Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore Uncle Edgar's Mystery Bookstore 2864 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55407

Newsletter #96 December 2011-February 2012

Hours: M-F 10 am to 8 pm Sat. 10 am to 6 pm Sun. Noon to 5 pm Uncle Hugo's 612-824-6347 Uncle Edgar's 612-824-9984 Fax 612-827-6394 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.UncleHugo.com

Sales The 31st Anniversary Sale runs Thursday, December 1 through Sunday, December 11, giving you two weekends to take advantage of the sale. December 1 marks Uncle Edgar's 31st anniversary. Come into Uncle Edgar's or Uncle Hugo's and save 10% off everything except discount cards, gift certificates, or merchandise that is already marked 40% off. (All the jigsaw puzzles and most of the games are already 40% off.) A discount card will save you even more - you'll get both 10% savings from the discount card and 10% off from the sale. (Sale prices apply to in- store purchases, but not to mail, phone, or website orders.)

Our annual Inventory Reduction Sale will be December 26-31, and will feature deep discounts on things we really, really want to get rid of. It will not be a storewide sale like the 31st Anniversary Sale.

Author Events (All at Uncle Hugo's)

Saturday, December 3, 1-2pm: Kelly McCullough - Broken Blade (1st in a new fantasy series)

Saturday, December 17, 1-2pm: P.C. Hodgell - Honor's Paradox (latest in the Kencyr fantasy series)

Wednesday, January 4, 5:30-6:30pm: Kevin J. Anderson - Sisterhood of Dune (lastest in the sf saga)

Sunday, January 8, 1-2pm: Jo Walton - Among Others (fantasy novel)

Saturday, February 11, 1-2pm: Tate Hallaway (aka Lyda Morehouse) - Almost Everything (latest in the young adult Vampire of St. Paul urban fantasy series)

Holiday Schedule Saturday, December 24: Closing at 5pm Sunday, December 25: Closed Saturday, December 31: Closing at 5pm Sunday, January 1: Closed

Award News The for Best Novel went to Connie Willis for Blackout/All Clear (each title available as a $26.00 hc or $16.00 tr pb); Best Related Book went to Chicks Dig Time Lords: A Celebration of by the Women Who Love It edited by Lynne M. Thomas and Tara O'Shea ($14.95).

Many mystery awards were announced at Bouchercon:

The Anthony Awards included Best Novel to Bury Your Dead by ($24.99 signed hc or $14.99 tr pb), Best First Mystery to The Damage Done by Hilary Davidson ($24.99, $7.99 pb due in January), and Best Paperback Original to Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski ($13.99).

The Barry Awards included Best Novel to The Lock Artist by Steve Hamilton ($14.99 tr pb), Best First Novel to The Poacher's Son by Paul Doiron ($14.99), Best British Crime Novel to The Woodcutter by Reginald Hill ($25.99), Best Thriller to Thirteen Hours by Deon Meyer ($7.99), and Best Paperback Original to Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid ($14.99).

The Shamus Awards included Best P.I. Novel to No Mercy by Lori Armstrong ($7.99), Best Paperback Original to Asia Hand by Christopher C. Moore ($14.00), Best First P.I. Novel to In Search of Mercy by Michael Ayoob ($24.99 signed hc), plus The Eye Award (for lifetime achievement) to Ed Gorman and The Hammer Award (for best PI character) for V. I. Warshawski by . The Macavity Awards included Best Mystery Novel to Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny ($24.99 signed hc or $14.99 tr pb), Best First Mystery Novel to Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva ($14.99), Best Mystery- Related Nonfiction to Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks: 50 Years of Mysteries in the Making edited by John Curran ($16.99). The Sue Feder Historical Mystery Award went to City of Dragons by Kelli Stanley ($14.99).

Holiday Gift Ideas

Our single most popular gift option continues to be our gift certificate. We can issue one for any amount. It can be used at either or both Uncles. It can even be used for mail orders, and it can be purchased over the phone (if you have a Visa, Mastercard, or Discover Card) and we can mail it either to the purchaser or to the recipient, or we can just enter the balance on a credit file here at the store to avoid the risk of the gift certificate being lost.

Calendars are another popular gift item. There were fewer calendars that we were interested in ordering this year, and many of the calendars we ordered did not get produced. Almost all calendars for the U.S. are printed in the Far East, with the order-taking beginning in February, and the final decision is made in the Spring on which titles to actually produce and how many of each title, so that the finished products can come on a "slow boat from China" for distribution late SumBoris Vallejo & Julie Bell's Fantasy ($12.99), Dragons ($13.99, art by Ciruelo), The Gashlycrumb Tinies ($13.9, Edward Gormer.

The standard wall calendars include The Avengers ($13.95, the TV show), Boris Vallejo & Julie Bell's Fantasy ($12.99), Dragons ($13.99, art by Ciruelo), The Gashlycrumb Tinies ($13.9, ), George R. R. Martin: A Song of Ice and Fire ($17.00, art by ), Hammer Glamour ($13.95, women from Hammer Films), I Improved My Rate of Doing Nothing ($13.99, Dilbert), ($13.95, art from Heavy Metal), M.C. Escher: Inside Out ($13.99), The Princess Bride ($13.99, 25th anniversary of the movie), The Simpsons ($13.99), Ships of the Line ($14.99), and Tolkien ($14.99, art by Cor Blok). The only page-per-day style calendars we've receive are I Can Has Cheezburger? ($13.99 humorous photos of cats with captions), The Next Thing You Hear Is Something Called Leadership (13.99, Dilbert), and The Simpsons ($13.99). The only desk calendar we've received is The Book of Fictional Days: A Collection of Events that Did Not Really Happen: Mainly Mystery Edition ($10.00, locally produced in black and white, each day has a reference to an event that happened on that day in a work of fiction, usually a mystery novel).

Another very popular gift idea is signed books. We don't have space in this newsletter to list all the signed titles, so go to our website, click Browse Our New Books, scroll about half-way down the next (long) page and click Signed Books (for either Edgar's or Hugo's or All).

How's Business by Don Blyly

We're still hanging on, but sales have not gone up after the collapse of Borders, as we had hoped would happen. We've had an unusually large number of people come in this week, wonder around the store going "Wow!", and then on the way out the door without buying anything comment, "I'm sure glad you're still in business. What an amazing bookstore!"

Let me explain some of the expenses we have to cover in order to stay in business. I own the building and it's been paid off for several years, or else the cost of rent would have driven us out of business years ago. Just before the economy crashed, I heard what other area landlords were getting in rent and realized that I could have rented the building and made twice the income as I was making from working 70 hours per week. Most days I'm able to convince myself that being a bookseller is more fun than being a landlord, so I wasn't tempted to try to rent out the space. But my expenses include property tax (currently comes to almost $1800 month, more than double what it was 6 years ago), utilities (averages about $1000 per month, with the cost being lower in the spring and fall, higher in the summer, and much higher in the winter), insurance (averages about $1000 per month for all the different kinds I have to carry), bank charges (averages about $1000 per month, mainly for credit card processing), maintenance and repairs (including over $10,000 for a new air conditioner/furnace a couple of months ago), publishing the Newsletter (about $22,000 per year just for printing and postage), plus payroll and inventory. I think we'll have to increase the minimum price on used books soon, but I'll try to give advance warning so that people will have a chance to stock up before the price goes up.

About a week ago I read that one of the major publishers had a drop in sales of print books because of Borders going under, but because of people switching to e-books their total sales were up 1%; because the e-books are so much more profitable than printed books for the publisher, they still made 19% more profit than the same period the year before. Today I read that this company was cutting 10 people from the printed book sales force and adding 10 people to promote e-book sales. Another of the major paperback publishers has started a line of books to be issued only in e-book format but at mass market paperback prices, starting with romance reprints but with plans to expand this sales strategy to other genres. Another of the major publishers has told many of their authors that their books will no longer be reprinted in mass market paperback–the books will be published in hardcover, e-books, and then perhaps be reprinted in trade paperback, but will never be reprinted as mass market paperbacks. A few months ago I was hearing that the publishers were very concerned about helping the brick-and-mortar stores survive as "show rooms" for their books, but it now looks like many of the publishers have decided to instead try to push readers into buying e-books instead of printed books. After all, the profit margins for the publishers is much higher from e-books than from printed books, the channels of distribution are much simpler (a few giant corporations instead of thousands of independent bookstores), there's no problem with warehousing printed books, and no need to remainder books that were printed in numbers far exceeding demand.

All of the major publishers offer the signed copies of their books at the same price as the unsigned copies of the same book unless they do something to make the signed copy more special than just being signed (like a slipcase or an extra short story). One publisher is planning to try next summer to charge an extra $8.00 for signed copies of several books that are the same as the regular copies except for the signatures. I've spent a lot of time trying to convince them that this is a very BAD idea that will result in drastically reduced sales and lots of anger towards the publisher. Of course, some readers would also get angry with the bookstores and with the authors over this, when we have no control over such pricing decisions, and the authors didn't even know about the pricing plan for their signed books. Short Recommendations by Don Blyly

I've enjoyed all of Larry Correia's books, which tend to be full of and humor. I didn't know what to expect of Dead Six ($7.99), co-written by Larry Correia and Mike Kupari. It's labeled "Military Fiction" on the spine, and it's the first novel that either author has co-written. It's set in the near future, after the drug wars in Mexico caused the U.N. to send in peacekeeping forces and after a civil war breaks out in China between hard- core communists in the north and hard-core capitalists of the south. The story is told from the point of view of two characters. Michael Valentine, a veteran and former member of an elite private military company, is hired for what appears to be a top secret U.S. government black ops mission (named Dead Six) targeting terrorists in the small Persian Gulf state of Zubara. When he's hired for the mission, somebody jokes that if you die, you don't get paid the very high salary that is being offered. As the mission progresses, he notices that the dangerous assignments seem to be planned to kill off team members as well as terrorists. Lorenzo is an assassin and thief extraordinaire, who used to prey on law-abiding victims, but now feels much better preying on gun runners, terrorists, and other people who won't run to the police after being robbed. Lorenzo and his team are being blackmailed by a deadly international criminal to infiltrate the terrorist organization in Zubara and pull off an impossible heist or else their family members will be killed. At first, Michael and Lorenzo are unaware of each other, but as each team performs their missions, they keep screwing up the plans of the other team. The book is full of action and has some humor. The co-writing worked well. Although most of the loose ends are wrapped up by the end of the book, a sequel is planned, and I look forward to reading it.

Cold Magic by Kate Elliot ($7.99) is the first of a trilogy, and is an alternate history fantasy that throws in almost everything but the kitchen sink, but still manages to work very well. The Romans failed to defeat Carthage, leaving the Phoenicians in control of the seas and a weaker Roman Empire on land. About 1000 years before the story begins (in the 1800's, dated from Augustus coming to power in Rome), the Roman Empire pretty much collapsed, but not before having a heavy impact on the cultures of western Europe. About 400 years before the story begins, the Persians conquered Northern Africa, causing many of the Phoenicians to flee to Europe and form alliances with the Celtic princes. About 100 years later, an outbreak of ghouls south of the Sahara destroyed the west African empire of Mali, with many of the Mali elite hiring Phoenician ships to take them, their gold, and their magic to Europe, where they marry into the families of the Celtic princes. Some of the Mali hired Phoenicians to take them to South America and eventually to North America, where they met the "trolls", intelligent descendants of the dinosaurs who are slightly more technologically advanced than the humans and very interested in trade with the humans (or "rats" as they like to call the humans). And then there is the new Ice Age, which has lowered the sea level enough to connect England to France. And the cold mages are the most powerful of several different kinds of magic users. Throw in people (and others) passing back and forth between our world and the spirit world, plus the Wild Hunt, plus too many other things to mention, and you have a very interesting background for the story. Catherine ("Cat") is an orphan approaching her 20th birthday, living with a Phoenician family of modest means that she believes to be her aunt and uncle and various cousins, including Beatrice, who is a couple of months younger and her best friend. When Cat is suddenly forced against her will to marry a cold mage, she starts to learn that much of what she thought she knew is wrong. There's a little too much breathless romance thrown into the story for my taste, but not enough to keep me from enjoying the book very much. The second of the trilogy, Cold Fire ($14.99), came out in September, but I haven't had a chance to read it yet. The concluding volume will probably be out next fall.

Snuff by Terry Pratchett ($25.99) is officially Discworld novel #33, but it's actually around the 40th if you include the young adult ones, and it is very good. Sam Vimes, the commander of the Ankh- Morpork City Watch, is forced by his wife and Lord Vetinari to take a vacation in the country. He starts out very unhappy about being on vacation, but he finds crime (including murder) in the country and is soon happily back at work chasing down criminals while on vacation, uttering pithy remarks about law, order, chaos, how coppers should behave, and his opinions of various items of food as he goes along. But what does "happy as a cat full of sixpences" really mean?

After Connie Willis won both the Nebula and the Hugo Awards for best novel of the year, I picked up one of her older novels, Passage ($7.99, 2001). It is correctly labeled "Fiction" rather than "Science Fiction". At a Colorado hospital there are 3 people researching near-death experiences. Maurice Mandrake is a best-selling author who doesn't care about science, and tries to get patients to tell him what he wants to hear for his next best-selling book on near-death experiences. Almost everybody in the hospital detests him, but he donated so much money from his previous best-seller that he can get away with almost anything. Dr. Joanna Lander is a psychologist doing serious scientific research into near-death experiences, and Dr. Richard Wright is a neurologist who has just begun a study trying to duplicate near-death experiences using psychoactive drugs. Joanna starts helping Richard with his research project, and eventually allows herself to be a research subject in his study because of problems with his other research subjects. The book is full of interesting characters (especially Maisie, a very bright young with a serious heart condition and a mother in complete denial about how serious Maisie's condition really is) and interesting side-stories. The pacing is slower than most of the books I normally read because of all the subplots, but it was well worth reading.

Mystery Reviews by Gerri Balter

The Damage Done by Hilary Davidson ($24.99, $7.99 pb due in January, winner of 2011 Anthony Award for Best 1st Novel) starts when Lily Moore comes back to New York to identify the body of her sister. Lily is sure her sister died of a drug overdose. When she sees the body, she realizes it isn't her sister. So who is the dead woman and what happened to her sister? That's what Lily is determined to find out. She finds out more than she wishes to know. Her former boyfriend seems to have had a relationship with her sister even when they were together. Then there's her sister's former boyfriend who will do anything to find her. Lily's life is put in danger by what she finds out, but that won't stop her. She will find the truth because she loves her sister in spite of their differences.

The Sherlockian by Graham Moore ($24.99 hc, $14.99 tr pb due in January) tells two stories. One has to do was what might have happened to Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle between the time he killed Sherlock Holmes and brought him back and the other has to do with the search for a missing diary of Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle and who killed the man who said he found it. The novel is a mixture of fact and fiction with fascinating characters including Bram Stoker, two intricate plots intertwined, and a fascinating picture of what life was like at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Normally I don't read Author's Notes nor do I recommend people read them. This time, I strongly suggest you read it. After reading this novel, I'm adding a trip to Switzerland to visit the Sherlock Holmes museum to my bucket list.

Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny ($24.99 signed hc or $14.99 tr pb) is the one thing Chief Inspector Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir can't do. Gamache is blaming himself for the deaths of people in his command. He believes his mistakes caused their deaths. He leaves his home and goes to Quebec City to get away from his nightmares. Unfortunately, his nightmares follow him. Then he becomes involved in the investigation of a murder in the only English language library in Quebec City. It is a way for him to forget his pain. Meanwhile Jean-Guy Beauvoir is sent to Three Pines while he is recovering from his wounds. Gamache sends him there because he isn't sure the right man went to prison for the murder of a hermit. While both men try to solve their cases, the reader learns what happened that causes Gamache and Jean-Guy so much pain. I admit that I felt a bond with Georgiana Neverall in Lead-Pipe Cinch by Christy Evans ($6.99) not because of her job as a plumber's apprentice. I know nothing about plumbing. But because she wants to keep her past private. She used to be a hot shot computer expert. She even had her own company. Then she met Blake Weston. She dated him. She made him a partner. Then he took the company away from her and left her with nothing. She comes home to make a fresh start in a new career. Then she meets Blake on the job she is working on. When he's murdered, she is the prime suspect. Her friends want to help, but she doesn't want to admit she was a fool. She's determined to find out the truth on her own which means lying to the police and her friends, and putting herself in a situation which might mean the end of her life.

Abby Knight is like most people. When she has a cause that she believes in, she will do whatever it takes. In Sleeping with Anemone by Kate Collins ($6.99), that means putting her life in danger. She doesn't realize that's what's going to happen when she tries to stop Uniworld Foods from putting a dairy farm nearby. She wants to stop them from their harmful farming practices. Even when she begins to receive threats, she thinks it's a ploy to stop her. Then her cousin is kidnapped by someone who thinks she's Abby. Her flower shop is trashed. Her niece is kidnapped by someone who thinks she's Abby. Even when Abby backs down, the threats keep coming. Someone steals the brooches her mother makes to sell at her flower shop. Abby feels that she has to find out the truth so she can get on with her life. What she doesn't realize is that the person who is after her won't stop until she is dead.

Borderline by ($9.99) refers to the border between and Mexico in Big Bend National Park through which the Rip Grande flows. At one time no one patrolled that border and it was opened. Then 9/11 happened and the border was closed and it was patrolled. Anna Pigeon and her husband, Paul, go there on a raft trip with a group of people. It's more than a vacation. Anna is recovering from what happened to her on Isle Royale. She has just started to relax when things began to happen. They come across a cow that is trapped. Anna, who has taken one life, feels that she must rescue this one. While they try to rescue the trapped animal, a storm comes up and the high water causes their raft to overturn. As they swim to shore, one of the other people on the raft finds a woman who is very pregnant and close to death. The woman dies but Anna does a C- section and saves the baby, a girl. When they try to find a way out, someone starts shooting at them. The killer kills two of the group before they are rescued. While Anna and her husband are recovering from their ordeal, someone tries to kidnap the baby girl they are caring for. Anna is determined to protect the baby girl until the proper authorities come for her. The others believe that the woman was a Mexican who tried to cross the border so that the baby would be born American. Anna isn't so sure. From what she saw, the woman looked as if she had money and wouldn't have needed to cross the border. By the time Anna learns the truth, the killer has captured both her and the baby. She will do what is needed to save the baby and keep herself from being killed.

Faithful Place ($16.00) by Tana French is a neighborhood in Dublin Ireland where there isn't much faith. The story begins in 1985 when nineteen- year-old Francis Mackey is ready to leave Faithful Place with the girl he loves, Rose Daly. When she doesn't meet him, he leaves his dysfunctional family and becomes an undercover cop. He never plans to go back to them. Then his sister, Jackie, one of the few family members he is still in contact with, calls to tell him that Rose's suitcase was found during remodeling of one of the apartments. He always thought she ran off without him. He forces himself to go back and examines the suitcase's contents. It tells him she didn't run off. With that evidence, he finds her remains. He finds that he still cares for her and feels compelled to find her killer even though the detective in charge warns him off. Then his youngest brother falls out of a window and dies. The detective in charge believes it is either an accident or suicide. Francis knows he's been murdered, by the same person who killed Rose. He believes he knows who the killer is, even though he has no proof, and plans his own form of revenge. His nine-year-old daughter has her own plans for she thinks she knows who the killer is too. Now he has to confront the killer before the killer does something drastic to his child.

Damage Control by J.A. Jance ($9.99) is well named. Joanna Brady, Cochise County Sheriff, has a lot to balance on her plate. Her new baby is keeping her and her husband up at night. Her husband has a chance to go out and promote his new book. In order for him to do that, they have to find someone to care for the baby while she is at work. On top of that, she has several cases to investigate. An old couple drives off a cliff on purpose or maybe not. A fire was set destroying a trailer and killing some of the inhabitants. Two trash bags filled with human remains were found. Some of the cases are related. It's up to Joanne and her team to solve them.

Face Time by ($7.99) about families. Charlotte "Charlie" McNally is juggling her career as a TV reporter, visiting her mom who is recovering from surgery, and trying to figure out how to relate to her boyfriend's daughter, who isn't happy about sharing her father with someone who isn't her mother. Then there's the story she's working on, trying to find evidence to free Dorinda Sweeney from prison. She's been convicted of murdering her husband. The problem is that Dorinda doesn't want Charlie's help. She refuses to talk to her. Normally that would be enough to stop Charlie. Not this time. Her boss wants this story to run during sweeps and Charlie's producer promised it would be ready. Charlie wants to convince Dorinda to talk to her. Someone keeps trying to stop her, which only makes her more determined. Then she realizes why Dorinda doesn't want her to be involved. It has to do with family. Charlie has to make some serious decisions that might cost her everything.

RECENTLY RECEIVED AND FORTHCOMING SCIENCE FICTION Already received

-- #437 $9.99 (The secrets of 's barmy army; Roy Skelton: A tribute to the voice of the (and Zippy!); Torchwood: Miracle Day; more)

-- Doctor Who Magazine #438 $9.99 (David Walliams forms a new double-act with Matt Smith; previews of 'Let's Kill Hitler'; more)

-- Doctor Who Magazine #439 $8.99 (Series finale: wed or dead? the Cybermen are back; more)

-- Fantasy & Science Fiction November / December 2011 $7.50 (New fiction, reviews, more)

-- Locus #608 September 2011 $6.95 (Interviews with Jay Lake and Alex Bledsoe; Hugo Award winners; forthcoming books; industry news, reviews, more)

-- Locus #609 October 2011 $6.95 (Interviews with Margo Lanagan and Beth Bernobich; industry news, reviews, more) -- Locus #610 November 2011 $6.95 (Interviews with Geoff Ryman and Andy Duncan; industry news, reviews, more)

Adams, Guy -- The Men Who Sold the World $11.99 (Torchwood: PBO; When Oscar Lupe appears 20,000 feet up in the air, his body is frozen solid and falling to earth. It shatters on impact. Soon after, a CIA squad goes rogue with a very special cargo marked 'Torchwood' that they've been escorting from somewhere called Cardiff. The Agency puts Rex Matheson on the case. As the strange deaths pile up, Rex realizes there must be experimental tech out there, but someone is obstructing him at every turn. Rex is the CIA's golden boy - but has he met his match in the evasive Mr Wynter?)

Augarde, Steve -- X-Isle $9.99 (YA; Ever since the floods washed the world away, survivors have been desperate to win a place on an island where life is rumored to be easier than on what's left of the mainland. When Baz and Ray are chosen, they discover it's no paradise, but a violent place ruled by a religious fanatic. To protect themselves, they plan to build a mighty defense weapon. But can they complete it in time, and are they really prepared to use it to secure their freedom?)

Baum, L. Frank -- Little Wizard Stories of Oz $14.99 (Reissue; Kids; Collection of six short stories; includes the original full-color illustrations)

Baxter, Stephen -- The H-Bomb Girl $15.00 (1962: In Liverpool, new music is bursting onto the streets, promising to change everything. In Cuba, nuclear tensions are at breaking point, and the end of the world could be just days away. Meanwhile, 14-year-old Laura Mann is on the run, hunted by strange forces fighting over the future of humanity)

Black, H/Naifeh, T -- Kind $12.99 (Good Neighbors #3: YA; Graphic novel; the fey have taken over her city, and tension between the humans and faeries is growing. Rue feels pulled in both directions. Can she fix the rift between the fey and the humans? Or does she have the courage to continue her grandfather's interrupted plan?)

Brown, Palmer -- Beyond the Pawpaw Trees $14.95 (Anna Lavinia #1: Reissue; Kids; Wondrous things happen when Anna Lavinia, a young girl who lives in a house behind a grove of pawpaw trees, sets off to travel to her aunt's house)

Caine, Rachel -- Last Breath $17.99 (Morganville Vampires #11: YA; After three vampires vanish without a trace, Claire discovers that the last person seen with one of the missing vampires is someone new to town. After an uneasy encounter with him, Claire is certain Magnus isn't merely human. But is he a vampire, or something else entirely?)

Carey, Janet Lee -- The Beast of Noor $7.99 (Noor #1: Kids; For over 300 years, a monster known as the Shriker has roamed Shalem Wood, slaughtering those unfortunate enough to wander on to his path. Most people have forgotten that once upon a time the Shriker was a loyal dog, until he was betrayed by his master and cursed to live a bloodthirsty life. But Miles and Hanna have not forgotten - it was their ancestor who betrayed the dog)

Carey, Mike/Gross, P -- Leviathan $14.99 (Unwritten #4: PBO; Full color graphic novel; the mysterious Cabal auditions a new assassin and Tom seeks out 'the source'. The source of what? He's not really sure, but it looks like a whale)

Case, Jonathan -- Dear Creature $15.99 (PBO; Black & white graphic novel. Deep beneath the waves, Grue broods. He no longer wants to eat lovely beachgoers. He found Shakespeare's plays in cola bottles and now he yearns to join the world above)

Castellucci, Cecil -- First Day on Earth $17.99 (YA; Mal lives on the fringes of high school. Angry. Misunderstood. Yet loving the world - or, at least, an idea of the world. Then he meets Hooper. Who says he's from another planet. And may be going home very soon) Collins, S/Gresh, L -- The Hunger Games : The Unauthorized Guide to the Series $12.99 (PBO; YA; Nonfiction; go deeper into the post- apocalyptic world created by Collins - a future where boys and girls are chosen to compete in a televised fight to the death)

Cooper, Brenda -- Mayan December $14.95 (PBO; Dr. Alice Cameron studies ancient Mayan culture. She and her daughter Nixie are on the Yucatan Peninsula in December 2012. When Nixie disappears into the past in the Mayan jungle, rationality and mysticism, the present and the past, start merging. A savvy scientist, a dreadlocked time- traveler, an ancient shaman, a noble Mayan couple, a computer nerd, and an 11-year old traverse the past and present in a search for the meaning of life and a way to save two worlds)

Costello, Matthew -- Rage $15.00 (Novel based on the game. When Lt. Nick Raine emerges from his life-sustaining Ark, he finds a world indistinguishable from nightmare. He must fight to save the future of humanity on a post-apocalyptic Earth)

Davis, Gerry -- Doctor Who and the Cybermen $6.99 (Reissue; Featuring the as played by Patrick Troughton, and his companions Polly, Ben, and Jamie. In 2070, the Earth's weather is controlled from a base on the moon. But when the Doctor and his friends arrive here, they discover problems with the weather control systems as well as a mysterious plague. With Jamie injured, and members of the crew going missing, the Doctor realizes that the moonbase is being attacked as a prelude to an invasion of Earth. And the Doctor thinks he knows who's behind it: the Cybermen)

Del Toro, G/Hogan, C -- The Night Eternal $26.99 (Strain #3: Two years after the vampiric virus was unleashed, the future of humankind lies in the hands of a ragtag band of freedom fighters. But there is evidence of a traitor in their midst. And is the one man who holds the answer to destroying the ancient vampire known as the Master the one who can be trusted with the fate of the world?)

Dick, PK/Parker, Tony -- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #6 $24.99 (Full color graphic novel; collects issues 21-24 of the adaptation of the classic sf novel)

Dicks, Terrance -- Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen $6.99 (Reissue; Features the Second Doctor as played by Patrick Troughton, and his companions Jamie and Victoria. Fearing an attack by the legendary Yeti, the monks at Det-Sen Monastery are prepared to defend themselves. The Doctor and his friends join forces with an English explorer seeking the elusive abominable snowmen. They soon discover that these Yeti are not timid animals, but the unstoppable servants of an alien intelligence) Dicks, Terrance -- Doctor Who and the Invasion $6.99 (Reissue; Featuring the as played by , and his companion Liz Shaw. The Doctor is exiled to Earth in the 20th century, his appearance once again changed. His arrival coincides with a peculiar meteorite shower - the Nestene Consciousness beginning its first attempt to invade Earth using killer . Only the Doctor and UNIT can stop the attack. But the Doctor is in the hospital, and his old friend the Brigadier doesn't even recognize him)

Doctorow, Cory -- The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow $12.00 (PBO; Collection; includes the title novella, an essay on creativity vs. copyright, and an interview)

Doctorow, Cory -- With a Little Help $18.95 (Collection; 12 previously uncollected sf stories, featuring mad inventors, zombies with ADD, garbage men who fight the power, gamers drafting bylaws for their guilds, and more)

Fagan, Deva -- Circus Galacticus $16.99 (Kids; Trix can deal with being an orphan charity case. She can even fight back against the stranger who tries to steal the meteorite her parents trusted her to protect. But now the Circus Galacticus has come to town, and the dazzling young Ringmaster has offered Trix the chance to be a part of it. Trix will discover an entire universe full of deadly enemies and potential friends, not to mention space leeches, ancient alien artifacts, and exploding chocolate desserts. And she just might unravel the secrets of her own past - if she can survive long enough)

Foss, Chris -- Hardware: The Definitive SF Works of Chris Foss $34.95 (Full color retrospective of his art)

Frater, Rhiannon -- Fighting to Survive $14.99 (As the World Dies #2: Survivors of the zombie plague have found tenuous safety in the walled-off center of a small Texas town. Now they must find enough food, establish laws, and fight off both the undead who want to eat them and the living bandits who want to rob and kill them)

Gilman, Carolyn Ives -- Isles of the Forsaken $15.95 (PBO; Spaeth is destined to life as a ritual healer on a tiny, isolated island - but she will be caught in a perpetual bond between herself and the people she has cured. Is it slavery, or love? Harg, a rebellious veteran, returns to find his home transformed by conquest. And Nathaway, a well-intentioned imperialist, arrives to teach Spaeth's people 'civilization,' only to become an explorer in the strange realm of the Forsakens. These two men will propel Spaeth into a vortex of war, temptation, and - just possibly - freedom)

Goodrich, Clifford -- The Football Racketeers / Murders in Crazyland $14.95 (Whisperer #4: Pulp reprints) Goss, James -- First Born $11.99 (Torchwood: PBO; Gwen and Rhys are in the isolated village of Rawbone, where the locals are taking an unhealthy interest in their daughter. And something is very wrong - something with echoes of a life they thought they'd left behind. As they uncover the village's terrible past, Gwen discovers that Torchwood will never leave them behind, and now she and Rhys stand alone in defense of the Earth)

Grant, Maxwell -- The Shadow Laughs / Voice of Death $14.95 (Shadow #49: Pulp reprints)

Grant, Maxwell -- The Man from Shanghai / The Golden Dog Murders / Jabberwocky Thrust $14.95 (Shadow #50: Pulp reprints)

Grant, Maxwell -- The Living Joss / Judge Lawless $14.95 (Shadow #51: Pulp reprints)

Grant, Maxwell -- The Crime Master / The Fifth Napoleon $14.95 (Shadow #52: Pulp reprints)

Grant, Maxwell -- Garden of Death / The Vampire Murders $14.95 (Shadow #53: Pulp reprints)

Grant, Maxwell -- The Golden Quest / The Masked Headsman $14.95 (Shadow #54: Pulp reprints)

Grazier, Kevin R. (ed) -- Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists $14.95 (PBO; 13 essays about the TV series by scientists, science writers, science fiction writers, and historians) Gresh, Lois H. -- Eldritch Evolutions $15.95 (PBO; Collection; 26 weird tales)

Haig, Matt -- The Radleys $14.99 (Peter and Helen are abstainers, vampires who view blood drinking as an addiction. They've kept the truth from their children, but this backfires when their daughter's vegan diet leads to blood lust, culminating in her ripping a boy to shreds. Enter Uncle Will, an unrepentant vampire, whose subtle and dangerous charm brings even more trouble)

Halpern, Marty (ed) -- Alien Contact $15.99 (PBO; Anthology; 26 of the best stories of the last 30 years)

Herge -- Tintin in America $8.99 (Tintin Young Readers Edition #03: Kids; Full color. Includes the original graphic novel plus background material. Tintin comes to the US to clean up the mean streets of Chicago, and ends up tracking a gangster into the Wild West)

Herge -- The Broken Ear $8.99 (Tintin Young Readers Edition #06: Kids; Full color. Includes the original graphic novel plus background material. A sacred tribal statue has been stolen from the museum. Tintin and Snowy are on the case. But someone is creating phony statues to throw them off, and it looks like Tintin has some statue-hunting competition)

Hickman, Tracy -- Embers of Atlantis $8.99 (Fireborn: PBO; Novel based on the game. 21st- century London: Ethan knows there is magic, and he wants nothing to do with it. Yet, after witnessing a display of sorcery, ancient memories, seen through the eyes of a dragon, fill his mind. Could he really be a dragon of old?)

Hughart, Barry -- The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox: The Bridge of Birds / The Story of the Stone / Eight Skilled Gentlemen $45.00 (Omnibus; reprints three humorous fantasy adventure novels set in ancient China)

Hughes, Matthew -- The Other $14.95 (PBO; Meet Luff Imbry, an insidiously clever con man. He likes good food, good wine, good stolen goods, and having the upper hand. When a business rival gets the drop on him, he finds himself abandoned on the far-off, isolated world of Fulda, and must rely on his infamous criminal wit to survive)

Hulke, Malcolm -- Doctor Who and the Cave Monsters $6.99 (Reissue; Featuring the Third Doctor as played by Jon Pertwee, and his companion Liz Shaw. UNIT is called in to investigate security at a secret research center under Wenley Moor. The work at the center has awakened a group of Silurians - intelligent reptiles from prehistoric times who are appalled to find 'their' planet populated by upstart apes. The Doctor hopes to negotiate a peace, but there are those on both sides who cannot bear the thought of humans and Silurians living together) Jackson, S/Kovalic, J -- Munchkin Booty: Fish & Ships 15-card Expansion Pack $4.99 (Kids; 15 new cards (packs are identical - same cards in each) featuring a range of fish, plus new ships and ship enhancers)

Jackson, S/Kovalic, J -- Munchkin Zombies 2: Armed and Dangerous $19.95 (Kids; Expansion set for Munchkin Zombies. Shuffle and shamble your way to victory with 112 new cards)

Jackson, S/Kovalic, J -- Munchkin: Monster Enhancers 15-card Expansion Pack $4.99 (Kids; 15 new cards (packs are identical - same cards in each) to make the monsters tougher and send other players crying for their mommies)

Jackson, S/Kovalic, J -- Munchkin: Santa's Revenge 15-card Expansion Pack $4.99 (Kids; 15 new cards (packs are identical - same cards in each) including Santa-themed monsters, weapons, and armor)

Jones, Stephen (ed) -- The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 22 $13.95 (Anthology; 23 of the best stories of 2010)

Keith Jr., William H. -- Free Fall $8.99 (Android: PBO; Novel based on the game. A murder investigation takes detective Rick Harrison from New Angeles to the moon base of Heinlein)

Kibuishi, Kazu -- The Last Council $12.99 (Amulet #4: PBO; Kids; Full color graphic novel. Emily, Navin, and the crew arrive in Cielis, but they soon realize it's not the utopia they expected. While Trellis and Luger are taken prisoner, Emily must fight for her life in a series of tests that will determine which young Stonekeepers will join the Guardian Council)

Krentz, Jayne Ann -- Canyons of the Night $7.99 (Arcane Society: Looking Glass #3: PBO; After fifteen years away, Charlotte Enright and her teen crush Slade Attridge have returned to the island of Rainshadow. But will their psi talents and Slade's dust bunny companion be enough to keep them from getting drawn into the darkness of the mysterious woods known as the Preserve?)

Kuhfeld, Ellen -- Secret Murder: Who Shall Judge? $15.95 (Alternate history set in a North America settled by Europeans in the Middle Ages. Thorolf Pike was trouble. Declared an outlaw and exiled from his home, he had come from Surtsheim, where his fellow Norsemen lived, to Northlanding, where English settlers lived. Now he was dead, by an unknown hand. Who killed him? And should the murderer be judged by English law, or by Norse law?)

