a journalist is the prime suspect.
Christmas has come early to the town of Paterson, New Jersey, in the form of a snowstorm that dumps two feet of snow on the ground. Lawyer Andy Carpenter likes snow – white Christmas and all that – but it can cause problems for the walks he takes his dogs on every day.
When Andy’s golden retriever, Tara, goes to play in the snow and instead discovers a body, Andy ends up on the phone with the local newspaper editor. The murder victim is Mayor Alex Oliva, who had an infamous relationship with FICTION / MYSTERY & the newspaper. Last year a young reporter published an expose, and Oliva had DETECTIVE / TRADITIONAL Minotaur Books | 10/12/2021 him fired for libel. Now, the young reporter – and prime suspect – is in need of a 9781250257178 | $25.99 / $34.99 Can. lawyer. Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton Qty: 20 Andy agrees to take the case, though it’s not looking good this holiday season. 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W The evidence is piling up faster than the snow in Best in Snow, the latest Subrights: UK rights: St. Martin's Press Christmas mystery in the bestselling Andy Carpenter series from David Translation rights: Writers House Rosenfelt. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250257161 PRAISE Audio ISBN: 9781250818058 Audio ISBN: 9781250818065 "Silent Bite is highly recommended and is proof that each new installment in the Andy Carpenter Mystery series is a winner." — Portland Book Review
MARKETING “Dog lovers won’t want to miss this one.” – Publishers Weekly on Dachshund * Pre-Pub Online Advertising * Online Advertising Through the Snow * Early Reader Review Campaign * Blog and Bookstagram Outreach “All the elements dedicated readers will be expecting, wrapped up in a festive * Promotion on CriminalElement.com * Special Backlist Offers Yuletide setting.” — Library Journal (starred review) on Deck the Hounds * Promotion on NetGalley * Email Marketing Campaign David Rosenfelt is the Edgar-nominated and Shamus Award-winning author of more than twenty * Library Marketing Campaign Andy Carpenter novels, most recently Dog Eat Dog; nine stand-alone thrillers; two non-fiction * Social Media Campaign * Author Facebook: /DavidRosenfelt titles; and two K Team novels, a new series featuring some of the characters from the Andy * Author Website: DavidRosenfelt.com Carpenter series. After years of living in California, he and his wife moved to Maine with twenty-five of the four thousand dogs they have rescued.
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The Twelve Jays of Christmas A Meg Langslow Mystery
Donna Andrews
The cast of Donna Andrews’ New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow mystery series is back for an unforgettable Christmas story.
Meg's brother Rob and his fiancé Delaney have been engaged for some time now. In fear of their mothers’ propensity for over-the-top celebrations, they decide to throw a party just before Christmas and then elope.
When a blizzard traps their guests inside, the two mothers find out about the planned elopement and start trying to pull together the kind of over-the-top event FICTION / MYSTERY & the couple was trying to avoid in the first place. DETECTIVE / COZY Minotaur Books | 10/12/2021 To make matters worse, a murder is afoot. Will Meg manage to help the 9781250760180 | $26.99 / $37.99 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton snowbound would-be eloping couple thwart their mothers' grandiose wedding Qty: 20 plans AND solve a murder among the assembled friends and relatives? 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W
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Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250760197 "Andrews deftly juggles franchise characters, newbies, red herrings, Renaissance Audio ISBN: 9781250822659 tidbits, and murder most welcome." —Kirkus Reviews Audio ISBN: 9781250822666 "This quirky, long-running cozy series shows no signs of losing steam." —Publishers Weekly MARKETING * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity Praise for Donna Andrews: * Online Advertising * Early Reader Review Campaign “With its well-spun plots and distinctive characters, Andrews’s amusing * Blog and Bookstagram Outreach * Promotion on CriminalElement.com avian-named series shows no signs of growing stale.” —Publishers Weekly * Special Backlist Offers * Promotion on NetGalley "Fans will find all the beloved hallmarks of this award-winning series: fresh * Email Marketing Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign characters, an engaging puzzle, and delightful humor.” —Library Journal * Social Media Campaign * Promotion on CriminalElement.com DONNA ANDREWS has won the Agatha, Anthony, and Barry Awards, an RT Book Reviews * Author Facebook: /DonnaAndrewsBooks * Author Website: DonnaAndrews.com Award for best first novel, and four Lefty and two Toby Bromberg awards for funniest mystery. She is a member of the Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and Novelists, Inc. Andrews lives in Reston, Virginia. The Twelve Jays of Christmas is the 30th book and eighth Christmas mystery in the Meg Langslow series.
