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Sabotage Matt Cook

A missing Stanford professor and a cruise ship held hostage begin a thrilling story of action and espionage on the high seas

A cruise ship loses power in the North Atlantic. A satellite launches in the South Pacific. Professor Malcolm Clare—celebrated aviator, entrepreneur, and aerospace engineer—disappears from Stanford University and wakes up aboard an unknown jet, minutes before the aircraft plunges into the high seas.

An extortionist codenamed “Viking” has seized control of a private warfare technology, pitting a US defense corporation against terrorist conspirators in a bidding war. His leverage: a threat to destroy the luxury liner and its 3,000 FICTION / THRILLERS passengers. Forge Books | 9/9/2014 9780765338112 | $25.99 / $29.99 Can. Hardback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 Stanford doctoral student Austin Hardy, probing the disappearance of his 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H | 1.125 in T | 1.000 lb Wt professor, seeks out Malcolm Clare’s daughter Victoria, an icy brunette with a Other Available Formats: secret that sweeps them to Saint Petersburg. Helped by a team of graduates on Ebook ISBN: 9781466837874 campus, they must devise Trojan horses, outfox an assassin, escape murder in Bruges, and sidestep treachery in order to unravel Viking’s scheme. Failure MARKETING would ensure economic armageddon in the United States. Plans: • National advertising targeting mystery/thriller readers Both on US soil and thousands of miles away, the story roars into action at • National trade advertising targeting supersonic speed. Filled with an enigmatic cast of characters, Matt Cook’s debut industry insiders • Online publicity campaign novel is a sure thrill ride for those who love the puzzles of technology, cryptology, • Regional events and people. • Select appearances at regional trade shows • Digital promotion on Facebook and PRAISE Twitter, the Tor/Forge blog and newsletter, and Goodreads “A topnotch thriller set in a world of international intrigue, terrorism, extortion, and murder.” —Douglas Preston, New York Times bestselling author of Impact

“Matt Cook is the leading edge of the next wave of thriller writers. Hop aboard now and enjoy the ride.”—Jack du Brul, New York Times bestselling author of Havoc

“A highstakes, rapidfire adventure, with all the trappings of a great series to come.” —Graham Brown, New York Times bestselling author of Zero Hour

MATT COOK, based in Los Angeles, is already an accomplished nonfiction writer—Cook’s first book was honored by the American Authors Association with the Golden Quill Award in the business genre—Cook is also a longtime fan of such legends as Clive Cussler, Ken Follett, and James Rollins. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Sabotage is his debut novel. www.visitmatt.com.

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Strong Darkness A Caitlin Strong Novel

Jon Land

Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong returns in her most thrilling adventure yet

1883: Texas Ranger William Ray Strong teams up with Judge Roy Bean to track down the Old West’s first serial killer who’s stitching a trail of death along the railroad lines slicing their way through Texas.

The Present: Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong finds herself pursuing another serial killer whose methods are eerily similar to the one pursued by her great grandfather almost a centuryandahalf before. FICTION / THRILLERS Forge Books | 9/30/2014 But that’s just the beginning of her problems. The son of her boyfriend is nearly 9780765335111 | $25.99 / $29.99 Can. Hardback | 368 pages | Carton Qty: 20 beaten to death at Brown University. The investigation leads back to Texas and 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H | 1.000 lb Wt to the Chinese hightech company awarded the contract to build the US’s 5G network. Li Zhen, the company’s founder, counts that as the greatest Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781466821064 achievement of his career, but it hides his true motivations—nothing less than China’s total domination of the United States. MARKETING Plans: His plan is backed by elements of the Chinese underworld. Up against an army at • Online advertising in mystery/thriller readers Li’s disposal, Caitlin blazes a violent trail across country and continent in search • Select appearances of secrets hidden in the past, but it’s a secret from the present that holds the key. • Online publicity campaign Darkness is coming, and only Caitlin Strong can find the light before it’s too late. • Appearance at Texas Book Festival • Digital promotion on social media sites and on the Tor/Forge blog PRAISE “Caitlin Strong doesn’t miss a trick, a target, or a bad guy. Plus, she’s a Texas Ranger. One riot, one woman, same as it ever was. That’s why I like her so much, that’s why I’ll ALSO AVAILABLE read anything Jon Land writes.” —Stephen Hunter, New York Times bestselling author Strong Justice: A Caitlin Strong Novel 5/2011 | 9780765363176 Paperback / softback | $7.99 / $9.99 Can. “The appeal of a Caitlin Strong novel lies in its improbable, overthetop action scenes. Strong Enough to Die: A Caitlin Strong The history may intrigue you—and the portrayal of America’s vulnerability may scare Novel you—but mostly the novel is just rollicking noholdsbarred fun.” 3/2010 | 9780765351159 Paperback / softback | $7.99 / $9.99 Can. —Associated Press on Strong Rain Falling

