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• Collusion
  Author: Abbott, Jeff
  Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780525950288 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Collision is the story of two men living very different lives -one, a successful corporate consultant who is mourning the murder of his new bride; the other, a former CIA agent known only as Pilgrim, a whose current assignment for a fringe espionage agency is so treacherous he doesn't trust even his own boss. When they are thrown together in a violent, unexpected event, the two men realize that theyave been framed in an elaborate setup. Unsure who to trust and who may just be trying to draw them into the open, the unlikely partners have no choice but to work together. But with everything at stake, Ben has no idea that Pilgrim is harboring some shocking secrets of his ownasecrets that will soon force Ben to confront just how blurred the line has become between best friends and bitter enemies. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• Lemur
  Author: Black, Benjamin
  Publisher: Picador $ 13 ISBN: 9780312428082 Date: 2008
  PW
  An Irish journalist in New York finds himself in the center of a murder case that may lead back to his billionaire father-in-law, in the first stand-alone thriller from the Booker Prize-wining author of The Sea and Christine Falls.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Deceived
  Author: Battles, Brett
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 24 ISBN: 9780385341578 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Jonathan Quinn returns in this new suspense novel that takes readers on a thrilling, pulse-pounding journey from the author who draws comparisons to Robert Ludlum and Raymond Chandler.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Hit and Run: Keller
  Author: Block, Lawrence
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780060840907 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Fingered for a murder he didn't commit, a hit man goes on the run to save his life in this stunning new work from the "New York Times"-bestselling master of mystery.
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• The Palace
  Author: Carter, Stephen H.
  Publisher: Random $ 26.95 ISBN: 9780307266583 Date: 2008
  Booklist PW Kirkus
  "USA Today" hailed Carter's last novel as the perfect summer read. Now the bestselling author of New England White is back with a gripping political thriller set in the era of Watergate and Vietnam.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Paths of the Air
  Author: Clare, Alys
  Publisher: Severn $ 28.95 ISBN: 9780727866363 Date: 2008
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  Updated 6.18.08
  
• The Legal Limit
  Author: Clark, Martin
  Publisher: Knopf $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780307268358 Date: 2008
  Kirkus Booklist
  Clark's most remarkable novel yet is the gripping, complex story of a murder cover-up that wreaks widespread havoc even as it redefines the concept of justice--a relentlessly entertaining saga that delves deeply into matters at once ambiguous and essential.
  Updated 4.28.08
  
• The Drifter's Wheel: Fever Devilin
  Author: Depoy, Phillip
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312362034 Date: 2008
  Kirkus LJ
  Fever Devilin, a folklorist by trade, has returned to his hometown in the Georgia Appalachians seeking peace of mind. But oddness follows Fever wherever he goes, and he finds himself attempting to unravel a most perplexing case before death comes to his door.
  Updated 7.16.08
  
• Findings
  Author: Evans, Mary Anna
  Publisher: Poisoned Pen $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781590584835 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Faye Longchamp is overjoyed to be paid to do archaeological work she would have done anyway, excavating a site that was once her family's. That joy ends abruptly when intruders kill a dear friend, and steal Faye's field notes. How is her fieldwork connected to her friend's death?
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• The Trophy Exchange: Lucinda Pierce
  Author: Fanning, Diane
  Publisher: Severn 27.95 $ ISBN: 9780727866356 Date: 2008
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  A fast-paced thriller introducing an unforgettable heroine - Homicide Investigator Lucinda Pierce is physically and emotionally scarred by her job. She is angry and bitter, but her life is her work. Lucinda gets sent to investigate the brutal killing of Dr Kathleen Spencer. There seem to be links with other dead women: could it be the work of a serial killer? And will Lucinda be able to solve it or has she become too emotionally involved this time?
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Black Seconds
  Author: Fossum, Karin
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 24 ISBN: 9780151015276 Date: 2008
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  When a young girl disappears, suspicion immediately falls on a local character who lives alone and hasn't spoken since childhood. As the media frenzy surrounding the case begins, Inspector Konrad Sejer steps in. But he's puzzled--this is the strangest case he's seen in years.
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• The Likeness
  Author: French, Tana
  Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780670018864 Date: 2008
  Booklist PW
  The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestselling psychological thriller In the Woods. Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. Another gripping psychological thriller featuring the headstrong protagonist weave come to love, from an author who has proven that she can deliver. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Siren of the Waters
  Author: Genelin, Michael
  Publisher: Soho $ 24 ISBN: 9781569474846 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Updated 6.2.08
  