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Silent Parade
Keigo Higashino
Detective Galileo, Keigo Higashino’s best loved character from The Devotion of Suspect X, returns in a complex and challenging mystery—several murders, decades apart, with no solid evidence
A popular young girl disappears without a trace, her skeletal remains discovered three years later in the ashes of a burned out house. There’s a suspect and compelling circumstantial evidence of his guilt, but no concrete proof. When he isn’t indicted, he returns to mock the girl’s family. And this isn’t the first time he’s been suspected of the murder of a young girl, nearly twenty years ago he was tried and released due to lack of evidence. Detective Chief Inspector Kusanagi of the Homicide Division of the Tokyo Police worked both cases. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / POLICE PROCEDURAL The neighborhood in which the murdered girl lived is famous for an annual street Minotaur Books | 12/14/2021 festival, featuring a parade with entries from around Tokyo and Japan. During the 9781250624819 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. parade, the suspected killer dies unexpectedly. His death is suspiciously Hardcover with dust jacket | 352 pages | Carton convenient but the people with all the best motives have rock solid alibis. DCI Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Kusanagi turns once again to his college friend, Physics professor and occasional police consultant Manabu Yukawa, known as Detective Galileo, to help solve the Subrights: UK: Abacus/Little Brown UK Translation: Japan Uni Agency for Bungeishunju string of impossible to prove murders.
Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250624826 PRAISE "They are indeed writing confounding puzzle mysteries the way they used to. They just happen to be writing them in Japanese. And by "they," I mean Keigo Higashino MARKETING whose elegant whodunits are feats of classic ratiocination." -- Marilyn Stasio, The * National Print Publicity New York Times Book Review, on Salvation of a Saint * Online Publicity * Early Reader Review Campaign * Social Media Campaign “Classic detective-story puzzles reminiscent of Agatha Christie and E.C. * Promotion on NetGalley.com Bentley.”—Wall Street Journal on Malice * Email Marketing Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign * Social Media Campaign KEIGO HIGASHINO is the bestselling, best-known novelist in Japan and around Asia, with * Special Backlist Offers numerous television and film adaptations of his work appearing in several languages. He's the * CriminalElement.com Promotion author of The Devotion of Suspect X, which was a finalist for the Edgar Award for best novel, and Malice. He lives in Tokyo, Japan.
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The Cure for What Ales You A Sloan Krause Mystery
Ellie Alexander
Amateur sleuth and brewer Sloan Krause contends with her past--and a murder related to it--in another delightful mystery from cozy writer Ellie Alexander.
After a long cold winter, spring is beginning to bloom in the alpine village of Leavenworth, Washington, where craft brewer Sloan Krause and her partner in crime Garrett Strong are putting the finishing touches on their bright and refreshing Lemon Kiss ale. They’ll be debuting their new line at the Maifest celebration, which will bring visitors from near and far to dance around the Maipole and shop at the outdoor flower markets. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / COZY Despite the festive spirit in the air, Sloan is brewing over her past. She’s spent Minotaur Books | 10/5/2021 months following leads that have turned into dead ends. But when she spots a 9781250781451 | $26.99 / $36.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton woman who strongly resembles Marianne—a long lost contact who may be her Qty: 24 only connection to piecing together her story—she hopes that things might be 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W taking a turn in her favor. That hope is quickly smashed when Marianne is Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press involved in the murder of a local housekeeper. To make matters worse, Marianne Translation: St. Martin's Press issues a dire warning that Sloan and her entire family are in danger. If Sloan can’t figure out who the killer is and what happened in her past, she won’t find any Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250781468 hoppy endings.
