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BLACK HOUSE
KING, STEPHEN & STRAUB, PETER
Skylight Books – Hotlist Fall 2012
Twenty years ago, a boy named Jack Sawyer traveled to a parallel universe called the Territories to save his
mother and her “Twinner” from an agonizing death that would have brought cataclysm to the other world. Now
Jack is a retired Los Angeles homicide detective living in the nearly nonexistent hamlet of Tamarack, Wisconsin.
He has no recollection of his adventures in the Territories, and he was compelled to leave the police force when
a happenstance event threatened to awaken those long suppressed and dangerous memories. When a series of
gruesome murders occur in western Wisconsin that are reminiscent of those committed several decades earlier,
Jack’s buddy, the local chief of police, begs Jack to help find the killer. But are these new killings merely the work
of a disturbed individual, or has a mysterious and malignant force been unleashed in this quiet town? What
causes Jack’s inexplicable waking dreams—if that is what they are—of robins’ eggs and red feathers? As these
cryptic messages becomes impossible to ignore, Jack is drawn back to the Territories and to his own hidden
past.
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 20,000
SCRIBNER 640 PAGES
9781451694925
$40.00 HC
NOVEMBER 2012
THE BLACK HOUSE
MAY, PETER
When a grisly murder occurs on the Isle of Lewis that has the hallmarks of a killing he's investigating on the
mainland, Edinburgh detective and native islander Fin Macleod is dispatched to see if the two deaths are
connected. His return after nearly two decades not only represents a police investigation, but a voyage into his
own troubled past. As Fin reconnects with the places and people of his tortured childhood, he feels the island
once again asserting its grip on his psyche. And every step forward in solving the murder takes him closer to a
dangerous confrontation with the tragic events of the past that shaped--and nearly destroyed--Fin's life.
MYSTERY 1ST PRINTING 50,000
SILVEROAK 360 PAGES
9781454901273
$17.95 TP Original
OCTOBER 2012
BLACKBERRY WINTER
JIO, SARAH
Seattle, 1933. Single mother Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, goodnight and departs to work the
night-shift at a local hotel. She emerges to discover that a May-Day snow has blanketed the city, and that her
son has vanished. Outside, she finds his beloved teddy bear lying face-down on an icy street, the snow covering
up any trace of his tracks, or the perpetrator's. Seattle, 2010. Seattle Herald reporter Claire Aldridge, assigned to
cover the May 1 "blackberry winter" storm and its twin, learns of the unsolved abduction and vows to unearth the
truth. In the process, she finds that she and Vera may be linked in unexpected ways...
FICTION 1ST PRINTING 100,000
PLUME 320 PAGES
9780452298385
$16.00 TP Original
SEPTEMBER 2012
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