• Rock & Roll Never Forgets
  Author: Grabien, Deborah
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312379995 Date: 2008
  LJ
  The last thing the members of Hall of Fame rock & roll band Blacklight need to hear is that ruthless tabloid biographer Perry Dillon is planning a tell-all history of their group. The issue hits hardest for English ex-pat guitarist JP Kinkaid; with his history of heroin addiction and deportation, his estranged wife, and his long-term relationship with a girl he met when she was a teenager, JP has the most to lose. Dealing with his multiple sclerosis doesn't make things any easier.
  When he sits down with Dillon, JP's main concern is to preserve both his own privacy and that of Bree Godwin, his fiercely protective longtime girlfriend. But it's obvious from the first question that Dillon is digging deep. And he's not planning to stop until he hits rock bottom. Dillon's looking for trouble, the kind of trouble that garners publicity and sells books. What he finds is the kind of trouble someone will go to any length to cover up, and that includes murder.
  Opening night at Madison Square Garden encores with a corpse in JP's dressing room, leaving Blacklight in the middle of a media frenzy---and Bree as homicide lieutenant Patrick Ormand's prime suspect. Rock & Roll Never Forgets, the first JP Kinkaid mystery, offers an all-access pass to how musicians work, live, and love. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 6.2.08
  
• The Fourth Watcher
  Author: Hallinan, Timothy
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780061257254 Date: 2008
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  Travel writer Poke Rafferty is ready to let go of his "Looking for Trouble" series of travel books and the dangerous lifestyle that goes with it, and settle down in Bangkok with his fiancee, Rose, and his newly adopted daughter, Miaow. But trouble isn't ready to let go of Poke. Enter the one person Poke least wants to see in the entire world--a person whose emotional hold on Poke is absolute. With him come a box of rubies, a wad of fraudulent identity papers, and--in pursuit of those things--one of the most dangerous gangsters in China.
  Add to that Rose's innocent involvement in a North Korean counterfeiting operation and an off-the-tracks agent of the American Secret Service who's dying to put Poke behind bars, and Poke and his family find themselves in a complicated and potentially deadly situation. Getting them all out alive will take every skill Poke has.
  Once again, Hallinan has created a complex, emotionally satisfying thriller with edge-of-your-seat suspense and a cast of characters so real you'll feel you know them. Sharp as a razor and full of heart-pounding surprises, The Fourth Watcher firmly establishes Hallinan as a brilliant new voice in the world of suspense. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 5.12.08
• Handbags and Homicide: Haley Randolph
  Author: Howell, Dorothy
  Publisher: Kensington $ 22 ISBN: 9780758223746 Date: 2008
  PW
  Fashionistas take note: Dorothy Howell's delightful Handbags and Homicide dangles shopping to die for and a murder in store in a breezy debut mystery as sure to please as a Notorious handbag--Carolyn Hart.
  Updated 5.12.08
  
