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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 intelligence community before turning to broadcast journalism. Smaller and Smaller Circles, her debut novel, won the prestigious 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 the Sept notorious dump city of northern Manila 2014

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 enforcement is World already stretched thin, devoid of forensic resources and rife with corruption. 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.

F.H. Batacan Cited as the first Filipino crime novel, Smaller and Smaller Circles is a poetic masterpiece of (cover coming soon!) literary noir, a sensitive depiction of a time and place, and fascinating story about the Catholic Church and its place in its devotees' lives and communities.

Early Praise for Smaller and Smaller Circles

Winner of the Palanca Prize "It’s 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

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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 published 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 Renowned Holocaust memoirist Heda Margolius Kovaly's crime novel of 1950s communist Prague has been rediscovered and is finally available to the world, thirty years after Spring 2015 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 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 fiction and African literature at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. He is the author of the novel Arrows of Rain, which has drawn praise from numerous critics and authors, including Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, John Edgar Wideman, Michael Thelwell, and Niyi Osundare. Ndibe also co-edited (with Chenjerai Hove) a book titled Writers, Writing on Conflicts and Wars in Africa. Ndibe is the founding editor of African Commentary, a magazine published in the US by novelist Chinua Achebe.

Foreign Gods, Inc.

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 Jan 2014 a cab driver, he is unable to manage the emotional and material needs of a temperamental African American bride and a widowed mother demanding financial support. When he turns to gambling, his mounting losses compound his woes. World

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.

“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

"Foreign Gods, Inc. reads like the narrative of a taxi-driving Faust in modern Nigeria and America. With Moliere-like humorous debunking of religious hypocrisy and rancid materialism, it teems with characters and situations that make you laugh in order not to cry." —Ngugi wa Thiong'o, author of Wizard of the Crow

"Foreign Gods, Inc. is a blistering exploration of the contemporary African immigrant experience in America. Ndibe tackles tough questions: from the shifting notions of home and identity to the nature of greed. In prose which is fresh and often funny, Ndibe draws the reader into the heartbreaking story of Ike Uzondu's attempt to survive in a world which seems determined to crush him." —Chika Unigwe, author of On Black Sisters Street

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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 Germany: hot on his heels, and a stick-in-the-mud State Trooper is dying to bust him for narcotics. Will Clive’s 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?

Praise for John Straley

"Strong and sobering . . . with his storyteller's sense of dramatic action [Straley's] in his glory." —The New York Times Book Review

"Chandler, Ross Macdonald, James Crumley . . . Straley proves once again that he is up there with the great ones . . . His prose is as smooth as a well-tuned cello. He has tremendous feeling for the setting: not only the open waters and frosted countryside outside of Sitka and Juneau, but also the somewhat seedy streets of these cities." —Chicago Tribune

The Big Both Ways

Find out 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.

Praise for The Big Both Ways

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

"Moving... and utterly absorbing."—Denver Post

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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 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 ter- rorizing 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, disappears. The World police aren't mobilizing quickly enough, and when Zazie's desperate parents approach Aimée for help, she knows she couldn't say no even if she wanted to.

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

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

“Transcendently, seductively, irresistibly French." ─Alan Furst, author of Night Soldiers

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 Praise for Murder Below Montparnasse "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 7 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 of 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, (cover art coming soon!) 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 of 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 American company. But making history isn't easy, and the 617 faces racism at every turn. One of Sept 2013 Tree's men, a gunner named Angry Smith, has been arrested for a crime he almost certainly didn't commit, 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— World and save 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

“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.” —Booklist 8 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

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 Camorrora. If she is to succeed in solving the heinous crime, Natalia must deal with not only World 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.

