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THE COURIER WORE SHORTS
KINDELLAN-SHEEHAN, SHEILA
Literary agent Madison Holmes is brutally attacked in her condo and left for dead, days after she sent
rejection letters to four would-be authors. Lieutenant-Detective Toni Damiano catches this high profile
case to the chagrin of the detectives in her division. Unfazed and confident, Damiano is determined to
track down the vicious assailant and close her first “lead” case. Seven hours in, she has the murder
weapon – a boxed manuscript. “All this over a book?”
MYSTERY
VEHICULE PRESS
9781550653588
$20.00 TP Original
SEPTEMBER 2013
304 PAGES
COVET
GRAVES, TRACEY GARVIS
Chris and Claire Canton's marriage is on life support. Downsized during the recession and out of work for
a year, Chris copes by retreating to a dark place where no one can reach him, not even Claire. When he's
offered a position that will keep him away from home four nights a week, he dismisses Claire's concern
that time apart could be the one thing their fragile union can't weather. Local police officer Daniel Rush
used to have it all, but now he goes home to an empty house every night. He pulls Claire over during a
routine traffic stop, and they run into each other again at the 4th of July parade. When Claire is hired to do
some graphic design work for the police department, her friendship with Daniel grows, and soon they're
spending hours together. But it doesn't take long before Claire and Daniel are in way over their heads,
and skating close to the line that Claire has sworn she'll never cross.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 150,000
DUTTON
320 PAGES
9780525954071
$27.50 HC
SEPTEMBER 2013
THE CREATOR
MINERVUDOTTIR, GUDRUN
When Lv=a's car gets a puncture out in the countryside, the man who lives nearest proves recalcitrantly
helpful. She ends up falling asleep in his armchair and wakes to intense guilt at neglecting her daughter
back in Reykjavik, followed by shock at what she finds in her helper's back room - half-finished, life-size
silicone women hanging from hooks. Sveinn, her host, is a craftsman; he makes sex dolls. In his
workshop Lv=a is overcome with a surprising reverence, and acting on a mad notion of salvation, she
steals one of the dolls for her troubled daughter Margret. For the first time ever, Lv=a finds she is a thief.
And worse, when her friends and family greet her plans with incredulity, she finds that there is another
more awful theft, beyond her expectations and her understanding. Bereft and adrift, how can Lv=a save
her daughter from herself and what can she learn from Sveinn's loneliness? Two people who fear
responsibility putting themselves in harm's way, Sveinn and Lv=a dance a fascinating dance in this
striking novel from Iceland's most celebrated young novelist.
FICTION
PORTOBELLO BOOKS
9781846272523
$16.95 TP Original
NOVEMBER 2013
224 PAGES