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Burning Questions
Wondering what happened to your favorite author? Gosh, so are we. Ask away: Send your cards and letters to Burning Questions, 2143 Belcourt Avenue, Nashville, TN 37212. Or better yet, send us e-mail. When you write, please include your full name and the city and state where you live. Sadly, personal replies are not possible. And if your question is too hard, we'll simply put it in our big file labeled "We dunno."
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STRIP SEARCH
Dear Burning Questions,
Rosemary Beam BQ hates to be the bearer of bad news, but sometimes it can't be helped—Minotaur is no longer publishing Nancy Bartholomew's popular mystery series featuring the exotic dancer/sleuth Sierra Lavotini, last seen in 2002's Strip Poker. But fans can find another book from Bartholomew in October 2004, to be published by Silouhette's new Bombshell imprint. Cop Stella Castellani finds her boyfriend in bed with another woman, shoots up their trailer, steals his dog, and runs off to her hometown of Philadelphia, where she finds her uncle murdered and her ex-fiancé a suspect. Bartholomew says the zany characters and humor, suspense and romance make it much like her Sierra series, adding, "While I miss my baby girl, Sierra, I am having a big time with Stella and hopefully my readers will too. But should there ever be a fifth Sierra, it would be called Landing Strip, and yes, Big Moose Lavotini would be back, but so would Detective John Nailor!"
DINNER TIME
Dear Burning Questions,
Paula Lothridge Readers have been craving another installment of Diane Mott Davidson's inventive culinary mystery series starring caterer Goldy Schulz since 2001's Sticks and Scones, the 10th in the series. Sources at HarperCollins tell BQ that Davidson has nearly completed Goldy's next case. A firm publication date has not been set, but look for it sometime in 2004. Davidson is planning at least two more Goldy books, so fans won't go hungry anytime soon.
MORE TO COME
Dear Burning Questions,
Cindy Stevens The authors have no immediate plans for another volume in their anthropological mystery series, but fans shouldn't panic yet. Michael Gear tells BQ that Dusty and Maureen are "just taking a break at the Taos Inn for the time being and will be back." While you're waiting, check out the Gears' upcoming novel, People of the Raven, which Tor will publish next fall. It's about the "Kennewick Man," a 9,600-year-old corpse found on the banks of the Columbia River that launched a legal battle over the ownership of American archeological finds.
LOVE ON THE RUN
Dear Burning Questions,
Aimee Woods Julie Garwood, who rose to stardom with historical romances like The Gift, turned to romantic suspense in the late '90s with great success. Her next thriller, Murder List (Ballantine), will be published January 13. In the book, Regan Madison reluctantly attends a psychology seminar, where she and the other participants are asked to list people who've hurt them in the past. When the people on Regan's list start disappearing—and turning up dead—she must work quickly to discover who's making her secret revenge fantasies come true.
OH, KAYE
Dear Burning Questions,
Christine Lockman
Divining Women is the seventh novel for Gibbons, who lives in Raleigh with her three daughters.
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This North Carolina author—who wrote her acclaimed debut novel, Ellen Foster, when she was only 26—has been absent from the literary scene since 1998's On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon. But fans won't have to wait much longer. Putnam will publish Divining Women on April 12. Billed as her "darkest yet most redeeming novel," this historical saga takes place during the influenza epidemic of 1918. Maureen Ross' difficult pregnancy is further complicated by the emotional abuse dealt out by her husband, Troop. When Troop's young niece, Mary, comes to live with them, she is horrified by Troop's behavior. As the epidemic spreads, the household situation intensifies, and Mary and Maureen must stand against Troop in an epic confrontation.