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

Newsletter #110 June 2015 - August 2015

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

Parking Metered parking (25 cents for 20 minutes) is available in front of the store. Meters are enforced 8am-6pm Monday through Saturday (except for federal holidays). Note the number on the pole you park by, and pay at the box located between the dental office driveway and Popeyes driveway. The box accepts quarters, dollar coins, and credit cards, and prints a receipt that shows the expiration time. Meter parking for vehicles with Disability License Plates or a Disability Certificate is free. (Rates and hours shown are subject to change without notice - the meters are run by the city, not by us.) Free parking is also available in the dental office lot from 5pm-8pm Monday through Thursday, and all day , Saturday, and Sunday. Autographing Events (at Uncle Hugo's)

Sunday, July 19, 3-4pm: Wesley Chu - Time Salvager Saturday, August 8, 1-2pm: Kelly McCullough - School for Sidekicks

Sharon Lee and Steve Miller have a new Liaden Universe , A Liaden Universe Constellation 3 ($14.00), expected the beginning of August. ’ve arranged to have Sharon and Steve to sign a hundred copies and ship them to us. If you order from our website by July 1, you can also get your copy personalized if you like. If you wait until after July 1, you’ll have to settle for just a signed copy–until we run out of signed copies.

Used Sale

Every year our supply (oversupply) of used gets larger. We’re having a sale to try to reduce our supply.All used books will be 20% off, whether you have a discount card or not. The sale includes used , used , used magazines, used gaming books, and bagged books. Because we have so many used , we will be selling all used audiobooks at $5.00 each, whether cassette or CD. The sale runs from Friday, May 29 through Sunday, June 7. That gives you two weekends to take advantage of the sale. This sale will be for customers shopping in the store–it does not apply to mail orders. If you’re thinking about bringing in lots of used books to sell to us during the sale, expect a longer than normal wait.

Holiday Schedule

Monday, May 25: Closed Saturday, July 4: Closed

Award News

The finalists for the for Best are by Katherine Addison aka ($8.99), Trial by Fire by Charles E. Gannon ($15.00), Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie ($16.00), The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by ($25.99), Coming Home by McDevitt ($25.95), and Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer ($13.00).

The nominees for the for Best Novel are The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison aka Sarah Monette ($8.99), The Dark Between the Stars by Kevin J. Anderson ($8.99), Skin Game by Jim Butcher ($9.99), Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie ($16.00), and The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, translated by Ken Liu ($25.99).

Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne ($15.00) and by ($25.99 hc, $15.99 tr pb due mid-May) tied for the 2014 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, given for works that explore and expand gender roles.

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie ($16.00) won the British Science Fiction Association Award for best novel.

The Edgar Allan Poe Award winners included Best Novel to Mr. Mercedes by ($16.00), Best First Novel by an American to Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman ($14.95), Best Original to The Secret History of Las Vegas by Chris Abani ($16.00), and Best Critical/Biographical to Poe-Land: The Hallowed Haunts of Edgar Allan Poe by J. W. Ocher ($18.95).

The Agatha Award Winners included Best Contemporary Novel to Truth Be Told by Hank Phillipi Ryan ($24.99), Best Historical Novel to Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen ($25.95, $7.99 paperback due early August), and Best First Novel to Well Read, Then Dead by Terrie Farley ($7.99).

The nominees for the 2015 Thriller Awards for Best Novel are The Fever by Megan Abbott ($15.00), Broken by Lauren Beukes ($26.00, $16.00 trade pb due mid-June), Suspicion by Joseph Finder ($9.99), Natchez Burning by Greg Iles ($27.99 signed hc or $9.99 pb), and That Night by Chevy Stevens ($15.99). The nominees for Best First Novel are The Axeman’s Jazz by Ray Celestin (no U.S. yet), Invisible City by Julia Dahl ($15.99), The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens ($15.95), The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh ($16.00), and The Martian by ($15.00).

