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You write a book, it goes out into the world. You have no idea whom it will reach, and when, and how they will react to it. You hope it finds its way into the hands of someone who finds it useful–as entertainment, of course, and, occasionally, as something more substantial than that. It is [...]

but No One You Know has been in the top 10 bestsellers at Barnes & Noble in Mystery and Crime for a couple of weeks now, right after the Stieg Larsson Millenium Trilogy novels and a couple of titles by James Patterson and Lisa Gardner. Of course, there is a crime in my novel, which, [...]

I’ve just seen the cover of the Russian edition of No One You Know…and I love it! The books is published by Phantom Press and translated by Galina Tumarkin.

Here’s the Hungarian cover of No One You Know. The Hungarian edition, Nikt kogo znasz, translated by Bo?ena Markiewicz, will be published by Videograf, which also published The Year of Fog.

Big thanks to my hometown paper, the Mobile Press Register, for the nod.

Last week, I sat down with Lynn Carey at one of my favorite San Francisco restaurants, Alice’s in Noe Valley. Lynn and I talked about No One You Know, which is the most recent selection for the Contra Costa Times Book Club. Lynn’s interview, “Home Turf and Unfamiliar Terrain Feed Michelle Richmond’s Fiction,” appears this [...]

No One You Know is the next book club pick for the Times Media Group, which includes 14 Northern California newspapers. There’s an excerpt from the novel in the Marin Independent Journal today. Excerpts will be running in several newspapers over the next couple of weeks.
Book club discussions of No One You Know will take [...]

Just discovered through Google alerts: StuffChicksWant.com. “The place to find stuff that women want. Written by women, for women (and so their men know what their women want).” I’m sold–I DO already want half the stuff I saw there–Zid Zidi Mini Poofs, anyone? Bright Bangle Watches? The Ice Cream Ball? They do books, too! (and [...]

Coutts & Co, the UK private banking arm of the Royal Bank of Scotland, publishes a magazine for its female clients called Coutts Woman. The magazine runs a monthly feature called “Coutts Woman Loves,” and this month, Coutts woman loves No One You Know: “Betrayal and tragedy are the two themes beautifully explored in this [...]

Less than a month after publication, No One You Know has gone into its third trade paperback printing. A big shout-out to readers, booksellers, and to everyone who has spread the word via goodreads, librarything, etc. If your book club is reading No One You Know, please visit my book club page for extra goodies. [...]