JON LAND is the critically acclaimed author of thirty novels, including the bestselling series featuring female Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong: Strong Enough to Die, Strong Justice, Strong at the Break and Strong Vengeance. In addition, he is that author of the nonfiction bestseller, Betrayal. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island, and can be found on the web at jonlandbooks.com.

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Ghost Medicine Aimée Thurlo and David Thurlo

When a former police officer is murdered, Navajo Special Investigator Ella Clah will do anything to bring his killer to justice

Former Navajo Police officer Harry Ute’s body is found in an isolated part of the Navajo Reservation, rumored to be skinwalker country. This makes Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah’s job much harder—no one wants to speak to her for fear of incurring the wrath of the Navajo witches.

Harry’s latest P.I. case involves tracking down property stolen from the county. This leads Ella to work with county Detective Dan Nez. Ella doesn't trust Nez but can't deny her growing attraction to him. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / WOMEN SLEUTHS Forge Books | 9/16/2014 The murder and thefts turn out to be the tip of an iceberg. Previously unknown 9780765334053 | $15.99 / $18.50 Can. Navajo artifacts are being offered for sale, indicating a hidden dig somewhere on Paperback / softback | 320 pages | Carton Qty: the Reservation. As danger mounts, Ella worries that her latest case might also 24 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 1.000 lb Wt become her last.

Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780765334039 PRAISE Ebook ISBN: 9781466807853 “The skinwalker angle is especially creepy here, with vivid descriptions of the way they MARKETING leave their calling card of body mutilation. The Thurlos mix in a great deal of knowledge Plans: about trafficking in Native American antiquities with a wellconstructed investigation • National advertising targeting fans of steered by a believable and admirable heroine.” —Booklist on Ghost Medicine romance literature • Digital promotion on Facebook and Twitter; featured on the Tor/Forge blog “Does anybody understand the Navajo better than the Thurlos? Their keen understanding and attention to detail makes Black Thunder a firstrate mystery.” —RT Book Reviews on Black Thunder ALSO AVAILABLE Black Thunder: An Ella Clah Novel “An excellent, pageturning, and suspenseful read.” 10/2012 | 9780765324542 —Mysteries Galore on Black Thunder Paperback / softback | $15.99 / $18.50 Can. Neverendingsnake: An Ella Clah Novel AIMÉE and DAVID THURLO have written more than seventy novels. Winners of the RT Book 9/2011 | 9780765324535 Reviews Career Achievement Award, the Willa Cather Award for Contemporary Fiction, and the Paperback / softback | $15.99 / $18.50 Can. New Mexico Book Award for mystery and suspense, they are the authors of the critically acclaimed Ella Clah series and A Time of Change.

4 The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man

W. Bruce Cameron

Bestselling author W. Bruce Cameron delivers a wonderful story about finding truth, love, and yourself

Ruddy McCann, former college football star, now Kalkaska, Michigan, repo man, has a fairly simple life repossessing cars and working at the Black Bear, a bar his sister inherited from their parents, enjoying the nightly company of their colorful patrons, many of whom he considers friends.

Simple, that is, until he starts hearing a voice in this head.

The voice introduces himself as Alan Lottner, former real estate agent. Ruddy isn’t sure if Alan is real or if he’s losing his mind. To complicate matters, it turns out Katie, the girl he is falling for, is Katie Lottner—Alan’s daughter.

Ruddy’s time would be better spent helping his sister keep the Black Bear afloat and wrapping up a particularly trying repo job. But it’s hard to avoid the voice in his head, and soon Ruddy is trying to figure out what happened to Alan and hoping to avoid the same fate.

With a sweet romance, a suspenseful plot, colorful characters, and a hero you can’t help but fall in love with, W. Bruce Cameron’s The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man is a laughoutloud, edgeofyourseat, delightful read.

W. BRUCE CAMERON is the New York Times bestselling author of A Dog’s Purpose, A Dog’s Journey, and 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, which was turned into the hit ABC series. He lives in California.

