Thursday, October 20th, 2011
“I am delighted that these early novels, which I published under my maiden name, Lisa Miscione, have found a new life on the shelves and a new home with the stellar team at Broadway Books,” says Lisa Unger, bestselling author of Darkness, My Old Friend. “I know a lot of authors wish their early books would just disappear, because they’ve come so far as writers since they first began their careers. And I understand that, because we would all go back and rewrite everything if we could. But I have a special place in my heart for these flawed, sometimes funny, complicated characters and their wild, action-packed stories.”
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Tags: Broadway Books, darkness gathers, darkness my old friend, fiction, lisa miscione, lisa unger, mystery, suspense, thriller
Posted in Read It First
Wednesday, October 19th, 2011
“The Informationist is a thriller, mystery, and Africa travel guide (to the places you do not want to visit) all rolled into one,” says Marisa of the book blog MarisaReadsItAndWritesIt. “It is amazing, and I could not stop reading it. Imagine my happiness when I found out that a second Vanessa Michael Monroe book is coming out in December!!! READ THIS BOOK!”
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Tags: Broadway, fiction, informationist, mystery, Novel, suspense, Taylor Stevens, thriller
Posted in Reader Reviews Readers Respond
Tuesday, October 18th, 2011
Congratulations to the winners of the very special sweepstakes for Chris Bohjalian’s new novel The Night Strangers, brought to you by Read It Forward and the farm families who own Vermont’s Cabot Creamery! Winners were chosen at random from among over 10,000 entries. Thank you to all the RIFers who entered, thank you to Cabot Creamery for partnering with Read It Forward, and thank you to Chris Bohjalian for everything he does to get his bestselling, award-winning novels into the hands of readers across the country.
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Tags: chris bohjalian; night strangers; contest; sweepstakes; cabot creamery; book group, fiction, mystery, Novel, suspense, thriller
Posted in Book Group of the Month
Thursday, September 29th, 2011
Light from a Distant Star is a gripping coming-of-age story with a brutal murder at its heart and a heroine as unforgettable as Harper Lee’s “Scout.” When violence erupts in the lovely Peck house, the prime suspect seems obvious. Nellie knows who the real murderer is, but is soon silenced by fear and the threat of scandal. The truth, as she sees it, is shocking and unthinkable, and with everyone’s eyes riveted on her in the courtroom, Nellie finds herself seized with doubt.
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Tags: crown publishing group, fiction, light from a distant star, Mary McGarry Morris, mystery, suspense
Posted in Read It First
Friday, September 9th, 2011
“Death in the City of Light begins at 21 rue La Sueur in the heart of Paris’s fashionable 16th arrondissement. It is a March evening in 1944 when two police offers arrive at a townhouse after receiving complaints of a thick, black smoke emanating from the building. Upon entering, they discover a horrific scene – hands, feet, skulls, and bodies in various states of decomposition. Down in the basement they discover the source of the smoke: two coal stoves stuffed with charred remains. Within minutes the search is on for Marcel Petiot, the owner of the home . . . Here, author David King shares with Read It Forward how he stumbled upon this incredibly gripping true-crime thriller, which has already been compared to the likes of Eric Larson’s incredible narrative nonfiction.
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Tags: crown publishing group, david king, death in the city of light, Erik Larson, history, mystery, nonfiction, Paris, thriller, true crime, World War II
Posted in Read It First
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Not too long ago, I was in my basement, which just might be the scariest place on earth. We’re talking Silence of the Lambs scary, Night of the Living Dead scary, “lions ands tigers and bears, oh my” scary . . . . On some level I understood that the basement door was going to lead to a novel. Novelists are asked all the time where our ideas come from, and I have done this long enough that I suspected someday that door would, quite literally, open a novel: “The door was presumed to have been the entry to a coal chute, a perfectly reasonable assumption since a small hillock of damp coal sat moldering before it.” So begins The Night Strangers.
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Tags: Chris Bohjalian, crown publishing group, fiction, ghost story, mystery, the night strangers, thriller
Posted in Read It First
Friday, August 5th, 2011
“Dwelling in a town where I would never live by choice, exploring the life of a man with whom I have little in common, I couldn’t feel more at home,” writes bestselling novelist Lisa Unger about her latest thriller Darkness, My Old Friend. “I understand and like Jones Cooper in a way that I can’t help but feel is special. He’s a little grouchy, somewhat (okay, deeply) cynical. He has a hero’s heart, can’t resist a damsel in distress. I find him endlessly amusing; he makes me laugh. He’s a good man at his core, but with a real connection – and an attraction – to the darkness within him, within everyone.”
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Tags: Beautiful Lies, crown publishing group, darkness my old friend, fiction, fragile, lisa unger, mystery, suspense, thriller
Posted in Read It First
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
“After spending more than a year working on my debut novel, Before Ever After,” writes Samantha Sotto, “emerging from the safety and solitude of my little writer’s cave was daunting. Remaining holed up in it, however, was not an option. If I wanted readers and reviewers to discover this book, then I needed to buckle down and treat social media the same way I had treated school. In short, it was time to brush my hair, change out of my pajamas, and start interacting. First stop, the Blogosphere.”
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Tags: Before Ever After, crown publishers, Europe, fiction, historical fiction, mystery, Novel, Paris, Romance, rome, Samantha Sotto, The Crown Publishing Group
Posted in Read It First
Monday, July 25th, 2011
“I love puzzles,” writes editor Sarah Knight. “Crosswords, Jumbles, the Cryptoquip that ran in my Sunday paper as a kid. For me, working on a puzzle is both soothing and exhilarating – and of course the biggest rush of all comes from solving one. So it’s kind of funny that the thing I love most about Will Lavender’s puzzle-thrillers is that they are impossible to solve.”
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Tags: dominance, fiction, mystery, obedience, Sarah Knight, simon and schuster, suspense, three rivers press, thriller, will lavender
Posted in Meet the Editor
Thursday, July 14th, 2011
“I’ve heard men, experienced fighters, say they’ll sometimes block body blows with their heads. I believe them, but I’ve never done it. Next time you see a picture of a human skull, notice the gap, the absence of bone, at the nose. It’s a fantastically vulnerable place to get hit. Something about it goes straight to your brain and rattles you to the core. It’s hard to recover from.”
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Tags: crown publishing group, fiction, jodi compton, Learning to Swim, mystery, Sara J Henry, suspense, thieves get rich saints get shot, thriller
Posted in Read It First
