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We do have some nice-looking historical/mystery/litfic things, and it seems to be the day for ex-screen-associated people to have books out.
Joel Gross returns with a 1981-Seaview hardcovered Irish immigrant historical literary drama, which was picked up by Signet for paperback in 1982:
Maura's Dream His blurb says some of his previously-freebied books have been Book of the Month Club and Literary Guild selections.
John Evans offers a 2007 Hodder & Stoughton-published tourist hostage conspiracy thriller set in the Uganda/Congo area:
The Night of Knives
New American Library-published Jessica Barksdale Inclan returns with a gay coming-of-age literary fiction novel which is presumably much like her bestselling women's literary fiction novels:
Where I Am Now
Robert Hale-published Andre Jute offers some kind of probably-political thriller and/or satire with a cryptic blurb I'm not going to bother to try deciphering:
AN ELECTION OF PATRIOTS He also offers two short stories and edits another author's thriller:
Linkage for the lot
Minor ISFDBed Australian sci-fi writer R.J. Astruc returns with what seems to be a noir-ish murder mystery/thriller:
Street of Two Doors
Avalon-published Vickie Britton and Loretta Jackson return with an interesting-looking Egytian archaeological murder mystery/thriller:
The Curse of Senmut (The Ardis Cole Series) Britton, incidentally, has just joined as a fellow MR member author and put the promo for her book in the correct forum, which is an accomplishment even fairly seasoned fellow MR member authors fail to get right, and should thus be applauded.
Mills & Boon-published Saskia Walker returns with an f/m contemporary romantic suspense, which she warns for graphic language and sex:
Minding Amy
Pocket-published Charles W. Sasser offers a "ripped from the headlines" political action/adventure thriller:
A Thousand Years of Darkness: a Thriller
Britomart pointed out in the April Romance thread that Dee Garretson has been previously-published by HarperCollins and offers an interesting-looking Victorian murder mystery with some romantic elements:
The Gargoyle in the Seine
It seems to be the day for screenwriters with novels.
Ian Kennedy Martin (
IMDB entry), creator of the Sweeney TV series, offers a detective-gone-wrong thriller:
Road of Bones (Petroc Corrigan novels)
David H. Steinberg (
IMDB entry) a screenwriter for the popular American Pie teen sex comedy movie series, offers a end-of-high-school learning experience/coming-of-age novel which may not exactly be oriented at actual YA readers:
Last Stop This Town
Barry R. Nemcoff is actually an ex-journalist and ex-reporter who later produced PBS' Nightly News Report, according to his author blurb and quick google search. He offers non-fiction reminisces of his experiences in Pakistan in the 60s while working for a news agency's foreign correspondent branch:
Dacca Daze
Here's another if-you-want-to-try-a-probably-vetted-indie semifinalist of the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award contest. Charles Kelly's 1917-set female lawyer amateur sleuth mystery/adventure thriller novel on the trail of kidnapped women:
Grace Humiston and the Vanishing Apparently this is based on a true story, at lesat if the author's other work is to be believed.
More history-mashup anniversary zombies, in case you're building up a collection of such. I must say, not everyone is dedicated enough (and/or has a sufficiently understanding/indulgent intended) to have a zombie-themed wedding, as the author claims his cousin did (but I suppose brides mainly make their own arrangements, really):
Titanic of The Dead: How I Survived the Titanic Zombie Apocalypse
As usual, Books We Love/BWLPP have some new offerings amidst all their repeats, some of them from established authors. Backlist/established author repeats from Crossroad Press, Lee Moan, Lisa Greer, Leslie Dubois and probably others I've completely forgotten about seeing.
Happy reading, if you manage to spot anything you think you might like, or pick up handy tips on how to survive a zombie shipwreck.