5 MARKETING Plans: • National advertising in major news media targeting mainstream & women readers • Extensive online advertising on major social media sites & thru targeted email blasts • Major markets & regional advertising during the holiday season • Extensive print & online publicity campaign • Select appearances at book festivals & trade shows • Crosspromotion with author’s 300K Facebook fan base • Digital promotion on Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, the Tor/Forge blog & newsletter; sweepstakes

PRAISE “Readers will devour this wonderful story and cry from beginning to end. Sweet and heartfelt.” —Publishers Weekly,starred review on A Dog's Journey

“Once again endearing himself to animal lovers, Cameron explores the concept of canine karma with acute sensitivity and exhibits cunning insight into life from a dog’s perspective.” —Booklist on A Dog’s Journey

—Temple Grandin, New York Times bestselling author of Other Available Formats: Animals in Translation, on A Dog's Purpose Ebook ISBN: 9781466855908

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An Irish Doctor in Peace and at War An Irish Country Novel

Patrick Taylor

Doctor O’Reilly heeds the call to serve his country in this new novel in Patrick Taylor’s beloved Irish Country series

Long before Doctor Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly became a fixture in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, he was a young M.B. with plans to marry midwife Dierdre Mawhinney. Those plans were complicated by the outbreak of World War II and the call of duty. Assigned to the HMS Warspite, a formidable 30,000 ton battleship, Surgeon Lieutenant O’Reilly soon found himself facetoface with FICTION the hardships of war, tending to the dreadnought’s crew of 1,200 as well as to the Forge Books | 10/21/2014 many casualties brought aboard. 9780765338365 | $24.99 / $27.50 Can. Hardback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 20 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H | 1.000 lb Wt Life in Ballybuckebo is a far cry from the strife of war, but over two decades

Other Available Formats: later O’Reilly and his younger colleagues still have plenty of challenges: an Audio ISBN: 9781427243850 outbreak of German measles, the odd tropical disease, a hardfought piebaking Ebook ISBN: 9781466838888 contest, and a local man whose muleheaded adherence to tradition is standing in the way of his son’s future. Now older and wiser, O’Reilly has prescriptions for MARKETING whatever ails…until a secret from the past threatens to unravel his own peace of Plans: • National advertising in major news mind. dailies • National advertising targeting Irish Shifting deftly between two very different eras, Patrick Taylor’s latest Irish interest enthusiasts • Eblast to optin author list Country novel reveals more about O’Reilly’s tumultuous past, even as • Online publicity campaign Ballybucklebo faces the future in its own singular fashion. • Feature at major trade shows • Digital promotion on Facebook and Twitter; Featured on the Tor/Forge blog PRAISE “Charming, full of Irish wit and wisdom…and, of course, all the village characters we’ve come to love. For those just discovering the Irish doctor, this book can stand on its own, ALSO AVAILABLE but it will leave the reader wanting more.” A Dublin Student Doctor: An Irish Country —Booklist on Fingal O’Reilly, Irish Doctor Novel 9/2012 | 9780765326744 Paperback / softback | $14.99 / $15.99 Can. “Taylor is a bangup storyteller who captivates and entertains from the first word.” An Irish Country Courtship: A Novel —Publishers Weekly on An Irish Country Girl 1/2012 | 9780765321756 Paperback / softback | $14.99 / $16.99 Can. “What Herriot did for Yorkshire, Taylor now does for Northern Ireland’s Country Antrim and County Down, minus the animals, of course, but with all the good sentiments.” —Kirkus Reviews on An Irish Country Wedding

PATRICK TAYLOR, M.D. was born and raised in Bangor County Down in Northern Ireland. Dr. Taylor is a distinguished medical researcher, offshore sailor, modelboat builder, and father of two grown children. He lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia. www.patricktaylor.ca

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Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor An Irish Country Novel

Patrick Taylor

Discover how Dr. O'Reilly began his medical career in the tenements of Dublin in Patrick Taylor’s New York Times bestselling series

