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SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd 1 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:31:30:31:30 PPMM History’s famous literary duo, Johnson and Boswell, are stalked by Boswell’s mad younger brother

he year is 1763. Twenty- Ttwo-year-old James Boswell of Edinburgh is “The Brothers Boswell is such an impressive book, both for its eager to advance himself in ability to inhabit its source material and for how well it shines on its London society. Today his own merits. Many novels claim to be literary thrillers, but rarely are sights are set on furthering they quite this literary and quite this thrilling. Philip Baruth has his acquaintance with Dr. written a remarkable work.” Samuel Johnson, famed for —David Liss, author of The Whiskey Rebels his Dictionary; they are go- ing to take a boat down the Thames to Greenwich.

Watching them secretly And what makes you simply want to murder the pair of them, is John Boswell, James’s younger brother. As such, more than anything else, is the perfectly ludicrous way they seem he inherits neither the title to complete one another. Not quite opposites, but diff erent in a of Laird of Auchinleck, nor thousand complementary ways. Two odd human fractions who the estate. Instead, he has been sent to serve in the Army. After a have stumbled somehow onto the secret of the whole number. short period, he was found to be insane and has only recently been re- leased from confi nement. Having set out for London, John has stalked his older brother for days. Consumed with envy, John is planning to —excerpt from The Brothers Boswell take revenge on his brother and Johnson for presumed slights. He car- ries a pair of miniature pistols that fi re a single golden bullet each and there is murder in his heart.

National Advertising May 2009 Philip Baruth National Publicity Fiction is an award-winning commentator for Vermont Pub- Reading Group Guide ISBN: 978-1-56947-559-1 lic Radio and a graduate of Brown University with an Bookstore co-op is available 6 X 9 • 336 pps M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California at $24 Hardcover Irvine. His previous novel, The X President (Bantam, 2003) received critical acclaim. He teaches at the Uni- versity of Vermont. World English: Soho Press, Inc. All other rights: John Hawkins 3

SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec1:2-Sec1:3ec1:2-Sec1:3 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:31:57:31:57 PPMM A supernatural epic set in 1960s Bombay

fter her mother’s Adeath crossing the border from Pakistan to “In“In her stunnstunninging debut novel ShShilpailpa AgAgarwalarwal takes on India during Partition, thethe ghosts that bedevilbedevil young PPinkyinky Mittal’sMittal’s extended baby Pinky was taken in family and dispatches them with rambunctious wit and by her grandmother, Maji, affection. The result is like fi nely wrought mirror work, a the matriarch of the pow- glittering tapestry of vibrant contradictions, erful Mittal family. Now characters, and mysteries. Haunting Bombay fl irts thirteen years old, Pinky deliciously with the true spirit of India.” lives with her grandmoth- —Aimee Liu, Flash House er and her uncle’s family in a bungalow on the Ma- labar Heights in Bombay. And the girl once again remembered the feel of warm While she has never really been accepted by her un- skin, the sweet breath of laughter. And the loss was cle’s family, she has always so deep, so intense that she felt a deep hatred boil had Maji’s love. up inside her chest for those who had cast her out that morning, severing her from the only place she One day, as monsoons engulf the city, Pinky opens a mysteriously bolted door, unleashing the vengeful ghosts of a drowned infant and regarded as home. its nursemaid. Three generations of the Mittal family must struggle to As the fi rst drops of elixir touched her tongue, come to terms with their secrets amidst hidden shame, forbidden love, her desire was not love. and a call for absolute sacrifi ce. But revenge. —excerpt from Haunting Bombay

April 2009 National Advertising Fiction National Publicity Shilpa Agarwal ISBN: 978-1-56947-558-4 Reading Group Guide was born in Bombay and currently lives in Los Ange- 6 X 9 • 368 pps Bookstore co-op is available les. She is a graduate of Duke University and UCLA $24 Hardcover and has taught at both UCLA and UC Santa Barbara. As an unpublished novel, Haunting Bombay won the 2003 First Words Literary Prize for South Asian Writ- ers. It is her fi rst novel. World English: Soho Press, Inc. All other rights: Inkwell Management 5

SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec1:4-Sec1:5ec1:4-Sec1:5 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:32:10:32:10 PPMM Silesian Station Kiyo’s Story DAVID DOWNING A Japanese-American Family’s Quest for the American Dream KIYO SATO

John Russell plays a dangerous spy Winner of the 2008 William Saroyan game on the eve of WWII Prize for Nonfi ction

“Grade: A.... Downing’s mingling of Praise for Kiyo’s Story, originally published historyh and thrills makes this a must read.” as Dandelion Through the Crack: —Rocky Mountain News “Vividly honest, deeply moving.” “Russell is a canny and likable —Bill Hosokawa, Out of the Frying Pan: protagonist.” Refl ections of Japanese American —BookPage “A magnifi cent memoir, fully worthy of be- “Wry, secretive and clever…. Russell is ing compared to Farewell to Manzanar. goodg company in this intelligent thriller.” I cannot praise its pointillist realism, its Zen- —Hadassah Magazine like austerity, highly enough. Exquisite.” —Kevin Starr, California: A History “Twists and turns aplenty make this es- pionagep novel a superb read full of tension “Taken simply as a family chronicle, and suspense…. An amazing piece of it is moving and graceful. But it is fi ction which I hope is part of a much also a powerful, thought-provoking larger series.” historical document.” —Crimespree Magazine —James Fallows, Breaking the News: How the Media Undermine American Democracy

ummer, 1939. British journalist John Russell has just been granted American hen Kiyo’s father left Japan, his mother toldld hihim never to return: there h was Scitizenship when his girlfriend Effi is arrested by the Gestapo. Russell hoped his Wno future there for him. Shinji Sato arrived in California determined to new nationality would let him safely stay in Berlin with Effi and his son, but now plant his roots in the land of opportunity even though he could not become a citizen or own land. Education was his watchword. he’s being blackmailed. To free Effi , he must agree to work for the Nazis. Can he turn this situation to his advantage? He and his wife and their nine American-born children labored in the fi elds to- gether, building a successful farm. Yet at the outbreak of World War II, when Kiyo, DAVID DOWNING is the author of numerous works of fi ction and nonfi ction the eldest, was eighteen, the Satos were ordered to Poston Internment Camp. for both adults and children, including Zoo Station, the fi rst novel featuring John Russell. He lives in Guildford, England. This memoir tells the story of the family’s struggle to endure in these harsh condi- tions and to rebuild their lives afterward in the face of lingering prejudice.