• The Dirty Secrets
  Author: Gardiner, Meg
  Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780525950660 Date: 2008
  LJ
  The writer Stephen King trumpets as the next suspense superstar presents this new series that features heroine Jo Beckett. Investigating a series of suicides, Jo finds they are all part of the Dirty Secrets Club, a group of A-listers with nothing but money and plenty to hide.
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• Volk's Shadow
  Author: Ghelfi, Brent
  Publisher: Holt $ 25 ISBN: 9780805082555 Date: 2008
  LJ
  An international cabal drives Volk back to blood-soaked Chechnya, where he confronts an old nemesis and reunites with his lost love, in this gripping sequel to the acclaimed series debut.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Another Man's Mocassins
  Author: Johnson, Craig
  Publisher: Viking $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780670018611 Date: 2008
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  Walt Longmire unravels a mystery that connects two murders across forty years When the body of a young Vietnamese woman is found alongside the interstate in Absaroka County, Wyoming, Sherriff Walt Longmire is determined to discover the identity of the victim and is forced to confront the horrible similarities of this murder to that of his first homicide investigation as a marine in Vietnam.
  To complicate matters, Virgil White Buffalo, a homeless Crow Indian, is found living in a nearby culvert and in possession of the young womanas purse. There are only two problems with what appears to be an open-and-shut case. One, the sheriff doesnat think Virgil White Buffaloaa Vietnam vet with a troubling pastais a murderer. And two, the photo that is found in the womanas purse looks hauntingly familiar to Walt.
  In the fourth book in Craig Johnsonas awardwinning Walt Longmire series, the tough yet tender sheriff solves two murders tied in blood but separated by nearly forty years. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls
  Author: King, John R.
  Publisher: Forge$ 25.95 ISBN: 9780765318015 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  One of the most infamous stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon is The Final Problem as it relates the facts of the death/murder of the master detective at Reichenbach Falls. King's work explores what really happened that infamous day and why Holmes disappeared in its aftermath.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Stalking Susan
  Author: Kramer, Julie
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 22.95 ISBN: 9780385524766 Date: 2008
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  Television reporter Riley Spartz is recovering from a heart-breaking, headline-making catastrophe of her own when a longtime police source drops two homicide files in her lap. Riley suspects a possible serial killer and stages a bold on-air stunt to draw him out.
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Still Waters
  Author: McCrery, Nigel
  Publisher: Random $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780307377036 Date: 2008
  Kirkus LJ
  Razor-sharp and mesmerizingly eerie--and with one of the most clever, ruthless, and sympathetic villains to appear in ages--Still Waters is a stunning start to an exciting new series.
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
  Author: Mcfetridge, John
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 25 ISBN: 9780151014422 Date: 2008
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  Sharon MacDonald has a problem. It's not being under house arrest. It's not the Iranian guy who just fell from the twenty-fifth floor of her apartment building. It's not even the police surveillance that's preventing her from getting to her marijuana grow rooms. Sharon's problem is a stranger named Ray: He's too good looking, and his business proposal sounds too good to be true.
  Detective Gord Bergeron has problems, too. There's his new, hard-to-read partner, Detective Armstrong; a missing ten-year-old girl; an unidentified torso dumped in an alley; and what looks like corruption deep within the police force.
  In a city where the drug, immigration, and sex industries are all inextricably intertwined, it's only a matter of time until Sharon's and Gord's paths cross and all hell breaks loose in this pitch-perfect second installment of John McFetridge's rollicking noir series. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 4.28.08
  
• What Was Lost
  Author: O'flynn, Catherine
  Publisher: Holt $ 14 ISBN: 9780805088335 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  Long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and "The Guardian" First Book Award, What Was Lost is a tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl.
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Killer View
  Author: Pearson, Ridley
  Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780399155055 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming returns in a stunning new thriller from the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of Killer Weekend. A terrific villain, an appealing protagonist, and breakneck pacing. . . . Ridley Pearson writes thrillers, the kind that try to yank you to the edge of your seat and keep you there.--"Boston Sunday Globe."
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Fidelity
  Author: Perry, Thomas
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 25 ISBN: 9780151012923 Date: 2008
  Booklist LJ
  When Phil Kramer is shot dead in the middle of the night, his wife is left with an emptied bank account and a lot of questions. Jerry Hobart has some questions of his own. Now that he's been ordered to take out Kramer's widow, he figures there's a bigger secret at work--and a bigger payoff.
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• Rules of Deception
  Author: Reich, Christopher
  Publisher: Bantam $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780805082555 Date: 2008
  LJ
  An international cabal drives Volk back to blood-soaked Chechnya, where he confronts an old nemesis and reunites with his lost love, in this gripping sequel to the acclaimed series debut.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Illegal Action
  Author: Rimington, Stella
  Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780307268853 Date: 2008
  PW
  The new installment in Rimington's series of frighteningly authentic ("Chicago Tribune") espionage thrillers features the fiercely intelligent, ambitious MI5 officer Liz Carlyle.
  Updated 5.12.08
  
• The Last Oracle
  Author: Rollins, James
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 26.95 ISBN: 9780061230943 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Sigma Force must battle a group of rogue scientists who've unleashed a diabolical project that could mean the extinction of mankind, in this superb new thriller from the "New York Times"-bestselling author of Black Order and The Judas Strain.
  Suggested Reading: Adrenaline
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Don't Tell a Soul
  Author: Rosenfelt, David
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312373955 Date: 2008
  LJ Booklist PW
  The popular author of six Andy Carpenter mysteries, including the recent hit Play Dead, delivers his first stand alone with this gripping suspense novel.
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Fractured
  Author: Slaughter, Karin
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 25 ISBN: 9780385341950 Date: 2008
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  Slaughter, one of the best crime novelists in America ("Washington Post"), brings back the characters from her "New York Times"-bestselling work Triptych for a shocking showdown of heart-stopping suspense.
  Updated 5.12.08
  

August...

