PROSPECT PARK BOOKS ◆ 2018-2019 CATALOG ◆
From Water, by Kenton Nelson MEMOIR St. Everywhere Struck Travels in Search of the A Husband's Memoir of Lady Saints Trauma and Triumph • By Mary Lea Carroll By Douglas Segal TRAVEL MEMOIR While visiting Italy, One of life’s biggest Mary Lea Carroll clichés becomes a grew fascinated with horrific reality when Prospect Park Books is an independent trade publisher of print and digital the remarkable story Douglas Segal’s wife books, with a focus on fiction, cookbooks, gift, humor, and regional titles. of St. Catherine of and daughter are hit Siena and made a head-on by a city resolution: Whenever bus. Alternatingly No, we’re not in that Prospect Park! We were founded in 2006 by sixth- she was lucky enough harrowing, humorous, generation Southern Californian Colleen Dunn Bates in her home in to travel, if a shrine heartbreaking, and Prospect Park, a historic neighborhood in Pasadena, California, and we have dedicated to a female hopeful, Segal’s a distinctly West Coast sensibility. Prospect Park is dedicated to working with saint was nearby, memoir, built around she'd visit it and learn about her. Her hobby the email updates he sent to family and authors, designers, and artists who are outside of the New York mainstream grew into a journey she never expected, one friends, is ultimately uplifting—a tribute to to publish books that combine strong commercial potential with intelligence, rich with challenges and cappuccinos, doubts how love, determination, and the compassion creativity, and wit. and inspiration, glasses of wine with strangers of community all hold the power to heal. and moments of transcendence. Over eight After a national launch on The Today Show, Our books have earned high praise from all quarters, including the New quests, Carroll takes readers along as she Doug Segal and his wife, Susan, have seeks a few great women of history, while become in-demand public speakers. York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal; they've won awards trying to be a better woman herself. for literary merit, design, and illustration; and many have enjoyed multiple Paperback: 978-1-945551-38-3 • $16 Hardcover: 978-1-945551-56-7 • $19.95 Ebook available printings and international sales. That's because we've had the good fortune Ebook available • Coming spring 2019 to work with outstanding authors.
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in L.A. • By Kenton Nelson The book that launched Prospect Park CALIFORNIA Books is back in a gorgeous new edition, Celebrated painter Kenton Nelson Edited by Dorie Bailey CALIFORNIA reconcieved • explores the idealistic California of his The definitive for a new era. childhood dreams in this collection of guide to Pasadena works involving water. Saturated with color the 101 is one of and longing, and balancing shadow and best photo the most
locations in educated, • MEMOIR light, Water explores California with a powerful, unusual mix of sunny optimism and around artistic, ART and noir mystery. Kenton Nelson’s Los Angeles, culturally rich, Insta L.A. architecturally paintings have been featured on several is compact, signficant, New Yorker covers and shown in galleries colorful, and naturally and museums from Los Angeles to useful, and beautiful Stuttgart to Salzburg. Collectors include loads of fun. Follow savvy Instagrammers as cities in the Diane Keaton, Steve Martin, and the they showcase snappable spots that range US, and Hometown Pasadena shows you Albertina Contemporary Museum in Vienna. from the iconic (Disney Hall, the Santa the best of it. Created by locals for locals, Monica Pier), to the popular (Paul Smith’s it's also a boon to visitors and essential for Hardcover: 978-1-945551-58-1 • $35 • Coming spring 2019 pink wall, Made in LA), to the under-the- Huntington, Norton Simon, Rose Parade, radar (Coffee for Sasquatch, Ascot Hills Rose Bowl, JPL, and Caltech pilgrims. Park). Complete with precise locations Contributors include Lian Dolan, Chris Daditude Talk Like a Californian for each spot, Insta L.A. is a must-have Erskine, Naomi Hirahara, Lynell George, and The Joys and Absurdities of By Helena Ventura companion for L.A. locals and visitors alike. editor Colleen Dunn Bates. Hardcover with photographs: Hardcover with photographs: Modern Fatherhood Dude, are you pumped to hack California- 978-1-945551-53-6 • $14.95 978-1-938849-99-2 • $29.95 • Ebook available By Chris Erskine speak so you don’t sound like a buster? This Coming spring 2019 sweet guide is lit and Life is never peaceful will get you talking in Chris Erskine's fresh, whether you’re Doorways of Paris 100 Not So Famous house, what with the in the 626 or the Yay By Raquel Puig four kids, 300-pound Area. To translate, this Views of L.A. beagle, chronically vibrantly designed, Nothing captures the spirit, romance, and By Barbara Thomason leaky roof, and long- modestly priced beauty of Paris more suffering wife, Posh. pocket guide to than its doorways. This collection of And that's exactly the California slang will Doorways of Paris paintings offers way he likes it, except help residents and takes armchair intimate, often when he doesn't. visitors alike feel at travelers