May 2011 These Dark Things 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 World professor the student had been sleeping with? A blind monk who loved her? Or perhaps a Dutch: De Fontein member of the brutal Napali criminal organization, the Camorra? As Natalia pursues her

investigation, the crime families of Naples go to war over garbage-hauling contracts; and all 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

Frontlist and Forthcoming

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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, harrowing portrait of an artist. Feb. 2015

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. His stories also revolved around Martin and John, two characters who lead similar existences to their World real-life counterparts, but with a few key differences. Netherlands: Atlas Praise for Martin and John Italy: Feltrinelli

Germany: Paul List "Peck's first novel has a dark brilliance and moments of real beauty . . . hard to ignore." China: China Times —Los Angeles Times Japan: Hayakawa "Dale Peck, in his first novel, Martin and John, gives me what I look for most when I open a new Korea: Myung Kyung book: a world that is our world and also full of things I didn't know, characters in scenes that are at Greece: Odysseas once recognizable and indelible."—Mona Simpson for 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 consequences 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: 2015 Visions and Revisions An collection of essays about AIDS in the ’90s World Forthcoming untitled novel coming in 2015 A prequel to Cervantes’s masterpiece, featuring a young Don Quixote.

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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 African American bride and a widowed mother demanding financial support. When he turns to gambling, his mounting World 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.

“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

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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.

Sept 2014

World

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.

Praise for Bomer's collection Baby & Other Stories

"This is some of the rawest and most urgent writing I can remember encountering." —Jonathan Franzen, author of The Corrections

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, T-shirt philosopher─his public profile now threatens to obscure the man himself behind a swirl of 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 "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 par- ables 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. New York Times Editors’ Choice Booklist Editors’ Choice That’s Not a Feeling B&N Discover New Voices selection

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 brunches—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.

"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

"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

“Deft, tempered prose...unornamented, but never flat or blunted, so that the characters, not the sentences, heat the pages.” —New York Times Book Review

“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

"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 Alex Award winner

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.” —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 reading— 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 flawed characters in dire situations will not be able to put this book down.” —Library Journal

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The Aimée Leduc Investigation series

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

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 Aimée’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 Lanterne 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- World 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 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 World 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.

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 sister, her father’s illegitimate daughter. Aimée is thrilled. A virtual orphan since her mother’s disappearance and her father’s death, she has always wanted a sister. Her partner, René, is wary of World 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 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 20 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) World Aimée is thrilled when her one-time lover, Yves, an investigative journalist, returns from his assignment 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 sleeper jihadist and embroils her in Turkish and Kurdish politics.

Murder on the Île Saint-Louis An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 7) 2007 World 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 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 Spain: Factoria Montmartre with an informer. When Laure goes along as backup, Jacques is lured to a rooftop, des Ideas where he is shot to death. Laure’s gun has been fired, gunpowder residue is on her hands, and Germany: Thiele & she is charged with her partner’s murder. The police close ranks against the alleged cop killer. Brandstattere Verlag Aimée is determined to clear Laure’s name. In doing so, she encounters separatist terrori sts, Montmartre prostitutes, a surrealist painter’s stepdaughter, and a crooked Corsican bar owner, then learns of “Big Ears”—the French “ear in the sky” that records telephonic and electronic communications for the security services. Identifying Jacques’ murderer brings her closer to 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 World 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 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.

Aimée has promised to avoid danger, but it continues to seek her out. 21 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected] More from Cara Black’s Aimée Leduc series Murder in the Bastille 2003 An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 4)

Aimée Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket, supposedly an "exclusive," for England: Constable & dinner with a difficult client at an elegant restaurant in the Bastille district. She is chagrined Robinson (reverted) to see that the woman seated at the very next table is wearing an identical jacket. When the Germany: Thiele & woman leaves her cell phone on the table, Aimée follows her to return it and is attacked in Brandstattere Verlag the shadowy Passage Boule Blanche. When she regains consciousness, Aimée finds that she has been temporarily blinded. Nevertheless, she is told she is lucky—the woman she was following was found in the next passage, murdered. Aimée is determined to identify her 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)