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SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec1:6-Sec1:7ec1:6-Sec1:7 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:32:40:32:40 PPMM A man recalls his bittersweet days at Eton and his torrid affair with an older woman.

eventeen-year-old Kim is a “WhatWhat a read! EveryEvery schoolboschoolboy’sy’s dream comes true iinn ththisis Sstudent at one of Britain’s deftly-written treatment of illicit romance. A triumph.” most extraordinary institu- —Alexander McCall Smith tions, Eton College—crammed with over a thousand boys and “My own piano teacher was called Mr Bagston and frankly I not a girl in sight. His head is don’t think any power on earth could have persuaded us to cre- full of the Falklands War and a ate a scene of the kind Coles so movingly describes.” possible army career, until the —Boris Johnson, Mayor of London and author of day he hears his new piano Have I Got Views for You teacher, India, a beautiful but pained young woman, playing “An outstanding debut novel. A wonderful story of fi rst love. a prelude from Bach’s Well- Few male authors can write about romance in a way which ap- Tempered Clavier. Kim’s life peals to women—but Coles has managed it quite brilliantly.” will never be the same again. —Sunday Express (UK) An intensely passionate aff air develops between him and his twenty-three-year-old teacher, and he wallows in the wild and unac- The year was 1982 and the school was Eton College, a seething customed thrill of fi rst love. Twenty-fi ve years later, Kim recalls that cauldron of pubescent boys and humming testosterone. It was every- heady summer and how their fl edgling relationship was so brutally thing you’ve heard about it and more. But all you need to know for snuff ed out—fi nished off by his enemies, by the constraints of Eton, now is that there were some 1,238 boys dressed up in their black and by his own withering jealousy. Prelude is the bittersweet story of a tailcoats, black waistcoats, tight starched collars, stained black pin life-changing love. stripes and scuff ed black lace-ups, and with not a girl in sight.

—excerpt from Prelude

National Advertising May 2009 National Publicity Fiction William Coles Reading Group Guide ISBN: 978-1-56947-574-4 has been a journalist for eighteen years. This 5 X 8 •224 pps is his fi rst novel. He lives in the UK. $23 Hardcover

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SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec1:8-Sec1:9ec1:8-Sec1:9 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:32:44:32:44 PPMM A woman’s journey from rice to riches in the new China

isling Juanjuan Shen was Aborn to illiterate peasants in a tiny rice-farming hamlet in China’s Yangtze Delta in 1974. Pronounced useless by her parents because she wasn’t good at planting rice, she be- came the fi rst person from her village ever to attend college. After graduating from teach- THE STORY OF A MODERN ers college, she was assigned CHINESE WOMAN by the government to a re- mote and low-paying teach- ing job that she was expected The Shen Hamlet, where I was born, is a small rice-farming to hold for the rest of her life. village in the heart of the Yangtze River Delta. Surrounded by Deeply dissatisfi ed, she bought rice paddies and fi elds of mulberry bushes on one side and bor- her way out of her secure governmentnment jjobob aandnd lefleftt foforr ththee spspecialecial ececo-o dered by a small river on the other, the hamlet had only about nomic zones of southern China in search of happiness and success in fi fty villagers. My parents, the Shens, lived in the center of the the business world. hamlet. I was their fi rst child. Old Auntie Feng, the toothless neighbor who had delivered me in our thatched shack, always A Tiger’s Heart chronicles her rise from poverty in the rice fi elds of said that the year and time of my birth, seven o’clock in the evening in September 1974, portended that I was a tiger com- rural China to a successful career in business in the early days of the ing out of its den—nothing but trouble. country’s economic boom, illustrating the massive economic and social changes that have taken place in China over the past several decades. —excerpt from A Tiger’s Heart Her story is emblematic of a new generation of Chinese women.

July 2009 Aisling Juanjuan Shen National Advertising Memoir worked as a teacher, saleswoman, and transla- National Publicity ISBN: 978-1-56947-586-7 Reading Group Guide tor in China before immigrating to the US in 6 X 9 • 320 pps 2000. In 2005 she graduated magna cum laude $24 Hardcover from Wellesley College; she currently works for an investment management fi rm in Boston.

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SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec1:10-Sec1:11ec1:10-Sec1:11 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:33:01:33:01 PPMM An exchange of identities embroils an innocent abroad in Vietnam War resisters’ politics

weden has granted asy- Slum to American protest- ers against the Vietnam War. Some are draft resisters; some are wanted by the FBI for acts “It’ss not every novel that has as its backdrop the works of StrindbergStrindberg of violence; some are AWOL andd the nefariousness of Nixon. ExilesExiles is fi lled with suspense,suspense, and soldiers; some are actually with characters who converse as if they’re in a play, themselves. working for the CIA—or so But they’re being played with; communication is impeded by what’s everyone suspects. They are going on that’s out of their control. It’s a fascinating look at a place eking out their lives in Upp- during a particular time, but the intrigue transcends the locale. The sala on a meager dole. Each ending is riveting and insidious. Which I mean as a compliment.” thinks he would be a bet- —Ann Beattie ter group spokesperson than Aronson, who is the current Spiegel wondered if his mind was shot. He wondered if it were the long-term leader of the Americans in exile. eff ects of some of the exotic chemicals he had ingested downstate, maybe some peculiar time-release psychic multivitamin that had been cooked up in one of Into this maelstrom of confl icting egos comes an innocent, Lenny Spie- the pharmolabs in Brooklyn where he and his pals used to send out for sup- gel, who has volunteered to travel to Sweden to help. He resembles plies. He couldn’t quite explain it, but it was as if he were leading a double Aronson, who wants to borrow his passport to go on a “mission.” Until life. People he didn’t know would greet him, make strange comments to him in the passport is returned, Lenny is stuck in Uppsala where many believe passing that they expected him to comprehend, even leave cryptic messages on he is Aronson. And Lenny learns that no good deed goes unpunished. his windshield, drop things off at his library desk. What was happening? When he wasn’t in his own life, whose was he in? —excerpt from Exiles

August 2009 Elliot Krieger National Advertising Fiction won an O. Henry Award for his fi rst pub- National Publicity ISBN: 978-1-56947-589-8 Reading Group Guide lished short story, “Cantor Pepper,” and he 6 X 9 • 368 pps is the author of a book on Shakespeare’s $24 Hardcover comedies. He has served as a reporter and editor at the Providence Journal and lives near Providence. Exiles is his fi rst novel.

