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WEIRDO
UNSWORTH, CATHY
Named one of the Best Crime Books of the Year by the Guardian, Weirdo is an atmospheric thriller about
a teenage girl convicted of murder in a 1980s seaside town and the private investigator who reopens the
case to discover that she may not have acted alone . . . Corinne Woodrow was fifteen when she was
convicted of murdering one of her classmates on a summer’s evening in 1984, a year when the teenagers
of Ernemouth ran wild, dressing in black and staying out all night, listening to music that terrified their
parents. Twenty years later, new forensic evidence suggests that Corinne didn’t act alone. Private
investigator Sean Ward — whose promising career as a detective with the Metropolitan Police was cut
short by a teenage gangster with a gun — reopens the case, and discovers a town full of secrets, and a
community that has always looked after its own.
FICTION
HOUSE OF ANANSI
9781770893870
$19.95 TP Original
OCTOBER 2013
WHAT ARE THE CHANCES
ROGERS, KENNY
Country music legend Kenny Rogers teams up with Spur Award–winning author Mike Blakely for
a rousing tale set in the heyday of Nashville in What Are the Chances. It’s 1975, and Ronnie Breed’s
chart-topping rock band has just self-destructed in a recording studio fistfight. Ronnie makes a bold
decision—return home to Texas and reinvent himself as a solo act. Enter Dan Campbell, Ronnie’s cousin,
who recruits Ronnie for a new kind of venture. Dan, who always had a penchant for wild schemes, wants
to televise a Texas Hold ’Em tournament…and Ronnie could never say no to his cousin Dan. As celebrity
spokesman for the poker tournament, Ronnie soon finds himself recruiting world-class gamblers in illegal
card games while trying to put together a new country band and win a Nashville recording contract—not
to mention trying to avoid falling head-over-heels in love with his new manager, Dorothy. But when things
start to get weird—hidden cameras, secret high-stakes side-bets, a visit from the FBI—it seems that
Dan’s poker tournament may be a façade for something much bigger and much more dangerous. Ronnie
begins to wonder if he will end up with the girl of his dreams in the Country Music Hall of Fame, or broke
and lonely in some prison cell. What are the chances?
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 75,000
FORGE
320 PAGES
9780765323859
$28.99 HC
SEPTEMBER 2013