By Jay McInerney
Grove
208 pages
$13.95
“[McInerney’s] talent for capturing the nuances and idiosyncrasies of our culture is even more powerful evident in Story of My Life … Underneath Alison’s hip, party-girl exterior and flippant vernacular is McInerney’s disturbing depiction or a young woman caught in the traumatic reality of her times.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
By Kay Hooper
Bantam
320 pages
$26
“When a serial killer tortures, dismembers, and dumps eight women in eight weeks in Tennessee and adjacent states, Noah Bishop, head of the FBI’s Special Crimes Unit, gets on the case, along with Noah’s touch-telepath and seer wife, Miranda, and special agent Hollis Templeton, a profiler-in-training and medium who can self-heal and see auras. Hollis and special investigator Diana Brisco, also a medium and healer, travel to the gray time, a corridor between life and death where a young spirit, Brooke, helps them connect the killings to a past threat. Series fans and newcomers alike will appreciate the appendixes, which include bios of Special Crime Unit agents and definitions of their various paranormal abilities.”
—Publisher’s Weekly
There’s nothing cozy about Michael Wiley’s new mystery, The Bad Kitty Lounge
Michael Wiley, nominated for a Shamus award for the first novel, The Last Striptease, has a style reminiscent of earlier hard-boiled detective novels. His characters are world-weary and cynical, unsurprised by any bad thing that happens—and a lot of bad things happen in his new novel, The Bad Kitty Lounge. Wiley will read from the book at Davis-Kidd Booksellers in Nashville on March 12 at 2 p.m.
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Jennie Bentley talks about her third Do-It-Yourself mystery, Plaster and Poison, as well as the lure of “a hot guy with power tools”
As both a licensed real estate agent and someone who has ripped out drywall herself, Jennie Bentley writes about what she knows, decorating it in a palate of romantic colors with just enough dark accents to provide tension. She spoke with Chapter 16 about her third romantic Do-It-Yourself mystery, Plaster and Poison, as well as her upcoming real-estate mystery series set in Nashville, before launching a multi-stop book tour around the state.
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Intrepid adventurer and National Book Award winner Bob Shacochis talks with Chapter 16
National Book Award winner Bob Shacochis is a breed apart, one of the last survivors of the glory days of magazine fiction and feature writing, the age when writers were bold and swaggering and confident and even a little dangerous—a ruddy, bearded wild man of the mountains, an intrepid travel writer and war correspondent, and a consummate prose stylist. He speaks with Chapter 16 in advance of his Nashville appearance at Montgomery Bell Academy on March 1.
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Gary Paulsen, the wildly popular and prolific children’s author, talks with Chapter 16 about his latest novel, Woods Runner
In Woods Runner, Gary Paulsen creates a tale that returns to the wilderness of his beloved Hatchet but takes it back in time to the Revolutionary War. “I wanted to dispute the mythic, clean, even antiseptic qualities in many histories, because war is never, not ever, clean,” he writes. He will read at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville on March 2. Prior to the visit, he took some time to correspond by email with Chapter 16.
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