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SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec2:8-Sec2:9ec2:8-Sec2:9 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:33:16:33:16 PPMM The sixth installment of this celebrated series The Lord of Death The Lord of Death

hanhan Tao Yun iis an exiled Chi- Praise for the Shan series: Snese nationanational,l a former Bei- jing investigator, on parole from “Majestic.” the Tibetan gulag to which he —The New York Times Book Review had been consigned as punish- ment. He is ferrying a corpse “A powerful picture of courage in the face of tyranny.” Eliot Pattison on muleback over the slopes of Edgar-Award Winning Author of The Skull Mantra —Washington Post Chomolungma—Everest—at the request of a local wisewoman “Nothing I’ve read or seen about how China has systematically who says the gods have appointedd thisthis tasktask toto him,him whenwhen he encountersencounters crushed the soul of Tibet has been as effective.” —Chicago Tribune what looks like a traffi c accident. A government bus fi lled with impris- oned illegal monks has overturned. Should the escaping monks be caught, “Eloquent.” the brutal Chinese knobs will punish them. Then Shan hears gunfi re. Two —Denver Post women in an approaching sedan have been killed. One is the Chinese Min- ister of Tourism; the other, a blond Westerner, organizes climbing expedi- “Once again, Edgar Award winner Pattison tions. Though she dies in his arms, Shan is later met with denials that this demonstrates his mastery.” blond foreigner is dead. —Library Journal (starred review) Shan must fi nd the murderer, for his recompense will be the life and san- ity of his son, Ko, imprisoned in a Chinese “yeti factory” where men are routinely driven mad. Spring 2009 Eliot Pattison Soho Crime Marketing Campaign June 2009 is an international lawyer based near Philadelphia. Soho Crime National advertising includes: ISBN: 978-1-56947-579-9 His fi ve previous Shan novels have been critical Mystery Scene, 5 X 7.5 •384 pps and commercial successes. He won the Edgar® The New York Times Book Review $24 Hardcover for Best First Novel and was nominated for the CWA Golden Dagger. Soho Crime Samplers National Soho Crime Author Tour Totebags SOHO North American rights: Soho Press, Inc. All other rights: Natasha Kern CRIME 15

SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec2:10-Sec2:11ec2:10-Sec2:11 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:33:35:33:35 PPMM Love and death on Australia’s Mornington Peninsula Blood Moon Blood Moon

PraisePraise for GarrGarryy DisherDisher:: nspector Hal Challis is in bed Iwith Sergeant Ellen Destry “[A] fi rst-rate Alih”Australian author.” when he gets a call letting him know that a man has been beaten —The New York Times Book Review An Inspector Hal Challis and nearly to death outside his home. Sergeant Ellen Destry Investigation “While many readers want their thrillers with gouts of gore and An assault wouldn’t necessarily endless gunplay, for me, a writer like Disher—old-fashioned in the require Challis’s attention, but the best sense of the term—is the most satisfying. The humanity that victim is the chaplain at a pres- Garry Disher his offi cers bring to the story, their interactions, their doggedness tigious boarding school, and he and determination, are the real reasons to give his series a try.” has ties to a powerful local politi- —Philadelphia Inquirer cian. Challis and Destry need to get out of bed and get to work, but will their new romantic relationship “Delightful…. BUY IT!” interfere with their jobs? —New York Magazine The victim, it turns out, is not merely a chaplain, but also the head of a “[E]ngrossing. Disher builds his books carefully, creating inexo- fundamentalist church, and his brother runs a racist blog. Before Challis can rable tension…. Reads you can’t put down.” solve this case, more crimes come his way. A local woman turns up dead. —St. Petersburg Times Could her seemingly distressed husband actually be guilty, or was it the woman’s job, punishing land use violations, that got her killed? And amid “[Disher] has packed this police procedural with the kind of detail hordes of vacationing high school seniors, a young man is left drugged that enthralls fans of the genre and with deftly sketched characters.” and naked on the beach. Could this be punishment for a previous crime? —Ft. Worth Star-Telegram Challis and his team must juggle all these crimes and their own personal problems. Spring 2009 Garry Disher Soho Crime Marketing Campaign April 2009 Soho Crime is the author of over forty books for adults National advertising includes: and children. A previous mystery in the Inspec- Mystery Scene, ISBN: 978-1-56947-563-8 tor Hal Challis series, Chain of Evidence, won The New York Times 5 X 7.5 • 336 pps Book Review $24 Hardcover the Ned Kelly Award for best Australian crime Soho Crime Samplers novel. National Soho Crime Author Tour Totebags SOHO North American rights: Soho Press, Inc. All other rights: Text Publishing CRIME 17

SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec2:12-Sec2:13ec2:12-Sec2:13 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:33:48:33:48 PPMM A Deadly Paradise The Headhunters GRACE BROPHY PETER LOVESEY

Even in paradise, Victims, suspects, sleuths: evil lurks beneath the surface all are the deadliest of the species A Commissario Cenni Investigation set in Italy “[T]he likes of Donna Leon, Magdalen “The Headhunters off ers proof once again

