David Handler, Author Doubleday Books $15 (230p) ISBN 978-0-385-42115-7
In his first hardcover appearance, novelist/ghost writer Hoagy Hoag, seen last in The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald , takes on the assignment of a lifetime--to write the sequel to the most popular novel in publishing history, Oh, Shenandoah .
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David Handler. Minotaur, $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-250-07611-3
Two Dorset, Conn., families collide in Handler’s entertaining 11th mystery starring State Trooper Des Mitry and her film critic boyfriend, Mitch Berger (after 2014’s The Coal Black Asphalt Tomb). Every year, Sherm Gant, “a major player in the Dorset
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David Handler. Minotaur, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-250-05973-4
The world of Broadway provides the backdrop for Handler’s effervescent second Benji Golden mystery (after 2013’s Runaway Man). The biggest of big producers, Morrie Frankel, has need of Benji’s firm, Golden Legal Services, founded by his former-police
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David Handler. Minotaur, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-04197-5
In Edgar-winner Handler’s warm and cozy 10th mystery featuring movie critic Mitch Berger and Master Sgt. Des Mitry, resident state trooper of Dorset, Conn. (after 2012’s The Snow White Christmas Cookie), the plan of newly elected selectwoman Glynis...
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David Handler. Minotaur, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-01162-6
This promising first in a new PI series from Handler (The Snow White Christmas Cookie and eight other Berger and Mitry mysteries) introduces Ben “Benji” Golden of Golden Legal Services. The small agency, founded by Benji’s father, Meyer Golden, an...
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David Handler. Minotaur, $24.99 (272p) ISBN 978-1-250-00454-3
A series of blizzards and a crime wave disturb the blue-blooded residents of Dorset, Conn., in Handler’s winning ninth mystery featuring odd couple state trooper Desiree Mitry and film critic Mitch Berger (after 2011’s The Blood Red Indian Summer)....
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David Handler. Minotaur, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-64835-0
Well-heeled white-bread Dorset, Conn., isn't exactly rolling out the welcome Range Rover for its newest residents—suspended NFL superstar Tyrone "Da Beast" Grantham and his extended family/entourage—and that's even before bodies start dropping in...
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David Handler, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-385-47528-0
Stewart ""Hoagy"" Hoag, the ghostwriter who often stumbles into celebrity murder (The Man Who Cancelled Himself), is trying to enjoy the quiet country life in Connecticut with ex-wife Merilee and their baby when trouble roars up on a motorcycle. It's
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David Handler, Author Doubleday Books $16.5 (324p) ISBN 978-0-385-42159-1
Edgar-winning Handler's sixth Stewart ``Hoagy'' Hoag mystery will surely captivate admirers of the celebrity ghostwriter/sleuth, but it is bound to annoy some readers. One has to love a smart aleck to join the fan club here, because Hoagy never...
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David Handler, Author Doubleday Books $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-48052-9
The eighth in the series about sleuthing celebrity ghostwriter Stewart ""Hoagy"" Hoag is subpar for Edgar-winner Handler (The Man Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald). The edgy-bitchy dialogue has become forced and jarring; the details of Hoagy's...
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David Handler, Author Doubleday Books $18.95 (406p) ISBN 978-0-385-42160-7
Great fun from Handler in his sixth Stewart Hoag adventure (The Boy Who Would Be F. Scott Fitzgerald won an Edgar in 1991), despite its overwrought climax and a villain whom psychologically hip readers will spot before the actual unmasking. Former...
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David Handler, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-28003-1
In this first of a new series, Edgar Award winner Handler (The Man Who Loved Women to Death) weaves a complex web of mass murder and romance set on a private island off Connecticut's gold coast. Thirty years after a notorious rape and murder/suic
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David Handler, Author Crimeline $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-27848-4
In a wickedly amusing tale, Handler ( The Man Who Died Laughing ) pokes fun at wunderkind authors, unscrupulous agents, shady publishers and, of course, surly reviewers as he continues the adventures of his hero, ghostwriter Stewart ``Hoagy'' Hoag....
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David Handler, Author Ballantine Books $15 (228p) ISBN 978-0-345-34929-3
Handler's second novel seeks to depict how the idealistic 1960s gave way to the pragmatic 1970s, but fails to develop the necessary comic energy to enliven the task. The novel's hero, Danny Levine, was a likable, bumbling, slightly overweight...
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David Handler, Author Minotaur Books $23.95 (294p) ISBN 978-0-312-34211-1
Rumor has it around Dorset, Conn., that film critic Mitch Berger and police trooper Desirée ""Des"" Mitry have broken up due to Mitch's ill-timed marriage proposal in their diverting fifth adventure (after 2004'sThe Burnt Orange Sunrise )....
