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F.H. Batacan F.H. Batacan was born in Manila and graduated from the University of the Philippines. She worked in the Philippine intelli- gence community before turning to broadcast journalism. Smaller and Smaller Circles, her debut novel, won the prestig- ious Palanca Award (which is known as the “Pulitzer of the Philippines”) as well as the Philippine National Book Award.

Smaller and Smaller Circles

This award-winning literary noir, hailed as the first Filipino crime novel, tells the heartbreaking story of two Catholic priests on the hunt for a serial killer in August

the notorious dump city of northern Manila. 2015 In northeast Manila's Quezon City is a district called Payatas—a 50-acre dump known as “Smokey Mountain” that is home to thousands of people who live off of what they can scavenge there. It is one of the poorest neighborhoods in a city whose law en- World forcement is already stretched thin, devoid of forensic resources and rife with corrup-

tion. So when the eviscerated bodies of 10-year-old boys begin to appear in the dump heaps, there is no one to seek justice on their behalf.

In the rainy summer of 1997, two Jesuit priests take the matter of protecting their flock into their own hands. Father Gus Saenz has been a priest for three decades, but he is also a respected forensic anthropologist, one of the few in the Philippines, and has been tapped by the Director of the National Bureau of Investigations as a backup for police efforts. Together with his protege, Father Jerome Lucero, a psychologist, Saenz dedicated himself to tracking down the monster preying on these impoverished boys.

Cited as the first Filipino crime novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles is a poetic master- piece of literary noir, a sensitive depiction of a time and place, and fascinating story Winner of the Palanca Prize about the Catholic Church and its place in its devotees' lives and communities. Winner of the Philippine National Book Award Winner of the Madrigal-Gonzalez Award Early Praise for Smaller and Smaller Circles

“A dirty, gritty police procedural with a good-guy detective, who also happens to be a Jesuit priest and a forensic anthropologist . . . Satisfyingly paced, and crime-thriller gruesome.” —Time Out Beijing

“A well-orchestrated, compact race against time . . . A ‘Smaller’ and smarter thriller.” —Philippine Daily Inquirer

“Horrifying pleasure . . . The Payatas dumpsite is now given an even more menacing air as the setting for a series of gruesome murders.” —Review Circle

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Heda Margolius Kovaly Heda Margolius Kovaly was a Czech writer and translator. She was born in 1919 in Prague to Jewish parents. In 1944 she and her family were taken to Auschwitz, where her parents were immediately killed but which she managed to survive by getting selected for a work detail. After escaping from a transport to Bergen-Belsen, she was reunited with her husband, who had survived Dachau and become a devout Communist. In 1952, he would be tried for conspiracy and killed in a Czech jail.

Kovaly's memoir of her time in Auschwitz and of the early years of Czechoslovak communism, Under a Cruel Star, was first pub- lished in 1973 and has since been published in many languages and many editions. Her crime novel, Innocence, is based in large part on her own experiences in early 1950s Prague. Kovaly died in 2010 at age 91.

Innocence Translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker Renowned Holocaust memoirist Heda Margolius Kovaly's crime novel of 1950s com- munist Prague has been rediscovered and is finally available to the world, three decades June 2015 after it was published in the Czech Socialist Republic! In 1985, renowned Czech Holocaust memoirist, literary translator, and political exile Heda Margolius Kovaly turned her pen to fiction. Inspired by the stories of Raymond Chandler, Kovaly World knit her own terrifying experiences in early 1950s Socialist Prague--her husband's imprisonment

and wrongful execution, her own persecution at his disgrace--into a gorgeous psychological thriller- cum-detective novel. Set in and around a cinema where a murder was recently committed, Innocence follows the unfolding of the investigation while telling the stories of the women who Heda Margolius Kovaly work there as ushers, each of whom is forced to support herself in difficult circumstances. As the novel brings this group alive, it tells their various life stories that have brought them to this job, the (cover coming soon!) secrets they share with one another, and the secrets they keep. When the detective trying to solve the first murder is found slain by the cinema, all of their secrets come out into the light.

This smart, evocative, and deeply stirring literary crime novel is sure to be a translation phenome- non around the word.

Praise for Under a Cruel Star

“A tragic story told with aplomb, humor and tenderness . . . Highly recommended.” —Publishers Weekly

“An exceptionally intimate and poignant memoir . . . Illuminating.” —Library Journal

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Okey Ndibe Okey Ndibe teaches African and African Diaspora literatures at Brown University. He earned MFA and PhD degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and has taught at Connecticut College, Bard College, Trinity College, and the University of Lagos (as a Fulbright scholar). He is also the author of Arrows of Rain and has served on the editorial board of Hartford Courant, where his essays won national and state awards. He lives in Connecticut with his wife, Sheri, and their three children.

Foreign Gods, Inc.

Foreign Gods, Inc., tells the story of Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver who sets out to steal the statue of an ancient war deity from his home village and sell it to a New York gallery. Jan 2014 Ike's plan is fueled by desperation. Despite a degree in economics from a major American college, his strong accent has barred him from the corporate world. Forced to eke out a living as a cab driver, he is unable to manage the emotional and material needs of a temperamental World African American bride and a widowed mother demanding financial support. When he turns to gambling, his mounting losses compound his woes. And so he travels back to Nigeria to steal the statue, where he has to deal with old friends, family, and a mounting conflict between those in the village who worship the deity, and those who practice Christianity. A meditation on the dreams, promises and frustrations of the immigrant life in America; the nature and impact of religious conflicts; an examination of the ways in which modern culture creates or heightens infatuation with the “exotic,” including the desire to own strange objects and hanker after ineffable illusions; and an exploration of the shifting nature of memory, Foreign Gods is a brilliant work of fiction that illuminates our globally interconnected world like no other.

“Razor-sharp . . . Ndibe invests his story with enough dark comedy to make Ngene an odorifer- ous presence in his own right, and certainly not the kind of polite exotic rarity that art collectors are used to . . . In Mr. Ndibe’s agile hands, he’s both a source of satire and an embodiment of pure terror.” —The New York Times Book Review

“A story of sweeping cultural insight and absurd comedy . . . rendered with a stoic power that moves the reader more than histrionics possibly could.” —The Washington Post

“Unforgettable . . . Ndibe seems to have a boundless ear for the lyrical turns of phrase of the working people of rural Nigeria . . . The wooden deity ‘has character, an audacious personality,’ says one non-African who sees it. So does Ndibe's novel, a page-turning allegory about the glob- alized world.” —Los Angeles Times

“A morality tale for our time . . . With subtle hints at moral turmoil, a gift for dark humour, and characterisation that is perceptive and neatly observed, Ndibe manages to persuade the reader to root for Ike, even as his haphazard plans begin to unravel.” —The Guardian

“This original [novel] is packed with darkly humorous reflections on Africa’s obsession with the West, and the West’s obsession with all things exotic.” —Daily Mail

“We clearly have a fresh talent at work here. It is quite a while since I sensed creative promise on this level.” —Wole Soyinka, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 4 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

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Cara Black Cara Black is the author of fourteen books in the bestselling Aimée Leduc series, all of which are available from Soho Crime. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son and visits Paris frequently.

Murder on the Champ de Mars Vol. 15

Paris, 1998: Now a mother, Aimée Leduc has her work cut out for her—running her business, Mar feeding her new bébé, fighting off sleep deprivation and pursuing a personal investigation 2015 with the local Romany (known locally as the “gypsy” population), who are forming ranks and mysteriously falling silent before her questions.

A young Romany boy begs Aimée Leduc to take on a case from his ailing mother, promising World her answers to her father’s unsolved murder in a bomb explosion a decade ago. But when they arrive at the hospital, the boy’s mother has disappeared. Presuming that the bohémienne has been abducted because she possesses valuable information, Aimée agrees to investigate.

Set in the seventh arrondissment, the quartier of the Parisian elite, Murder on the Champ de Mars takes us from the highest seats of power in the ministries and embassies to the city’s secret gardens and the homes of France’s oldest aristocratic families. Aimée discovers more connections than she thought possible between the clandestine “gypsy” world and the mon- Cara Black eyed ancien régime, ultimately leading her to the truth behind her father's death . . . After all, (cover coming soon!) for Aimée, murder is never far from home.

Praise for the Aimée Leduc series

“Wry, complex, sophisticated, intensely Parisian . . . One of the very best heroines in crime fiction today.” ─Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher series Also in the New York Times bestselling Aimee Leduc series: “Forever young, forever stylish, forever in love with Paris—forever Aimée.” Murder in the Marais —New York Times Book Review Murder in Belleville Murder in the Sentier “Transcendently, seductively, irresistibly French.” Murder in the Bastille ─Alan Furst, author of Night Soldiers Murder in Clichy “So authentic you can practically smell the fresh baguettes and coffee.” Murder in Montmartre —Val McDermid Murder on the Ile Saint-Louis

Murder in the Rue de Paradis “[Black] is on to a good thing: each of her novels is set in a colorful Parisian neighborhood— Murder in the Latin Quarter and there are a lot of them. The cumulative result of reading this addictive series is a sort of Murder in the Palais Royal mini-tour of the city, as seen through a filter of fictional murder . . . Leduc is always a reliable Murder in Passy and charming guide to the city's lesser-known corners.” Murder at the Lanterne Rouge —The Seattle Times Murder Below Montparnasse (p. 7)

Murder in Pigalle (p. 7) “Black creates rich, plausible characters, giving them individuality and depth.” For more details on the complete backlist, see p. 22-25. —San Francisco Gate

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Cara Black Cara Black is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen books in the Aimée Leduc series, all of which are available from Soho Crime. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and son and visits Paris frequently.

Murder in Pigalle Vol. 14

June, 1998: Paris's sticky summer heat is even more oppressive than usual as rowdy French football fans riot in anticipation of the World Cup. Private Investigator Aimée Leduc has been Mar 2014 trying to slow down her hectic lifestyle—she's five months' pregnant and has the baby's well- being to think about now. But then disaster strikes close to home. A serial rapist has been terrorizing Paris's Pigalle neighborhood, following teenage girls home from junior high school and attacking them in their own houses. It is sad and frightening but has nothing to do with Aimée—until Zazie, the 13-year-old daughter of the proprietor of Aimée's favorite café, disap- World pears. The police aren't mobilizing quickly enough, and when Zazie's desperate parents ap- proach Aimée for help, she knows she couldn't say no even if she wanted to.