*UDFH%URSK\ Nabb and David Hewson are joined by that nobody can write the modern tradi- Grace Brophy, author of an outstanding tional detective novel as perfectly as Lovesey.” newn series featuring handsome Commis- —Denver Post sario Alessandro Cenni.” —Denver Post “A thoroughly delightful detective story.” —Otto Penzler, New York Sun “Fans of Donna Leon or Hakan Nesser A Deadly Paradise willw be ecstatic to fi nd a kindred spirit in “Expertly written and constructed, and Grace Brophy.” certainly recommended.” —BookPage —Weekly Standard

“Brophy“B teases out each layer of clues with “Further proof that [Lovesey] has no peer a deft hand.... Cenni is well set up to re- in presenting a traditional mystery.… Mal- turn,tu and traditional mystery readers should lin deserves as long a fi ctional career as ... welcome his continued investigations.” Peter Diamond.” —Baltimore Sun —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

fter Jarvina’s retirement, she rented a house in Paradiso, a small Umbrian vil- hen Gemma says she’d like to kill her sleazy boss, two young couples joke Alage where she was later found murdered. Commissario Cenni learns that the Wabout forming a club to execute perfect murders. Then the corpses begin to motive may derive from World War II Venice and the forgery of millions of British appear, and Inspector Hen Mallin must investigate. pounds. PETER LOVESEY has been awarded the Silver, Gold, and Diamond Daggers by GRACE BROPHY grew up in New Jersey and now divides her time between the British Crime Writers’ Association. This is his third mystery featuring Inspector New York, Maine, and Umbria. She is the author of The Last Enemy, the fi rst novel Hen Mallin. in the Commissario Cenni series.

Spring 2009 Spring 2009 May 2009 Soho Crime Marketing Campaign Soho Crime Marketing Campaign June 2009 Soho Crime Soho Crime National advertising includes: ISBN: 978-1-56947-571-3 National advertising includes: ISBN: 978-1-56947-580-5 Mystery Scene, Mystery Scene, 5 X 7.5 • 304 pps The New York Times The New York Times 5 X 7.5 • 336 pps $13 Paperback Book Review Book Review $13 Paperback Soho Crime Samplers Soho Crime Samplers SOHO National Soho Crime Author Tour National Soho Crime Author Tour U.S. rights: Soho Press, Inc. SOHO Totebags CRIME All rights: Soho Press, Inc. Totebags All other rights: Jane Gelfman CRIME

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SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec2:14-Sec2:15ec2:14-Sec2:15 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:33:53:33:53 PPMM The Marshal at the Vita Nuova Villa Torrini MAGDALEN NABB MAGDALEN NABB

This classic Marshal Guarnaccia Marshal Guarnaccia investigates a mystery is now back in print young mother’s murder in Madgalen Nabb’s fi nal novel PraiseP for the Marshal Guarnaccia series: “A fi nal reminder of why [Nabb] is irre- “The exquisite sensibility of Magdalen placeable among English-speaking novelists Nabb’s police procedurals has all to do who write mysteries with Italian locales.” with the feeling of displacement that —Marilyn Stasio, hauntsh her sensitively observed characters.” The New York Times Book Review —The New York Times Book Review “Nabb’s books display all the rich prose “[Nabb’s] detailed use of Florence and and quirky characters that Christie was environs lent her series a rich sense of famous for.” placepl and atmosphere.… Sadly, we will not —BookPage have any more investigations to look forward to.” “The world of crime fi ction [is] poorer for —Mystery Scene the loss of Magdalen Nabb.” —Boston Phoenix “As always, Nabb wins us over.… This seriesse will be missed by all devotees of the “Charming…. Lovely.” Italian crime novel.” —Rocky Mountain News –Booklist (starred review)

well-known writer is found dead in the Villa Torrini near Florence without a young mother is found, shot six times, in her bedroom in the elegant villa of A mark of violence on her. Marshal Guarnaccia of the carabinieri must solve the A the newly rich Paolottis. There seems to be no motive for the brutal crime mystery while struggling with a new legal system and a strict diet. until Marshal Guarnaccia investigates.

MAGDALEN NABB was born and educated in England. She lived and wrote in Florence, where she died in August 2007.

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SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec2:16-Sec2:17ec2:16-Sec2:17 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:33:56:33:56 PPMM Siren of the Waters Dark Dreams MICHAEL GENELIN MICHAEL GENELIN

Commander Jana Matinova Jana is torn between personal pursues a master criminal loyalty and upholding the law

“The novel’s dramatic ending portends Praise for Michael Genelin: manym new developments.… Slovakia [is] viable territory for intriguing “In the end, we must acknowledge that crime stories.” we have been held spellbound by a —Newsday master storyteller.” —Library Journal (starred review) ““Jana Matinova is an attractive character. SShe is a passionate young wife, a devoted “Michael Genelin makes unfamiliar worlds mother, an intelligent and hardworking seem knowable, and does so with great style.” police offi cer, and a person whose years —Pete Hamill, North River ofo seeing the worst of her society has not uundermined her ability to hope and care. “International noir [that] supplies all the GGenelin has allowed his readers to under- thrills and mental exercise of the mystery stand an area of the world hidden from genre while also off ering a glimpse into Western eyes for a long time.” another culture.” —Oregonian —Sacramento News and Review

ana entered the Czechoslovak police force as a young woman. The Communist ana and Sofi a were best friends as schoolmates. One dfiday, Sofi a approached hd a man Jregime destroyed her husband, their love for one another, and her daughter’s Jin a car and ended up being raped by a nefarious Communist Party bigwig. Jana respect for her. Now, as a commander in the Slovak police force, she heads an in- vowed someday to bring him to justice. Now, Jana is a Commander in the Slovak vestigation into international prostitution that takes her from Slovakia to Ukraine police force and Sofi a is a member of parliament. Jana fi nds an enormous diamond to France, where she encounters her estranged daughter. dangling from a string fi xed 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 MICHAEL GENELIN is a graduate of UCLA and the UCLA Law School. He Europe to unravel a criminal conspiracy involving multiple murders which has has served with the Department of Justice in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, and entangled her impulsive friend, Sofi a, in its web, and ultimately to the criminal Hungary. He lives in Paris with his wife and daughter. mastermind, the onetime Communist Party boss. Spring 2009 Spring 2009 July 2009 Soho Crime Marketing Campaign Soho Crime Marketing Campaign July 2009 Soho Crime Soho Crime National advertising includes: National advertising includes: ISBN: 978-1-56947-585-0 Mystery Scene, Mystery Scene, ISBN: 978-1-56947-557-7 5 X 7.5 • 304 pps The New York Times The New York Times 5 X 7.5 • 368 pps $13 Paperback Book Review Book Review $24 Hardcover Soho Crime Samplers Soho Crime Samplers National Soho Crime Author Tour National Soho Crime Author Tour SOHO World English and translation: Soho Press, Inc. SOHO Totebags Totebags CRIME Dramatic: The Blythe Agency All rights: Soho Press, Inc. CRIME