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

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

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

Murder in the Marais An Aimée Leduc Investigation (Vol. 1) 1999 UK Japan: Hayakawa Aimée Leduc has always sworn she would stick to tech investigation—no criminal cases for Italy: Hobby & Work her. Especially since her father, the late police detective, was killed in the line of duty. But Israel: Keter Books when an old Jewish man approaches Aimée with a top-secret decoding job on behalf of a Spain: Factoria des Ideas woman in his synagogue, Aimée unwittingly takes on more than she was expecting. When she France: City Editions drops off her findings at a client's house in the Marais, Paris' historic Jewish quarter, she finds Norway: Schibsted the old woman strangled to death, a swastika carved on her forehead. With the help of her Forlag A/S partner, René, Aimée sets out to solve this horrendous murder, but finds herself in an increas- Germany: Thiele & ingly dangerous web of ancient secrets and buried war crimes. Brandstattere Verlag

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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 World and Allied bombs. Then he must navigate Vatican politics and personalities—some are pro-Allied, others pro-Nazi, and the rest steadfastly neutral—further complicated by the Vatican’s tenuous status as neutral territory in German-occupied Rome. But Billy’s ready to risk it all because of one simple fact: Diana Seaton, his lover and a British spy, has been captured while undercover in the Vatican. 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 World 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 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 World of mass graves in the Katyn Forest, where thousands of Polish officers were executed. 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 23 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) World 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. “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 World 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 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 World 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.

"[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 World (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; his headquarters are in London, which is undergoing the Blitz; and Uncle Ike has a special assignment 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. 24 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 Series (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 World Chinatown, this one in Seattle, in pursuit of a cold-blooded Chinese American gangster and a mysterious Hong Kong femme fatale.

“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

A Detective Jack Yu Series (Vol. 2) Year of the Dog 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 Series (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 World cops are white, Jack is confronted with a serial rapist who preys on young Chinese girls. Then Italy: Fanucci Uncle Four, an elderly leader of the charitable Hip Ching Society and member of the Hong Kong-based Red Circle Triad, is gunned down. To solve these crimes, Jack turns to both modern 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 25 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 Europe, Africa, Asia, and Haiti. He lives with his wife in Paris. A Commander Jana Matinova Investigation (Book 4) Requiem for a Gypsy 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 World girl. To solve the case and stop an ongoing series of murders, Jana must travel to Berlin and Paris France: Marabout and look back into the darkest period of Slovak history.

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

A Commander Jana Matinova Investigation (Book 3) The Magician’s Accomplice Devastated by her lover's death in an explosion—on the same day that an indigent student was 2010 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 World needed as, in this third Jana Matinova investigation, she faces an international conspiracy emanat- France: Marabout ing from Europol itself. "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 World 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 France: Marabout involving multiple murders that has entangled her hapless, impulsive friend, Sofia, and which 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 World takes her from Kiev in Ukraine to the headquarters of the European Community, Strasbourg in Japan: Tokyo France; from Vienna to Nice during the Carnival, as she searches for a ruthless killer and the Sogen-sha beautiful young Russian woman he is determined either to capture or destroy. 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 26 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 An Alaska State Trooper must figure out what connects a dead hunter on a remote Arctic lake Ghost Bears with a year-old plane crash and an arson fire that killed eight people, including the town’s 2011 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 Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active is regarded as “half-white” by the Inupiats of the village 2005 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 World Graves Act. Editions du Masque “Active maintains his awe of the vast Alaskan tundra, a forbidding region that Jones renders in all its bone-chilling beauty.” —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 2003

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

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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 Cenni investigates a mutilation-murder in a small Umbrian village which leads back to WWII occupied Venice. 2008 “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.” World —Library Journal

“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 Commissario Alessandro Cenni investigates a murder in Assisi during Holy Week. Debut of a 2007 series set in Italy.

