“Lost” Is Found

John Connolly’s latest standalone novel, The Book of Lost Things, isn’t even due out in Britain till September, and in the United States till November. But he’s already starting to excerpt parts of that book on his Web site. Click here to read Chapter 1. ... Meanwhile, the author reports in his Amazon blog (a better-than-average use of a crassly marketing-driven product) that he’s recently been filling in “the research blanks on The Unquiet, the [P.I. Charlie] Parker novel that should, God willing, be published in 2007.” We can hardly wait.