Lamberson, Gregory -- Cosmic Forces $14.95 (Jake Helman #3: PBO; NYC PI Jake Helman battles human assassins and supernatural creatures to uncover the mystery behind the Order of Avademe and a monster willing to destroy heaven and hell to rule the earth) Lasky, Kathryn -- Shadow Wolf $6.99 (Wolves of the Beyond #2: Kids; Faolan was born with a twisted paw, and his wolf clan abandoned him in the forest to die. But with the help of the grizzly bear who raised him as her own, Faolan survived. Now he's made it back to his clan as the lowest ranking pack member. When he is framed for the murder of a wolf pup, Faolan must catch the real culprit)

Lassiter, Rhiannon -- Void: Hex / Shadows / Ghost $9.99 (Hex #1 / #2 / #3: YA; Omnibus; the CPS, a secret government agency, is on a mission to seek and destroy the Hex - human mutants with supercomputer minds. Raven and her brother Wraith must use Raven's Hex powers and Wraith's street skills to save first their long-lost sister, and then the entire Hex community)

Littlefield, Sophie -- Banished $8.99 (YA; 16- year-old Hailey can't help the feeling that she has some kind of gift, or curse, that makes the other kids shy away from her. Drawn to those in pain, those who need to be healed, when her dog Rascal is hit by a car, she learns that not only can she heal, she can bring the suffering back to life. And this power to heal is just the beginning)

Lovecraft, H.P. - of interest -- Kingsport Dreams Asylum Pack $14.95 (Call of Cthulhu Card Game: Reintroduces a classic Asylum Pack in the Forgotten Lore cycle. 60 cards (3 each of 20 unique cards))

Lovecraft, H.P. - of interest: Various Creators -- Cthulhu Tales: Delirium $19.99 (PBO; Full color; reprints stories from Cthulhu Tales 1 (2006 series), Cthulhu Tales: Tainted, Cthulhu Tales: The Risings, and Cthulhu Tales 1-12 (2008 series))

Lovecraft, H.P. - of interest: Various Creators -- Cthulhu Tales: Madness $19.99 (PBO; Full color; reprints stories from Cthulhu Tales 1 (2006 series), Cthulhu Tales: Tainted, Cthulhu Tales: The Risings, and Cthulhu Tales 1-12 (2008 series))

Lundoff, Catherine -- A Day at the Inn, a Night at the Palace and Other Stories $15.00 (Collection; short fiction about swashbuckling female pirates, opera singers, mercenaries, Shakespeare's sister, bards, spies, and more)

Maberry, Jonathan -- Dead of Night $14.99 (PBO; A prison doctor injects a condemned serial killer with a formula designed to keep his consciousness awake while his body rots in the grave, but the drugs have unforeseen side effects. The killer wakes up before he's buried. Hungry. Infected. Contagious)

McHugh, Maureen F. -- After the Apocalypse $16.00 (PBO; Collection; 9 sf stories exploring catastrophes large and small and their aftermath) McNeil, Carla Speed -- Library Volume 2: Dream Sequence / Mystery Date / The Rescuers / Five Crazy Women $24.99 (Finder Vol. 4 / 5 / 6 / 7: PBO; Omnibus reprint of 4 black & white graphic novels, collecting issues 23-38 of the Eisner Award-winning sf comic book series, plus extensive story notes and a full-color gallery of cover art)

McNeill, Graham -- Ghouls of the Miskatonic $8.99 (Arkham Horror: Dark Waters #1: PBO; Novel based on the game. 1920s: A murder has upset the tranquility of Arkham, Massachusetts. When the mutilated body of a student is found on the grounds of Miskatonic University, the authorities struggle to determine who - or what - is responsible. When two more students go missing, is it the same killer, or something much darker?)

Meding, Kelly -- Trance $7.99 (Meta War #1: PBO; 15 years after Trance's telepathic powers disappeared, they inexplicably return. She heads to LA to track down the surviving members of her team and discover who restored her powers - and why)

Michaelis, Antonia -- Dragons of Darkness $8.95 (YA; Christopher, a shy German boy, doesn't have much in common with Jumar, the prince of Nepal. He's not even sure how he ended up in the strange prince's company. But someone must help Jumar fight the beautiful yet deadly dragons have come out of the mountains, and the other, even more dangerous forces that plague the land) Michaelis, Antonia -- Moon $9.95 (YA; A Batchelder Honor Book. Raka, the doomed young bride of a violent merchant, tells a servant boy the story of Farhad, a thief and unlikely hero, who must retrieve a famous jewel in order to save a kidnapped princess from a demon king. Farhad's companion on the journey is a wisecracking white tiger with an unnatural fear of water)

Mitsuse, Ryu -- Ten Billion Days and One Hundred Billion Nights $25.99 (Ten billion days - that is how long it will take the philosopher Plato to determine the true systems of the world. One hundred billion nights - that is how far into the future he and Christ and Siddhartha Gautama will travel to witness the end of the world and also its fiery birth)

Monette, Sarah -- The Bone Key: The Necromantic Mysteries of Kyle Murchison Booth $14.95 (Collection; museum archivist Booth is drawn into the darkness, where he will find answers to mysteries unsolved for decades, and learn truths about himself he would rather not have known)

Moody, David -- Autumn: Disintegration $14.99 (Autumn #4: PBO; Events force two groups of survivors together, one devoted to brute force, the other depending on subtlety, planning, and tactics. Surrounded by legions of corpses, when they can't agree on how to do battle, it's no longer clear whether the biggest threat is outside the shelter, or within) Moorcock, Michael -- The Coming of the Terraphiles, or, Pirates of the Second Aether!! $12.99 (Doctor Who: The Doctor and Amy have joined a group obsessed with Earth history, re-enacters competing to win the Arrow of Law. But someone is so desperate to get the prize that they're willing to kill for it)

Morgenstern, Erin -- Night Circus $26.95 (Behind the scenes of the circus, a competition is underway between two young magicians, Celia and Marco. They've been trained since childhood for this - but they don't know that in this game only one can be left standing. Despite themselves, Celia and Marco fall in love. But true love or not, the game must play out)

Morris, Jan -- Hav: Last Letters from Hav / Hav of the Myrmidons $15.95 (Shortlisted for the 2007 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Rumored to be the site of Troy, captured during the Crusades and recaptured by Saladin, the Mediterranean city- state of Hav is home to several architectural marvels, as well as an annual rooftop race that is a feat of athleticism and insanity. But that is its glorious past and quaint 20th-century iteration. 21st-century Hav is sanitized and monetized, a pariah nation ruled by radical nationalists who rewrote its rich history to reflect their own blinkered vision of the past)

Morris, Jonathan -- Touched by an Angel $11.99 (Doctor Who: In 2003, Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident. Her husband Mark is still grieving. Then he receives a envelope, posted eight years ago, containing a set of instructions and a simple message: 'You can save her.' Later that night, Mark glances at a security monitor - to see himself in grainy black and white, behind him a stone statue of an angel covering its eyes, as though weeping. But when Mark turns, there's nothing there. As Mark is given the chance to save Rebecca, it's up to the Doctor, Amy, and Rory to save the world. Because this time the Weeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon)

Myron, V/Witter, B -- Dewey's Nine Lives $15.00 (Nonfiction; the Spencer, Iowa, public library cat is back with more heartwarming moments and life lessons to share, all told from the perspective of Dewey's 'mom', retired librarian Vicki Myron)

Nassise, Joseph -- Eyes to See $22.99 (Jeremiah Hunt has been broken by a malevolent force that has taken his young daughter as well as his marriage, his career, and his reputation. Desperate to reclaim what he has lost, Hunt finally turns to the supernatural for justice)

O'Bannon, Rockne et al -- Red Sky at Morning $12.99 (Farscape #5: PBO; Full color graphic novel. The darkest moment of Farscape history begins here with the prelude to the War for the Uncharted Territories) O'Brien, Caragh -- Birthmarked $9.99 (YA; Gaia, a 16-year-old midwife, has always believed it is her duty, with her mother, to hand over a small quota of babies to those who live inside the walls of the Enclave. But when Gaia's parents are arrested by the people they so dutifully serve, she begins to question everything she has been taught to believe. Now her choice is simple: enter the world of the Enclave, to either rescue her parents or die trying)

Paolini, Christopher -- Inheritance $27.99 (Inheritance #4: YA; Long months of training and battle have brought victories and hope, as well as heartbreaking loss. Eragon and Saphira have come further than anyone dared to hope. But can they topple the evil king and restore justice to Alagaesia? Signed copies)

Paterson, K & J -- The Flint Heart $19.99 (Kids; Freely abridged from Eden Phillpotts' 1910 fantasy. A Stone Age man demands a talisman to harden his heart, allowing him to take control of his tribe. The tribe's magic man creates the Flint Heart, but the cruelty of it destroys the tribe. Thousands of years later, the talisman reemerges. Can Charles and his sister Unity find a way to rescue humans, fairies, and animals alike from its dark influence?)

Pelegrimas, Marcus -- Extinction Agenda $7.99 (Skinners #6: PBO; Strobel and Warnecki seek a union with European blood hunters the Gypsy Amriany as a final, desperate means of preventing the monster apocalypse. But traitors from the ranks of their own kind could doom humanity's efforts to survive)

Pinborough, Sarah -- Long Time Dead $11.99 (Torchwood: PBO; Cardiff Bay. The government has ordered the excavation of the wreckage of a secret underground base. DCI Tom Cutler is watching from a distance. There are people in his dreams he feels he should know. The disbanded Torchwood Institute spent a century accumulating non- terrestrial artifacts and catching aliens. Who knows what - or who - might still be intact down there. But by the time they find the first body, Suzie Costello is long gone)

Polansky, Steven -- The Bradbury Report $15.00 (2071: In the US, the only nation where human cloning is legal, Ray gets a call from a woman he used to know, asking Ray's help in hiding an escaped clone. Ray is unwilling - until he learns the clone is his)

Professor Happycat -- How to Take Over Teh Wurld: A LOLcat Guide 2 Winning $12.00 (200 LOLcats that give kittehs the lessons they need to take over teh world (or at least their hoomins))

Professor Happycat -- I Can Has Cheezburger?: A LOLcat Colleckshun $10.00 (Fresh from teh internets, here come 200 LOLcats (pictures of cats with funny captions) from the popular website) Professor Happycat -- I Has a Hot Dog: What Your Dog Is Really Thinking $12.00 (PBO; Over 200 LOLdogs (dog pictures with funny captions) let you know what dogs are thinking about kibble, toys, and their fellow pets)

Professor Happycat -- Teh Itteh Bitteh Book of Kittehs: A LOLcat Guide 2 Kittens $12.00 (PBO; The focus is now on the cutest cat of all: tiny, heartwarming, adorable kittens. The result is page after page of uber-cuteness that will charm anyone who loves kitties (possibly causing head-splorts))

Rankin, Robert -- The Japanese Devil Fish Girl and Other Unnatural Attractions $12.95 (1895: Nearly a decade after Mars invaded Earth, the Red Planet is now part of the ever-expanding British Empire. But an shady sideshow proprietor's quest for the ultimate exhibit is about to spark off Worlds War II)

Rankin, Robert -- The Mechanical Messiah and Other Marvels of the Modern Age $27.95 (1897: The British Empire encompasses Mars, and an uneasy peace exists between the peoples of Venus, Jupiter, and Earth. In Whitechapel, a monster is once more committing hideous acts of murder, and it may take nothing less than the Mechanical Messiah Himself to save London, the Empire, and all of the solar system from impending apocalypse) Robeson, Kenneth -- Red Snow / Death Had Yellow Eyes (Bama cover) $14.95 (Doc Savage #48: Pulp reprints)

Robeson, Kenneth -- Red Snow / Death Had Yellow Eyes (Baumhofer cover) $14.95 (Doc Savage #48: Pulp reprints)

Robeson, Kenneth -- The Terror in the Navy / Waves of Death $14.95 (Doc Savage #49: Pulp reprints)

Robeson, Kenneth -- The Pirate's Ghost / The Green $14.95 (Doc Savage #50: Pulp reprints)

Robeson, Kenneth -- Land of Fear / The Fiery Menace $14.95 (Doc Savage #51: Pulp reprints)

Robeson, Kenneth -- Violent Night / Strange Fish / The Screaming Man $14.95 (Doc Savage #52: Pulp reprints)

Romero, G/Sparrow, S -- Dawn of the Dead $13.99 (Reissue; Novel based on the film)

Russell, Karen -- Swamplandia! $14.95 (The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, their theme park threatened. Her headlining mother has just died, her father is AWOL, her sister is having an affair with a ghost, and her brother has defected to the competition in an attempt to keep the family afloat. To save her family, 12-year-old Ava must journey to the perilous part of the swamp known as the Underworld) Scott, Kathryn Leigh -- Dark Passages $14.95 (PBO; Meg Harrison arrives in New York determined not to use her vampiric gifts to fulfill her dream of becoming an actress. She joins the cast of the cult hit Dark Passages, only to face her nemesis, a beautiful 300-year-old witch bent on destroying her)

Sherman, Delia -- The Freedom Maze $16.95 (Kids; 13-year-old Sophie isn't happy about spending summer at her grandmother's old house in the Bayou. But the house has a maze Sophie can't resist exploring. When she makes an impulsive wish, she slips into the past, to the year 1860. She finds her way, bedraggled and tanned, to what will one day be her grandmother's house - and is taken for a slave)

Steele, Allen -- Angel of Europa $35.00 (Novella, signed and numbered of 500. Two scientists die while exploring the ocean beneath Europa's frozen surface. Were they killed by their craft's pilot, or was their craft attacked by an enormous creature, as the pilot claims? Is this murder, or one of the greatest discoveries of all time? Signed copies)

Sullivan, Michael J. -- Theft of Swords: The Crown Conspiracy / Avempartha $14.99 (Riyria Revelations #1: Reissue; Skilled thief Royce and his mercenary partner Hadrian make a profitable living carrying out dangerous assignments for conspiring nobles - until they become unwitting scapegoats in a plot to murder the king. Sentenced to death, they have only one way out)

Valente, Catherynne M. -- The Folded World $14.99 (Prester John #2: PBO; When the daughter of Prester John appears on the doorstep of her father's palace, she brings news of war in the West - the Crusades have begun, and the bodies of the faithful are washing up on the shores of Pentexore. Three narratives intertwine to tell the tale of the beginning of the end of the world)

Vonnegut/Shields -- And So It Goes: Kurt Vonnegut: A Life $30.00 (Nonfiction; biography of the writer, based on 5 years of research, hundreds of interviews, and 1500+ letters)

Weiner, Zach -- Save Yourself, Mammal! $18.00 (Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal #1: PBO; Full color collection of the popular webcomic)

Wendig, Chuck -- Double Dead $9.99 (Tomes of the Dead: PBO; After a 5-year slumber, a vampire awakens to find most of humanity have turned into living dead, whose blood cannot sustain him. Now he not only has to find human survivors, but change from predator to protector - after all, he has to look after his food supply)

Whedon, Joss et al -- Serenity: Better Days and Other Stories $19.99 (Full color graphic novel; reprints the 3-issue comic miniseries plus 'The Other Half', '', and 'Float Out') Whitaker, David -- Doctor Who and the Crusaders $6.99 (Reissue; Featuring the as played by William Hartnell. Arriving in the Holy Land in the middle of the Third Crusade, the Doctor and Vicki befriend Richard the Lionheart, but must survive the cutthroat politics of the English court, and find they have made powerful enemies. Ian is ambushed, and Barbara is captured by the warlord El Akir. Even if Ian escapes and rescues her, will they ever see the Doctor, Vicki, and the TARDIS again?)

Whitaker, David -- Doctor Who and the Daleks $6.99 (Reissue; Featuring the First Doctor as played by William Hartnell. The Doctor and his granddaughter Susan are joined by unwilling adventurers Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright in a struggle for survival on an alien planet. In a vast metal city they discover the survivors of a nuclear war - the Daleks. Held captive in the deepest levels of the city, can the Doctor and his new companions stop the Daleks from totally exterminate their mortal enemies, the peace-loving Thals? And will Ian and Barbara ever see their home planet Earth again?)

Willingham/Black et al -- A Flight of Angels $24.99 (Full color graphic novel exploring the diverse mythology of angels)

Yolen, J/Guay, R -- The Last Dragon $29.99 (YA; Full color graphic novel; 200 years ago, humans vanquished the dragons of the islands of May. Now, the last of the dragons rises to wreak havoc anew - with only a healer's daughter and a kite-flying would-be hero standing in its way)

Yolen, Jane -- Things to Say to a Dead Man $15.95 (PBO; A slim collection of brief poems written in the months before her husband died and during the five hard years after)

Ziegler, Rob -- Seed $24.99 (After economic, political, and environmental collapse, the US is now controlled by Satori, a corporation that is also a living, intelligent city. Satori bioengineers the climate-resistant seed that feeds the nation, as well as the post-human genetic Designers, Advocates, and Laborers. When a Designer goes rogue, the government hopes to regain power by using her to break Satori's stranglehold on seed production)

Early December

-- The Brilliant Book 2012 $19.99 (Doctor Who: A look at Series 6, full of fact and fiction, interviews and information, and never before seen photographs and illustrations. Plus a full episode guide, including deleted scenes and gems you might have missed)

Abnett, Dan -- The Silent Stars Go By $19.99 (Doctor Who: For centuries the Maintainers have worked to maintain the machines that will one day make their world as habitable as old Earth. Life used to be hard. Now, as their crops fail and the temperature drops, it's becoming impossible. The Doctor, Amy, and Rory find a society breaking under the strain. And then the Doctor's old enemies, the Ice Warriors, mount an invasion. But the Doctor is beginning to suspect that behind everything lies an even deadlier danger)

Adams, John Joseph (ed) -- Lightspeed: Year One $16.95 (Anthology; stories from the critically acclaimed online sf magazine)

Adams, Scott -- How's That Underling Thing Working Out for You? $12.99 (Dilbert: More office mayhem and madness from Dilbert and his coworkers)

Anderson, J/Sebanc, M -- Darkling Fields of Arvon $7.99 (Legacy of the Stone Harp #2: Captured by the enemy, High Bard Kal Wright must escape and claim a legendary golden harp if he hopes to stem the tide of Chaos)

Anderson, Poul -- Captain Flandry: Defender of the Terran Empire $7.99 (Technic Civilization #5: Collection; 1 novel and 5 stories of space adventure)

Andrews, Ilona -- Fate's Edge $7.99 (Edge #3: PBO; When her brother gets into hot water, former thief Audrey Callahan returns to the Edge to take on one last heist. She finds herself matching wits with Kaldar Mar, who is trying to track down a stolen item. When the item falls into the hands of a lethal criminal, Kaldar realizes he'll need Audrey's help to finish the job)

Archer, Zoe -- Devil's Kiss $6.99 (Hellraisers #1: PBO; James Sherbourne made a deal with the devil: in exchange for his soul, he received a power of sorts - but love is his only chance of saving himself from Hell)

Asprin, R/Nye, J -- Myth-Fortunes $7.99 (Aahz invests in a scheme to build pyramids, and faces a run of unbelievable bad luck. It's up to Skeeve to figure out why the deal is turning sour)

Auel, Jean M. -- The Land of Painted Caves $8.99 (Earth's Children #5: Continues the story of Ayla and Jondalar)

Bonilla, Amanda -- Shaedes of Gray $7.99 (Shaede Assassin #1: PBO; Made and abandoned by her former love, Darian can slip into darkness as easily as breathing. With no one else to rely on, she has survived by using her unique skills to become a deadly assassin. When Darian's next mark turns out to be Xander Peck, King of the Shaede Nation, her whole worldview is thrown into question)

Bowden, Oliver -- Revelations $9.99 (Assassin's Creed #4: PBO; Novel based on the game. As the mighty and noble protect their supremacy, rebellion grows in the darkest streets and alleys, and those with the power to kill have the power to change the world) Brackett, Leigh -- Shannach - The Last: Farewell to Mars $40.00 (Collection; her final 17 stories of strange adventures on other worlds)

Butcher, Jim -- Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files $16.00 (Dresden Files: All the Dresden short fiction, including a new novella set after the cliffhanger ending of Changes)

Card, Orson Scott -- The Lost Gate $7.99 (Dan North is the first Gate Mage in a thousand years, able to open the locks that keep his exiled clan away from their homeland. His existence will bring the flames of open war back to life)

Card, Orson/Black, Jake -- The Authorized Ender Companion $16.99 (In-depth encyclopedia of the people, places, things, and events of the Ender universe, with character biographies, timelines, colony histories, and family trees)

Cawkwell, Sarah -- The Gildar Rift $12.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Battles #7: In the depths of space, the Silver Skulls take on the might of Huron Blackheart and his Red Corsairs)

Chandler, A. Bertram -- Galactic Courier: Star Courier / To Keep the Ship / Matilda's Stepchildren / Star Loot $12.00 (John Grimes Vol. 3: Omnibus reprint; Grimes has found his true calling as Rim Commodore out on the edge of galactic civilization. He's the sheriff of a realm where pioneer colonies and parallel dimensions overlap, and where a starship captain must be prepared for adventure in all possible worlds)

Chandler, David -- Honor Among Thieves $7.99 (Ancient Blades #3: Friends and former supporters alike covet Malden's magic while seeking his destruction. It will take more than his makeshift army of harlots and cutpurses to preserve the realm. Luckily, he still has a desperate and daring plan or two up his larcenous sleeve)

Clegg, Brian -- How to Build a Time Machine $25.99 (Nonfiction; Clegg provides an understanding of what time is and how it can be manipulated, exploring the possibilities for real time travel that emerge from quantum entanglement, superluminal speeds, neutron star cylinders, and wormholes in space)

Coe, David B. -- The Dark-Eyes' War $8.99 (Blood of the Southlands #3: The future of the Southlands hangs in the balance as the deeds of previous generations wreak terrible consequences on both sides in the war)

Collins, Nancy -- Left Hand Magic $7.99 (Golgotham #2: PBO; A magazine has alerted hipsters to the existence of the supernatural ghetto on Manhattan's Lower East Side, and they've descended on the community - along with The Sons of Adam, a racist group that hates Golgotham's Kymera witches. When two Kymerans are murdered, rioting fills the streets) Conroy, Robert -- Himmler's War $25.00 (Only days after the Normandy invasion, brutal SS head Heinrich Himmler assumes control of the Reich. With the German generals finally allowed to fight the kind of war they excel at, the Allies are pushed toward accommodation or even defeat, and a new and terrible battle for a free world is on)

Cook, Glen -- An Ill Fate Marshalling $14.99 (Dread Empire #7: King Bragi Ragnorson decides to join Chatelain Mist's coup against the Dread Empire. Varthlokkur, the king's wizard, tries to dissuade him, but only the drum beat of war is heard. Michael Trebilcock, the king's spymaster, joins with Varthlokkur to stave off The Ill Fate Marshalling, to no avail)

Cox, Greg -- Final novel $7.99 (DC Universe: Darkseid now possesses the ability to eradicate all free will from humanity, and end the age of super heroes. The remnants of the Justice League are humanity's only hope)

Dane, Tami -- Blood of Eden $7.99 (Sloan Skye #1: PBO; On her first case profiling criminals for the FBI's paranormal - a string of victims with puncture wounds to the neck - Sloan can't silence her inner para-skeptic. But the strangeness is only beginning, as she pieces together the truth about a case that's more personal than she ever would have guessed) Douglas, Carole Nelson -- Virtual Virgin $7.99 (Delilah Street #5: PBO; A near-perfect simulation of the silver-metal robot from the classic science fiction movie 'Metropolis', the new Maria is part innocent actress, part depraved sex goddess, and hooked on PI Delilah Street's partner Ric, who raised her from the dead. She also happens to be the perfect secret weapon for a demonic drug lord. Which could be one hell of a problem)

Estep, Jennifer -- Kiss of Frost $9.95 (Mythos Academy #2: Now that she's getting private tutoring with the Academy's most notorious Spartan, and has Nike's own sword to protect her, Gwen is ready to make her mark)

Feehan, Christine -- Dark Prince $7.99 (Carpathian #01: Author's preferred edition, expanded from the 1999 edition)

Flint, Eric -- 1635: The Eastern Front $7.99 (Ring of Fire: No longer Prime Minister of the USE, Mike Stearns will now be one of the commanders carrying the war to Brandenburg and Saxony. But rebellion begins to unfold in the Germanies as the new Prime Minister attempts to roll back Stearns' reforms, and Gustavus Adolphus' ambitions in the east threaten to bring Poland and Austria into the war)

Flynn, Michael F. -- Firestar $7.99 (Firestar #1: Reissue; It is the beginning of the 21st century. One woman has the strength, the intelligence, the money, and the determination to bring America and the world back on track in the technological future. It will be done. This is the story of the rebirth of innovative technological expansion on Earth and in space)

Foster, Alan Dean -- The Human Blend $15.00 (Tipping Point #1: Things have not gone smoothly for Whispr since he acquired an unusual thread that appears to be some kind of storage medium. Powerful forces are searching for him, and his partner in crime has vanished. All Whispr wants is to sell the thread. When he offers to split the profits with Dr. Ingrid Seastrom in exchange for her medical services, she makes an astonishing discovery)

Gear, W.M. & Kathleen -- The Dawn Country $7.99 (First North Americans #18: Koracoo, Gonda, and their allies set out to find the captured children and destroy Gannajero and her camp)

Gideon, Nancy -- Hunter of Shadows $7.99 (Charlotte Caissie #5: PBO; Detective Silas MacCreedy has a hidden agenda: to secure his shapeshifter clan's place in the Shifter hierarchy. What he didn't count on was meeting a sassy assassin who could shred his best intentions)

Gilman, Laura Anne -- Tricks of the Trade $14.95 (Paranormal Scene Investigations #3: PBO; The agency is looking into a murder for the NYPD, and working on a rich man's break-in, when things start getting weird. Rumor has it that a powerful creature is gunning for them, and if they don't solve this case, everyone will suffer)

Greenberg/Brozek (ed) -- Human for a Day $7.99 (PBO; Anthology; original sf and fantasy stories examining what it means to be human)

Guran, Paula (ed) -- New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird $15.95 (Anthology; Lovecraftian fiction from the first decade of the 21st century)

Haldeman, Joe -- Earthbound $24.95 (Carmen Dula #3: The mysterious alien Others have prohibited humans from space travel, destroying Earth's fleet of starships. Now Carmen and her colleagues struggle to find a way, using 19th-century technology, to reclaim the future that has been stolen from them)

Hanover, M.L.N. -- Killing Rites $7.99 (Black Sun's Daughter #4: PBO; Jayne has discovered the source of her uncanny powers: she's possessed. She turns to former priest Ex for help, but before they can cleanse her, Jayne ends up alone and on the run)

Harrison, Kim -- Pale Demon $7.99 (Rachel Morgan #09: With a demon assassin on her tail, and condemned to death for black magic, Rachel has three days to get to the annual witches convention in San Francisco and clear her name. But can a witch, an elf, a vampire, and a pixy survive in one car for over 2300 miles?)

Herbert, B/Anderson, K -- Hellhole $7.99 (The planet Hellhole is a dumping ground for undesirables - and a haven for dreamers and pioneers. And deep below its surface lie the undiscovered remnants of an obliterated alien civilization; Signed copies)

Hodgell, P.C. -- Honor's Paradox $15.00 (Kencyr #6: PBO; Jame has discovered her past and her heritage as Highborn. Now she must survive the politics and dangers of haunted Tentir College, a school for warriors; Signing at Uncle Hugo's on Saturday, December 17, from 1-2pm)

Hunter, Erin -- The Forgotten Warrior $16.99 (Warriors: Omen of the Stars #5: Kids; With a divided StarClan creating a rift among the four warrior Clans, the spirits of the Dark Forest are gaining strength. Ivypool's role as a spy is becoming more dangerous. Dovewing is haunted by nightmares about the mountains. Then an outsider appears in ThunderClan's midst, spreading discord and pushing the Clans further apart. As Clanmates turn against one another, the warrior cats will be forced to choose whose word they can trust - before it's too late)

Jones, Darynda -- First Grave on the Right $7.99 (Charley Davidson #1: Charley sees dead people, and convinces them to 'go to the light'. But sometimes they're murder victims, and want her to bring the bad guys to justice)

King, William -- Blood of Aenarion $24.99 (Warhammer: Tyrion & Teclis #1: Twins Tyrion and Teclis come from the line of Aenarion, and are meant for a great destiny. When the Witch King Malekith learns of their existence, their lives are in danger. They are taken to Lothern for safety, and to learn the arts of war)

Knight, E.E. -- Dragon Fate $16.00 (Age of Fire #6: The order the three dragon siblings fought to establish is falling apart. Ancient sorceries have been awakened. Dragons battle dragons. And men are taking up arms against their winged overlords. Now, the three must unite once more to save dragonkind from extinction)

Knight, E.E. -- March in Country $7.99 (Vampire Earth #9: The race is on to claim the area between the Ohio River and Tennessee. What's left of the resistance is hiding in the central Kentucky hills. Major David Valentine knows there's only one way for them to find help before the powerful, organized Kurian vampires settle in: a desperate dash by hijacked rail, followed by a harrowing river journey)

Koch, Gini -- Alien Proliferation $7.99 (Kitty Katt #4: PBO; With Kitty expecting her first baby, Kitty and Jeff must find out who's behind the conspiracy to kill Kitty's secret agent mom, and what caused Kitty's transformation into a superhuman)

Lackey, Mercedes (ed) -- Under the Vale and Other Tales of Valdemar $7.99 (Valdemar: PBO; Anthology; original stories, including a new novella by Lackey)

Landon, Kristen -- The Limit $6.99 (Kids; When his family unexpectedly exceeds their government- mandated debt limit, 13-year-old Matt is taken away to a workhouse, where he faces dangers more serious than anyone on the outside realizes)

Mack, David -- Rise Like Lions $7.99 (Star Trek: Mirror Universe: PBO; Miles O'Brien struggles to hold together his band of rebels in the fight against the overwhelming forces of the Klingon-Cardassian alliance; the Cardassian leader plans a secret invasion of Terok Nor)

Maitland, Piper -- Acquainted with the Night $9.99 (London tour guide Caroline Clifford didn't believe in vampires - until her uncle Nigel was murdered at a Bulgarian archaeological site, and a handsome vampire hunter who had corresponded with Nigel sought her out)

Mayer, Andrew P. -- Hearts of Smoke and Steam $16.00 (Society of Steam #2: PBO; Sir Dennis Darby has been murdered and the Automaton has been destroyed. Lord Eschaton's plans to bring his apocalyptic vision of the future to the world are moving forward, but to complete his scheme he needs the clockwork heart that Sarah still holds)

Mayo, Stephfordy -- Breaking Yawn $14.95 (Twishite Saga #2: Parody of Eclipse and Breaking Dawn, picking up where New Moan left off)

McCabe, Sean -- The Cross $9.99 (Vampire Federation #2: Detective Joel Solomon and Vampire Federation agent Alex Bishop are on the trail of a cannibalistic serial killer that the Ubervampyr have hired to find a powerful ancient relic)

McCullough, Kelly -- Broken Blade $7.99 (Fallen Blade #1: PBO; Once a fabled Blade of Namara, Aral Kingslayer fought for justice and his goddess alongside his familiar, a living shadow called Triss. Now, with their goddess murdered and her temple destroyed, they are among the last of their kind. Surviving on the fringes of society, Aral becomes a drunken, broken, and wanted man, working whatever shadowy deal comes his way. Until a mysterious woman hires him to deliver a secret message - one that can either redeem him or doom him; Signing at Uncle Hugo's on Saturday, December 3, from 1-2pm)

McKillip, Patricia A. -- The Bards of Bone Plain $15.00 (When an archaeologist and his most eager disciple, Princess Beatrice, unearth a disk marked with ancient runes, Beatrice pursues the secrets of a lost language that she suddenly notices all around her, hidden in plain sight) Miyabe, Miyuki -- ICO: Castle in the Mist $15.99 (Novel based on the game)

Modesitt Jr., L.E. -- Viewpoints Critical $8.99 (Stories spanning his entire career, including three that are original to this volume)

Monette, Sarah -- Somewhere Beneath Those Waves $14.95 (Collection; fantasy and horror stories)

Nylund, Eric -- All That Lives Must Die $8.99 (Eliot & Fiona Post #2: As the custody war between their immortal mother and infernal father continues, the twins face high school, where immortals, warriors, and sorcerers learn to harness their powers. Only the toughest graduate - and if you flunk, you die)

O'Bannon, Rockne et al -- Compulsions $12.99 (Farscape #6: Full color graphic novel; two Leviathan crews, the outlaws on Moya, and a new crew of ex-Peacekeepers team up to take on a conspiracy that threatens the end of the Uncharted Territories)

Owens, Robin D. -- Hearts and Swords $15.00 (Celta #11: PBO; Collection; 4 original romantic fantasy novellas)

Painter, Kristen -- Bad Blood $7.99 (House of Comarre #3: Violent murders occur in Paradise City as counterfeit comarr are systematically hunted. The police and the Kubai Mata have more than enough trouble to keep them occupied. As war erupts, Malkolm and Chrysabelle head to New Orleans to recover the Ring of Sorrows)

Patton, Brett -- Mecha Corps $7.99 (Armor Wars #1: At a training camp on the backwater planet of Earth, Matt Lowell and his fellow cadets are learning to ride Mechas: biomechanicals with incredible grace and firepower. But before they survive a battle, they will have to survive their training. Because every time they plug into their Mechas, their minds are being twisted and broken by an unseen power that is neither man nor machine)

Peart-Smith, Paul -- The Future of Erotic Fantasy Art $29.99 (Full color; art book focusing on the latest work, from graphic novels to book covers to trading cards to computer games, featuring artists around the world)

Pohl, F/Kornbluth, C.M. -- The Space Merchants $15.99 (Revised version. On a vastly overpopulated Earth, corporations have replaced governments, and advertising is used to delude the public. When Venus is judged fit for human settlement - despite its inhospitable surface and climate, which will take generations to terraform - Mitch Courtenay is assigned to write the ad campaign that will attract colonists. But a lot more is happening that he knows about, and his loyalties and beliefs will be tested to the core) Reaves, M/Bohnhoff, M -- Shadow Games $7.99 (Star Wars: PBO; After years of waiting in the shadows, Darth Sidious is taking the first step in his master plan to bring the Republic to its knees. Now the future of the Republic depends on an untried Jedi and an ordinary man)

Remic, Andy -- Theme Planet $8.99 (Anarchy #1: Welcome to Theme Planet, dedicated to hedonism, insane rides, and dangerous adventure. Amba is an assassin/torture android, beautiful and merciless. Sent to Theme Planet on a mission, she stumbles on a plot to destroy Earth's Oblivion government. Should she remain loyal to her creators/tormentors, support the rebels - or annihilate them all?)