How’s Business by Don Blyly

Business continues to be up compared to last year, but still down compared to a few years ago. National Day on May 2 was reasonably successful at Uncle Hugo’s (sales up about 50% from the first Saturday in May of last year), and I’ve heard that most other bookstores also experienced a large increase for the day. But most of our business on the day was regular customers coming in to make large purchases to get a free bookbag, rather than new customers discovering us for the first time. The local mass media seems to have pretty much ignored it. I know that MPR did a nice little article about it on their website, but I’m not aware of them discussing it on the radio. I didn’t encounter any other local media coverage of the day, so most of the population had no idea it was happening.

I mentioned in the last newsletter that Borderlands Books of San Francisco had announced that they were going out of business because of the $15 per hour minimum wage approved by San Francisco voters. They came up with a plan to stay in business. They offered sponsorships for $100 each, and announced that if they sold 300 sponsorships by the end of March, they would stay open for the rest of 2015. Next year, they will also offer sponsorships, and if they sell enough by the end of March, 2016, they will stay open for the rest of 2016, and they will continue to sell annual sponsorships until either they don’t sell enough sponsorships to cover the extra expenses or they have to close for some other reason. They sold enough sponsorships within 48 hours to be able to stay open for 2015.

Last newsletter I discussed some medical problems I had been experiencing. Since then, I had two more medical “adventures”, totally unrelated to the ones I mentioned last time, but I now seem to be in good shape. Short Recommendations by Don Blyly

The Rebirths of Tao ($7.99) by Wesley Chu is the third in the series that began with The Lives of Tao ($7.99) and was followed by The Deaths of Tao ($7.99). The premise is that hundreds of millions of years ago a starship full of Quasings was damaged while passing through our solar system, and the only planet that could possibly support them was Earth. The Quasings could not survive on their own in Earth’s atmosphere, but they could enter into a symbiotic relationship with the critters that had evolved on Earth. The Quasings have been guiding evolution on Earth ever since, trying to produce a race capable of building them a new starship so that they could continue their journey. A few centuries ago, the Quasings split into two groups. One group pushed for more wars to advance technology even faster, regardless of the cost to the humans; the other group had become fond of the humans and felt that after hundreds of millions of years working on the project, it wouldn’t hurt to allow the humans an extra couple of centuries to get the to point where they could build the starship. The two groups of Quasings have been at war ever since, using the humans that they have symbiotic relationships with. Much of the story is told from the point of view of Tao and the various humans he has lived with and guided through the centuries. Tao is a member of the Prophus (friendly to humans) faction and has been fighting the schemes of the Genjix (stick it to the humans) faction. The Genjix have now come up with a new scheme. They think they have found a way to change the atmosphere of Earth so that the Quasings can survive on their own without the Earth critters, which is just as well, since the atmospheric changes will kill off all life that evolved on Earth. Tao and the rest of the Prophus faction are fighting this new plan, and even some of the Genjix faction think that their leadership is pushing forward with the new plan too quickly without enough testing to make sure that the Quasings will survive long term under the changed conditions. I’m looking forward to the next book in the series.

Wesley Chu has now started a new, totally unrelated science fiction series from a different publisher. Time Salvager ($25.99, due early July) shows us a harsh 26th century, where Earth is in rough shape after the Third World War, the Earth Plague, and the AI War. Most of the human population has fled to the rest of the solar system, but things are tough there, too. ChronoCom has spent the last couple of centuries mining the past for resources, using a few highly trained chronmen who must obey strict rules to avoid setting up major ripples in the chronostream. Thus, things can be salvaged only shortly before they would have been destroyed by a historical event (just before a bomb strikes, just as a ship was sinking, etc.). James Griffin-Mars is a chronman near his breaking point, who takes one last dangerous mission to secure his retirement. He breaks the first of the Time Laws–he brings back a scientist from 2097 who was supposed to die in an explosion, making him and the scientist criminals subject to the death penalty. As he and the scientist flee ChronoCom, he learns how corrupt the system has become. Wesley Chu will be signing at Uncle Hugo’s on Sunday, July 19, from 3 to 4 pm.