“The combination of vividly evoked Parisian neighborhoods and a bewitching, stylish heroine continues to make this series as tasty as a chunk of French chocolate.” —Booklist

"[Aimée Leduc is] almost six months pregnant and showing it . . . but once the investigation takes a detour into the cavernous sewers of the city, she proves she can still find her way home in the dark." —New York Times Book Review

"Leduc is a refreshing and entertaining guide to Parisian neighborhoods and cultures, espe- cially those that well-established tourist routes typically pass by. Let’s hope she never runs out of districts to scoot around in." —The Seattle Times

Murder Below Montparnasse Vol. 13 A New York Times bestseller! Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc is in a tough spot. Her long-time partner and best friend René has abandoned their company to move to Silicon Valley, and now Aimée has to handle the whole workload by herself. Her godfather, Commisaire Morbier, has bullied her into Mar 2013 getting involved in a government case against an intelligence hacker. And now, to make matters worse, she's stumbled into what seems to have been an art heist gone terribly wrong. Some very dangerous people think Aimée knows too much, and now she must scramble to solve the mystery of who is really behind the murder before they track her down. World

“Francophiles and mystery-novel lovers alike will devour investigator Aimée Leduc's latest outing, which takes her through the gorgeous if treacherous world of black-market art in Paris, as she safeguards a long-lost Modigliani painting.” —Entertainment Weekly

“[Black's] tone is lighter than in most other Euro-noir. After all, this is Paris . . . The spice in this tale, set in 1998, involves a long-hidden, newly stolen Modigliani that Leduc is hired to retrieve. Before she can even begin hunting, her client is killed . . . Fortunately, Leduc has a network of loyal friends to aid in her escapades. Pity the knife-wielding villain who offends that infallible sense of style.” —Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal

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John Straley John Straley, a criminal investigator for the state of Alaska, lives in Sitka with his son and wife, a marine biologist who studies whales. He is the Shamus Award-winning author of The Curious Eat Themselves and The Woman Who Married a Bear.

Cold Storage, Alaska An offbeat, often hilarious crime novel set in the sleepy Alaskan town of Cold Storage from Shamus Award winning author of the Cecil Younger series.

Newly reformed and with the dream of opening a bar-slash-church, Clive “The Milkman” McCahon returns to his withering Alaska hometown after a 7-year jail stint for dealing coke. He has a lot to Feb 2014 make up to his younger brother, Miles, who has dutifully been taking care of their ailing mother— and, really, all of Cold Storage. World But Clive doesn’t realize the trouble he’s bringing home. His vengeful former business partner is hot on his heels, and a stick-in-the-mud State Trooper is dying to bust him for narcotics. Will Clive’s Germany: BTB arrival breathe new life into the dying town and its hard-drinking, no-nonsense inhabitants? Or will

the trouble he brings along be the last nail in Cold Storage’s coffin?

“Straley strikes the perfect balance of humor and pathos in this story about the McCahon brothers.”—New York Times Book Review

“[Straley] writes crime novels populated by perpetrators whose hearts are filled with more poetry than evil.”—The Wall Street Journal

“Straley isn’t prolific, but when he does publish a book, it’s a gem . . . The crime aspect of Cold Storage, Alaska is pretty casual. Straley’s mostly interested in his characters and how they inter- act on a personal level . . . It’s always a pleasure to read Straley’s vivid studies of these folks—the slightly cracked, rugged and very funny characters of the Far North.”—The Seattle Times

The Big Both Ways

Discover the criminal history of Cold Storage, Alaska . . .

It’s 1935. Slip Wilson walks off his jobs at a logging camp after a gruesome accident kills a Feb 2014 coworker. On his way to Seattle to start over, he helps a woman get her car out of a ditch, and his life takes a serious detour. The woman, Ellie Hobbes, is an anarchist from the docks of Seattle who takes care of her young niece and dreams of flying planes. But right now she has a dead body in the trunk of her car and she’s on the run. So begins the action that takes Slip, Ellie, her niece, and World her noisy yellow bird on a heart-stopping adventure up the Inside Passage from Puget Sound to Alaska. The Big Both Ways is a gripping tale of survival, betrayal, and murder.

“A thrilling journey . . . sure-footed and deeply evocative.”—Seattle Times

“Moving... and utterly absorbing.”—Denver Post

“A riveting, unpredictable ride.”—Publisher's Weekly, Starred Review

“A rich tale . . . Straley hits all the right notes here.”—Booklist, Starred Review

8 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected] James R. Benn James R. Benn is the author of the Billy Boyle World War II mysteries. The debut, Billy Boyle, was named one of the top five mysteries of 2006 by Book Sense and was a Dilys Award nominee. Subsequent books have received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, and been listed as the Bookpage Mystery of the Month. Two have been tagged as a “Killer Book” by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association. A librarian for many years, Benn lives in Hadlyme, Connecticut, with his wife.

The Rest is Silence The ninth installment in James R. Benn’s hit WWII-era mystery series A single unidentified body washes ashore on a beach in southwest England. Captain Billy Boyle is assigned to investigate since the beach is part of a restricted area where US Army troops are practicing landings in advance of the planned invasion of France. The body leads Billy to a war Sept 2014 between criminal gangs out for control of the black market and access to the cornucopia of supplies flowing in through ports in southern England. With the aid of a local constable, the mystery of the one body is solved, but soon many other bodies wash ashore in the same area. World Operation Tiger, a large-scale training exercise for GIs slated to hit Utah Beach in the near future, has come to grief as German patrol boats attack the convoy and kill nearly a thousand men, ten of them BIGOTs: men who know the secrets of D-Day. Billy is tasked by Eisenhower himself to locate the ten men, dead or alive, to be certain none were picked up by the Germans in the Channel waters. But when Billy finds an 11th BIGOT, he knows he has a murder on his hands in addition to the disaster of Operation Tiger. Praise for the Billy Boyle series

“Spirited wartime storytelling.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A fast-paced saga set in a period when the fate of civilization still hangs in the balance.” —Wall Street Journal

“Captivating . . . Benn does a superb job of simultaneously capturing the personal anguish of war and creating a splendid adventure novel.”—Library Journal, Starred Review

A Blind Goddess The eighth installment in James R. Benn’s hit WWII-era mystery series London, March, 1944: US Army Lieutenant detective Billy Boyle faces two upsetting cases. Ser- geant Eugene “Tree” Jackson, an estranged friend of Billy’s, is part of the 617th Tank Destroyers, a battalion poised to make history by being the US Army's first combatant African Amer- ican company. But making history isn't easy, and the 617 faces racism at every turn. One of Tree's Sept 2013 men, a gunner named Angry Smith, has been arrested for a crime he almost certainly didn't com- mit, and faces the gallows if the real killer isn't found. To complicate matters, British intelligence agent Major Cosgrove assigns Billy a bizarre and delicate murder investigation in a village where a serial killer might be on the loose. Maybe Billy can get to the bottom of both mysteries—and save World more than one innocent life.

“Pervasive racism in the U.S. Army during WWII frames Benn’s excellent eighth Billy Boyle whodunit . . . The superior plot and thoughtful presentation of institutional racism directed against American soldiers about to risk their lives for their country make this one of Benn’s best.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review For more books in James R. Benn’s Billy Boyle series, see p. 27. “Benn’s thoroughly researched exploration of segregation in the wartime armed services is revealing and sensitively handled. Another nice mix of human drama and WWII history.” 9 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

Henry Chang The long-awaited new novel in the Jack Yu series set in New York’s Chinatown Henry Chang was born and raised in New York's Chinatown, where he still lives. He is a graduate of Pratt Institute and CCNY. He is the author of four books in the Detective Jack Yu series: Chinatown Beat, Year of the Dog, Red Jade and Death Money.

Death Money Apr 2014 When the body of an unidentified Asian man is found in the Harlem River, NYPD Detective Jack Yu is pulled in to investigate. The murder takes Jack from the benevolent associations of Chinatown to the take-out restaurants, strip clubs, and underground gambling establish- ments of the Bronx, to a wealthy, exclusive New Jersey borough. It's a world of secrets and World unclear allegiances, of Chinatown street gangs and major Triad players. With the help of an elderly fortune teller and an old friend, the unpredictable Billy Bow, Jack races to solve his most difficult case yet.

“The best Jack Yu mystery yet! Death Money is a lightning-speed sordid tale that travels through the dark alleys of bygone New York City Chinese restaurants. Chester Himes, the mas- ter of Harlem mysteries, would have been proud.” —Naomi Hirahara, Edgar Award-winning author of the Mas Arai mystery series

“Think you know New York? Then let Henry Chang show you around. This is tough crime fiction that reaches into the darkest corners of Chinatown and beyond, written with a deep under- standing of the world through which Detective Jack Yu moves, and a soulful compassion for those who inhabit it. Every word has the ring of truth about it.” —Stuart Neville , author of The Ghosts of Belfast and Ratlines

Praise for Henry Chang

“Chang has a cool, measured style that lets in some light . . . On a society that lives by its own rules.” —The New York Times Book Review

“For readers who relish noir suspense, it doesn’t get much better than this stunning novel.” —Boston Globe

“This is a nasty, terse slice of noir, and Yu is a fellow whose adventures should be worth following.” —Washington Post Book World

“An Asian-flavored The Wire . . . A richly atmospheric panorama of New York’s immigrant demimonde.” —Entertainment Weekly

Also in Henry Chang’s Detective Jack Yu series: Chinatown Beat Year of the Dog Red Jade For more details on the complete backlist, see p. 29.

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Jan Merete Weiss The long -awaited follow-up to the Captain Natalia Monte series set in Naples

Jan Merete Weiss grew up in Puerto Rico. She studied poetry and painting at the Massachusetts College of Art and received a Master's degree from NYU. Her poems have appeared in various literary magazines. She lives in New York and lectures at Lehman College.

A Few Drops of Blood Mar 2014

When two men are found, naked, brutally murdered, posed on the statue of a horse in the garden of an elderly countess, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabiniere is assigned the case, and soon she is plunged into the shadowy world of decadent art galleries on the World Camorrora. If she is to succeed in solving the heinous crime, Natalia must deal with not only her own complicated past and allegiances, but also those of the city as a whole. A riveting and poetic exploration of the violence that lurks in the heart of beauty, set in exotic Naples.

“Terrific . . . Memorable characters boost this atmospheric mystery redolent of the city’s art, architecture, and the détente that permits the Carabinieri and the Camorra to both operate in a state of tense and fragile peace.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

These Dark Things May 2011 When a beautiful college student is found murdered in the catacombs beneath a monastery, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabinieri is assigned to investigate. Could the killer be a professor the student had been sleeping with? A blind monk who loved her? Or perhaps a World member of the brutal Napali criminal organization, the Camorra? As Natalia pursues her Netherlands: investigation, the crime families of Naples go to war over garbage-hauling contracts; and all De Fontein across the city heaps of trash pile up, uncollected. When one of Natalia's childhood friends is caught up in the violence, her loyalties are tested, and each move she makes threatens her own life and the lives of those she loves.

“Where better to set a noir police procedural than in streets awash in uncollected trash, against a backdrop of smoke rising from Vesuvius? . . . Donna Leon owns Venice, and David Hewson rules Rome. With this formidable debut novel, Weiss lays claim to Naples.” —Boston Globe

“Weiss has done her homework, walked the pestilent streets, prowled the catacombs below the city, and created a thoroughly human woman.” —Margaret Maron, author of The Deborah Knott Series

“Absorbing . . . Weiss invests her debut with a plot replete with shocks, her characters—even the minor ones—are drawn with care and come alive as complete beings on the page, and her vivid portrayal of Naples, in its glory and its gloom, is unforgettable . . . These Dark Things tells a dark story and marks the beginning of what promises to be a bright series.” —Richmond Times-Dispatch

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Literary Fiction

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Coming soon to Soho: Seven Dale Peck properties, including two unpublished works!

Dale Peck

Dale Peck is a novelist, critic, and columnist. His debut novel, Martin and John, was originally published in 1993, and he has since written five additional novels, two works of non-fiction, and three children’s novels. Dale Peck lives in New York City with his boyfriend, Lou Peralta, where he teaches in the Graduate Writing Program of the New School.