and Paris recognizable, Every week in the Los home wherever they habitués alike sometimes unexpected Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, Erskine go in the Golden State, from the beach to a to the the most glimpses of a city distills, mocks, and makes us laugh at the food truck and from a Hollywood soundstage captivating ones in known and loved by absurdities of modern fatherhood. Here are to a Silicon Valley cocktail party. the city. Organized the artist. Inspired by the best of these witty and wise essays, with by arrondissement, nineteenth-century Paperback: 978-1-938849-85-5 • $11.95 Japanese artist updated commentary from Posh and the kids. Ebook available it features 300 The perfect gift for the father who would photographs from Hiroshige’s One have everything—if he hadn't already given it the most popular Instagram account of Hundred Famous Views of Edo, Barbara all to his kids. Parisian doors. Richly colorful and affordably Thomason captures the personality of vibrant priced, this hardcover book makes an Los Angeles, with commentary, history, and Hardcover: 978-1-945551-30-7 • $18.95 an introduction by David Ulin. Ebook available outstanding gift for Francophiles everywhere. Hardcover with photographs: Hardcover: 978-1-938849-35-0 • $30 978-1-945551-06-2 • $19.95 • Ebook available 2 PROSPECT PARK BOOKS 2018–2019 PROSPECT PARK BOOKS 2018–2019 3 HUMOR Holiday Jubilee Mark Twain’s Guide You’re the Best By Charles Phoenix to Diet, Exercise, Beauty, A Celebration of Friendship
Fashion, Investment, By the Satellite Sisters • You're invited to celebrate America’s GIFT favorite seasonal traditions like never Romance, Health & Happiness From podcast stars the Satellite Sisters—the before. Ambassador of Americana POP CULTURE Edited by Mark Dawidziak five Dolan sisters—this is a thank-you note to
Charles Phoenix mixes and mingles our friends, the • CHILDREN'S spectacular vintage Kodachrome This handsome women we call slides of New Year’s, Valentine’s Day, illustrated collection when the best Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween, presents the best of thing in our lives Thanksgiving, and Christmas with the curmudgeonly happens—or his eye-popping, original recipes writer's thoughts the worst. This on diet, exercise, beautifully for epic edible centerpieces and medicine, smoking, party pleasers from his colorful packaged drinking, romance, collection of Test Kitchen. Be prepared for your parenting, old age, essays, lists, imagination to be inspired and your fashion, finances, charts, and more holiday spirit to soar! politics, and religion. incorporates witty, warm, and wise voices Perfect for anyone who's had enough of from age 15 to 60, and the result is the must- Charles Phoenix is a showman, tour guide, food crafter, photo collector, and author Gwyneth's self-righteous advice. have gift book on friendship. known for his live comedy slide-show performances, madcap test-kitchen videos, Hardcover: 978-1-938849-45-9 • $16.95 Hardcover: 978-1-938849-58-9 • $19.95 field-trip-style adventure tours, and colorful books. The self-proclaimed “vintage Ebook available Ebook available culture vulture” has appeared on Martha Stewart, The Queen Latifah Show, and Cake Wars, has been profiled inThe Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, and has been a guest on NPR's The Splendid Table. Things I Want Vulture Verses Hardcover: 978-1-945551-35-2 • $29.95 • Coming fall 2019 (cover to come) to Punch in the Face Love Poems for the Unloved By Jennifer Worick By Diane Lang with Lauren Gallegos Addicted to Americana Jennifer Worick Naturalist and By Charles Phoenix had a bad day. And author Diane then a bad week. Lang and Raised on a used-car lot, Charles Phoenix She channelled her artist Lauren was destined to become the Ambassador aggravation into Gallegos of Americana. This riotously colorful book, creating the blog Things take children replete with Charles’s collection of vintage I Want to Punch in the on a guided Kodachrome slides and photos from his travels Face, which became tour of the around the nation, celebrates his lifelong a sensation. Although animals that quest to unearth the best of classic and kitschy her bad week passed, do so many she has continued to good things for us, yet don't get enough American life and style. Addicted to Americana take note of the little love. Through lively, witty rhymes and is the perfect inspiration for future road trips irritations that torment us all daily. Family car warm, friendly illustrations, Vulture Verses and family travel, and includes more than 100 stickers. Food in jars. Yoga pants. Celebrity helps children appreciate and befriend even vibrant photos sure to put a smile on your face! baby names. The Giving Tree. #blessed. Man the scariest critters. That’s right, even the Hardcover: 978-1-945551-19-2 • $29.95 caves. It's astounding how the little things can vampire bat! drive a person insane. Paperback: 978-1-938849-64-0 • $9.95 Teepee motels, lost monorails, vintage bowling alleys, Paperback: 978-1-938849-56-5 • $11.95 Ebook available Ebook available drive-ins & drive-thrus, Tomorrowland, mermaids & dinosaurs, breakfast clowns, and so much more!