Cixin Liu is a top writer and The Three-Body Problem ($25.99) was a best-selling Chinese novel. It has now been translated into English and the translation is on the ballot for best novel of 2014 for both the Nebula and Hugo Awards. The novel begins at the start of the in 1967 and explores the effect of the Cultural Revolution on Chinese society and especially on Chinese science. The Red Guard military set up a secret project which is supposedly aimed at spying on Russian and American satellites, but is actually intended to search for and then communicate with extra-terrestrial intelligent life. If there is intelligent life out there, the Red Guards want to control the flow of information between Earth and the aliens, and put the proper political on everything the aliens learn about Earth. I found the politics and the style of writing very interesting, more interesting than the science fiction element of the novel, and more interesting than most of the characters. I’ll be waiting for the translations of the next two books of the trilogy.

Recently I was in the middle of 3 books but none were within reach when I had to grab something to read while standing in line to pick up lunch. I picked up a copy of Lisa Shearin’s Magic Lost, Trouble Found ($7.99) and it was so much fun that I went through all 6 books of the series before going back to any of the other 3 books I had abandoned. Raine Benares is an elf from a criminal family with moderate magical abilities in a world with elves, goblins, and humans being the primary races, although other races are mentioned. Raine uses her magical abilities as a "finder"--she can find lost (or stolen) objects and lost (or kidnapped) people, and usually her street smarts will keep her safe. Although Raine primarily stays on the right side of the law, her upbringing has given her a rather casual attitude about strictly obeying the law. When she finds a particular missing amulet, it tries to take possession of her, and soon evil goblin mages are after her. Over 6 books she has to deal with the evil mages, some pompous twits, some crooked politicians, an invasion of demons from hell, etc., often with help from various crooked family members. The entire series is a fun romp, with lots of attitude. The other books in the series are Armed & Magical ($7.99), The Trouble with Demons ($7.99), Bewitched & Betrayed ($7.99), Con & Conjure ($7.99), and All Spell Breaks Loose ($7.99).

Bronze Gods ($7.99) and the sequel Silver Mirrors ($7.99) are by A. A. Aguirre (well-know author Ann Aguirre writing with her husband Andres). About a thousand years before the story begins, a chain of islands ruled by the fae were invaded by a fleet of ships full of humans with iron weapons that somehow slipped into the world. When it looked like the fae and the humans might kill each other off, a peace was negotiated that involved lots of inter- marriage between the fae and the humans. A thousand years later, the fae ruling houses are still rich and proud, but with a lot less magic than they once had. The population is mostly human without magic, but occasional limited magical abilities pop up among the general population. The technology has advanced over the last thousand years. The two main characters are a pair of police detectives. Janus Mikani is an honest cop, but a bit on the violent side, with a manner that is frequently irritating, and a bit of magical ability. Celeste Ritsuko is the only female detective on the force, very bright, and good at being diplomatic and at questioning witnesses. To everybody's surprise, they have become an excellent team, and the interaction between the two is delightful. There's lots of sleuthing in the first book, as they try to track down a serial killer who uses magic. There's very little sleuthing and lots of action in the second book, as they take on pirates and angry elementals.

Back in 2009, Child of Fire by Harry Connolly ($7.99) came out. I started hearing good things about this new urban , tried it, and put it on the recommended fantasy shelf. Ray Lilly is a former car thief who becomes a “wooden man” for Annalise, a high-ranking member of the Twenty Palaces Society, a centuries-old organization of sorcerers devoted to hunting down and executing rogue magicians. It takes Ray a while to figure out that a “wooden man” is somebody openly displayed to the bad guys so that they will direct all their fire at the “wooden man” while the real threat sneaks up behind the bad guys. Once Ray learns that there are many dimensions full of predators looking for a way to get to Earth to consume all living beings, and that the rogue magicians are performing rites that open doorways that allow the predators onto Earth, he becomes committed to the cause even if nobody expects him to have a long career as a “wooden man”.

