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Sarah Weinman, author of Scoundrel: The True Story of the Murderer Who Charmed His Way to Fame and Freedom

In the 1960s, Edgar Smith, in prison and sentenced to death for the murder of teenager Victoria Zielinski, struck up a correspondence with William F. Buckley, the founder of National Review. Buckley, who refused to believe that a man who supported the neoconservative movement could have committed such a heinous crime, began to advocate not only for Smith’s life to be spared but also for his sentence to be overturned. So begins a bizarre and tragic tale of mid-century America. Sarah Weinman’s SCOUNDREL leads us through the twists of fate and fortune that brought Smith to freedom, book deals, fame...and eventually to attempting murder again.

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Week of February 6, 2023

Paperback releases for the week of February 6th include THE MATCH, a gripping thriller from Harlan Coben in which a shocking genetic match exposes a family's darkest secret; Tina Brown's THE PALACE PAPERS, the inside story of the British royal family’s battle to overcome the dramas of the Diana years, only to confront new, 21st-century crises; THE HOTEL NANTUCKET by Elin Hilderbrand, an immensely satisfying page-turner about a summer of scandal at a storied Nantucket hotel; Allison Pataki's THE MAGNIFICENT LIVES OF MARJORIE POST, a powerful story of one woman falling in love with her own voice and embracing her own power while shaping history in the process; and the paperback original CODE NAME SAPPHIRE by Pam Jenoff, a riveting tale of bravery and resistance about a woman who must rescue her cousin's family from a train bound for Auschwitz.

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