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DETROIT BREAKDOWN
JOHNSON, D.E.
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
Will Anderson and Elizabeth Hume are called to the vast Eloise Insane Asylum outside of Detroit, where
Elizabeth’s cousin Paul is a patient and now a murder suspect. The victim, like three others before him at the
asylum in recent months, was killed with the infamous “Punjab lasso,” the murder weapon of the Phantom of the
Opera. Certain of Paul’s innocence, they begin an investigation with the help of Detective Riordan. Will has
himself committed to the asylum to investigate from the inside, and Elizabeth volunteers at Eloise and questions
people outside the asylum. While Will endures horrific conditions in his search for the killer, Elizabeth and
Riordan follow the trail of a murder suspect all the way to Kalamazoo, where they realize the killer might still be
at Eloise, putting Will in extreme danger. They race back to Detroit, but will they arrive in time?
MYSTERY 1ST PRINTING 20,000
MINOTAUR 352 PAGES
9781250006622 SERIES: WILL ANDERSON
$29.99 HC
SEPTEMBER 2012
THE DEVIL IN SILVER
LAVALLE, VICTOR
Pepper is a rambunctious big man, minor-league troublemaker, working-class hero (in his own mind), and,
suddenly, the surprised inmate of a budget-strapped mental institution in Queens, New York. He’s not mentally
ill, but that doesn’t seem to matter. He is accused of a crime he can’t quite square with his memory. In the
darkness of his room on his first night, he’s visited by a terrifying creature with the body of an old man and the
head of a bison who nearly kills him before being hustled away by the hospital staff. It’s no delusion: The other
patients confirm that a hungry devil roams the hallways when the sun goes down. Pepper rallies three other
inmates in a plot to fight back: Dorry, an octogenarian schizophrenic who’s been on the ward for decades and
knows all its secrets; Coffee, an African immigrant with severe OCD, who tries desperately to send alarms to the
outside world; and Loochie, a bipolar teenage girl who acts as the group’s enforcer. Battling the pill-pushing staff,
one another, and their own minds, they try to kill the monster that’s stalking them. But can the Devil die?
HORROR 1ST PRINTING 50,000
SPIEGEL & GRAU 432 PAGES
9781400069866
$32.00 HC
AUGUST 2012
DEVIL SAID BANG
KADREY, RICHARD
While ruling the denizens of darkness does have a few perks, James Stark isn’t exactly thrilled at the course his
career (not to mention his soul) has taken. Breaking out of Hell once was a miraculous trick. But twice? If anyone
can do it, it’s Sandman Slim.While he’s working out the details of his latest escape plan, Slim has to figure out
how to run his new domain and hold off a host of trigger-happy killers mesmerized by that bullseye on his back.
Everyone in Heaven, Hell, and in between wants to be the fastest gun in the universe, and the best way to prove
it is to take down the new Lucifer, aka Sandman Slim aka James Stark.
FANTASY 1ST PRINTING 75,000
HARPER VOYAGER 416 PAGES
9780062094575
$32.99 HC
AUGUST 2012
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