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...place at a noisy BookExpo cocktail party. But his publisher is parading its high-price debut novelist, having feted him at the New York restaurant Oceana earlier this month. His historical thriller features Sigmund Freud on his sole visit to the U.S. in 1909, and a diabolical killer who is attacking Manhattan's wealthiest heiresses. "A bold page-turner," says Matthew Pearl, author of The Dante Club, "with a driving plot." A big Pennsylvania bookseller told PW, "there's no question that this will be the fall's big book...
...fast-paced new book, Killer Instinct (St. Martin's; 406 pages), Finder spent months interviewing staff members at technology giant NEC and other plasma-TV makers. The novel's hero, Jason Steadman, 30, is a sales exec at Entronics, a fictional Japanese-owned corporation. Although Steadman is a devotee of military-style business books, he's no warrior on the corporate battlefield--until he meets Kurt Semko, a former special-forces officer who did a stint in Iraq. "He's everything Gordy [his boss] and all these other phony tough guys pretend to be," Steadman thinks. "Sitting in their Aeron...
...their best, Finder's books are pure wish fulfillment. Like a romance novel promising true love, Killer Instinct moves you deliciously close to the corner office. That's a locale that has allure for Finder. "From time to time, I'll interview a CEO or a CFO or someone at the top of an organization, and I'll think, You know something? I could do this," he says. And why not? He's already written the script...
...Central High School, girls sway and sneer and expose their soft bodies and alluring hair. Their bare bellies, adorned with shining navel studs and low-down purple tattoos, ask, What else is there to see? Boys strut and saunter along and look dead-eyed, indicating with their edgy killer gestures and careless scornful laughs that this world is all there is - a noisy varnished hall lined with metal lockers and having at its end a blank wall desecrated by graffiti and roller-painted over so often it feels to be coming closer by millimeters...
...accused of heinous crimes - in 1988, Dorothea Puente was nicknamed "the black widow of Sacramento" when the 60-year-old was convicted of killing three boarders and then continuing to cash their pension checks - some elements of the Los Angeles duo's alleged crimes shocked even hardened veterans. "Female killers operating for profit by taking out insurance policies on their victims are working one of the oldest scams in the book," says Michael D. Kelleher, who co-wrote Murder Most Rare: The Female Serial Killer. "What makes this situation unique is that they rarely operate in pairs...