4 PROSPECT PARK BOOKS 2018–2019 PROSPECT PARK BOOKS 2018–2019 5 COOKING First We Surf, The Urban Forager Then We Eat Culinary Exploring & Recipes from a Cooking on L.A.’s Eastside COOKING Lifetime of Surf Travel By Elisa Callow By Jim Kempton The Urban Forager is a cookbook, guide, and irresistible invitation to Jim Kempton has spent his both the novice and adventurous life traveling and surfing food lover to explore the rich, diverse the world, along the way culinary cultures of Los Angeles' learning to cook the world's eastside. Food makers representing best beach-loving dishes. the eastside's diverse traditions Now he's sharing his vividly share beloved recipes, ingredients, colorful, richly flavorful, innovations, and neighborhood and vibrantly healthful resources. It's a hands-on, stunningly collection of more than photographed collection of inspiring 90 recipes from 10 of the recipes, profiles, and references for world's most beautiful both novice and adventurous home locations, along with stories cooks as well as the culinarily curious. of the best waves, markets, Author Elisa Callow shares her recipes restaurants, adventures, and and food discoveries on her blog, misadventures that he's experienced, from Australia to Hawaii, the Basque Country The Urban Forager. She is a well-known arts-nonprofit consultant in Los Angeles. to Indonesia, and California to Mexico. First We Surf, Then We Eat features a Photographer Ann Elliott Cutting is a photographer and Art Center professor based foreword by The Surfer's Journal publisher Steve Pezman, a preface by famed surfer/ in Pasadena, California. chef Raphael Lunetta, and photography by Bill Schildge, Jeff Divine, Tom Servais, and Art Brewer. Hardcover with photographs by Ann Elliott Cutting: 978-1-945551-42-0 • $29.95 Ebook available • Coming winter 2019 Hardcover with photographs: 978-1-945551-33-8 • $29.95 • Ebook available
L.A. Mexicano Little Flower Baking Recipes, People, & Places By Christine Moore with Cecilia Leung By Bill Esparza Winner Best Nonfiction, SCIBA Gold Medal, PubWest Design Awards Los Angeles Magazine's Cookbook of the Year One of California's most acclaimed bakers shares her very best recipes, all adapted and carefully tested for Richly photographed by Staci Valentine and the home cook. Rich with Christine Moore's down- authentically local, L.A. Mexicano showcases the home warmth and wisdom, it inspires home cooks to famously rich and complex Mexican-food culture make her rustically beautiful, always delicious cookies, in Los Angeles. It's an abundancia of home-tested cakes, pastries, savory baked goods, breads, puddings, recipes; profiles of chefs, bakers, restaurateurs, and and so much more. Little Flower Baking is beautifully vendors, including the most important culinary packaged, and every recipe has its own gorgeous pioneers; and neighborhood guides. photo—a great boon for the home baker. Part cookbook, part food journalism, and part love song to the City of Angels, L.A. Mexicano is the definitive resource for home cooks, Hardcover with photographs by Staci Valentine: hungry Angelenos, and food-loving visitors. Features a foreword by Taco USA’s Gustavo 978-1-938849-60-2 • $35 • Ebook available Arellano. Hardcover with photographs: 978-1-945551-00-0 • $29.95 • Ebook available
6 PROSPECT PARK BOOKS 2018–2019 PROSPECT PARK BOOKS 2018–2019 7 ANTHOLOGY Little Flower Who Wants Paperback L.A. Recipes from the Cafe Seconds? Edited by Susan LaTempa By Christine Moore Sociable Suppers
COOKING COOKING "Eclectic, revisionist, brave, and, yes, incredibly fun.” — KPFK This award-winning cookbook hails from the for Vegans, Omnivores
home of the country’s best sea-salt caramels. A surprising, colorful, and witty collection of the best writing about Los Angeles, this •