Martin and John Dale Peck’s debut novel back in print!

Two men and two sets of stories weave together to create a haunting, Feb 2015 harrowing portrait of an artist.

The first story is told episodically by John, a hustler in New York in 1982, who falls in love with Martin, a man dying of AIDS. The second set of stories are those John writes in his journal as he learns how to live his life without Martin. World His stories also revolved around Martin and John, two characters who lead Netherlands: Atlas similar existences to their real-life counterparts, but with a few key differences. Italy: Feltrinelli “Peck's first novel has a dark brilliance and moments of real beauty . . . hard Germany: Paul List to ignore.”—Los Angeles Times China: China Times Japan: Hayakawa “Dale Peck, in his first novel, Martin and John, gives me what I look for most Korea: Myung Kyung when I open a new book: a world that is our world and also full of things I didn't know, characters in scenes that are at once recognizable and indeli- Greece: Odysseas

ble.”—Chicago Tribune

“How do you write a novel that describes the impact AIDS has had on you and still take into account all the other people who are suffering the consequenc- es of the disease? Dale Peck has come up with his answer in Martin and John—a book that marks the debut of a remarkably accomplished young writer.”—Entertainment Weekly

And announcing two new works by Dale Peck: Mar 2015 Visions and Revisions A collection of essays about AIDS in the ‘90s. World

Forthcoming untitled anthology April 2015 An engaging political canon of writing from the Reagan-Bush years. Confirmed contributors include: Rebecca Brown, Dennis Cooper, Robert Glück, Brad Gooch, Amy Hempel, Gary Indiana, Susan Minot, Eileen Myles, & Lynne Tillman. World

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Dale Peck

Dale Peck is a novelist, critic, and columnist. His debut novel, Martin and John, was originally published in 1993, and he has since written five additional novels, two works of non-fiction, and three children’s novels. Dale Peck lives in New York City with his boyfriend, Lou Peralta, where he teaches in the Graduate Writing Program of the New School.

The Law of Enclosures

A lyrical, haunting story of love, loss, and the redemptive powers of art journeys inside the marriage of Beatrice and Henry, the parents of two children, Susan and John, the protagonist of the critically acclaimed debut nov- May 2015 el Martin and John.

“Remarkable . . . This curious, hump-backed book, with its mixture of private rage and accomplished world-making, and its absolute reality, is a very rate, original, World and cherishable achievement. There is nothing else like it.”—Guardian UK: Vintage “An astonishing work of emotional wisdom . . . Peck has galvanized his reputation Italy: Feltrinelli as one of the most eloquent voices of his generation.” —The New York Times Book Review Germany: Luchterhand Netherlands: Atlas “Shatteringly honest, disturbing and provocative . . . A masterful confrontation with truth in the guise of a brilliantly conceived and executed work of fiction.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Few writers have Dale Peck’s nerve. He writes without secrets, packing his novels with the intimacies of his life, his family, his sexuality . . . There is an extraordinary sense of the risk and adventure of writing in every page of this novel.”—The Nation “The prose is so unobtrusively graceful that it may take you a while to notice how beautiful it is . . . Peck is as piercing on old age as on youth, as comfortable writing about women’s bodies as about men’s.”—The New Yorker

Now It's Time to Say Goodbye

A story of violence and prejudice in small-time America, from the author of Martin and John. On the run from the June 2015 AIDS epidemic, Colin and Justin move to the tiny Kansas city of Galatea. When a young girl is kidnapped, they are drawn into the town's dark web of hatred and fear.

“This dark, ferocious book reads like Twin Peaks and Pulp Fiction combined with Days of Heaven and To Kill a Mockingbird, with some bits of Faulkner, Carson McCullers and Flannery O’Connor thrown in for good measure. World [Peck] has given us a big, galvanic novel, a novel that stands as the capstone, thus far, of his impressive career.” UK: Chatto and Windus —The New York Times Book Review Germany: Luchterhand Netherlands: Atlas “With Now It’s Time to Say Goodbye, Peck has written his most complex, subtle—while appearing the most literal—and Spain: Grijialbo Mondadori chilling tale to date. And it is monumental, one of the most disturbing and morally powerful novels of the decade.” —The Village Voice “Peck is not only one of the leading literary voices of his generation, but also one of the few avant-garde writers of any age who is changing the rules for prose fiction. His novels simultaneously define and defy the genre.” —Los Angeles Times “There simply aren’t enough superlatives to describe this great American novel: erudite and lyrical, Peck’s latest is one of the best books of an outstanding literary year.” —Out 14 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

Dale Peck

Dale Peck is a novelist, critic, and columnist. His debut novel, Martin and John, was originally published in 1993, and he has since written five additional novels, two works of non-fiction, and three children’s novels. Dale Peck lives in New York City with his boyfriend, Lou Peralta, where he teaches in the Graduate Writing Program of the New School.

What We Lost

Dale Peck has dazzled readers and critics alike with his novels. Now, he examines new territory with a chilling story of his father's tumultuous childhood. More or less kidnapped at fourteen to his uncle’s farm, Dale Peck, Sr. finds unexpected contentment there and must choose between his broken family and the new home he loves. July 2015 “What We Lost left me wonderfully perplexed: how could so much emotion be crammed into so few pages? How could something so accessible seem so utter- ly personalized? How could such a traditional form of storytelling evoke such a World new set of feelings? I could think of only one place to go for my answers: back UK: Granta to the first page. So that’s where I went. And I bet that’s where you’ll go after reading this terrific book.”—Jonathan Safran Foer

“What We Lost is as slender, fiercely focused and humane as Franzen’s epically bloated The Corrections was sloppy and self-involved . . . Eloquent and ele- giac.”—Philadelphia Gay News

“Every reader knows that time when you simply must close a book in gratitude and breathe in some of the silence it has created. What We Lost is that sort of book over and over again . . . This is a book of grace and dignity that will be around for a long, long time.”—Colum McCann

“Dale Peck may have an ego the size of Montana. He may have annoyed half the known literary world with his screeds on other writers. But he may also be one our most adventurous and singularly talented writers working today.” —San Francisco Chronicle

The Garden of Lost and Found

21-year-old James Ramsay discovers he’s inherited a New York City building upon the death of his mother, who dis- appeared from his life shortly after his first birthday. James is faced with a choice: sell the building, or attempt to stave off the mounting tide of taxes that will cause him to forfeit his only connection to a mother he never knew. Aug 2015

“A strange and wonderful novel [by] a strange and wonderful novelist,” —Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland

“[Peck] tells the quintessential New York story with his delicious style and piercing ability to move.” World —Martha McPhee, author of Gorgeous Lies

“[Peck is a] brilliant writer, and this perplexing, beguiling, pre-and-post 9/11 Manhattan-set fable could have come from no one else.” —Booklist

“Peck delivers a novel that explores family, sexuality, AIDS, and the resiliency of the city, and he does it without kowtowing to the populist sentiment that a character ought to be likable: this one certainly isn’t . . . In typical fashion, Peck spares no punches. “—Lambda Literary Foundation

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BOMB Magazine

BOMB: The Author Interviews

Drawing on over 30 years of conversation in BOMB magazine between the writers who have shaped our world, these interviews are a must for any fiction reader, offering a unique look at the minds and habits of bestsellers like Jonathan Franzen, Junot Diaz and Salman Rushdie, alongside underground heroes like Dennis Cooper and Kathy Acker. With an introduction by Francine Prose.

Nov 2014

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Praise for BOMB Magazine

“Reading BOMB interviews was one of the ways I began to conceive of myself as an artist.” --Miranda July

“No other magazine, no other source of any kind, consistently advances so much vivid and indis- pensable intelligence into how art actually gets made in America and around the world as BOMB. Their artist-to-artist conversations reinvented the artist interview as an instrument for craft and collective autobiography, and exemplify the traditions of practitioner criticism at our contemporary best--experienced, canny, empathetic, dramatic, and revelatory.” --Robert Polito, Director of the New School Graduate Writing Program

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Paula Bomer Paula Bomer is publisher of Sententia Books and the editor of Sententia: A Literary Journal as well as a contributor to the literary blog, Big Other. Her writing has appeared in The Mississippi Review, Open City, Fiction, Nerve, and Best American Erotica. Her collection, Baby & Other Stories, is published by Word Riot Press. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

Inside Madeleine

This eagerly awaited lacerating new collection about the curious, complicated relationships girls have with their bodies, with other girls, and with boys, seethes with alienation, lust, and rage. It’s even more daring and accomplished than Bomer’s first collection, which Jonathan Franzen de- May 2014 scribed as “some of the rawest and most urgent writing I can remember encountering.”

A young anorexic girl comes to terms with her changing body while lying in the hospital; Polly deals with her unwelcome puberty whilst falling prey to peer pressure in the suspenseful vein of “Where World Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”; Mary's nice-girl attitude is challenged when she begins a job at a psych ward; two best friends discover the power of being beautiful and young; Madeleine discovers menstruation and the power that comes with it; a kinky sexual relationship turns into a dangerous obsession.

“With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter--the bravery of these stories left me breathless.” —Alissa Nutting, author of Tampa

“So arresting I raced to finish . . . “ —Lorin Stein, Paris Review blog Nine Months

A young Brooklyn mother, shaken at her unexpected (third) pregnancy, abandons her husband and kids and takes off on a cross-country road trip. Aug 2012

Nine Months is a fierce, daring page-turner of a debut novel—a lacerating response to the culture of mommy blogs, helicopter parents, and “parental correctness.” Sonia does everything a pregnant woman shouldn't do—abandoning her two small children and husband, engaging in casual sex, World and smoking weed while on a road trip to retrace her own past and reclaim her sidelined career as an artist. Unflinching and hilarious, Bomer skewers modern parenthood while asking serious questions about what it means to be an artist and a mother.

“Deliciously, dangerously rogue.”—Marcy Dermansky, author of Bad Marie

“A raw, darkly funny, at times appalling page-turner . . . Mommy lit lovers will be horrified, but Bomer's debut novel will resonate with fans of quirky, character-driven fiction in the vein of Richard Russo, John Updike, and Tiffany Baker.”—Library Journal

“After reading this powerful, entertaining novel, and Bomer's excellent collection of stories, I'm convinced. Anything she writes, I want it.”—PANK

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Mike McCormack Mike McCormack has published a collection of short stories, Getting It In The Head, and a novel, Crowe's Requiem. In 1996, McCormack was awarded the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. In 1998, Getting it in the Head was voted a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. A story from the collection, “The Terms,” was adapted into an award-winning short film.

Notes from a Coma

“The greatest Irish novel of the decade.”—Irish Times Mar 2013 Rescued from the squalor of a Romanian orphanage, and adopted by the rural community of West Mayo, J.J. O'Malley should have grown up happy. The boy has no gift for it, though, and his new life has a brutal way of giving him plenty to be unhappy about. After a sudden tragedy, J. J. World suffers a catastrophic mental breakdown. Unable to live with himself, he volunteers for an (except British improbable government project which has been set up to explore the possibility of using deep Commonwealth) coma as a future option within the EU penal system. When his coma goes online the nation turns to watch, and J.J. is quickly elevated to the status of cultural icon. Sex symbol, existential hero, Turkey: T-shirt philosopher─his public profile now threatens to obscure the man himself behind a swirl of Aylak Kitap media profiles, online polls, and EEG tracings.