Fans of Taylor’s bestselling Irish Country novels know Dr. Fingal Flahertie O’Reilly as the irascible senior partner of a general practice in the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo. Newly married to his longlost sweetheart, he’s ready to settle into domestic bliss, but there’s always something requiring his attention, be it a riding accident, a difficult patient with a worrisome heart condition, a spot of grousehunting, or even some tricky shenanigans at the local dog races. FICTION Forge Books | 10/7/2014 9780765335258 | $14.99 / $15.99 Can. The everyday complications of village life are very different from the challenges Paperback / softback | 448 pages | Carton Qty: Fingal faced nearly thirty years earlier, when, fresh out of medical school, the 20 young Dr. O’Reilly accepts a post at the Aungier Street Dispensary, tending to 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 1.000 lb Wt the impoverished denizens of Dublin’s tenement slums. Yet even as he tries to Other Available Formats: make a difference, Fingal’s tireless devotion to his patients may cost him his own Audio ISBN: 9781427233295 Hardcover ISBN: 9780765335241 true love. . . . Ebook ISBN: 9781466821408 Shifting back and forth between the present and the past, Patrick Taylor’s MARKETING captivating new novel brings to life both the green young man O’Reilly once was Plans: and the canny village doctor readers have come to know and admire. • National advertising in major news dailies • National print advertising targeting Irish PRAISE interest enthusiasts • Eblast to optin author list “The novel is charming, full of Irish wit and wisdom and, of course, all the village • Online publicity campaign • Feature at major trade shows characters we’ve come to love. For those just discovering the Irish doctor, this book can • Digital promotion on Facebook and stand on its own, but it will leave the reader wanting more.” Twitter; featured on the Tor/Forge blog —Booklist on Fingal O’Reilly, Irish Doctor

“A spirited and compassionate story filled with pastoral Irish imagery, cheerful village ALSO AVAILABLE life, and heartwarming romance.” —Booklist on An Irish Country Wedding A Dublin Student Doctor: An Irish Country Novel 9/2012 | 9780765326744 “Taylor is a bangup storyteller who captivates and entertains from the first word.” Paperback / softback | $14.99 / $15.99 Can. —Publishers Weekly on An Irish Country Girl An Irish Country Courtship: A Novel 1/2012 | 9780765321756 PATRICK TAYLOR, M.D., was born and raised in Bangor, County Down, in Northern Ireland. Paperback / softback | $14.99 / $16.99 Can. Dr. Taylor is a distinguished medical researcher, offshore sailor, modelboat builder, and father of two grown children. He now lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia. www.patricktaylor.ca

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Truth Be Told Hank Phillippi Ryan

"Truth Be Told is Hank Phillippi Ryan at her best." —Linda Fairstein, New York Times bestselling author

Truth Be Told, part of the bestselling Jane Ryland and Jake Brogan series by Agatha, Anthony, Mary Higgins Clark, and Macavity Award–winning author Hank Phillippi Ryan, begins with tragedy: a middleclass family evicted from their suburban home. In digging up the facts on this heartbreaking story—and on other foreclosures—reporter Ryland soon learns the truth behind a bigbucks scheme and the surprising players who will stop at nothing, including murder, to keep their goal a secret. Turns out, there’s more than one way to rob a bank.

FICTION / SUSPENSE Forge Books | 10/7/2014 Boston police detective Jake Brogan has a liar on his hands. A man has just 9780765374936 | $24.99 / $28.99 Can. confessed to the famous twentyyearold Lilac Sunday killing, and while Jake’s Hardback | 384 pages | Carton Qty: 16 colleagues take him at his word, Jake is not so sure. But he has personal reasons 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H | 1.000 lb Wt for hoping they’ve finally solved the cold case. Other Available Formats: Audio ISBN: 9781427243874 Ebook ISBN: 9780765374974 Financial manipulation, the terror of foreclosures, the power of numbers, the primal need for home and family and love. What happens when what you believe MARKETING is true turns out to be a lie?

Plans: PRAISE • National advertising targeting mystery/thriller readers For The Wrong Girl • Regional advertising in news dailies • National trade advertising targeting “Whipsmart writing, a dizzying pace—a thrilling read!” industry insiders —Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author • Author Appearances • Select events including BEA, regionals, “Another winner from Ryan.” —Booklist, starred review and festivals • Extensive online publicity campaign and “The Wrong Girl has all the right stuff! The pacing is furious, the characters are great review attention • Digital promotion on Facebook, Twitter, fun, and the dialogue crackles.” Goodreads, the Tor/Forge blog and —Linwood Barclay, international bestselling author of Trust Your Eyes newsletter; sweepstakes

HANK PHILLIPPI RYAN is the investigative reporter for Boston’s NBC affiliate. She has won thirty Emmys and ten Edward R. Murrow awards for her groundbreaking journalism. The bestselling author of four mystery novels as well as The Other Woman, the first book to feature ALSO AVAILABLE reporter Jane Ryland and Detective Jake Brogan, Ryan has won two Agatha Awards, as well as the The Wrong Girl Anthony, Macavity, and Mary Higgins Clark Award. 7/2014 | 9780765369147 Paperback / softback | $7.99 / $9.99 Can. The Other Woman 7/2013 | 9780765369130 Paperback / softback | $7.99 / $9.99 Can.