• Lie Down with the Devil
  Author: Barnes, Linda
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312332891 Date: 2008
  PW
  Boston P.I. Carlotta Carlyle turns to the mystery in her own life--Sam Gianelli--in this latest installment in one of the best private-eye series ever (Harlan Coben).
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Folly Du Jour
  Author: Cleverly, Barbara
  Publisher: Consortium $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781569475133 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  "A historical mystery that has just about everything ("Denver Post"), this seventh book in the Joe Sandilands murder mystery series is set at the Folies-Bergre, Paris, in December 1926.
  Updated 5.2.08
  
• Black and White and Dead All Over
  Author: Darnton, John
  Publisher: Random $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780307267528 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  A keenly intelligent, delightfully mordant novel, this mystery blends fact and fiction with the same deft hand that was at work in Darnton's bestselling Neanderthal.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Skeleton Lake
  Author: Doogan, Mike
  Publisher: Putnam $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780399154928 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  Nik Kane struggles with a killer from his past in this latest entry in the Shamus Award-nominated series.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• The September Society
  Author: Finch, Charles
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780312359782 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Charles Lenox is back in a new mystery by the acclaimed author of A Beautiful Blue Death.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• No Human Enemy
  Author: Gardner, John
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312376703 Date: 2008
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  Exactly a week after the D-Day landings came the vengeance weapons. When one of these new weapons lands on a Camberwell convent, the Reserve Squad is called in. Together with her boss and secret lover Tommy Livermore, Suzie Mountford is drawn into a complex investigation.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Separate from the World: An Ohio Amish Mystery
  Author: Gaus, P.L.
  Publisher: Ohio Univ $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780821418147 Date: 2008
  PW Kirkus
  Separate from the World is a story of a rift between two Amish factions, one that favors the use of medicine and that participates in a college study of genetic traits particular to the Amish community, and the other that rejects any outside influence.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Garden of Evil
  Author: Hewson, David
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 24 ISBN: 9780385339575 Date: 2008
  PW Booklist
  The internationally acclaimed author of smart, literate thrillers ("Publishers Weekly") delivers a heart-stopping crime novel steeped in richly atmospheric modern-day suspense and Rome's treacherous history.
  Updated 6.19.08
  
• People Who Walk In Darkness
  Author: Kaminsky, Stuart M.
  Publisher: Forge $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780765318862 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Inspector Rostnikov is an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union Russia. He travels to Siberia to investigate a murder at a diamond mine, where he discovers an old secret--and an even bigger problem, in this fast-paced novel from an Edgar Award-winning author.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Leather Maiden
  Author: Lansdale, Joe R.
  Publisher: Knopf $ 25 ISBN: 9780375414527 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  A masterly new thriller from the Edgar Award-winning writer who has "a folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace" ("The New York Times Book Review").
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• The Black Path
  Author: Larson, Asa
  Publisher: Delta $ 12 ISBN: 9780385341011 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  From the internationally bestselling author of The Blood Spilt and Sun Storm--winner of Sweden's Best Crime Novel Award--comes a searing tale of darkness beyond imagination.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• The Turnaround
  Author: Pelecanos, George
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780316156479 Date: 2008
  Booklist Kirkus LJ
  One afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever. Thirty-five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another. But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it.
  Updated 7.16.08
  
• Stranger Room
  Author: Ramsey, Frederick
  Publisher: Poisoned Pen $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781590585351 Date: 2008
  LJ
  The elderly Jonathan Lydell III is proud of his family history. He is related to the Virginia Lees (both Light Horse Harry and Robert E. Lee) and to the Custis family (and thus to George Washington). But these connections donat seem to matter to the current generation. In fact, they seem utterly disinterested in family, history, or position. But for Lydell, family history is the only real thing leftathat and his antebellum house.
  Lydell is committed to restoring the home to its antebellum configuration, complete with a stranger roomaan attached room with its own entrance, separately locked and kept for use by unknown travelers. Found in many family homes in the 1800s, the room was intended to protect the family from unsavory guests.
  Nearly 150 years ago, an inexplicable murder took place in the locked stranger room of the Lydell house. The murderer was never caught. As far as Lydell is concerned, this brutal history just adds to the rich character of the house. But when a new, identical murder is committed in the same room, not even sheriff Ike Schwartz and FBI agent Karl Hedrick can explain it. Why would history repeat itself? What could explain these identical murders? Could the Lydell family history hold the key? The fourth novel in the Ike Schwartz series. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Forsaken Soul
  Author: Royal, Priscillia
  Publisher: Poisoned Pen $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781590585214 Date: 2008
  PW
  The summer of 1273 is peaceful for most of England--except in the village of Tyndal where Martin the cooper has been poisoned at the local inn. Martin had many enemies, and the killer could be anyone, in this fifth novel in the Medeival Mystery series.
  Updated 6.2.08
  