Five narrators─his father, neighbour, teacher, public representative, and sweetheart─tell us the true story of his life and try to give some clue as to why he is the way he is now: floating in a maintained coma on a prison ship off the west coast of Ireland. Brilliantly imagined and artfully constructed─merging science fiction with an affectionate portrait of small town Ireland─Notes from a Coma is both the story of a man cursed with guilt and genius and a compassionate examination of how our identities are safeguarded and held in trust by those who love us.

“A cross between 1984 and The X-Files . . . Notes From a Coma establishes McCormack as one of the most original and important voices in contemporary Irish fiction.” —Irish Times

“McCormack's language is lovely, lyrical . . . his humor is dark, macabre; the words glimmer like a spell.”—Time Out

“The testimony about JJ's life is written with a sad and touching simplicity . . . Intriguing.” ─Wall Street Journal

Praise for Mike McCormack

“McCormack's obsessions at times converge with those explored by Ian McEwan, Will Self and J. G. Ballard, but his clever ideas and fluid, gracefully morbid style are all his own.”—GQ

“When venturing into the realm of the macabre, a writer gains a distinct advantage if he has a sense of discipline and a sense of humor . . . Mike McCormack has both to spare . . . Like para- bles in their easy transcendence of setting and time, the most audacious stories are classics.” —The New York Times Book Review

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Dan Josefson

Dan Josefson has received a Fulbright research grant and a Schaeffer Award from the International Institute of Modern Letters. He has an MFA from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and lives in Brooklyn.

That’s Not a Feeling

Benjamin arrives with his parents for a tour of Roaring Orchards, a therapeutic boarding school tucked away in upstate New York. Suddenly, his parents are gone and Benjamin learns that he is Oct 2012 there to stay. Sixteen years old and a two-time failed suicide, Benjamin must navigate his way through a new world of morning meds, popped privileges, candor meetings and cartoon brunch- es—all run by adults who themselves have yet to really come of age. World The only person who comprehends the school's many rules and rituals is Aubrey, the founder and headmaster. Fragile, brilliant, and prone to rage, he is as likely to use his authority to reward students as to punish them. But when Aubrey falls ill, life at the school begins to unravel. Benjamin has no one to rely on but the other students, especially Tidbit, an intriguing but untrust- worthy girl with a “self-afflicting personality.” More and more, Benjamin thinks about running away from Roaring Orchards—but he feels an equal need to know just what it is he would be leaving behind. New York Times Editors’ Choice Booklist Editors’ Choice “Deft, tempered prose . . . unornamented, but never flat or blunted, so that the characters, not B&N Discover New Voices selection the sentences, heat the pages.” —New York Times Book Review

“Dan Josefson is a writer of astounding promise and That's Not a Feeling is a bold, funny, mordant, and deeply intelligent debut.” —David Foster Wallace, author of Infinite Jest

“The prose is matter-of-fact, even placid, and studded with perfectly phrased gems, a cool surface to a work that is rich in feeling. A wonderful and noteworthy debut.” —Booklist, Starred Review

“Funny at times, and more than a little sad, the book’s form perfectly mirrors Benjamin’s pro- found sense of dislocation and uncertainty. This is a powerful, haunting look at the alternate universe of an unusual therapeutic community.” —Library Journal, Starred Review

“If That's Not a Feeling were a fifth novel, it would be a triumph. As a first novel, it is an astonish- ment. Dan Josefson sails along the scary edge of perfection in this book, and does so with style, empathy, compassion, humor, and wisdom.” —Tom Bissell, author of The Father of All Things

“This is a book of enormous intelligence, and even more heart.” —Jim Shepard, author of Like You'd Understand, Anyway

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David Zimmerman

David Zimmerman was raised in Atlanta, Georgia. After receiving his MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama, he spent several years living and working in Brazil and Ethiopia. He now teaches at Iowa State University. His debut novel, The Sand- box, was released by Soho in 2010.

Caring is Creepy

Fifteen-year-old Lynn Marie Sugrue is doing her best to make it through a difficult summer. Her mother works long hours as a nurse, and Lynn suspects that her mother’s pill-popping boyfriend Apr 2012 has enlisted her in his petty criminal enterprises. Lynn finds refuge in online flirtations, eventually meeting up with a troubled young soldier, Logan Loy, and inviting him home. When he’s forced to stay over in a storage space accessible through her closet, and the Army subsequently lists him as World AWOL, she realizes that he’s the one thing in her life that she can control. Meanwhile, her mother’s boyfriend is on the receiving end of a series of increasingly violent threats, which places Lynn squarely in the cross-hairs.

“An engrossing and unforgettable tale based on actual events . . . Those who can empathize with flawed characters in dire situations will not be able to put this book down.” Alex Award Winner —Library Journal

“Lynn’s voice is authentically sardonic and compelling . . . the intersections of Lynn’s and Logan’s story line with the consequences of Hayes’s shady dealings are consistently exciting.” —Publishers Weekly “David Zimmerman has written a beautifully menacing novel. I found it impossible to stop read- ing—as teenage girls flirt with danger online, an AWOL soldier hides out in a closet, and drug deals go dead wrong—and you will too, as the danger steadily escalates, the sentences unspooling like a detonator line that sizzles toward an explosive, unforgettable ending.” —Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding and Refresh, Refresh

“This story is sweet, funny, sad, infuriating, and all too real.” —Tulsa Books Examiner

“An engrossing and unforgettable tale based on actual events . . . Those who can empathize with The Sand Box flawed characters in dire situations will not be able to put this book down.” —Library Journal 2010

Operating Base Cornucopia. A three-hundred-year-old fortress in the remote Iraqi desert where a few dozen soldiers wait for their next assignment, among them Private Toby Durrant, a self- described “broke nobody.” Then a deadly ambush touches off events that put Durrant in the World middle of a far-reaching conspiracy.

“[A] gripping first novel.”—The New York Times

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Jacqueline Winspear Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Among the Mad and An Incomplete Revenge, as well as four other Mai- sie Dobbs novels. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha, Alex, and Macavity awards for the first book in the se- ries, Maisie Dobbs. Originally from the United Kingdom, she now lives in California.

Maisie Dobbs Returning to Soho in June 2014!

Maisie entered domestic service in 1910 at the age of thirteen, to work as a maid at the Belgravia mansion of Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence and innate love of learning are dis- World covered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Maurice China: Ten Points Press Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons who is often retained by (reverted) France: LGF Europe's elite, and the police, to conduct discreet investigations. England: John Murray Ltd. Italy: R.C.S. Libri S.p.A. “Maisie Dobbs is a quirky literary creation. If you cross-pollinated Vera (reverted) Britain’s classic World War I memoir, Testament of Youth, with Doro- Germany: Rowohlt Verlag thy Sayers’s Harriet Vane mysteries and a dash of the old PBS series Campus Verlags (reverted) Upstairs, Downstairs, you’d approximate the peculiar range of topics Japan: Hayakawa Publishing and tones within this novel . . . Its intelligent eccentricity offers relief.” (reverted) —Maureen Corrigan, “Fresh Air” on NPR Spain: Ediciones B (rev) Sweden: Norstedts “[A] deft debut novel . . . Romantic readers sensing a story-within-a- Netherlands: De Fontein story won't be disappointed. But first they must be prepared to be Israel: Aryeh Nir astonished at the sensitivity and wisdom with which Maisie resolves Agatha Award Winner Russian Language: AST her first professional assignment.” Alex Award Winner Norway: Gyldendal —The New York Times Book Review Finland: Tammi “The reader familiar with Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies Hungary: Ulpius-Haz Detective Agency . . . might think of Maisie Dobbs as its British coun- terpart . . . [Winspear] has created a winning character about whom readers will want to read more.” —The Associated Press

Also in Jacqueline Winspear’s Maisie Dobbs series:

Birds of a Feather: A Maisie Dobbs Novel Agatha Award Winner World China: Ten Points Press 2004 Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery England: John Murray Ltd. magnate's daughter who has fled from home. A simple case becomes complicated France: LGF Italy: R.C.S. Libri S.p.A. when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiress's old friends. Is (reverted) there a connection between her mysterious disappearance and the murders? As Germany: Rowohlt Maisie investigates further, she discovers that the answers lie in the unforgettable Sweden: Norstedts agony of The Great War. Netherlands: De Fontein Israel: Aryeh Nir “[A] chilling, suspenseful sequel . . . As in her first novel, the author gives an intelligent Russian Language: AST and absorbing picture of the period, providing plentiful details for the history buff with- Norway: Gyldendal out detracting from the riveting mystery. Readers will be eager to see more of the Finland: Tammi spunky Maisie.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Hungary: Ulpius-Haz 22 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

The Aimée Leduc Investigations

A New York Times bestselling series set in the various neighbor- hoods of Paris featuring Aimée Leduc—a half American, half-French The computer detective who attracts men and murders. Writers who New York Times have loved this series include: Lee Child, Sara Paretsky, George Pelecanos, Val McDermid, Alan Furst, Linda Fairstein, Robert Bar- bestselling series nard, Stuart Kaminsky, Philip Kerr, Marcia Muller, Margaret Maron by Cara Black and Barbara Nadel. With positive reviews from The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, and many oth- er papers. Cara has been compared to Sara Paretsky and Sue Graf- ton.

Murder at the Lantern Rouge Vol. 12 Barnes and Noble March Mystery Pick of the Month & Indie Next Pick

Aimée Leduc is happy her long-time business partner René has found a girlfriend. Really, she is. It’s not her fault if she can’t suppress her doubts about the relationship; René is moving way too fast, and Ai- mée’s instincts tell her Meizi, this supposed love of René’s life, isn’t Mar 2012 trustworthy. And her misgivings may not be far off the mark: Meizi disappears during a Chinatown dinner to take a phone call and never comes back to the restaurant. Minutes later, the body of a young man, a science prodigy and volunteer at the nearby Musée, is found shrink- wrapped in an alleyway—with Meizi’s photo in his wallet. World

Aimée does not like this scenario one bit, but she can’t figure out how the murder is connected to Meizi’s disappearance. The dead genius was sitting on a discovery that has France’s secret service keeping tabs on him. Now they’re keeping tabs on Aimée. A missing young woman, an illegal immigrant raid in progress, botched affairs of the heart, dirty policemen, the French secret service, cutting-edge science secrets, and a murderer on the loose—what has she gotten herself into? And can she get herself—and her friends—back out of it? Alive?

“Outstanding . . . readers will relish realistic villains and an evocative atmosphere that begs for a trip to the City of Lights.” ―Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

“Perfectly plotted . . . Filled with evocative details and quirky characters as delightful as the smell of a fresh-baked baguette.” —BN.com, Mystery Pick of the Month

“The pace accelerates as fast as Aimee's Vespa . . . Murder at the Lan- terne Rouge is wonderfully plotted, and Cara Black ties together the past and present with élan.” —New York Journal of Books

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More from Cara Black’s Aimée Leduc series

An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 11) Murder in Passy 2011 The village-like neighborhood of Passy, home to many of Paris’ wealthiest residents, is the last place one would expect a murder. But when Aimée Leduc’s godfather, Morbier, a police commis- saire, asks her to check on his girlfriend at her home there, that’s exactly what Aimée finds. Xavierre, an haut bourgeois matron of Basque origin, is strangled in her garden while Aimée waits inside. Circumstantial evidence makes Morbier the prime suspect, and to vindicate him, Aimée World must identify the real killer. Her investigation leads her to police corruption; the radical Basque terrorist group, ETA; and a kidnapped Spanish princess.

