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CUTTING SEASON
LOCKE, ATTICA
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
The American South in the twenty-first century. A plantation owned for generations by a rich family. So much
history. And a dead body. Just after dawn, Caren walks the grounds of Belle Vie, the historic plantation house in
Louisiana that she has managed for four years. Today she sees nothing unusual, apart from some ground that
has been dug up by the fence bordering the sugar can fields. Assuming an animal has been out after dark, she
asks the gardener to tidy it up. Not long afterwards, he calls her to say it's something else. Something terrible. A
dead body. At a distance, she missed her. The girl, the dirt and the blood. Now she has police on site, an
investigation in progress, and a member of staff no one can track down. And Caren keeps uncovering things she
will wish she didn't know. As she's drawn into the dead girl's story, she makes shattering discoveries about the
future of Belle Vie, the secrets of its past, and sees, more clearly than ever, that Belle Vie, its beauty, is not to be
trusted. A magnificent, sweeping story of the south, "The Cutting Season" brings history face-to-face with
modern America, where Obama is president, but some things will never change. Attica Locke once again
provides an unblinking commentary on politics, race, the law, family and love, all within a thriller every bit as
gripping and tragic as her first novel, "Black Water Rising".
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 50,000
HARPER 384 PAGES
9780061802058
$33.99 HC
OCTOBER 2012
LARGE PRINT EDITION
9780062201461 ($33.99)
DARK SHADOWS: WOLF MOON RISING
PARKER, LARA
When a portrait is lost that has maintained Quentin Collins’s youthful appearance for over a century—and has
also kept his werewolf curse at bay—Quentin begins to dread the full moon.
HORROR 1ST PRINTING 40,000
TOR 416 PAGES
9780765332592
$16.99 TP Original
OCTOBER 2012
DARK STORM
FEEHAN, CHRISTINE
Awakening after all this time in a world of absolute darkness and oppressive heat, Dax wonders in how many
ways the world above must have changed. But it is how he has changed that fills him with dread and loathing.
Buried alive for hundreds of years in a volcano in the Carpathian Mountains, Dax fears that he has become the
full-fledged abomination that every Carpathian male fears, a victim of the insidious evil that has crept relentlessly
into his mind and body over the centuries. But there are some things that never change.
ROMANCE 1ST PRINTING 300,000
BERKLEY
9780425255803 SERIES: CARPATHIAN
$28.50 HC
OCTOBER 2012
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