PRAISE MARKETING "A delight for foodies, craft beer fans, and lovers of twisty mysteries with a bit of * Online Publicity * Online Advertising humor." --Kirkus Reviews * Early Reader Review Campaign * Social Media Campaign "Distinctive characters and fun anecdotes about beer and brewing help make this a * Promotion on NetGalley.com * Email Marketing Campaign winner. Readers will want to keep coming back for more." --Publishers Weekly * Library Marketing Campaign * Social Media Campaign "With its beautifully described small-town setting and seamlessly entwined details * Special Backlist Offers * Minotaur Cozy Program about brewing beer, this cozy will appeal to beer lovers everywhere as well as * CriminalElement.com Promotion readers who enjoy mysteries highlighting family relationships and independent * Author Website: elliealexander.co female main characters." --Booklist * Author Facebook: @EllieAlexanderAuthor (37k followers) * Author Twitter: @BakeshopMystery ELLIE ALEXANDER is a Pacific Northwest native who spends ample time testing pastry recipes * Author Instagram: @ellie_alexander in her home kitchen or at one of the many famed coffeehouses nearby. When she’s not coated in flour, you’ll find her outside exploring hiking trails and trying to burn off calories consumed in the name of “research.” She is also the author of the Bakeshop Mysteries, which began with Meet Your Baker. Find her on Facebook to learn more!
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The Return of the Pharaoh From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.
Nicholas Meyer
Sherlock Holmes returns in an adventure that takes him to Egypt in search of a missing nobleman, a previously undiscovered pharaoh's tomb, and a conspiracy that threatens his very life.
With his international bestseller, The Seven Per Cent Solution, Nicholas Meyer brought to light a previously unpublished case of Sherlock Holmes that reinvigorated the world's interest in the first consulting detective. Now, many years later, Meyer is given exclusive access to Dr. Watson's unpublished journal, wherein he details a previously unknown case. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / TRADITIONAL In 1910, Dr. John Watson travels to Egypt with his wife Juliet. Her tuberculosis Minotaur Books | 11/9/2021 9781250788207 | $25.99 / $34.99 Can. has returned and her doctor recommends a stay at a sanitarium in a dry climate. Hardcover with dust jacket | 272 pages | Carton But while his wife undergoes treatment, Dr. Watson bumps into an old friend - Qty: 24 Sherlock Holmes, in disguise and on a case. An English Duke with a penchant 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W for egyptology has disappeared, leading to enquiries from his wife and the Home Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Office. Sherlock Holmes has discovered that the missing duke has indeed Translation: Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency vanished from his lavish rooms in Cairo and that he was on the trail of a previous Other Available Formats: undiscovered and unopened tomb. And that he's only the latest Egyptologist to Ebook ISBN: 9781250788214 die or disappear under odd circumstances. With the help of Howard Carter, Audio ISBN: 9781250830821 Holmes and Watson are on the trail of something much bigger, more important, Audio ISBN: 9781250830838 and more sinister than an errant lord.
PRAISE MARKETING * Author Appearances “Reading Nicholas Meyer’s very first Sherlock Holmes adventure, The Seven- * National Broadcast Publicity Per-Cent Solution, made me decide to become a writer. Reading his latest simply * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity made me a delighted and satisfied reader.” —Michael Chabon * Pre-Pub Online Advertising * Online Advertising * Special Backlist Offers Available “Rich with period detail and clever invention.” —Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal on * Library Marketing Campaign The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols * Extensive Blog Outreach * Early Reader Review Campaign * NetGalley Promotion "Fabulous... Holmes enthusiasts will relish this well-crafted novel." —Library * CriminalElement.com Promotion Journal (starred review) on The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols * Email Marketing Campaign * Tastemaker Campaign * Author Website: nicholas-meyer.com NICHOLAS MEYER is the author of four previous Sherlock Holmes novels, including the New * Author Facebook: /nicholasmeyerauthor York Times bestseller The Seven-Per-Cent Solution and The Adventure of the Peculiar Protocols. * Author Twitter: @nicholasmq He's a screen-writer and film director, responsible for The Day After, Time After Time, as well as Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan among many others. A native of New York City, he lives in Santa Monica, California.
13 MINOTAUR BOOKS NOVEMBER 2021
Hello, Transcriber A Novel
Hannah Morrissey
A captivating mystery suspense debut featuring a female police transcriber who goes beyond the limits to solve a harrowing case.
Every night, while the street lamps shed the only light on Wisconsin's most crime-ridden city, police transcriber Hazel Greenlee listens as detectives divulge Black Harbor's gruesome secrets. As an aspiring writer, Hazel believes that writing a novel could be her only ticket out of this frozen hellscape. And then her neighbor confesses to hiding the body of an overdose victim in a dumpster.