“The ideal mix of the personal, the political, the puzzling and the Parisian make Aimée’s latest a perfect pleasure.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

Murder in the Palais Royal An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 10) 2010 Just as Aimée is about to leave for New York City to follow up on a lead about a possible younger brother, her partner in Leduc Detective, René Friant, is wounded by a near-fatal gun shot. Eyewit- nesses identify Aimée as the culprit and the police have pegged her as the guilty party. Aimée is distraught over René’s condition and horrified to be under suspicion. World At the same time, a large mysterious sum appears in their firm’s bank account, and the tax authorities descend upon Aimée. She has no idea who would have sent this money. It seems that someone is impersonating Aimée, someone who wants revenge. But for what?

“Forever young, forever stylish, forever in love with Paris— forever Aimée.” —The New York Times Book Review

Murder in the Latin Quarter An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 9)

2009 A Haitian woman arrives at the office of Leduc Detective and announces that she is Aimée’s sis- ter, her father’s illegitimate daughter. Aimée is thrilled. A virtual orphan since her mother’s disap- pearance and her father’s death, she has always wanted a sister. Her partner, René, is wary of this stranger, but Aimée embraces her and soon finds herself involved in murky Haitian politics, which leads to murder. The setting is the Latin Quarter on the Left Bank of the Seine, the old World university district of Paris. “Postcolonial politics and global commerce ignite the murder of a Haitian academic in Paris’s bohemian Left Bank . . . Black at her peak, with rich historical background and a vivid sense of place supporting her compelling narrative.” —Kirkus Reviews 24 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

Murder in the Rue de Paradis More from Cara Black’s Aimée Leduc series 2008 An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 8)

Aimée is thrilled when her one-time lover, Yves, an investigative journalist, returns from his assign- ment in Egypt and proposes marriage. But after a single night of bliss, his body is discovered in a Paris doorway. His throat has been slit. Aimée is determined to avenge him. The trail leads to a World sleeper jihadist and embroils her in Turkish and Kurdish politics.

Murder on the Île Saint-Louis An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 7) 2007

Facing a tight deadline on a computer security contract, Aimée responds to a telephone call from a stranger that leads her to an abandoned infant in a courtyard on the Île Saint-Louis. She brings the baby home with her, calls her Stella, and awaits contact from the mother. But days pass, and World no one reclaims the infant. Meanwhile, a group of environmental protestors are trying to stop the government from entering into a contract with an oil company notorious for pollution.

Murder in Montmartre An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 6) 2006 Aimée’s childhood friend, Laure, is a policewoman. Her partner, Jacques, has set up a meeting in Montmartre with an informer. When Laure goes along as backup, Jacques is lured to a rooftop, where he is shot to death. Laure’s gun has been fired, gunpowder residue is on her hands, and she is charged with her partner’s murder. The police close ranks against the alleged cop killer. Spain: Factoria Aimée is determined to clear Laure’s name. In doing so, she encounters separatist terrori sts, des Ideas Montmartre prostitutes, a surrealist painter’s stepdaughter, and a crooked Corsican bar owner, Germany: Thiele & then learns of “Big Ears”—the French “ear in the sky” that records telephonic and electronic Brandstattere communications for the security services. Identifying Jacques’ murderer brings her closer to Verlag solving her own father’s death, which still haunts her and she cannot rest until she finds out who was responsible.

Murder in Clichy 2005 An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 5)

Spirited Aimée Leduc, a private investigator based in Paris, has been introduced to the Cao Dai temple by her partner, René, who urges her to learn to meditate as a counterbalance to her frenetic lifestyle. A Vietnamese nun asks her for a favor—to hand over a check and bring a package back to the temple. But this act of kindness ends in a stranger’s death and leaves her World with a bullet wound in the arm, a check for 50,000 francs, and a trove of ancient jade artifacts whose provenance is a mystery. The French secret service, a group of veterans of the war in Indo- china, some wealthy ex-colonials, and contending international oil companies all claim the jade. They will stop at nothing to gain possession of it. And the nun has disappeared.

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Aimée Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket, supposedly an “exclusive,” for dinner with a difficult client at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district. She is chagrined to see that the woman seated at the very next table is wearing an identical jacket. When the World woman leaves her cell phone on the table, Aimée follows her to return it and is attacked in England: Constable & the shadowy Passage Boule Blanche. When she regains consciousness, Aimée finds that she Robinson (reverted) has been temporarily blinded. Nevertheless, she is told she is lucky—the woman she was Germany: Thiele & following was found in the next passage, murdered. Aimée is determined to identify her Brandstattere Verlag attacker. Was he actually a serial killer targeting showy blondes as the police insist? Was he really after the other woman? Or was Aimée his intended victim?

Murder in the Sentier 2002 An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 3)

The third Aimée Leduc investigation is set in the historic Sentier district, where World once-fashionable private mansions now house the Parisian “rag” trade and nightclubs. Mem- England: Constable & bers of a 1960s Red gang are seeking their hidden loot, which leads to new murders. Aimée Robinson (reverted) fears the killers may include her long-lost mother. France: Editions Anatolia Italy: Hobby & Work

Murder in Belleville 2000 An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 2)

World Tension runs high in this working-class neighborhood as a hunger strike to protest strict England: Constable & immigration laws escalates among the Algerian immigrants. Aimée barely escapes death due Robinson (reverted) to a car bombing in this tale of terrorism and greed bred by the shadows of Paris. Spain: Factoria des Ideas Norway: Schibste Forlag A/S

Murder in the Marais An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 1) 1999

Aimée Leduc has always sworn she would stick to tech investigation—no criminal cases for World her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But UK: Robinson when an old Jewish man approaches Aimée with a top-secret decoding job on behalf of a Japan: Hayakawa woman in his synagogue, Aimée unwittingly takes on more than she was expecting. When she Italy: Hobby & Work drops off her findings at a client's house in the Marais, Paris' historic Jewish quarter, she finds Israel: Keter Books the old woman strangled to death, a swastika carved on her forehead. With the help of her Spain: Factoria des Ideas partner, René, Aimée sets out to solve this horrendous murder, but finds herself in an increas- France: City Editions ingly dangerous web of ancient secrets and buried war crimes. Norway: Schibsted Forlag A/S 26 Germany: Thiele & Brandstattere Verlag Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

More from James Benn’s Billy Boyle series

Death’s Door A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery (Vol. 7) 2012

When an American monsignor with high-level political contacts is found murdered at the foot of Death's Door, one of the five entrances to Saint Peter's Basilica, Lieutenant Billy Boyle is assigned the case. To solve this murder, Billy first has to be smuggled into Rome, while avoiding the Gestapo and Allied bombs. Then he must navigate Vatican politics and personalities—some are pro-Allied, World others pro-Nazi, and the rest steadfastly neutral—further complicated by the Vatican’s tenuous sta-

tus as neutral territory in German-occupied Rome. But Billy’s ready to risk it all because of one sim-

ple fact: Diana Seaton, his lover and a British spy, has been captured while undercover in the Vati- can. Billy must decide whether he dares attempt a rescue, even though a failed effort would surely alert the Germans to his mission and risk an open violation of Vatican neutrality.

“Filled with action and adventure . . . A fine novel with its foot firmly planted in reality.” —Ted Hertel, Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine

“Consistently entertaining.”—WWII Magazine

A Mortal Terror A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery (Vol. 6) 2011 Two officers from the American troops stationed in Caserta, Italy, not far from Naples, have been found murdered. The cases are completely different, and it seems like the officers had no connection to each other, but one frightening fact links the murders: each body was discovered with a single playing card.

Billy is sent to Italy to investigate, but he has other things on his mind. Billy's just learned that World his brother is being sent over to Europe as an infantry replacement, an incredibly dangerous assignment. As the invasion at Anzio begins, Billy needs to keep a cool head amidst fear and terror as the killer calculates his next moves.

“This book has got it all—an instant classic.”—Lee Child “Stark and poignant.”—The New York Times

Rag and Bone 2010 A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery (Vol. 5)

Billy is sent to London in the midst of a Luftwaffe bombing offensive to investigate the murder of a Soviet official. There’s reason to believe that the crime is connected to the recent discovery of mass graves in the Katyn Forest, where thousands of Polish officers were executed.

World Poland: Bellona S.A. “[A] lively (and surprisingly thoughtful) adventure series.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Billy Boyle is a meaty, old-fashioned, and thoroughly enjoyable tale of WWII-era murder and espionage.” —The Seattle Times 27 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

More from James Benn’s Billy Boyle series Evil for Evil 2009 A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery (Vol. 4)

The adventures of a former Boston Irish cop as General Eisenhower’s personal investigator: the “invasion” of Norway; the invasion of Algeria; the invasion of Sicily; the threat of a German-Irish alliance. World “Benn continues to create fascinating behind-the-scenes mysteries from little-known facets of World War II history . . . A fast-paced mix of action, adventure, and crime solving . . . A solid series that keeps getting better.”—Booklist

Blood Alone A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery (Vol. 3) 2008

Billy awakens in a field hospital in Sicily with amnesia. Despite this and numerous attempts on his life, he manages to carry out his mission to enlist the cooperation of the head of the Sicilian Mafia on behalf of the Allies. He also foils a plot by Vito Genovese to counterfeit World army scrip.

“Another bracing cocktail of period action with a whodunit chaser from the increasingly authoritative Benn.” —Kirkus Review

The First Wave A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery (Vol. 2) 2007 Billy’s task is to help arrange the surrender of the Vichy French forces in Algeria. But dissension among the regular army, the militia, and DeGaulle’s Free French allows black marketeers in league with the enemy to divert medical supplies to the Casbah, leading to multiple murders. Billy must find the killers while trying to rescue the girl he loves—a British spy. World

“[A] cross-genre tale that is at once spy story, soldier story, and hard-Boyled detective. Bullets, babes, and bombs give Billy Boyle a bad time before he solves the case, but you'll have a good time reading about it. Highly recommended.” —Library Journal

Billy Boyle A Billy Boyle World War II Mystery (Vol. 1) 2006 What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish cop from Boston doing at Beardsley Hall having lunch with Haakon, King of Norway? Billy Boyle himself wonders. Back home, he’d just made detective (with a little help from family and friends) when war was declared. Unwilling to fight—and perhaps die—for England, he was relieved when his mother wangled a job for him on the staff of a general married to her distant cousin. But the general turns out to be Dwight D. Eisenhower; World his headquarters are in London, which is undergoing the Blitz; and Uncle Ike has a special as- signment for Billy: He wants Billy to be his personal investigator. Operation Jupiter, the impending invasion of Norway, is being planned. Billy is to catch a spy amongst the Norwegians. He doubts his own abilities, and a theft and two murders test his investigation. But to his own surprise, Billy proves to be a better detective than anyone thought. 28 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

Henry Chang Henry Chang was born and raised in New York’s Chinatown, where he still lives. He is a graduate of Pratt Institute and CCNY. He is the author of the Detective Jack Yu series.