World “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 set up to return, and traditional mystery readers should welcome his continued investigations.” —Baltimore Sun

28 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 World not yet thirty, but Tejada is an unusual recruit. The bitter civil war between the Nationalists and Netherlands: Uitgeverij Atlas the Republicans has interrupted his legal studies in Salamanca. Second son of a conservative Brazil: Editora Landscape Southern family of landowners, he is an enthusiast for the Catholic Franquista cause, a dedicated, Italy: TEA and now triumphant, Nationalist. This war has drawn international attention. In a dress rehearsal France: Editions Liana Levi for World War II, fascists support the Nationalists, while communists have come to the aid of the Japan: Hayakawa Republicans. Atrocities have devastated both sides. It is at this moment, when the Republicans Spain: Ediciones B, Leer-e have surrendered, and the Guardia Civil has begun to impose order in the ruins of Madrid, that Portugal: Difel (Gotica 2000) Tejada finds the body of his best friend, a hero of the siege of Toledo, shot to death on a street Poland: Sonia Draga named Amor de Dios. Naturally, a Red is suspected. And it is easy for Tejada to assume that the Turkey: Literatur woman caught kneeling over the body is the killer. But when his doubts are aroused, he cannot E-book: Leer-E help seeking justice. John Straley The Curious Eat 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 “Cecil Younger, a private investigator of sorts in Sitka, Alaska, has many enemies besides the 1992 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

29 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected] 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 World Inspector Chen of the Shanghai Police Bureau is “on vacation.” Actually, he is working for Finland: Otava 2004 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 2002 Inspector Chen's mentor in the Shanghai Police Bureau has assigned him to escort US World Marshal Catherine Rohn. Her mission is to bring Wen, the wife of a witness in an Poland: Amber important criminal trial, to the United States. Inspector Rohn is already en route when Russia: Centrepolygraph Chen learns that Wen has unaccountably vanished from her village in Fujian. Or is this Finland: Otava just what he is supposed to believe? Chen resents his role; he would rather investigate Norway: Press the triad killing in Shanghai's beauteous Bund Park. But his boss insists that saving face China: Wenyi 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 “Intriguing . . . the characters manage to achieve an engaging realism and charm, even Germany: Zsolnay while showing the underside of China in transition.”—Publishers Weekly

World Sweden: Ordfronts Japan: Hayakawa Death Of a Red Heroine China: Wenyi 2000 Finland: Otava A young “national model worker,” renowned for her adherence to the principles of the Denmark: Lindhardt& Communist Party, turns up dead in a Shanghai canal. As Inspector Chen Cao of the Norway: Press Shanghai special Cases Bureau struggles to trace the hidden threads of her past, he Hungary: Europa Konyvkiado finds himself challenging the very political forces that have guided his life since birth. Israel: Yanshuf Chen must tiptoe around his own superiors if he wants to get to the bottom of this crime, Poland: Amber and risk his career—perhaps even his life—if he wants to see justice done. Greece: Synnchroni Orontes Russia: Centrepolygrap “Death Of A Red Heroine grabbed my imagination, took me on a slowly, intricately built Czech Republic: Nakladatelstvi XYZ journey that nevertheless felt sexy and slick, and kept me turning the pages deep into Germany: Zsolnay the night . . . a refreshingly brave exploration into political China, woven around a tense England: Hodder thriller and likeable, enigmatic characters.”—Huffington Post France: Liana Levi Italy: Marsilio Netherlands:Signature Spanish Language: Tusquets 30 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 languages. 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 desert 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.” 32 —Booklist Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

David Zimmerman

The Sand Box 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 World touches off events that put Durrant in the middle of a far-reaching conspiracy. "[A] gripping first novel."—The New York Times

Katharine Beutner

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

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

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Kiyo Sato Kiyo’s Story: A Japanese- American Family’s Quest for the American Dream Winner: William Saroyan Prize for Non-Fiction 2010 World 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 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. World “Richards reflects on how rich life becomes when one travels her own best path . . . Brazil: Editora Objetiva Richards writes more courageously than she perhaps realizes, and each page of this uplifting book will touch a chord in everyone who enjoyed her first book.” —Booklist

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

Greece: Editions Drepania Poignant and evocative, this is a book for anyone who has ever loved a horse, and for Portugal: Noticias everyone who has ever lost a loved one.