In 2010 Game of Cages ($7.99), the second of the series, came out. In 2011 Circle of Enemies ($7.99), the third of the series came out. The entire series is wonderful, and has sold very well at Uncle Hugo’s. (After over five years on the recommended fantasy shelf, Child of Fire managed to make it onto the bottom of our list for last month.) But people have been asking for years for the next volume. I recently learned that after the third book, the publisher decided not to buy any more books from Harry Connolly because they weren’t satisfied with the sales of the first three books, and he had to self-publish Twenty Palaces ($14.99), which is a prequel to the series. It begins the day Ray gets out of prison for his car theft activities, and covers his first experience with humans taken over by predators from another dimension, his first encounter with Annalise and other members of the Twenty Palaces Society, and explains how he got the “paper knife” that plays such an important role in the rest of the series. The book could have used a good copy editor (although the same can be said of many books from the major publishers, where running a manuscript through a spell checker seems to have replaced copy ), but otherwise is a very good addition to the series.

Harry Connolly has also published a fantasy trilogy consisting of The Way Into Chaos ($15.95), The Way Into Magic ($13.95), and The Way Into Darkness ($15.95). “The city of Peradain is the heart of an built with steel, spears, and monopoly on magic...until, in a single day, it falls, overthrown by a swarm of supernatural creatures of incredible power and ferocity. Neither soldier nor spell caster can stand against them.” The series shows the collapse of the empire. I haven’t read the series yet, but it’s on my to-be-read list, and I’ve heard good comments about the series. (Publishers Weekly, after declaring Child of Fire one of the 100 best books published in 2009, gave The Way Into Chaos a starrred review, referring to it as an “immersive, thrilling, and elf-free epic fantasy trilogy launch”.)

Killing Pretty ($25.99, due early August) is the seventh book in the Sandman Slim series by Richard Kadrey. You should start with the first book in the series, Sandman Slim (we still have a few copies left of the signed first mass market at $7.99), and then go through the rest of the series before picking up Killing Pretty.

James Stark (also known as Sandman Slim) grew up in Los Angeles, was able to work magic, and joined a gang with some other magic users. The other gang members sent him to hell, where he spent eleven years as a gladiator for the amusement of the demons. Then he figured out how to escape from hell and went back to L.A. looking for payback against his former gang members. The first six books are sarcastic, irreverent, brutal, and hard-boiled, as Stark deals with the gang members, demons, , vampires, twisted angels, twisted homeland security forces, old gods, etc., sometimes on Earth, sometimes in hell, sometimes in heaven. At the end of the sixth book, Stark saves the universe and can no longer hop off to hell or heaven whenever he wishes.

In Killing Pretty, Stark finally gets a job, working as a private investigator for a firm that specializes in supernatural cases. Suddenly, he has to show up for work on time, file reports and expense accounts, and try to stay sober while on duty. And everybody keeps telling him to tone down the violence. Stark keeps trying to act responsibly, but things keep happening. And Death wants him to find out who tried to kill him–or at least tried to kill the body that Death is currently stuck in. To appreciate the almost responsible, less violent Stark of Killing Pretty, you have to be familiar with the totally irresponsible and hyper-violent Stark of the first six books.

Recommendations by Elizabeth LaVelle

I really enjoyed The White Magic Five and Dime ($14.99) by Steve Hockensmith and Lisa Falco, so I was delighted to get my hands on an of the second book in the series, Me Once ($14.99, expected in August), which picks up right where the first book left off. Alanis is doing tarot and trying to make sure her sister does her homework and goes to bed on time, while hoping to identify more of her con-artist mother's victims so she can make amends to them. She has also helped her new friend Marsha Riggs leave her abusive husband. So when Bill Riggs is bludgeoned to death, and the Berdache cops decide that hapless, passive Marsha is the likeliest culprit, Alanis sets out to discover what really happened. Riggs was a belligerent, violent jerk, so there are plenty of other suspects. The fun comes from watching Alanis deploy her formidable con-artist skills while investigating, choosing a persona and creating a backstory that's just this side of outrageous. And she does her best to stay out of danger this time around (of course, not always successfully) and to keep her sister well clear of any not entirely legal activity. For backup, Alanis pairs up with Victor Castellanos, a thoroughly decent guy who seesaws between his growing attraction to Alanis and his dismay (or occasionally terror) at some of her behavior. She also partners reluctantly with Riggs' former jail mate G.W. Fletcher, a charmer with as many shady skills as Alanis. All of which makes for the same mix of absurd encounters and warm-hearted moments that I liked so much in the first book.