• Good People
  Author: Sakey, Marcus
  Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780525950844 Date: 2008
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  The author of the critically acclaimed The Blade Itself returns with this dazzling thriller in which a couple in search of the American Dream is drawn into a world of criminals, double-crossing, and unspeakable revenge.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Moscow Rules
  Author: Silva, Daniel
  Publisher: Penguin $ 26.95 ISBN: 9780399155017 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Filled with rich prose and breathtaking turns of plot, Moscow Rules is at once superior entertainment and a searing cautionary tale about the new threats rising to the East--and Silva's finest novel yet.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Sweeping Up Glass
  Author: Wall, Carolyn D.
  Publisher: Poisoned Pen $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781590585122 Date: 2008
  PW LJ
  This may be the coldest winter on record in Kentucky, but that doesn't keep the elusive Hunt Club from tracking silver-faced wolves on Olivia's strip of mountain. It falls to her and Will'm to figure out why as the hunters turn their sights on them, too, in this searing and surprising debut novel.
  Updated 8.18.08
  
• The Shadow Walker
  Author: Walters, Michael
  Publisher: Berkley $ 14 ISBN: 9780425222331 Date: 2008
  PW LJ
  A serial killer is loose on the streets of Ulan Bataar, Mongolia, and Nergui, the former head of the Serious Crimes squad, is no closer to catching the killer and will accept any help he can get. Drew McLeish, a senior British CID officer, is sent out to lend his expertise to the investigation.
  Updated 8.18.08
  

September...

• Ashes, Ashes
  Author: Atkins, Charles
  Publisher: Severn $ 27.95 ISBN: 9780727866400 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  From page one, the chase is on and many will die. Unnecessarily. - Forensic psychiatrist, Ms Barrett Conyors knew that if Richard Glash werent manacled to his chair, he would kill her . . . [He] had likely imagined every detail of her murder and then obsessively sketched the scene hundreds of times. At forty-two Richard, whod spent all but four and a half years of his life locked away . . . had few interests, other than drawing and killing.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Bean There, Done That
  Author: Balzo, Sandra
  Publisher: Ssevern $ 27.95 ISBN: 9780727866530 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  Heres a tip: if your ex-husbands mistress-cum-missus asks for your help in proving that he cheated on her while he was married to you, just say no. And, whatever you do, dont invite her in . . . Coffeehouse owner Maggy Thorsen does just that when Rachel Slattery Thorsen comes knocking on her door. When the new Mrs Thorsen disappears that same evening, Maggy quickly finds herself embroiled in a murder investigation involving Rachels hotelier family Milwaukees answer to the Hiltons.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Black Tower
  Author: Bayard, Louis
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780061173509 Date: 2008
  PW Kirkus Booklist
  The acclaimed author of Mr. Timothy and The Pale Blue Eye has constructed another spellbinding historical mystery about a real-life convict who transformed himself into the world's first modern detective.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Takeover
  Author: Black, Lisa
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780061544453 Date: 2008
  Booklist LJ
  In the tradition of Kathy Reichs and Jeffrey Deaver, Black's promising new novel introduces a sharp and gutsy forensic investigator in a stunning thriller.
  Updated 8.18.08
  
