Amazon announces 'Bosch' TV series; Rowling on a roll

Here's a look at what's buzzing in the book world today:

New and noteworthy: USA TODAY scopes out hot new books on sale this week, including Frog Music, historical fiction from Room author Emma Donoghue; and The Harlem Hellfighters, a graphic novel by Max Brooks (World World Z), about an African-African regiment that fought in World War I.

New USA TODAY reviews: With the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombing approaching, two Boston Globe reporters look back in Long Mile Home: Boston Under Attack, the City's Courageous Recovery, and the Epic Hunt for Justice. USA TODAY's Aamer Madhani calls the book "a riveting piece of journalism and an exceptional tribute to a great American city that manages to avoid being sentimental or syrupy" (3 stars out of 4). USA TODAY's Olivia Barker weighs in on the new novel The Divorce Papers, told in epistolary style. Says Barker: "The problem with The Divorce Papers is that the characters are as two-dimensional as, well, a piece of paper" (2 stars).

'Bosch' gets greenlight: Amazon Prime has announced six new series, including Bosch, based on the best-selling series by Michael Connelly about Los Angeles homicide detective Harry Bosch. Connelly and Eric Overmyer of HBO's The Wire will co-write the series. The Bosch books include the USA TODAY best sellerThe Black Box.

Shhh!: Bookish reports on a new way to enjoy reading – very quietly – with your friends, as it checks out a "Silent Reading Party" in trendy Williamsburg, Brooklyn, in New York.

Great Dane: Danish author Jonas T. Bengtsson explores the political struggles in 1980s Denmark through the eyes of a growing boy shuttled from place to place by his anarchist father. Read a Q&A with Bookish about his American debut, A Fairy Tale.

'Fantastic' news: J.K. Rowling is keeping very busy, post-Potter. In an interview with The New York Times, Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara said that Rowling's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them will become a trilogy. Tsujihara says the fantasy story -- which follows the adventures of writer Newt Scamander in New York's secret community of wizards and witches -- will consist of "three megamovies." The studio announced in September that Rowling would be the screenwriter. Meanwhile, The Silkworm, the second mystery she's writing under the Robert Galbraith pseudonymn, is due in June.

Book deal: Adam Johnson, whose novel about North Korea, The Orphan Master's Son, won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize, has signed a two-book deal with Random House. It's for a short story collection and a novel, the publisher announced on Monday. Interesting Facts: Stories is due in 2015. No date has been set for the novel.