Red Jade 2010 A Detective Jack Yu Investigation (Vol. 3)

Two bodies are discovered at an address on the Bloody Angle, Chinatown's historic Tong battle- ground. NYPD Detective Jack Yu's investigation takes him across the country to another Chinatown, this one in Seattle, in pursuit of a cold-blooded Chinese American gangster and a mysterious Hong Kong femme fatale. World

“An action-packed plot and a carefully detailed mystery make this a feast for readers who crave insight into the cultural melting pot that is the United States.” —Library Journal, Starred Review

Year of the Dog A Detective Jack Yu Investigation (Vol. 2) 2008 He's been transferred to a different precinct, but Jack cannot get away from Chinatown's criminals—his old friends—who have hooked up with the Hong Kong-based triads in an elaborate nationwide credit card fraud, nor from the Chinese victims who cry out for justice, like the teenage Chinese take-out delivery boy brutally murdered in the projects. World

“A vivid, street-level portrait of the community that, in the words of one reviewer, ‘evokes the spirit, sights, smells and language of his setting in compelling and original fashion.’” —The New York Times

“Suddenly my life became an orgy of reading pleasure.” —Slate

Chinatown Beat 2006 A Detective Jack Yu Investigation (Vol. 1)

NYPD Detective Jack Yu was raised in Chinatown. Some of his old friends are criminals now; some are dead. Recently transferred to his old neighborhood, where ninety-nine percent of the cops are white, Jack is confronted with a serial rapist who preys on young Chinese girls. Then Uncle Four, an elderly leader of the charitable Hip Ching Society and member of the Hong World Kong-based Red Circle Triad, is gunned down. To solve these crimes, Jack turns to both modern Italy: Fanucci police methods and ancient fortune-telling.

“Chinatown Beat is noir at its best, a book that shakes you to the core as you look at a world where evil has so much more chance of prevailing than good.” —Mystery News 29 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected] Michael Genelin Michael Genelin is a graduate of UCLA and UCLA Law School. He has served as a consultant for the US State Department and USAID in Central Eu- rope, Africa, Asia, and Haiti. He lives with his wife in Paris.

Requiem for a Gypsy A Commander Jana Matinova Investigation (Book 4) 2011 Commander Jana Matinova must push through her own government's secretiveness to discover what connects the murder of Klara Boganova to an anonymous man run down in Paris, a dead Turk with an ice-pick in his eye, an international network of bank accounts, and a mysterious vagabond girl. To solve the case and stop an ongoing series of murders, Jana must travel to Berlin and Paris World and look back into the darkest period of Slovak history. France: Marabout

“The portrayal of life in post-Communist Slovakia is riveting.” —USA Today

The Magician’s Accomplice A Commander Jana Matinova Investigation (Book 3) 2010 Devastated by her lover's death in an explosion—on the same day that an indigent student was shot and killed in normally sleepy Bratislava—Jana is transferred to The Hague, headquarters of the international police force Europol. On the flight she encounters a retired magician, the dead student's uncle, who is determined to help Jana investigate his nephew's death. And his help is needed as, in this third Jana Matinova investigation, she faces an international conspiracy emanat- World ing from Europol itself. France: Marabout “In Genelin's superb third novel . . . [he] brilliantly blends action and detection, never allowing the plot twists to overshadow his characters' humanity.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

A Commander Jana Matinova Investigation (Book 2) Dark Dreams Jana and Sofia were best friends when they were schoolmates. Now Jana is a commander in the 2009 Slovak police force and Sofia, having made a name as a reformer, is a member of parliament. Jana has fallen in love with an upright government prosecutor and Sofia is carrying on a notorious affair with a suave, married, fellow MP. One day Jana finds an enormous diamond gem dangling from a string fixed to the ceiling of the living room of her house. Was it put there as a present? Or, more likely, to entrap her? The answer leads Jana across Europe to unravel a criminal conspiracy World involving multiple murders that has entangled her hapless, impulsive friend, Sofia, and which France: Marabout ultimately leads to the criminal mastermind.

“Masterly . . . Genelin vividly describes a Central European country that remains fearful and sub- ject to political machinations despite the fall of the Soviet Union.”—Library Journal

Siren of the Waters A Commander Jana Matinova Investigation (Book 1) 2008 Jana entered the Czechoslovak police force as young woman, married an actor, and became a mother. The Communist regime destroyed her husband, their love for one another, and her daughter's respect for her. But she has never stopped being a seeker of justice. This investigation takes her from Kiev in Ukraine to the headquarters of the European Community, Strasbourg in World France; from Vienna to Nice during the Carnival, as she searches for a ruthless killer and the Japan: Tokyo beautiful young Russian woman he is determined either to capture or destroy. Sogen-sha France: Marabout “Siren of the Waters is a well-written police procedural. The reader is given wonderful insight into Jana’s head, into her motivations, her thought processes . . . The plotting is good, the characters are well-developed. Michael Genelin is an author worth watching.”—Crimespree Magazine 30 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

Stan Jones Stan Jones is a native of Alaska. He has worked as an award-winning journalist and a bush pilot. He is the author of three previous mysteries in the acclaimed Nathan Active series.

The Village of the A Nathan Active Novel (Book 3) Ghost Bears 2011 An Alaska State Trooper must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake with a year-old plane crash and an arson fire that killed eight people, including the town’s basketball star. The case turns out to involve a lucrative polar-bear poaching operation and the intense bond between a brother and sister from Cape Goodwin, famous in the Arctic for twins, polar bears, and schizophrenia. World

“Multilayered characters and an offbeat setting authentically rendered—Jones bids fair to become the Tony Hillerman of Alaska.” —Kirkus Reviews

“Chilling.... Fascinating.”—USA Today

Shaman Pass A Nathan Active Novel (Book 2) 2005 Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active is regarded as “half-white” by the Inupiats of the village where he is stationed. He was born in Chukchi but was adopted by Anglos and raised in Anchor- age. Now he is called upon to investigate the murder of a tribal leader who was stabbed to death with an antique harpoon, which had been recently returned to the community under the Indian Graves Act. World “Active maintains his awe of the vast Alaskan tundra, a forbidding region that Jones renders in Editions du all its bone-chilling beauty.” Masque —Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times Book Review

“[Jones’] depiction of a freezing world of tar-paper houses and whaling camps is absolutely con- vincing.”—Houston Chronicle

White Sky, Black Ice A Nathan Active Novel (Book 1) 2003

In the small Alaskan village of Chukchi, what are the odds of two suicides occurring in a matter of a few days? State trooper Nathan Active discovers that his suspicions concerning the deaths are World well-founded; the two men were murdered. But what was the motive and who killed them? Editions du Masque

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Robert Hellenga Robert Hellenga teaches at Knox College, Illinois. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, six Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowships, an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Chile: Librería Catalonia The Sixteen “Mud angels” is what the Italians call the selfless young foreigners who come to Florence in Spain: Editorial Thassalia Pleasures 1966 to save the city's priceless art from the Arno's flooded riverbanks. Margot Harrington is England: Hodder and 1994 an American volunteer, an expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a water- Stoughton logged convent library, she discovers a fabulous volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio The Netherlands: Uitgeverij Vassallucci bv. Romano that accompany sixteen steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino. When published more Norway: Tiden Norsk Forlag than four centuries earlier, the Vatican had insisted all copies be destroyed. This one—now Tokyo: Fuso Publishing Inc. unique—volume has survived. The abbes, with wonderful aplomb, prevails upon Margot to Croatia: Mozaik Knija save the order's finances by selling the magnificently illustrated erotica, discreetly. Meaning: Italy: Newton & Compton without the bishop's knowledge. The young American's other clandestine project is a middle- Editori Srl. (reverted) aged Italian who is boldly trying radical measures to save endangered frescoes. She is 29 and Düsseldorf: Econ Verlag available; he, older and married. He shares her sense of mission and then her bed in this Korea: Sam-Gwa-Ham-Gea Publishing Co. ambrosial story of spiritual longing and earthly desire. France: Editions Payot/ Rivages “[It] will beguile you, seduce you, spirit you away into another world.” Russia: Gayatri Publishers —NPR.org World Spanish: Libreriá Catalonia Grace Brophy

Grace Brophy grew up in New Jersey and now divides her time between New York, Maine, and Umbria. She is the author of the Commissario Cenni series.

A Deadly Paradise The Commissario Cenni Series (Book 2) 2008 Cenni investigates a mutilation-murder in a small Umbrian village which leads back to WWII occupied Venice.

“Brophy has a fine budding series here, with winning characters and settings that include Venice and Murano as well as Umbria, and the ongoing Chiara subplot will have readers anticipating the next installment.” —Library Journal World

“The likes of Donna Leon, Magdalen Nabb and David Hewson are joined by Grace Brophy, author of an outstanding new series featuring handsome Commissario Alessandro Cenni.”— The Denver Post

The Last Enemy The Commissario Cenni Series (Book 1) 2007 Commissario Alessandro Cenni investigates a murder in Assisi during Holy Week. Debut of a series set in Italy. “Brophy teases out each layer of clues with a deft hand that betrays few of the usual first- novel clunkers, helped greatly by strong knowledge of the locale she's chosen. Cenni is well World set up to return, and traditional mystery readers should welcome his continued investigations.” —Baltimore Sun

32 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected] Rebecca Pawel Law of Return Lieutenant Carlos Tejada has been transferred to Salamanca, the city where he studied law before 2004 the Civil War. His new police duties include monitoring parolees—former professors who were fired for protesting a Franco decree. Elena Fernandez, having lost her job because of her political World sympathies, has returned home to Salamanca from Madrid where she and Tejada had first been Netherlands: Uitgeverij Atlas romantically involved. Her father, one of the parolees, was a distinguished professor of Classics. He Italy: TEA has just received a letter from a Jewish friend, Professor Joseph Meyer, begging for help to cross France: Liana Levi into Spain from France before he is forcibly repatriated to Germany. Professor Fernandez cannot Poland: Sonia Draga violate his parole by traveling to the border town of San Sebastian so Elena goes in his stead. Turkey: Literatur Tejada, tracing a missing parolee, finds himself in San Sebastian, too. There Elena and Tejada's paths fatefully cross again.