• Manhattan Noir 2: The Classics
  Author: Block, Lawrence (edt)
  Publisher: Akashic $ 15.95 ISBN: 9781933354576 Date: 2008
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  Classic reprints from: Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, O. Henry, Irwin Shaw, Jerome Weidman, Damon Runyon, Evan Hunter, Jerrold Mundis, Edgar Allan Poe, Horace Gregory, Geoffrey Bartholomew, Cornell Woolrich, Barry N. Malzberg, Clark Howard, Jerome Charyn, Donald E. Westlake, Joyce Carol Oates, Lawrence Block, Susan Isaacs, and others.- Publisher Marketing
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Oscar Wilde and a Game Called Murder
  Author: Brandreth, Gyles
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 14 ISBN: 9781416534846 Date: 2008
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  Brandreth pens the second witty installment in an astonishingly authentic historical murder mystery series featuring detective Oscar Wilde and his partner-in-crime, Arthur Conan Doyle.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Max
  Author: Bruen, Ken and Jason Starr
  Publisher: Hard Case $ 6.99 ISBN: 9780843959666 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  In prisons half a world apart, Max Fisher improbably rises to the top of the pecking order at Attica, while on the Greek island of Lesbos, Angela Pretrakos tries to escape a murder charge. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law.
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Angel's Tip
  Author: Burke, Alafair
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780061561023 Date: 2008
  Kirkus PW
  In her breakout book, the acclaimed thriller writer delves into the underworld of the Manhattan nightclub scene to deliver another work of first rate, suspenseful entertainment ("Washington Post Book World").
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Big O
  Author: Burke, Declan
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 24 ISBN: 9780151014088 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  Karen's easy life as a receptionist and armed robber is about to take a turn for the worse. Rossi, her ex, is getting out of prison any day now. He'll be looking for his motorcycle, his gun, the sixty grand he says is his, and revenge. But he won't be expecting Ray, the new guy Karen's just met, to be in his way. No stranger to the underworld himself, Ray wants out of the kidnapping game now that some dangerous new bosses are moving in. Meanwhile Frank, a disgraced plastic surgeon, hires Ray to kidnap his ex-wife for the insurance money. But the ex-wife also happens to be Karen's best friend. Can Karen and Ray trust each other enough to work together on one last job? Or will love, as always, ruin everything? From a writer hailed as "Elmore Leonard with a hard Irish edge" ("Irish Mail on Sunday"), Declan Burke's The Big O is crime fiction at its darkest and funniest. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Sweetheart
  Author: Cain, Chelsea
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312368470 Date: 2008
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  With Heartsick Cain took the crime world by storm, introducing two of the most compelling characters in decades: serial killer Gretchen Lowell and her obsessed pursuer Portland Detective Archie Sheridan. Lowell and Sheridan's stories continue in this terrifying new sequel.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Blood Memory
  Author: Coel, Margaret
  Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780425223451 Date: 2008
  Kirkus PW
  From the bestselling author of the Wind River mysteries comes a novel featuring Catherine McLeod, an investigative reporter for a Denver newspaper, whose coverage of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes filing a claim for 27 million acres of their ancestral lands has made her a target for assassination.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Clinch Knot: A Fly Fishing Mystery
  Author: Galligan, John
  Publisher: Bleak House $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781606480038 Date: 2008
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  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Butcher of Smithfield
  Author: Gregory, Susanna
  Publisher: Sphere $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781847440624 Date: 2008
  PW
  Thomas Chaloner, just returned from a clandestine excursion to Spain and Portugal on behalf of the Queen, finds London dank and grey under leaden skies. Although he has only been away for a short while, he finds many things changed, including the government slapping a tax on printed newspapers. Handwritten news reports escape the duty, and the rivalry between the producers of the two conduits of news is the talk of the coffeehouses, with the battle to be first with any sort of intelligence escalating into violent rivalry. And it seems that a number of citizens who have eaten cucumbers have come to untimely deaths. It is such a death which Chaloner is despatched to investigate; that of a lawyer with links to the Butcher of Smithfield, a shady trader surrounded by a fearsome gang of thugs who terrorize the streets well beyond the confines of Smithfield market. Chaloner doesn't believe that either this death or the others are caused by a simple vegetable, but to prove his theory he has to untangle the devious means of how news is gathered and he has to put his personal safety aside as he tries to penetrate the rumor mill surrounding the Butcher of Smithfield and discover his real identity. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Fifth Floor