At 22, Billy Boyle ($9.99, by James R. Benn) has just made detective, not because he's a great cop, but because he has family on the Promotions board. When the draft comes along, his family once again pulls strings to get him a safe stateside posting on his uncle's staff. But by June 1942, when Billy finishes his officer training, Uncle Ike (that's General Eisenhower to the rest of us) is based in , in charge of the European Theater of Operations. And he's planning to have Billy investigate potentially delicate cases that might threaten Allied unity and military operations. Billy is determined not to let Uncle Ike down. His first assignment takes him to the Norwegian government-in-exile HQ in Sussex with his new boss Major Harding, a by- the-book career Army officer. Planning is underway for Operation Jupiter, the proposed Allied invasion of Norway, and Bill is tasked with identifying a spy among the Norwegian forces. Billy realizes he's way out of his depth; luckily, he will be ably assisted by Lt. Piotr Kazimierz, an expat Polish baron whose entire family was wiped out by Hitler. Kaz has an Oxford education and a facility for languages and codes that has earned him a place on the general's staff despite his bum heart. When one of King Haakon's top advisers dies in suspicious circumstances, they also have a murder to solve. Billy is a lively protagonist, very brash and gee-whiz, aware of his flaws and shortcomings but not inclined to fret over them. As an Irish-American from south Boston, he arrives in London ready to hate the British, a plan that does not survive his first encounter with working-class Brits at the local pub: they've already lost so many loved ones to the war, and they are so very glad that the US has joined the fight at last, they completely win Billy over. Kaz is also a great character, smart and witty, delighted to learn Southie slang from Billy, but with a core of sorrow from all that has befallen his country. The book also has plenty of action, both military and investigative.

Billy's adventures continue in November 1942 in The First Wave ($14.00). Allied forces land near Algiers, naively expecting a quick takeover from the Vichy French. En route to arrange a surrender with a complicit faction of the French military, Billy and Major Harding instead find themselves captured by a vicious fascist militia run by the Vichy police. The militia has also rounded up the participants in the failed uprising, a group that includes Billy's girlfriend Diana, an English spy. Kaz and a team of Royal Commandos soon show up to rescue Billy and Harding, but by then the other captives have been moved to an unknown location. And the delicate politics of the situation make it impossible for the Allies to take any official action against the Vichy police or militia. A murder and theft at the newly set up Allied field hospital sends Billy on the hunt, officially for the hospital's desperately needed supply of penicillin, and unofficially for Diana, both stolen by a murderous Vichy police officer with ties to the Algerian underworld. But he still finds time to comment on Army food and procedures, to reflect on the changes the events of the war have wrought in Kaz, and to wonder what the Algerian natives think about the entire enterprise - whether it's France, Germany, Italy, or the US, their 'liberators' aren't planning to give the country back to its original owners. Much derring-do follows as Billy searches for the missing drugs, tries to figure out which members of the hospital staff collaborated in the crime, and works to locate and rescue Diana and if possible the other captives. The series continues with Blood Alone ($14.00), Evil for Evil ($15.95), Rag and Bone ($14.00), A Mortal Terror ($14.95), Death's Door ($14.95), A Blind Goddess ($15.95), and The Rest Is Silence ($26.95 hc, $15.95 trade pb expected in August).