Death of Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel a Nationalist Madrid 1939. Carlos Tejada Alonso y Lean is a Sergeant in the Guardia Civil, a rank rare for a man 2003 not yet thirty, but Tejada is an unusual recruit. The bitter civil war between the Nationalists and World the Republicans has interrupted his legal studies in Salamanca. Second son of a conservative Netherlands: Uitgeverij Atlas Southern family of landowners, he is an enthusiast for the Catholic Franquista cause, a dedicated, Brazil: Editora Landscape and now triumphant, Nationalist. This war has drawn international attention. In a dress rehearsal Italy: TEA for World War II, fascists support the Nationalists, while communists have come to the aid of the France: Editions Liana Levi Republicans. Atrocities have devastated both sides. It is at this moment, when the Republicans Japan: Hayakawa have surrendered, and the Guardia Civil has begun to impose order in the ruins of Madrid, that Spain: Ediciones B, Leer-e Tejada finds the body of his best friend, a hero of the siege of Toledo, shot to death on a street Portugal: Difel (Gotica 2000) named Amor de Dios. Naturally, a Red is suspected. And it is easy for Tejada to assume that the Poland: Sonia Draga woman caught kneeling over the body is the killer. But when his doubts are aroused, he cannot Turkey: Literatur help seeking justice. E-book: Leer-E The Curious Eat John Straley Themselves 1993 “Alaskan private investigator Cecil Younger has troubles with his autistic roommate, with ex-love Hannah, with any form of alcohol, and with the special assistant in charge of Louise Root's murder case. Louise hired Carl to find the men who raped her at the Otter Creek gold mine, but World someone kills her before he has a chance. Cecil approaches his work at an angle: desiring a Italy: Hobby & Work (rev) source of drink or food, he locates instead a likely source of information. A love and appreciation of Alaska shine through Straley's quietly compelling prose.” -—Library Journal

The Woman Who Married a Bear 1992 “Cecil Younger, a private investigator of sorts in Sitka, Alaska, has many enemies besides the alcohol he so assiduously consumes. One of them tries to kill him when he asks questions about World the murder of an Indian—even though the convicted killer sits in prison. Cecil's quest connects England: Gollancz (reverted) him with a cross-section of frontier inhabitants: Indians, Eskimos, hunters, drunkards, even an Germany: Rowohlt estranged lover. Straley's evocative prose conjures up both natural wonder and human France: Gallimard tawdriness without slackening the insistent suspense. A promising debut.” Italy: Hobby & Work —Library Journal Japan: Fukutake

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Qiu Xiaolong Qiu Xiaolong was born in Shanghai and received an MA in English and American literature in China. He received a PhD in comparative literature from Washington University in St. Louis, where he now teaches.

When Red is Black The Inspector Cao Cen Series (Book 3) 2004 World Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police Bureau is “on vacation.” Actually, he is working for Finland: Otava a triad-connected businessman about to build a vast complex in central Shanghai evoking Norway: Press the “glitter and glamour” of the 30s. But when former Red Guard, novelist Yin Lige, is Netherlands: Signature murdered, he must return to duty to apprehend the culprit. Russia: Centrepolygraph Spain: Almuzara “Sublime . . . complex and riveting.” Germany: Zsolnay —Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post Book World England: Hodder France: Liana Levi “A vivid picture of modern Chinese society . . . a work of real distinction.” Spanish Language: Tusquets —The Wall Street Journal Italy: Marsilio Editori

A Loyal Character Dancer The Inspector Cao Cen Series (Book 2) 2002 World Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort US Poland: Amber Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an Russia: Centrepolygraph important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Finland: Otava Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this Norway: Press just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role; he would rather investigate China: Wenyi the triad killing in Shanghai's beauteous Bund Park. But his boss insists that saving face with Inspector Rohn has priority. So Chen Cao, the ambitious son of a father who imbued Netherlands: Signature him with Confucian precepts, must tread warily as he tries once again to be a good cop, a Spanish Language: Tusquets good man, and also a loyal Party member. Italy: Marsilio Editori Germany: Zsolnay “Intriguing . . . the characters manage to achieve an engaging realism and charm, even while showing the underside of China in transition.”—Publishers Weekly

Death Of a World Red Heroine The Inspector Cao Cen Series (Book 1) Sweden: Ordfronts 2000 Japan: Hayakawa A young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the China: Wenyi Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Finland: Otava Shanghai special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he Denmark: Lindhardt& finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Norway: Press Chen must tiptoe around his own superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, Hungary: Europa Konyvkiado and risk his career—perhaps even his life—if he wants to see justice done. Israel: Yanshuf Poland: Amber “Death Of A Red Heroine grabbed my imagination, took me on a slowly, intricately built Greece: Synnchroni Orontes journey that nevertheless felt sexy and slick, and kept me turning the pages deep into Russia: Centrepolygrap the night . . . a refreshingly brave exploration into political China, woven around a tense Czech Republic: Nakladatelstvi XYZ thriller and likeable, enigmatic characters.”—Huffington Post Germany: Zsolnay England: Hodder France: Liana Levi Italy: Marsilio 34 Netherlands:Signature Spanish Language: Tusquets Italy: Marsilio Editori Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

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Adam Schwartz

Adam Schwartz is a Senior Lecturer in the Writing Program at Wellesley College. His stories have been widely anthologized and portions of A Stranger on the Planet have previously been published as stories in The New Yorker. He is a graduate of the University of Iowa’s Writers’ Workshop. This is his first novel.

Stranger on the Planet

In the summer of 1969, Seth Shapiro is twelve years old, and the personal tumult of his and his family’s lives plays out against the backdrop of the moon landing and Woodstock.

His father lives with his new wife in a ten-room house and has no interest in Seth and his siblings. Jan 2011 Seth is dying to escape from his mother’s craziness and suffocating love, her marriage to a man she’s known for two weeks, and his father’s cold disregard.

Over the next four decades, Seth becomes the keeper of his family’s memories and secrets. At the World same time, he emotionally isolates himself from all those who love him, especially his mother. But Ruth is also Seth’s muse, and this enables him to ultimately find redemption, for both himself and his family.

“A Stranger on the Planet is charming, even if Schwartz stumbles occasionally—his sex scenes, in particular, can be distracting and almost absurd. And the dialogue of some of Seth's African- American college students at times rings painfully false. But Schwartz's careful, generous prose makes up for it, and his sincerity is genuinely winning. This might not be the best debut novel of the year, but it's original, sensitive and, unlike its hero, it's always, always likable.”—NPR

Deborah McKinlay

Deborah McKinlay has published half a dozen nonfiction titles in the UK, and her books have been translated into numerous lan- guages. Her work has appeared in British Vogue, Cosmopolitan, and Esquire. She lives in South West England. The View from Here is her first novel. The View from Here When Frances was twenty-two, she was drifting, scraping by giving English lessons in Mexico, when she met up with a glamorous group of vacationing Americans staying in a mansion on a private beach. Two decades later in rural England, she discovers a love letter from a younger Feb 2011 woman addressed to her husband almost at the same time as she learns that she’s facing a life- threatening illness.

As her contented existence begins to unravel and she tries to decide how and if she will confront World her husband about his infidelity, Frances finds herself haunted by the memory of her heady de- sert encounter with the charmed circle of the Severance family. That summer in 1976 seemed, until now, like another lifetime. As she recalls this long buried episode from her past, she is forced to face for the first time her own role in an illicit romance and the betrayal and tragedy that marked its ending.

“The View from Here is an unexpected character study, an examination of people caught between the wiles of youth and the wisdom of age and of one woman who learns to accept the intrinsic value of both.” 36 —Booklist Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

New York Times bestselling author of How Evan Broke His Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain Head and Other Secrets Returning to Soho in Evan had a hit single, but that was ten years ago. Thirty-one now, he’s drifting, March 2014! playing in a local band and teaching middle-aged men to coax music from an elec- tric guitar. Beset at a young age with a life-threatening form of epilepsy, he’s kept his condition a secret. But his deepest secret is that he got his high school sweet- World heart pregnant. Then her conservative parents whisked her out of Seattle and out Brazil: Edioures of Evan’s life. Now, fourteen years later, he experiences unplanned parenthood Publicacoes Ltd when he undertakes to raise the resentful teenage son he’s never known. Off-beat and disarming, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets portrays a contempo- China: ThinKingdom rary American family with unfailing honesty. Italy: Edizioni Piemme “Hits all the frets of a powerful story: sharp-witted dialogue, vivid characters, in- sight into medical challenges and prose that snaps like well-placed plucks of gui- tar strings.”—The Seattle Times “An engrossing family drama.”—Publishers Weekly

Katharine Beutner Aclestis 2010 In Greek myth, Alcestis is known as the ideal good wife; she loved her husband so much that she died to save his life and was sent to the underworld in his place. In this poetic and vividly-imagined debut, Katharine Beutner gives voice to the woman behind World the ideal, bringing to life the world of Mycenaean Greece, a world peopled by Turkey: Epsilon capricious gods, where royal women are confined to the palace grounds and passed as possessions from father to husband.

Elliot Krieger Exiles 2009 Sweden has granted asylum to American protesters against the Vietnam War. Some are draft resisters, some are wanted by the FBI for acts of violence, some are AWOL soldiers, some are actually working for the CIA—or so everyone suspects. They are eking out their lives in Uppsala on a meager dole. Each thinks he would be a better group spokesperson than Aronson, who is the current leader of the Americans in exile. World

“Engaging . . . tension and delicious intrigue [are] meticulously constructed.” —Chicago Sun-Times

37 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected] Edwidge Danticat Edwidge Danticat was nominated for the National Book Award in 1995 for her story collection, Krik? Krak! Her first novel, Breath, Eyes, Memory, was published to acclaim when she was twenty-five.

Krik? Krak! England: Little Brown 2004 When Haitians tell a story, they say “Krik?” and the eager listeners answer “Krak!” In her (reverted) second novel, Edwidge Danticat establishes herself as the latest heir to that narrative Germany: Econ tradition with nine stories that encompass both the cruelties and the high ideals of (reverted) Haitian life. They tell of women who continue loving behind prison walls and in the face of Latin America: Grupo unfathomable loss—of a people who resist the brutality of their rulers through the powers Norma (reverted) of imagination. The result is a collection that outrages, saddens, and transports the read- Denmark: Forlaget er with its sheer beauty. Fremad Japan: Gogatsu Shobo Italy: Baldini & Castaldi Netherlands: Wereld- bibliotek Breath, Eyes, Slovenia: Sanje Memory 2003 At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first reared her. US paperback: Penguin What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatu- UK: Little Brown ral and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, suffering, and wisdom of an entire people. Israel: Kinneret Sweden: Natur & Kultur

A New York Times Notable Book The Farming of Bones US paperback: Penguin ALA Booklist Editor’s Choice 2003 (reverted) It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, UK: Little, Brown has built herself a life as the servant and companion of a wealthy colonel’s wife. She and Latin America: Grupo Sebastian, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry. But Amabelle's world Editorial Norma collapses when a wave of genocidal violence, driven by Dominican dictator Rafael Trujil- Germany: Econ List lo, leads to the slaughter of Haitian workers. Amabelle and Sebastian are separated, and France: Grasset she desperately flees the tide of violence for a Haiti she barely remembers. Italy: Piemme

Netherlands: Wereldbiblio- Already acknowledged as a classic, this harrowing story of love and survival—from one of theek the most important voices of her generation—is an unforgettable memorial to the victims Norway: Pax Forlag of the Parsley Massacre and a testimony to the power of human memory. Denmark: Fremad A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year Finland: Gummerus “A powerful, haunting novel . . . every chapter cuts deep, and you feel it.”—TIME Spain: International editores 38 Sweden: Norstedts Hungary: Europa Kiado Japan: Sakuhinsha Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

Kiyo Sato Kiyo’s Story: A Japanese- American Family’s Quest for the American Dream Winner: William Saroyan Prize for Non-Fiction 2010

Kiyo's father arrived in California determined to plant his roots in the land of opportunity after leaving Japan. He, his wife, and their nine American-born children labored in the fields together, building a successful farm. Yet at the outbreak of World War II, Kiyo's family was ordered to Poston Internment Camp. This memoir tells the story of the family's struggle to World endure in these harsh conditions and to rebuild their lives afterward in the face of lingering prejudice.