  Author: Harvey, Michael
  Publisher: Random $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780307266873 Date: 2008
  PW Kirkus Booklist
  Harvey's sizzling, intricately woven follow-up to The Chicago Way opens with murder in contemporary Chicago and winds its way back to Mrs. O'Leary's cow and the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Ritual
  Author: Hayder, Mo
  Publisher: PGW $ 24 ISBN: 9780871139924 Date: 2008
  Kirkus PW Booklist
  The author of The Devil of Nanking delivers a taut, chilling tale of clandestine occult practices, New Age medicine, and the drug underground, set in a hypermodern urban landscape challenged by colliding immigrant cultures.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Frozen Sun: Nathan Active
  Author: Jones, Stan
  Publisher: Bowhead $ 13.95 ISBN: 9780979980374 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  Blizzards, tundra, Eskimos, bush pilots, and bingo-loving grandmas enliven this literate ethnic mystery starring Alaska State Trooper Nathan Active, who has been assigned to the remote Arctic town of Chukchi. Though born an Inupiat Eskimo, Active was raised in Anchorage by white parents and has little knowledge of his native culture. During the long months he has spent in Chukchi, he has rallied against the icy weather and struggled to understand his two cultural identities, but he realizes how deeply he has been settling into the rhythms of community life when Grace Palmer, a local beauty queen, goes missing. The state trooper mounts a search that ultimately leads him halfway across Alaska--and gives him plenty of time to discover he is in love with Grace. Closing in on the answers, however, he discovers evidence that points to an agonizing situation: she is either dead, or she is a cold-blooded killer.- Publisher Marketing
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Red Knife: Cork O'Connor
  Author: Krueger, William Kent
  Publisher: Atria $ 24 ISBN: 9781416556749 Date: 2008
  PW
  The next book in Krueger's award-winning Corcoran O'Connor series finds the charismatic private investigator caught in the middle of a racial gang war that's turning picturesque Tamarack County into a bloody battlefield.
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• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
  Author: Larsson, Steig
  Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780307269751 Date: 2008
  PW LJ
  In this European publishing sensation, a crusading journalist joins forces with a 24-year-old pierced and tattooed genius hacker to investigate a missing woman from one of the wealthiest families in Sweden. They discover a vein of nearly unfathomable iniquity in the Vangers, astonishing corruption in the highest echelons of Swedish industrialismand an unexpected connection between themselves.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Fresh Kills
  Author: Loehfelm, Bill
  Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780399155314 Date: 2008
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  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Death's Half Acre
  Author: Maron, Margaret
  Publisher: Grand Central $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780446196109 Date: 2008
  PW
  Unchecked urbanization has begun to eclipse the North Carolina countryside. In the shadows, corrupt county commissioners make profitable deals with new developers. A murder will pull Judge Deborah Knott and Dwight Bryant into the middle of this bitter dispute and force them to confront some dark realities.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• The Book of Lies
  Author: Meltzer, Brad
  Publisher: Grand Central $ 25.99 ISBN: 9780446577885 Date: 2008
  LJ
  The author of the #1 "New York Times" bestseller The Book of Fate returns with two burning questions. What does Cain, history's greatest villain, have to do with Superman, the world's greatest hero? And what do two murders, committed thousands of years apart, have in common?
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Badlands
  Author: Montanari, Richard
  Publisher: Ballantine $ 26 ISBN: 9780345492425 Date: 2008
  PW
  International bestselling author Montanari's latest adrenaline-fueled thriller transports readers to the gritty streets of Philadelphia's Badlands, where a diabolical fiend plays a cryptic, murderous game.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Laughter of Dead Kings: Vicki Bliss
  Author: Peters, Elizabeth
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780061246241 Date: 2008
  LJ
  The author of the bestselling Amelia Peabody novels returns with the long-awaited final installment in her beloved contemporary series featuring art historian Vicky Bliss--back for the first time in more than a decade.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Exit Music
  Author: Rankin, Ian
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780316057585 Date: 2008
  Kirkus Booklist LJ
  As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on Detective Inspector John Rebus's desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. Only a few days shy of the end to his long, controversial career, will Rebus even make it that far?
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Crime
  Author: Welsh, Irvine
  Publisher: Norton $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780393068191 Date: 2008
  PW
  Welsh's sizzling new novel is a thrilling journey into the bright glamour of the Sunshine State and a seething underworld of utter darkness, in this shocking story about the corruption and abuse of the human soul and the possibilities of redemption.
  Updated 8.19.08
  