Revis, Beth -- Across the Universe $9.99 (YA; 17-year-old Amy expected to awaken on a new planet, 300 years in the future. Instead, she wakes up 50 years early, because one of the inhabitants of the spaceship tried to kill her)

Rucker, Rudy -- Nested Scrolls $25.99 (Nonfiction; autobiography of the mathematician and sf novelist)

Schwalb, Robert J. -- Death Mark $7.99 (Dark Sun: In the aftermath of revolution, King Kalak of Tyr is dead and all eyes fall on the lucrative iron mines of his once mighty city-state. Merchant houses scramble to seize what scraps they can while King Hamanu of Urik rallies his armies to crush the Tyr rebellion underfoot. The hope of the Tyr revolution seems destined to fail as the tyrannical specter of Hamanu's war machine looms large on the horizon. But fate chooses unlikely heroes to carry the revolution forward)

Scott, M/Freedman, C -- The Thirteen Hallows $24.99 (The Hallows of Britain are ancient magical treasures that have been used time and again to battle Demonkind and to seal the entrance to the Otherworld. The last time they were all gathered was during the age of Arthur. Now, someone is gathering them again - with all their potential for great good, or absolute evil)

Sehestedt, Mark -- Cry of the Ghost Wolf $7.99 (Forgotten Realms: PBO; Hweilan is the Hand of the Hunter, appointed to destroy the demonic and undead forces of Jagen Ghen. It will take every trick of the Fox, every drop of Lore, and every ounce of will she has to stand against them and avenge her family)

Simmons, Dan -- Black Hills $9.99 (Haunted by Custer's ghost, and by his ability to see into the memories and futures of legendary men like Crazy Horse, Paha Sapa's life is driven by a vision he had as a boy in the Black Hills. In August of 1936, a dynamite worker on the Mount Rushmore project, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost forever and reclaim his people's legacy) Swallow, James -- Hammer & Anvil $8.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Sisters of Battle #2: The Sisters of Battle are the Emperor's most devout worshippers, fierce warriors preaching the purity of the Imperium and scourging their enemies with bolter and flamer. When an Ecclesiarchy outpost, Sanctuary 101, comes under attack, the Sisters are quick to retaliate. They find themselves facing an unknown, implacable alien foe)

Trudeau, G.B. -- Red Rascal's War $19.99 (Doonesbury: Full color collection of comic strips)

Turtledove, Harry -- Eruption $25.95 (Supervolcano #1: An eruption in Yellowstone Park sends lava and mud flowing toward populated areas, and clouds of ash drifting across the country. The fallout destroys crops and livestock, clogs machinery, and makes cities uninhabitable. Those who survive have no choice but to rise from the ashes and recreate the world)

Valente, Catherynne M. -- Myths of Origin $15.95 (Collection; reprints four of her early fantasy works (novellas/short novels))

Vonnegut, Kurt -- The Last Interview and Other Conversations $15.95 (Vonnegut holds forth on politics, war, books and writers, and his personal life)

Wilson, Robert Charles -- A Bridge of Years $16.99 (Reissue; In a secluded cottage, Tom Winter discovers a time tunnel to 1963 NYC, and a chance to start over in a simpler world. But the tunnel holds danger: a human killing machine from a brutal future, who will do anything to protect the secret passage that he thought was his alone. Tom must face the terrors of the future world in order to preserve his own)

Zahn, Timothy -- Cobra Guardian $7.99 (Cobra War #2: A Troft faction has decided to invade the Cobra planets in force, using a new strategy that even the formidable Cobra warriors, with their surgically implanted weaponry, may not be able to defeat)

Mid December

Brode, D/Serling, C -- Rod Serling and The Twilight Zone: The Official 50th Anniversary Tribute $16.95 (Looks at the TV series, with commentary on episodes, arranged by theme. Black & white photos)

Conley, Darby -- Masters of the Nonsenseverse $12.99 (Get Fuzzy: Black & white daily strips, color Sunday strips)

Gaider, David -- Asunder $15.99 (Dragon Age: Novel based on the game)

Jones, Darynda -- Second Grave on the Left $14.99 (Charley Davidson #2: Charley and her friend Cookie hunt for a missing woman who had been acting strange since hearing about the murder of a high . Meanwhile, Reyes (aka the Son of Satan) has left his corporeal body and is haunting Charley)

Martin, George R.R. (ed) -- Aces High $15.99 (Wild Cards #02: Reissue; Mosaic novel; after the alien virus struck humanity in the wake of World War II, a handful of the survivors found they possessed superhuman powers. Here we trace these heroes and villains through the tumultuous 1980s)

McDonald, Ian -- Planesrunner $16.95 (Everness #1: YA; Suddenly, 13-year-old Everett has become the owner of the most valuable object in the multiverse: the Infundibulum, the map of all the parallel earths, is an app on his computer. And there are dark forces who will stop at nothing to get it)

McKissack, P & F & J -- Cyborg $6.99 (Clone Codes #2: Kids; 2035: The laws of the World Federation of Nations decree that all persons with three or more synthetic body parts are less than human. Houston, a cyborg, must fight to overcome these oppressive rules)

Palmer, Philip -- Artemis $13.99 (Artemis is a thief, con artist, and killer. When the cops catch up with her, they give her a choice: suffer in prison for the rest of her life, or become part of a desperate mission to save humanity from a deadly threat)

Sullivan, Michael J. -- Rise of Empire $14.99 (Riyria Revelations #2: The birth of the Nyphron Empire has brought war to Melengar. To save her kingdom, Princess Arista hires Royce and Hadrian for a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. What Royce discovers sends them on a journey to the ends of the world, and forces Hadrian to face his past)

Vance, Jack-of interest -- Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in Honor of Jack Vance $17.99 (Anthology; 22 stories set in Vance's far-future, demon-haunted Dying Earth)

Walsh, Pat -- The Crowfield Curse $7.99 (Crowfield #1: Kids; Will comes upon a wounded hobgoblin in the forest, who tells him of a mythical being, doomed by a curse and buried in the snow. What does this mystery have to do with the monks Will serves? And with Will himself? When two cloaked figures arrive, Will is drawn into a dangerous world of Old Magic)

Willingham, Bill et al -- Super Team $14.99 (Fables #16: Full color graphic novel. Not for kids. Reprints issues 101-107 of the comic)

Wright, John C. -- Count to a Trillion $25.99 (After the collapse of the world economy, a young Texan leaves Earth seeking adventure, and finds himself catapulted into the distant future) Early January

Alexander, Lloyd -- Time Cat $7.99 (Reissue; Kids; Gareth is not an ordinary cat. He can talk. And, as he tells Jason, he has magical powers to travel to anywhere and any time. From ancient Egypt to Japan, from the land of young Leonardo da Vinci to the town of a woman accused of witchcraft, Jason and Gareth are whisked from place to place and from friend to foe)

Archer, Alex -- Labyrinth $6.99 (Rogue Angel #34: PBO; Abducted by an eco-terrorist, Annja has just twelve hours to decipher a labyrinth's secrets and retrieve an ancient manuscript)

Axler, James -- Haven's Blight $6.99 (Deathlands #102: PBO; Ryan Cawdor's group finds trouble waiting in the swamplands of Louisiana, and ends up stranded in Haven, where Ryan must save the inhabitants from a genetic blood curse)

Barnes, John -- Daybreak Zero $7.99 (Sequel to Directive 51. 12 months have passed since Daybreak began. 9 months since Daybreak killed seven billion people. 8 months since Daybreak vaporized Washington, DC. 6 months since two rival governments emerged. 3 months since war between them was narrowly avoided. 2 months since they agreed to work together. 1 month since they discovered that Daybreak isn't over) Bear, Greg -- Primordium $25.99 (Halo: Forerunner #2: Novel based on the game)

Benulis, Sabrina -- Archon $22.99 (Books of Raziel #1: Angels and demons battle for control of a girl possessed by the spirit of a dead angel)

Berg, Carol -- The Soul Mirror $7.99 (Collegia Magica #2: Anne de Vernase must take on her sister's magical legacy to unravel the secrets behind the dark sorcery besieging the royal city of Merona, and to uncover the truth behind her sister's death)

Berg, Carol -- The Daemon Prism $16.00 (Collegia Magica #3: Consumed with despair, blind necromancer Dante seeks refuge in a magical puzzle that supposedly fulfills one's utmost desires. But it's actually a trap, threatening to unleash the very cataclysm he fears)

Blackmoore, Stephen -- City of the Lost $15.00 (Joe Sunday was killed by a rival of his crime boss - and has returned as a zombie. His only hope is to find and steal a talisman that grants immortality. Unfortunately, every other undead thug and crime boss in LA is looking for the same thing)

Bligh, Alan -- Dance of the Damned $8.99 (Arkham Horror: Novel based on the game. When a letter from an estranged friend arrives, Miskatonic University librarian Daisy Walker is pulled into an unraveling mystery in Kingsport, Massachusetts - a place where her memory will not be the only thing haunting her dreams)

Bova, Ben -- Power Play $24.99 (An ambitious politician hopes to be elected to the US Senate by promising a new source of cheap power; the incumbent won't give up his seat without a fight; caught in the middle is the scientist researching the new power source, which is still being developed and may carry deadly risks)

Brandvold, Peter -- Dust of the Damned $15.00 (The Hell's Angels, a werewolf gang, have escaped from prison, and are headed west to join the legions of other ghouls. It's up to ghoul-hunter Uriah Zane and Marshal Angel Coffin to stop the werebeasts from taking over)

Briggs, Patricia -- Iron Kissed $26.95 (Mercy Thompson #3: When her former boss and mentor is arrested for murder and left to rot behind bars by his own kind, it's up to Mercy to clear his name, whether he wants her to or not)

Brook, Meljean -- The Iron Duke $7.99 (Iron Seas #1: The Iron Duke has built a merchant empire on the power - and fear - of his name. When a dead body is dropped from an airship onto his doorstep, bringing DI Mina Wentworth into his world, he intends to make her his next possession)

Christopher, Adam -- Empire State $12.99 (The Empire State is a Prohibition-era world that is the twisted magic mirror to NYC. Sinister characters lurk around every corner, while the superheroes that once kept the streets safe have fallen into rivalries and feuds. Not that its residents know anything about the real NYC - until detective Rad Bradley makes a discovery that will change the lives of all its inhabitants)

Clayton, Emma -- The Roar $8.99 (Kids; Ellie lives behind a wall built to keep out animals, which carry the plague. At least that's what Ellie was taught. But when she comes to suspect otherwise, she's ready to answer the call of the wild. Can you hear it? She's strapping on her headset, jumpstarting her Pod Fighter, and - with her capuchin monkey at her back - she's breaking out!)

Cook, Glen -- A Path to Coldness of Heart $24.99 (Dread Empire #8: King Bragi Ragnorson is the captive of Lord Shih-kaa and the Empress Mist at the heart of the Dread Empire. Bragi's queen and what remains of his army seek to find and free their king, hampered by the loss or desertion of their best warriors. Dane, Duke of Greyfells, seeks to seize the rule of Kavelin. And in the ancient castle Fangdred, the sorcerer Varthlokkur waits, using his arts to spy on the world at large, and observing the puppet strings that control kings and empires alike)

David, Peter -- Blind Man's Bluff $7.99 (Star Trek: New Frontier: With Sector 221-G in chaos, what does the future hold for Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the crew of the USS Excalibur?)

Drake, David -- Voyage Across the Stars: Cross the Stars / Voyage $13.00 (Omnibus; 2 sf novels set in the Hammer's Slammers universe)

Dunn, Christian (ed) -- Age of Legend $8.99 (Warhammer Time of Legends: Anthology; tales from the age of mighty heroes and dread villains, when dragons still flock the skies, and magic exists that can doom or save the world)

Feehan, Christine -- Spirit Bound $7.99 (Sea Haven #2: PBO; Undercover agent Stefan Prakenskii knows a thousand ways to kill a man - and twice as many ways to pleasure a woman. So he's looking forward to his new mission in Sea Haven: insinuate himself in the life of Judith Henderson, an ethereal beauty with mysterious ties to his past)

Ferrari, Mark J. -- The Book of Joby $8.99 (Joby Peterson dreams of blazing like a bonfire. Instead - because of a wager between God and Lucifer - he faces crippling self-doubt and relentless mediocrity. What hope remains lies hidden in a seaside village whose odd inhabitants seem to defy the modern world's inflexible assumptions, and in the hearts of Joby's long-lost love and her son. But the forces of destruction that follow Joby into this concealed paradise plan to use these same things to bring him and his world to ruin) Flint, Eric (ed) -- Grantville Gazette VI $25.00 (Ring of Fire: Anthology; alternate history stories about the 20th-century American town of Grantville, which was hurled back to Europe in the middle of the Thirty Years War)

Fowler, Christopher -- Hell Train $8.99 (Four passengers meet aboard the train Arkangel as it races through eastern Europe during the Great War. What is in the casket everyone is so afraid of? What is the secret of the veiled Red Countess? Why is the army brigadier so feared by his own men? And what exactly is the devilish secret of the Arkangel itself?)

Francis, Diana Pharaoh -- Shadow City $7.99 (Horngate Witches #3: PBO; Max has been stolen by a demi-god who plans to force her to use a magical power she never knew she had - even if it kills her. Meanwhile, Horngate faces destruction at the hands of a Fury)

Frost, Kimberly -- All That Bleeds $7.99 (Etherlin #1: PBO; As the last heiress of the House of North, Alissa knows that striking up a secret friendship with a half-vampire enforcer is dangerous, but Merrick is a temptation she can't resist. When Alissa is kidnapped, Merrick proves that he will do anything to protect the woman who tempts him with her very existence)

Fultz, John R. -- Seven Princes $15.99 (Books of the Shaper #1: An ancient necromancer slaughters king and court in front of crown prince D'zan's eyes, leaving him consumed by one thought: regaining his throne. In a world where men and giants fight side by side against ancient monsters and new powers, war is coming)

Gagliani, W.D. -- Wolf's Edge $15.00 (Nick Lupo #4: Werewolf homicide cop Nick Lupo goes up against a mercenary group that plans to infiltrate the US military with genetically modified werewolves)

Gibson, William -- Distrust That Particular Flavor $26.95 (Collection; nonfiction on technology, popular culture, writing, and more)

Gonzales, Tony -- Templar One $14.99 (EVE: Novel based on the game)

Green, Simon R. -- A Hard Day's Knight $7.99 (Nightside #11: To find out why he was chosen to wield Excalibur, PI John Taylor must consult the Last Defenders of Camelot. In London Proper. It's been years since John's been there - and there are good reasons for that)

Green, Simon R. -- The Bride Wore Black Leather $25.95 (Nightside #12: John Taylor is set to marry the love of his life, Suzie Shooter. But first he has one more case to solve - and it has him on the run from friends and enemies both, with his bride-to-be looking to collect the bounty on his head) Harkness, Deborah -- A Discovery of Witches $16.00 (All Souls #1: A centuries-old vampire and a reluctant witch are drawn together by a bewitched alchemical manuscript at Oxford's Bodleian Library)

Heinlein, Robert A. -- Sixth Column $13.00 (Reissue; After the US is conquered by totalitarian forces, a tiny enclave of scientists and soldiers mounts a rebellion. It's going to take technological savvy and a propaganda campaign that would leave Madison Avenue aghast for the US to rise again)

Hendee, Barb & J.C. -- Of Truth and Beasts $7.99 (Noble Dead Series 2 #3: Young Journeyor Wynn Hygeotht heads into the wilds on a dangerous quest for knowledge that may instead lead to her doom)

Herbert, B/Anderson, K -- Sisterhood of Dune $27.99 (Dune: 83 years after the Battle of Corrin, great changes are brewing that will shape and twist all of humanity; Kevin J. Anderson signing at Uncle Hugo's on Wednesday, January 4, from 5:30-6:30pm)

Herge -- The Black Island $8.99 (Tintin Young Readers Edition #07: Kids; Full color. Includes the original graphic novel plus background material. The investigation into a mysterious plane crash leads Tintin to Scotland, where he learns of a monster that stalks a lonely island) Herge -- King Ottokar's Sceptre $8.99 (Tintin Young Readers Edition #08: Kids; Full color. Includes the original graphic novel plus background material. Professor Alembick has a very rare royal seal in his collection: the seal of King Ottokar the IV of Syldavia. Tintin joins the professor on a trip to this foreign land, but can the Professor be trusted?)

Hunt, Stephen -- The Rise of the Iron Moon $7.99 (Jackelian World #3: Beset by the terrible Army of Shadows, the Kingdom of Jackals' only hope is a strange little orphan girl and the desperate plan of an escaped slave from a faraway land)

Hunter, Erin -- Night Whispers $6.99 (Warriors: Omen of the Stars #3: Kids; The deadly battle between ThunderClan and ShadowClan is over, but the aftermath still echoes around all four Clans, and the ties that bind the Clans are slowly breaking down)

Hunter, Faith -- Raven Cursed $7.99 (Jane Yellowrock #4: PBO; Hired as bodyguard for an envoy from the Master Vampire of New Orleans to the vampires of Asheville, NC, Jane goes from escort to investigator when a group of campers is attacked by something fanged)

Jeschonek, Robert -- Rising Sun, Falling Shadows $8.99 (Tannhauser: Novel based on the game. 1954: The Great War continues. The forces of the Kaiser have sold their souls to demonic powers. President Edison has sanctioned the use of alien technology from Roswell. Enter the Shogunate, a warrior sect with their own shadowy agenda, whose forces are headed for Kamchatka. The 42nd Marines must discover their plans before it's too late)

Jones, Howard Andrew -- The Desert of Souls $14.99 (9th century Baghdad: When a Greek spy and a Magi fire wizard steal a tablet that may hold the secrets of the lost city of Ubar, a scholar and a guard captain are sent after it)

Kenyon, Sherrilyn -- Born of Shadows $7.99 (League #4: With assassination contracts out on both of them, Caillen, a defiant soldier of fortune with a hidden birthright, and Desideria, bodyguard to the queen, must learn to fight together - or die)

Krentz, Jayne Ann -- In Too Deep $7.99 (Arcane Society: Looking Glass #1: When she starts work as his assistant, Isabella Valdez impresses paranormal investigator Fallon Jones by organizing his chaotic office, and doesn't bat an eye at the psychic aspect of his job. But after a routine case unearths an antique clock infused with dark energy, Fallon and Isabella are dragged into the secret history of Scargill Cove and forced to fight for their lives. Can they unravel a conspiracy with roots in the Jones family business - and Isabella's family tree?) Lackey, Mercedes et al -- Invasion $7.99 (Secret World #1: When soldiers in giant robotic suits, with swastikas on their arms, attack all world governments simultaneously, even the world's metahuman heroes seem helpless to stop them. If they are Nazis, where have they been hiding since the end of World War II? Where did they get armor and weapons more advanced than anything on the planet?)

Leiber, Fritz -- Selected Stories $14.99 (Collection; 17 tales of sf, fantasy and horror)

Liu, Marjorie M. -- The Mortal Bone $7.99 (Hunter Kiss #4: PBO; When the bond she shares with the demons tattooed on her skin is severed, Maxine is left unprotected. As the freed demons grow more violent, she fears they will lose their minds without her - or unleash Hell on Earth)

Locke, M.J. -- Up Against It $7.99 (A rogue AI and a potentially lethal water crisis threaten an asteroid colony - and an interplanetary crime syndicate appears to be pulling the strings)

Love, John -- Faith $14.99 (300 years ago, a seemingly invincible alien ship destroyed the Sakhran Empire, allowing humanity's Commonwealth to expand. Now that ship has returned to harass the Commonwealth. But this time, something is waiting: a warship built and launched in secret, crewed by people of unusual abilities. But will the Charles Manson and its crew of miscreants and sociopaths be able to destroy the alien attacker?)

MacAvoy, R.A. -- Death and Resurrection $14.95 (Ewen Young has gained the ability to travel between the worlds of life and death. This skill changes his life - as does meeting veterinarian Dr. Susan Sundown and her remarkable dog Resurrection. After defeating a threat to Ewen's family, Susan and Ewen confront evil both supernatural and human as life and death begin to flow dangerously close together)

Marmell, Ari -- The Warlord's Legacy $7.99 (Corvis Rebaine #2: Corvis isn't going around killing key members of the aristocracy and guilds, but he'll have to wade into a world he thought he was done with to find out who's using his name for nefarious purposes - and how to get his daughter back from their clutches)

McLeod, Suzanne -- The Bitter Seed of Magic $7.99 (Spellcrackers #3: PBO; When a teenaged faeling is fished out of the Thames and another disappears, Genny finds herself in a race to stop a curse from taking its next victim)

Mead, Richelle -- Shadow Heir $7.99 (Dark Swan #4: PBO; When a mysterious blight begins to devastate the Otherworld, and a formidable force rises to threaten the human world, shaman Eugenie Markham must use her own cursed fate as a weapon - and risk the ultimate sacrifice) Moore, E.S. -- To Walk the Night $7.99 (Kat Redding #1: PBO; Kat Redding is a vampire who kills her own kind to protect human Purebloods. When a powerful vampire plans to merge his House with a werewolf cult to create a terrifying force, Kat can't allow that to happen)

Odom, Mell -- Golem $8.99 (Android: Novel based on the game. Detective Drake 3GI2RC, one of the few bioroids in the NAPD, and his human partner are assigned a high-profile murder case. The investigation leads to a conspiracy that reaches up the Beanstalk and out to the bustling industry of Mars)

Owens, Robin D. -- Enchanted Again $14.95 (Mystic Circle #2: PBO; Each time Amber breaks a curse, it ages her. But Rafe doesn't believe in curses, not realizing that in his cursed family, every first son dies young. Amber offers guidance but won't break the curse - but as she grows closer to him, she wonders if, for this man, she should risk it all)

Pohl, Frederik -- All the Lives He Led $7.99 (2079: People from all over the world - workers, tourists, and terrorists - face volcanic and political upheaval at the Pompeii theme park in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius)

Prineas, Sarah -- Winterling $16.99 (Kids; With her boundless curiosity and spirit, Fer has always felt that she doesn't belong in this world. As she begins to unlock secrets about the parents she never knew, she is led to a reflecting pool that uncovers the Way, and finds herself in another realm - mysterious and enticing - a world she might call her own)

Rees, Rod -- Winter $26.99 (Demi-Monde #1: Devised to train soldiers, the Demi-Monde is a virtual world full of villains modeled on history's most ruthless psychopaths. But something has gone wrong there, and Norma, a psychology student doing research, is trapped inside. 18- year-old Ella infiltrates the Demi-Monde to search for Norma, but discovers that the walls containing the VR are dissolving - and the real world is in far more danger than anyone knows)

Reynolds, Anthony -- Word Bearers: Dark Apostle / Dark Disciple / Dark Creed $15.00 (Warhammer 40,000: Omnibus reprint)

Robertson, Linda -- Wicked Circle $7.99 (Persephone Alcmedi #5: PBO; Vampire overlord Menessos needs Seph's help when he is beset by a dangerous trio of truth-seeking vampire sisters; things get even more complicated when a government investigator shows up)

Rowland, Diana -- Sins of the Demon $7.99 (Kara Gillian #4: PBO; When people who have hurt Kara in the past start dying from what appear to be strokes, the quest to clear her name may take her to hell and back) Saberhagen, Fred et al -- Golden Reflections $7.99 (Saberhagen's classic novel Mask of the Sun, an adventure of time travel and alternate universes, plus 7 stories set in the same universe)

Sawyer, Robert -- Illegal Alien $7.99 (Reissue; Seven Tosoks are welcomed to Earth when their disabled spaceship enters the atmosphere. Then a popular scientist is murdered, and all evidence points to one of the aliens. When the alien is tried in a court of law, there may be far more at stake than accounting for one human life)

Sebold, Gaie -- Babylon Steel $7.99 (Babylon Steel, ex-sword-for-hire, runs the best brothel in Scalentine. She's not having a good week. The Vessels of Purity are protesting against brothels, women in the trade are being attacked, and there's not enough money to pay the tax bill. So when the mysterious Darask Fain wants her to finding a missing girl, Babylon takes the job. But the missing girl is not what she seems, and neither is Darask Fain)

Showalter, G/Monroe, J -- Dating the Undead $16.95 (PBO; Full-color parody of women's magazines)

Shufeldt, Ken -- Tribulations $7.99 (An asteroid storm has obliterated the Earth. Billy and Linda West built enough space arks to save a small number of people, who are now in search of a new world. When Billy's ship is damaged and separated from the fleet, it winds up drifting near a world where conditions are hospitable but the inhabitants are not. The humans find themselves in the middle of an ancient war between two brutal nations, forced to choose a side just to survive)

Smith, Clark Ashton -- Miscellaneous Writings of Clark Ashton Smith $29.99 (Collection; Smith's adventure, juvenilia, and other non- fantastic fiction)

Snyder, Lucy A. -- The Switchblade Goddess $7.99 (Jessie Shimmer #3: PBO; When Jessie traveled to the underworld to save her lover, she gained magical powers which soon seemed more like curses. Now a vengeful demigoddess has sent Jessie and her familiar Pal to perilous realms)

Snyder, Maria V. -- Touch of Power $14.95 (PBO; Avry absorbs people's wounds and diseases into herself, but healers like her are being accused of spreading a plague. Abducted by a band of rogues, she's shocked to find they value her powers. But their leader is adamant: she must heal the plague- stricken prince who is leading the campaign against her people)

Stackpole, Michael A. -- Of Limited Loyalty $14.99 (Crown Colonies #2: 1767: Colonists have pushed beyond the bounds of the charter granted by the Queen, and some of the communities refuse allegiance to the Crown. Worse yet, the westward expansion has awakened a menace known only from legend. The Crown refuses to send Prince Vlad troops and supplies to battle this new enemy, then imposes taxes on Mystrian trade. In a land seething with resentment against the Crown, can Vlad unite the colonies to defeat their terrifying inhuman foe?)

Sterling, Bruce -- Gothic High-Tech $25.00 (Collection; 12 sf stories)

Stoddard, Jason -- Winning Mars $14.95 (Jere Gutierrez teams up with a retired TV executive to create an ad-supported mission to Mars, complete with corporate sponsors and extreme sports events. What Jere doesn't know is just how captivating his project will be)

Swanwick, Michael -- Dancing with Bears $14.99 (Con men Darger and Surplus have lied their way onto the caravan that is delivering a priceless gift to the Duke of Muscovy. Once there, they quickly become entangled in a morass of deceit and revolution. The only thing more dangerous than the politics is the gift itself, the Pearls of Byzantium, and Zoesophia, the governess sworn to protect their virtue)

Tate, Benjamin -- Leaves of Flame $7.99 (Colin Harten #2: PBO; Colin has become a master of three of the five magics, and has gifted the human, Dwarren, and Alvritshai races with magical protective Trees. But the power of the dark spirits is spreading despite this. Can Colin unite the races against this menace and prevent their enemy from gaining complete control of the land's magic?)

Taylor, T/Johnson, L -- Back to the Moon $7.99 (When a secret Chinese manned lunar mission sends a distress call, a planned US lunar mission suddenly becomes an emergency rescue mission)

Thorpe, Gav -- Deliverance Lost $8.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Horus Heresy #18: Desperate to return to the galactic war, Corax decides to try and rebuild his Raven Guard. On Terra, he gains the ancient genetech that created the first Space Marines. On Deliverance, he begins the replenishment of the Legion, not knowing that forces within his own ranks are plotting to undermine his efforts and steal the genetech for their own ends)

Vonnegut, Kurt -- While Mortals Sleep $16.00 (Collection; 16 pieces of previously unpublished short fiction)

Walton, Jo -- Among Others $14.99 (Raised by a half-mad mother who dabbled in magic, Morwenna grew up playing among Welsh spirits and finding comfort in sf books. When a magical battle with her mother leaves her crippled, Morwenna flees to her father, and is sent to school in England. There she does magic in an attempt to find friends, but attracts her mother's attention, bringing about a reckoning; Signing at Uncle Hugo's on Sunday, January 8, from 1-2pm)

Wells, Jaye -- Silver-Tongued Devil $7.99 (Sabina Kane #4: When a string of murders threatens to stall negotiations between the mages and the vampires, Sabina sets out to find the killer. Her investigation soon has her doubting everyone she thought she could trust)

Wells, Martha -- The Serpent Sea $14.99 (Raksura #2: Moon and Jade travel with their people on a pair of flying ships, hoping to find a new home for their colony. But when they reach the ancestral home of Indigo Cloud, shrouded within the trunk of a mountain-sized tree, they discover evidence of a devastating theft, sending Moon and the hunters on a quest for the tree's heartstone)

West, Michelle -- House Name $8.99 (House War #3: Jewel is assigned to lead a First Circle Mage to the entryways of the undercity; they find the ways are disappearing. A demon kin attack on the House raises the stakes, as Jewel and the Terafin struggle to prevent the Lord of the Hells from returning to the mortal realm)

West, Michelle -- Skirmish $25.95 (House War #4: Jewel is preparing to announce her candidacy to become the next Terafin and claim the House Seat. Now she's being targeted by demons who will stop at nothing to destroy Jewel and her allies as the House War begins)

Whates, Ian -- City of Light and Shadows $7.99 (City of a Hundred Rows #3: The monstrous Rust Warriors are back! In a land struggling to cope with the onset of the fatal bone flu, street-nick Tom and Kat - the leader of the Tattooed Men - must find a way to deal with both threats. Meanwhile, the Soul Thief is still at large, and still killing)

Williams, Mazarkis -- The Emperor's Knife $24.99 (When the Cerani Empire is devastated by a strange plague, long-planned conspiracies boil over into violence, and an invincible evil intelligence known as the Pattern Master appears from the deep desert. Only three people stand in his way: a lost prince, a world-weary assassin, and a young girl from the steppes who saw a path in a pattern once, among the waving grasses - a path that just might save them all)

Willis, Connie -- All About Emily $20.00 (Novelette; theater legend Claire Havilland fears she might be entering the Sunset Boulevard phase of her career. Then her manager arranges a media appearance with her biggest fan, the teenage niece of a famous AI pioneer. While precocious Emily claims no desire for the spotlight, Claire wonders if she hasn't met her very own Eve Harrington from All About Eve. Soon dreams of fame give way to concerns about choice, free will, and identity) Wurts, Janny -- Initiate's Trial $29.95 (Wars of Light and Shadow: Sword of the Canon #1: Arithon has been magically imprisoned and his memories have been removed. His daughter is being raised and trained by his enemy, the Koriani enchantress, but will eventually learn of her father's existence, and choose her own destruction to secure his freedom. Still ruled by the Mistwraith's curse, Lysaer will stop at nothing to find and destroy the newly freed Arithon)

Young, Moira -- Blood Red Road $9.99 (YA; Saba lives in a dried-up wasteland ravaged by sandstorms. The Wrecker civilization has long been destroyed, leaving only landfills for Saba and her family to scavenge from. When a monster sandstorm arrives bearing four cloaked horsemen, her beloved twin brother Lugh is captured, and Saba embarks on a quest to get him back)

Zahn, Timothy -- Cobra Gamble $25.00 (Cobra War #3: As the Troft battle to consolidate their conquered territories, a small group of Cobras and Qasaman Djinn work together to create a victory that will rock the invaders to the core and bring other Troft demesnes into the conflict on the humans' side)

Mid January Card, Orson Scott -- Shadows in Flight $21.99 (Shadow Saga #5: Bean and three of his children discover a derelict Formic colony ship. Aboard it they find the life support that is failing on their own ship, and labs for exploring both their own genetic anomaly and the mysterious disease that killed the ship's colony)

Cross, Julie -- Tempest $17.99 (YA; 2009: Jackson is a college student who can jump back through time. When strangers attack, Jackson's girlfriend Holly is killed, and Jackson jumps. But this time he's stuck in 2007. Desperate to save Holly, he learns what he can about his abilities. But before long the strangers from 2009 come looking for Jackson in 2007, determined to recruit the time-traveler, or kill him)

Flynn, Michael -- In the 's Mouth $25.99 (Spiral Arm #3: In the Lion's Mouth, the bureau that oversees the Shadows, there is a clandestine civil war of sabotage and assassination between those who would overthrow Those of Name and the loyalists who support them. And Donovan, once a Confederal agent, has been recalled to take a key part, willing or not)

Goss, Theodora -- The Thorn and the Blossom $16.95 (Evelyn walks into a Cornish bookstore, and Brendan sells her a medieval poem. They don't see each other for years, and yet they never stop thinking about one another. It's as if they're the haunted lovers in the old poem) Hickman, Tracy -- Wayne of Gotham $26.99 (When disturbing bits of information lead Batman to reopen the case file on his parents' murders, he discovers a father and mother that he never knew - and the darkest secrets of his family's past)

Karr, Julia -- Truth $8.99 (Nina Oberon #2: YA; Nina joins the Resistance, becoming part of an organization of girls working to put an end to one of the most terrifying secret programs the Governing Council has ever perpetrated)

Katz, David Bar -- Chronicles of the Chosen $6.99 (Kids; Harry and Kal, both 12, have just become stepbrothers. They can't stand each other. And they've each been contacted by a different alien civilization: one intending to destroy Earth; the other hoping to welcome it into galactic civilization. Now the boys must decide whether they should be allies or adversaries as they struggle with the horrors of planetary annihilation and puberty)

Lang, Michele -- Dark Victory $15.99 (Magda Lazarus #2: As the Nazis prepare to invade Poland, Magda and her beloved Raziel marshal a supernatural army that will battle Hitler's minions to the death - or beyond)

Lee, Tanith -- Tempting the Gods $13.99 (A selection of her short fantasy fiction, ranging from the late 1980s to the present, and from the dark and weird to the humorous) Luceno, James -- Darth Plagueis $27.00 (Star Wars: Darth Plagueis and Darth Sidious, master and acolyte, target the galaxy for domination - and the Jedi Order for annihilation. But can they defy the merciless Sith tradition? Or will the desire of one to rule supreme, and the dream of the other to live forever, sow the seeds of their destruction?)

McCaffrey/Scarborough -- Catacombs $15.00 (Barque Cats #2: Mysterious cat Pshaw-Ra rescues the Barque Cats and their companions, transporting them to his home planet of Mau. But his actions are less noble than they appear - the Barque Cats are part of his plan to conquer the universe)

Rice, Anne -- Of Love and Evil $14.95 (Songs of the Seraphim #2: Toby O'Dare, former government assassin, is summoned by the angel Malchiah to 15th-century Rome to solve a poisoning, and to uncover the secrets of an earthbound restless spirit)

Shirley, John -- Everything Is Broken $14.95 (Russ arrives to visit his dad in the California town of Freedom, where the mayor's ideas of 'decentralization' have left it disconnected from state or federal government, with minimal public services. After a tsunami strikes the coast, a wave of human brutality soon hits the isolated town. Russ and the townsfolk must tap all their courage and ingenuity to survive) Wolfe, Gene -- Home Fires $14.99 (On a Caribbean cruise, Skip and Chelle face a series of challenges, including spies, aliens, and battles with pirates who capture the ship for ransom)

Yamamoto, Hiroshi -- MM9 $14.99 (In Japan, a center of giant monster activity, a special unit is formed to predict where monsters will strike and what form they will take, and to fight against their rampant destruction)

Early February

Adams, John Joseph -- Under the Moons of Mars: New Adventures on Barsoom $16.99 (YA; Anthology; original stories featuring John Carter of Mars)

Ahmed, Saladin -- Throne of the Crescent Moon $24.95 (Three companions discover that a series of supernatural massacres in the city of Damasawaat are connected to the power struggle between the iron-fisted Khalif and the mysterious Falcon Prince. They race against time to unravel a sorcerous plot that threatens to turn the city into a bloody ruin)

Axler, James -- Planet Hate $6.99 (Outlanders #60: PBO; With their headquarters destroyed and archivist Brigid Baptiste lost to the enemy, Kane and the Cerberus rebels are losing the battle - but not yet the war) Baggott, Julianna -- Pure $25.99 (Pressia barely remembers the Detonations, when the world turned to ash, dust, and damaged bodies. Having reached the age when everyone is required to turn themselves over to the militia - to be trained as a soldier, or used as a live target - she is on the run. Those who escaped the apocalypse unmarked are inside the Dome. Partridge - whose father is an important man in the Dome, and whose mother never made it inside their shelter - feels isolated. When he learns that his mother might still be alive, he risks his life to leave the Dome to find her. And when Pressia meets Partridge, their worlds shatter all over again)

Bast, Anya -- Midnight Enchantment $7.99 (Dark Magick #4: PBO; Niall Quinn, mage and the finest thief in the Black Tower, is the fae's best hope for freedom. But he meets his match in Elizabeth Cely Saintjohn. Torn between his duty and the lust she stirs in him, Niall must convince her to surrender - before he is forced to destroy her and all she holds dear)

Bestwick, Simon -- The Faceless $8.99 (In the Lancashire town of Kempforth, people are vanishing. Mist hangs heavy in the streets, and in those mists move the masked figures the local kids call the Spindly Men)

Brackston, Paula -- The Witch's Daughter $14.99 (1628: Elizabeth Hawksmith watched her mother hang for witchcraft, then turned to warlock Gideon Masters, who instructed her in the Craft, awakening her formidable powers. In modern-day England, will Elizabeth be able to stand against Gideon when he come hunting her across time to claim payment for saving her life?)