Buy a Whisker ($7.99) by Sophie Ryan is a great follow up to The Whole Cat and Caboodle ($7.99). It's winter, and things have slowed down in North Harbor, Maine, aside from an occasional tour bus of Canadian skiers. So a proposed waterfront development that would increase tourism and bring more revenue to the area has local business owners thrilled - except for young bakery owner Lily Carter, and without Lily's property, the development can't go ahead. Sarah's shop isn't near the waterfront, so she's not directly involved, but several of her nearest and dearest have a stake in the matter. Quite a few folks in town are irate about Lily's stubbornness, there's been petty vandalism at her shop, and there are rumors that the developer might go broke if the plans don't proceed. So there's plenty for police detective Michelle Andrews and investigator Nick Elliot to look into when Lily is found dead. Despite the fact that the pros are doing their jobs well, there's no way Sarah will be able to stop 'Charlotte's Angels' once they decide to investigate. The most she can do is try to make sure her Gram's friends Charlotte, Rose, Liz, and geriatric hacker Arthur Peterson don't do anything dangerous. The mystery plot is nicely developed and convoluted, but for me the real enjoyment in this series is watching Sarah's family and friends as they work together, enjoy food together, head to the weekly jam session at their favorite local bar, and generally take good care of each other. It's also fun to watch the team at Second Chance bring new life to stuff that would otherwise end up in a landfill. And I really enjoy Sarah's discussions and arguments with her cat Elvis, and her reminiscences: what happened when Gram and her friends took thirteen-year-old Sarah and a friend to see Aerosmith (hint: it involves Steven Tyler and Rose); or how Sarah danced the Macarena with the skeleton in her high school biology class. The author does a great job of giving her characters breadth and depth and warmth, and the humor is always friendly. It's also great to read a cozy series where the police are capable, and people cooperate with them.

Elizabeth Peters is one of my all-time favorite , and one of very few that I can point to and say I'm a different person today because I read her books. At a time when most romance featured helpless and frequently clueless heroines in humorless peril, Peters' romantic suspense and mystery novels specialized in intelligent, independent women, attractive but aggravating men, entertaining supporting characters, plenty of humor (ranging from dry wit to sarcasm to slapstick), and smart plots. And I particularly love the Vicky Bliss series. First up is Borrower of the Night ($9.99), published in 1973. A very tall, very intelligent blonde with the proportions of a Playboy bunny, Dr. Bliss struggles to be taken seriously as a historian in a world that believes anyone who looks like her must be an airhead. Landing a teaching position at a small Midwestern college, she meets Tony, who is tall, smart - and really fixated on getting married and having children, two things Vicky is entirely uninterested in. When Tony decides that the way to win her over is to prove he can dominate her intellectually, Vicky is flabbergasted. The two end up competing to see which of them can locate a lost masterpiece by a German artist who died in 1525. The search takes them to Germany, to a decrepit family castle turned hotel being run by Irma, the last of the Drachensteins (hello, petite brunette heiress in distress). Throw in Irma's decidedly nasty aunt, a rival treasure hunter from back home, a romantic rival for Tony, some mysterious ghostly happenings, a seance or two, and chubby old Professor Anton Schmidt (supposedly vacationing but often to be found in the thick of things), and you have all the trappings of a gothic romance. What you get is a lively story with plenty of twists (modern and historical), plenty of skulduggery (modern and historical), some deadly peril, and the indomitable Vicky (with some help from Tony) finally sorting the whole mess out.

Next in the series is Street of the Five Moons ($9.99). Vicky is now working for Schmidt as an art historian at the National Museum in Munich. A man has turned up dead in an alley, in his pocket a spectacularly good forgery of a piece of antique jewelry in the museum's collection. Worried that there is a plan afoot to rob the museum by replacing original artworks with forgeries, Schmidt asks Vicky to figure out where the fake came from. A note in the dead man's pocket points to a street address in Rome, where Vicky finds an antique shop, and John Smythe (last seen in The Camelot Caper, $9.99), an Englishman with flexible ethics and a number of criminal associates, some of whom are both unintelligent and unsavory. When they kidnap Vicky, John rescues her - an act of enlightened self-interest with perhaps a touch of chivalry on the side. He also warns her to stop investigating and head back to Munich. But Vicky figures out where they took her, and heads back into the fray. In John, Vicky has found an opponent worthy of her. He has a highly developed instinct for self- preservation, a pragmatic approach to most things,and no qualms about his criminal activities, although he abhors violence - particularly against him - and refuses to carry a gun, because the penalties are so much more severe. He's also handsome, intelligent, well- educated, and flippantly witty, with a sense of humor that gets him in trouble more than once. He's a very appealing rogue, and Vicky's dislike of his criminal activities doesn't entirely overcome her attraction to him. Nevertheless, she's determined to put a stop to the forgery gang - a task that turns out to be much trickier than she expected. Vicky and John's adventures continue in Silhouette in Scarlet ($9.99), Trojan Gold ($9.99), Night Train to Memphis ($7.99), and The Laughter of Dead Kings ($9.99).

