Hello Librarians!

Terror with Sherer has been on hiatus and I am entirely to blame. My dear librarians, I think you’ll understand when I tell you why. My nephew (the first and only in our family) was born this summer and I was enjoying him and all things cute way too much to read or write about anything not cute.

But I’m back. And I hope you’re ready for a very cool ex-killer, a creepy psycho, Hulk Hogan and a lapsed matchmaker.

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Minotaur Books / Spring 2010
An Ordinary Decent Criminal
Michael Van Rooy

Ex-con and former drug addict, Monty, can break a lock with an electric toothbrush, jumpstart a crane, and terrify the local mob boss with his expertise in archery. Witty dialogue, snappy comebacks and just general “handy-ness” with all kinds of household crap, Monty is a foul-mouthed 21st century McGiver with a wife and kid! Two thumbs up! (Did I mention it’s a mystery?)

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (not a Macmillan imprint)/ Now Available
The Water’s Edge
Karin Fossum

I’ve been watching the BBC’s adaptation of Henning Mankell’s great Swedish mysteries Sidetracked and Firewall, starring the very sexy Kenneth Branagh, while waiting, incredibly impatiently, for the next in the series. I’ve also been flirting with another Scandinavian, Karin Fossum. If you ever find yourself the subject of a Fossum mystery, you’ll most likely be a cop that wonders how relationships crumble and then people die. This one starts very spookily with a limping man anxiously walking away from a wooded area as a couple approaches. The couple soon finds a boy’s dead body and the police are called. But the story isn’t just about the boy – every character we meet plays a part emotionally and psychologically. Fossum is yet another under-read Scandinavian!

St. Martin’s Press / Now Available
Hulk Hogan
My Life Outside the Ring

I have many embarrassing vices. Eating cupcakes (from a truck), inhaling frozen snickers bars (alone in my apartment), and drooling over puppy dogs and kittens are all very very embarrassing. But, my number one most embarrassing vice is my obsession with celebrity gossip. I visit People.com and PerezHilton daily. (Never, never, never while in the office. Come on!) So when I heard that we were publishing Hulk Hogan’s memoir My Life Outside the Ring, I begged for the manuscript. I had Mickey Rourke’s The Wrestler on the brain and thought Hulk might deliver a similar story. And, you know what – he did, well sorta – with a little more glamour, glitz and a few more self-help books thrown in. Hulkamania, yellow tights, steroids, leg drops, muscle tears, stabbings by trophy, surprise pregnancies, 12 million dollar homes, suicide attempts… “Brother,” I just kept turning the pages!

St. Martin’s Press Paperbacks / Winter 2010
Truly, Madly
Heather Webber

Poor Lucy Valentine. At 14, she lost her ability to match-make. What’s a girl to do when her entire family’s business is built on match-making? Well, she can find lost objects – but how will that bring a couple together? Add one hunky private investigator, and you’ve got an adorable mass market original. You will read this frothy delight in ten seconds. (My cat Shmackies sat on my lap and purred for hours while I read this one.)