Briggs, Patricia -- River Marked $7.99 (Mercy Thompson #6: An evil is stirring in the depths of the Columbia River - and Mercy and her Alpha werewolf mate Adam will need help from her father's shapeshifter clan to survive it)

Britain, Kristen -- Blackveil $16.00 (Green Rider #4: An insurrection led by dark magicians threatens to break the boundaries of Blackveil Forest, and release the powerful dark magic that has been shut away there for a thousand years)

Brown, Mike -- How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming $15.00 (Nonfiction; astronomer Mike Brown's 2005 discovery of Eris, a tenth planet slightly bigger than Pluto, ignited a firestorm of controversy that culminated in the demotion of Pluto from real planet to dwarf planet. Suddenly Brown was receiving hate mail from schoolchildren and being bombarded by TV reporters - all because of the discovery he had spent years searching for and a lifetime dreaming about)

Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- Mars Trilogy: A Princess of Mars / The Gods of Mars / The Warlord of Mars $12.99 (John Carter #01 / #02 / #03: YA; Omnibus; illustrated reprints of 3 classic space fantasy novels)

Byers, Richard Lee -- Masked Witches $7.99 (Forgotten Realms: Brotherhood of the Griffon #4: PBO; Aoth Fezim and his mercenary company have restored their tarnished reputation and attracted new recruits for their depleted ranks. But they still have one big problem. Too many griffon mounts were killed in battle, and new mounts must be found. As it happens, the masked witches in Rashemen have griffons available to a worthy few who can slay the undead that are committing atrocities throughout the land. Aoth volunteers his band, as do other groups who are in the market for the fighting beasts. But things are not as they seem)

Caine, Rachel -- Unbroken $7.99 (Outcast Season #4: PBO; Cassiel tries to stop a rival Djinn from starting a war that will wipe out humanity)

Callihan, Kristen -- Firelight $5.99 (PBO; When Lord Benjamin Archer is accused of a series of gruesome murders, he gives in to the beastly nature he has fought so hard to hide from the world. Now, to save his soul, his wife Miranda must enter a world of dark magic and darker intrigue)

Campbell, J (Hemry, J) -- Stark's Crusade $7.99 (Ethan Stark #3: Reissue; Sent to protect the US Lunar Colony, Sergeant Ethan Stark and his soldiers were betrayed by high-ranking officials, and Stark ended up head of a rebel organization he never intended to create. Now the US has joined forces with its former enemy to insure his destruction)

Catanese, P.W. -- The End of Time $6.99 (Books of Umber #3: Kids; As Hap struggles to master his unusual abilities, time is running out. Umber's rivals are threatening to undo all the good he has achieved, and a new enemy with terrible destructive power is approaching the kingdom)

Cole, Myke -- Shadow Ops: Control Point $7.99 (PBO; Lt. Oscar Britton of the Supernatural Operations Corps has been trained to take out people possessing magical powers. But when he starts manifesting powers of his own, the SOC revokes Oscar's government agent status and declares him public enemy number one)

Cook, Glen -- Garrett Takes the Case: Old Tin Sorrows / Dread Brass Shadows / Red Iron Nights $16.00 (Garrett PI #04 / #05 / #06: Omnibus reprint; 3 fantasy novels)

Cox, Greg -- The Rings of Time $7.99 (Star Trek: PBO; After a mysterious alien probe is brought aboard the ship, Captain Kirk suddenly finds himself floating in orbit above Saturn, wearing a 21st-century NASA spacesuit. What just happened?) Daniel, Tony -- Guardian of Night $13.00 (Alien commander Captain Arid Ricimer plans to defect to Earth with his officers and his superweapon- equipped starship; he and his new human allies will have to face down the forces of a tyrannical star empire)

Davis, Jim -- Garfield Brings Home the Bacon $14.00 (Garfield #53: Full-color collection of comic strips) de Lint, Charles -- Eyes Like Leaves $15.95 (Magic is fading in the Green Isles, but myths still walk the world. The children of the ancient gods are engaged in one final confrontation, but when legendary creatures wage war, it's the ordinary people who suffer the consequences)

Deas, Stephen -- The King of the Crags $7.99 (Memory of Flames #2: As the Realms teeter on the brink of war, the fate of humanity rests on the survival of one majestic white dragon)

Deas, Stephen -- The Order of the Scales $25.95 (Memory of Flames #3: Determined to take back the kingdom, Zafir has seized Jehal's wife and son as hostages. Desperate to save his queen and his heir, Jehal makes a tentative peace with the dragons of the north, and prepares to fly against his enemies. But greater danger threatens. The dragons are awakening from the spells cast upon them. They are regaining their native fury - and intent on revenge) Del Franco, Mark -- Undone Deeds $7.99 (Connor Grey #6: PBO; Wrongly accused of a terrorist attack that rocked Boston, Connor evades arrest by going underground, where rumors of war are roiling. A final confrontation between the Celtic and Teutonic fey looks inevitable - with Boston as the )

Dietz, William C. -- Deception $7.99 (Mass Effect: Novel based on the game. Every 50,000 years, a race of sentient machines invades our galaxy to harvest all organic life-forms. Two people who know the truth are desperately searching for a way to stop the cycle)

DiTerlizzi, Tony -- Kenny & the Dragon $6.99 (Kids; Kenny is a little rabbit with a big problem. His two best friends are Graeme, a peaceable, well-read, cultured dragon, and George, a retired knight and dragon slayer who runs a bookshop. When the villagers learn there's a dragon in the countryside, they call George out of retirement. It's up to Kenny to avert the battle)

Durham, David Anthony -- The Sacred Band $7.99 (Acacia #3: Queen Corinn bestrides the world as a result of her mastery of the spells in the ancient Book of Elenet. Her brother Daniel has been sent on a perilous mission to the Other Lands, while her sister Mena travels to the far north to face an invasion by the Auldek. Their separate trajectories will converge in a series of world- shaping battles) Englehart, Steve -- The Plain Man $7.99 (Max August #3: Max pursues two members of the FRC ruling cabal to a festival in the American Southwest)

Farris, John -- High Bloods $7.99 (Battling a rising tide of Lycan rights activist, LA Lycan Control agent Rawson must carve a path to the top of the Lycan chain before all hell breaks loose)

Fforde, Jasper -- One of Our Thursdays Is Missing $16.00 (Thursday Next #6: All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next. But with the real Thursday apparently retired to the RealWorld, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday, asking her to pretend to be the real Thursday, and travel as an emissary to the warring factions. Her trip up the mighty Metaphoric River reveals a fiendish plot that threatens the very fabric of the BookWorld)

Flint, E/Wentworth, KD -- The Crucible of Empire $7.99 (Empire #2: Sequel to The Course of Empire)

Frost, P.R. -- Forest Moon Rising $7.99 (Tess Noncoire #4: Fantasy writer and Celestial Blade Warrior Tess Noncoire is determined to hunt down a demonic intruder who is ravishing young women, leaving them pregnant, and then returning to steal their babies) Galenorn, Yasmine -- Shaded Vision $7.99 (Otherworld #11: PBO; It's Valentine's Day and the D'Artigo women are preparing for the wedding of their friend Iris. Then Delilah and her sisters get word that the Super Community Center has been bombed. The evil coyote shifters are back, and their new leader has joined forces with a group of rogue sorcerers. Then, just when they think things can't get worse, the demon lord Shadow Wing sends in a new front man, and life really goes to hell)

Garey, Terri -- A Devil Named Desire $7.99 (Devil's Bargain #2: PBO; Sammy (Satan) Divine sets out to prove to his old friend, the archangel Gabriel, that when forbidden fruit comes in the form of a woman, it can be very hard to resist)

Garner, Cynthia -- Kiss of the Vampire $7.99 (Warriors of the Rift #1: PBO; Determined to find out who killed her vampire friend, Nix De La Fuente is shocked when her vampire ex Tobias Caine is assigned to the investigation)

Greenberg/Hughes (ed) -- Westward Weird $7.99 (Anthology; original stories that open the Old West to new frontiers of sf and fantasy)

Guinan, P/Bennett, A -- Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention $24.95 (Frank Reade magazines were the world's first sf periodicals, enthralling readers with tales of fantastic inventions and adventures. Now many of the spectacular images from the vintage dime novel series are being reprinted for the first time in more than a century, along with excerpts from the action-packed stories)

Hallaway, Tate -- Almost Everything $9.99 (Vampire Princess of St. Paul #3: PBO; YA; Ever since her father banished her from the court of the Northern vampires, Ana has been trying to live a normal life. But when the Prince of the Southern Region vampires informs her that they're on the brink of war, she accidentally volunteers vampire knight Elias as a peace offering. She's going to need some help to get out of this situation; Signing at Uncle Hugo's on Saturday, February 11, from 1-2pm)

Harvard Lampoon -- The Hunger Pains $13.99 (Parody of the popular dystopian novel)

Hauge, Lesley -- Nomansland $9.99 (YA; In a post-apocalyptic future, on an island populated solely with women, a group of teens are tasked with protecting their shores from men. The discovery of a partially burned home from the past introduces them to a world they have never known, and raises questions about their strict society)

Hobb, Robin -- City of Dragons $27.99 (Rain Wilds #3: The lost city of Kelsingra can only be reached by flight - a test of endurance and skill beyond the strength of the stunted dragons. Desperate, they must search the depths of their ancestral memories for the knowledge that might save them. But time is running out for both dragons and their human keepers)

Hodder, Mark -- Expedition to the Mountains of the Moon $16.00 (Burton & Swinburne #3: It is 1863, but not the one it should be, and now the first moves are being made that will lead to a world war and the fall of the British Empire. Lord Palmerston believes that by using the three Eyes of Naga, he'll be able to avoid the war. He already has two of the stones, but the third is hidden somewhere in the fabled source of the Nile. He sends Sir Richard Francis Burton to recover it. But the stakes are far higher than Burton suspects. Confrontations will come in the mist- shrouded Mountains of the Moon, in the wartorn Africa of 1914, and in Green Park, London, where, in the year 1840, Burton must face the man responsible for altering time: Spring Heeled Jack!)

Jama-Everett, Ayize -- The Liminal People $16.00 (Taggert can heal and hurt with just a touch. When an ex calls for help, he risks the wrath of his enigmatic master to try and save her daughter. But when Taggert realizes the daughter has more power than even he can imagine, he has to wrestle with the very nature of his skills in order keep the girl safe)

Jones, Darynda -- Third Grave Dead Ahead $23.99 (Charley Davidson #3: Every time she closes her eyes, Charley sees Reyes Farrow, the part-human, part-supermodel son of Satan. Yes, she did imprison him for all time. But how is she supposed to solve a missing persons case, let alone take on a motorcycle gang hell-bent on murder, when the devil's son just won't give up?)

Jones, Diana Wynne -- Earwig and the Witch $15.99 (Kids; Disguised as foster parents, Bella Yaga and the Mandrake arrive at the orphanage, and whisk young Earwig off to their mysterious house. Most children would run in terror from a house full of invisible rooms, potions, and spell books, with magic around every corner, but not the clever and intrepid Earwig. With a lot of help from a talking cat, she decides to show the witch who's boss)

Kerr, Katharine -- Apocalypse to Go $7.99 (Nola O'Grady #3: PBO; Nola's brothers go searching for their missing father, and wind up in a deviant- world version of San Francisco. Can Nola and her Apocalypse Squad partner Ari find them in time to save them from death by radiation poisoning?)

Lackey, Mercedes et al -- World Divided $25.00 (Secret World #2: Meta-hero organizations Echo and CCCP must hunt down the Thule Society - the puppetmasters behind the Nazi robot invasion - and try to put an end to the multi-universe plague they have unleashed. Meanwhile, a sadistic supervillain arises who just may have the wealth and cunning to defeat both heroes and Thulians alike) Laumer, K/Brown, R -- Earthblood & Other Stories $7.99 (Reprints the title novel plus short stories of space adventure)

Lee, Sharon -- Carousel Tides $7.99 (When her grandmother deeds her a carousel, an old house on the coast of Maine, and the Land (meaning much more than property) and then vanishes, Kate Archer must return from self-exile and take up the powers and responsibilities she has renounced, and try to discover why her grandmother didn't return when expected)

Leith, Sam -- Coincidence Engine $23.99 (A hurricane sweeps off the Gulf of Mexico and, in the Alabama countryside, assembles a passenger jet out of old bean cans and junk. This piques the interest of Red Queen, head of the Directorate of the Extremely Improbable. Her fascination sets into motion a madcap caper)

Littlefield, Sophie -- Horizon $14.95 (Aftertime #3: PBO; When a traveler arrives at New Eden, offering knowledge of a passageway North and a final escape from the Beaters, Cass and many other survivors follow him into the unknown)

Marks, Laurie J. -- Fire Logic $16.00 (Elemental Logic #1: Reissue; The warlike Sainnites have occupied Shaftal for 15 years. The Shaftali are fighting a guerrilla war, but every year the cost of resistance is higher. Emil, once a scholar, is now a Shaftali officer. Zanja is a prescient, a traveler, and last survivor of a slaughtered tribe. Karis is a metalsmith, addicted to a Sainnite drug that suspends her will and judgment. Separately, all they can do is watch as Shaftal succumbs to violence. Together they might change the course of history)

Martin, Gail Z. -- The Dread $7.99 (Fallen Kings #2: As Tris takes the remains of the Margolan army north to war, a dark summoner from across the sea prepares to take advantage of the Winter Kingdom's weakness. When King Donelan is assassinated in Isencroft, Kiara must return home to claim the crown, but the dark summoner's agents will go to any lengths to stop her)

Martinez, A. Lee -- Chasing the Moon $7.99 (Diana thought the apartment was too good to be true, but she wasn't expecting a roommate who wants to devour the universe. Soon she is up to her elbows in cosmic horrors and ancient entities, and must find a way to keep a monster-god from devouring the moon)

Maxey, James -- Greatshadow $8.99 (Dragon Apocalypse #1: The Church of the Book has assembled battle-hardened adventurers to slay the dragon once and for all. The leaders regard the mission as a holy duty, but the mercenary warriors are interested in the dragon's treasure. If they fail to slay the beast, will they doom mankind to death by fire?) McConchie, Lyn -- The Questing Road $7.99 (A group of farmers, searching for a stolen foal, and the lord and lady of the nearby keep, searching for the sire of the lady's empathic cat, unwittingly cross into a different world, and learn that, somehow, the cat and the foal are the keys to saving that world from a grave danger)

McDermott, J.M. -- When We Were Executioners $14.99 (Dogsland #2: Corporal Jona, the demon- stained Lord of Joni, died in the woods. His lover, the Senta Rachel Nolander, is a demon- tainted fugitive, pursued by the priest and priestess of Erin. Plotting to cleanse the world of the lovers' demonic taint, they track her through the city based on dreams plucked from Jona's crying skull)

Meding, Kelly -- Wrong Side of Dead $7.99 (Dreg City #4: The battered Triads that keep Dreg City safe find themselves under attack by half-Blood vampires who have somehow retained their reason, making them twice as lethal. Worse, the Halfies are joined by a breed of were-creature long believed extinct)

Mieville, China -- Embassytown $16.00 (Humans have colonized Arieka, home to sentient beings famed for a language that only a few altered human ambassadors can speak. Returning to Embassytown after years of deep-space adventure, Avice cannot speak the Ariekei tongue, but she is an indelible part of it, having long ago been made a figure of speech. When distant political machinations deliver a new ambassador, the fragile equilibrium between humans and aliens is violently upset. Catastrophe looms, and Avice is torn between competing loyalties - to a husband she no longer loves, to a system she no longer trusts, and to her place in a language she cannot speak that nevertheless speaks through her)

Mitchell, Sandy -- The Emperor's Finest $8.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Ciaphas Cain: The search for the source of an alien threat leads Ciaphas Cain and his trusty aide Jurgen to a drifting space hulk. With the tyranids waking and a group of stowaway orks on the loose, Cain must use all his ingenuity and cunning to escape)

Mitchell, Sandy -- The Last Ditch $24.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Ciaphas Cain: Cain returns to Nusquam Fundumentibus to crush the ork attacks plaguing the frozen planet. But when his ship crashes into the wastelands outside the capital, it disturbs a far greater enemy, long dormant under the permafrost. Faced with ongoing greenskin raids and keeping a gung-ho novice commissar under control, Cain must rally his men and confront whatever emerges from beneath the rapidly melting ice)

Moon, Elizabeth -- Kings of the North $7.99 (Paladin's Legacy #2: As invaders advance on King Kieri's borders, dark magic also threatens his kingdom from within) Moorcock, Michael et al -- Elric: The Balance Lost Volume 1 $14.99 (Graphic novel; signs appear throughout the Multiverse that the Cosmic Balance is in peril, and the Eternal Champion is caught in the crosshairs!)

Orullian, Peter -- The Unremembered $7.99 (Vault of Heaven #1: In a world where hellish creatures have been unleashed, young Tahn must face that which most daunts him - his own forgotten secrets, and the darkness that would destroy him and his world)

Rajaniemi, Hannu -- The Quantum Thief $7.99 (Jean le Flambeur #1: Jean le Flambeur is a post- human criminal, mind burglar, con artist, and trickster. His exploits are famous, but he made one mistake, and ended up in prison. He is rescued by the mysterious Mieli, who offers him a chance to win back his freedom and the powers of his old self - in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed)

Reus, Katie -- Alpha Instinct $7.99 (Moon Shifter #1: PBO; Ana has been a strong leader for the few remaining lupine shifters in her pack. But with no pack male, they're vulnerable to the devious shifter Taggart, who wants to claim both their ranch and Ana as his own. When Connor Armstrong comes back into her life, promising protection as the Alpha male, it's almost enough to make Ana forget how he walked out on her before) Roux, Madeline -- Sadie Walker Is Stranded $14.99 (A group of Repopulationists is ready to multiply. Unfortunately, these extremists managed to destroy a crucial barrier, allowing the undead into Seattle. It's not good news for Sadie Walker, who's trying to raise her nephew in peace. Now she's got to fight off zombies and zanies, and sail a shipload of survivors to safety)

Ruff, Matt -- The Mirage $25.99 (11/9/2001: Christian fundamentalists hijack four jetliners. They fly two into the Tigris & Euphrates World Trade Towers in Baghdad, and a third into the Arab Defense Ministry in Riyadh. The fourth plane, believed to be bound for Mecca, is brought down by its passengers. The United Arab States declare a War on Terror. Arabian and Persian troops invade the US. 2009: Mustafa, an Arab Homeland Security agent, interrogates a captured suicide bomber, who claims that the world they are living in is a mirage - in the real world, the US is the superpower, not the Arab states. Other captured terrorists have been telling the same story. The president wants answers, but Mustafa discovers he's not the only interested party - gangster Saddam Hussein is conducting his own investigation. And the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee - war hero Osama bin Laden - will stop at nothing to hide the truth)

Rusch, Kristine Kathryn -- Boneyards $16.00 (Boss #3: Searching for ancient tech to help her friends, Boss ventures into a place filled with evidence of an ancient space battle, one the Dignity Vessels lost. Meanwhile, the Enterran Empire keeps accidentally killing its scientists in its quest for ancient stealth tech, leading Squishy to sneak into the Empire and destroy its stealth tech research base. When her escape is thwarted, Squishy needs help from her friend Boss. Boss, who is a fugitive in the Empire, who knows how to make a Dignity Vessel work, and who knows that Dignity Vessels house the very tech that the Empire is searching for)

Safrey, Jennifer -- Tooth and Nail $14.99 (When a threat to the fae's peaceful way of life emerges, amateur boxer Gemma, a hybrid of tooth faerie and human, is called upon to become a legendary fae warrior)

Smith, J/Sniegoski, T -- Quest for the Spark, Book 2 $10.99 (Bone Novel: Kids; The Nacht is growing stronger, and Tom is the champion the Dreaming has chosen to defeat it. With his friends and allies, he must find the missing pieces of the Spark. This leg of the journey introduces him to a trio of scheming bears, and takes him into the depths of a dangerous beehive)

Sniegoski, Thomas E. -- A Hundred Words for Hate $7.99 (Remy Chandler #4: When the Garden of Eden reappears and two opposing groups of immortals want the Key to the Gates, Remy will need the help of a fallen angel who is sometimes friend - and sometimes foe)

Stevenson, Mark -- An Optimist's Tour of the Future $16.00 (Nonfiction; writer/comedian Stevenson asked 'What's next for our species?' and then traveled the globe in pursuit of the answers)

Sullivan, Michael J. -- Heir of Novron $14.99 (Riyria Revelations #3: The fledgling New Empire celebrates its victory. On Wintertide, the empress will be married, and a double execution will keep the populace happy. And once the empress suffers a fatal accident, the right people will be in control. There's just one problem: Royce and Hadrian have finally found the true Heir)

Swallow, James -- Blood Angels: The Second Omnibus: Red Fury / Black Tide $15.00 (Warhammer 40,000: Omnibus reprint; 2 novels plus 2 short stories)

Tallerman, David -- The Giant Thief $7.99 (Easie Demasco is a sneak thief and a con man. When his land is invaded by mercenaries commanding magically-enslaved giants, somehow Easie manages to make off with both the warlord's treasure and the special stone that controls the giants. Which means he now has an entire army on his tail)

Tidhar, Lavie -- The Great Game $7.99 (Bookman Histories #3: When Mycroft Holmes is murdered, retired shadow executive Smith sets out to track down his killer, and stumbles on the greatest conspiracy of his life. Fresh from liberating an alien object in Abyssinia, Holmes' protege Lucy Westenra must follow her own path to the truth, while on the other side of the world, young Harry Houdini faces his greatest feat of escape - death itself. And in a castle in Transylvania, a mysterious old man weaves a web of secrets and lies)

Tuck, James R. -- Blood and Bullets $7.99 (Deacon Chalk #1: After barely escaping a vampire ambush, occult bounty hunter Deacon Chalk finds himself with a newbie slayer to protect, and everything from bloodsuckers to cursed immortals on his trail)

Valente, Catherynne M. -- Deathless $14.99 (Marya Morevna transforms from a clever child of the Russian revolution, to the bride of Koschei the Deathless, to his eventual undoing. Along the way there are Stalinist house elves, magical quests, secrecy and bureaucracy, and more)

Vaughn, Carrie -- After the Golden Age $7.99 (The estranged daughter of a pair of superheroes, forensic accountant Celia West may be Commerce City's only hope to catch a notorious supervillain - for tax fraud)

Weber, David -- In Fire Forged $7.99 (Worlds of Honor #5: Anthology; short fiction set in the Honorverse, including an original Honor Harrington novella) Windham/Reiff/Trevas -- The Millennium Falcon Owner's Workshop Manual $28.00 (Star Wars: Full color. An technical look at the famous spaceship, covering operational history, piloting, propulsion, weapons, engineering systems, sensors, and crew facilities)

Wood, Maryrose -- The Hidden Gallery $6.99 (Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place #2: Kids; Despite their governess Penelope's efforts, the children manage to ruin the Christmas ball, nearly destroying Ashton Place. While it's being restored, family and governess relocate to London. As they explore the city, more clues about the children's - and Penelope's - mysterious pasts crop up in the most unexpected ways)

Wooding, Chris et al -- Pandemonium $12.99 (Kids; Full color graphic novel; Seifer has always dreamed of leaving his village - but not by being abducted. He awakens to learn that Prince Talon is missing, and, as Seifer is looks just like Talon, it's his duty to replace the prince. He might fool Talon's sisters, or even Talon's army. But he has little hope of fooling Talon's enemies)

Wraight, Chris -- Luthor Huss $8.99 (Warhammer: Witch hunter Lukas Eichmann investigates a series of bizarre murders, which lead him into the haunted depths of the Empire at the head of an army. In the Drakwald forest, Luthor Huss, warrior priest of Sigmar, battles to free the denizens of the forest from a plague of the walking dead. As their fates entwine, the two warriors confront a threat that will decide their future, while Huss must face a secret from his past if he is to survive and embrace his destiny as the Hammer of Sigmar)

Mid February

Bennett, Robert Jackson -- The Troupe $13.99 (PBO; George must uncover the truth behind the Silenus vaudeville troupe and their mystical ways before it is too late. A dark power threatens them all, but what role George and the others must play remains to be seen)

Booraem, Ellen -- Small Persons with Wings $7.99 (Kids; Ever since the day she told her kindergarten class she had a fairy living in her bedroom, Mellie has been trying to live it down. But when her parents inherit an inn, she discovers that her family have been fairy guardians for generations, and that the inn is overrun with small persons with wings. But can family and fairies overcome an evil temptress who wants the fairy magic all for herself?)

Hand, Elizabeth -- Available Dark $23.99 (Cass Neary #2: A mysterious job offer sends photographer Cass Neary to Helsinki, where a fashion photographer shows her photos depicting ritual killings. Narrowly escaping death herself, Cass flees to Iceland, but soon unsolved murders are multiplying faster than she can run)

Harrison, Kim -- A Perfect Blood $26.99 (Rachel Morgan #10: Ritually murdered corpses are appearing across Cincinnati, terrifying amalgams of human and other. Pulled in by the FIB to help investigate, Rachel Morgan soon realizes that someone is determined to make demons. But it can't be done without Rachel's blood)

Joyce, William -- E. Aster Bunnymund and the Battle of the Warrior Eggs at the Earth's Core! $14.99 (Guardians of Childhood Novel #2: Kids; Pitch the Nightmare King has disappeared completely. The Guardians suspect he might have gone underground. Enter Bunnymund: brilliant, logical, skilled in martial arts, and a great tunnel-digger. If the Guardians need paths near the Earth's core, he can do it, and he might just be able to help in the quest for the second piece of the 'Moonclipper')

Kittredge, Caitlin -- The Iron Thorn $10.99 (Aiofe Grayson #1: YA; Everyone in Aiofe's family has gone mad on their 16th birthday. Now a ward of the city of Lovecraft, and one of the only female students at the School of Engines, Aiofe is trying to pretend that her fate can be different)

Matheson, Richard -- Other Kingdoms $14.99 (1918: While recuperating in England, a wounded American soldier finds himself drawn to the nearby woods - and the perilous faerie kingdom it borders)

Moon, Elizabeth -- Echoes of Betrayal $26.00 (Paladin's Legacy #3: In Lyonya, King Kieri prepares to marry, but whispers from the spirits of his ancestors continue to warn of treachery and murder. In Tsaia, King Mikeli faces unrest among his nobles over his decision to grant title and estates to Dorrin, a Verrakaien woman who possesses the forbidden magic. And the wild offspring of a dragon are on the loose, sowing death and destruction, and upsetting the ancient balance of power between dragonkind, humans, elves, and gnomes)

Nevill, Adam -- The Ritual $14.99 (Four men hiking in the Swedish wilderness try a shortcut, and find an old habitation, decorated with ancient artifacts and strewn with bones - the remains of ritual sacrifices for something that still exists in the forest. Something responsible for the bestial presence that is following their every step)

Schroeder, Karl -- Ashes of Candesce $27.99 (Virga #5: As Artificial Nature makes its final bid to destroy Virga, it's up to Leal to unite the quarreling clans of her world against the threat)

Whyte, Jack -- The Forest Laird $25.99 (Guardians #1: 1305: In a London prison on the eve of his execution, William Wallace - hero to the Scots, outlaw to the English - tells the tale of his life to the Scottish priest who has come to hear his confession)

Williams, Walter Jon -- The Fourth Wall $13.99 (Dagmar Shaw #3: PBO; Washed-up child actor Sean was on a downward spiral until Dagmar plucked him from obscurity. But Dagmar is a cipher - people tend to die around her. Now she wants Sean for something - a movie, she says, but who's to say what her real game is?)

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-- Mystery Scene #121 $7.50 (Articles about Val McDermid, supernatural mysteries, more)

Alden, Jami -- Hide from Evil $7.99 (PBO; When his death-row conviction was overturned, Sean Flynn retreated where he believed the past couldn't come back to haunt him - until prosecutor Krista Slater showed up. She can't forgive herself for convicting an innocent man, but when another murder reveals chilling new facts about the case, she must turn to Sean for help)

Allingham. Margery -- Cargo of Eagles $14.95 (Albert Campion #19: Reissue; In the early 1960s, the English coastal town of Saltey, long a hidey- hole for all manner of villains, is being overrun by teenage gangs. But that's not why Albert Campion has persuaded Lugg to take up residence. His interest lies in a just-out-of-prison thief who has gone to ground there, and in the newly revived story of the Saltey Demon)

Andrus, James -- The Perfect Prey $6.99 (John Stallings #2: PBO; During spring break in Jacksonville, pretty girls are everywhere. None of them suspect that, for the guy they're flirting with, it's hunting season. Detective John Stallings must find the psychopath leaving a trail of blond, blue-eyed murder victims)

Arthurson, Wayne -- Fall from Grace $25.99 (Leo Desroches #1: Edmonton journalist Leo Desroches' mother was Cree, and he understands the problems of Canadians of the First Nations. When he's assigned to cover the murder of a young Native prostitute, his article starts a chain of events that leads him to a much bigger story - one that could bring down the entire police department . . . or get Leo killed)

Ashley, Mike -- The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction $13.95 (Anthology; 12 stories (11 original, 1 reprint) set from Bronze-Age Britain to Medieval Venice to 1930s New York)

Baccalario, Pierdomenico -- Ring of Fire $7.99 (Century #1: Kids; A mix-up forces Harvey from New York, Mistral from Paris, and Sheng from Shanghai to share a room with the hotel owner's daughter Elettra. The four kids discover they all have birthdays on February 29. That night, a strange man gives them a briefcase and asks them to take care of it until he returns. Soon afterward, the man is murdered. Inside the briefcase, the kids find clues that take them all over Rome, through dusty libraries and dark catacombs, in search of the elusive Ring of Fire, an ancient object so powerful that legend says even a Roman emperor couldn't control it)

Baccalario, Pierdomenico -- Star of Stone $7.99 (Century #2: Kids; Harvey, Elettra, Mistral, and Sheng discover a series of four postcards, written in code years ago by the murdered professor who sent them on their quest in Rome. The cards send the kids all over New York City, through old libraries and abandoned tunnels, in search of the Star of Stone, an ancient object fundamentally connected to the earth. But a new set of villains is out to stop them)

Barnett, Mac -- The Ghostwriter Secret $5.99 (Brixton Brothers #2: Kids; 12-year-old Steve Brixton's detective services have been in high demand - and he's about to get a call of great personal importance. The author of Steve's beloved Bailey Brothers series has been kidnapped, and Steve is the only 12-year-old detective who can find him)

Baughman, Christopher -- Off the Street $15.95 (Nonfiction; Baughman and the Las Vegas Pandering Investigation Team wage war against the pimps who kidnap, trick, and beat women into a life of prostitution. Plus guidance on how parents can protect their daughters from these predators)

Block, Lawrence -- The Night and the Music: The Matthew Scudder Stories $20.00 (Collection; 11 stories featuring the unlicensed New York PI; Signed copies)

Bradley, Alan -- A Red Herring Without Mustard $15.00 (Flavia de Luce #3: The clever and unflappable 11-year-old sleuth uncovers a slew of misdeeds in the hamlet of Bishop's Lacey - mysteries involving a missing tot, a Gypsy fortune-teller, and a corpse in Flavia's own backyard)

Bradley, Alan -- I Am Half-Sick of Shadows $23.00 (Flavia de Luce #4: 11-year-old Flavia is whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick when she is distracted by the arrival of a film crew. Despite a raging blizzard, the entire village gathers to watch a famous actress perform. When a body is found, strangled with a length of film, Flavia must ferret out the killer)

Campbell, Karen -- Shadowplay $12.95 (Anna Cameron #3: When Anna Cameron is promoted to Chief Inspector and moved to a new division, her new boss turns out to be a tyrant. With her career and personal life both threatening to implode, the gang-related murder of a young Asian boy and an assault on one of her officers only serve to turn the screws tighter)

Carey, Benedict -- Island of the Unknowns $6.95 (Kids; In the trailer park next to the energy plant, people have started to vanish, and no one seems to care. At first quirky outcasts Lady Di and Tom Jones barely notice the disappearances themselves - until their beloved math tutor Mrs. Clarke is abducted. She has left them clues to her whereabouts in the form of equations that lead them all over the trailer park, through hidden tunnels, and into the energy plant, where their gang of misfits uncovers the sordid truth about what's really happening on their island)

Carman, Patrick -- Floors $16.99 (Kids; Each floor of The Whippet Hotel has its own quirks and secrets. Leo should know most of them - he is the maintenance man's son. But a whole lot more mystery gets thrown his way when a series of cryptic boxes are left for him, leading him to hidden floors, strange puzzles, and unexpected alliances)

Carparelli, Felicia -- Murder in the Library $19.95 (Who killed Hieronymus Wilde? Was it his archenemy, his mistress, his wife, or the women in his past? When his body is found, the solution to the murder hinges on one of Sherlock Holmes' most famous cases) Carrington, Tori -- Love Bites $15.95 (Sofie Metropolis #5: Sofie is retained by the neighborhood vampire to prove he isn't responsible for a recent string of grisly murders, and her mother talks her into looking for a missing woman neither of them knows)

Cawthorne, Nigel -- A Brief History of Sherlock Holmes $13.95 (Nonfiction; biography of the author as well as his creation. Also surveys the world of Holmes, looking at Victorian crime, the real characters behind Dr. Watson and Inspector Lestrade, and the world on the doorstep of 221B Baker Street)

Clare, Alys -- The Way Between the Worlds $28.95 (Aelf Fen #4: 1092: 'Come to me! I need you!' These words bring apprentice healer Lassair awake one morning, certain that one of her loved ones is in danger. When news comes that a nun has been murdered at the abbey where her sister Elfritha lives, Lassair sets off immediately. But the danger she will have to face may be greater than she is ready for)

Clements, Rory -- Martyr $17.95 (John Shakespeare #1: John Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth's chief intelligencer, is ordered to protect Francis Drake from an assassination plot, and must also investigate the murder of a high- born young woman) Conant, Susan -- Brute Strength $28.95 (Dog Lovers #19: Lately, it seems wherever Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter turns, things go wrong: an anonymous call turns vicious, her husband is keeping secrets, and acquaintances are dying under mysterious circumstances. Then Holly's own life is threatened. Can the brute strength of her beloved malamutes Rowdy, Kimi, and Sammy protect her?)

Dane, Jordan -- Reckoning for the Dead $7.99 (Sweet Justice #4: PBO; The story is that Garrett Wheeler was killed on a covert op. But Alexa Marlowe, Garrett's ex-lover and most trusted agent, isn't buying it. Her search for the truth leads her behind the fortress walls of a drug cartel)

Depoy, Phillip -- A Corpse's Nightmare $25.99 (Fever Devilin #6: Folklorist Fever Devilin was killed by an intruder. He doesn't stay dead - thanks to an EMT - but when he comes out of his coma, there are two things he knows: that he's been dreaming about the 1920s Paris cafe scene, and that his would-be killer was after a box containing a photo of what Fever believes to be an angel)

Duenas, Maria -- The Time in Between $26.00 (Finding herself abandoned and penniless in Morocco, Sira reinvents herself by turning to her gift for creating beautiful clothes. Then, in the early days of WWII, she is persuaded to return to Madrid. She takes on a new identity, becoming the preeminent couturier for an eager clientele of Nazi officers' wives - and an undercover agent for the Allies)

Dunlap, Jan -- Falcon Finale $14.95 (Bob White Birder Murder #4: PBO; When Bob flies to Flagstaff, AZ, to track down his sister's missing husband - and his best friend - Alan Thunderhawk, he finds more than he bargained for, including a 20-year-old unsolved murder and a boy who claims to be Alan's son)

Eisler, Barry -- The Detachment $14.95 (John Rain #7: Colonel Scott Horton tracks Rain down, offering a multi-million dollar payday for the 'natural causes' demise of three ultra-high- profile targets who plan to launch a coup in the US. But for a job this big, Rain will need a detachment of other deniable irregulars: his partner Dox, Ben Treven, and Larison)

Fabiano, Laurie -- Elizabeth Street $15.95 (1900s: Giovanna hopes to make a new start in the new world. In New York's Little Italy, she makes friends, starts a family, and take pride in a growing business. But when her modest success draws the attention of the brutal extortionists of the notorious Black Hand gang, she will have to fight to save her family)

Fields, Tricia -- The Territory $24.99 (Winner of the 2010 Prize; police chief Josie Gray battles Mexican drug cartels who have turned her Texas border town into a battlefield)

Fingerman, David -- Playing the Hand She's Dealt $14.95 (Louise Miller, an unemployed ex-cop with a gambling problem, arrives home from the casino to find her front door unlocked and a corpse sitting on her sofa. The dead man is Walter Farkos, a man she arrested shortly before resigning from the Minneapolis PD, and his killer is out to draw Miller into a sadistic game of cat and mouse; Signed copies)

Fleming/Gardner, John -- For Special Services $14.95 (James Bond: Reissue; Bond is on loan to the US government, partnered with his old friend Felix Leiter's daughter Cedar. Their target? The legendary SPECTRE has reappeared)

Fleming/Gardner, John -- Icebreaker $14.95 (James Bond: Reissue; Bond is on a mission in Lapland with his counterparts from the US, the USSR, and Israel. Is it the American or the Israeli who is acting as a double agent? Are the Finns merely using Bond to break the KGB's stranglehold on their tenuous national autonomy?)

Fleming/Gardner, John -- License Renewed $14.95 (James Bond: Reissue; Bond faces a dangerously deranged opponent - one prepared to sacrifice most of the Western world to prove that only he can make it safe from accidental holocaust) Gage, Leighton -- Every Bitter Thing $14.00 (Mario Silva #4: When the son of Venezuela's foreign minister is found dead in Brasilia, Chief Inspector Silva investigates, and discovers a chain of murders with the same MO, all passengers from the same plane flight)

Gavin, Rick -- Ranchero $24.99 (To get his landlady's stolen Ranchero back, Mississippi repo man Nick Reid will do anything. And it turns out he might have to)

Gibbs, Stuart -- Belly Up $6.99 (Kids; 12-year- old Teddy and his friend Summer believe that the hippo at the brand-new FunJungle has been murdered, even thought the zoo claims the hippo went belly up the natural way. The deeper they dig, the more danger they're in - because when it comes to hippo homicide, the truth can't be caged!)

Giuttari, Michele -- A Death in Tuscany $12.95 (Michele Ferrara #2: The body of a girl is discovered, lying by the edge of the woods outside a Tuscan town. After a week, when the local police haven't even identified her, let alone figured out how she died, Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara steps in)

Goodrich, Clifford -- The Football Racketeers / Murders in Crazyland $14.95 (Whisperer #4: Pulp reprints) Gordon-Smith, Dolores -- Off the Record $15.95 (Jack Haldean #5: 1924: A leading manufacturer and noted philanthropist, Charles Otterbourne's New Century company should have been the perfect partner for Professor Alan Carrington's radical new gramophone. When their meeting ends in murder, Jack Haldean takes up the case in a desperate bid to save a man from the gallows. But what led to the crime?)

