Laura Wilson, Author . Delacorte $22.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-385-33579-9
Delicate, merciless psychological probing drives this U.S. hardcover debut by suspense novelist Wilson (A Little Death, etc.), a study of the precarious line that separates the oddball from the murderous villain. As a boy in the Suffolk countryside...
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Laura Wilson, Author . Delacorte $22.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-385-33580-5
The sleazy glitter of London in the late 1960s and early 1970s provides a backdrop for murder in this third mystery thriller by Wilson (A Little Death
; Dying Voices
). Nightclub bunny Alice Conway met television comedian Lenny Maxted in a scene out
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Laura Wilson, Author Bantam $7.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-58281-9
A former teacher and writer of children's history books, Wilson delivers a superb debut novel that's more literary fiction than genre mystery. With delicious stealth, Wilson reveals a chilling, amoral and degenerative murderer, whose true nature...
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Laura Wilson, Author Bantam $5.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-553-58282-6
Wilson's second mystery set in England (after A Little Death) combines strong characterizations and fluid prose to convey the trials of a tormented young woman who is searching for answers concerning her mother's disappearance. In June 1976 Susan...
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Laura Wilson, Author . Minotaur $24.95 (449p) ISBN 978-0-312-53810-1
Titled Stratton's War
in the U.K., this outstanding first in a series set during WWII won Wilson (A Little Death
) the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award. In the summer of 1940, Det. Insp. Ted Stratton investigates an apparent suicide that leads...
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Laura Wilson. Felony & Mayhem (felonyandmayhem.com), $14.95 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-63194-069-9
Set in England in 1956, Wilson's fourth period whodunit featuring Det. Insp. Ted Stratton (after 2010's A Capital Crime) masterfully blends a captivating puzzle with characters newcomers can instantly identify with. Stratton is assigned to the...
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Laura Wilson. Felony & Mayhem, $14.95 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-1-63194-102-3
Wilson’s somewhat convoluted fifth mystery featuring Det. Insp. Ted Stratton (after 2015’s A Willing Victim) takes Stratton in 1958 to Notting Hill, an area of London much more rough-and-tumble than his last assignment. When a rent collector is...
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Laura Wilson, Author Yale University Press $39.95 (160p) ISBN 978-0-300-08339-2
While working with Richard Avedon, photographer Laura Wilson (Watt Matthews of Lambshead) discovered the Hutterites of Montana, a religious community of 40,000 people living throughout the American West, . Like Avedon's, Wilson's b&w photographs are
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Laura Wilson, Minotaur, $25.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-312-53811-8
Set in war-weary 1944 London, Wilson's second thriller featuring Scotland Yard Det. Insp. Ted Stratton falls short of the high standard set by its predecessor, The Innocent Spy, which won the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Award. When Stratton looks...
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Laura Wilson. Felony & Mayhem (NBN, dist.), $14.95 trade paper (336p) ISBN 978-1-934609-88-0
Wilson’s period thriller offers a compelling setup inspired by the true, if little-known, rampage of the Blackout Ripper, who slaughtered prostitutes during the London Blitz of 1940. After two drunks and an air-raid warden stumble across the corpse...
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