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The Last Shootist Miles Swarthout

The sequel to Glendon Swarthout's classic Western, The Shootist, penned by his son Miles Swarthout

Young Gillom Rogers has just given the coup de grace to a famous gunfighter involved in a bloody saloon shootout in 1901 El Paso, Texas. After swiping J.B. Books’s matched Remington pistols off his body, Gillom thinks he may be able to ride this spectacle to fame and glory as the last shootist. But Gillom is an eighteenyearold with lots of growing up to do, and showing off his new pistols quickly gets him into a gunfight he didn’t bargain for.

Gillom sets out for adventure, determined to become a shootist like his hero, John Bernard Books. On his dangerous journey into manhood, he runs into yellow FICTION / WESTERNS / journalists, a New Mexican horse breaker, and a train robber. When he meets a GENERAL Forge Books | 10/14/2014 Hispanic saloon dancer named Anel in the booming copper mining town of 9780765376787 | $24.99 / $28.99 Can. Bisbee, Arizona, Gillom Rogers is forced to reconsider what kind of man he really Hardback | 336 pages | Carton Qty: 20 wants to be. 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 1.000 lb Wt Other Available Formats: This sequel to one of the most famous Westerns ever written concludes the tale Ebook ISBN: 9781466851931 of a junior shootist’s comingofage in a dazzling gunfight in a deadly pimp’s whorehouse, as a trio of firey teenagers ride hard into a new twentieth century. MARKETING Plans: • National advertising targeting fans of PRAISE western literature • Online publicity campaign For Glendon Swarthout’s The Shootist • Appearance at regional trade shows • Digital promotion on Facebook and Twitter; featured on the Tor/Forge blog “Such style...such a strong central idea...the showdown is as unrelenting as the build up.” —Sunday Times (London)

“This is definitely more than a Western; the characterization is flawless, the plot absorbing and convincing.” —Library Journal

“A taut, leathery, masterful tale. —The Los Angeles Times

MILES SWARTHOUT is the son of bestselling novelist Glendon Swarthout, who wrote the original classic Western, The Shootist. Miles Swarthout adapted that novel for what became John Wayne’s final film. Miles's novel The Sergeant’s Lady won a Spur Award for Best First Novel from the Western Writers of America in 2004. He resides in Playa del Rey.

W. Bruce Cameron's beloved New York Times and USA Today bestsellers A Dog's Purpose and A Dog's Journey— together for the first time!

Two New York Times and USA Today bestselling novels together at last!

This is the remarkable story of one endearing dog’s search for his purpose over the course of several lives. More than just another charming dog story, A Dog’s Purpose touches on the universal quest for an answer to life's most basic question: Why are we here?

Heartwarming, insightful, and often laughoutloud funny, A Dog's Purpose is not only the emotional and hilarious story of a dog's many lives, but also a dog'seye commentary on human relationships and the unbreakable bonds between man and man's best friend. This moving and beautifully crafted story teaches us that love never dies, that our true friends are always with us, and that every creature on earth is born with a purpose.

When Buddy is reborn in A Dog's Journey, he realizes that he has a new destiny. He's overjoyed when he is adopted by a vibrant but troubled teenager. When they are suddenly separated, Buddy despairs—who will take care of his girl?

A charming and heartwarming story of hope, love, and unending devotion, A Dog's Journey asks the question: Do we really take care of our pets, or do they take care of us?

PRAISE “Funny, heartwarming, and touching without being overly sentimental, Cameron's novel successfully illuminates the breadth of the American dogscape.” —Library Journal,starred review on A Dog's Purpose “Marley & Me combined with Tuesdays With Morrie.” —Kirkus Reviews on A Dog's Purpose

“Readers will devour this wonderful story and cry from beginning to end. Sweet and heartfelt.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review on A Dog's Journey

“Endearing himself to animal lovers, Cameron explores the concept of canine karma with acute sensitivity and exhibits cunning insight into life from a dog’s perspective.” —Booklist on A Dog's Journey

W. BRUCE CAMERON is the New York Times bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose and A Dog's Journey. He lives in California.