FICTION / THRILLERS / The suspicious death is linked to Candy Man, a notorious drug dealer. Now SUSPENSE Minotaur Books | 11/30/2021 Hazel has a first row seat to the investigation and becomes captivated by the lead 9781250795953 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. detective, Nikolai Kole. Intrigued by the prospects of gathering eyewitness intel Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton for her book, Hazel joins Kole in exploring Black Harbor's darkest side. As the Qty: 20 investigation unfolds, Hazel will learn just how far she'll go for a good 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W story—even if it means destroying her marriage and luring the killer to her as she Subrights: UK Rights: St. Martin's Press plunges deeper into the city she's desperate to claw her way out of. Translation Rights: St. Martin's Press
Other Available Formats: PRAISE Ebook ISBN: 9781250795960 Audio ISBN: 9781250823779 "Hello, Transcriber is a dark, atmospheric, and compelling debut by a unique talent. I was sucked in immediately and could think of little else until the last page.” —C.J. Box MARKETING * National Print Publicity "An edgy and haunting crime novel with a complex and world-weary heroine at the *Online Publicity * Trade Advertising center. Hannah Morrissey writes with passion, razor-edged prose, and most * Pre-Pub Online Advertising importantly, authenticy. No doubt destined to become one of this year's best * Online Advertising debuts." —Ace Atkins * National IndieBound Campaign * Widespread Designed ARC Distribution * Early Reader Review Campaign HANNAH MORRISSEY earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin - * Promotion on NetGalley.com Madison. She grew up on a farm in a small northern town and now lives near Milwaukee with her * Tastemaker Campaign husband and two pugs. Hello, Transcriber is her debut novel, inspired by her work as a police * Social Media Campaign transcriber. * Email Marketing Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign * CriminalElement.com Promotion * Author Instagram: @HannahMorrisseyWriter
14 MINOTAUR BOOKS NOVEMBER 2021
The Deathwatch Beetle
Kjell Eriksson
Former Swedish police inspector Ann Lindell returns in internationally bestselling and award-winning Kjell Eriksson's newest mystery.
Four years have passed since Cecilia Karlsson disappeared from the island of Gräsö in Roslagen. When Ann Lindell receives a tip that she has been seen alive she cannot help getting involved, even though she is no longer with the police.
The black sheep of the island, Nils Lindberg, has never forgotten Cecilia Karlsson, with whom he was in love as a teenager. And he carries a secret. He may not be completely sober all the time, but he has no doubt of what he saw out on the bay just before Cecilia disappeared. Cecilia's parents are desperate, not FICTION / MYSTERY & knowing what happened to their daughter. Yet their silent house contains many DETECTIVE / POLICE things that have been left unsaid. While Ann struggles to put the jigsaw puzzle PROCEDURAL Minotaur Books | 11/16/2021 together, she is trying to establish herself in her new life together with her lover 9781250766168 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. Edvard who, like herself, is marked by life. At the same time, someone is hiding Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton in a cottage in a remote part of the island. Someone who is looking for revenge... Qty: 20 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Kjell Eriksson's latest Ann Lindell book is an atmospheric thriller and a tender Subrights: UK rights: St. Martin's Press depiction of the countryside and the people of Roslagen. Translation: Copenhagen Literary Agency
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MARKETING "Exceptional...This artful blend of mystery and psychology is sure to please * National Print Publicity Scandinavian noir fans." —Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Night of the * Online Publicity Fire * Early Reader Review Campaign * Social Media Campaign * Promotion on NetGalley.com "The heroine’s eighth case uses a clever whodunit to treat contemporary issues with * Email Marketing Campaign complexity and compassion." —Kirkus Reviews on The Night of the Fire * Library Marketing Campaign * Special Backlist Offers * CriminalElement.com Promotion "A pivotal series entry, blending procedural details with nuanced character development and insightful social commentary." —Booklist on The Night of the Fire
KJELL ERIKSSON is an award-winning and internationally bestselling Swedish author and gardener, now living in Brazil.
15 MINOTAUR BOOKS DECEMBER 2021
The Witching Tree A Natalie Lockhart Novel
Alice Blanchard
Welcome to Burning Lake, a small, isolated town with a dark history of witches and false accusations. Now, a modern-day witch has been murdered, and Detective Natalie Lockhart is reluctantly dra...
As legend has it, if you carve your deepest desire into the bark of a Witch Tree, then over time as the tree grows, it will swallow the carvings until only a witch can read them. The history of Burning Lake is carved in the trees, and only the witches could understand it.
FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / POLICE Until now. PROCEDURAL Minotaur Books | 12/7/2021 Detective Natalie Lockhart gained unwanted notoriety when she and her family 9781250783042 | $27.99 / $37.99 Can. became front and center of not one, but two sensational murder cases. Now she’s Hardcover with dust jacket | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 lost her will, and her way. Burned out and always looking over your shoulder is 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W no way to be a cop, and Natalie desperately thinks that maybe quitting is her only option left. Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press Translation: Jill Marr, Sandra Dijkstra Agency All that changes when a beloved resident—a practicing Wiccan and founder of Other Available Formats: the town’s oldest coven—is killed in a fashion more twisted and shocking than Ebook ISBN: 9781250783059 Natalie has ever seen, leaving the town reeling. Natalie has no choice but to help solve the case along with Luke, the detective, boss, and old childhood friend she cannot admit she loves, even to herself. There is a silent, malignant presence in MARKETING Burning Lake, that will not rest. And what happens next is a series of disturbing * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity events that will shock the town, and Natalie, to the core. * Trade Advertising * Pre-Pub Online Advertising PRAISE * Online Advertising * Early Reader Review Campaign “Readers will welcome a return to Burning Lake with Natalie at the helm.” * Blog and Bookstagram Outreach * Promotion on CriminalElement.com —Associated Press * Special Backlist Offers * Promotion on NetGalley "Powerful...I look forward to reading more in the series." – bestselling author Ann * Email Marketing Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign Cleeves * Social Media Campaign * Author Instagram: ALICE BLANCHARD is an award-winning author. She has received a PEN Award, a New Letters @AliceBlanchard.Author * Author Twitter: @AliceBooks333 Literary Award, a Centrum Artists-in-Residence Fellowship, and a Katherine Anne Porter Prize for * Author Website: AliceBlanchard.com Fiction. Her debut novel, Darkness Peering, was a New York Times' Notable Book and a Barnes & Noble Best Mystery book. Her work has been published in 17 countries.
16 MINOTAUR BOOKS DECEMBER 2021
Dark Night A Mystery
Paige Shelton
The third book in the gripping, atmospheric Alaska Wild series by beloved cozy author Paige Shelton, in which Beth is met with an unexpected visitor: her mom.
Winter is falling in the remote town of Benedict, Alaska, and with the cold comes an uninvited guest. The dreaded "census man," seemingly innocuous, is an unwelcome presence to those members of this secretive community who would prefer to keep their business to themselves. Meanwhile, thriller writer Beth Rivers has received her own unexpected visitor: her mother. The last Beth heard, Mill Rivers had gone underground in the lower forty-eight, in search of Beth’s FICTION / MYSTERY & kidnapper, and Beth can't help but be a little alarmed at her appearance: If Mill DETECTIVE / WOMEN SLEUTHS was able to track down her daughter, who knows who else might be able to? Minotaur Books | 12/7/2021 9781250796271 | $26.99 / $36.50 Can. Hardcover with dust jacket | 288 pages | Carton Beth doesn't have time to ponder this for long, after a battered woman stumbles Qty: 24 into the town bar one night, and her husband is found dead the next morning. 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Suspicions immediately turn to the census man, but when he, too, goes missing, Subrights: UK: St. Martin's Press everyone in Benedict—including the police chief—is suspected, and Beth and Translation: BookEnds Mill must work to figure out what really happened. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250796288 PRAISE Praise for Thin Ice:
MARKETING * Online Advertising "[A] riveting story with an unusual setting and cast of characters." —Library * Early Reader Review Campaign Journal (Starred, Pick of the Month) * Book Community Outreach * Promotion on NetGalley.com * CriminalElement.com Promotion "A page-turner with an unusual location." —Kirkus * Special Backlist Offers * Email Marketing Campaign * Library Marketing Campaign "Readers are left wondering up to the last exciting page what the answers are, and * Social Media Campaign will eagerly await the second in this new Alaska mysteries series from the author of * Author Twitter: @AuthorPaige the Scottish Bookshop mysteries." —Booklist * Author Facebook: @AuthorPaigeShelton * Author Website: PaigeShelton.com * Paperback Tie-In: Cold Wind, 10/2021 PAIGE SHELTON had a nomadic childhood as her father’s job as a football coach took the family to seven different towns before she was even twelve years old. After college at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, she moved to Salt Lake City where she thought she’d only stay a few years, but she fell in love with the mountains and a great guy who became her husband. After a couple of decades in Utah, she and her family recently moved to Arizona.
