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Today’s Mystery Month book trailer might be better titled “(Everything but) Lost,” but I find it effective nonetheless. For the final book in Bolton’s Lacey Flint trilogy, St. Martin’s has squished together trailers for the first two books in the series (Now You See Me, Dead Scared) and popped in a frame at the end [...]

Mystery month continues at BTT with one of crime fiction’s reigning kings. Could Harlan Coben add an award for book trailers to his already sagging mantel? Here’s the trailer for his latest, Six Years. Once you figure this whole thing out, let’s do something for that ring around the collar.

It’s Mystery Month at Booklist, and Book Trailer Thursday is cashing in on the action. Setting the bar high for production value AND bleakness, here’s the short-film trailer for John le Carré’s A Delicate Truth. Check back all month for more!

Right up there with “flushing the toilet with the bathroom door closed (because you could get sucked in!),” “the dark” is among the most common, very rational childhood (or adulthood, no judgment here) fears. What’s Lemony Snicket got to say about it? Are you sure you wanna go down there, little Laszlo?

The appropriately fun trailer for Mary Roach’s latest pop-science-tacular Gulp follows a few kernels of corn on a most wondrous journey of alimentary amusement. Photo ops and tilt-a-whirl FX.

Now before you say, “Wait a minute, I thought I was the World’s Strongest Librarian!,” give Josh Hanagarne a chance. After all, can you deadlift 600 pounds? In all seriousness, our reviewer calls Hanagarne’s memoir “an excellent and uplifting story on accepting and coping with lifelong disabilities, of particular interest to librarians.” Check out the [...]

What’s that? “Silent Night” in April? Something’s not right– or make that a lot of things. I’m not sure if Joe Hill betrays his desire to send readers “careening deliriously off into a la-la land of horrifying absurdism” in this author-interview style trailer for NOS4A2, but we have Dan Kraus’s review to warn us of [...]

Normally I wouldn’t take dating advice from people missing so many prominent teeth, but there’s something oracular in the impeded speech of these small humans. Pick up Get the Guy: Learn Secrets of the Male Mind to Find the Man You Want and the Love You Deserve for further anthropological study.

With more gut-drops than your average, this week’s book trailer for Hidden Cities: A Memoir of Urban Exploration attempts to, like the book it’s hawking, challenge our ideas of forbidden spaces. For me though, who thinks the subway is a pretty undesirable place even when I’m swiftly moving through it on a train, it only [...]

“Move over puppies, kittens, and piglets,” editor Ann Kelley warns. Sloths are the molasses-movin’ new game in town, subjecting us to their lazy yet indefatigable cuteness at every turn. All aboard the Bucket Express! (But please, take your time. Wouldn’t want anyone to pull a muscle.)