New releases -- with Jackie Collins and Debra Winger
The new week promises plenty of deceit, mystery and bawdiness. Jackie Collins is back, as is Liz Tuccillo, co-author of He's Just Not That Into You. Celebrity sightings: actress Debra Winger and tennis star Pete Sampras.
Monday: Sail, by James Patterson and Howard Roughan (Little, Brown, $27.99). In a last-ditch effort to save her family, the heroine Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation that turns catastrophic.
Tuesday: Married Lovers, by Jackie Collins (St. Martins, $26.95). Three high-powered Hollywood couples, two hot affairs, one underage Russian ex-hooker, a passionate murder -- and the players' lives are changed forever.
How to Be Single: A Novel, by Liz Tuccillo (Atria, $24.95). The former executive story editor for Sex and the City stays on familiar ground for her energetic fiction debut. It follows the dating lives of five single New York women, one of whom is writing a book about how bachelorettes across the world manage.
Undiscovered, by Debra Winger (Simon & Schuster, $23). Actress Debra Winger makes her case for forging a life beyond acting -- and shows how she has done just that.
The Condition, by Jennifer Haigh (HarperCollins, $25.95). A dysfunctional New England family struggles toward normalcy in this poignant novel from Haigh, a PEN/Hemingway-winner who follows the children of resentful, controlling Paulette and distracted, needy Frank.
A Champions Mind: Lessons from a Life in Tennis, by Pete Sampras and Peter Bodo (Crown, $24.95). The tennis great who so often exhibited visible discomfort with letting people inside his head finally opens up.
The Seven Sins: The Tyrant Ascending, by Jon Land (Forge, $24.95). This breathless, violent first in a new thriller series introduces Michael The Tyrant Tiranno, a real estate mogul who suspects the bombing of his casino is tied to his past.
The Broken Window: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel, by Jeffery Deaver (Simon & Schuster, $26.95). Lincoln Rhyme and partner/paramour Amelia Sachs return to face a criminal whose ingenious staging of crimes is enabled by a terrifying access to information.
