The guillotine's final bite and more new books

When The Guillotine Fell by Jeremy Mercer has this subtitle: "The Bloody Beginning and Horrifying End to France's River of Blood, 1791-1977" (St. Martin's Press). The Ottawa Citizen calls it "brisk, succinct and gripping."

Drew Peterson And the first publisher to come out with a Drew Peterson title is Phoenix Books, which will publish Fatal Vows from journalist Joseph Hosey.

No Choirboy: Murder, Violence, and Teenagers on Death Row was written by Susan Kuklin. Says the publisher: "No Choirboy takes readers inside America’s prisons, and allows inmates sentenced to death as teenagers to speak for themselves. In their own voices—raw and uncensored—they talk about their lives in prison, and share their thoughts and feelings about how they ended up there. Susan Kuklin also gets inside the system, exploring capital punishment itself and the intricacies and inequities of criminal justice in the United States."