FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, PRE-ORDER FOR MAY RELEASE. SHORT LISTED FOR THE CWA IAN FLEMING STEEL DAGGER 2010 A tour bus crashes in a savage snowstorm and lands Jack Reacher in the middle of a deadly confrontation.

ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST PAPERBACK ORIGINAL OF 2009 When savvy TV reporter Charlotte McNally enters the glamorous world of high fashion, she soon discovers that when the purses are fake—the danger is real. And no one can be trusted!

SHORT LISTED FOR THE 2010 CWA INTERNATIONAL DAGGER AWARD When a colleague extends his summer vacation, Inspector Salvo Montalbano is forced to stay in Vigàta and endure the August heat.

WINNER OF THE MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD FOR 2009 Clara Benning, a veterinary surgeon in charge of a wildlife hospital in a small English village, is young and intelligent, but nearly a recluse.

EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL OF 2009 ANTHONY AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL OF 2009 Stella Hardesty dispatched her abusive husband with a wrench shortly before her fiftieth birthday.

EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST NOVEL OF 2009 Award-winning screenwriter Malla Nunn delivers a stunning and darkly romantic crime novel set in 1950s apartheid South Africa.

FINALIST FOR THE GRAND PRIX DE LITTERATURE POLICIERE IN FRANCE When a young journalist named Bernardo Blanco is killed in the fictional Mexican port city of Paracuán, investigation into his murder reveals missing links in a disturbing multiple homicide.

EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL OF 2009 Attica Locke, a powerful new voice in American fiction, delivers a brilliant debut thriller that readers will not soon forget.

SHORT LISTED FOR THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR BEST NOVEL OF 2009 EIGHTEEN YEARS AGO, Billy Peters disappeared. Everyone in town believes Billy was murdered.

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD A spellbinding novel of guilt and love, family and shame, sobriety and the lack of it, and the moral ambiguities that ensnare us all.