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• When Will There Be Good News?
  Author: Atkinson, Kate
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780316154857 Date: 2008
  PW Booklist LJ
  Atkinson's Jackson Brodie, hero of the national bestsellers Case Histories and One Good Turn, returns in an intense new literary thriller where three lives come together in unexpected and deeply thrilling ways.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Wettest County in the World: A Novel Based on a True Story
  Author: Bondurant, Matt
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 9781416561392 Date: 2008
  PW
  Bondurant weaves a compelling tale of violence, desperation, and greed, as three brothers run moonshine in Virginia during prohibition, in this story that is based on a true story about his grandfather and two uncles.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Sins of the Children
  Author: Brownley, James
  Publisher: Severn $ 27.95 ISBN: 9780727866646 Date: 2008
  PW
  An Alison Glasby Mystery - Facing legal action for publishing an unsubstantiated article about police corruption, Alison Glasbys career in journalism seems to be over. But when she receives a tip-off that the senior police officer in charge of policing the police one Henry Dunne may have dark secrets of his own, Alisons luck appears to be changing. Until, that is, her source is found with his skull caved in and the promised evidence vanishes . . .
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Brass Verdict
  Author: Connelly, Michael
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 26.99 ISBN: 9780316166294 Date: 2008
  Booklist PW
  Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him next. Enter Harry Bosch. Determined to find Vincent's killer, he is not opposed to using Haller as bait. But as danger mounts and the stakes rise, these two loners realize their only choice is to work together.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Glass of Time
  Author: Cox, Michael
  Publisher: Norton $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780393067736 Date: 2008
  PW
  Like its beguiling and intelligent ("New York Times Book Review") predecessor, this work is a page-turning period mystery about identity, the nature of secrets, and what happens when past obsessions impose themselves on an unwilling present.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Archangel Project
  Author: Graham, C.S.
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 7.99 ISBN: 9780061351204 Date: 2008
  PW
  In a city struggling to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, a disgraced CIA agent and a young Iraq War veteran with an unusual talent join forces to catch a killer and thwart a plot that could plunge the world into an apocalyptic war.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Ex-KOP
  Author: Hammond, Warren
  Publisher: Forge $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780765312747 Date: 2008
  PW
  Heartbreak and redemption for the flawed hero of the noir-SF thriller KOP.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Flesh House
  Author: Macbride, Stuart
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312382636 Date: 2008
  PW Booklist
  When body parts show up in a container at Aberdeen's harbor, they kick off Scotland's largest manhunt in 20 years--since the last time they had pursued Kenneth Wiseman. A brutal killer, Wiseman had been acquitted on a technicality. But now police are certain he's at work again.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Messengers of Death
  Author: Magnan, Pierre
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312387563 Date: 2008
  PW
  Last year Death in the Truffle Wood introduced renowned French crime writer Pierre Magnan to rave American reviews. Now the celebrated Commissaire Laviolette is back in a second delectable mystery set in Provence.
  Emile Pencenat is in a cemetery, designing his own ornate tomb. In a disused postbox by the gate he discovers an envelope addressed to a Mlle Veronique Champourcieux. He is puzzled, but being a former postman, he dutifully purchases a stamp and posts the letter. When the body of this same Mlle Veronique is later discovered---pinned to her own piano by a bayonet attached to an ancient rite---Commissaire Laviolette is coaxed out of retirement to solve one of the most bizarre crimes imaginable.
  Tautly plotted and brimming with suspense, The Messengers of Death is a story of dark vengeance and avarice that will thrill and intrigue Magnan's ever-growing audience in the English-speaking world.- Publisher Marketing
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries
  Author: Mankell, Henning
  Publisher: Norton $ 26.95 ISBN: 9781565849945 Date: 2008
  Kirkus Booklist
  Filling in the missing pieces of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series, The Pyramid tells the story of Wallander's beginnings through five gripping short mysteries.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Fire
  Author: Neville, Katherine
  Publisher: Ballantine $ 26 ISBN: 9780345500670 Date: 2008
  PW
  A quest for a mystical chess service that once belonged to Charlemagne, spanning two centuries and three continents, continues in this long-anticipated sequel to The Eight.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Lover's Knot
  Author: O'Donohue, Clare
  Publisher: Penguin $ 13 ISBN: 9780452289796 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Nell Fitzgerald's joy is short-lived when her fiance announces he's calling off the wedding. Heartbroken, Nell flees to her grandmother's home in quaint Archers Rest. When the body of a local handyman is found murdered in the quilt shop, Nell finds herself drawn into the case.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Fear Death by Water
  Author: Roby, Kinley
  Publisher: Five Star $ 25.95 ISBN: 9781594146442 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• The Tenth Case
  Author: Teller, Joseph
  Publisher: Mira $ 7.99 ISBN: 9780778326052 Date: 2008
  PW
  Having married her elderly billionaire husband when she was 18, sexy young Samara Moss is now accused of stabbing him to death. Criminal defense attorney Harrison J.
  Updated 8.19.08
  

November...

• Dancing With Demons: A Mystery of Ancient Ireland
  Author: Tremayne, Peter
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312375645 Date: 2008
  PW
  In the winter of 669 C.E., the High King of Ireland is murdered and all evidence points to a particular clan chieftain - it's up to Fidelma to uncover the motive for the murder.
  Updated 8.19.08
  
• Burn Out
  Author: Muller, Marcia
  Publisher: Grand Central $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780446581073 Date: 2008
  PW LJ
  Traumatized by a recent investigation, Sharon McCone flees to her ranch in California's high desert country to contemplate her future. Determined not to investigate anything during her stay, McCone is drawn into the plight of a young woman, where danger lies closer than she expects.
  Updated 8.19.08
  

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