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SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec2:18-Sec2:19ec2:18-Sec2:19 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:33:59:33:59 PPMM Curse of the Pogo Stick The Merry Misogynist COLIN COTTERILL COLIN COTTERILL

A pogo stick brings a curse down Dr Siri is confronted with a upon a Hmong village deadly Casanova targeting lovely young women “[Cotterill’s]“ stories may glide by on their humorh and wonderful characters, but the Praise for Colin Cotterill: reason his books come alive, the reason hhis series continues to be worth reading, is “[A] series of terrifi cally beguiling detective thet author’s deep understanding of these novels steeped in local color and history.” ppeople and their beautiful, troubled land. —The New York Times Book Review TThis depth enables him to bring us there ffor a brief vacation, make us feel, and still “A delightfully fresh and eccentric hero.” kkeep us laughing. Like Dr. Siri, Colin Cot- —John Burdett terill has a touch of magic about him.” —Boston Globe “Unpredictable…. Tragically funny and magically sublime.” —Entertainment Weekly “We“ wind up caring about Cotterill’s char- actersa because they’re mostly either decent “A crack storyteller and an impressive guide oro at least understandably fl awed and there- to a little-known culture.” foref human. By avoiding the nastiness and —Washington Post Book World nihilismn of noir, they reach a sympathetic, soulful reality writers rarely pull off .” “Delightul.”—Booklist (starred review) —Paste Magazine n poverty-stricken Laos in 1978, the corpsee of a bucolicbucolic beautybeauty turnsturns up inin Dr untie Bpoo, the transvestite fortuneteller of Vientiane, Laos, has foretold that ISiri’s morgue and his curiosity is piqued. The victim was found tied to a tree and Athe seventy-three-year-old newlywed Dr Siri and his equally mature bride will strangled but she had not, as the doctor had expected, been raped, although her fl esh have children by the end of the year. When Siri helps Hmong villagers in peril, the had been torn. And though the victim had clear, pale skin over most of her body, her prediction comes true. hands and feet were gnarled, callused, and blistered. On a trip to the hinterlands, Siri discovers that beautiful female corpses bound to COLIN COTTERILL, author of six books in the Dr Siri Paiboun series, lives in trees have already risen to the status of rural myth. He sets out to investigate this Chiang Mai, Thailand with his wife and teaches at the University of Chiang Mai. His unprecedented phenomenon—a serial killer in peaceful Buddhist Laos—only to dis- books have been Book Sense Picks, and he won the Dilys Award for Thirty-Three cover when he has identifi ed the murderer that not only pretty maidens are at risk. Teeth. Seventy-three-year-old coroners can become victims, too.

Spring 2009 Spring 2009 August 2009 Soho Crime Marketing Campaign Soho Crime Marketing Campaign August 2009 Soho Crime National advertising includes: National advertising includes: Soho Crime ISBN: 978-1-56947-590-4 Mystery Scene, Mystery Scene, ISBN: 978-1-56947-556-0 5 X 7.5 • 272 pps The New York Times The New York Times 5 X 7.5 • 272 pps $13 Paperback Book Review Book Review $24 Hardcover Soho Crime Samplers Soho Crime Samplers SOHO National Soho Crime Author Tour National Soho Crime Author Tour SOHO North American rights: Soho Press Totebags Totebags North American rights: Soho Press CRIME All other rights: Richard Curtis All other rights: Richard Curtis CRIME

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SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec2:20-Sec2:21ec2:20-Sec2:21 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:34:02:34:02 PPMM MICK HERRON Smoke and Whispers

A woman trying to solve the Down Cemetery Road mystery of a drowned PI discovers MICK HERRON the truth is dangerous The acclaimed fi rst novel from Mick Herron Praise for Mick Herron: One quiet evening in Oxford, a house near Sarah Tucker’s ex- plodes. The reported cause is a gas leak, but when a child disap- “Mick Herron never tells a suspense pears in the aftermath, Sarah—a young married woman, bored story in the expected way, which is why his new with her life—becomes obsessed with fi nding her. novel ... reads as much like a puzzle mystery as it does a thriller.... Unpleasant things are bound to July 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-566-9 • $13 TP • 5.5 X 8.75 • 288 pps happen, and they do—but not until Herron has fi nished surprising us…. In Herron’s book, there The Last Voice You Hear is no hiding under the desk.” MICK HERRON —The New York Times Book Review Troubled PI Zoe Boehm pursues a criminal “[A] masterful thriller.… The intricate plot, who may be pursuing her coupled with Herron’s breezy writing style, results When a woman is killed by a train and her lover doesn’t show up in superior entertainment that makes most other at the funeral, PI Zoe Boehm is hired to fi nd him. Attempting to novels of suspense appear dull and slow-witted unlock the woman’s secrets, Zoe fi nds more and more questions. by comparison.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) July 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-567-6 • $13 TP • 5.5 X 875 • 288 pps hen a body is hauled from the River Tyne, ShTkhdSarah Tucker heads to Newcastle lf for a Why We Die Wcloser look. She identifi es the dead woman as private detective Zoe Boehm, but MICK HERRON putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions. Did Zoe kill herself, or did one Death is the ultimate stalker, confi dent and inevitable; of her old cases come back to haunt her? Why was she wearing a jacket a murderer had the rest are inadequate voyeurs.... stolen years before? And what’s brought Sarah’s sparring partner, Gerard Inchon, to the same broken-down hotel? Coincidence is an excuse that soon looks pretty unconvincing. When Zoe Boehm agrees to track down some robbers, she’s just Sarah can’t leave until she’s found the answers to her questions, however dangerous that looking for cash to pay off the taxman. She’s not expecting to might turn out to be. wind up in a coffi n. But death, like taxes, can’t be avoided forever. MICK HERRON is the author of four previous successful titles. Born in Newcastle and July 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-568-3 • $13 TP • 5.5 X 8.75 • 320 pps a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, he has a degree in English. He lives in Oxford. Reconstruction Spring 2009 Soho Constable Marketing Campaign MICK HERRON April 2009 Soho Constable An armed man takes hostages at a nursery school National advertising includes: Mystery Scene, ISBN: 978-1-56947-564-5 The New York Times 5.5 X 8.75 • 288 pps Jamie breaks into a nursery school with a gun and takes hostages; Book Review he is trying to fi nd his lover, Miro, who is missing, together with a $25 Hardcover large sum of money intended for reconstruction in Iraq. Soho Constable Samplers Bookstore Co-op Available North American rights: Soho Press July 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-565--2 • $13 TP • 5.5 X 8.75 • 304 pps All other rights: Constable & Robinson