17 MINOTAUR BOOKS DECEMBER 2021
Jane Austen's Lost Letters
Jane K. Cleland
The fourteenth installment in the beloved Josie Prescott Antiques series, set on the rugged New Hampshire coast.
On a crisp October Monday afternoon, Josie returns to her business, Prescott’s Antiques & Auctions, after a lunch hour walk taking in New Hampshire’s autumn foliage to find an elegant older woman waiting to see her. Veronica Sutton introduces herself as an old friend of Josie’s father, who had died twenty years earlier. Veronica seems fidgety, and after only a few minutes, hands Josie a brown paper-wrapped package, about the size of a shoebox, and leaves.
Mystified, Josie opens the package, and gasps when she sees what’s inside: a FICTION / MYSTERY & notecard bearing her name—in her father’s handwriting—and a green leather DETECTIVE / COZY box. Inside the box are two letters in transparent plastic sleeves. The first bears Minotaur Books | 12/14/2021 9781250779380 | $26.99 / $36.50 Can. the salutation, “My dear Cassandra,” the latter, “Dearest Fanny.” Both are signed Hardcover with dust jacket | 304 pages | Carton “Jane Austen.” Could her father have really accidentally found two previously Qty: 24 unknown letters by one of the world’s most beloved authors—Jane Austen? 8.3 in H | 5.4 in W Reeling, Josie tries to track down Veronica, but the woman has vanished without Includes one black-and-white map a trace. Subrights: UK Rights: Don Congdon Associates, Inc. Translation Rights: Don Congdon Associates, Inc. Josie sets off on the quest of a lifetime to learn what Veronica knows about her father and to discover whether the Jane Austen letters are real. As she draws Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250779397 close to the truth, she finds herself in danger, and learns that some people will do anything to keep a secret—even kill.
PRAISE MARKETING * Author Appearances "Delightful....Full of red herrings, the twisty plot builds to a satisfying conclusion, * National Print Publicity * Online Publicity and descriptions of each authentication process are a bonus." —Publishers Weekly * Early Reader Review Campaign on Hidden Treasure * Social Media Campaign * Promotion on NetGalley.com * Email Marketing Campaign “As fascinating as its predecessors with plenty of details that capture the excitement * Library Marketing Campaign of the hunt....Also appealing are the engaging and sympathetic characters who bring * Social Media Campaign warmth to this cozy mystery.” —Library Journal (starred review) on Antique Blues * Special Backlist Offers * CriminalElement.com Promotion * Author Facebook: /JaneClelandBooks JANE K. CLELAND once owned a New Hampshire-based antiques and rare books business. She * Author Twitter: @JaneKCleland has been a finalist for the Macavity and Anthony Awards, and won the Agatha Award for her books Mastering Suspense, Structure and Plot and Mastering Plot Twists. Jane is the former president of the New York chapter of the Mystery Writers of America and chairs the Wolfe Pack’s Black Orchid Novella Award. She is part of the English faculty at Lehman College and lives in New York City.
18 MINOTAUR BOOKS AUGUST 2021
The Madness of Crowds A Novel
Louise Penny
Chief Inspector Armand Gamache returns to Three Pines in #1 New York Times bestseller Louise Penny's latest spellbinding novel
You’re a coward.
Time and again, as the New Year approaches, that charge is leveled against Armand Gamache.
It starts innocently enough. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / TRADITIONAL While the residents of the Québec village of Three Pines take advantage of the Minotaur Books | 8/24/2021 9781250145260 | $28.99 / $36.99 Can. deep snow to ski and toboggan, to drink hot chocolate in the bistro and share Hardcover with dust jacket | 448 pages | Carton meals together, the Chief Inspector finds his holiday with his family interrupted Qty: 16 by a simple request. 9.3 in H | 6.1 in W Subrights: UK Rights: The Gernert Company He’s asked to provide security for what promises to be a non-event. A visiting Translation Rights: The Gernert Company Professor of Statistics will be giving a lecture at the nearby university. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781250145284 While he is perplexed as to why the head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec Audio ISBN: 9781250810670 would be assigned this task, it sounds easy enough. That is until Gamache starts Audio ISBN: 9781250810687 looking into Professor Abigail Robinson and discovers an agenda so repulsive he begs the university to cancel the lecture.