“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 plasma TV, and crime suddenly seems like a promising career. World (except France) Spain: Del Viento “[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 Korea: Human&Books through lower-middle class frustration.” —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. World 2003 From the North Carolina piedmont to the Alaskan waters, Levison’s odyssey takes him on a Spain/Galacain: cross-country tour of wage labor: gofer, oil deliveryman, mover, fish cutter, restaurant Alvarellos Editoria manager, cable thief, each job more mind-numbing than the last. A Working Stiff's Manifesto Italy: Edizioni Socrates will resonate with anyone who has ever suffered a demeaning job, worn a name badge, or felt France: Editions Liana the tyranny of the time clock. Levi Germany: Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlag “Levison is the real deal . . . bracing, hilarious, and dead on.”

—The New York Times Book Review

“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: Uit- geverij DE GEUS 35 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected] Caroline Petit Deep Night 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, World including her fiancé, totally altered. He cannot bear to stay in Hong Kong; she chooses to remain and rebuild.

“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.

World 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 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, World Napoleon banned coffee, but then was summarily overthrown and exiled. His last request: a cup of Germany: Campus St. Helena's best. Likewise, Germany's long anti-coffee campaigns kept java from offering its solace Verlags GmbH to the lower classes. In 1930 German workers voted Adolf Hitler into power. In America the military (reverted) tried for fifty years to produce an easily brewed cup for battlefield use, and did. The perfection of instant coffee triggered a 3,000 percent jump in consumption during World War I and stimulated the rise of the United States to world-class power. “Chef-turned-journalist Allen’s debut book is a thoroughly entertaining, absorbing, and often hilarious 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 36

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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 Hawaiian 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 World age nineteen, Park Soong Nan was the brightest star of Korean cinema. They called her "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. World 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. 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

New York Times bestselling author of How Evan Broke His Garth Stein The Art of Racing in the Rain Head and Other Secrets 2008 Evan had a hit single, but that was ten years ago. Thirty-one now, he’s drifting, playing in a local World band and teaching middle-aged men to coax music from an electric guitar. Beset at a young age Brazil: Edioures with a life-threatening form of epilepsy, he’s kept his condition a secret. But his deepest secret is Publicacoes Ltd that he got his high school sweetheart pregnant. Then her conservative parents whisked her out China: ThinKingdom of Seattle and out of Evan’s life. Now, fourteen years later, he experiences unplanned parenthood when he undertakes to raise the resentful teenage son he’s never known. Off-beat and Italy: Edizioni Piemme disarming, How Evan Broke His Head and Other Secrets portrays a contemporary American family with unfailing honesty. “Hits all the frets of a powerful story: sharp-witted dialogue, vivid characters, insight into medical challenges and prose that snaps like well-placed plucks of guitar strings.”—The Seattle Times “An engrossing family drama.”—Publishers Weekly 37 Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

Camilla Trinchieri The Price of Silence 2007 E-mails from beyond the grave incriminate a grief-stricken mother. As Emma Perotti’s trial for murder begins, her family recalls how young An-ling Huang walked into Emma’s World ESL class and into the family’s life. Now the girl is dead. What happened? Italy: Marcos y Marcos "[A] taut psychological thriller … a gripping, intelligent read."—Publishers Weekly

“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 Cuba 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

38 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 Denmark: Forlaget reader 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. US paperback: Penguin There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame UK: Little Brown that can be healed only when she returns to Haiti—to the women who first reared her. Israel: Kinneret What ensues is a passionate journey through a landscape charged with the supernatu- ral and scarred by political violence, in a novel that bears witness to the traditions, Sweden: Natur & Kultur suffering, and wisdom of an entire people.

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 Germany: Econ List Trujillo, leads to the slaughter of Haitian workers. Amabelle and Sebastian are sepa- France: Grasset rated, and 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 "One of the Best Books of the Year"—Publishers Weekly Finland: Gummerus "A powerful, haunting novel . . . every chapter cuts deep, and you feel it."—Time Spain: International editores 39 Sweden: Norstedts Hungary: Europa Kiado Japan: Sakuhinsha Soho Press Rights List Phone: 212.260.1900 Foreign Rights Guide Email: [email protected]