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SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec2:22-Sec2:23ec2:22-Sec2:23 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:34:05:34:05 PPMM Death on the Holy Mountain Abracadaver DAVID DICKINSON PETER LOVESEY

The seventh mystery in a series featuring an The third Victorian mystery featuring aristocratic detective in Victorian England Sergeant Cribb of Scotland Yard and the worthy Constable Thackeray Praise for the Lord Powerscourt series: “Here’s another of those delightful Victorian “Excellent.” mysteries, featuring Sergeant Cribb and Con- —Publishers Weekly (starred review) stable Thackeray of the Yard. This one deals with peculiar accidents in various music halls, mishaps “Dickinson textures his canvas with historical detail of a kind that would ruin a performer’s career; and as thick as the oil paint on one of his favorite then there’s murder…. Fine picture of period vice, paintings by Turner.” good mystery plotting, and fun.” —Kirkus Reviews —San Francisco Chronicle

TheThe rerecentcent ttheftheft ooff fafamilymily pportraitsor seems to be nothing more than a prank after the artwork is returned, painted over with the faces of locals. But then a body is A sadistic practical joker is haunting the popular music hllhalls of f London, d iinterfering f i discovered, and Lord Francis Powerscourt risks everything to fi nd the killer. with the actors and interrupting their acts by orchestrating humiliating disasters that take place in view of the audience. Then the mischief escalates to murder. Or Also available from Soho Constable in paperback: Goodnight Sweet Prince; Death on the was murder intended all along? That indomitable detective team, Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray of Scotland Yard, must track down the elusive criminal. Nevskii Prospekt; Death & the Jubilee; Death of an Old Master; and Death Called to the Bar April 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-570-6 • $13 TP • 5.5 X 8.75 • 320 July 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-561-4 • $14 TP • 5.5 X 8.25 • 320 pps Where Petals Fall Mad Hatter’s Holiday SHIRLEY WELLS PETER LOVESEY Forensic psychologist Kennedy and DCI Trentham The fourth Victorian mystery featuring Sergeant Cribb experience déjà vu when a crime seems to repeat itself from award-winning author Peter Lovesey

Praise for Shirley Wells: “[A] gem, catching to perfection the social atmospherics of Victorian Brighton and at the “A deft combination of police procedural and same time telling an ingenious story of murder and psychological thriller.” discovery.” —Kirkus Reviews —Publishers Weekly “A satisfying cross between a police procedural and a “His best yet.” modern, slightly edgy British village mystery, leaving —H. R. F. Keating, The Times (UK) the reader eager for more Max and Jill investigations.” —Booklist “The sleuthing is neat and satisfying.... Victorian pleasures, permitted and illicit, are rendered up with gusto.” A woman’s body is found in a quarry, wrapped in a shroud. Five years earlier, four —Guardian (UK) women were killed the same way. But the man whom Jill Kennedy and Max Tren- When a sensational murder takes place at a beach resort in 1882, all of Brighton is tham believed to be guilty is dead—or is he? horrifi ed. The local police seek the help of Scotland Yard, which is provided in the persons of Sergeant Cribb and Constable Thackeray. Also available from Soho Constable in hardcover: A Darker Side PETER LOVESEY has been awarded the CWA Gold and Silver Daggers and the Diamond Dagger for Lifetime Achievement, as well as many US honors. May 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-572-0 • $25 HC • 5.5 X 8.75 • 288 July 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-560-7 • $14 TP • 5.5 X 8.25 • 288 pps

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SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec2:24-Sec2:25ec2:24-Sec2:25 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:34:11:34:11 PPMM R.T. RAICHEV The Little Victim

Antonia Darcy and Major Hugh Payne The Hunt for Sonya Dufrette set aside their pleasure-fi lled holiday to R.T. RAICHEV investigate an alleged murder

The fi rst British country house mystery Praise for R.T. Raichev: in the Antonia Darcy series “Mixes Henry James’s psychological insight with Agatha Christie’s whodunit plotting At a house party on the day of the royal wedding in 1981, a little girl skills.... Raichev once again triumphs.” named Sonya Dufrette wanders off and is never seen again. Twenty —Library Journal (starred review) years on, divorcee and librarian Antonia Darcy sets out to solve the mystery. “Except for its modern-day setting, the book could have been published during June 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-576-8 • $13 TP • 5.5 X 875 • 256 pps Agatha Christie’s heyday, the so-called Golden Age of detective fi ction, and readers who relish that period will be The Death of Corinne delighted by Assassins at Ospreys.” R.T. RAICHEV —Denver Post

Who would want to kill legendary French diva “Raichev’s use of characterization and allusion will keep the reader turning pages to the end.” Corinne Coreille? —Oklahoman Death threats start arriving in the mail, and legendary French diva Corinne seeks refuge at her godmother’s country estate. Other house t promised to be the perfect holiday with every modern convenience. Antonia Darcy guests include Antonia Darcy and her husband, Corinne’s domineer- Iand Hugh Payne never seriously imagined they would encounter anything worse ing agent, her godmother’s nephew, and a private detective. than extravagance in this idyllic setting. But an uninvited guest at the garden party given in their honor makes Antonia his confi dante. Not only does he claim to have witnessed the strangling of beautiful, wayward Marigold Leighton, he also insists it was their host, June 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-578-2 • $13 TP • 5.5 X 875 • 256 pps Roman Songhera, the “uncrowned King of Goa,” who had committed the murder.