MARKETING They refuse, citing academic freedom, and accuse Gamache of censorship and * Author Appearances * National Broadcast Publicity intellectual cowardice. Before long, Professor Robinson’s views start seeping * National Print Publicity into conversations. Spreading and infecting. So that truth and fact, reality and * Online Publicity delusion are so confused it’s near impossible to tell them apart. * Trade Advertising * Pre-Pub Online Advertising * Online Advertising Discussions become debates, debates become arguments, which turn into fights. * National IndieBound Campaign As sides are declared, a madness takes hold. * Widespread Designed ARC Distribution * GamacheSeries.com Promotion * Social Media Campaign Abigail Robinson promises that, if they follow her, ça va bien aller. All will be * Email Marketing Campaign well. But not, Gamache and his team know, for everyone. * Special Backlist Offers Available * CriminalElement.com Promotion When a murder is committed it falls to Armand Gamache... * Tastemaker Campaign * Author Facebook: @LouisePennyAuthor (110k followers) PRAISE * Author Website: LouisePenny.com * Also Available fr... Praise for All the Devils Are Here
“Penny excels at capturing the inner life, whether it’s a criminal’s or a resentful child’s. Series novices and die-hard fans alike will be left breathless—and moved.” —People Book of the Week
“Armand Gamache seems as much a spiritual warrior as a homicide detective… 19 MINOTAUR BOOKS JUNE 2021
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Louise Penny
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Alexander, Ellie; The Cure for What Ales You: A Sloan Krause Mystery...... 12 Andrews, Donna; The Twelve Jays of Christmas: A Meg Langslow Mystery...... 10 Beaton, M. C.; Down the Hatch: An Agatha Raisin Mystery. . . 8 Best in Snow; David Rosenfelt...... 9 Blanchard, Alice; The Witching Tree: A Natalie Lockhart Novel ...... 16 Cleeves, Ann; The Heron's Cry: A Detective Matthew Venn Novel...... 3 Cleland, Jane K.; Jane Austen's Lost Letters...... 18 Cure for What Ales You, The: A Sloan Krause Mystery; Ellie Alexander...... 12 Dahl, Julia; The Missing Hours: A Novel...... 4 Dark Night: A Mystery; Paige Shelton...... 17 Deathwatch Beetle, The; Kjell Eriksson...... 15 Down the Hatch: An Agatha Raisin Mystery; M. C. Beaton ...... 8 Echoes of the Dead: A Special Tracking Unit Novel; Spencer Kope...... 6 Eriksson, Kjell; The Deathwatch Beetle...... 15 Grant, Kimi Cunningham; These Silent Woods: A Novel...... 7 Guilt Trip, The: A Novel; Sandie Jones...... 2 Hello, Transcriber: A Novel; Hannah Morrissey...... 14 Heron's Cry, The: A Detective Matthew Venn Novel; Ann Cleeves...... 3 Higashino, Keigo; Silent Parade...... 11 Jane Austen's Lost Letters; Jane K. Cleland...... 18 Jones, Sandie; The Guilt Trip: A Novel...... 2 Kope, Spencer; Echoes of the Dead: A Special Tracking Unit Novel...... 6 Madness of Crowds Preorder Kit, The; Louise Penny. . . . 20 Madness of Crowds, The: A Novel; Louise Penny...... 19 Marked Man: A Joe Gunther Novel; Archer Mayor...... 5 Mayor, Archer; Marked Man: A Joe Gunther Novel...... 5 Meyer, Nicholas; The Return of the Pharaoh: From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D...... 13 Missing Hours, The: A Novel; Julia Dahl...... 4 Morrissey, Hannah; Hello, Transcriber: A Novel...... 14 Penny, Louise; The Madness of Crowds Preorder Kit...... 20 Penny, Louise; The Madness of Crowds: A Novel...... 19 Return of the Pharaoh, The: From the Reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D.; Nicholas Meyer...... 13 Rosenfelt, David; Best in Snow...... 9 Shelton, Paige; Dark Night: A Mystery...... 17 Silent Parade; Keigo Higashino...... 11 These Silent Woods: A Novel; Kimi Cunningham Grant. . . . .7 Twelve Jays of Christmas, The: A Meg Langslow Mystery; Donna Andrews...... 10 Witching Tree, The: A Natalie Lockhart Novel; Alice Blanchard...... 16