Jacqueline Winspear World China: Ten Points Press Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in Kent, in the south of England. After a career in publishing there, she (reverted) and her husband settled in California in 1990. France: LGF England: John Murray Ltd. Agatha Award Winner Italy: R.C.S. Libri S.p.A. Alex Award Winner Maisie Dobbs (reverted) Germany: Rowohlt Verlag 2003 Maisie entered domestic service in 1910 at the age of thirteen, to work as a maid at Campus Verlags (reverted) Japan: Hayakawa Publishing the Belgravia mansion of Lady Rowan Compton. When her remarkable intelligence and (reverted) innate love of learning are discovered by her employer, Maisie becomes the pupil of Spain: Ediciones B (rev) Maurice Blanche, a learned friend of the Comptons who is often retained by Europe's Sweden: Norstedts elite, and the police, to conduct discreet investigations. Netherlands: De Fontein “Maisie Dobbs is a quirky literary creation. If you cross-pollinated Vera Britain’s classic Israel: Aryeh Nir Russian Language: AST World War I memoir, Testament of Youth, with Dorothy Sayers’s Harriet Vane mysteries Norway: Gyldendal and a dash of the old PBS series Upstairs, Downstairs, you’d approximate the peculiar Finland: Tammi range of topics and tones within this novel . . . Its intelligent eccentricity offers relief." Hungary: Ulpius-Haz —Maureen Corrigan, "Fresh Air" on NPR

Birds of a Feather: A Maisie Dobbs Novel World Agatha Award Winner China: Ten Points Press 2004 England: John Murray Ltd. Maisie Dobbs is back and this time she has been hired to find a wealthy grocery France: LGF magnate's daughter who has fled from home. A simple case becomes complicated Italy: R.C.S. Libri S.p.A. (reverted) when Maisie learns of the recent violent deaths of three of the heiress's old friends. Is Germany: Rowohlt there a connection between her mysterious disappearance and the murders? As Sweden: Norstedts Maisie investigates further, she discovers that the answers lie in the unforgettable Netherlands: De Fontein agony of The Great War. Israel: Aryeh Nir Russian Language: AST “[A] chilling, suspenseful sequel . . . As in her first novel, the author gives an intelligent Norway: Gyldendal and absorbing picture of the period, providing plentiful details for the history buff with- Finland: Tammi out detracting from the riveting mystery. Readers will be eager to see more of the Hungary: Ulpius-Haz spunky Maisie.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review Robert Hellenga Robert Hellenga teaches at Knox College, Illinois. He is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, Chile: Librería Catalonia six Illinois Arts Council Artists Fellowships, an Illinois Arts Council Literary Award, and a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award. Spain: Editorial Thassalia The Sixteen "Mud angels" is what the Italians call the selfless young foreigners who come to Florence in England: Hodder and Pleasures 1966 to save the city's priceless art from the Arno's flooded riverbanks. Margot Harrington is Stoughton 1994 an American volunteer, an expert at book conservancy. While struggling to save a water- The Netherlands: Uitgeverij Vassallucci bv. logged convent library, she discovers a fabulous volume of sixteen erotic drawings by Giulio Norway: Tiden Norsk Forlag Romano that accompany sixteen steamy sonnets by Pietro Aretino. When published more Tokyo: Fuso Publishing Inc. than four centuries earlier, the Vatican had insisted all copies be destroyed. This one—now Croatia: Mozaik Knija unique—volume has survived. The abbes, with wonderful aplomb, prevails upon Margot to Italy: Newton & Compton save the order's finances by selling the magnificently illustrated erotica, discreetly. Meaning: Editori Srl. (reverted) without the bishop's knowledge. The young American's other clandestine project is a middle- Düsseldorf: Econ Verlag aged Italian who is boldly trying radical measures to save endangered frescoes. She is 29 and Korea: Sam-Gwa-Ham-Gea available; he, older and married. He shares her sense of mission and then her bed in this Publishing Co. France: Editions Payot/ ambrosial story of spiritual longing and earthly desire. Rivages Russia: Gayatri Publishers 40 “[It] will beguile you, seduce you, spirit you away into another world.” World Spanish: Libreriá —NPR.org Catalonia