Gosselink, John -- Free Thaddeus! $6.95 (Thaddeus Ledbetter #1: Kids; The irreverent (and possibly too smart for his own good) Thaddeus has been sentenced to in-school suspension for the rest of the year. Learn how this happened, and why Thaddeus thinks he should be released. Designed like a case file, with notes, reports, forms, journal entries, letters, emails, illustrations, and more)

Grant, Maxwell -- The Shadow Laughs / Voice of Death $14.95 (Shadow #49: Pulp reprints)

Grant, Maxwell -- The Man from Shanghai / The Golden Dog Murders / Jabberwocky Thrust $14.95 (Shadow #50: Pulp reprints)

Grant, Maxwell -- The Living Joss / Judge Lawless $14.95 (Shadow #51: Pulp reprints)

Grant, Maxwell -- The Crime Master / The Fifth Napoleon $14.95 (Shadow #52: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell -- Garden of Death / The Vampire Murders $14.95 (Shadow #53: Pulp reprints)

Grant, Maxwell -- The Golden Quest / The Masked Headsman $14.95 (Shadow #54: Pulp reprints)

Grisham, John -- The Litigators $28.95 (Law firm partners Oscar Finley and Wally Figg plan to use a pharmaceutical class action suit to get rich without actually practicing much law)

Hambly, Barbara -- Ran Away $28.95 (Benjamin January #11: RAN AWAY. So begin a score of advertisements every week in the New Orleans newspapers, advertising for slaves who have fled their masters. But the Turk, Huseyin Pasha, posted no such advertisement when his two lovely concubines disappeared. Then a witness proclaimed he'd seen the 'devilish infidel' hurl their dead bodies out of a window. Only Benjamin January, who knows the Turk of old, is willing to seek the real culprit)

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia -- Kill My Darling $28.95 (Bill Slider #14: When Melanie Hunter goes missing, the men in her life come under suspicion. It soon becomes clear there are secrets in Melanie's past, and pain she tried to hide from the world)

Havill, Steven F. -- Statute of Limitations $14.95 (Posadas County #13: Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman and Bill Gastner learn that, at a local motel, the retired chief of police had an exchange with two men and then collapsed. The men took off in his car. A tourist couple, the woman on the verge of giving birth, were the only witnesses, but something seems off about their story)

Havill, Steven F. -- The Fourth Time Is Murder $14.95 (Posadas County #15: A truck has gone off the road, the driver's body found near the wreck. Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman drives to the scene, where she finds more questions than answers. Was it really an accident? And why is there a single footprint on the man's body?)

Haynes, Dana -- Breaking Point $24.99 (Crashers #2: A plane is deliberately brought down in the Montana mountains, then attacked by mercenaries targeting three men who were about to blow the whistle on the development of weapons banned by international treaty. A team of NTSB Crashers struggles with conflicting and confusing evidence and outside forces to get to the truth)

Higgins, George V. -- Cogan's Trade $14.95 (Reissue; When a high-stakes card game is heisted by unknown hoodlums, Boston mob enforcer Jackie Cogan is called in to 'handle' the problem)

Highsmith, Patricia -- The Cry of the Owl $14.00 (Reissue; Robert Forrester is recuperating from a nasty divorce and a bout of psychological trouble. One evening, he sees a pretty young woman framed by her bright kitchen window. Soon, he can't keep himself away. But when Robert is inevitably discovered, obsession is turned on its head, and he finds himself unable to shake the young woman, nor entirely sure whether he should)

Highsmith, Patricia -- Eleven $14.00 (Reissue; Collection; short stories of obsession and foreboding, violence and instability)

Highsmith, Patricia -- Tales of Natural and Unnatural Catastrophes $14.95 (Reissue; Collection; 10 stories of nuclear holocaust, psychotic politicians, plagues of cockroaches, carcinogenic fungi, and roving hordes of the criminally insane)

Highsmith, Patricia -- The Tremor of Forgery $14.95 (Reissue; 1960s: Howard Ingham, in Tunisia to gather material for a film he's writing, becomes concerned when the girlfriend he left behind doesn't answer his increasingly aggravated letters, and the filmmaker who hired him fails to join him. Will Ingham's morality survive the withering heat?)

Iliffe, Glyn -- The Gates of Troy $12.95 (Odysseus #2: Odysseus wants nothing more than to rule Ithaca in peace, but Helen of Sparta has been abducted by a prince of Troy, and the hosts of ancient Greece are gathering. Odysseus must persuade Achilles to join their cause - for without Achilles, the gates of Troy will never fall) Jaffe, Michele -- Rosebush $8.99 (YA; Jane wakes up tangled in a rosebush, paralyzed and unable to remember a single detail from the night before. Her mother and friends say the hit-and-run was an accident, but Jane knows someone tried to kill her. As she lies in bed, long-buried memories begin to resurface. Her friends come and go, each with a different version of what happened that night. Jane must use the clues they leave behind to figure out who's really on her side - before the killer strikes again)

Jerkins, Grant -- At the End of the Road $15.00 (PBO; A car loses control, flips through the air. A woman crawls out, staggers toward the boy on the bike, the one she swerved to avoid. But he runs away. Kyle is ten in the summer of 1976, and his world is all about secrets - secrets hidden in the maze of cornfields, in caves, in the embers of scorched earth, behind creaking doors and down basement stairs . . . and in the darkest of hearts. But there's a policewoman at the front door. The Paralyzed Man watches him from a neighboring porch. And no matter which way Kyle turns, no place seems safe anymore)

Johnson, Claire M. -- Beat Until Stiff $14.95 (Mary Ryan #1: Reissue; San Francisco pastry chef Mary Ryan arrives at work early, and steps on a laundry bag stuffed with the dead body of one of her employees. The investigation exposes all the dirty secrets that the food business would like to keep hidden, but it will take Mary's unique skills to get to the bottom of a poisonous scheme)

Jones, Solomon -- The Gravedigger's Ball $24.99 (Coletti #2: Detective Mike Coletti stands at a grave, mourning the woman whose betrayal nearly cost him his life. He's joined there by her half- sister Lenore. Then a gunshot splits the air, placing Coletti on a collision course with the Gravedigger, a killer hell-bent on deciphering the secret of life and death)

Kadare, Ismail -- The Accident $14.00 (A taxi in Vienna crashes, hurling its two passengers - a man and a woman - from the backseat as it spins through the air. The driver cannot explain why he lost control; he only says that the couple was about to kiss. As the investigation into their deaths deepens, a lonely researcher will uncover a mutually destructive relationship that blurs the line between fact and fiction, fear and desire)

Kehret, Peg -- Ghost Dog Secrets $6.99 (Kids; Every day, Rusty feeds Ra, an injured German shepherd that's left chained outside in the cold with no shelter, food, or water. When he can't get Animal Control to help, Rusty and his friend Andrew take Ra to their secret hideout. Meanwhile, the ghost of a collie has been visiting Rusty. With Ra's owner making increasingly scary threats, the boys will need to figure out what the ghost dog is trying to tell them before it's too late) Kerr, P.B. (Philip) -- The Akhenaten Adventure $8.99 (Children of the Lamp #1: Kids; 12-year- old twins John and Philippa discover they are descended from a long line of djinn, with the power to grant wishes, travel to extraordinary places, and make people and objects disappear. Their eccentric djinn-uncle Nimrod will teach them how to harness their powers. And not a moment too soon, since they are about to embark on a search for a monstrous pharaoh named Akhenaten and his eerie tomb)

Kerr, P.B. (Philip) -- The Blue Djinn of Babylon $8.99 (Children of the Lamp #2: Kids; When a book of djinn magic goes missing, John and Philippa are called upon to retrieve it. But it's a trap, and Philippa is abducted by the Blue Djinn. John and his uncle Nimrod must find Philippa before it's too late)

Kerr, P.B. (Philip) -- The Cobra King of Kathmandu $6.99 (Children of the Lamp #3: Kids; While trying to help their djinn friend Buck find out who used a venomous king cobra to murder his friend, djinn twins John and Philippa find themselves caught up in the lethal world of the Cult of the Nine Cobras)

Kerr, P.B. (Philip) -- The Day of the Djinn Warriors $7.99 (Children of the Lamp #4: Kids; Djinn twins John and Philippa race against time as they attempt to save their mother from her fate as the Blue Djinn of Babylon. An aging curse has been placed on their father, and if the twins are gone too long, he'll turn into an old man. Meanwhile, museums all over the world are reporting robberies of valuable jade from their collections, as well as bizarre hauntings)

Kerr, P.B. (Philip) -- The Eye of the Forest $7.99 (Children of the Lamp #5: Kids; When a collection of Incan artifacts goes missing, the Blue Djinn of Babylon dispatches the twins to South America to recover them. Along the way, John and Philippa encounter their friend Dybbuk, who has been drained of his djinn powers but is determined to get them back)

Kerr, P.B. (Philip) -- The Five Fakirs of Faizabad $8.99 (Children of the Lamp #6: Kids; When the world's luck tips wildly out of balance, the key to the world's fate lies with five fakirs who were buried alive, each guarding a secret that can answer a great question of the universe. But there's an evil djinn desperate to dig up the secrets. Without their mother's powerful magic, John and Philippa must face this djinn alone)

Koefod, Susan -- Washed Up $14.95 (PBO; When 11-year-old Abatha finds a dead baby on the riverbank, social worker Christine Ivory and detective Arvo Thorson are assigned to the case. They grew up together in the Minnesota town, and have no use for each other, but when a similar cold case comes to light, they must work together to protect Abatha) Koontz, Dean -- What the Night Knows $9.99 (Alton Blackwood murdered four families, then was killed by the last survivor of the families, 14- year-old John Calvino. 20 years later, someone is recreating Blackwood's crimes. Detective John Calvino is certain his wife and children will be targets - and an extraordinary experience has him convinced that, sometimes, the dead return)

Kuhfeld, Ellen -- Secret Murder: Who Shall Judge? $15.95 (Alternate history set in a North America settled by Europeans in the Middle Ages. Thorolf Pike was trouble. Declared an outlaw and exiled from his home, he had come from Surtsheim, where his fellow Norsemen lived, to Northlanding, where English settlers lived. Now he was dead, by an unknown hand. Who killed him? And should the murderer be judged by English law, or by Norse law?)

Lake, Deryn -- Death at the Wedding Feast $28.95 (John Rawlings #14: In Devon for the birth of his child, apothecary John Rawlings learns that Lady Sidmouth's daughter Miranda is to marry the elderly Earl of St Austell, who has a cruel reputation. As the wedding day approaches, John feels increasingly uneasy, and before too long his worst forebodings are realized)

Lane, Vicki -- Under the Skin $15.00 (Full Circle Farm #6: PBO; Elizabeth Goodweather and her city-girl sister Gloria couldn't be more different. Now Gloria has parked herself at Full Circle Farm, on the run from her latest man, who, she insists, is trying to kill her)

Lawson, Mike -- The Inside Ring $7.99 (Joe DeMarco #1: Reissue; After a failed assassination attempt on the US President, there's some indication that his Secret Service agents might have been compromised. Speaker of the House Dan Mahoney assigns his fixer Joe DeMarco to determine if the Secret Service was really involved)

Leon, Donna et al -- Brunetti's Cookbook $24.95 (Lifelong Venetian (and Donna Leon's best friend) Roberta Pianaro provides over 100 recipes, which are accompanied by food-related excerpts from the novels, and original essays by Donna Leon about food and life in Venice (where she has lived for over two decades))

Limon, Martin -- Jade Lady Burning $9.99 (Sueno & Bascom #1: Reissue; 1970s: When a young Korean woman is found murdered in Seoul's red-light district, her American soldier boyfriend is a suspect; military policemen George Sueno and Ernie Bascom investigate)

Lott, Bret -- The Hunt Club $13.99 (Huger Dillard #1: 15-year-old Huger and 'Unc' (his blind Uncle Leland) stumble upon the body of a well-to- do Charleston hunter. Who wanted him dead? And why is the Hunt Club, a tract of woods and swamp belonging to Huger's family, suddenly at the heart of a dark secret worth killing for?) Lurie, April -- The Less-Dead $8.99 (YA; Noah has been getting drunk, getting high, and dissing the religious beliefs of his father, who hosts a Christian radio show, and whom Noah accuses of spreading hate. When two gay teens are murdered, Noah is convinced the killer is a caller on his dad's program, and is drawn into a game of cat and mouse as he investigates)

Mallo, Ernesto -- Needle in a Haystack $14.95 (Lascano #1: Buenos Aires, late 1970s: Sent to investigate a double murder, Superintendent Lascano arrives at the crime scene to find three bodies. Two are clearly the work of the Junta's death squads, murders he is forced to ignore. The third corpse turns out to be that of a moneylender and Auschwitz survivor. When Lascano digs too deep, he must confront an army major who is quick to help old friends but ruthless in dealing with dissenters)

Mallo, Ernesto -- Sweet Money $14.95 (Lascano #2: Superintendent Lascano is drawn into a war between the Buenos Aires chief of police and the Apostles, drug-dealing cops who want to control the city. When the chief of police is murdered, Lascano becomes the Apostles' next target. His only way out of the country is to retrieve the loot from a bungled bank robbery)

Malloy, Mary -- The Wandering Heart $15.95 (Lizzie Manning #1: PBO; First accident, then compulsion, lead historian Lizzie Manning through the history of thirty generations of one British family. Documents, artifacts, paintings, architecture, and even the landscape draw her into her own family's history of insanity, and into a search for a Crusader's disembodied heart)

Malloy, Mary -- Paradise Walk $15.95 (Lizzie Manning #2: PBO; Chaucer may have based his Wife of Bath on a real woman, whose descendant holds certain artifacts, but will historian Lizzie Manning's investigation lead to something more sinister? Are the bones of St. Thomas Becket, believed to have been destroyed nearly 600 years ago, hidden in Canterbury Cathedral, and is someone willing to kill to protect the secret?)

Martin, Charles Philipp -- Neon Panic $14.95 (Inspector Lok #1: PBO; When the body of a young woman washes up in the harbor, Inspector Herman Lok discovers that the woman is linked to the triads - and to the Hong Kong Symphony Orchestra. Meanwhile, musician Hector Siefert learns that his colleague Leo Stern has disappeared. Hector digs deeper, and finds that behind the day-to-day life of the Symphony is something very evil. Did it kill Leo? And will it kill him next?)

McDermid, Val -- A Darker Domain $14.99 (Fife, Scotland: Cold Case Review Team head Karen Pirie investigates two 1980s cases: a missing strikebreaker and the death of a kidnapped heiress) Meloy, Maile -- The Apothecary $16.99 (Kids; London, 1952: 14-year-old Janie meets an apothecary and his son Benjamin, who dreams of becoming a spy. When his father is kidnapped, Janie and Bejamin must keep the apothecary's secret book out of the hands of Russian spies. Using its secrets to discover and test potions they never believed could exist, they race to save the apothecary and prevent impending disaster)

Meyer, Deon -- Thirteen Hours $7.99 (Benny Griessel #2: A teenage girl's body has been found on the street, her throat cut. She was an American - a PR nightmare in Cape Town, #1 tourist destination in South Africa. And her traveling companion Rachel is missing. Detective Griessel races against the clock, trying to bring Rachel home safe and solve the murder of her friend)

Miller, John J. -- The First Assassin $15.95 (Washington, DC, 1861: Colonel Charles P. Rook is caught in a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with a ruthless assassin hired to eliminate president- elect Abraham Lincoln and destroy the Union once and for all)

Morrell, David -- The Spy Who Came for Christmas $6.99 (On Christmas Eve in Santa Fe, agent Paul Kagan feverishly seeks refuge for himself and the baby he holds tightly, who has the power to change the course of global events. Pursued by members of the Russian Mafiya, Kagan finds an unexpected pair of allies: a mother and her young son) Moyes, Patricia -- Dead Men Don't Ski $14.95 (Inspector Tibbett #01: Reissue; Chief Inspector Henry Tibbett and his wife Emmy are in Italy for a spot of skiing, and to look into a little matter of interest to Interpol - Fritz Hauser. When Hauser is murdered, Tibbett discovers that most of the resort guests and staff had motives)

Mulligan, Andy -- Trash $8.99 (YA; Three boys make a living picking through the mountains of garbage on the outskirts of a large city. One day, they find something very special and very mysterious. So mysterious that they decide to keep it, even when the city police offer a handsome reward for its return. They'll need all of their cunning and courage to stay ahead of their pursuers, solve a mystery, and right a terrible wrong)

Munday, Evan -- The Dead Kid Detective Agency $9.95 (PBO; Kids; 13-year-old October spends her free time in the cemetery, where she befriends the ghosts of five dead teenagers, each from a different era of the past. They form the Dead Kid Detective Agency. When the high school French teacher dies in a suspicious car accident, the case puts them in the midst of a murder plot, and sends them on an adventure that might just uncover the truth about a bomb that exploded 40 years ago)

Murphy, Shirley Rousseau -- Cat Telling Tales $19.99 (Joe Grey #17: With Molena Point hit hard by the economic downturn, a suspicious fire and a homeless family put PI cat Joe Grey and his posse on the trail of a scam involving a group of shady real estate agents)

Murray, Colin -- No Hearts, No Roses $15.95 (Tony Gerard #1: London, 1955: Laid-back PI Tony Gerard lives a peaceful life, until a routine call from glamorous film star Beverly Beaumont, asking Gerard to investigate the disappearance of her brother, ends in the discovery of a body, and a face from Tony's past. A face from Paris, 1945)

O'Donnell, P/Romero, E -- Million Dollar Game: Butch Cassidy Rides Again / Million Dollar Game / The Vampire of Malvescu $19.95 (: PBO; Reprints classic black & white comic strips featuring three adventures of detective Modesty Blaise and her trusty henchman Willie Garvin)

O'Hara, Gerry -- Sherlock Holmes and the Affair in Transylvania $16.95 (Having resolved a delicate matter in Bucharest, Holmes and Watson are about to return home when Watson receives a distressing letter from his niece Mina, now living in Budapest. It seems her lawyer husband Janos has not returned from a business trip to Castle Dracula)

Oates, Joyce Carol (ed) -- New Jersey Noir $15.95 (PBO; Anthology; 19 original stories set in New Jersey)

Palumbo, Dennis -- Fever Dream $14.95 (Daniel Rinaldi #2: PBO; When a bank robbery results in the deaths of all the hostages except one, Pittsburgh trauma expert Daniel Rinaldi is called in to question the survivor. The case soon explodes into a series of events that plunge the investigators into a vortex of mistaken identity and kidnapping)

Parker, Ann -- Mercury's Rise $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (Silver Rush #4: PBO; 1880: Tuberculosis victims are flocking to the health resort of Manitou, Colorado. But Inez Stannert is headed there to reunite with her son and her sister. On the stagecoach, East Coast businessman Edward Pace dies mysteriously. His widow begs Inez to make inquiries into his untimely death)

Patterson, James -- Kill Alex Cross $28.99 (Alex Cross #18: The US President's son and daughter have been abducted. Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene, but someone very high up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark)

Penzler, Otto (ed) -- Christmas at The Mysterious Bookshop $14.99 (Anthology; 17 stories with a holiday theme, each previously published only as a limited-edition chapbook)

Perry, Anne -- No Graves As Yet $15.00 (Reavley #1: Reissue; 1914: Cambridge professor Joseph Reavley learns from his brother Matthew, an officer in the Intelligence Service, that his parents have died in an automobile crash en route to London. They were to turn over to Matthew a document so damning that it would disgrace England and destroy the civilized world. Now it has vanished. How had it fallen into the hands of their father, a quiet countryman? Then Joseph's most gifted student is murdered. England's peace is cracking, as the distance between the assassination of an Austrian archduke and the murder of a brilliant university student grows shorter by the day)

Perry, Anne -- The Cater Street Hangman $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #01: Reissue; While the Ellison girls were out paying calls like proper Victorian ladies, a maid in their household was strangled to death. Quiet young Inspector Pitt investigates, and finds no one above suspicion. As his questioning causes many a composed facade to crumble, Pitt finds himself drawn to Charlotte Ellison. But surely a romance between a society girl and so unsuitable a suitor is impossible, especially in the midst of a murder inquiry)

Perry, Anne -- Resurrection Row $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #04: Reissue; Inspector Pitt is amazed at the sight: the corpse of a peer of the realm, sitting at the reins of a hansom cab. Who would want to exhume a decently buried chap like Lord Augustus Fitzroy-Hammond? A doctor insists that the old man's death was natural, but there's certainly nothing natural about this gristly aftermath) Perry, Anne -- Bluegate Fields $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #06: Reissue; A boy has been found in the filthy sewers of one of Victorian London's most dangerous slums, violated and then murdered. When the boy's upper class family refuses to answer questions, Inspector Pitt wonders what secrets they hiding; his wife Charlotte is determined to find out)

Perry, Anne -- Cardington Crescent $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #08: Reissue; When womanizing aristocrat George March is found dead over his morning coffee, his family decides to deal with the scandal as discreetly and quickly as possible: they accuse March's wife Emily of the murder. Emily's sister Charlotte and her husband, Inspector Thomas Pitt, take on the seemingly irreproachable March clan, and uncover a web of corruption and depravity that leads from the elegant town house to the slums of Victorian London - and to yet another murder)

Perry, Anne -- Silence in Hanover Close $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #09: Reissue; Asked to conduct a discreet investigation into the unsolved murder of a diplomat, Inspector Thomas Pitt is all too aware that his superiors simply want things smoothed over. It's up to Pitt's wellborn wife Charlotte and her sister Emily to garner information from the man's high society family. Privy to conversations that would never reach the ears of a policeman, they find a secret so shocking it will lead to more deaths - including, quite possibly, Pitt's own)

Perry, Anne -- Bethlehem Road $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #10: Reissue; Sir Lockwood Hamilton, the kindest of family men and most conscientious member of Parliament, is elegantly attired, tied to the lamppost on Westminster Bridge, and quite dead, his throat cut. Before Inspector Thomas Pitt can even speculate on the reasons, a colleague of Sir Lockwood's meets the same fate in the same spot. Charlotte Pitt scouts society's drawing rooms for clues to these appalling crimes)

Perry, Anne -- Highgate Rise $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #11: Reissue; Arson results in a woman's death in a quiet London suburb. But was she the intended victim, or was her husband? Or did he set the blaze himself to inherit her fortune? With clues scarce, Inspector Thomas Pitt turns to the woman's distinguished relatives, hoping for answers. Meanwhile, Charlotte retraces the dangerous path the woman walked in the last months of her life, and finds a sinister web that stretches from the lowest slums to the loftiest centers of power)

Perry, Anne -- The Hyde Park Headsman $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #14: Reissue; Gruesome beheadings in Hyde Park have London in a state of terror, and if newly promoted Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt can't apprehend the perpetrator quickly, he may find himself out of a job) Perry, Anne -- Pentecost Alley $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #16: Reissue; When evidence appears to implicate a young diplomat in a prostitute's murder, the young man's immensely powerful father makes it clear that Superintendent Thomas Pitt is to arrest someone else for the murder. But Pitt stubbornly pursues an investigation full of twists and turns. Is the young man guilty, or is he being framed?)

Perry, Anne -- Ashworth Hall $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #17: Reissue; A meeting is arranged between Protestant and Catholic factions to discuss Irish Home Rule, but the negotiations seem doomed after the government official moderating the meeting is murdered. Unless Superintendent Thomas Pitt and his wife Charlotte can root out the truth, Ireland may collapse into civil war)

Perry, Anne -- Brunswick Gardens $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #18: Reissue; The battle over Charles Darwin's theory of evolution intensifies when the respected Reverend Parmenter is boldly challenged by his assistant Unity Bellwood, a woman whose feminism and aggressive Darwinism he finds appalling. When Unity, three months pregnant, tumbles to her death, Superintendent Thomas Pitt is certain that one of the three deeply devout men in the house committed murder. Could it have been the Reverend Parmenter? His handsome curate? Or his son, a fervent Roman Catholic?) Perry, Anne -- Bedford Square $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #19: Reissue; Although General Balantyne denies all knowledge of the shabbily dressed victim who has been murdered on his doorstep, Superintendent Thomas Pitt finds a rare snuffbox, last seen in the general's study, in the dead man's pocket. The superintendent must tread lightly, however, lest his investigation trigger a tragedy)

Perry, Anne -- Seven Dials $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #23: Reissue; Thomas Pitt of Her Majesty's Special Branch is summoned to a mansion, where the body of a junior diplomat lies huddled in a wheelbarrow. Nearby stands the tenant of the house, a beautiful Egyptian woman, now prime suspect in the murder. Pitt's orders are to protect at all costs the good name of the third person in the garden: a senior cabinet minister, rumored to be the woman's lover, who insists she is innocent. Pitt's search for the truth takes him from Egyptian cotton fields to a London slum, and ultimately to a packed London courtroom)

Perry, Anne -- Long Spoon Lane $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #24: Reissue; After an anarchist attack, two of the culprits are captured and the leader is shot . . . but by whom? As Thomas Pitt of the Special Branch delves into the case, clues suggest that the mastermind was Inspector Wetron, the shadowy leader of the Inner Circle, who is using his influence with the press to stir up fear, and to rush a bill through Parliament that would severely curtail civil liberties. To defeat Wetron, Pitt must ally with his old enemy Sir Charles Voisey)

Perry, Anne -- Buckingham Palace Gardens $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #25: Reissue; When a female guest turns up dead following the Prince of Wales' party, Thomas Pitt's discreet investigation is complicated by Victorian politics, hidden rivalries, and high-stakes financial rewards)

Perry, Anne -- The Face of a Stranger $15.00 (William Monk #01: Reissue; His name, they tell him, is William Monk, and he is a London police detective. But the accident that felled him has left him without his memory; his entire past has vanished. As he tries to hide the truth, Monk returns to work and is assigned to investigate the murder of a Crimean War hero and man about town. Which is difficult, since Monk has forgotten his professional skills along with everything else)

Perry, Anne -- A Sudden, Fearful Death $15.00 (William Monk #04: Reissue; A talented nurse, who had worked with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War, meets sudden death by strangulation in a London hospital. Private inquiry agent William Monk is engaged to investigate, and turns to his unconventional friend Hester Latterly, another of Miss Nightingale's nurses, and barrister Oliver Rathbone for assistance) Perry, Anne -- Sins of the Wolf $15.00 (William Monk #05: Reissue; Nurse Hester Latterly accompanies Mrs. Mary Farraline, an elderly Scottish lady in delicate health, on a short train trip to London, which takes a grave turn when Mrs. Farraline dies during the night. When the postmortem reveals a lethal dose of medicine, Hester is charged with murder. To save Hester from the gallows, detective William Monk will have to find a calculating killer among the prominent Farraline clan)

Perry, Anne -- A Breach of Promise (UK title: Whited Sepulchres) $15.00 (William Monk #09: Reissue; In a sensational breach-of-promise case, two wealthy social climbers are suing on behalf of their beautiful daughter Zillah. The defendant is young architect Killian Melville, who adamantly declares that he cannot marry her. Baffled by his client's refusal, barrister Sir Oliver Rathbone turns to detective William Monk and nurse Hester Latterly. But even as they scout London for clues, the case suddenly ends, in an outcome that no one - except a ruthless murderer - could have foreseen)

Perry, Anne -- Dark Assassin $15.00 (William Monk #15: Reissue; Police superintendent William Monk notices a young couple engaged in an intense discussion. Seconds later, the two plunge to their deaths in the Thames. Accident, suicide, or murder? The woman planned to marry the man who shared her fate, and her father had recently died in a supposed suicide. But after the woman's friends share their suspicions, Monk and his intrepid wife Hester search for answers to mysteries surrounding all three deaths)

Potzsch, Oliver -- The Hangman's Daughter $18.00 (Bavaria, 1659: When a dying boy is found tattooed with the mark of a witch, the villagers suspect the local midwife. Hangman Jakob Kuisl is charged with extracting a confession from her - and torturing her until he gets one. Convinced she is innocent, he, his daughter Magdalena, and the local doctor's son try to find the true killer)

Rayner, Claire -- First Blood $10.95 (Dr. Barnabas #1: Reissue; Dr. Barnabas is the new pathologist at a big inner city hospital, a police surgeon - and the first woman to hold either post. Her first post-mortem is on a well-known author, and surrounded by a media circus. The trouble begins when she cannot find a cause of death)

Rayner, Claire -- Second Opinion $10.95 (Dr. Barnabas #2: Reissue; Dr. Barnabas, the forensic pathologist and police surgeon at the Old East Hospital, investigates when small babies in the maternity unit begin dying suspiciously)

Rector, John -- The Grove $14.95 (Waking from a blackout to discover the body of a teenage girl in the cottonwood grove, Dexter McCray can't be entirely sure he's innocent. He sees no choice but to investigate the crime himself, but he has some help - in the shape of the dead girl herself)

Reece, Christy -- Sweet Revenge $7.99 (Last Chance Rescue #2: PBO; Jamie Kendrick went on a trip to hell at the hands of a monster protected by money and power. Now, asking for LCR's help, Jamie plans her revenge. And Dylan Savage, one of LCR's most skilled operatives, is given an assignment - train the lovely Jamie, but thwart her revenge plot at all costs)

Rice, Craig -- 8 Faces at 3 (alternate titles: Death at Three / Murder Stops the Clock) $14.95 (John Malone #01: Reissue; After Holly Inglehart is discovered unconscious, next to the dead body of the aunt who was about to disinherit her for marrying band leader Dick Drayton, it's up to Chicago lawyer John Malone to keep her from going to the chair. Malone teams up with Drayton's press agent Jake Justus and Holly's best friend Helene Brand. But can this trio of wisecracking sleuths find the real killer?)

Roberts, Les -- The Strange Death of Father Candy $24.99 (1985: When his oldest brother - beloved by every Italian Catholic in Youngstown as 'Father Candy' - dies, Vietnam veteran Dominick Candiotti returns home for the funeral. Dissatisfied with the verdict of suicide, his search for the truth uncovers secrets) Robertson, Michael -- The Brothers of Baker Street $14.99 (Heath Brothers #2: Reggie Heath's latest client is a London cab driver accused of murdering two tourists. But while Reggie works on that case, the letters to Sherlock Holmes are piling up - including one from someone who claims to be Moriarty's descendant)

Royal, Priscilla -- Killing Season $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (Prioress Eleanor #8: PBO; Back from crusade, Baron Herbert grows increasingly morose, withdraws from his family, and refuses to share his wife's bed. When his sons begin to die in strange accidents, the baron begs his friend Sir Hugh to bring spiritual and secular healers. Sir Hugh persuades his sister Prioress Eleanor to accompany him. When Death's scythe harvests more victims, can they find the killer?)

Simenon, Georges -- The President (alternate title: The Premier) $14.00 (Reissue; At 82, the former leader lives on the Normandy coast, writing his memoirs and receiving visits from statesmen and biographers - and guarding the handwritten confession of his former aide, Chalamont. He alone possesses the secret of Chalamont's true character and guilt - but now the long-thwarted Chalamont has been summoned to form a new coalition government)

Slater, Susan -- Five O'Clock Shadow $14.95 (Pauly Caton watches her husband of four days fall from a hot-air balloon. Who is the naked child who scrambles from the gondola, fleeing when it strikes a sandbar? Why would he have been up with Randy and the pilot on the honeymoon ride she was too chicken to join?)

Smith, Alexander Gordon -- Solitary $8.99 (Escape from Furnace #2: YA; Alex tried to escape. He had a perfect plan. He was almost free. Then the dogs came. Now he's locked in a place so hellish that escape doesn't even matter. He just wants to survive)

Sobol, Donald J. -- Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Secret UFOs $4.99 (Kids; Encyclopedia Brown solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids, and helps his dad, the chief of police, solve his most baffling crimes. Join Encyclopedia as he solves ten confounding new mysteries: stolen stamps, missing medallions, a shipwreck, and more. And with the clues given in each case, you can solve the mysteries too!)

Stevens, Taylor -- The Informationist $14.00 (Vanessa Munroe #1: Hired to find a billionaire's missing daughter, Vanessa Munroe finds herself back in the African lands of her childhood, betrayed and left for dead. To escape the jungle, she must come face to face with the past she's tried to forget)

Stevenson, Richard -- Red White Black and Blue $13.99 (Donald Strachey #12: Rumors about the Tea Party's opportunistic gubernatorial candidate paint him as an unfaithful, callous exploiter of young men . . . young men that he puts into the hospital, or perhaps the morgue. Gay PI Don Strachey smells truth in those rumors, but his investigation is confounded by a shadowy conspiracy, witnesses' fear, and a grieving family appallingly willing to give up on justice for a brutalized son and brother)

Swierczynski, Duane -- Hell & Gone $14.99 (Charlie Hardie #2: PBO; Left for dead after a shootout that blew the lid off a billion-dollar conspiracy, ex-cop Charlie Hardie awakens to find himself captive in a secret prison that houses the most dangerous criminals on earth)

Thompson, Brian -- The Sailor's Ransom (HC title: The Captain's Table) $13.95 (Bella Wallis #2: London, 1875: Philip Westland comes to Bella with a problem: his best friend is smitten by Miss Mary Skillane, an heiress whose father has promised her to Robert Judd, a vulgar treasure seeker. Mary is due to inherit the Skillane pearls, but it seems the pearls were ill-gotten. Can Bella and her friends unite the young lovers and escape the attention of the villainous Judd?)