R.T. RAICHEV is the author of four novels in the Antonia Darcy series and has lived Assassins at Ospreys in London since 1989. R.T. RAICHEV

The third in a series of critically acclaimed English country house mysteries Spring 2009 “Deftly mixes dark humor and psychological suspense, its Soho Constable Marketing Campaign June 2009 genteel surface masking delicious deviancy.” Soho Constable —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) National advertising includes: Mystery Scene, ISBN: 978-1-56947-575-1 Mystery writer Antonia Darcy and her husband Major Hugh Payne The New York Times 5.5 X 8.75 • 224 pps visit a boring fan’s estate only to fi nd that she is more sinister than Book Review dull, and they end up having to foil a planned murder. $25 Hardcover Soho Constable Samplers Bookstore Co-op Available June 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-577-5 • $13 TP • 5.5 X 875 • 256 pps North American rights: Soho Press All other rights: Constable & Robinson

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SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec2:26-Sec2:27ec2:26-Sec2:27 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:34:16:34:16 PPMM The Durham Disappearance The Stolen Voice PHILIP GOODEN PAT MCINTOSH

A Victorian mystery fi lled with seances, levitations, A Gil and Alys Cunningham investigation and murder set in Durham and London set in medieval Scotland

Praise for Philip Gooden: In Sir William’s remote part of Scotland it seems almost possible that a young boy could have been “Gooden may be one of the best history-mystery stolen away by the fairies and returned forty years writers going…. Marvelous.” later without having visibly aged at all. And if the boy —Booklist (starred review) isn’t Davie Drummond, who is he? Then he suff ers “A promising new Victorian series.” a succession of near-fatal “accidents.” Could there be —Historical Novels Review a connection with four other local singers who have vanished, one of them with political information of value to Scotland’s enemies? Gil and his wife Alys In England in 1847, newlyweds Tom and Helen Ansell become involved with spiri- have been sent to Perthshire to investigate. tualism and stage magic. When a famous medium is found dead, Helen is the main suspect. In order to prove her innocence, she and Tom must fi nd the real killer. Also available from Soho Constable in paperback: The Harper’s Quine; The Nicholas Feast; The Merchant’s Mark; St. Mungo’s Robin Also available from Soho Constable in hardcover: The Salisbury Manuscript

July 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-583-6 • $25 HC • 5.5 X 8.75 • 224 pps July 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-582-9 • $25 HC • 5.5 X 8.25 • 256 pps Blotto, Twinks and The Rough Collier the Ex-King’s Daugter PAT MCINTOSH SIMON BRETT The fi fth in this series of medieval murder mysteries set in Glasgow An adventure set between the wars introduces fabulous brother and sister sleuthing duo Blotto and Twinks “Another hearty meal stuff ed with fascinating period tidbits and a satisfying mystery.” Praise for Simon Brett: —Kirkus Reviews

“Brett is a master at subtle characterization, superb “McIntosh artfully interweaves intrigue and history setting, and plotting in which his characters solve in this suspenseful medieval murder tale.” themselves in the process of solving murders.” —Booklist —Booklist “Extremely well written and exciting.... A terrifi c whodunit.” When Ex-Princess Etheline, daughter of the exiled king of Mitteleuropia, is kid- —Mystery Gazette napped while visiting the seat of the Dukes of Tawcester, the duchess sends her son “Blotto” to rescue her. But Blotto isn’t as bright as his sister “Twinks.” Gil Cunningham, a young notary, has escaped a life in the Church to become the Archbishop’s Questioner only to be accused of causing a man’s death by witchcraft. SIMON BRETT is the author of over thirty mystery novels and seven plays. He is He must solve the crime to save himself. married with three children and lives near Arundel in West Sussex, England.

July 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-584-3 • $25 HC • 5.5 X 8.75 • 288 pps July 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-581-2 • $13 TP • 5.5 X 8.25 • 304 pps

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SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec2:28-Sec2:29ec2:28-Sec2:29 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:34:21:34:21 PPMM As if by Magic DOLORES GORDON-SMITH Bone Idle The third Jack Haldean mystery set in 1920s England SUZETTE A. HILL

Praise for Dolores Gordon-Smith: “With vision and vigor, Gordon-Smith pulls off The third mystery featuring the bumbling vicar another Golden Age delight.” Francis Oughterard and pets Maurice and —Richmond Times-Dispatch Bouncer