& Everyone in Between LOS ANGELES Christine Moore shares her superb and innovative series gathers new work and fresh discoveries: a radio broadcast, essays, simple recipes for breakfast, lunch, supper, By Jennie Cook song lyrics, magazine articles, interviews, and excerpts from prize-winning novels, and dessert, each A gorgeous hand- memoirs, and nonfiction books. These pieces are punctuated by perceptive photo photographed and illustrated cookbook essays, a quotable lineup of one-liners and observations, and other quick hits. home tested. from a celebrated In the company of a virtuostic band of storytellers, the three Paperback L.A. Hardcover with LA caterer, Who books roam across the decades, from the city's earliest days to Hollywood's golden photographs by Wants Seconds offers Ryan Robert Miller: modern-classic age, from the punk scene to the beach scene, from the jazz clubs and bookstores to 978-0-983459-48-4 American recipes for the backyard pools and secret drag strips. $25 • Ebook available home entertaining with a sustainable focus, plus warm, practical advice. “We’re set to prepare and devour Cook makes it easy for home cooks to keep everything in it.” everyone at the table happy, from omnivores to vegans, and she'll inspire you to make the — Wall Street Journal world a better place by having more parties. Paperback with photographs: 978-1-938849-13-8 • $24.95 • Ebook available
The Auntie Em’s Das Cookbook Cookbook German Cooking . . . A Musician’s Guide to California Style Book 1: Clothes. Coffee. Crushes. Crimes. Breakfast & Brunch By Hans Röckenwagner Contributors include: Eve Babitz • Paul Beatty • Carlos Bulosan • Cecil Castelucci • By Theresa Wahl Drawing on Hans Röckenwagner's 30+ Victoria Dailey • Robert Landau • Steve Martin • Vin Scully • Clancy Sigal • Susan Sontag • years of cooking Hector Tobar • Victor and Mary Lau Valle Terri Wahl, chef-owner and baking in Los Flexibound: 978-1-945551-24-6 • $19.95 • Ebook available of the LA's (now DAS COOK Angeles, Germany, closed) retro hotspot and Switzerland, this Auntie Em’s Kitchen, BOOK GERMAN COOKING ... CALIFORNIA STYLE modern German- Book 2: Studios. Salesmen. Shrines. Surfspots. showcases her simple Californian cookbook and beloved recipes for features sections Contributors include: Ray Bradbury • Diana Serra Cary (Baby Peggy) • Jim Gavin • breakfast, brunch, and on bread-making Wendy Gilmartin • Eric Gutierrez • Chester Himes • Naomi Hirahara • Preston Lerner • dessert in a cookbook (yes, pretzel bread!), Danny Martinez • Gina N. Nahai • Michelle Shocked that celebrates HANS RÖCKENWAGNER With Jenn Garbee & Wolfgang Gussmack holiday treats, and Flexibound: 978-1-945551-37-6 • $19.95 • Ebook available seasonal and local bar snacks, along with flavors. Drawing inspiration from her past as the most popular recipes from his several a punk guitarist, Wahl pairs her recipes with L.A. restaurants, including 3 Square Café on Book 3: Secrets. SigAlerts. Ravines. Records. playlists, sharing her belief that food tastes famed Abbot Kinney Boulevard and Café better when there’s music in the kitchen. Röckenwagner in Brentwood. Contributors include: Ann Elliott Cutting • River Garza • Jonathan Gold • Carey McWilliams • Lisa See • Harry Shearer • R.J. Smith • Stuart Timmons • Karen Tei Yamashita Hardcover with photographs: Hardcover with photographs: 978-1-938849-26-8 • $29.95 978-1-938849-33-6 • $29.95 Flexibound: 978-1-945551-49-9 • $19.95 • Ebook available • Coming spring 2019
8 PROSPECT PARK BOOKS 2018–2019 PROSPECT PARK BOOKS 2018–2019 9 MYSTERY The Big Con The Ugly Truth By Adam Walker Phillips By Jill Orr Chuck Restic, HR manager and part-time There's been a shocking double murder •
private investigator, has a problem: the in Tuttle Corner, VA, that involves some RILEY ELLISON SERIES consultant guru Julie St. Jean is the bane of high-profile players from Washington D.C. his existence. Over his twenty-year HR career, This brings national attention to Riley's lit- he’s been forced to partner with her on inane tle corner of the world, along with a lot of employee engagement programs whose only big city competition for the story. Beloved value has been to Julie’s sizable bank account. café owner Rosalee is the prime suspect When Julie is suddenly wanted for the murder in the violent crimes, but she insists