FRONTLIST Award Winners and Honorees 2–3 The Night Swimmers 4–5 Rabbits for Food 6–7 The Alarming Palsy of James Orr 8 Dark Constellations 9 Here Is What You Do 10 Saturn’s Return to New York 11 Rainbirds 11 Side Life 12 Plum Rains 12 CONGRATULATIONS SOHO PRESS AWARD WINNERS AND HONOREES NATIONAL BOOK NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION FOUNDATION 5 UNDER 35 HONOREE FICTION FINALIST SONORA WHERE THE DEAD SIT TALKING HANNAH LILLITH ASSADI BRANDON HOBSON ISBN: 9781616957926 ISBN: 9781641298879 EISBN: 9781616957933 EISBN: 9781616958886 AVAILABLE NOW IN PAPERBACK AVAILABLE NOW IN HARDCOVER US $16.00 / CAN $20.00 US $25.00 / CAN $30.00 WINNER OF FINALIST FOR THE HAMMET PRIZE AND THE CWA GOLD THE 2018 NERO AWARD AND STEEL DAGGER FICTION/THRILLER | US $26.95/CAN $33.95 August Snow, an ex-police detective who was fired from the Detroit PD, AUGUST SNOW brought down the entire corrupt department and the mayor with a wrongful PRAISE FOR dismissal lawsuit. The son of an African-American cop and a Mexican-American “THE NEW SPY MASTER . LONDON RULES MIGHT NOT painter, August Snow is most at home in Detroit’s Mexicantown neighborhood, Herron has read his where he grew up—the neighborhood he’s now returned to and hopes to LONDON RULES Carl Hiaasen as well as BE WRITTEN DOWN, revitalize with his settlement money of $12 million. The trouble is August has his Charles Dickens. “The new KING OF THE “The best modern BUT EVERYONE KNOWS RULE ONE: old enemies with scores to settle. The coruscating cynicism and When an old acquaintance, finance magnate Eleanore Paget, hears August SPY THRILLER.” British spy series.” COVER YOUR ARSE. cartoon comedy do not detract is back in town, she tries to hire him to investigate suspicious goings-on at her —Mail on Sunday —Daily Express from the seriousness of the “Mick Herron is the John le Carré of our generation.”—Val McDermid investment bank. August declines—detective work is no longer his beat. When At MI5 headquarters Regent’s Park, First Desk Eleanore is found dead the next day of an apparent suicide, August doesn’t message: ‘Hate crime pollutes Claude Whelan is learning this the hard way. buy it for a minute. His search for her killer will drag him into a rat’s nest of “Herron’s comic brilliance should not overshadow the soul, but only the souls of Tasked with protecting a beleaguered prime Detroit’s most dangerous criminals. the fact that his books are frequently THRILLING, those who commit it.’” minister, he’s facing attack from all directions: PRAISE FOR AUGUST SNOW often THOUGHT-PROVOKING, and sometimes moving —Evening Standard from the showboating MP who orchestrated “One of my favorite books that I’ve read recently . This book is so good, I and even INSPIRING. Reading one of Herron’s actually put it down, and I briefly entertained the notion of moving back to worst books would be the highlight of my month, the Brexit vote, and now has his sights set on Detroit.” —Nancy Pearl on NPR’s Morning Edition and London Rules is one of his best.” “London Rules confirms Number Ten; from the showboat’s wife, a tabloid Mick Herron as THE GREATEST columnist, who’s crucifying Whelan in print; “An absolute joy to read from start to finish; Stephen Mack Jones has infusedMICK a HERRON —Sunday Express real love of Detroit into every page.” —The Michiganis Daily a British novelist and short-story writer who was COMIC WRITER OF SPY FICTION from the PM’s favorite Muslim, who’s about to born in Newcastle and studied English at Oxford. He in the English language, and be elected mayor of the West Midlands, despite “Jones, a Detroit-area poet and playwright, brings the city, its environs, and its is the author of six books in the Slough House series “[Jackson Lamb] is a modern possibly all crime fiction.” eateries to vital life in a mystery coiled around the contemporary crime du jour “This is the dark secret he’s hiding; and especially from (Slow Horses, Dead Lions, Real Tigers, Spook Street, Falstaff . Herron has been called modern —The Times of cyber-finance meddling. His is that rare tale that, despite its thriller-level STEPHEN MACK JONES his own deputy, Lady Di Taverner, who’s alert violence, maintains a fiercely warm heart at its core—and ends far too Londonquickly.” Rules , and the novella The List) and four Oxford the heir to Len Deighton—and Mick British spy for Claude’s every stumble. Meanwhile, the Herron’s latest MORDANTLY FUNNY —The Bostonmysteries Globe (Down Cemetery Road, The Last Voice You fiction at its country’s being rocked by an apparently random Hear, Why We Die, and Smoke and Whispers), as well espionage novel only backs that up.” BRILLIANT “As a MASTER OF WIT, SATIRE, “All of us begin in grace and great promise and, staring at the door left open string of terror attacks. as the standalone novels Reconstruction, Nobody “A