“A classic postwar country-house mystery with a Praise for Suzette A. Hill: Christie-like denouement.”—Kirkus Reviews “This dry, funny British gem, with its “Dorothy Sayers fans will be most rewarded.” eccentric cast of characters, will leave —Publishers Weekly readers laughing and eagerly awaiting the next episode.” FreezingFreezing aandnd hhungry,ungry GGeorgeeorge Lassiter breaks into a stranger’s house where he wit- —Publishers Weekly nesses a murder. But when the police fi nd no evidence, they—and George’s friend Jack Haldean—believe George was delirious. Dangerous events soon prove every- “This is 1950s English country life one wrong. done up Seinfeld style, complete with a gin-drinking bulldog. It should appeal to fans Also available from Soho Constable in hardcover: Mad About the Boy? of Martha Grimes, Saki, and Wodehouse.” —Historical Novels Review Aug 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-588-1 • $25 HC • 5.5 X 8.75 • 288 pps “Charming and engaging.” Devil at the Crossroads —Kirkus Reviews OLIVE ETCHELLS The third in the DCI Channon series set in everend Oughterard, who previously accidentally strangled a parishioner, has Cornwall, England Rmanaged to elude arrest (for now), but when another murder occurs, Ough- terard panics. Embarrassing complications ensue, and once again, world-weary cat Praise for Olive Etchells: Maurice and intrepid mongrel Bouncer must help F.O. escape trouble. “The most unnerving crimes of violence are the SUZETTE A. HILL is a graduate of the Universities of Nottingham and New- ones that tear apart small, tightly knit communities castle/Tyne. She taught English literature for many years at Reading College before … and Etchells demonstrates this awful process of retiring to Herefordshire. She is the author of three mysteries featuring Francis disintegration.” Oughterard. Bones in the Belfry is available from Soho Constable. —The New York Times Book Review

Spring 2009 Soho Constable Marketing Campaign August 2009 Soho Constable When a body is found at the crossroads of a small village, DCI Channon must deal National advertising includes: with the ramifi cations of the incident for the town and its residents—making the Mystery Scene, ISBN: 978-1-56947-591-1 murder at the crossroads one of his most diffi cult cases yet. The New York Times 5.5 X 8.75 • 288 pps Book Review $25 Hardcover OLIVE ETCHELLS was born in Lancashire, England. She has been writing for many years and is best known for her Jericho Rose Lancashire sagas. Soho Constable Samplers Bookstore Co-op Available North American rights: Soho Press Aug 2009 • Soho Constable • ISBN: 978-1-56947-592-8 • $25 HC • 5.5 X 8.75 • 256 pps All other rights: Constable & Robinson

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SSohooho CatalogCatalog SSpringpring 22009.indd009.indd SSec2:30-Sec2:31ec2:30-Sec2:31 110/9/20080/9/2008 11:34:27:34:27 PPMM Now Back in Print Recent and Recommended

Outsider in Amsterdam Blood Alone JANWILLEM VAN DE WETERING JAMES R. BENN

Outsider in Amsterdam is the fi rst of the internationally renowned Billy Boyle must contact the head of the Sicilian Mafi a to enlist his mysteries in the Amsterdam Cops series featuring Detective-Adjutant cooperation with the Allies and thwart a murderous band of coun- Grijpstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police force. terfeiters of Army scrip. Despite a concussion resulting in temporary amnesia, he carries out his dangerous mission.

Soho Crime • ISBN: 978-1-56947-017-6 • $13 TP •5 X 7.5 • 304 pps Soho Press • ISBN: 978-1-56947-516-4 • $24 HC • 6 X 9 • 320pps Tumbleweed The Elfi sh Gene JANWILLEM VAN DE WETERING MARK BARROWCLIFFE

Grijpstra and de Gier must solve the murder of a prostitute. Her cli- In 1976, twelve-year-old Mark Barrowcliff e was an ordinary awkward ents all have sound alibis. Before the murderer is caught, the detectives schoolboy. Then he discovered Dungeons & Dragons. His life would will investigate allegations of black magic, travel to Curaçao, and pur- never be the same. This is a hilarious memoir of an adolescence spent sue clues that take them to a chilly island off the coast of Holland. entirely in the world of fantasy.

Soho Crime • ISBN: 978-1-56947-018-3 • $13 TP •5 X 7.5 • 224 pps Soho Press • ISBN: 978-1-56947-522-5 • $25 HC •6 X 9 • 288 pps The Corpse on the Dike The Rose Variations JANWILLEM VAN DE WETERING MARISHA CHAMBERLAIN

A recluse has been shot right between the eyes as he stood looking In 1975, 25-year-old Rose takes a temporary professorship at a Mid- out of his bedroom window. His neighbor, a schoolteacher who is a western college, convinced that an exciting career as a composer lies pistol shot champion, admits she discovered the body and failed to ahead. Determined to stay independent, she struggles with love, lone- report it. Is she really guilty of murder? liness, ambition, and the perplexing question of happiness.

Soho Crime • ISBN: 978-1-56947-049-7 • $13 TP • 5.5 X 8.75 • 240 pps Soho Press • ISBN: 978-1-56947-538-6 • $23 HC • 6 X 9 • 352 pps Death of a Hawker Year of the Dog JANWILLEM VAN DE WETERING HENRY CHANG He’s been transferred to a diff erent precinct, but Jack Yu cannot get When the body of the “King” of a local street market is found in a away from Chinatown’s criminals, who have hooked up with the room in his house on Newmarket Square, his head bashed in, there Hong Kong-based triads in an elaborate nationwide credit card fraud, are only two suspects: his lovely sister or the upstairs boarder. Which nor from the Chinese victims who cry out for justice, like the teenage one is the killer? Chinese delivery boy brutally murdered in the projects.

Soho Crime • ISBN: 978-1-56947-079-4 • $13 TP • 5.5 X 8.75 • 288 pps Soho Crime • ISBN: 978-1-56947-515-7 • $24 HC • 5 X 7.5 • 240 pps The Japanese Corpse Murder in the Latin Quarter JANWILLEM VAN DE WETERING CARA BLACK A Haitian woman arrives at the offi ce of Leduc Detective and an- A waitress employed at Amsterdam’s most elegant Japanese restaurant nounces that she is Aimée’s sister, her father’s illegitimate daughter. reports that her boyfriend, a Japanese art dealer, is missing. The police Thrilled to have a relative, Aimée accepts her and fi nds herself in- search throughout The Netherlands and fi nally locate a corpse. But volved in murky Haitian politics and murders on the Left Bank, in to fi nd the killer de Gier must go to Japan and match wits with a the Latin Quarter of Paris. yakuza chieftain in his lair. Soho Crime • ISBN: 978-1-56947-057-2 • $13 TP • 5.5 X 8.75 • 304 pps Soho Crime • ISBN: 978-1-56947-541-6 • $24 HC • 5 X 7.5 • 304 pps

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