“Kiyo's Story is unforgettable.”—Sacramento News & Review

Susan Richards Chosen Forever: A Memoir A sequel in which the author’s book tour leads to reconnection with family and friends 2008 and to romance and marriage.

“Richards reflects on how rich life becomes when one travels her own best path . . . Richards writes more courageously than she perhaps realizes, and each page of this World uplifting book will touch a chord in everyone who enjoyed her first book.” Brazil: Editora Objetiva —Booklist

A New York Times Bestseller Chosen by a Horse: A Memoir When she agrees to take on the care of one of the abused horses just rescued by the 2006 local SPCA, a new chapter opens in Susan Richards’s difficult life. She lost her mother at World the age of five and was raised by uncaring relatives; married unhappily and divorced; Netherlands: Uniboek and suffered from alcoholism. While Susan is trying to capture the horse assigned to Italy: TEA her, Lay Me Down, a skeletal mare, walks into Susan’s horse trailer of her own volition. England: Constable & Robinson Susan already owns one mare and two geldings—the diva-like Geor- France: Editions du Rocher gia, boyish Tempo and hopelessly romantic Hotshot—but it is with Lay Me Down that she Germany: Integral/Lotos/ forges a special, healing relationship that alters her life. Ansata (Random House) Czech Republic: Columbus Poignant and evocative, this is a book for anyone who has ever loved a horse, and for Brazil: Editora Objectiva everyone who has ever lost a loved one. Taiwan: Sun Color Culture Greece: Editions Drepania Portugal: Noticias “A triumph for all spirits.” —Laura Shaine Cunningham, author of A Place in the Country

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Iain Levison Iain Levison is the author of A Working Stiff’s Manifesto, an account of his post-collegiate work experience, consisting of forty -two jobs in ten years, and of two previous novels, Since the Layoffs and Dog Eats Dog. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.

How To Rob An Armored Car Three friends stuck in dead-end jobs in a depressed Pennsylvania town spend their days 2009 smoking pot and imagining exciting futures. Then one of them gets the idea to steal a plas- ma TV, and crime suddenly seems like a promising career.

World (except France) “[Levison] delivers a ticklish novel . . . With a nose for half-baked dreams and a keen ear for how man-children talk and “think,” Levison offers an honest and humorous romp Spain: Del Viento through lower-middle class frustration.” Korea: Human&Books —Publishers Weekly

A Working Stiff’s Manifesto A Working Stiff's Manifesto is a laugh-out-loud memoir of one man’s quest to stay afloat. 2003 From the North Carolina piedmont to the Alaskan waters, Levison’s odyssey takes him on a cross-country tour of wage labor: gofer, oil deliveryman, mover, fish cutter, restaurant World manager, cable thief, each job more mind-numbing than the last. A Working Stiff's Manifesto will resonate with anyone who has ever suffered a demeaning job, worn a name badge, or felt Spain/Galacain: Alvarellos Editoria the tyranny of the time clock. Italy: Edizioni Socrates

France: Editions Liana “Levison is the real deal . . . bracing, hilarious, and dead on.” Levi —The New York Times Book Review Germany: Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlag “There is a naked, pitiless power in his work.”—USA Today

Since the Layoffs 2004 Like Donald Westlake in The Ax (1997), about an insurance executive turned hit man, Levison World brings a burning rage to this accomplished debut novel. Ever since Jake Skowran lost his job Spain: Suma de when the town factory closed, he has been fending off his creditors with increasingly vitriolic Letras rants. His longtime girlfriend has left him, and his unemployment is due to run out. So when Germany: Matthes Ken Gardocki, a backwater bookie and drug dealer, offers Jake $5,000 to kill Ken's wife, Jake &Seitz Berlin Verlag accepts without hesitation. He goes on to kill three more people, including a corporate flack (reverted) who hassles Jake about wearing a smock at his new minimum-wage job at the Gas 'n' Go. Italy: Blu /Instar Edizioni

France: Editions “Levison’s irony is acute as he caricatures the working world’s groundlings.” Liana Levi —The New York Times Book Review Netherlands: Uitgeverij DE GEUS 40 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected] Caroline Petit Deep Night 2008 Leah Kolbe escapes to Macao as the Japanese occupy Hong Kong. Her fiancé is interned in a prisoner of war camp. She becomes a spy for the British and takes a Japanese lover. When she returns with provisions to her beloved Hong Kong on the first boat, she finds the surviving English, including her fiancé, totally altered. He cannot bear to stay in Hong Kong; she chooses to remain and rebuild.

World “Vivid . . . the journey into womanhood as exotic action-adventure.”—Publishers Weekly

“The extraordinary journey of Leah Kolbe, a compelling character.”—Jacqueline Winspear “An excellent suspense story, a bona fide tour of China as it was then, with menacing characters and swift, sure punishment.”—Orange County Register

The Fat Man’s Daughter Hong Kong, 1937: Orphaned by the sudden death of her father, a shady Hong Kong dealer in antiquities, 19-year-old Leah Kolbe finds she has been left penniless. Her only assets are the skills 2005 her father taught her: connoisseurship, secretiveness, and duplicity.

She is approached by a Mr. Chang, who claims to have known her father and offers her a commission to go to Manchukuo (the Japanese puppet kingdom recently established in Manchuria) to smuggle out Chinese Imperial treasures. She consents and, accompanied by her faithful amah and a White Russian woman in Chang’s pay, takes the train north. The trip is perilous, as is her World return through besieged Nanking and by sampan across the South China Sea. But it is not until she reaches the empty house back in Hong Kong that Leah becomes her own “country of one.” “This debut novel views the Japanese invasion of China through a Westerner's eyes and gets its vivid details right.”—Publisher’s Weekly

Steward L. Allen The Devil’s Cup What is this elixir that fuels our destiny? Stewart Lee Allen's insatiable, unquenchable thirst for the 2003 answer carries him across forbidden borders and several continents as he pursues the precious and little-known catalytic effect of the ambrosial brew upon world empires and mankind. He also documents the unconscionable attempts to suppress coffee. With Paris one “vast caf,” for instance, Napoleon banned coffee, but then was summarily overthrown and exiled. His last request: a cup of St. Helena's best. Likewise, Germany's long anti-coffee campaigns kept java from offering its solace World to the lower classes. In 1930 German workers voted Adolf Hitler into power. In America the military Germany: Campus tried for fifty years to produce an easily brewed cup for battlefield use, and did. The perfection of Verlags GmbH instant coffee triggered a 3,000 percent jump in consumption during World War I and stimulated the (reverted) rise of the United States to world-class power. “Chef-turned-journalist Allen’s debut book is a thoroughly entertaining, absorbing, and often hilari- ous jaunt through the history and geography of coffee . . . Allen enjoys his cup to the last drop, and there's nothing decaffeinated about his wonderfully tasty brew. A must for both Java junkies and travel lovers.” —Kirkus Reviews “Written in a style recalling the best travel writing, the hidden connections Allen uncovers in this book often astound, making it, in its way, a small treasure.”—BookForum 41

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Chris McKinney These two novels have previously been published only in Hawaii. They are written by a Hawaiian of mixed Korean and native ancestry and faithfully convey the reality of the Hawaiian experience. The Queen of Tears is the story of a former Korean film star and her Hawai- ian children. The Tattoo takes place in prison and deals with the Hawaiian underclass; it is under option to Melvin van Peebles for film.

The Queen of Tears 2006 By age fourteen she was on her own, fleeing the communists, a waif living in the streets of Seoul, begging from American soldiers and stealing food. Then fate intervened; she was hit by a car driven by a prominent filmmaker. He mentored her into an acting career. By age nineteen, Park Soong Nan was the brightest star of Korean cinema. They called her World “The Queen of Tears.” Many years later her three grown children are settled in Hawaii. She comes to visit. Soong's presence is catalytic, setting off smoldering jealousies, dormant longings, and the unending contest for primacy in her affection.

The Tattoo Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He’s tough-looking and a 2007 hard case, observing his cellmate Cal—the mute tattoo artist of the prison, a wife murderer. SYN, a gang symbol, is tattooed on his hand, and he has a Japanese emblem inscribed on his left shoulder. He asks Cal for a tattoo on his back, in kanji script, of Musashi’s Book of the Void. While he is being worked on, he tells Cal his life story, a tale of hardship and abuse. World Motherless, he was raised by a distant father, a Vietnam War veteran, in the impoverished hinterlands. In his teen years he hung out with the native Hawaiian gangs and was drawn into the Hawaiian-Korean underworld of strip bars and massage parlors. His ambition and proud samurai spirit seem, inevitably, to lead to his downfall. “Rough-and-tumble, rife with fully drawn badass characters and plenty of action, McKinney’s novel is powerful and strong.” —Time Out Chicago

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Camilla Trinchieri The Price of Silence 2007 E-mails from beyond the grave incriminate a grief-stricken mother. As Emma Perotti’s trial for mur- der begins, her family recalls how young An-ling Huang walked into Emma’s ESL class and into the family’s life. Now the girl is dead. What happened? World “[A] taut psychological thriller . . . a gripping, intelligent read.”—Publishers Weekly Italy: Marcos y Marcos “Prolific as Trella Crespi and Camilla T. Crespi, Trinchieri here debuts most auspiciously as herself.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review

“The Price of Silence is an absolute jewel—a dark tale, intricately woven . . . It’s an intelligent novel— written with great skill and ingeniously plotted.”—Linda Fairstein, author of Bad Blood

Teresa de la Caridad Doval

A Girl Like Che Guevara A novel about growing up in Cuba under Castro by a writer who did; semi-autobiographic. 2004 Sixteen-year-old Lourdes is a dedicated and proud revolutionary who spends the summer of 1982, along with her peers, at the “School-in-the-Fields,” tilling tobacco fields to prove her dedication to Fidel and the revolution. But she is also a study of contradictions. Lourdes outwardly scoffs at the old ways but wears World an azabache amulet under her clothing, next to her Che medallion, to ward off evil spirits. She Netherlands: secretly prays to the orisha Yemayá while she pledges her fealty to Fidel and the secular socialist Arena ideals of her father, a professor of scientific Communism at the University of Havana. She develops a crush on her roommate at the camp, but, like many other things in the socialist regime under which she lives, same-sex relationships are forbidden. Like other girls her age, she longs to wear smuggled Jordache jeans and drink Cuban coffee, to watch American cartoons and eat steak whenever she wants. All simple pleasures, all denied her by the same revolution she serves. What she has are the harsh realities of life in a glorified work camp, which lead her to question her allegiances. Why does she want to be like Che?

“Amusing, observant . . . Doval’s sense of place and devastating depiction of prejudice in 1980s Cu- ba make this a worthwhile debut.”—The Miami Herald

“[A] piquant coming-of-age novel.”—O magazine

“Absolutely remarkable . . . explodes with brilliance.” —Carlos Eire, National Book Award-winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana

“A rich and perceptive portrayal of daily life in Cuba.” —Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

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