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Spring Preview 2012

Spring has sprung! We’ve caught the fever --- and so have the publishers. Here are some picks that we know people will be talking about over the next few months.

Week of March 26, 2012

Daisy Goodwin's THE AMERICAN HEIRESS tells the story of the beautiful, vivacious Cora Cash, whose family mansion in Newport dwarfs the Vanderbilts'. When she travels abroad with her mother at the turn of the 20th century to seek a titled husband, Cora suddenly finds herself Duchess of Wareham and married to Ivo, the most eligible bachelor in England.

In Alice LaPlante's TURN OF MIND, a former surgeon suffering from dementia becomes the primary suspect in the murder of her best friend and neighbor.