Van Draanen, Wendelin -- Sammy Keyes and the Wedding Crasher $7.99 (Sammy Keyes #13: Kids; Her history teacher is being threatened, and with her own name near the top of the suspect list, eighth- grade detective Sammy Keyes is determined to get to the bottom of things) Walker, Shiloh -- If You Hear Her $7.99 (PBO; The scream Lena Riddle hears in the woods behind her house is enough to curdle her blood - she has no doubt that a woman is in real danger. With no physical evidence, the local cops dismiss her claim. Ezra King, on leave from the state police, hears Lena's story; his instincts tell him that Lena's life is also at risk)

Waltner-Toews, David -- Fear of Landing $14.95 (1980s: On the islands of Java and Bali, Canadian veterinarian Abner Dueck must battle Indonesian politics to unravel the mysterious deaths of both cattle and people)

Washburn, Livia J. -- The Gingerbread Bump-off $14.00 (Fresh-Baked #6: PBO; Her house is being featured in the Christmas Jingle Bell Tour of Homes, but before the tour gets under way, Phyllis makes a gruesome discovery on her front porch - someone has broken a decorative gingerbread man over her friend Georgia's head. With the police baffled, it's up to Phyllis to catch the killer)

Waters, Paul -- Cast Not the Day $15.95 (Drusus #1: In the middle of the fourth century AD, the Roman Empire is under Christian rule. But in Britain there is still resistance to the Church. As the followers of faith and reason clash, and the old values of classical enlightenment are called into question, Drusus, a young British Roman, is there to witness the cracks as they begin to split the Roman Empire) Waters, Paul -- The Republic of Vengeance (UK title: Of Merchants and Heroes) $16.00 (At the end of the third century BC, as the ruthless King of Macedon is moving against the city-states of Greece and threatening Rome itself, Marcus, a young Roman, vows to avenge his father's death at the hands of pirates led by a notorious corsair. He is cast into the midst of the rising war)

Welsh, Louise -- The Cutting Room $12.95 (Reissue; Winner of the CWA Creasey Dagger for Best First Novel. When an auctioneer comes upon a hidden collection of violent and disturbing photographs, he feels compelled to discover more about the deceased owner. The search sucks him into an underworld of crime, depravity, and secret desire - and a fight for his life)

Westlake, D (Stark, R) -- Flashfire $15.00 (Parker #19: Reissue; Parker's in West Palm Beach, competing with a crew that has an unhealthy love of explosions; when things go sour, Parker finds himself shot and trapped - and forced to rely on a civilian to survive)

Westlake, D (Stark, R) -- Firebreak $15.00 (Parker #20: Reissue; His latest heist takes Parker to a palatial Montana hunting lodge where a dot-com millionaire hides a gallery of stolen old masters - which will fetch Parker a pretty penny if his team can just get past the mansion's tight security) Wilson, Laura -- The Lover $14.95 (Reissue; Fall, 1940: Londoners are being killed by the bombs of the Blitz. But a handful of the dead were killed more personally. The victims were all prostitutes, and it's clear that someone is following in the footsteps of Jack the Ripper)

Zarimba, Lance -- Vacation Therapy $14.99 (Checking into an all-male resort, Taylor and Sergio discover a dead body, which then disappears. When Taylor stumbles over it again, the problems have only started in this tropical paradise)

Early December

Adams, Ellery -- The Last Word $7.99 (Books by the Bay #3: PBO; The Bayside Book Writers are excited when a bestselling novelist comes to town to work on his next book - until he's strangled to death. The investigation could spell doom for one of Olivia's dearest friends)

Ballard, Mignon F. -- Miss Dimple Rallies to the Cause $24.99 (Miss Dimple #2: 1943: When children discover a skeleton at the edge of a field, and Buddy Oglesby disappears along with the money from the War Bond rally, Miss Dimple and her fellow teachers are soon on the case) Barbieri, Maggie -- Physical Education $24.99 (Murder 101 #6: After the coach dies of a heart attack during the game, English professor Alison Bergeron is forced to take over the women's basketball team. It isn't long before she suspects that the death was no accident)

Barton, Beverly -- Dead by Nightfall $7.99 (PBO; When his wife disappears, Griffin Powell will need all the resources of the Powell Agency to track down her captor, a sadistic madman who has used his wealth to fund a series of depraved hunts)

Beason, Pamela -- Endangered $7.99 (Summer Westin #1: PBO; When a boy disappears, the media blames the cougars that wildlife biologist Summer Westin helped rehabilitate and release. Now she's joining FBI agent Chase Perez on a search through the high country, hoping to uncover the truth in time to save both the boy and the wild cats)

Blackwell, Juliet -- Dead Bolt $7.99 (Haunted Home Renovation #2: PBO; The renovation of a historic San Francisco home is hindered by the owners, who insist on sticking around, and by some ghosts, who want to stop the work entirely. When a crotchety neighbor turns up dead, Mel is a suspect, and will have to restore her reputation as well as the building)

Brandon, Ali -- Double Booked for Death $7.99 (Black Cat Bookshop #1: PBO; Darla has inherited her aunt's Brooklyn bookstore, and smarter-than- thou bookstore cat Hamlet. When a bestselling author meets an untimely end during a store event, it's ruled an accident - until Hamlet digs up a clue that seems to indicate otherwise)

Brennan, Allison -- If I Should Die $7.99 (Lucy Kincaid #3: PBO; Aspiring FBI agent Lucy Kincaid and her PI boyfriend Sean Rogan pursue an arsonist into an abandoned mine shaft - and stumble upon the perfectly preserved remains of a murder victim)

Brown, D/DeFelice, J -- Raven Strike $9.99 (Dreamland #13: PBO; On the trail of a notorious terrorist, CIA operatives overstep their boundaries, and the ultimate weapon falls into the wrong hands. Danny Freah and his team scramble to recover it, while Whiplash director Jonathon Reid tries to uncover the secrets behind the original mission's failure)

Bruen, Ken -- London Boulevard $14.99 (Ex-con Mitchell's violent past catches up with him, and people start getting hurt. When his disturbed sister is threatened, he is forced to act)

Buckley, Fiona -- Queen Without a Crown $28.95 (Ursula Blanchard #9: Happily married to Hugh Stannard, lady-in-waiting Ursula Blanchard is hoping to give up her undercover work for Queen Elizabeth l. But when Hugh unwittingly endangers possession of his ancestral home, Ursula is forced to take on a seemingly hopeless - but handsomely paid - private assignment)

Cain, Chelsea -- Evil at Heart $7.99 (Archie Sheridan #3: A zealous fan of Gretchen's pays homage to the Beauty Killer by luring Archie and reporter Susan Ward to the scene of a grisly murder)

Cain, Chelsea -- The Night Season $7.99 (Archie Sheridan #4: Portland detective Archie Sheridan goes after a serial killer who has been poisoning people and then dumping them in the Willamette River flood waters)

Challis, Joanna -- The Villa of Death $25.99 (Daphne du Maurier #3: 1927: Daphne's friend Ellen is marrying her beau Teddy, despite family objections. When Teddy is found murdered just after the wedding and Ellen is accused of the crime, Daphne and the dashing Major Browning must uncover the truth)

Cheshire, Simon -- The Treasure of Dead Man's Lane and Other Case Files $6.99 (Saxby Smart #2: Kids; Boy detective Saxby Smart exposes a comic book counterfeiter, restores a dead man's good name, and uncovers a case of identity theft. He records the cases in his notebook, laying out all the clues readers need to solve the mysteries on their own)

Christie, A/Curran, J -- Agatha Christie: Murder in the Making $25.99 (Nonfiction; more of Christie's unpublished work, including letters, archival papers, and an analysis of her last, unfinished novel)

Christie, Agatha -- Agatha Christie: An Autobiography $29.99 (Reissue; Nonfiction; the queen of mystery chronicles her life. Includes a bonus CD with commentary from the grande dame herself)

Clement, Blaize -- Cat Sitter Among the Pigeons $7.99 (Dixie Hemingway #6: Dixie tries to save a young woman and her baby from murderous con artists who are ready to kill to keep the millions they stole from naive investors)

Connelly, Michael -- The Drop $27.99 (Harry Bosch #17: Relentlessly pursuing two cases, LAPD detective Harry Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating undiscovered in the city for decades, and a political conspiracy that reaches back into the dark history of the police department; Signed copies expected)

Coonts, Deborah -- Lucky Stiff $7.99 (Lucky O'Toole #2: Lucky sets out to discover who turned a less-than-savory Vegas oddsmaker into shark food)

Coonts, S/Keith, W.H. -- Death Wave $9.99 (Deep Black #9: The NSA's top secret Deep Black unit must prevent an act of geological terrorism that could devastate the east coast of the US) Cornwell, Patricia -- Red Mist $27.95 (Kay Scarpetta #19: Determined to find out why Jack Fielding was murdered, Kay Scarpetta travels to the Georgia Prison for Women, where an inmate has information, and discovers connections revealing conspiracy and potential terrorism on an international scale)

Cotterill, Colin -- Slash and $25.00 (Dr. Siri Paiboun #8: 1970s: Dr. Siri is sent to supervise the search for the remains of a US pilot whose plane went down ten years earlier in the jungles of northern Laos. The search party includes high-level politicians and scientists; when one of them is found dead, first of a series of 'accidents', it's up to the feisty old coroner to get to the bottom of the mystery)

Crais, Robert -- The Watchman $9.99 (Cole & Pike #11: Reissue; Joe PIke is hired to protect a young heiress who is the sole witness in a federal investigation. As a chain of lies and betrayals tightens around them, Pike decides to follow his own rules for survival: hunt down the hunters and strike hard)

Crais, Robert -- The Two Minute Rule $9.99 (Reissue; Max Holman botched a bank job and was sent away for years. Released from prison, Max wants to reconcile with his estranged son. Instead he learns that his son's been gunned down. To uncover the truth about the killing, Max teams up with ex-FBI agent Katherine Pollard) Crichton, M/Preston, R -- Micro $28.99 (Three men are found dead in a locked office in a Honolulu building, with no sign of struggle except for ultrafine, razor-sharp cuts covering their bodies. The only clue is a tiny bladed robot, nearly invisible to the human eye)

Cussler, C/Brown, G -- Devil's Gate $27.95 (NUMA Files #9: The NUMA Team is drawn into the ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of unbelievable power, and a plan to extort the world's major nations by threatening to destroy their greatest cities)

Daheim, Mary -- The Alpine Winter $25.00 (Emma Lord #23: Emma and sheriff Milo Dodge have their holiday festivities interrupted when a decomposed body is discovered in a cave on Mount Sawyer; quite a few people claim it's the remains of their missing loved one)

Delaney, Kathleen -- And Murder for Dessert $14.95 (Ellen McKenzie #3: Ellen and her police chief fiance attend the upscale Harvest Festival Dinner at Silver Springs Winery, hosted by Ellen's niece Sabrina and her husband. The dinner is progressing nicely until Sabrina finds the temperamental guest chef dead in a wine fermenting tank)

DiSilverio, Laura -- Swift Edge $25.99 (Charlie Swift #2: A world-class figure skater hires Swift Investigations to find her missing pairs partner; then the pair's coach is attacked, and another skater is killed) dos Santos, Jose R. -- The Einstein Enigma $14.99 (A manuscript, mysteriously entitled The God Formula and penned by Albert Einstein, contains a cryptogram that leads to a search for the most elusive secret of the universe)

Drake, Nick -- Egypt: The Book of Chaos $25.99 (Rahotep #3: After Tutankhamun dies without an heir, his widow Ankhesenamun sends chief detective Rahotep and royal envoy Nakht on a mission to the Hittites, to arrange a marriage for her with one of the king's sons, a union that would bring peace to the region and consolidate her power. Meanwhile, back in Egypt, General Horemheb is poised to seize control)

Dryden, Alex -- Red to Black $9.99 (Anna Resnikov #1: Reissue; Ordered to gather intelligence on each other, Finn, an MI6 spy, and Anna, a KGB colonel, fall in love; together they must thwart a plot to replace the Soviet state with a new Russian Empire)

Ebersohn, Wessel -- The October Killings $14.99 (Bukula & Gordon #1: 20 years ago, soldier Leon Lourens saved Abby Bukula from the white security team that killed her anti-apartheid activist parents. Now he has come to Abby for help. Someone is killing members of the team. Abby turns to Yudel Gordon, a white prison psychologist, for help in untangling the web of politics, identity, and history)

Eccles, Marjorie -- Broken Music $25.99 (1919: With Great Britain still struggling after the Great War, former police sergeant Herbert Reardon returns home, determined to find out what happened the night his daughter was found drowned. When a maid is found murdered, Reardon is convinced the cases are linked)

Ellis, Robert -- Murder Season $25.99 (Lena Gamble #3: Called to a double homicide at a hangout for Hollywood celebs, Detective Gamble learns one of the victims was the politically connected club owner, and the other was just acquitted of killing his 16-year-old neighbor. Was the teen's angry father serving up some justice, or is something bigger in play?)

Evanovich, Janet -- The Rocky Road to Romance $7.99 (Steve Crow, program director at WZZZ, always favored low-slung sportscars and high- heeled women, but that was before he fell for the station's Dog Lady, Daisy Adams, a free spirit who loves old people and pets, and catches crooks by accident)

Evanovich, Janet -- One for the Money (movie tie-in) $8.99 (Stephanie Plum #01: Reissue; After losing her job, Stephanie goes to work skip-tracing for her sleazy cousin Vinnie's bail bond company. She's got no experience. And it doesn't help that the bail jumper in question is hot Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli - wanted for murder)

Evanovich, Janet -- Smokin' Seventeen $8.99 (Stephanie Plum #17: Dead bodies are showing up in shallow graves on the empty construction lot of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds. No one is sure who the killer is, or why the victims have been offed, but it's clear that Stephanie's name is on the killer's list. Stephanie faces further complications when her family and friends decide that it's time for her to choose between Morelli and Ranger)

Evanovich, Janet -- Explosive Eighteen audiobook $32.00 (Stephanie Plum #18: Unabridged)

Ferris, Monica -- Buttons and Bones $7.99 (Needlecraft #14: While renovating a cabin in the woods of northern Minnesota, Betsy finds a skeleton. She investigates, and discovers the site of a WWII POW camp, a mysterious crocheted rug, and clues to a decades-old crime)

Ferris, Monica -- Threadbare $24.95 (Needlecraft #15: When an elderly homeless woman is found dead, her last will and testament is embroidered on her blouse, leaving everything to her niece Emily, a Crewel World regular. Emily's aunt turns out to be the second homeless woman found dead recently. It's up to Betsy to discover the common thread between the deaths, and stop a killer from striking again) Finnis, Jane -- Shadows in the Night (original title: Get Out or Die) $14.95 (Aurelia Marcella #1: Reissue; Roman Britain, AD 91: Aurelia Marcella runs an inn on the road to York. She and her Roman friends find themselves under attack from a native war-band bent on driving all Romans out of Britain. Can they stop the band's masked leader before the countryside rises in open rebellion?)

Frazer, Margaret -- A Play of Heresy $15.00 (Joliffe the Player #7: PBO; During the Corpus Christi Day festival in Coventry, members of Joliffe's troupe are implicated in a merchant's disappearance. To uncover the truth, Joliffe must unravel the machinations of a heretical sect bent on destroying the church)

Gabaldon, Diana -- The Scottish Prisoner $28.00 (Lord John Grey #4: London, 1760: When an erstwhile comrade from the Rising shows up, talking about an ancient relic that will rally the Irish, Jamie Fraser's having none of it. Then Lord John Grey arrives, needing a translation for a message in Erse - the tongue favored by Scottish Highlanders - to continue his latest investigation. Soon Lord John and Jamie are unwilling companions on the road to Ireland, whose dark castles hold dreadful secrets, and whose bogs hide the bones of the dead)

Goldberg, Lee -- Mr. Monk on the Couch $7.99 (Monk #12: Three strangers are murdered: a security guard, a student, and a woman. They have something in common, and Monk can't believe what it is - a couch)

Griffin, Laura -- Untraceable $7.99 (Tracers #1: PI Alexandra Lovell helps clients drop off the radar and begin new lives in safety. Melanie Bess was one of those clients. But when Melanie vanishes for real, Alex will use every resource she can get her hands on - including the elite Tracers forensics team and sexy Austin detective Nathan Deveraux - to uncover the truth)

Griffin, Laura -- Unspeakable $7.99 (Tracers #2: A string of murders near a Texas beach resort convince FBI profiler Elaina McCord that a serial killer is at work, but the local police aren't convinced. Now the Tracers forensics team and playboy true-crime writer Troy Stockton are her only allies as the killer taunts her - and targets her)

Griffin, Laura -- Unforgivable $7.99 (Tracers #3: First DNA expert Mia Voss is carjacked, then another sinister episode convinces her she's being targeted. And the only way to protect the people she loves most is to risk letting a killer walk free. Detective Ric Santos can tell she's scared - to catch a sadistic madman, he'll have to convice Mia to trust him with her secrets, and her life)

Griffin, Laura -- Snapped $7.99 (Tracers #4: After surviving a sniper attack on the local college campus, crime lab technician Sophie Barrett becomes convinced that it wasn't the random, senseless act it appeared to be. Now she needs to convince Jonah Macon, the homicide detective who's already saved her life once)

Hall, James W. -- Dead Last $25.99 (Thorn #12: On a cable TV series, a serial killer is using local obituaries as a blueprint for selecting his victims. Mid-season, a real-life killer begins using the same strategy. Thorn teams up with a policewoman to find out if someone connected to the TV show is behind the killings)

Harrison, Cora -- Scales of Retribution $15.95 (Mara #6: The Burren, Ireland, 1510: When local physician Malachy disappears, then is found dead, Mara suspects the man's family, but soon discovers that the list of people bearing Malachy a grudge is much longer)

Higgins, Jack -- The Judas Gate $9.99 (Sean Dillon #18: Sean Dillon must track down the Irish commander of a Taliban team that ambushed and killed a group of US Army Rangers and a British medical team in Afghanistan)

Hilton, Matt -- Cut and Run $9.99 (Joe Hunter #4: Ex-CIA and Special Ops, Joe Hunter made a lot of enemies during his covert career - but none worse than the powerful man he left for dead in South America. Now, seven years later, someone with Hunter's face has embarked on a killing spree in Florida)

Hunter, Stephen -- Soft Target $26.99 (Ray Cruz #1: On a Twin Cities shopping trip with his fiancee, ex-Marine sniper Ray Cruz ends up doing battle when murderous terrorists take over America's largest shopping mall on the day after Thanksgiving)

James, Bill -- I Am Gold $23.95 (Harpur & Iles #27: A woman and her stepson are gunned down while driving to school. Was the killer really after the woman's husband, notorious drug baron Mansel Shale? When the police chase the shooting suspect into a busy shop, the action turns into a deadly standoff)

James, P.D. -- Death Comes to Pemberley $25.95 (1803: On the eve of Pemberley's annual autumn ball, a coach careens up the drive carrying Lydia, Elizabeth's disgraced sister, who stumbles out of the carriage shrieking that her husband has been murdered)

James, Peter -- Dead Man's Grip $25.99 (Roy Grace #7: After a traffic accident kills a student, the drivers of two of the vehicles involved are found tortured and murdered. Detective Supt. Grace learns the student was connected to an American crime family. Someone has sworn revenge, but the last survivor refuses to go into hiding - if the police can't stop the killer, she plans to do it herself)

James, Steven -- The Bishop $7.99 (Patrick Bowers #4: FBI special agent Bowers pits his cutting-edge investigative techniques against the people responsible for a bloody murder spree in the Northeast)

Johansen, Iris -- Quinn $7.99 (Eve Duncan #12: John Gallo seems to hold the key to the mystery of the fate of Eve's daughter Bonnie. With Joe Quinn's life hanging in the balance, justice may never be served, unless CIA agent Catherine Ling can outsmart Gallo at his own game)

Kepler, Lars -- The Hypnotist $16.00 (The only witness to a triple homicide in Tumba, Sweden, is the boy who was meant to be the fourth victim, who is in a state of shock. Desperate for information, DI Joona Linna decides to have a psychiatrist hypnotize the boy, which sets a terrifying chain of events in motion)

Kneubuhl, Victoria Nalani -- Murder Casts a Shadow $14.99 (Beckwith & Manusia #1: 1934: While Honolulu celebrates New Year's Eve, someone is making away with the Bishop Museum's portrait of King Kalakaua and its curator. When a series of murders follows, newspaper reporter Mina Beckwith and visiting playwright Ned Manusia find themselves investigating a twisted trail of clues) Kneubuhl, Victoria Nalani -- Murder Leaves Its Mark $16.99 (Beckwith & Manusia #2: 1930s Hawaii: When newspaper reporter Mina Beckwith and playwright Ned Manusia join family members for a luxury hotel weekend, Mina's cop brother-in-law asks them to help investigate a murder)

Kovacs, Ed -- Storm Damage $25.99 (When a hurricane devastates New Orleans, the fresh murder scene of a politically connected bar owner gets swept away. No corpse or forensic evidence, but cop turned PI Cliff St. James uncovers possible CIA involvement, and is willing to break every rule to solve the case)

Lamb, Amanda -- Love Lies $9.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; who killed suburban wife and mother Nancy Cooper?)

Larsson, Asa -- Until Thy Wrath Be Past $24.95 (Rebecka Martinsson #4: A young woman's body surfaces through the breaking ice of a river in northern Sweden. At the same time, visions of a shadowy figure haunt the dreams of prosecutor Rebecka Martinsson. Could the body belong to the ghost in her dreams? Her investigation stirs up rumors of a German supply plane that went missing in 1943, and of Nazi collaborators. And a murderer is willing to kill again to keep the past buried)

Lavene, Joyce & Jim -- A Spirited Gift $7.99 (Missing Pieces #3: PBO; As the mayor of Duck, NC, Dae is hosting a Mayors' Conference at the Blue Whale Inn. When a visiting mayor's body is discovered the morning after a severe storm, Dae receives a vision through the woman's ring: there's a killer among the guests)

Lawrence, C.E. -- Silent Kills $7.99 (Lee Campbell #3: PBO; The hunt for a killer who drains his victims of blood leads NYPD profiler Lee Campbell into the darkly alluring steampunk scene)

Leather, Stephen / Olson, Warren -- Confessions of a Bangkok Private Eye $15.95 (Nonfiction; two- timing bargirls, suspicious spouses, and lesbian lovers - it was all in a day's work for Bangkok PI Warren Olson. The stories are based on Olson's case files, fictionalized (to protect the innocent, and the guilty) by author Stephen Leather)

Limon, Martin -- Mr. Kill $24.00 (Sueno & Bascom #7: On a crowded train from Pusan to Seoul, the brutal rape of a young mother sparks rage, pitting Korean witnesses against the US military. US Army investigators George Sueno and Ernie Bascom search in vain for the culprit, becoming entangled in the web of military apologists who deny that any US personnel were involved)

Littell, Robert -- Mother Russia $16.00 (Reissue; Robespierre Pravdin is a black marketeer who hustles wristwatches. Wishing only to survive in Soviet-era , a city suffocated by paranoia, he manages to make a tidy profit and stay under the state's radar - until he meets the woman called 'Mother Russia' and becomes ensnared in the dangerous game of politics)

Lowell, Virginia -- A Cookie Before Dying $7.99 (Cookie Cutter Shop #2: PBO; Olivia and her Yorkie discover a corpse - who looks suspiciously like an intruder seen fleeing Charlene Critch's health food store. Could Charlene be hiding a secret serious enough to kill for?)

McCullough, Colleen -- Naked Cruelty $16.00 (Carmine Delmonico #3: 1968: Capt. Delmonico investigates when two murders rooted in sex and greed rock the university town of Holloman, CT)

Morrison, Boyd -- The Catalyst $5.99 (Certain that his advisor's death in a suspicious fire was no accident, chemistry grad student Kevin Hamilton discovers that their recent collaboration on a supposedly failed experiment had actually brought about one of the most important discoveries of the century - with the potential to topple entire industries)

Murphy, J.J. -- You Might As Well Die $7.99 (Algonquin Round Table #2: PBO; When a second-rate illustrator's works triple in value following his apparent suicide, Dorothy Parker smells something fishy. She and Harry Houdini attend a seance held by the dead man's mistress, where the illustrator's ghostly voice seems all too real) Murphy, Shirley Rousseau -- Cat Coming Home $7.99 (Joe Grey #16: Feline PI Joe Grey and his pals discover that the prison tomcat who brought a message to the local cops has a personal agenda, and that their new neighbor Maudie is hiding a secret about her son's killer - who has followed her to town)

Patterson, J/McMahon, N -- Toys $9.99 (Hays Baker is an Elite, endowed at birth with super strength, extraordinary intelligence, and more. Top operative at the Agency for Change, he has just won the fiercest battle of his career when he learns something that overturns everything he thought was true. Now a hunted fugitive, he must fight to save humans everywhere from extinction)

Pendleton, Don (creator) -- Damage Radius $5.99 (Executioner #397: PBO; A criminal kingpin has taken over the streets of New Orleans, dealing in guns, drugs, and fixed fights, and handing out death warrants to all who refuse his orders. Bolan is sent to shut the operation down)

Pendleton, Don (creator) -- Terminal Guidance $6.99 (Stony Man #116: PBO; The Stony Man teams fight to connect the dots of a plot to blow up dirty bombs in Boston and Peshawar)

Pendleton, Don (creator) -- Assassin's Code $6.99 (SuperBolan #146: PBO; Bolan and a handful of operatives must find and terminate an Islamic murder cult) Penrose, Andrea -- The Cocoa Conspiracy $7.99 (Lady Arianna #2: PBO; Sensitive government documents found in a rare book she bought for her husband put Lady Arianna on the trail of a traitorous conspiracy)

Purser, Ann -- Foul Play at Four $24.95 (Lois Meade #11: After a series of robberies, including one at her daughter Josie's grocery shop, Lois and her daughter's policeman fiance must figure out who's cleaning out Long Farnden)

Riches, Anthony -- Arrows of Fury $11.95 (Empire #2: The new Roman governor of Britannia must stamp out the rebellion of the northern tribes or risk losing the province. For Marcus - now Centurion Corvus of the 1st Tungrian cohort - the campaign is doubly dangerous. He is surrounded by new officers with no reason to protect him from the emperor's henchmen, and death could result from a careless word as easily as from an enemy spear)

Ridley, Scott -- Morning of Fire $16.99 (Nonfiction; 1787: Captain John Kendrick, a master navigator, leaves Boston on an expedition to round Cape Horn and head into the Pacific to establish an outpost on territory claimed by the Spanish and establish new trade with China)

Robards, Karen -- Justice $7.99 (Jess & Mark #2: With the help of her ex-lover, Secret Service agent Mark Ryan, attorney Jessica Ford hunts for two missing women: the attorney whose office Jessica now occupies, and the victim in a recently dismissed rape case)

Rocha, Luis M. -- The Pope's Assassin (UK title: The Holy Assassin) $9.99 (Sarah Monteiro & Rafael #3: When a historian turns up dead after uncovering ancient scrolls that threaten the best- kept secret of the Catholic Church, shadowy priest/operative Rafael is sent to investigate, and finds evidence that may implicate journalist Sarah Montiero)

Roker, Al/Lochte, Dick -- The Talk Show Murders $26.00 (Billy Blessing #3: Billy's past life as a con man comes back to haunt him when a former cop tries to blackmail him. Then another person from Billy's past appears - missing his head. As the corpses pile up, Billy must clear his name once and for all)

Rule, Ann -- Don't Look Behind You $7.99 (Nonfiction; true-crime stories of people in danger, sometimes from strangers and sometimes from the people they know and love)

Ryan, William -- The Holy Thief $14.99 (Alexei Korolev #1: Moscow, 1936: When a young woman is found dead and mutilated in a deconsecrated church, Captain Korolev of the CID is asked to investigate, but when he discovers the victim is American, the secret police become involved. The trail leads to the Moscow underworld) Schweizer, Mark -- Dear Priscilla $23.95 (In 1943 Chicago, where it's tough to tell the difference between the cops and the criminals, the murders of two women put a mean police detective and his loan-shark partner on the trail of a cold- blooded killer with a warped psyche)

Schweizer, Mark -- The Christmas Cantata $9.95 (Liturgical Mystery #10: Novella. Usually in St. Germaine, NC, the weeks before Christmas are marked by an increase in good feelings. Not this year. The whole town is crabby. When a long-lost cantata is found in the basement of the courthouse, a Christmas Eve performance is the order of the day. What happens next is anyone's guess; Signed copies expected)

Shelton, Paige -- Crops and Robbers $7.99 (Farmers' Market #3: PBO; Becca is excited about the local Restaurant Association's visit to the farmer's market - until the Association president snubs Becca's preserves, then turns up dead in Becca's kitchen, with Becca's mom the prime suspect)

Silvis, Randall -- The Boy Who Shoots Crows $15.00 (Yesterday, a local boy went missing. Painter Charlotte Dunleavy was used to seeing him go into the woods, rifle in hand, to shoot at crows. Suffering from the aftereffects of a migraine, Charlotte barely remembers the details of the day, just splinters of memory - nothing concrete enough to help the local sheriff in his search)

Simmons, Dan -- Black Hills $9.99 (Haunted by Custer's ghost, and by his ability to see into the memories and futures of legendary men like Crazy Horse, Paha Sapa's life is driven by a vision he had as a boy in the Black Hills. In August of 1936, a dynamite worker on the Mount Rushmore project, Paha Sapa plans to silence his ghost forever and reclaim his people's legacy)

Smith, Alexander McCall -- The Forgotten Affairs of Youth $24.95 (Isabel Dalhousie #8: While helping her new friend Jane hunt for her biological father, Isabel must also find time for her own concerns: her young son's keen new interest in kites; her housekeeper Grace, who has been getting financial advice from a spiritualist; and the question of whether Isabel and her fiance Jamie should finally get married)

Smith, April -- Good Morning, Killer $14.95 (Ana Grey #2: Reissue; When the 15-year-old victim of an abduction turns up, traumatized into a state of terror, special agent Ana Grey becomes too emotionally entangled in the case, and ends up turning her weapon on a police detective. Now she is both criminal investigator and criminal as she breaks her bail agreement to continue tracking the abductor) Smith, Carlton -- Dying for Love $7.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; the story of millionaire dentist John Yelenic, his estranged wife Michele, and the affair that ended with Yelenic's murder)

Stabenow, Dana -- Though Not Dead $7.99 (Kate Shugak #18: Stunned by the death of Old Sam, her 87-year-old uncle and foster father, Kate sets out to discover the fate of Sam's father, an outsider who disappeared long ago, along with a priceless tribal artifact)

Stroby, Wallace -- Cold Shot to the Heart $14.99 (Crissa's mentor is up for parole, but needs money to grease the wheels. She puts together a heist, but one of her crew shoots a man with connections to hitman Eddie the Saint. Just out of prison, Eddie could use the work - not to mention the money)

Vittachi, Nury -- The Feng Shui Detective Goes West (original title: Mr. Wong Goes West) $14.95 (Master Wong #4: Feng shui master C.F. Wong has never been to the West, but he knows he doesn't like it. And yet C.F. is going to England. The Family has been having a bad time. The Family needs a feng shui master. Only Wong can bring balance to Buckingham Palace)

Washburn, Livia J. -- Killer on a Hot Tin Roof $7.99 (Literary Tour #3: Delilah must find the culprit when a trip to the Tennesse Williams Literary Festival in New Orleans with a group of English professors and their spouses - jealousy, greed, adultery, and ambition included - leads to murder)

Wilson, F. Paul -- Reprisal $15.99 (Adversary Cycle #5: Reissue; Revised edition. The immortal evil defeated in The Keep and reincarnated in Reborn has come of age and begun to settle scores. He targets a few unlucky individuals for destruction now, but soon the whole world will suffer)

Woods, Stuart -- Bel-Air Dead $9.99 (Stone Barrington #20: When an ex-girlfriend ask him to represent her in the sale of a movie studio, Stone finds himself dragged into a surprisingly deadly web of intrigue)

Mid December

Finnis, Jane -- A Bitter Chill $14.95 (Aurelia Marcella #2: Reissue; Roman Britain, AD 95: Innkeeper Aurelia Marcella's plans for a peaceful Saturnalia are shattered, first by her brother's news that an enemy in Rome is spreading rumors that her family is plotting against Caesar, and then by a death at the festival banquet)

Finnis, Jane -- Danger in the Wind $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (Aurelia Marcella #4: Roman Britain, AD 100: When a soldier staying at her inn is murdered, Aurelia Marcella discovers he was carrying a message predicting trouble at the nearby fort where her cousin Jovina and her officer husband are stationed. Aurelia travels there to warn them, and finds herself in peril as she tries to unravel the strands of an anti-Roman conspiracy)

Grindle, Lucretia -- The Faces of Angels $14.95 (On a trip to Florence, newlywed art student Mary Warren was attacked and her husband murdered. Within months the killer was identified, caught, and dead. Two years later, Mary has returned. But more and more, she sees not the glories of Florence, but one dead young woman after another. And either this is a copycat killer, or her husband's murderer is still on the loose)

Haas, Derek -- Dark Men $25.00 (Silver Bear #3: Columbus has retired; he and his lover Risina have fled to a tiny Italian coastal village where no one knows their names. Then he notices a suspicious man following him, and within days finds himself back in Chicago, trying to figure out why his old fence has been kidnapped and maybe even killed)

Judson, Daniel -- Voyeur $14.99 (Remer was a Manhattan PI until one of his targets found a way to force him into retirement. He's been living an anonymous life for six years, but when a voice from his past needs help, he agrees to work one last missing persons case) Karp, Larry -- Perilous Conception $14.95 (1976: An ambitious obstetrician works secretly on an in vitro fertilization performed on humans. But a secret that big is hard to keep, and leads first to blackmail, then to murder. Police detective Bernie Baumgartner's investigation is hampered by pressure from influential people at the University)

Kent, Christobel -- The Drowning River (UK title: A Time of Mourning) $14.95 (Sandro Cellini #1: Sandro Cellini, a disgraced cop turned PI, investigates the death of an architect, a Holocaust survivor and lifelong depressive found drowned on the banks of the River Arno in Florence)

Khoury, Raymond -- The Devil's Elixir $26.95 (Sean Reilly #3: What if there was a drug, previously lost to history, capable of inducing an experience so momentous and unsettling that it might shake the foundations of Western civilization? What if powerful forces on both sides of the law launched a vicious pursuit to possess it?)

Ludlow, Jack -- The Burning Sky $16.95 (Road to War #1: 1935: British officer turned soldier of fortune Cal Jardine is hired by a mysterious group of British anti-Fascists to smuggle guns to the Abyssinians for their fight against Mussolini's Italian army) Ludlow, Jack -- A Broken Land $29.95 (Road to War #2: 1936: When a favor to a friend leaves Cal Jardine caught up in the Spanish Civil War, he finds himself among an interesting assortment of fighters. But a communist fanatic in the ranks is inciting trouble, and a murderous betrayal lies ahead)

Lupton, Rosamund -- Sister $14.00 (Tess has been found dead, apparently a suicide, but Beatrice is convinced that something more sinister was responsible for her sister's death)

Marston, Edward -- A Bespoke Murder $29.95 (Marmion & Keedy #1: London, 1915: Anti-German hysteria leads to attacks on German immigrants. Jacob Stein's tailoring business is attacked, leaving his safe ransacked, his daughter Ruth raped, and Jacob dead. Inspector Harvey Marmion faces an uphill struggle to track down the perpetrators. But was the murder as opportunistic as it first appears, or did someone with a deadly grudge plan the attack?)

Nesbo, Jo -- The Leopard $26.95 (Harry Hole #5: Two young women are found murdered in Oslo, both drowned in their own blood. The police investigation is stalled, and the one man who might be able to help, Inspector Harry Hole, has lost himself in Hong Kong's opium dens. Yet when he is compelled to return to Norway, Harry's buried instincts begin to take over. After a female MP is discovered murdered, nothing can keep him from the investigation)

Potter, Ellen -- The Kneebone Boy $6.99 (Kids; After their father unwittingly sends them to stay with an aunt who turns out to be away on holiday, the Hardscrabble children take off on an adventure that begins in the seedy streets of London and ends in a peculiar sea village where, according to legend, a monstrous half-beast boy roams the woods)

Scott, Justin -- Mausoleum $14.95 (Ben Abbott #5: When the 300-year-old Newbury, CT, village cemetery is invaded by a gaudy mausoleum, Ben Abbott is not happy. Ben's fellow drinkers at the bar have nicknamed the monstrosity McTomb - but no one expected to find the owner's body locked in it 50 years ahead of schedule)

Smith, Tom Rob -- Child 44 $14.99 (Leo Demidov #1: Reissue; In Stalin's Soviet Union, it's a crime against the State to suggest that a serial killer is in their midst; Leo Demidov must find and stop a criminal that the State won't admit exists)

Stabenow, Dana -- A Fatal Thaw $24.95 (Kate Shugak #02: Reissue; 1st HC edition. On the first day of the Alaskan spring, a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of massacre when he takes a .30- 06 and kills nine of his neighbors in the Park. Or did he kill only eight? And if so, who killed the ninth victim? Kate Shugak investigates)

Todd, Charles -- A Lonely Death $14.99 (Ian Rutledge #13: 1920: In a Sussex village, Scotland Yard's Inspector Rutledge hunts for a murderer who is garroting his victims, all veterans of the Great War, and leaving small ID disks in their mouths)

Wagner, Jan Costin -- Silence $25.00 (Kimmo Joentaa #2: A young girl disappears while cycling to volleyball practice. Her abandoned bike is found in exactly the same place as that of another girl, who was murdered 33 years earlier. Finnish detective Kimmo Joentaa calls upon the help of his older colleague Ketola, who worked on the original, unsolved murder)

Woods, Stuart -- D.C. Dead $26.95 (Stone Barrington #22: A summons to Washington, DC, by President Will Lee is the start of a special mission that calls for Stone's unique skill set, and will reunite him with his former partner Holly Barker)

Early January

Abbott, Jeff -- Adrenaline $7.99 (Sam Capra #1: When an unknown enemy sets him up as a traitor, agent Sam Capra escapes from the CIA, and goes on a desperate hunt for the killer who kidnapped his pregnant wife)

Allen, Jeffrey -- Stay at Home Dead $7.99 (Stay at Home Dad #1: PBO; When he finds a dead body in his mini-van, Deuce Winters ends up number one suspect. After all, the victim ruined Deuce's high school football career and married his ex- girlfriend. To clear his name, Deuce will need a little help from his high-powered attorney wife Julianne)

Barnard, Robert -- A Charitable Body $24.00 (Charlie Peace #9: After his wife is asked to oversee a stately home, Yorkshire cop Charlie Peace ends up helping her investigate when a woman's remains turn up in a nearby lake; it becomes clear the manor hides a grim secret dating back to the years between the two World Wars)

Bates, Quentin -- Frozen Assets (UK title: Frozen Out) $14.00 (Gunnhildur #1: When a body is found floating in the harbor of a rural fishing village, Gunnhildur's investigation leads her to a web of corruption involving Iceland's business and banking communities)

Beaton, M.C. -- Death of a Chimney Sweep $6.99 (Hamish Macbeth #27: When Constable Hamish Macbeth finds a body stuffed up a chimney, the villagers believe sweep Pete Ray is the culprit. Then Pete's body is found on the moors, and the mystery deepens) Beaufort, Simon -- Dead Man's Secret $15.95 (Sir Geoffrey Mappestone #8: 1103: Ordered by King Henry to deliver a series of letters to restless western Wales, Sir Geoffrey's suspicion that the mission hides something more sinister is strengthened when first the letters' scribe is murdered and then one of his traveling companions is killed)

Beck, Jessica -- Killer Crullers $7.99 (Donut Shop #6: PBO; When a regular doesn't pick up his cruller order, a stranger buys the whole box and tosses them one at a time at Gabby's thrift shop next door, claiming that stolen family valuables ended up there. His weird behavior has Suzanne wanting to call the cops. But when he turns up dead outside of Donut Hearts, the cops come calling for her and Gabby)

Berry, Steve -- The Jefferson Key $9.99 (Cotton Malone #7: Malone risks his life to foil an attempt to assassinate the US President, only to find himself at odds with a secret society of pirates that was founded during the American Revolution)

Blake, Heather -- It Takes a Witch $7.99 (Wishcraft #1: PBO; Darcy has just discovered she hails from a long line of Wishcrafters - witches who cast spells by wishing. She's come to Enchanted Village to learn her trade, but finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation) Botha, Ted -- The Girl with the Crooked Nose $15.00 (PBO; Nonfiction; forensic sculptor Frank Bender reconstructs the faces of murder victims, both to identify them and to aid in capturing killers. This book delves into the cases he's helped solve, the intricacies of his art, and some of the colorful characters he's encountered)

Burdette, Lucy -- An Appetite for Murder $7.99 (Key West Food Critic #1: PBO; After applying for a job, Hayley Snow discovers her new boss would be the woman she caught in bed with her boyfriend. Hayley becomes a murder suspect when the woman is killed by a poisoned key lime pie)

Carrisi, Donato -- The Whisperer $25.99 (Six severed arms are discovered buried in the woods, arranged in a circle. Five of them appear to belong to missing girls between the ages of 8 and 18. The sixth is yet to be identified. Worse still, the girls' bodies, alive or dead, are nowhere to be found. Investigators Mila Vasquez, a celebrated profiler, and Goran Gavila, an eerily prescient criminologist, dive into the case)

Christopher, Paul -- Red Templar $9.99 (John Holliday #6: PBO; The story of a long-lost sword called Aos - the companion to his own Templar sword - starts John Holliday on a trail that will lead him to the dark heart of Russia, where the ancient Templar Order has secretly wielded power for centuries) Clement, Blaize -- The Cat Sitter's Pajamas $24.99 (Dixie Hemingway #7: While caring for a football player's cats, Dixie is approached by a fashion model claiming to be the man's wife. The woman is lying, but draws Dixie into the world of high-fashion counterfeits)

Clements, J.M. -- Spartacus: Swords and Ashes $7.99 (Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena, where blood and death provide entertainment. To survive, he must become a legend)

Cornwell, Bernard -- The Fort $14.99 (1779: Fewer than a thousand Scottish infantry backed by 3 sloops establish a British garrison and naval base at Penobscot Bay; Massachusetts sends over 40 vessels and a thousand infantry to deal with them, but ineptitude and irresolution lead to a mortifying defeat)

Crais, Robert -- The Sentry $9.99 (Cole & Pike #14: Joe Pike and Elvis Cole learn that Dru Rayne and her uncle are not who they seem. Now vengeance from their past is catching up with them, and only Pike and Cole stand in the way)

Cussler, C/Du Brul, J -- Skeleton Coast $9.99 (Oregon Files #4: Responding to a mayday off the African coast, Juan Cabrillo and his crew rescue Sloan Macintyre, who's looking for a sunken ship that may hold a fortune in diamonds - and tells them about a fisherman who claimed to have been attacked by giant metal snakes in the same area)

Daniels, Casey -- Wild Wild Death $7.99 (Pepper Martin #8: PBO; When her cute scientist friend Dan is kidnapped, Pepper stumbles on a deadly mystery that takes her to New Mexico)

Dare, Lila -- Die Job $7.99 (Southern Beauty Shop #3: PBO; After an attempted murder at a supposedly haunted plantation, the salon ladies unravel secrets that link a high school student, a centuries-old crime, and the roots of a very dark mystery)

Davidson, Hilary -- The Damage Done $7.99 (Lily Moore #1: Lily fled to to get away from her troubled sister Claudia. When Claudia is found dead, Lily comes back to deal with the aftermath. Only the body isn't Claudia - the dead woman had been using Claudia's identity for months. Is Claudia missing, or is it an elaborate con? And who's responsible for the dead body?)