witty, mayhem-packed—Sunday Times first novel . best; TAUT, INSIGHT and that very English behind, wonder where they’ve gone. Stephen Mack Jones knows this, as Over at Slough House, the MI5 satellite office Walks, and This Is What Happened. His work has won Snow’s own voice has echoes of Raymond Chandler’s.”tense, trick of disguising heartfelt does his narrator August Snow, as does their battered city, Detroit.” for outcast and demoted spies, the agents are —Jamesthe Sallis CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel, the Steel “Sharper,—THE WALL funnier STREET and moreJOURNAL distorted QUIRKY, writing as detached irony struggling with personal problems: repressed Dagger for Best Thriller, and the Ellery Queen Readers than ever.” —Literary Review funny and before launching a surprise grief, various addictions, retail paralysis, STEPHEN MACK JONES is a published poet, an award-winningAward, and been nominated for the Macavity, Barry, THRILLING.” assault on the reader’s playwright, and a recipient of the prestigious Kresge ArtsShamus, in and Theakstons Novel of the Year Awards. He “SUPERB.”—Irish Times —Choice emotions, Herron is difficult and the nagging suspicion that their newest Detroit Literary Fellowship. He was born in Lansing, Michigan,currently lives in Oxford and writes full-time. to overpraise.” colleague is a psychopath. Plus someone is and currently lives in Farmington Hills, outside of Detroit. He —Daily Telegraph trying to kill Roddy Ho. But collectively, they’re © Phil Monk worked in advertising and marketing communications for a number Front cover art: © BBA Travel / Alamy Stock Photo “Herron adeptly negotiates the rules of satire and about to rediscover their greatest strength— of years before turning to fiction.August Snow is his first novel. Jacket design: Janine Agro the laws of libel to create fictional public figures that of making a bad situation much, much Author image: © Lee Gillies who simultaneously hit more than one real-life US $15.95/CAN $19.95 worse. Front cover design by James Iacobelli bullseye . Stylistically, Herron’s narrative voice Cover photo: © SuperStock/Getty Images FICTION / MYSTERY It’s a good thing Jackson Lamb knows the Author image: © Albert Cauchi SOHO swoops from the high to the low, but it’s the rules. Because those things aren’t going to SohoSOHO Press, Inc. dialogue that zings.”—The Guardian Soho Press, Inc. “A terrific spy novel . Sublime dialogue, SOHO break themselves. SOHO 853 Broadway, New York, NY 10003 853CRI BroadwayME frictionless plotting.”—Ian Rankin CRIME www.sohocrime.com New York, NY 10003 CRIME www.sohocrime.com CRIME WRITERS’ ASSOCIATION GOLD AND STEEL DAGGER WINNER AUGUST SNOW | STEPHEN MACK JONES LONDON RULES | MICK HERRON ISBN: 9781616958688 ISBN: 9781616959616 EISBN: 9781616957193 EISBN: 9781616959623 US: $15.95 / CAN $19.95 US $26.95 / CAN $33.95 AVAILABLE NOW IN PAPERBACK AVAILABLE NOW IN HARDCOVER WINNER OF THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE EDMUND WHITE DEBUT FICTION AWARD ALA STONEWALL HONOR BOOK LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 DSC PRIZE FOR SOUTH ASIAN LITERATURE MARRIAGE OF A THOUSAND LIES SJ SINDU | ISBN: 9781616959470 EISBN: 9781616957919 US $15.00 / CAN $19.00 AVAILABLE NOW IN PAPERBACK 4 Peter Rock—author of the novel My Abandonment, basis for the critically acclaimed feature fi lm Leave No Trace—reconstructs the mysterious relationship between a young widow and the younger narrator in this autobiographical exploration of the past, memory, and the spaces in between. Beneath the surface of Lake Michigan there are vast systems: crosscutting currents, sudden drop-offs, depths of absolute darkness, shipwrecked bodies, hidden places. Peter Rock’s stunning autobiographical novel begins in the ’90s on the Door Peninsula of Wisconsin. The narrator, a recent college graduate, and a young widow, Mrs. Abel, swim together at night, making their way across miles of open water, navigating the currents and swells, carried by the rise and fall of the lake. The nature of these night swims, and of his relationship to Mrs. Abel, becomes increasingly mysterious to the narrator as the summer passes, until the night that Mrs. Abel disappears. Twenty years later, the narrator—now married with two daughters—tries to understand those months, his forgotten obsessions and dreams. Digging into old notebooks and letters, as well as clippings he’s preserved on the “psychic photography” of Ted Serios and scribbled quotations from Rilke and Chekhov, the narrator rebuilds a world he’s lost. He also looks for clues to the fate of Mrs. Abel, and begins once again to swim distances in dark water. PETER ROCK is the author of nine previous works of fi ction, including My Abandonment, which was adapted into the fi lm Leave No Trace, directed by the award-winning Debra Granik (Winter’s Bone).