she's of an associate, Chuck sees his chance to rid innocent. In exchange for protection, himself of her forever—until the corporate tables Rosalee gives Holman and Riley exclusive are turned on him and he must find the elusive information incriminating a very powerful figure or risk losing his job. The search uncovers person who she says is the real murderer. a dark past of murder and stolen identity. And But the pair eventually begins to ques- MYSTERY • CHUCK RESTIC SERIES MYSTERY what begins as a search to save his corporate tion whether or not Rosalee is telling the neck soon turns into one a lot more literal. The truth. Unfortunately, they disagree on the third in the Chuck Restic mystery series. answer. Riley and Holman end up going Paperback: 978-1-945551-26-0 • $16 down separate investigative paths until Ebook available one of them finds the truth...and one of them finds the killer. The third in the Riley Ellison mystery series.
The Perpetual Paperback: 978-1-945551-44-4 • $16 The Silent Second Hardcover and ebook available Summer By Adam Walker Phillips Coming spring 2019 By Adam Walker Phillips Chuck Restic has achieved the American A missing teenage dream: a successful The Bad Break girl leads LA career with a large The Good Byline corporate HR exec– corporation, a nice By Jill Orr By Jill Orr house, and the best turned–private When a beloved eye Chuck Restic health insurance and Riley Ellison is a retirement package… cardiologist is found smart, quirky young to a high-profile murdered in his Tuttle fight over a new but he’s crumbling library assistant who's inside. Twenty years Corner home, newly feeling adrift in her art museum and a minted reporter Riley 40-year-old murder in Human Resources hometown of Tuttle has pushed Chuck Ellison is assigned Corner, Virginia. When that won’t stay in not only to write the past. Anyone into an existential her childhood best crisis. Only when his obituary, but to friend Jordan commits can be behind cover the murder the teenager’s he sets out to find suicide, the grieving a missing employee from his LA firm does investigation as well. family asks Riley to disappearance: her fitness-obsessed mom, Riley’s desperation to switchblade-toting chauffeur, personal life he start to feel alive again. Applying his HR write her obituary. skills and wit to his moonlight detective work, prove herself causes Jordan’s co-worker, a paranoid reporter with coach, or even the girl herself. her to blur the line between reporter and This second in the Chuck Restic series Chuck unravels a web of crooked real estate a penchant for conspiracy theories, convinces deals and three murders, staving off a fourth: investigator...and places her squarely in the Riley that Jordan’s death was no suicide, and takes aim at the absurdities of corporate killer’s path. America and the realities and eccentricities of his own. leads her down a dangerous path toward organized crime, secret lovers, and suspicious life in Los Angeles, while captivating readers Paperback: 978-1-945551-04-8 • $15.95 Paperback: 978-1-945551-20-8 • $16 with a first-rate detective story. Ebook available taco trucks. Will writing this obituary be the Ebook available death of her? Paperback: 978-1-945551-12-3 • $16 Paperback: 978-1-938849-91-6 • $16 Ebook available Ebook available
10 PROSPECT PARK BOOKS 2018–2019 PROSPECT PARK BOOKS 2018–2019 11 MYSTERY The Inglorious Arts Dead Extra By Alan Hruska By Sean Carswell Seasoned New York lawyer Alec Brno, first introduced After being reported as dead in a German •
in Pardon the Ravens, is tested again by overlapping POW camp, Jack Chesley returns to LA in 1947 NOIR personal and professional crises. He must rescue his very much alive, only to discover that his wife firm's oldest client, which is being sued vindictively by is dead—and her twin sister insists that it wasn’t a giant public utility, as well as the firm's largest client, an accident like the cops said. They set out to •
embroiled in a politically motivated suit before a lunatic find her killer, a journey that takes them from the CRUSH SERIES ALEC BRNO SERIES ALEC
