Dear Burning Questions,
Can you tell me what Reginald Hill's most recent book title is and if we can expect any more Dalziel and Pascoe mysteries? Thank you!

D. Dalziel
Gainesville, FL

Hill's latest is On Beulah Height, published in August by Delacorte.

There is currently not another Dalziel and Pascoe mystery scheduled for release within the next year, but Hill's publicist tells us that there will most likely be another after a year's time.

It's Gotti be good

Dear B.Q.,
What is Victoria Gotti's latest and when will her next book be out?

via the Internet

Gotti (of the long, golden locks) released I'll Be Watching You (Crown) in July. They wouldn't divulge much, but Gotti's publisher did tell us that her next book is tentatively scheduled for fall 1999.

On the wings of Connelly

Dear Burning,
I love all of Michael Connelly's books (especially Trunk Music and The Poet). When's his next one coming?

Brad Dickens
via the Internet

Connelly's latest takes flight in January. Harry Bosch returns in Angels Flight to face the most dangerous case of his career -- the savage murder of a celebrity lawyer.

Let me count the leaves

Dear Burning Questions,
Jamaica Kincaid is my all-time favorite author. It's been quite a while since she's written My Brother. When will she have another fabulous book come out? Thank you.

Aaron L. Champion
Jacksonville, NC

Kincaid recently edited and contributed to My Favorite Plant: Writers and Gardeners on the Plants They Love (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, released in late October. She has no immediate plans to publish another book, but rest assured that one will soon bloom from Kincaid's fertile imagination.

We've got the goods

Dear Burning,
Could you tell me when Gail Godwin will have a new book published. Also, I'd like to know when Luanne Rice and Sue Miller will be published. Thanks.

Diane Natoli
Niles, OH

Gail Godwin's latest, Eveningsong (Ballantine), will be released in March. In her first novel since The Good Husband (1994), Godwin tells the story of the people of a small Smoky Mountain town -- and how a woman's life is forever changed by them. Luanne Rice's next novel, Cloud Nine (Bantam), will be available next month. It's a love story you won't want to miss. A decade after The Good Mother (not to be confused with The Good Husband), Sue Miller offers a "novel of love and betrayal that explores what it means to be a good wife." While I Was Gone will be released in February from Alfred A. Knopf.

The second verse of Ice and Fire

Dear Burning Questions,
What's happened to A Clash of Kings, George R.R. Martin's second volume in the Song of Ice and Fire series? It was due last May and still no sign of it.

Ann Gurkin
Williamston, NC

At long last, the epic begun in Martin's A Game of Thrones continues in A Clash of Kings (Bantam Spectra), scheduled to hit shelves at the beginning of February.

Stumper solved?

There's no stumping you all. In our October issue we printed a query from Ken and Phyllis Perry regarding a short story that they thought might have been entitled "The Cowboy and the One-eyed Librarian." Jan L. McAuley of Bradley, Illinois, wrote us to say that she thinks the story in question is "Hitched in Time" by Anne McAllister, which first appeared in the 1995 release Marry Me Cowboy (Harlequin).

A correction

In our August issue, we offered you a "Ye Olde Curiosity Shoppe Exclusive." The book reviewed was The Queen of Whale Cay, a biography of the great speedboat-racing, cross-dressing eccentric, Ms. Joe Carstairs. In our review we quoted a BookPage staff member who was reporting from the Whale Cay of the title and said, in her ironic way, that she had found little to indicate that there was once a kingdom there. This comment generated a complaint from Ms. Ellie K. Stawicki of Jacksonville, Florida, who provided pictures to prove otherwise. Ms. Stawicki, an acquaintance of Carstairs's family and familiar with Whale Cay, informed us that the Carstairs's mansion is "in great repair and more than habitable." We appreciate Ms. Stawicki furnishing us with photos of Whale Cay and for bringing our error to light. Now that we know there's so much happening on the island, we're thinking about planning a staff retreat there. Looks nice.

It just goes to show, no book review is an island.