A Wide Range

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Gillian Flynn

Dark Places

Shaye Areheart Books/Random House

New York Times bestseller Dark Places received rave reviews in The New Yorker, New York Magazine, People, USA Today, Chicago Tribune and The New York Times Book Review, and endorsements from Kate Atkinson, Stephen King, Harlan Coben, Augusten Burroughs, Karin Slaughter, and many more.  Dark Places follows Gillian's first book, the Dagger Award winner—and Edgar nominee—Sharp Objects.

Lisa Lutz

The Spellman Files

Simon & Schuster

The first novel in Lisa Lutz’s Spellman series, featuring a quirky and hilarious family of private investigators in San Francisco, The Spellman Files was a New York Times bestseller, an Alex and Dilys award winner, and was optioned to Paramount with Laura Ziskin to produce and Barry Sonnenfeld to direct.  The series also includes #1 Booksense picks Curse of the Spellmans—nominated for the Best Novel Edgar—and Revenge of the Spellmans, and the forthcoming The Spellmans Strike Back.

Jess Lourey

September Fair

Midnight Ink

This Murder-by-Month series has delighted readers from Mayday, through June Bug, to Knee High to the Fourth of July and August Moon.  This time we are eating and killing at the Minnesota State Fair.

Lisa Lutz & Dave Hayward

Heads You Lose

Putnam/Penguin Group

Best-selling author of The Spellman Files Lisa Lutz and real-life former romantic partner David Hayward team up to write a mystery in tag-team alternating chapters—that is, until they start to disagree about how the story should unfold.  The rising body count and mounting tension between the characters in  Heads You Lose will have you wondering if this cast will end up solving the mystery or killing each other first. As John Connolly writes, “Working the lunatic fringe of collaboration, the duet of Lutz and Hayward make beautiful music.  Sick and twisted, but beautiful.”

Brad Smith

Red Means Run

Scribner/Simon & Schuster

Brad Smith debuts a new crime series set in upstate New York featuring jack-of-all-trades Virgil Cain, who must clear his name of two murders while on the run from the law.  Smith has been praised by Dennis Lehane, who calls him, “funny, poignant, evocative, and he tells a blistering tale,” and by Richard Russo, who says, “Brad Smith is a writer with lots of skill, lots of heart, and lots of brains.”  Smith’s novel Busted Flush was nominated for the Dashiell Hammett Prize.

Harry Dolan

Very Bad Men

Amy Einhorn Books/Penguin

David Loogan returns!  Harry Dolan is back with the follow-up to his highly praised national bestseller Bad Things Happen, which earned the respect of Stephen King, Nelson DeMille, Douglas Preston, Karin Slaughter, and James Patterson among many others.  Publishers Weekly says that “relentless pacing, a wry sense of humor, and an engaging protagonist add up to another winner for Dolan."