• federal judge. To avoid professional and financial boozy back corners of Musso & Frank, to the ruin, Alec must somehow get rid of both cases almost Camarillo mental hospital, to a seedy motel where immediately and stop thousands of others from suing. blackmailers shoot dirty movies. In the spirit of This seemingly impossible assignment arrives as Alec's such noir masters as Cain and Chandler, Dead adopted sixteen-year- old daughter, the inheritor of a Extra explores new shadows on the seedy side of Mafia fortune, is targeted in a sex-slave scheme by her midcentury Southern California. uncle, the capo famiglia. Distractions only intensify when Alec's beautiful sister-in-law, looking and acting so much Paperback: 978-1-945551-47-5 • $16 Ebook available • Coming spring 2019 like his deceased wife, becomes a board piece in the Mob game. Corporate intrigues, political maneuvering, two high-stakes courtroom battles, Mob
LEGAL THRILLERS LEGAL terror, and the frantic race to save the lives of the women he loves—looks like Alec's got some • serious work to do. Paperback: 978-1-945551-40-6 • $16 • Ebook available • Coming winter 2019
MYSTERY MYSTERY It Happened at Pardon the Ravens Two in the Morning By Alan Hruska Colorado Boulevard By Phoef Sutton By Alan Hruska This fast-paced legal thriller set in the Mad When Zerbe, the honorary brother (and roommate) of LA’s toughest Men era grabs you After another long bodyguard/bouncer, Crush, is kidnapped, Crush springs into action to and doesn’t let go. save him. Unraveling the mystery takes him to Zerbe’s estranged billionaire night of work, brash Gifted young New young lawyer Tom father obsessed with building California’s long-promised bullet train, as well York lawyer Alec as to Pasadena’s famed Rose Parade along Colorado Boulevard. Weldon learns that Brno gets the career he’s being passed boost of a lifetime: Paperback: 978-1-945551-15-4 • $16 • Ebook available over for partner at the opportunity to his top-drawer New try a huge fraud case York firm and quits making international Heart Attack and Vine By Phoef Sutton on the spot. On the headlines. But he The second in the Crush series, Caleb Rush is back—only this time, it's 2 a.m. walk home, risks it all when he to untangle the criminal mess involving his con-artist friend, Hollywood he happens upon falls for an alluring players, and a cross-country trek to a New Orleans cemetary. the professional young woman whose hit of a wealthy estranged husband Paperback: 978-1-938849-68-8 • $16 • Ebook available power broker. Next thing he knows, Tom’s is a sadistic Mafia don—and the criminal being held captive in a rural shed with the mastermind behind Alec’s case. arrogant daughter of the murder victim. By Phoef Sutton They escape and run for their lives, hiding in Paperback: 978-1-938849-88-6 • $16 Crush rural Kentucky while Tom tries to unravel the Ebook available LA bodyguard Crush must use his wits, martial-arts training, and complicated mess they’ve stumbled into— knowledge of the Russian mafia to resolve the chaos of a billionaire tycoon and figure out why a hitwoman is after them. and his wild daughter—while trying to stay alive. Paperback: 978-1-945551-17-8 • $16 Paperback: 978-1-938849-36-7 • $16 • Ebook available Ebook available
12 PROSPECT PARK BOOKS 2018–2019 PROSPECT PARK BOOKS 2018–2019 13 MYSTERY Mysteries from Naomi Hirahara The Texas Twist Marry, Kiss, Kill Coming fall 2019: Iced in Paradise, the debut Leilani Santiago mystery, set in Kaua'i By John Vorhaus By Anne Flett-Giordano After pulling world-class In this fast-paced and
cons in California and funny Santa Barbara • Hiroshima Boy Sayonara Slam New Mexico, Radar mystery, movie stars THRILLER In the seventh and final book in the award- Japan faces Korea in the World Baseball Hoverlander and his crew are in town for the winning Mas Arai Classic at Dodger are back in action, this film festival, powerful MAS ARAI SERIES