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The Dogs of Christmas W. Bruce Cameron

The perfect holiday gift from W. Bruce Cameron, the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose and A Dog's Journey

Josh Michaels is outraged when a neighbor abandons his very pregnant dog, Lucy, at Josh’s Colorado home. But Josh can’t resist Lucy’s soulful brown eyes, and though he’s never had a dog before, he’s determined to do the best he can for Lucy—and her soontoarrive puppies.

FICTION / FAMILY LIFE Forge Books | 10/15/2013 Soon in over his head, Josh calls the local animal shelter for help, and meets Kerri, 9780765330550 | $15.99 / $18.50 Can. a beautiful woman with a quick wit and a fierce love for animals. As Kerri Hardback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 28 teaches Josh how to care for Lucy’s tiny puppies and gets them ready to be 5.730 in W | 7.360 in H | 0.930 in T | 0.870 lb Wt adopted through the shelter’s “Dogs of Christmas” program, Josh surprises Other Available Formats: himself by falling for her. Hardcover ISBN: 9780765377173 Ebook ISBN: 9781429992879 But he’s fallen even harder for his new furry family, which has brought incredible MARKETING joy into Josh’s life. He barely has time to sit down, between chasing after Plans: adventurous Sophie and brave Oliver, but when he does, his lap is quickly filled by • Targeted print advertising in dog enthusiast media the affectionate Lola. And Rufus and Cody’s strong bond makes Josh wonder • Online advertising on popular social about his own relationships with his family. media websites • Extensive print & online publicity campaign With Christmas and the adoption date looming, Josh finds himself wondering if he • Radio satellite tour can separate himself from his beloved puppies. At odds with Kerri, Josh isn’t • Author promotion & appearances willing to lose her, but doesn’t know how to set things right. Can a surprise litter • Crosspromotion with author’s extensive Facebook fan base of Christmas puppies really change one man’s life? • Digital promotion on targeted sites, blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Goodreads, & The Dogs of Christmas is a charming and heartwarming holiday tale that the Tor/Forge newsletter explores the power of love, trust, and a basket full of puppies.

ALSO AVAILABLE PRAISE A Dog's Journey: A Novel “Cameron’s latest demonstrates how the unconditional love received from dogs can 5/2013 | 9780765330543 make all the difference in human lives…A book about dog lovers by an author who Paperback / softback | $14.99 / $16.99 Can. understands the canine soul.” —Kirkus Reviews A Dog's Purpose 5/2011 | 9780765330345 “This sweet story is told with humor and a deep understanding of the transformative Paperback / softback | $12.99 / $14.99 Can. value of loving a dog. A perfect holiday read!” —Greg Kincaid, New York Times bestselling author of A Dog Named Christmas

"As warm and bright as Christmas morning. If you don't already have a dog, reading this book will send you right to the shelter to find one to love." —Iris R. Dart, New York Times bestselling author of Beaches

W. BRUCE CAMERON is the New York Times bestselling author of A Dog's Purpose, A Dog's Journey. He lives in California.

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The Spook Lights Affair A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery

Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini

A missing debutante, murder, and spectral lights in the fog make for a thrilling gaslightera mystery in this sequel to The Bughouse Affair

In 1895 San Francisco, young debutantes don’t commit suicide at festive parties, particularly not under the eye of Sabina Carpenter. But Virginia St. Ives evidently did, leaping from a foggy parapet in a shimmer of ghostly light. The seemingly impossible disappearance of her body creates an even more serious problem for the firm of Carpenter and Quincannon, Professional Detective Services. FICTION / MYSTERY & DETECTIVE / HISTORICAL Forge Books | 11/4/2014 Sabina hadn’t wanted to take the assignment, but her partner John Quincannon 9780765331786 | $14.99 / $16.99 Can. insisted it would serve as entrée to the city’s ultrarich and powerful. That means Paperback / softback | 272 pages | Carton Qty: money, and Quincannon loves the almighty dollar. Which is why he is hunting the 28 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 1.000 lb Wt bandit who robbed the Wells, Fargo office of $35,000.