Dean, Anna -- A Gentleman of Fortune, or, The Suspicions of Miss Dido Kent $14.99 (Dido Kent #2: 1806: While on holiday at her cousin's Sussex home, Dido investigates a neighbor's suspicious death, and uncovers dirty dealings among the upper classes)

Dietrich, William -- Blood of the Reich $9.99 (At the height of WWII, daring American adventurers pit their cunning against Nazi SS agents seeking a powerful weapon. Today, the descendants of those adventurers must unlock the secrets of their ancestors' mission to save the world from the resurgent Reich)

Dorsey, Tim -- Electric Barracuda $14.99 (Serge Storms #13: His mounting body count has put a police task force on his trail, but Serge has a more pressing matter to attend to: his grandfather's old gang is suddenly broke, their life savings vaporized. They have a good idea who's behind it, but it's up to Serge to do something about it. Especially since it involves one of his obsessions: Al Capone's escapades in the Everglades)

Downing, David -- Potsdam Station $14.00 (John Russell #4: April 1945: To find out if his son Paul and girlfriend Effi are still alive, John Russell seeks permission to enter Berlin as a journalist with the advancing Red Army. When the Soviets arrest him as a spy, things look bleak - until they find a use for him that has him parachuting into Berlin behind German lines)

Dryden, Alex -- Moscow Sting $9.99 (Anna Resnikov #2: When British spy Finn is killed by a Russian assassin, his MI6 chief wants answers he can only get from Finn's ex-KGB widow, Anna.The intel Finn accessed is so confidential that the KGB are willing to kill to protect it. To ensure her freedom and protect her child, Anna must uncover the full truth) Dumas, Margaret -- How to Succeed in Murder $14.95 (Charley #2: When her husband Jack is hired to investigate a San Francisco software company where executives are dying, Charley decides she should go undercover to find the killer by getting a job there. Jack isn't exactly crazy about the plan, but Charley is determined. They're starting to get the hang of this marriage thing. If only people would stop trying to kill them, they might even get to take a honeymoon)

Egeland,Tom -- Relic: The Quest for the Golden Shrine $11.95 (A golden relic, containing an ancient manuscript that could change the course of history, has been hidden in a monastery, but nobody knows where. One determined man sets out to find the artifact and to trace its origins)

Ellis, David -- Breach of Trust $9.99 (Jason Kolarich #2: Chicago attorney Jason Kolarich's attempt to find out who killed his confidential informant Ernesto Ramirez lands him in the middle of an FBI probe of the corrupt governor of Illinois)

Evanovich, J/Kelly, D -- Love in a Nutshell $27.99 (To turn her parents' Michigan summer house into a B&B, Kate needs cash. To find out who's sabotaging his brewery, Matt needs a spy on the inside. He hires Kate, but there are a few problems: she despises beer; no one seems to trust her; and she's falling hard for her boss) Fanning, Diane -- Her Deadly Web $7.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; to those who knew her, Raynella Dossett Leath was a loving mother of two, a good neighbor and friend, and a nurse who always reached out a helping hand. Was this woman capable of killing both of her husbands?)

Finder, Joseph -- Buried Secrets $9.99 (Nick Heller #2: The search for a failed hedge fund manager's abducted daughter leads Nick to a conspiracy that reaches the government's highest levels)

Fitzhugh, Bill -- Pest Control $14.95 (Assassination Bug #1: Reissue; All Bob wants is his own truck with a big fiberglass bug on top - and success with his radical new environmentally- friendly pest-killing technique. So Bob decides to advertise. Unfortunately, one of his flyers falls into the wrong hands. Now, through no fault - or participation - of his own, Bob has become a major player in the dangerous world of contract murder)

Fitzhugh, Bill -- The Exterminators $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (Assassination Bug #2: The US government wants to enlist Bob, Klaus, and their killer bugs in the War on Terror. Things are great until the Bolivian drug lord they conned out of ten million dollars puts out a hit on Bob and Klaus)

Gage, Leighton -- A Vine in the Blood $24.00 (Mario Silva #5: Three weeks before Brazil is due to host the FIFA World Cup, Juraci Santos is kidnapped. She's the mother of Tico Santos, a vital member of the home team. The star is distraught. The public is appalled. And the pressure is on Chief Inspector Mario Silva to get her back)

Goldberg, Lee -- Mr. Monk on Patrol $23.95 (Monk #13: When the local government of Summit, NJ, is hit by a string of arrests, Chief of Police Randy Disher finds himself acting as mayor, and calls on Adrian Monk to serve as a temporary policeman)

Goodhind, J.G. -- Wicked Words $15.95 (Honey Driver #7: When an unpopular hotel reviewer is found dead, as the Bath Hotels' Association police liaison officer, Honey Driver is expected to help solve his murder - even though she's something of a suspect herself)

Graves, Sarah -- Knockdown $7.99 (Home Repair is Homicide #14: Years ago, loan-shark enforcers killed a man after Jake denied him a loan. The man's son blames Jake - and plans to make her feel as hunted as his father was)

Griffin/Butterworth -- The Outlaws $9.99 (Presidential Agent #6: Charlie Castillo and his team must track down stolen barrels containing some of the most dangerous biohazard materials on Earth) Grippando, James -- Afraid of the Dark $9.99 (Jack Swyteck #9: His quest to save a young man from the death penalty for terrorist activity leads Miami lawyer Jack Swyteck through the back alleys of London, onto illegal internet sites, and straight into pure evil)

Gutman, Dan -- Mission Unstoppable $6.99 (Genius Files #1: Kids; In 8 days, Coke and Pepsi McDonald are going to turn 13. Before then, they'll be trapped in the locked basement of their burning school, chased cross-country by murderous lunatics, left for dead in a pit, forced to decipher mysterious coded messages, and thrown into a giant vat of SPAM. Also, they'll visit the world's largest ball of twine. There's more, but if we told you here, we'd have to kill you)

Harris, Tessa -- The Anatomist's Apprentice $15.00 (1780: When her husband is suspected of murdering her dissolute brother, Lady Lydia Farrell seeks expert help from Dr. Thomas Silkstone, a Philadelphia anatomist in England to study under its foremost surgeon. He agrees to examine the body; the more he investigates, the greater the risk that he will be consigned to the ranks of the corpses he studies)

Havill, Steven F. -- One Perfect Shot $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (Posadas County Prequel: When a county employee is found shot to death sitting in his road grader, Undersheriff Bill Gastner is faced with puzzling questions. It's new hire Estelle Reyes, the first female road patrol deputy in the history of Posadas County, whose shrewd observations shed important light on a crime that rattles skeletons in all kinds of closets)

Henry, Sara J. -- Learning to Swim $15.00 (When she sees a small child tumbling from a ferry, Troy Chance dives in and rescues him. Determined to protect him and find out what happened, she uncovers a world of wealth, privilege, and heedless indulgence, where the murder of a child is not unthinkable)

Higgins, Jack -- A Devil Is Waiting $26.95 (Sean Dillon #19: A fanatical mullah is offering a blessing to anyone who will assassinate the US President on an upcoming visit to London. Sean Dillon and his colleagues are called in, along with a new recruit, war hero and intelligence captain Sara Gideon. Her investigation reveals that the assassination is just the beginning of the plan)

Hill, Susan -- The Woman in Black $14.00 (Reissue; Solicitor Arthur Kipps is sent to attend the funeral and settle the affairs of a client, but the business trip quickly takes a horrifying turn when he finds himself haunted by a series of sounds and images - a rocking chair in a deserted nursery, the sound of a pony and trap, a child's scream in the fog, and a ghostly woman dressed all in black) Holt, Anne -- 1222 $25.00 (Hanne Wilhelmsen #8: When their train is stranded in northern Norway during a blizzard, the passengers think they've reached safety at a nearby hotel - until one of them turns up dead. Trapped by the storm and trapped in a wheelchair, can retired police inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen solve the case before the killer strikes again?)

Hyzy, Julie -- Affairs of Steak $7.99 (White House Chef #5: PBO; White House chef Olivia Paras and White House sensitivity director Peter Sargeant must work together to solve a double homicide before they become the assassin's next victims)

Jahn, Ryan David -- The Dispatcher $15.00 (The phone rings. It's your daughter. She's been dead for four months. The call is cut off by the man who snatched her seven years ago. With only a sketchy description of the kidnapper to go on, East Texas police dispatcher Ian Hunt sets out on a bullet-strewn chase to get his daughter back)

Jance, J.A. -- Fatal Error $7.99 (Ali Reynolds #6: When an old friend from her California broadcasting days becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a cyber-sociopath, Ali Reynolds investigates)

Jance, J.A. -- Payment in Kind $9.99 (J.P. Beaumont #09: Reissue; Homicide detective J.P. Beaumont investigates when two corpses are found lovingly entwined in a broom closet of the Seattle School District building)

Jance, J.A. -- Without Due Process $9.99 (J.P. Beaumont #10: Reissue; 5-year-old Junior Weston was hiding in a closet the night his father - a cop known for his honesty - and the rest of his family were killed. He caught a glimpse of the killer's face, and now the little boy's life is on the line unless Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont can put the killer behind bars)

Jance, J.A. -- Failure to Appear $9.99 (J.P. Beaumont #11: Reissue; When his 18-year-old daughter Kelly runs away to join a theatrical commune, with plans to marry a thespian, Beau follows her south to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, thereby landing himself a part in a modern-day Greek tragedy when murder enters stage left)

Jance, J.A. -- Lying in Wait $9.99 (J.P. Beaumont #12: Reissue; Else Didriksen is no longer the beautiful, troubled teenager who disappeared from J.P. Beaumont's life 30 years ago. Now she is a widow, frightened, desperate, and trapped in a web of murderous greed, and Beau is investigating her husband's homicide)

Jance, J.A. -- Name Withheld $9.99 (J.P. Beaumont #13: Reissue; A body found floating in Elliot Bay draws Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont into the cutting-edge world of biotechnology. The more Beau discovers about the dead man - whose alleged crimes ranged from industrial espionage to rape - the more he's convinced that justice has already been served, and that he's looking for a killer he doesn't really want to catch)

Kane, Ben -- The Road to Rome $15.99 (Forgotten Legion #3: Romulus and Tarquinius arrive in Alexandria, only to find themselves in the midst of the Roman Civil War, press-ganged into Caesar's thinning legions to battle the Egyptian army)

Kellerman, Faye -- Gun Games $25.99 (Decker & Lazarus #20: The LAPD investigates when the suicide of a student at an exclusive prep school involves a stolen gun; the death of another student leads Peter Decker and his team to a group of rich students with a predilection for guns and violence)

Koontz, Dean -- 77 Shadow Street $28.00 (A beautiful Gilded Age mansion has been converted into condos, highly desirable, until mysterious shadows skitter across the walls, voices whisper in unknown languages, security cameras show impossible feeds, and a little boy starts talking to an imaginary playmate who turns out to be all too real)

Lambdin, Dewey -- The Invasion Year $16.99 (Alan Lewrie #17: After returning from Haiti, the roguish Captain Lewrie is sent to the English Channel to help prevent a possible Napoleonic invasion, and test a newfangled weapon called a 'torpedo')

Laurie, Victoria -- Ghoul Interrupted $7.99 (Ghost Hunter #6: PBO; Her spirit guide Sam Whitefeather sends M.J. and her TV crew to New Mexico to stop a demon from wiping out the descendants of Sam's tribe)

Lee, Patrick -- Deep Sky $7.99 (Travis Chase #3: The US President is dead, his mansion in ruins, and two cryptic words are the only clue to the assassins' motives: 'See Scalar'. Travis Chase and his team from the covert agency Tangent - caretakers of the Breach and all its grim wonders - have only 24 hours to unearth a decades-old mystery)

Lescroart, John -- Damage $9.99 (A decade ago, Ro Curtlee, heir of a powerful San Francisco family, was convicted of rape and murder. Now he's won a retrial, and been released from prison - and he's out for revenge on those who put him away)

Lescroart, John -- The Hunter $26.95 (Wyatt Hunt #3: San Francisco PI Wyatt Hunt had no interest in his birth family until he got the text message: How did ur mother die? The answer is murder, still unsolved. Curious, he decides to investigate)

Manfredo, Lou -- Rizzo's Fire $14.99 (Joe Rizzo #2: Veteran cop Joe Rizzo and his new partner Priscilla Jackson must deal with NYPD politics as they try to find out who strangled a recently fired shoe salesman)

Mariani, Scott -- The Mozart Conspiracy $7.99 (Ben Hope #2: The mysterious death of an opera star's brother leads British SAS officer Ben Hope to the centuries-old puzzle of the death of the composer Mozart, who may have been killed by a Freemason splinter group)

Martini, Steve -- Trader of Secrets $9.99 (Paul Madriani #12: Papers left in the apartment of his hitman nemesis Muerte Liquida send Paul Madriani to Paris in search of a former NASA scientist with stolen weapons technology)

Meier, Leslie -- English Tea Murder $7.99 (Lucy Stone #17: A trip to England is disrupted when tour leader George Temple suffers a fatal asthma attack; Lucy learns the other tour members were all victims of a financial fraud Temple perpetrated 20 years ago)

Meier, Leslie -- Chocolate Covered Murder $24.00 (Lucy Stone #18: Assigned to write a puff piece about an upscale chocolate shop, Lucy discovers that the sultry store manager is leaving a throng of jealous women in her wake. So it's not too surprising when the woman turns up dead)

Mofina, Rick -- The Burning Edge $7.99 (Jack Gannon #4: PBO; Newswire journalist Jack Gannon is pressured to land an exclusive involving a single mother who has witnessed a murder - before the cold-blooded killers can enact the next stage of their vengeful mission)

Mosley, Walter -- When the Thrill Is Gone $15.00 (Leonid McGill #3: The economy has hit the PI business hard. So how can McGill say no to the beautiful young woman who walks into his office with a stack of cash?)

Palmer, Daniel -- Delirious $7.99 (Charlie Giles is an electronics whiz whose former employers are being murdered. As prime suspect, he turns to his schizophrenic brother for help uncovering the family secrets that lie at the heart of the unfolding terror)

Paretsky, Sara -- Breakdown $26.95 (V.I. Warshawski #15: Carmilla, Queen of the Night, is a shape-shifting raven whose fictional exploits thrill girls all over the world. When tweens in the Carmilla Club hold a ritual in a cemetery, they stumble on a corpse: a man stabbed through the heart, vampire-slayer style. The club includes girls from some of Chicago's most powerful families. Is the killing linked to a hostile media campaign against Senate candidate Sophy Durango? Or wealthy Chaim Salanter's childhood in Nazi- occupied Lithuania? As V.I. Warshawski struggles for answers, she finds herself fighting enemies who are all too human) Parker, I.J. -- The Fires of the Gods $15.95 (Akitada #8: 11th-century Japan: After losing his job, Akitada ends up suspected of murdering the nobleman responsible for his dismissal, and desperately plunges into the investigation of the crime)

Parker, T. Jefferson -- California Girl $9.99 (Reissue; A crime has touched the Becker brothers in ways that none of them could have anticipated, setting them on a collision course that will change their family forever)

Parker, T. Jefferson -- The Border Lords $15.00 (Charlie Hood #4: When undercover ATF agent Sean Ozburn cuts off communication, Charlie Hood must determine if he's gone deeper undercover, or turned away from his mission and his moral compass)

Patterson, J/Paetro, M -- Private: #1 Suspect $27.99 (Jack Morgan #2: When Jack Morgan's former lover is found murdered in his bed, he is the number one suspect. While Jack is under police investigation, one of his most trusted colleagues threatens to leave Private, and Jack realizes he is facing clever and powerful enemies)

Pendleton, Don (creator) -- Battle Cry $5.99 (Executioner #398: PBO; Bolan heads for a heavily guarded fortress overlooking Loch Ness to take out a group of extremist Scottish nationalists) Pendleton, Don (creator) -- Shadow Strike $6.99 (SuperBolan #147: PBO; Bolan must identify and stop the terror dealers behind a plan to take out oil rigs around the globe)

Penney, Stef -- The Invisible Ones $25.95 (Half-Romany PI Ray Lovell veers between paralysis and delirium in a hospital bed. But before the accident that landed him there, he'd been hired to find Rose Janko, who disappeared seven years ago. Touched by tragedy, her hostile Gypsy family is either cursed or hiding a terrible secret - whose discovery Ray can't help suspecting is connected to Rose's disappearance)

Persons, Terri -- Blind Sight $15.00 (Bernadette St. Clare #3: A senator's young daughter is found murdered in the Minnesota woods; FBI agent St. Clare uses police work and her second sight to track the killers and the girl's missing baby)

Rabb, Jonathan -- The Second Son $16.00 (Berlin #3: 1936: Half Jewish, Chief Inspector Nikolai Hoffner has been forced out of the police. He has already lost his elder son Sascha, who is fully entrenched in the Nazi regime. When his younger son Georg disappears in Spain, Hoffner is determined to save the one son he can)

Reece, Christy -- Sweet Reward $7.99 (Last Chance Rescue #3: PBO; A desperate plea from his ex-wife to find her missing daughter brings Jared face-to-face with Mia, the only agent ever fired from LCR - for playing too far outside the rules. Now Mia's back, and they team up to expose a wealthy philanthropist's shameful dealings)

Reed, Hannah -- Plan Bee $7.99 (Queen Bee #3: PBO; The annual Moraine, Wisconsin, Harmony Festival is anything but harmonious when a dead body makes an uninvited appearance in the parade - and the person who may have put it there starts dating Story's mom)

Reilly, Matthew -- Scarecrow Returns $25.00 (Scarecrow #5: When a terrorist group takes over an island in the Arctic, with plans to destroy the planet, the US president enlists the help of Marine Captain Shane 'Scarecrow' Schofield and his ragtag crew to fight them)

Robertson, Imogen -- Instruments of Darkness $15.00 (Westerman & Crowther #1: 1780: When Harriet Westerman finds a dead man on the grounds of her Sussex manor house, she recruits local anatomist Gabriel Crowther to help her find the murderer)

Rowe, Jennifer -- Love, Honour, and O'Brien $14.95 (Holly Love has sworn to track down the cheating swine who ripped her life apart, and make him pay. But as she tries to keep her head in the face of a bizarre mystery, a gloomy old house, a hearse-driving Elvis impersonator and a gang of vengeful thugs, Holly learns that, however bad things seem, they can always get worse)

Rowe, Rosemary -- The Vestal Vanishes $15.95 (Libertus #12: When a former vestal virgin's covered carriage arrives in Glevum, the lady in question is nowhere to be found. Libertus investigates and makes a gruesome discovery, suggesting that Druid rebels may have been involved. But then another lady disappears)

Roy, Lori -- Bent Road $15.00 (For 20 years, Celia Scott has watched her husband Arthur hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. But the 1967 Detroit riots frighten him even more than his past, and he convinces Celia to pack up their family and return to Bent Road. While Arthur and their oldest daughter slip easily into rural life, Celia and the two younger children struggle to fit in. And then a local girl disappears, catapulting the family headlong into a dead man's curve)

Rubenfeld, Jed -- The Death Instinct $16.00 (1920: When a wagon carrying 500 pounds of explosives detonates in the heart of NYC's financial district, a physician and a police captain are determined to learn the truth about the attack)

Rule, Ann -- In the Still of the Night: The Strange Death of Ronda Reynolds $7.99 (Nonfiction; a recently married woman died under mysterious circumstances in 1998; the case has never been closed)

Ryan, William -- The Darkening Field $24.99 (Alexei Korolev #2: 1937: The suspicious death of a young woman takes CID Captain Korolev to Odessa, where his investigation uncovers plenty of suspects - and a treasonous plot)

Rylander, Chris -- The Fourth Stall $6.99 (Kids; Grade-school fixers Mac and Vince agree to help a 3rd grader in need of protection, and end up dealing with a high-school crime boss, a graffiti ninja, the 9 most dangerous bullies at their school, and more)

Saylor, Steven -- The Judgment of Caesar $14.99 (Roma Sub Rosa #10: Gordianus the Finder and his wife Bethesda travel to her homeland of Egypt, seeking a cure for her mysterious illness. When his wife disappears into the Nile, never to resurface, Gordianus must uncover the truth behind a series of mysterious occurrences if he is to find out what has happened to her)

Scott, Robert -- The Last Time We Saw Her $6.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; 19-year-old Brooke Wilberger, an Oregon college student and devout Mormon, was kidnapped, raped, and murdered by serial predator Joel Courtney)

Sedley, Kate -- Midsummer Crown $15.95 (Roger the Chapman #20: 1483: As Richard of Gloucester begins his bid for the English crown, Roger is recalled to London to investigate the disappearance of a young boy whose tutor has been found murdered, apparently in a locked room)

Shelton, Paige -- If Fried Chicken Could Fly $7.99 (Country Cooking School #1: PBO; At their Missouri cooking school, Betts and Gram are busy helping students prepare the perfect dishes for an upcoming cook-off - until they discover the local theater owner's body in a supply closet, and the man's widow points an accusing finger at Gram)

Sims, Michael (ed) -- The Dead Witness $20.00 (Anthology; some of the best private and police detective fiction from the 19th and early 20th centuries)

Smith, Tom Rob -- Agent 6 $25.99 (Leo Demidov #3: No longer a member of Moscow's secret police, Leo is suspicious when his wife and daughters are invited on a 'Peace Tour' to NYC. Forbidden to travel with his family, Leo watches helplessly as they are pulled into a web of betrayal that ends in tragedy. In the aftermath, Leo demands only one thing: to investigate the killer who destroyed his family)

Stevens, Taylor -- The Innocent $24.00 (Vanessa Munroe #2: Escapees from a cult hire Vanessa to infiltrate the group's enclave in Argentina and rescue a young kidnapping victim)

Taylor, Brad -- One Rough Man $9.99 (Pike Logan #1: In the black ops group Taskforce, Pike Logan is the best, and he's out to stop an attack by two independent operators with a powerful weapon)

Todd, Charles -- The Confession $25.99 (Ian Rutledge #14: A man walks into Scotland Yard and confesses that he killed his cousin years ago during the Great War. When Inspector Rutledge presses for details, he reveals only that he hails from Essex. When the man is found with a bullet hole in the back of his head, the only clue is a gold locket around his neck. It leads Rutledge to an insular village that will do anything to protect itself from notoriety)

Turow, Scott -- Innocent $9.99 (Kindle County #7: 20 years after being accused of murdering his ex-lover, Rusty Sabich, now an appellate court judge, is once again a suspect when his wife dies under mysterious circumstances)

Vanderpool, Clare -- Moon Over Manifest $7.99 (Kids; Newbery Medal winner. 1936: Sent to live with a family friend for the summer, Abilene jumps off the train in her father's boyhood home of Manifest. She discovers a hidden cigar box full of mementos, including letters that mention a spy known as the Rattler. The letters send Abilene and her new friends on an honest-to-goodness spy hunt. A visit to the reclusive Miss Sadie, a diviner who only tells stories from the past, reveals that Manifest's history is full of colorful and shadowy characters, and long-held secrets. Abilene is determined to learn just what role her father played in that history. And as Manifest's secrets are laid bare one by one, Abilene begins to weave her own story into the fabric of the town)

Vonnegut, Norb -- The Gods of Greenwich $9.99 (After his career on Wall Street goes sour, Jimmy Cusack winds up taking a job with Leeser Capital, and discovers that his new boss is up to no good)

Willig, Lauren -- The Orchid Affair $15.00 (Pink Carnation #8: New spy Laura Grey is sent to serve as governess to the children of Andre Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police, and makes a startling discovery about him)

Winston, Lois -- Death by Killer Mop Doll $14.95 (Anastasia Pollack #2: Anastasia and her fellow editors get roped into unpaid gigs for a revamped morning TV show; when the producer is murdered, the show's sleazy former co-hosts are top suspects - and Anastasia's snooping puts her in the killer's spotlight)

Zuiker/Swierczynski -- Dark Revelations $26.95 (Level 26 #3: The killer calls himself Labyrinth, and the riddles, puzzles, and wordplay with which he announces his new targets have caused a media sensation. t's up to Steve Dark and his team to find Labyrinth and put a stop to the mayhem)

Mid January Barr, Nevada -- The Rope $25.99 (Anna Pigeon Prequel: 1995: 35 years old and fresh off the bus from NYC, Anna Pigeon arrives at Glen Canyon as a seasonal employee. After going for a hike on her day off, she wakes up trapped at the bottom of a dry natural well, naked, with no supplies and no clear memory of how she got there)

Bates, Quentin -- Cold Comfort $25.00 (Gunnhildur #2: Sgt. Gunnhildur hunts for an escaped convict who is violently settling old scores in Reykjavik. As she also investigates the murder of a fitness guru, she learns that the guru and the convict shared some influential friends, and some unsavory secrets)

Brett, Simon -- Blotto, Twinks, and the Dead Dowager Duchess $14.95 (Blotto & Twinks #2: 1920s: At a weekend house party, a murder is announced. One of the guests has the gall to accuse Corky, so Blotto and Twinks have no choice but to find the real murderer and clear their chauffeur's good name. Their sleuthing will take them to an opium den, a crumbling Scottish castle, and the headquarters of the evil League of the Crimson Hand)

Budiansky, Stephen -- Perilous Fight $17.95 (Nonfiction; Budiansky takes a fresh look at the War of 1812, saying it changed the course of naval warfare, America's place in the world, and the rules of international conflict forever. Drawing extensively on diaries, letters, and personal accounts from both sides, Budiansky recreates the encounters at sea in bloody clashes of cannon fire and swordplay)

Burdett, John -- Vulture Peak $25.95 (Sonchai Jitpleecheep #5: A massive sting operation to end trafficking in human organs sends Thai police detective Sonchai Jitpleechee to Phuket, Hong Kong, Dubai, Shanghai, and Monte Carlo. But will it succeed in bringing down the diabolical Yip twins, Chinese queenpins of the international body-parts trade?)

Cornwell, Bernard -- Death of Kings $27.99 (Saxon Tales #6: Alfred the Great lies dying, and his dream of a united Christian England may die with him. His son Edward has been named heir, but there are other Saxon claimants to the throne, as well as ambitious pagan Vikings to the north. Saxon-born, Viking-raised Uhtred is torn between his vows to Alfred and his desire to reclaim his lost ancestral lands; Signed copies expected)

Crais, Robert -- Taken $26.95 (Cole & Pike #15: When the police tell a wealthy industrialist that her missing son has faked his kidnapping, she hires Elvis Cole and Joe Pike, who discover that the boy and his girlfriend have been taken by professional border kidnappers; Signed copies expected)

Downie, Ruth -- Caveat Emptor (UK title: Ruso and the River of Darkness) $15.00 (Gaius Petreius Ruso #4: The disappearance of a Roman tax collector and the money he collected leads Ruso and Tilla to a conspiracy involving theft, forgery, buried treasure, and the legacy of rebel queen Boudica)

Dunn, Carola -- Gone West $24.99 (Daisy Dalrymple #20: 1926: The Honourable Daisy heads to Derbyshire, where her school friend Sybil is secretary to a novelist. When the man dies, Daisy must uncover the culprit in a house full of suspects)

Eagland, Jane -- Wildthorn $8.99 (YA; Winner of the Lambda Literary Award. Locked away in a madhouse. They strip her naked. They take her identity, call her Lucy Childs. She has no one, nothing. But, she is still 17 - still Louisa Cosgrove, isn't she? Who has done this unthinkable deed?)

George, Elizabeth -- Believing the Lie $28.95 (Thomas Lynley #17: At the request of the man's uncle, the influential Bernard Fairclough, Inspector Lynley is sent undercover to investigate the death of Ian Cresswell, even though it was ruled an accidental drowning. Lynley enlists the help of his friends Simon and Deborah St. James; the trio's digging reveals that the Fairclough clan is awash in secrets, lies, and motives; Signed copies expected) Griffiths, Elly -- The Janus Stone $14.95 (Galloway & Nelson #2: When the demolition of an old house in Norwich uncovers a child's skeleton - minus the skull - forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway and detective Harry Nelson investigate)

Griffiths, Elly -- The House at Sea's End $25.00 (Galloway & Nelson #3: Dr. Ruth Galloway investigates when human bones surface on a remote Norfolk beach. The bones turn out to be about 70 years old, which leads Ruth and DCI Harry Nelson to a Home Guard veteran. Then he is killed, and a German journalist arrives, asking questions about Operation Lucifer, a plan to stop a German invasion, and a possible British war crime)

Hall, Gregory -- The Dark Backward $14.95 (Reissue; Mary Reynolds was in love and now she's in trouble. Also in Norfolk, where she and her husband Geoffrey bought a house. The ink was hardly dry on the contract when Geoffrey was found dead, and Mary began to learn that she didn't really know her husband. And the secrets he kept, the bits that he'd left out? Those are the ones that could kill her)

Kent, Graeme -- Devil-Devil $14.00 (Kella & Conchita #1: Solomon Islands cop Sgt. Ben Kella discovers American nun Sister Conchita trying to bury a skeleton at a mission station. After someone tries to shoot her, the unlikely pair team up to solve a bizarre series of murders) La Plante, Lynda -- Prime Suspect $14.99 (Jane Tennison #1: Reissue; Jane's sharp instincts and hard work have made her one of Scotland Yard's top cops, but she's still an outsider when it comes to the boys' club running the force. Investigating the murder of a presumed prostitute, she's determined to find justice for the victim. She catches the one clue that's fallen through the cracks, and realizes that a madman has been stalking women in London's shadowy streets)

La Plante, Lynda -- A Face in the Crowd $14.99 (Jane Tennison #2: Reissue; The victim is young, female, and black, her skull smashed in, her face decomposed beyond recognition. Her corpse, found in one of London's poorest communities, is just the beginning of a case that threatens to tear apart the already-divided city, and embroil Jane and her force in racial strife)

La Plante, Lynda -- Silent Victims $14.99 (Jane Tennison #3: Reissue; Drag queen Vera Reynolds is onstage singing, while a 16-year-old rent boy lies dead in her burning apartment. The prime suspect is an influential do-gooder. On her first day as head of the Vice Squad, Jane catches the case - along with a very clear message about the direction some VIPs would like her investigation to take)

Lambdin, Dewey -- Reefs and Shoals $25.99 (Alan Lewrie #18: 1805: The Admiralty dispatches Captain Lewrie to the Bahamas to form a small squadron. His orders are to search for French and Spanish privateers, and call upon neutral American seaports to determine if privateers are getting aid and comfort from that quarter)

Leonard, Elmore -- Raylan $26.99 (Raylan Givens #3: Federal Marshall Raylan Givens hunts down a perp, only to find him naked in a bathtub, doped up and missing his kidneys. Raylan knows there's big money in body parts, but by the time he finds out who's making the cuts, he's naked in a bathtub, with Layla the transplant nurse about to go for his kidneys)

Lott, Bret -- Dead Low Tide $26.00 (Huger Dillard #2: At 2:30 AM, Huger and Unc are heading to the golf course. Blind, Unc prefers to practice his golf game when no one is watching. But Huger finds a woman's body in the mud at the water's low tide. The discovery puts Huger and his family up against secret military forces, old friends, longtime neighbors, lost loves, and shadowy global networks. Connecting them all is Landgrave Hall - and the treacherous reason why this area is so important to so many people)

Montalban, Manuel Vazquez -- The Angst-Ridden Executive $14.95 (Pepe Carvalho: Reissue; The police have decided a pimp was responsible for playboy Antonio Jauma's murder; his widow hires PI Pepe Carvalho to find the real killer) Newton, Charlie -- Start Shooting $25.95 (25 years ago, a gruesome murder rocked the Four Corners neighborhood of Chicago. Now a dying Chicago newspaper is claiming new evidence in the old case - implicating cops Bobby and Ruben Vargas. The smear campaign will lead the brothers down a twisted path, where the sins of the past threaten to destroy what remains of the truth)

O'Connell, Carol -- The Chalk Girl $25.95 (Mallory #10: The little girl appeared in Central Park, perfect - except for the blood on her shoulder. It fell from the sky, she said, while she was looking for her uncle, who turned into a tree. 'Poor child,' people thought. And then they found the body in the tree. Mallory, newly returned to the Special Crimes Unit, recognizes the girl as a kindred spirit. The case leads her to murders stretching back fifteen years, blackmail and complicity, and a particular cruelty that only someone with Mallory's history could fully recognize)

Parker, T. Jefferson -- The Jaguar $26.95 (Charlie Hood #5: Crooked LA deputy Bradley Smith and lawman Charlie Hood must team up to rescue the woman they both love, songwriter Erin McKenna, when she is abducted by a cartel leader who wants her to write a folk ballad recording his exploits as an outlaw)

Parks, Brad -- Eyes of the Innocent $14.99 (Carter Ross #2: When a fire in Newark, NJ, kills two young boys left home alone, their mother spins reporter Carter Ross a tale of woe, but he discovers she isn't what she seems - and neither was the fire)

Patterson, J/Paetro, M -- 10th Anniversary $14.99 (Women's Murder Club #10: A teenage girl has been left for dead, and her newborn baby is missing. There's no trace of the criminals, but the victim may be keeping secrets)

Preston, D/Child, L -- Gideon's Corpse $26.99 HC, $34.98 Unabridged Audiobook (Gideon Crew #2: A top nuclear scientist goes mad and takes an innocent family hostage. A plume of radiation above NYC leads to a warehouse; the evidence indicates that a powerful nuclear bomb was assembled there just hours before, and that in ten days an American city will be vaporized. And Gideon Crew, tracking the terrorist cell from New York to New Mexico, learns the end may be something worse than mere Armageddon)

Sharp, Zoe -- Fourth Day $14.95 (Charlie Fox #8: To find out the truth about a boy's death, Charlie goes undercover at the stronghold of the Fourth Day cult. But she's not prepared for the lure of charismatic leader Randall Bane, or how easily he will pinpoint her weakness)

Sharp, Zoe -- Fifth Victim $25.00 (Charlie Fox #9: Charlie discovers that her charge Dina, the daughter of a wealthy Long Island businesswoman, is fascinated by a clique of girls who have all been kidnapped; she worries that Dina's thrill- seeking will put both of them in danger. Just as her worst fears are realized, Charlie learns that the man who put her partner Sean in a coma is on the loose. She is faced with the choice between loyalty to her client and avenging Sean, but the two goals are soon linked)

Siciliano, Sam -- The Web Weaver $9.95 (Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: After a mysterious gypsy places a curse on the guests at a ball, a series of terrible misfortunes affect those who attended. Donald Wheelwright engages Sherlock Holmes to find out what's really going on)

Stuckey-French, Elizabeth -- The Revenge of the Radioactive Lady $15.00 (Marylou Ahearn is going to kill Dr. Wilson Spriggs. In 1953, he gave her a radioactive cocktail without her consent. She's been plotting her revenge for 50 years. When she learns he's in Tallahassee, she heads there to insinuate herself into the lives of the now-senile Spriggs and his daughter's family. But she has no idea what a nest of yellow jackets she is stumbling into)

Taylor, Kate -- A Man in Uniform $15.00 (1890s: A woman approaches bourgeois lawyer Francois Dubon, insisting that only he can rescue her innocent friend, an army captain by the name of Dreyfus who has been convicted of spying) Waite, Urban -- The Terror of Living $14.99 (A smuggler and a sheriff cross paths in the mountains of Washington state when a shipment goes awry; both are forced into a terrifying chase when the suppliers send a hired killer to reclaim what's theirs)

Early February

Aames, Avery -- Clobbered by Camembert $7.99 (Cheese Shop #3: PBO; Charlotte is setting up for the Winter Wonderland fair when an old friend is found dead in her assistant Rebecca's cottage. Suspicion falls on Rebecca's boyfriend, a honeybee farmer. While the town buzzes with gossip, can Charlotte catch the killer?)

