Author Laurie R. King

on Tour

September 1-10, 2013

with

The Bones Of Paris

publication date:  Sept 10, by Random House

Website | Goodreads

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SYNOPSIS

Paris, France; September, 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator’s dream—he’s getting paid to troll the cafés and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. The American agent has a healthy appreciation for la vie Bohème, despite having worked for years at the U.S. Bureau of Investigation. The missing person in question is Philippa Crosby, a twenty-two year old from Boston who has been living in Paris, modeling and acting. Her family became alarmed when she stopped all communications, and Stuyvesant agreed to track her down. He wholly expects to find her in the arms of some up-and-coming artist, perhaps experimenting with the cocaine that is suddenly available on every rue and boulevard.

As Stuyvesant follows Philippa’s trail through the thriving, decadent ex-patriate community of artists and writers, he finds that she is known to many of its famous—and infamous—inhabitants, from Shakespeare & Co’s Sylvia Beach to the Surrealist photographer Man Ray. But when the evidence leads Stuyvesant to the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Montmartre, his investigation takes a sharp, disturbing turn. At the Grand-Guignol, murder, insanity, and sexual perversion are all staged to brutal effect in short, gut-churning acts. Depravity as art; savage human nature on stage.

Soon, it becomes clear that one missing girl is a drop in the bucket. Here, amid the glittering lights of the cabarets, hides a monster whose artistic coup de grace is to be rendered in blood and gore. And Stuyvesant will have to descend into the darkest depths of perversion to find a killer . . . sifting through The Bones of Paris. [from the author’s website]

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VIRTUAL TOUR SCHEDULE

Sunday, September 1st
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

Monday, September 2
Spotlight + Giveaway at
Musings From An Addicted Reader

Tuesday, September 3
Review + Giveaway at Caffeinatedlife.net
Review + Giveaway at Olduvai Reads

Wednesday, September 4
Review + Giveaway at I Am, Indeed

Friday, September 6
Review + Giveaway at Mommasez…

Monday, September 9
Review + Giveaway at Griperang’s Bookmarks

Tuesday, September 10
Review + Giveaway at Giraffe Days
Review + Giveaway at vvb32 Reads
Review + Giveaway at Cabin Goddess

Sunday, October 6
Review at Poof Books

Author Sylvie GRANOTIER  on Tour

July 11-30, 2013

with her novel

The Paris Lawyer

(translated by Anne TRAGER)

Website | Goodreads

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Genre: legal procedural /psychological thriller
BISAC category:  Suspense
(starts with a murder, then is a mystery).

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The Paris Lawyer won
the Grand Prix Sang d’Encre crime fiction award in 2011.

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SYNOPSIS

As a child, she was the only witness to a heinous crime. Now, Catherine Monsigny is an ambitious rookie attorney in Paris, working for a well-known firm. On the side, she does pro bono work and hits the jackpot: a major felony case that could boost her career. A black woman is accused of poisoning her rich farmer husband in a peaceful village in central France, where nothing ever happens. While preparing the case, Catherine’s own past comes back with a vengeance. This fast-paced story follows Catherine’s determined search for the truth in both her case and her own life. Who can she believe? And can you ever escape from your past? The story twists and turns, combining subtle psychological insight with detailed descriptions of the region. [from the publisher’s website]

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Friday, July 19
Review + Giveaway at I Am, Indeed

Monday, July 22
Review + guest-post at Queen of All She Reads

Monday, August 12
Review + giveaway at The Most Happy Reader

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Praise for The Paris Lawyer

“Sylvie Granotier’s The Paris Lawyer is a beautifully written
and elegantly structured novel
of a woman’s attempt to solve the central mystery of her life,
along with several other mysteries along the way.
It captures the reader from the first page, and never lets go.”
— Thomas H. Cook, winner of the Martin Beck Award,
Barry Award for Best Novel,
Edgar Award for Best Novel

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Author Frédérique Molay on Tour

July 11-30, 2013

with her novel

The 7th Woman

(translated by Anne TRAGER)

Website | Goodreads

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Genre: police procedural/thriller

BISAC cat.: Mystery and Detective/Police procedural

(descriptions of gruesome murders)

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Won France’s most prestigious crime fiction award, the Prix du Quai des Orfèvres

Named Best Crime Fiction Novel of the Year by Lire magazine

Months on the bestseller lists

Translated into seven languages

Over 150,000 copies sold in France

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SYNOPSIS

There’s no rest for Paris’s top criminal investigation division, La Crim’. Who is preying on women in the French capital? How can he kill again and again without leaving any clues? A serial killer is taking pleasure in a macabre ritual that leaves the police on tenterhooks. Chief of Police Nico Sirsky—a super cop with a modern-day real life, including an ex-wife, a teenage son and a budding love story—races against the clock to solve the murders as they get closer and closer to his inner circle. Will he resist the pressure? The story grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go until the last page, leading you behind the scenes with the French police and into the coroner’s office. It has the suspense of Seven, with CSI-like details, giving a whole new dimension to Paris. [FROM THE PUBLISHER’S WEBSITE]

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VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR SCHEDULE

Thursday, July 11
Review + Giveaway at No More Grumpy Bookseller

Thursday, July 18
Review at Finding Time To Write

Saturday, July 27
Guest-post at Mary’s Cup of Tea

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Praise for The 7^th Woman

“Frédérique Molay is the French Michael Connelly.”
— Jean Miot, former head of Agence France Presse
and the French daily Le Figaro

“It’s really an excellent book.
It’s the kind of suspense that makes you miss your subway stop
or turn off your phone once you’ve started it.”
—RTL

“You barely have time to catch your breath
between turning the pages of this spine-tingling novel.”
— Cine Tele Revue

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