Summaries of New Legal Thrillers Highlight Victor Carl and More
Victor Carl faces a deadbeat client turned corpse after a twenty year old murder tale. Shelly Trotter defends a teen accused of murdering a Chicago policeman while uncovering her past with an adoption linked son. Dismas Hardy and Abe Glitsky navigate fallout from a shootout, with Hardy becoming second chair on a tricky plea deal and a potential innocence finding. Charley Sloan returns in Proof of Intent as he handles a murder plot framed around an author’s collapsed tale and a difficult client.
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Philadelphia
Victor Carl
William Lashner
Lashner
Victor
Joey Parma
David Ellis
Shelly Trotter
Alex Baniewicz
Chicago
Shelly
Alex
Reggie
Dismas Hardy
John Lescroart
Dismas
Abe Glitsky
Hardy
Glitsky
San Francisco
Amy Wu
Pickerel Point
Charley Sloan
Walter Sorrells
William Coughlin
Charley
Miles Dane
Christian Book Stores Struggle As Better Book Room Closes
The Better Book Room in Wichita folds after over 50 years amid competition from larger chains and a shift toward broader availability of Christian titles. CBA faces membership decline from 3,000 in the 1990s to 2,370, with efforts to rebound including ads on Christian Broadcasting Network and publisher outreach. Stores seek church partnerships and cafe concepts to attract customers while balancing ministry with profit.
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Better Book Room
Wichita
Tim Johnson
Barnes & Noble
Borders
Wal-Mart
Target
Rick Warren
Jerry B. Jenkins
Tim LaHaye
Sam’s
Bill Anderson
The
Christian Booksellers Association
Anderson
CBA
Christian Broadcasting Network
Waterbrook Press
Thomas Nelson
Lemstone
Rusty Bland
Mortal work of art tattoos a reader into story
Rob Poulos, a UMKC student, wears a single word on his wrist as part of Shelley Jackson’s "Mortal Work of Art" project. The 2095 word story will be distributed only to participants, each hearing one word, linking 2,094 readers to a unique text created across media and time.
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Kansas City
Rob Poulos
Poulos
Shelley Jackson
Jackson
New York City
Brooklyn
University of Missouri- Kansas City
Best Sellers Week in Books Piles Up High
Publishers Weekly lists top hardcover fiction nonfiction mass market and trade paperback titles. Notable names include Dan Brown Mitch Albom John Sandford James Patterson Nora Roberts Vince Flynn Hillary Clinton and Carson McCullers among others across major publishers.
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Publishers Weekly
Dan Brown
Doubleday
Heaven
Mitch Albom
Hyperion
John Sandford
Putnam
Michael Connelly
Little, Brown
Ian Caldwell
Dustin Thomason
Dial
Vince Flynn
Atria Books
Lynne Truss
Gotham
Arthur Agarston
Rodale Press
Bob Woodward
Simon & Schuster
Rick Warren
Zondervan
Laura Schlessinger
HarperCollins
Alexander Hamilton
J.L. King
Broadway
Pocket
Deception Point
the Lake House
James Patterson
Warner
The
Dean Koontz
Bantam
Nora Roberts
Silhouette Books
Digital Fortress
St. Martin's Press
J.D. Robb
Berkley
Shutter Island
Dennis Lehane
Executive Power
Atria
South Beach
M.D
Rodale
Alice Sebold
Back Bay Books
Carson McCullers
Sue Monk Kidd
Penguin
Lauren Weisberger
Broadway Books
Tehran
Azar Nafisi
Random House
Yann Martel
Harcourt
Living History
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Scribner
No. 1
Ladies’ Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith
Anchor
Middlesex
Jeffrey Eugenides
Picador
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Chris Leiter
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Kubota
McConnell Machinery Co., Inc
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Kubota.com
Southern Gospel
Gloryland
Hickory
Ottawa Herald
Franklin County
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Ottawa Times
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