#ThrillerThursday BONUS: Macmillan has five nominees for the 2015 Agatha Awards! Best Contemporary Novel: THE NATURE OF THE BEAST by Louise Penny (Minotaur Books) WHAT YOU SEE by Hank Phillippi Ryan (Forge Books) Best Historical Novel: THE MASQUE OF A MURDERER by Susanna Calkins (Minotaur Books) Best First Novel: DEATH OF A DISHONORABLE GENTLEMAN by […]
Reviews and Publicity
Thriller Thursday (2/25/16 Edition)
A physicist and a romantic crime-fighting duo are on the case this #ThrillerThursday: A MIDSUMMER’S EQUATION by Keigo Higashino Two stars for the LibraryReads author’s sequel to the international bestseller THE DEVOTION OF SUSPECT X, starring Manabu Yukawa, the physicist known as “Detective Galileo.” “Filled with surprises and plot twists, this complex and riveting mystery will keep […]
THE FIRE LINE is a Spring 2016 B&N Discover Pick
Terrific news: THE FIRE LINE: The Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots and One of the Deadliest Days in American Firefighting by Fernanda Santos is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Spring 2016 selection! From the B&N Discover blog: “For most Americans, wildfires exist mainly as breathless news footage, either of planes dumping […]
2016 LA Times Book Prize Nominees (and Winners!)
The Los Angeles Times announced their 2016 Book Prize nominees today and we’ve got six nominees from Macmillan: Biography LISTENING TO STONE: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi by Hayden Herrera Current Interest DREAMLAND: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones CHILDREN OF THE STONE: The Power of Music in a […]
Stars for PEACEKEEPING
You may remember Mischa Berlinski as the National Book Award-nominated author of FIELDWORK. Now he’s back with his daring, eagerly anticipated second novel, PEACEKEEPING. It’s about Terry, a former deputy sheriff and failed politician, who takes a job in Haiti helping to train the police. There he befriends an American-educated judge & convinces him to […]
Thriller Thursday (2/18/16 Edition)
We’re seeing stars for today’s #ThrillerThursday picks: SILENCE OF THE SEA by Yrsa Sigurdardottir In the sixth “flawless” (Booklist, starred review) installment in the Thóra Gudmundsdóttir series, a luxury yacht arrives in Reykjavik harbor with nobody on board. What has happened to the crew, and to the family who were on board when the yacht […]
Happy Belated #BookBday (2/17/16 Edition)
We’re a day late to wish these new releases a happy #BookBday, but it’s only to keep the party going: HIDE by Matthew Griffin A March 2016 Indie Next pick and an ABA Indies Introduce Winter/Spring 2016 selection! Griffin’s forceful debut novel examines the lives of two men who meet and fall in love in […]
Thriller Thursday (2/11/16 Edition)
Detectives are on the case in today’s #ThrillerThursday picks: INTO OBLIVION by Arnaldur Indridason “Set in Iceland in 1979, several years after the events of 2015’s REYKJAVIK NIGHTS, Indridason’s elegantly crafted procedural traces two parallel cases: recently divorced Erlendur Sveinsson’s private investigation of the disappearance of a school girl named Dagbjört a quarter-century earlier; and […]
Michelle Gable Loves Librarians
We love Michelle Gable because she loves librarians. Watch this video where she gives y’all a heartfelt thank you for supporting her debut novel, A PARIS APARTMENT, and some insight into her new book, I’LL SEE YOU IN PARIS, available now from St. Martin’s Press. […]
Happy Fat Tuesday #BookBday (2/9/16)
It’s a Fat Tuesday #BookBday! THE HEART by Maylis de Kerangal Two starred reviews for this audacious novel about the twenty-four hours surrounding a heart transplant told in multiple perspectives. “With its incredibly precise and exacting language as well as its dedication to challenging form, THE HEART shimmers and sears at the same time.” — […]
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