February 2007 -- Heart-Shaped Box

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Scene of the Crime
Mystery e-Newsletter
from HarperCollins.com
February 2007
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This Month:

- Dirty Blond
- Heart Shaped Box
- Nominees
- Featured Author
- Top Picks
- Smart Suspense
- Our Bestsellers

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Dear Reader,

2007 is off to a great start! Award season is in full swing. I don't mean the Golden

Globes or the Oscars, but the Mystery Writers of America's annual Edgar Award – the Prix

Goncourt

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of the mystery world. We're

pleased to announce HarperCollinsPublishers has FOUR nominees: Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase

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by James L. Swanson,

Last month we told you about Flesh and Bone

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the chilling

new Body Farm Novel from Jefferson Bass

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to see Dr. Bass in action, examining several skulls and some bones at his research

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Until next time,

Scene of the Crime

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- Book of the Month - Dirty Blonde

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by Lisa Scottoline
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Lisa Scottoline is back with the paperback edition of her New York Times bestseller.

Next Month: Look out for Scottoline's new hardcover Daddy's Girl

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- The Most Anticipated Debut of 2007 -

Heart-Shaped Box

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by Joe Hill

Sooner or later, the dead catch up… <blockquote>
"Heart-Shaped Box is, quite simply, the best debut horror novel since Clive Barker's

Damnation Game, twenty years ago. It's the kind of book that the overworked adjectives

people use on book jackets - relentless, gripping, powerful, a genuine page-turner -

were really meant to describe, for it's all of those things, and enormously smart

besides. A genuinely scary novel filled with people you care about; the kind of book

that still stays in your mind after you've turned over the final page. I loved it

unreservedly." —Neil Gaiman

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- And The Edgar Award Goes To … -

And The Edgar Award Goes To … 80-110 char/title

* Nominee - Best Fact Crime

Manhunt
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by James L. Swanson

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* Nominee - Best Novel

Gentlemen and Players
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by Joanne Harris

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* Nominee - Best Novel

The Pale Blue Eye

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by Louis Bayard

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- Featured Author – Michele Martinez

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is back with the paperback edition of The Finishing School

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new hardcover, Cover-Up

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2007.

Federal prosecutor Melanie Vargas returns in The Finishing School.

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investigates the double homicide of two beautiful teenagers, students at an exclusive

Manhattan girls' school, found dead in a glittering penthouse high above Park Avenue.

Melanie embarks on a wild chase from the rarefied world of New York's elite private

schools to the darkest recesses of the city's nightlife.

Next month: Don't miss Cover-Up.

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lifeless body of a tabloid television reporter is found in the dark recesses of New

York's Central Park, it's up to Melanie Vargas to sift through the scandals that fueled

the dead reporter's career.

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- Mystery Picks -

Title 1

Napoleon's Pyramids

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by William Dietrich

"A wonderful adventure, shot through with mystery." – Bernard Cornwell

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Title 2

Hurricane Punch
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by Tim Dorsey

"Vulgar, violent, and gaudier than sunsets on the Keys, Dorsey's roadshow is some fun."
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Title 3

Water Like a Stone
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by Deborah Crombie

"Smooth procedural techniques and engagingly eccentric characters."
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Smart Suspense. Pure Parker.

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any punches. It goes straight for your heart in the first line, which reads, "Stromsoe

was in high school when he met the boy who would someday murder his wife and son."

Parker, who has won the Edgar Award twice for his novels, lives in Fallbrook, CA, which

also happens to be the setting for this page-turner. Storm Runners

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feels so real you hurt right along with Stromsoe and an environmental subplot so

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- OUR BESTSELLERS -

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10. Map of Bones by James Rollins

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