Other Available Formats: Hardcover ISBN: 9780765331755 Working their separate cases (while Sabina holds John off with one light hand), Ebook ISBN: 9781429997225 the detectives give readers a tour of The City the way it was. From the infamous Barbary Coast to the expensive Tenderloin gaming houses and brothels MARKETING frequented by wealthy men, Quincannon follows a dangerladen trail to unmask the murderous perpetrators of the Wells, Fargo robbery. Meanwhile, Sabina Plans: works her wiles on friends and relatives of the vanished debutante until the pieces • National advertising targeting mystery/thriller readers of her puzzle start falling into place. But it’s an oddly disguised gent appearing out • Publicity of nowhere who provides the final clue to both cases—the shrewd “crackbrain” • Digital promotion on Facebook and who believes himself to be Sherlock Holmes. Twitter; featured on the Tor/Forge blog

PRAISE ALSO AVAILABLE “Fans of Stephen Hockensmith’s Holmes on the Range historicals will welcome this The Bughouse Affair: A Carpenter and Carpenter and Quincannon novel… A double impossible crime only adds to the enjoyable Quincannon Mystery plot.” —Publishers Weekly on The Bughouse Affair 11/2013 | 9780765331779 Paperback / softback | $14.99 / $16.99 Can. “Muller and Pronzini are a duo who make beautiful mystery music together.” —Atlanta Journal Constitution on Double

“Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini have brought together the distinctive personalities and differing investigative styles of their fictional snoops. The result is a team that is as memorable as Nick and Nora Charles.” —San Francisco Chronicle on Double

MARCIA MULLER is the New York Times bestselling creator of private investigator Sharon McCone. The author of more than thirtyfive novels, Muller received the MWA’s Grand Master Award in 2005.

BILL PRONZINI, creator of the Nameless Detective, is a highly praised novelist, short story writer and anthologist. He received the Grand Master Award from the MWA in 2008. 13 FORGE BOOKS NOVEMBER 2014

A Song to Die For Mike Blakely

A rousing tale mixing love, music, and mystery from Spur Award–winning author Mike Blakely

It’s 1975 and guitarist and singer/songwriter Creed Mason hopes to ride the new wave of Texasstyle, Austinbased country music all the way back to the big time. A onehit wonder whose Nashville career was cut short by a trip to Vietnam, Creed is desperate to get back into the business. His break arrives when a country legend, Luster Burnett, comes out of a fifteenyear retirement for one last album and tour in order to pay off a huge debt to the I.R.S. As Luster’s new guitarist and band manager, Creed jumps at the chance of a lifetime.

Rosa Martini, a beautiful young mob princess from Las Vegas, is found dead just FICTION outside of Austin. Texas Ranger Captain Hooley Johnson looks into the case, only Forge Books | 11/18/2014 9780765327512 | $24.99 / $28.99 Can. to find a second young woman murdered—a friend of Rosa’s. To complicate Hardback | 352 pages | Carton Qty: 20 things, Rosa’s adoptive brother, mob hit man Franco Martini, is spotted nosing 6.125 in W | 9.250 in H | 1.000 lb Wt around Austin in the wake of the murders. Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781429944892 Soon it appears to Johnson, and to Creed, that the mobrelated murders and the band are somehow connected. When the band wins an unexpected booking at MARKETING the biggest casino in Vegas, Creed begins to wonder what kind of contract his Plans: • National advertising targeting fans of band is being set up for—a majorlabel recording deal, or a mob hit? country music and author’s fan base • Online publicity campaign PRAISE • Appearance at regional trade shows • Digital promotion on Facebook and “Blakely knows guns, horses, and humans.” —Library Journal Twitter; featured on the Tor/Forge blog

“A gifted storyteller.” —Texas Books in Review ALSO AVAILABLE Come Sundown “Mike Blakely writes with authority and empathy about a people superbly suited to the 11/2007 | 9780812580266 land they roamed.” —Lucia St. Clair Robson, author of Ride the Wind Paperback / softback | $7.99 / $9.99 Can. Comanche Dawn: A Novel MIKE BLAKELY is the author of several novels of the West, including Comanche Dawn and 5/1999 | 9780812548334 Moon Medicine. His novel Summer of Pearls won the Spur Award for Best Novel in 2001. Blakely Paperback / softback | $6.99 / $8.99 Can. makes his home in Marble Falls, Texas.