Andrus, James -- The Perfect Death $7.99 (John Stallings #3: PBO; When a Jacksonville girl goes missing, Detective Stallings' investigation turns up parallels to his own daughter's disappearance years earlier. Then, one by one, bodies are discovered - all young women, all strangled)

Arlington, Lucy -- Buried in a Book $7.99 (Novel Idea #1: PBO; After losing her job as a journalist, 45-year-old Lila Wilkins accepts an internship at a North Carolina literary agency. When an aspiring author drops dead in the agency's waiting room, Lila discovers a series of threatening letters, and is determined to find out who wrote him off)

Bartlett, Lorraine -- The Walled Flower $7.99 (Victoria Square #2: PBO; A couple's dream home becomes a nightmare when a skeleton is discovered inside the walls. The bones belong to Heather Winston, who disappeared 22 years ago. Heather's aunt, a jewelry vendor, asks Artisans Alley manager Kate Bonner for help finding the murderer)

Battles, Brett -- No Return $7.99 (15 years ago, Wes tried to rescue a pilot from a downed fighter, and discovered something that could get him killed. Now he finds himself up against the US military, with someone tracking his every move, as he tries to untangle the web of lies and secrets surrounding the crash)

Bazell, Josh -- Wild Thing $25.99 (Dr. Brnwa #2: It's hard to find work as a doctor when using your real name will get you killed. So when Dr. Peter Brown is offered a job accompanying a paleontologist on the world's worst field assignment, Brown says yes. Even if it means that murderers, mobsters, and international drug dealers - not to mention the occasional lake monster - are about to have a serious Pietro Brnwa problem)

Becker, James -- The Nosferatu Scroll $9.99 (Chris Bronson #4: In Venice, Chris Bronson and Angela Lewis discover a desecrated tomb containing a female skeleton and an old diary telling of a scroll that holds the key to answering an ancient secret. Soon the bodies of young women begin surfacing, all killed in a ritual manner. When Angela vanishes, Bronson is drawn into the hunt for a murderer - and into a centuries-old conspiracy)

Berenson, Alex -- The Secret Soldier $9.99 (John Wells #5: With the secret blessing of the CIA, ex-agent John Wells goes undercover to investigate a conspiracy that threatens the Saudi royal family)

Bilal, Parker -- The Golden Scales $25.00 (Makana #1: Makana, a former Sudanese police inspector forced to flee to Cairo, is now struggling to make ends meet as a PI, and takes a case from the notorious mogul Saad Hanafi, owner of a Cairo soccer team whose star player has gone missing)

Block, Lawrence -- A Drop of the Hard Stuff $14.99 (Matthew Scudder #17: When a childhood friend is shot down while trying to make amends, as called for in AA's famous 12 Steps, Matthew Scudder is drawn into a murder investigation that threatens to upset his own path toward recovery - and get him killed)

Bourbon, Melissa -- A Fitting End $7.99 (Magical Dressmaking #2: PBO; Business is booming at Harlow's dressmaking boutique, even with her great-grandmother's ghost hanging around. When a local golf pro is found stabbed with dressmaking shears, the new town deputy suspects Harlow)

Brady, Jacklyn -- Cake on a Hot Tin Roof $7.99 (Piece of Cake #2: PBO; Pastry chef Rita Lucero's Mardi Gras party turns funereal when one of her guests is found dead after a fight with Rita's uncle. Rita must find the real killer to clear her uncle's name)

Brockmann, Suzanne -- Breaking the Rules $7.99 (Troubleshooters #16: Despite their troubled past, Eden Gillman once again reaches out to Navy SEAL Izzy Zanella for help when she needs to save her teenage brother Ben from his abusive stepfather)

Brown, Graham -- The Eden Prophecy $7.99 (Danielle Laidlaw #3: When a rogue geneticist is tortured and killed, his old friend Hawker teams up with NRI operative Danielle Laidlaw to find the killers and track down the secrets his dead friend may have lost or sold)

Bryan, Mollie Cox -- Scrapbook of Secrets $7.99 (Cumberland Creek #1: PBO; When the quiet of Cumberland Creek, Virginia, is shattered by a young mother's apparent suicide, stay-at-home mom Annie Chamovitz and her scrapbooking friends band together to find out what went wrong)

Burton, Mary -- Before She Dies $7.99 (PBO; A killer obsessed with the occult plays judge, jury, and executioner, believing that he is killing witches. As the madman's body count rises, attorney Charlotte Wellington and detective Daniel Rokov are drawn into a mission that's become terrifyingly personal)

Byerrum, Ellen -- Death on Heels $7.99 (Crime of Fashion #7: PBO; When her former boyfriend, cattle rancher Cole Tucker, is arrested for murder, Lacey digs her cowboy boots out of her closet and flies to his defense. She is certain of his innocence - until he abducts her during a daring courthouse escape)

Carlisle, Kate -- One Book in the Grave $7.99 (Bibliophile #5: PBO; Given a chance to restore a rare first edition of a fairy tale, Brooklyn is delighted - until she realizes the book last belonged to an old friend of hers. When she decides to find out who sold the book, and return it to its rightful owner, she winds up tangled in a murder plot)

Clancy, T/Telep, P -- Against All Enemies $9.99 (When a terrorist bombing in Pakistan wipes out Max Moore's entire CIA team, the former Navy SEAL heads into the treacherous tribal lands to find the terrorist cell, but what he discovers there leads him to a much darker conspiracy in an unexpected part of the globe - the US/Mexico border)

Clark, Cassandra -- A Parliament of Spies $25.99 (Abbess Hildegard #4: King Richard II, faced with enemies on all sides, sends Hildegard as a spy to the parliament that is hastily gathering at Westminster)

Copperman, E.J. -- Old Haunts $7.99 (Haunted Guesthouse #3: PBO; The ghosts haunting Alison Kerby's Jersey Shore guesthouse are sad. Maxie wants to know who murdered her ex-husband, and Paul pines for his still-living almost-fiancee. The only one who isn't missing her ex is Alison - because The Swine just arrived on her doorstep)

Coughlin, J/Davis, D -- An Act of Treason $9.99 (Sniper #4: Marine sniper Kyle Swanson finds himself in the sights of a man he once idolized - an American hero turned traitor)

Crombie, Deborah -- No Mark Upon Her $25.99 (Kincaid & James #14: A K9 search and rescue team finds the body of an Olympic rowing hopeful who was also a detective with the Met; the case becomes more complex when someone tries to kill the search and rescue team member who found her body)

Davidson, Diane Mott -- Crunch Time $7.99 (Goldy Schulz #16: When arson leaves fellow chef Yolanda Garcia and her aunt homeless not just once but twice, Goldy invites them to stay with her. When more trouble follows, Goldy investigates)

Dorsey, Tim -- Pineapple Grenade $25.99 (Serge Storms #15: Serge Storms has finagled his way into spying for the president of a banana republic. Will he have time for a cocktail before Homeland Security brings him down?)

Droban, Kerrie -- A Socialite Scorned $7.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; Tucson real estate developer Gary Triano was killed by a pipe-bomb, made by Ron Young, who reportedly was paid $400,000 by Pamela Phillips, an Aspen socialite and Triano's ex-wife)

Dunn, Carola -- Anthem for Doomed Youth $14.99 (Daisy Dalrymple #19: 1926: When three bodies are found just outside London, DCI Fletcher is ordered to solve the murders quickly, and keep his wife Daisy away from the case. Luckily, she's off visiting their daughter's school. But when a teacher is found dead, Daisy is once again in the thick of things)

Dunn, Matthew -- Spycatcher $9.99 (Intelligence agent Will Cochrane - working on a joint mission for the CIA and MI6 - is out to capture a brilliant and ruthless Iranian spy)

Ebersohn, Wessel -- Those Who Love the Night $24.99 (Bukula & Gordon #2: South African lawyer Abigail Bukula and prison psychologist Yudel Gordon work to free Abigail's cousin, who is being held as a political prisoner in a brutal Zimbabwean prison)

Fforde, Jasper -- One of Our Thursdays Is Missing $16.00 (Thursday Next #6: All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next. But with the real Thursday apparently retired to the RealWorld, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday, asking her to pretend to be the real Thursday, and travel as an emissary to the warring factions. Her trip up the mighty Metaphoric River reveals a fiendish plot that threatens the very fabric of the BookWorld)

Fielding, Joy -- Now You See Her $7.99 (On a trip to Ireland, a woman sees a young woman she thinks is her daughter - supposedly dead in an accident 2 years earlier, though no body was found - and embarks on a desperate search for the truth)

Flanagan, John A. -- Avalanche Pass $15.00 (Jesse Parker #2: When guests and staff at a snowbound ski lodge in Utah are taken hostage, ex- cop Jesse Parker may be their only hope)

Fleming/Deaver, J -- Carte Blanche $9.99 (James Bond: In his early thirties and a veteran of the Afghan war, Bond has been recruited to a new organization, its very existence deniable. Its aim: To protect the Realm by any means necessary. When Headquarters decrypts an electronic whisper about an attack scheduled for later in the week, Agent 007 is given the go-ahead to do whatever it takes to fulfill his mission)

Fluke, Joanne -- Devil's Food Cake Murder $7.99 (Hannah Swensen #16: When the substitute minister is found shot to death, Hannah discovers he wasn't the saintly fellow he appeared to be. But can she find the culprit in this half-baked murder plot?)

Flynn, Vince -- Kill Shot $27.99 (Mitch Rapp Prequel #2: Sent to assassinate a Libyan diplomat in Paris, Rapp is wounded and must flee for his life. As publicity explodes around the incident, one of his handlers decides to make sure that Rapp won't be alive for the French authorities to capture)

Fury, Dalton -- Black Site $25.99 (Delta Force #1: 3 years ago, Raynor made a decision to disobey orders that got his Delta Force teammates killed or captured. Now he's been asked to return to Pakistan. His assignment seems clear: find his missing men and bring them home. What he uncovers is an al Qaeda plot to capture a secret US prison and destabilize the region)

Gallagher, Stephen -- The Bedlam Detective $25.00 (Sebastian Becker investigates wealthy eccentrics who may be too insane to manage their own affairs. His latest case takes him to a small English town, where he discovers that two young girls have been murdered - and that it's not the first time)

Gardner, Lisa -- Catch Me $26.95 (D.D. Warren #6: Each year one of her childhood friends has died at the same date and time. Now Charlie Grant is the last one alive, and comes to top Boston detective D.D. Warren to ask her to handle the investigation into her murder. But is Charlie the next victim, or the perfect perp?)

Grimes, Martha -- Fadeaway Girl $15.00 (Emma Graham #4: Continuing to investigate the strange disappearance of the Slade baby from the Belle Ruin Hotel over 20 years ago, 12-year-old Emma Graham is even more determined to learn the truth when the baby's father suddenly arrives in town)

Hagberg, David -- Abyss $9.99 (Kirk McGarvey #15: Former CIA director Kirk McGarvey manages to stop a meltdown at a nuclear power plant, but the failed sabotage sets off a terrifying chain of events)

Hall, Parnell -- $10,000 in Small, Unmarked Puzzles $24.99 (Puzzle Lady #13: Hired by a young attorney to make a blackmail payment drop, Cora Felton stumbles over a corpse and a puzzle - and loses the money to a thief)

Harris, Robert -- The Fear Index $25.95 (Dr. Max Hoffman uses computer algorithms to trade on the world's financial markets, generating astonishing returns for his investors. Late one night, an intruder disturbs Hoffman and his wife. Over the next 48 hours, as the markets edge towards another great crash, Hoffman's world disintegrates. But who is trying to destroy him?)

Harvey, Michael -- We All Fall Down $7.99 (Michael Kelly #4: Chicago cop turned PI Michael Kelly races to save his city from a deadly new foe: a biological weapon unleashed in a subway tunnel)

Haywood, B.B. -- Town in a Wild Moose Chase $7.99 (Candy Holliday #3: PBO; The Winter Moose Fest is in full swing when the sighting of a white moose - and rumors of a dead body found in the woods - send Candy scrambling to separate fact from fiction before she finds herself in the crosshairs of a ruthless killer)

Helton, Peter -- Four Below $25.00 (Liam McLusky #2: DI McLusky and his team investigate a series of seemingly unconnected murders, accidents, and dead junkies. Narrow strips of a cut-up photo, sent to the Bristol Herald, hold vital clues, but can McLusky complete the puzzle in time to prevent more deaths?)

Hess, Joan -- Deader Homes and Gardens $24.99 (Claire Malloy #18: Claire has found the perfect house. Except the realtor disappeared mid-showing, the last owner died mysteriously, and the previous owners are suing the dead owner's lover over the rights to the property. Then the dead owner's lover dies, practically at Claire's feet)

Hiaasen, Carl -- Star Island $7.99 (Meet young pop star Cherry Pye. Now meet her again, in the person of Ann DeLusia, who portrays Cherry whenever the singer is too wasted to go out in public. When Ann-mistaken-for-Cherry is kidnapped by an obsessed photographer, Cherry's handlers must rescue her while keeping her existence a secret from Cherry's public - and from Cherry)

Hickam, Homer -- The Dinosaur Hunter $14.99 (Beneath the earth of the Montana badlands lie enough dinosaur fossils to fill several museum collections - and make a fortune for whoever claims them first. Soon Mike Wire will have to combine everything he learned as a homicide cop with everything he knows as a cowboy to protect the people and the land he could never live without)

Hunter, Maddy -- Dutch Me Deadly $14.95 (Password to Peril #7: Emily escorts her group of feisty Iowa senior citizens to the Netherlands. Joining them is the class of 1951 from Bangor, Maine, complete with old rivalries. Emily's hopes for an uneventful trip are dashed when the rude tour director is flattened by a speeding bicyclist and the Bangor class bully turns up dead in an Amsterdam canal)

Jaffarian, Sue Ann -- Gem of a Ghost $14.95 (Ghost of Granny Apples #3: Joanna Reid wants to get rid of her late husband Max's ghost. But did the film star die in a car accident, or kill himself? And why has his daughter Lainey repeatedly attempted suicide? It's up to Emma and Granny to find the truth)

James, Miranda -- File M for Murder $7.99 (Cat in the Stacks #3: PBO; Playwright Connor Lawton is known for his sharp writing, and sharper tongue. After an unpleasant encounter, librarian Charlie Harris learns his daughter Laura is subbing for a professor, and her old flame Connor got her the job. When Connor is murdered, Laura is the prime suspect. It's up to Charlie and his cat Diesel to track down the real killer)

Jance, J.A. -- Left for Dead $25.99 (Ali Reynolds #7: When violence from the Mexican drug cartel wars crosses the border into Arizona, severely injuring an old classmate, Ali Reynolds investigates with some help from her friend Sister Anselm)

Kelly, Erin -- The Poison Tree $16.00 (London, 1997: Karen meets exotic Biba and, spellbound, moves into the crumbling mansion Biba shares with her brother Rex. Drugs and wine flow as Rex and Karen begin an affair, but their summer of freedom is about to end in blood. 10 years later, Karen and 9-year-old Alice pick up Rex from his stint in prison for murder. When old ghosts come calling, Karen will do whatever it takes to protect her family)

Kent, Alexander -- In the King's Name $16.95 (Bolitho #29: 1819: Captain Adam Bolitho is sent on an urgent and risky mission, making a fast passage from Plymouth to Freetown, West Africa, with secret orders for the senior officer there) Kent, Graeme -- One Blood $25.00 (Kella & Conchita #2: Solomon Islands, 1960: Sgt. Ben Kella's investigation into sabotage against an international logging company and the murder of an American tourist at Sister Conchita's mission seem to be connected - and linked to an upsurge of interest in John F. Kennedy, who served in the area with the US Navy during WWII)

Knox, Tom -- The Lost Goddess $26.95 (Archaeological work in the prehistoric caves of western Europe and in the temples of Angkor Wat lead to discoveries that shadowy forces want kept secret)

Kondor, Vilmos -- Budapest Noir $14.99 (1936: A beautiful woman lies dead in a seedy neighborhood, with only a Jewish prayer book in her purse. The trail leads crime reporter Zsigmond Gordon to the highest echelons of power: her father is well- connected, but his economic and political ties to leaders in Germany will survive only if they don't learn he was once Jewish)

Lackberg, Camilla -- The Preacher $15.00 (Patrik Hedstrom #2: The remains of two young campers who disappeared 20 years ago are found alongside those of a new victim, sending a tiny Swedish town into shock. When a second girl goes missing, local detective Patrik Hedstrom searches for clues among the dark secrets of a clan of misfits, religious fanatics, and criminals) Maclean, Anna -- Louise and $14.00 (Louisa May Alcott #3: Reissue; When her friend Sylvia wants to contact her long-dead father, Louisa goes with her to visit a Boston spiritualist. When the seer is murdered, Louisa must solve the mystery of the woman's untimely death by uncovering the shocking truth about her life)

Maloney, Mack -- Operation Sea Ghost $7.99 (Pirate Hunters #2: PBO; Years ago, a mysterious weapon disappeared in the jungles of Vietnam. Now Somali pirates have found it and plan to sell it to terrorists. The CIA, desperate to retrieve the weapon and even more anxious to keep Washington out of it, recruits Team Whiskey to do their dirty work)

McClure, James -- The Sunday Hangman $14.00 (Kramer & Zondi #5: Reissue; After a bank robber is found executed without benefit of judge or jury, Afrikaner Lt. Tromp Kramer and Bantu DS Mickey Zondi search for a killer who knows far too much about the hangman's craft)

McDermid, Val -- The Retribution $25.00 (Hill & Jordan #7: After 10 years, Jacko Vance, ex- celebrity and sociopath, has escaped from prison. Even more twisted and cunning than before, he is focused on vengeance: making profiler Tony Hill and detective Carol Jordan pay) Mosley, Walter -- All I Did Was Shoot My Man $26.95 (Leonid McGill #4: Seven years ago, Zella Grisham came home to find her man in bed with her friend. The weekend before, $6.8 million had been stolen from a company across the street from where Zella worked. Zella didn't remember shooting her man, but she didn't deny it. The DA was inclined to call it temporary insanity - until the police found $80,000 from the heist hidden in her storage space. For reasons of his own, Leonid McGill is convinced of Zella's innocence. But as he begins his investigation, his life begins to unravel; Signed copies expected)

Neggers, Carla -- Secrets of the Lost Summer $7.99 (PBO; Dylan McCaffrey's ramshackle New England house is an inheritance he never counted on. It also holds the key to a generations-old treasure hunt that he and his next-door neighbor Olivia can't resist)

Palmer, Daniel -- Helpless $25.00 (Back in Shilo, NH, to raise his daughter Jill after his ex-wife Kelly is murdered, Tom Hawkins coaches Jill's high school soccer team. But first a Shilo cop makes it clear he suspects Tom of Kelly's murder, and then an anonymous blog post alleges the coach is sleeping with one of his players. To prove his innocence, Tom must unravel a tangle of lies about his past)

Patterson, J/Paetro, M -- The 9th Judgment $9.99 (Women's Murder Club #09: Detective Lindsay Boxer and her friends work on two cases: a woman and infant gunned down in a parking garage, and the death of an actor's wife who walked in on a home burglary)

Patterson, J/Rust, N -- Angel $9.99 (Maximum Ride #7: YA; A doomsday cult's threat to the world brings Max, Fang, and friends together in Paris. And this time, it might just be little Angel who is the true heroine)

Pelecanos, George -- What It Was $9.99 Trade PB, $35.00 Signed and Slipcased HC (Derek Strange: 1972: A young woman comes to cop-turned-PI Derek Strange, asking for help recovering a cheap ring she claims has sentimental value. The case leads him onto his former partner Frank Vaughn's turf, where a local addict has been murdered. Soon both men are on the trail of ruthless killer Red Fury)

Pendleton, Don (creator) -- Nuclear Storm $5.99 (Executioner #399: PBO; Bolan's camping trip is interrupted when he discovers an eco-terrorist group in a remote part of Yellowstone Park, and learns they're planning to save the planet by eradicating mankind)

Pendleton, Don (creator) -- Armed Resistance $6.99 (Stony Man #117: PBO; The Stony Man teams go after Sudanese extremists specializing in human trafficking and black market weapons)

Poulsen, Kevin -- Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground $15.00 (Nonfiction; a look at the modern hacking underworld, and the story of Max Butler, a hacker who seized control of a worldwide computer fraud network)

Preston, D/Child, L -- Cold Vengeance $9.99 (Pendergast #11: Devastated by the discovery that his wife was murdered, Pendergast stalks his wife's betrayers even as he digs further into her past. He is stunned to learn that she may have been a collaborator in her own murder, and that the conspiracy is goes back generations)

Raymond, Derek -- Dead Man Upright $14.95 (Factory #5: The Detective Sergeant of the Department of Unexplained Deaths has learned the identity of a serial killer's next victim. But can he stop the killer before it's too late?)

Read, Cornelia -- Invisible Boy $13.99 (Madeline Dare #3: When Madeline discovers the skeleton of a brutalized 3-year-old boy in her family's weed-ridden cemetery outside Manhattan, she is determined to see the perpetrators brought to justice)

Robinson, Jeremy -- Threshold $7.99 (Chess Team #3: The last speakers of ancient languages are being exterminated; assigned to protect the only survivor from a Native American reservation, the team find themselves being hunted by strange creatures sent by an enemy from their past) Robotham, Michael -- Shatter (alternate title: The Sleep of Reason) $14.99 (Joe O'Loughlin #3: A woman, sobbing into a cell phone, jumps from a bridge; haunted by his failure to save her, psychologist Joe O'Loughlin sets out to discover who was on the other end of that phone call)

Rosenfelt, David -- On Borrowed Time $7.99 (Rumor has it no one has ever gone to Kendrick Falls with Jen and come back the same. Richard is no exception - halfway up the mountain, he loses control of the car, and it rolls. Richard is shaken, but Jen is gone. He can't find her, the police can't find her - and no one in Richard's life will confirm Jen's existence)

Sala, Sharon -- Next of Kin $7.99 (PBO; Witness to a major mob hit, Beth is placed in protective custody, but after her third safe house is attacked, she heads home to Kentucky. If the FBI can't keep her safe, her kinfolk and her strong, silent neighbor Ryal Walker will)

Sansom, C.J. -- Heartstone $16.00 (Matthew Shardlake #5: 1545: Asked to investigate claims of monstrous wrongs committed against a young ward of the court, Shardlake uncovers a startling link to a woman incarcerated at Bedlam)

Sayers, D/Walsh, J -- The Attenbury Emeralds $14.99 (Wimsey & Vane #3: In 1921, the recovery of the Attenbury emeralds launched Lord Peter Wimsey's career as a detective. 30 years later, the latest Lord Attenbury seeks Wimsey's help to prove who owns the emeralds)

Slaughter, Karin -- Fallen $7.99 (Grant County #9 / Will Trent #5: Will Trent and Sara Linton investigate when Special Agent Faith Mitchell goes to pick up her daughter from her mother's, and finds the child alone in the toolshed, a gangland hostage situation in her mother's bedroom, and her mother vanished into thin air)

Smith, Wilbur -- Those in Peril $9.99 (To rescue her daughter, who has been captured and tortured by pirates demanding a huge ransom, an oil company heiress and her chief of security decide to take the law into their own hands)

Tentler, Leslie -- Edge of Midnight $7.99 (PBO; For months, the Collector abducted women, holding them captive for days before killing them. Then he vanished. Three years later, a string of similar abductions begins. When Mia Hale is abducted, then found wandering hours later, with no memory of what happened to her, FBI agent Eric McFarlane suspects she's more than just a victim who got away. She may be the Collector's obsession and ultimate target - and she may have ties to the killer that go back further than anyone thought)

Thompson, James -- Lucifer's Tears $15.00 (Kari Vaara #2: Working the graveyard shift in the Helsinki homicide unit, Inspector Vaara is pushed into investigating a 90-year-old national hero for WWII war crimes, and is drawn into the torture- murder case of a Russian businessman's unfaithful wife)

Thor, Brad -- Full Black $15.00 (Scot Harvath #10: When former US President Thomas Carver Banks is appointed Secretary General of the UN, the final phase of an intricate plan to destroy the US is set in motion. Harvath races to evade capture and discover who is behind the plot)

Tursten, Helene -- Detective Inspector Huss $9.99 (Irene Huss #1: Reissue; The suspicious death of a wealthy Swedish financier turns out to be the first in a series of murders; DI Huss tangles with street gangs, neo-Nazis, and immigrants in her search for the killer)

Tursten, Helene -- Night Rounds $25.00 (Irene Huss #4: DI Huss investigates when, after a blackout at a Goteborg hospital, one nurse is found dead and another has vanished. The only witness claims to have seen Nurse Tekla doing her rounds - but Nurse Tekla died sixty years ago)

Watson, S.J. -- Before I Go to Sleep $14.99 (A woman with a damaged memory desperately searches for the truth. Who is she? And who can she trust?)

White, Randy Wayne -- Night Vision $9.99 (Doc Ford #18: When an illegal immigrant goes into hiding after witnessing a murder, Doc Ford and his friend Tomlinson must search through the underground, invisible nation of illegal laborers to find her before the killer does)

Wiehl, Lis/Henry, April -- Hand of Fate $7.99 (Outspoken radio talk show host Jim Fate dies when poisonous gas fills the studio while his controversial show is on the air. An FBI agent, a crime reporter, and a federal prosecutor work together to crack the case. But the reporter has a secret, one that will either solve the case, or make her a suspect)

Wilson, F. Paul -- Jack: Secret Vengeance $7.99 (Repairman Jack YA #3: YA; A popular boy at school takes Weezy on a date, attacks her, and then smears her reputation. Weezy would rather forget it ever happened, but, with the help of the pineys, Jack plans to teach the boy a lesson)

Mid February

Beaton, M.C. -- Death of a Kingfisher $24.99 (Hamish Macbeth #28: The Highland village of Braikie hopes to attract tourists to their beautiful woods; PC Hamish MacBeth investigates when a kingfisher is found hanging from a branch with a noose around its neck. Next a wave of vandalism threatens the town, then violence strikes again - and this time it's murder) Berenson, Alex -- The Shadow Patrol $26.95 (John Wells #6: Concerned that their Kabul station may have been infiltrated by the Taliban, the CIA asks John Wells to investigate. He finds a viper's nest of hostility and mistrust - and clues that hint at a drug-trafficking operation involving the agency, the military, and the Taliban; Signed copies expected)

Brody, Frances -- Dying in the Wool $24.99 (Kate Shackleton #1: In the Yorkshire village of Bridgestead, nothing exceptional happens - until Joshua Braithwaite goes missing. Now his daughter is getting married and wants a last attempt made to find him. Did he run off with his mistress? Was he murdered? Amateur sleuth Kate Shackleton taps into the villagers' lives, and opens cracks that some would kill to keep closed)

Christie, Agatha -- Come, Tell Me How You Live $13.99 (Nonfiction; the mystery writer's account of her days on an archaeological dig in 1930s Syria)

Davidson, Hilary -- The Next One to Fall $24.99 (Lily Moore #2: Just after Lily and her photographer friend Jesse arrive at Machu Picchu, a tourist dies. While witnesses agree that no one was near the woman when she fell, Lily becomes increasingly convinced that the death was no accident; when the Peruvian police show no interest, she decides to investigate) Davies, J.D. -- Gentleman Captain $14.95 (Matthew Quinton #1: 1662: King Charles II sends Matthew Quinton north to defuse the rebellion in the Scottish Isles; the inexperienced captain faces a resentful crew, and a growing suspicion that the ship's previous captain was murdered)

Dekobra, Maurice -- The Madonna of the Sleeping Cars $15.00 (Reissue; Gerard Seliman becomes the personal assistant of Lady Diana Wyndham, and soon finds himself involved in a wild scheme as she tries to save herself from financial ruin by recovering her rights to a Russian oil field now controlled by revolutionaries who don't like capitalists)

Eastland, Sam -- Shadow Pass (UK title: The Red Coffin) $15.00 (Pekkala #2: 1939: When a top military engineer is found dead next to the weapon he was working on, Stalin enlists Inspector Pekkala to look into the murder)

Hall, Parnell -- Caper $14.95 (Stanley Hastings #17: Finding out why his client's teenage daughter is skipping school should be easy, but nothing is as it seems, bodies start piling up, and PI Stanley Hastings is left holding the bag)

Hand, Elizabeth -- Available Dark $23.99 (Cass Neary #2: A mysterious job offer sends photographer Cass Neary to Helsinki, where a fashion photographer shows her photos depicting ritual killings. Narrowly escaping death herself, Cass flees to Iceland, but soon unsolved murders are multiplying faster than she can run)

Johansen, Iris -- Bonnie $7.99 (Eve Duncan #13: With the help of her beloved Joe Quinn and CIA agent Catherine Ling, Eve has come closer than ever to the truth about her daughter's disappearance. But the deeper she digs, the more she realizes that Bonnie's father is a key player in solving this puzzle. And that Bonnie's disappearance was not as random as everyone had always believed)

Kurkov, Andrey -- The Case of the General's Thumb $14.95 (A general's corpse is found, missing a thumb. Police Lt. Slutsky is sent to investigate. So is KGB officer Tsensky. Neither knows the other is investigating; each finds himself baffled by developments caused by the other. In a comedy of dangerous errors, the two crisscross Europe, Russian, and the Ukraine, catalysts in a bizarre battle between the Russian and Ukrainian secret services)

Larsson, Stieg -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest $9.99 (Millennium #3: In a Swedish hospital, Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life. When she's well enough, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of her journalist friend Mikael Blomkvist, she will have to prove her innocence and identify the corrupt politicians who have allowed the vulnerable to suffer. And, on her own, she will plot her revenge against the man who tried to kill her and the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life)

Larsson, Stieg -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest $15.95 (Millennium #3: In a Swedish hospital, Lisbeth Salander is fighting for her life. When she's well enough, she'll stand trial for three murders. With the help of her journalist friend Mikael Blomkvist, she will have to prove her innocence and identify the corrupt politicians who have allowed the vulnerable to suffer. And, on her own, she will plot her revenge against the man who tried to kill her and the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life)

Martin, Nancy -- Sticky Fingers $14.99 (Roxy Abruzzo #2: To make ends meet, Roxy has been doing a few jobs for her mob-boss uncle, scaring people into repaying the money they owe him. When his lawyer asks her to hold someone for ransom, Roxy refuses - but ends up prime suspect when the intended victim is murdered)

McCafferty, Keith -- The Royal Wulff Murders $26.95 (When a guide reels in the body of a young man from a Montana river, Sheriff Martha Ettinger suspects foul play. While investigating, she crosses paths with PI Sean Stranahan, who has been hired to find a woman's missing brother. The clues lead sheriff and PI to Montana's big business: fly fishing) Montalban, Manuel Vazquez -- Murder in the Central Committee $14.95 (Pepe Carvalho: Reissue; At a meeting of the central committee, in a locked and guarded room, the general secretary of Spain's Communist Party is stabbed to death, but the Party refuses to believe it was an inside job. They turn to former party member PI Pepe Carvalho for help)

Nesbo, Jo -- Nemesis $7.99 (Harry Hole #2: Detective Harry Hole investigates the death of his old flame Anna, while also trying to track down a gang of robbers who are getting more ruthless with each hit)

O'Donovan, Gerard -- The Priest $15.00 (Mike Mulcahy #1: Inspector Mike Mulcahy butts heads with his Dublin colleagues and bosses when he insists that an attack on a politician's daughter had religious as well as sexual motivations)

Patterson, J/Karp, M -- Kill Me If You Can $14.99 (The world's two best assassins hunt a poor art student who took advantage of the chaotic aftermath of a killing at Grand Central Station to steal a duffel bag filled with diamonds)

Patterson, Richard North -- The Devil's Light $9.99 (A compromised CIA operative must stop al Qaeda from using a stolen nuclear weapon on Israel)

Pearl, Matthew -- The Technologists $26.00 (Boston, 1868: The daring Massachusetts Institute of Technology is rising, its mission to harness science for the benefit of all and to open the doors of opportunity to everyone of merit. But in Boston Harbor a fiery cataclysm throws commerce into chaos, as ships' instruments spin inexplicably out of control. Soon after, another mysterious catastrophe devastates the heart of the city. Is it sabotage by scientific means, or Nature revolting against man's attempt to control it? With their first graduation and the survival of their school now in doubt, MIT's best and brightest students secretly come together to track down the truth, armed with ingenuity and their unique scientific training)

Persson, Leif G.W. -- Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End $15.95 (Fall of the Welfare State #1: Beginning with the death of an unknown American citizen in Stockholm, a web of international espionage, greed, incompetence, and work by a shoddy Swedish intelligence force lead to the murder of the prime minister)

Reichs, Kathy -- Flash and Bones $15.00 (Temperance Brennan #14: When a body is found in a barrel of asphalt near a speedway, Tempe learns that it may be connected to a pair of mysterious disappearances years earlier that the FBI never really investigated)

Rich, Roberta -- The Midwife of Venice $15.00 (16th-century Venice: Hannah is renowned for coaxing reluctant babies out of their mothers. A Christian count implores her to save his unborn son. Although Papal edict forbids Jews from rendering medical treatment to Christians, the count's payment is enough to ransom Hannah's husband Isaac, who has been captured at sea. Hannah's choice entangles her in a treacherous family rivalry that endangers the child and threatens her voyage to Malta to find Isaac)

Robb, J.D. -- Celebrity in Death $27.95 (Eve Dallas #35: Eve is having a reasonably good time at the bash celebrating a film based on one of her cases - until the actress who plays Peabody turns up dead in the swimming pool)

Robinson, Peter -- Before the Poison $25.99 (Chris Lowndes buys a mansion in the Yorkshire dales, and learns it was the scene of a murder decades ago. The doctor who owned it was supposedly poisoned by his young wife Grace, who was hanged for the crime. As he learns more about the crime, his belief that Grace may have been innocent disturbs a web of deadly secrets)

Rosenfelt, David -- Heart of a Killer $24.99 (Young lawyer Jamie Wagner reopens the case of a woman imprisoned for murdering her abusive husband. If released, the woman plans to provide a heart transplant for her dying daughter by taking her own life)

Scottoline, Lisa -- Save Me $14.99 (Lunchroom volunteer Susan Pressman must uncover what really happened after she finds herself being blamed when an explosion at the school injures the girl who was bullying Susan's daughter)

Silva, Daniel -- Portrait of a Spy $9.99 (Gabriel Allon #11: The CIA contacts Gabriel: the US President wants him to mount an operation against a Yemen-based al-Qaeda rival with plans to shed American blood on American soil)

Stabenow, Dana -- Restless in the Grave $25.99 (Kate Shugak #19: With his wife a suspect in the sabotage-related fatal crash of an entrepreneur's Piper Super Cub, Alaska state trooper Liam Campbell turns to his mentor Jim Chopin for help. PI Kate Shugak goes undercover in southwestern Alaska to investigate; Signed copies expected)

Taylor, Andrew -- The Anatomy of Ghosts $15.99 (1786: Hired to catalogue a dead man's library, bookseller John Holdsworth is instead sent to Cambridge to check on the well-being of the man's son; once there, he is drawn into a mystery involving a woman's death and a secret society)

Thomas, Donald -- Sherlock Holmes and the Ghosts of Bly $14.95 (Collection; four original tales featuring the great detective)

Waller, Douglas C. -- Wild Bill Donovan: His Life, His Spies, His Secret Wars $16.00 (Nonfiction; Waller draws on recently declassified documents in this biography of the father of modern espionage) West, Michael Lee -- Gone with a Handsomer Man $14.99 (Teeny Templeton #1: When Charleston pastry chef Teeny Templeton finds her fiance playing naked badminton with two other women, she dumps him - then winds up prime suspect when he turns up dead)

Westlake, Donald E. -- The Comedy Is Finished $25.99 (1977: America is finally getting over the nightmares of Watergate and Vietnam. But not everyone is ready to let go. When radicals kidnap a popular comedian, threatening to kill him unless some of their cohorts are released from prison, the FBI jumps on the case - with bloody consequences)

Willig, Lauren -- The Garden Intrigue $25.95 (Pink Carnation #8: Augustus Whittlesby, an undercover agent posing as an atrocious poet, teams up with Emma Morris Delagardie, the New York-born widow of a Frenchman and an old school friend of Napoleon's stepdaughter, to thwart a French invasion of England)