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David Handler, Minotaur, $24.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-312-57485-7
In Edgar-winner Handler's enjoyable seventh mystery to feature New York film critic Mitch Berger and Dorset, Conn., police detective Desiree "Des" Mitry (after 2008's Sour Cherry Surprise), Des gets on the trail of a flasher who's been disturbing...
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David Handler, Author . Severn $28.95 (250p) ISBN 978-0-7278-6811-4
At the start of this unconvincing near-future thriller from Edgar-winner Handler (The Sour Cherry Surprise
), Tim Ferris, a former child actor on The Big Happy Family
, America's top-rated TV show from 1954 to 1968, sends Ernest Ludington...
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David Handler, Author . St. Martin’s Minotaur/Dunne $24.95 (232p) ISBN 978-0-312-37669-7
At the start of Handler’s assured sixth mystery starring film critic Mitch Berger and police trooper Desiree Mitry (after 2006’s The Sweet Golden Parachute
), the crime-solving odd couple have gone their separate ways: Des has returned...
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David Handler, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/ Dunne $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-30735-6
A severe winter storm and a house full of trapped guests, a murderer among them, test odd couple Mitch Berger and Des Mitry in their fourth agreeable outing (after 2003's The Bright Silver Star
). Berger, a white middle-aged syndicated movie...
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David Handler, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/ Dunne $24.95 (280p) ISBN 978-0-312-30714-1
In Handler's delightful third outing (after 2002's Hot Pink Farmhouse) starring beautiful black state trooper Desiree "Des" Mitry and transplanted New Yorker and renowned film critic Mitch Berger, the unlikely but dynamic duo get...
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David Handler, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-312-28015-4
Edgar winner Handler brings back odd couple Desiree "Des" Mitry and Mitch Berger for a second enjoyable round of murder and mayhem (after 2001's The Cold Blue Blood) in the normally peaceful environs of coastal Dorset, Conn. Mitch, a New
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David Handler. Morrow, $14.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-06-241284-3
Set in 1992, Handler’s fun, clever ninth Stewart Hoag mystery (after 1997’s The Man Who Loved Women to Death) marks a welcome return for the endearing ghostwriter sleuth. His New York literary agent, Alberta Pryce, guarantees Stewart a $100,000...
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David Handler. Morrow, $15.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-241285-0
In Edgar-winner Handler’s delightful 10th Stewart Hoag mystery (after 2017’s The Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes), Hollywood ghostwriter and novelist Stewart joins his ex-wife, actress Merilee Nash, at her farm in Lyme, Conn. While Stewart writes in the
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David Handler. Morrow, $15.99 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-286330-0
Set in 1993, Edgar-winner Handler’s intricately plotted 11th Stewart Hoag mystery (after 2018’s The Man Who Couldn’t Miss) opens with a meeting between Hoagy, whose first—and only—novel was a huge success (though he is now reduced to ghosting...
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David Handler. Mysterious, $25.95 (280p) ISBN 978-1-61316-291-0
Set in 1993, Edgar winner Handler’s quaint 13th Stewart Hoag mystery (after 2021’s The Man Who Wasn’t All There) finds ghostwriter Stewart and his dog, Lulu, temporarily living in the luxury apartment on Central Park West owned by his accommodating...
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David Handler. Mysterious, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-613163-84-9
It’s 1989 in Edgar winner Handler’s superior 14th Stewart Hoag mystery (after 2022’s The Lady in the Silver Cloud), and Alberta Pryce, Hoag’s loyal agent, has a ghost-writing job for her client, who was once considered “the first major new literary...
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David Handler. Mysterious Press, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-61316-513-3
Handler’s witty 15th cozy featuring novelist-turned-sleuth Steward “Hoagy” Hoag (after The Girl Who Took What She Wanted) unfolds in the spring of 1995. Not long after receiving the news that his latest novel has been accepted for publication by...
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David Handler. Mysterious Press, $17.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-61316-613-0
The breezy 15th installment of Handler’s Edgar-winning series (after The Girl Who Took What She Wanted) reveals how Stewart “Hoagy” Hoag and his ex-wife, Marilee, first met. The year is 1982, and Hoagy has just published his first novel, Our Family...
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Edited by Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman. Avid Reader, $27 (288p) ISBN 978-1-5011-9040-7
Husband and wife Chabon (Moonglow) and Waldman (A Really Good Day) gather dozens of prominent writers to commemorate the ACLU’s centennial with powerful, inspiring essays on the legal organization’s milestone cases. Addressing City of Chicago v....
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David Handler. Severn, $28.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-7278-9248-5
In 1993, things are looking up for Stuart “Hoagy” Hoag in Edgar winner Handler’s so-so 12th mystery featuring author Hoagy and his intelligent basset hound, Lulu (after 2019’s The Man in the White Linen Suit). A decade earlier, Hoagy achieved...
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