• mystery series, LA Stadium, and Mas Arai time in Austin, Texas. business interests are gardener Mas Arai finds himself caught So many rich fools to at stake, and detective returns to Hiroshima up in a murder. A bamboozle—but is Nola MacIntire and to bring his best Japanese tabloid writer Radar having a crisis of her partner, Tony, must friend’s ashes to a drops dead on the conscience? A smart, untangle the complicated fast-paced, hilarious work—crime caper fiction web behind three seemingly unrelated deaths MYSTERY MYSTERY relative on a small field, and Mas gave the island, only to be victim his last drink. It at its best! The Texas Twist is the third Radar in this idyllic beach town. Marry, Kiss, Kill has embroiled in the turns out there’s more Hoverlander novel. it all: snappy dialogue, memorable characters, and a captivating mystery. mysterious death of at stake than a baseball Paperback: 978-1-938849-07-7 • $14.95 a teenage boy—one championship— Ebook available Paperback: 978-1-938849-49-7 • $15 who was about international diplomacy Ebook available the same age Mas depends upon was when he survived the atomic bomb in uncovering secrets buried decades ago. 1945. The boy’s death affects the often- This is the sixth in the Mas Arai series by The Spy on the Tennessee Walker curmudgeonly, always-reluctant sleuth, who the Edgar Award–winning and Anthony and cannot return home to Los Angeles until he Macavity Award–nominated Naomi Hirahara. By Linda Lee Peterson finds a way to see justice served. Paperback: 978-1-938849-73-2 • $16 Maggie Fiori is still the smart-mouthed magazine editor whose curiousity Paperback: 978-1-945551-08-6 • $16 Ebook available leads her to become over-involved in other people’s business, especially Ebook available if a crime is involved. But this time the trigger is not a dead body—it’s a cache of journals, letters, and photographs of her great-great-great- "Mas is a hyperobservant, methodical sleuth—a blend of Columbo and grandmother Victoria, a nurse in a Confederate hospital during the Civil War and a woman of much mystery. Hercule Poirot—but what makes this award-winning series shine is the way Hirahara takes readers inside her character’s head." — Booklist Paperback: 978-1-938849-61-9 • $15 • Ebook available
Strawberry Yellow Blood Hina The Devil’s Interval By Linda Lee Peterson Mas Arai returns to the California strawberry Mas Arai’s best friend Haruo is getting In this second Maggie Fiori mystery, San Francisco’s favorite amateur farms of his youth married, and Mas has sleuth is back, still too smart for her own good and foolishly open to for a funeral and grudgingly agreed another adventure. After a glamorous socialite is murdered in the encounters murder, to serve as best backseat of a limo, Maggie is on the case—in between marriage-therapy family intrigue, and man. But when an sessions and her sons’ soccer practices, that is. danger. Was his cousin ancient Japanese doll Paperback: 978-1-938849-11-4 • $15 • Ebook available murdered because display belonging to of the controversial Haruo’s fiancée goes new berry varietal he’d missing, Mas must Edited to Death By Linda Lee Peterson been developing? Is untangle a web of someone trying to kill secrecy, heartbreaking Maggie Fiori has a lot: a job at a chic San Francisco magazine, a Mas? Is there more memories, and murder. handsome attorney husband, two beautiful sons, and a comfortable life involved in the GMO in Oakland. But her smart mouth and everyday life as an editor, a loving protests than just picket lines? In his quiet way, wife, and mother camouflage a dark secret. The camouflage comes off Mas gets answers. Paperback: 978-1-938849-19-0 • $15 after murder strikes the magazine, and Maggie can’t rest until she solves Ebook available the killing—and saves her marriage. Paperback: 978-1-938849-02-2 • $15 Ebook available Paperback: 978-1-938849-34-3 • $14.95 • Ebook available 14 PROSPECT PARK BOOKS 2018–2019 PROSPECT PARK BOOKS 2018–2019 15 FICTION Mothers and Other Strangers This Side of After Abel By Gina Sorell Providence and Other Stories
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