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A hot new Amos Walker mystery by a master of the hardboiled detective novel. “Loren Estleman is my hero.” —Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestseller

In You Know Who Killed Me, by multiple awardwinning author Loren D. Estleman, Amos Walker is at low ebb. Just released from a rehab clinic, the Detroit private detective has to marshal his energies to help solve a murder in Iroquois Heights, his least favorite town.

The area is flooded with billboards rented by the widow of Donald Gates, an

FICTION / MYSTERY & ordinary suburbanite found shot to death in his basement on New Year’s Eve: DETECTIVE / HARDBOILED “YOU KNOW WHO KILLED ME!” they read, above the number of the Forge Books | 12/9/2014 sheriff’s tip line. Complicating matters is a $10,000 reward for information leading 9780765337351 | $24.99 / $28.99 Can. to the arrest and conviction of the murderer, offered by an anonymous donor Hardback | 240 pages | Carton Qty: 28 5.500 in W | 8.250 in H | 1.000 lb Wt through the dead man’s place of worship.

Other Available Formats: Ebook ISBN: 9781466834347 Initially hired by the sheriff’s department to run down anonymous tips, Walker investigates further. The trail leads to former fellow employee Yuri Yako, a MARKETING Ukrainian mobster, relocated to the area through the US Marshals’ Witness Protection Program. Plans: • Online advertising targeting Shadowed by government operatives, at odds with the sheriff, and struggling with mystery/thriller readers • Online publicity campaign his addiction, Walker soldiers on, in spite of bodies piling up and the fact that • Digital promotion on social media sites almost everyone involved with the case is lying to him. and on the Tor/Forge blog PRAISE

ALSO AVAILABLE For Infernal Angels Infernal Angels 7/2013 | 9780765319586 “Shamus Award–winner Estleman demonstrates that the art of inserting a Philip Paperback / softback | $12.99 / $14.99 Can. Marlowe–esque hero into modern times is alive and well in his twentyfirst novel The Lefthanded Dollar featuring Detroit PI Amos Walker…. Estleman presents a powerful view of the battered 1/2013 | 9780765319579 Paperback / softback | $15.99 / $18.50 Can. inner city. Three decades on, Estleman and Walker show no signs of slowing down.” —Publishers Weekly,starred review

“Estleman has piled up enough literary awards to add a wing to his home. Read this classic yet modern example of the hardboiled detective novel and you’ll begin to understand why.” —Booklist

Loren D. Estleman is author of more than sixty novels, including twentytwo featuring Amos Walker. Winner of four Shamus Awards, five Spur Awards and three Western Heritage Awards, he lives in Michigan with his wife, author Deborah Morgan. www.lorenestleman.com

15 Index

Blakely, Mike; A Song to Die For...... 14 Cameron, W. Bruce; A Dog's Purpose Boxed Set...... 11 Cameron, W. Bruce; The Dogs of Christmas...... 12 Cameron, W. Bruce; The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man. . . . 5 Cook, Matt; Sabotage...... 2 Dogs of Christmas, The; W. Bruce Cameron...... 12 Dog's Purpose Boxed Set, A; W. Bruce Cameron...... 11 Estleman, Loren D.; You Know Who Killed Me...... 15 Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor: An Irish Country Novel; Patrick Taylor...... 8 Ghost Medicine; Aimée Thurlo...... 4 Irish Doctor in Peace and at War, An: An Irish Country Novel; Patrick Taylor...... 7 Land, Jon; Strong Darkness: A Caitlin Strong Novel...... 3 Last Shootist, The; Miles Swarthout...... 10 Midnight Plan of the Repo Man, The; W. Bruce Cameron ...... 5 Muller, Marcia; The Spook Lights Affair: A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery...... 13 Ryan, Hank Phillippi; Truth Be Told...... 9 Sabotage; Matt Cook...... 2 Song to Die For, A; Mike Blakely...... 14 Spook Lights Affair, The: A Carpenter and Quincannon Mystery; Marcia Muller...... 13 Strong Darkness: A Caitlin Strong Novel; Jon Land...... 3 Swarthout, Miles; The Last Shootist...... 10 Taylor, Patrick; An Irish Doctor in Peace and at War: An Irish Country Novel...... 7 Taylor, Patrick; Fingal O'Reilly, Irish Doctor: An Irish Country Novel...... 8 Thurlo, Aimée; Ghost Medicine...... 4 Truth Be Told; Hank Phillippi Ryan...... 9 You Know Who Killed Me; Loren D. Estleman...... 15 W. BRUCE CAMERON BACKLIST

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