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THE BLACK BOX
CONNELLY, MICHAEL
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a
young female photographer during the L.A. riots. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed
off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved. Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was
not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. Like an investigator
combing through the wreckage after a plane crash, Bosch searches for the "black box," the one piece of
evidence that will pull the case together.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 600,000
LITTLE BROWN 416 PAGES
9780316069434 SERIES: HARRY BOSCH
$29.99 HC
NOVEMBER 2012
LARGE PRINT EDITION
9780316069427 ($32.99)
BLACK DAHLIA AND WHITE ROSE
OATES, JOYCE CAROL
With lapidary precision and an unflinching eye, Oates charts the surprising ways in which the world we think we
know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours. From the title story, which maps the friendship between two
beautiful and mysteriously doomed young women in 1940s Los Angeles—Elizabeth Short, otherwise known as
the “Black Dahlia” victim of a long-unsolved and particularly brutal murder, and her roommate Norma Jeane
Baker, soon to become Marilyn Monroe, to the tale of the wife of a well-to-do businessman who is ravished by,
and elopes with, a lover who is a spotted hyena; from the uneasily duplicitous relationships between young
women and their parents to the heartbreaking experiences of visitors to maximum security prisons whose vividly
delineated experiences are not what they might have expected.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 25,000
ECCO 272 PAGES
9780062195692
$32.99 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
BLACK FRIDAYS
SEARS, MICHAEL
Jason Stafford is a former Wall Street hotshot who made some bad moves, paid the price with two years in
prison, and is now trying to put his life back together. He’s unemployable, until an investment firm asks him to
look into possible problems left by a junior trader who died recently in an accident. What he discovers is big –
there are problems, all right, the kind that get you killed. But it’s not his only concern. Stafford has another quest
as well: to reclaim his five-year-old son, “the Kid,” from his unstable ex-wife, and then learn just what it means to
make a life with him. The things Stafford discovers about himself in the process are every bit as gripping as his
investigation, and when the two threads of his life come together – the results are unforgettable.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 75,000
PUTNAM 352 PAGES
9780399158667
$27.50 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
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