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.

Robert Rotenberg

Old City Hall

Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

Rotenberg’s debut legal thriller has been endorsed by Nelson DeMille and Douglas Preston, along with rave reviews from the Times Literary Supplement and The London Times, and has just been optioned as a television series to be made in Toronto. 

Harry Dolan

Bad Things Happen

Amy Einhorn Books/Penguin

Dolan’s noir mystery, which James Patterson has called “a very smart, well-written roller-coaster ride that is always threatening to hurl the reader into roaring empty space,” introduces a new series featuring "the man who calls himself David Loogan" and Detective Elizabeth Waishkey.   Editing a literary mystery magazine like Gray Streets can be, it turns out, really deadly.

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.

Jeff Strand

Pressure

Leisure Books

This chilling horror novel about being the best friend of a psychopath was optioned for the big screen by Identity Films.  The follow-up, Dweller, will be released in 2010.