As more and more readers are finding their way to eBooks, the release of Apple’s new iPad and iBookstore mark a new high point for the fastest growing book publishing segment. The Association of American Publishers just announced that while overall book sales in 2009 fell 1.8%, the eBook category rose an amazing 176.6% to $313.2 million.

“We are very happy at Galaxy Press to have had our Stories from the Golden Age books available on the new iBookstore the very first day the iPad was released,” stated John Goodwin, President Galaxy Press.

The 24^th Letter by Tom Lowe

Publisher: Minotaur Books

ISBN: 978-0-312-37918-6

Published: March 16, 2010

Tom Lowe’s second novel, The 24^th Letter, is so good that it ought to be included as “required reading” on every adrenalin-addicted, mystery-thriller reader’s “must read” list.

The Black Sun

By James Twining

HarperCollins

$24.95

ISBN 0-06-076214-4

Hardcover

Mystery Thriller

In London, a survivor of the Holocaust is murdered in his hospital room, and the murderers have amputated and stolen one of his arms.

Death and Judgment

By Donna Leon

Penguin / Grove Press

$7.99

ISBN 0-14-303582-7

Paperback

Mystery Thriller

You never know who you can believe.

Trial by Fire by J. A. Jance

Touchstone / Hardcover / $25.99

ISBN 978-1-4165-6380-8

1 December 2009

Ali Reynolds—the amateur sleuth already familiar to fans of author J.