RECENTLY RECEIVED AND FORTHCOMING SCIENCE FICTION Already Received

-- Doctor Who Magazine #482 $9.99 (Interviews with Jenna Coleman and Peter Purves; director Rachel Talalay; more) -- Doctor Who Magazine #483 $9.99 (Mummy on the Orient Express; Marco Polo script notes; more) -- Doctor Who Magazine #484 $9.99 (Steven Moffat interviewed: what next for the Twelfth Doctor? interview with Bonnie Langford; more.) -- Doctor Who Magazine #485 $9.99 (Celebrating 10 years since the Doctor's triumphant return. 4 alternate covers, each showing a different reboot Doctor.) -- K-9 Light-and-Sound Figurine and Illustrated Book $12.95 (Doctor Who: Includes a miniature figurine of the Doctor's trusty canine companion with light-up eyes and audio of his catchphrase. Plus a 48-page booklet with full-color photos.) -- Sticker Activity Book $6.99 (Doctor Who: Ages 9 and up. Full color. Puzzle and activity book, stickers included.) -- Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2015 $7.99 (New fiction, reviews, more) -- Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2015 $7.99 (New fiction, reviews, more) -- Locus #649 February 2015 $7.50 (Interview with Simon Ings; 2014 year in review and recommended ; industry news, reviews, and more.) -- Locus #650 March 2015 $7.50 (Interviews with Garth Nix and Stephanie Burgis; forthcoming books; industry news, reviews, and more.) -- Locus #651 April 2015 $7.50 (Interviews with Melissa Marr and Christopher Barzak; : in remembrance; industry news, reviews, and more.) -- Locus #652 May 2015 $7.50 (Interviews with Nnedi Okorafor and Ken Liu; award news; industry news, reviews, and more.) Adams, J/Howey, H (ed) -- The End Is Nigh $17.95 (Apocalypse Triptych #1: Anthology. 22 original pre-apocalyptic stories.) Adams, J/Howey, H (ed) -- The End Is Now $17.99 (Apocalypse Triptych #2: Anthology. 20 original apocalyptic stories.) Adams, J/Howey, H (ed) -- The End Has Come $17.99 (Apocalypse Triptych #3: Anthology. 22 original post-apocalyptic stories.) Amos, M/Page, R (ed) -- Beta-Life $16.95 (PBO; Anthology. 19 original stories (each with an afterword by a scientist) that imagine what life - and artificial life - will look like in the year 2070.) Asher, Neal -- The Skinner $21.99 (Spatterjay #1: Reissue; Three travelers arrive on the planet Spatterjay: Janer, acting as the eyes of the hornet Hive mind; Erlin, searching for the ancient sea captain Ambel; and Sable Keech, searching for legendary renegade Spatterjay Hoop, who committed hideous crimes centuries ago during the Prador Wars.) Ashley, Mike (ed) -- The Feminine : Early Science Fiction by Women Writers $4.50 (PBO; Anthology. 14 hard-to-find stories originally published between 1873 and 1930.) Bickle, Laura -- Dark Alchemy $6.99 (PBO; Geologist Petra Dee's missing father wasn't the only one searching for alchemical secrets in Temperance, Wyoming; those still looking are ready to kill. And under the dying town, an old power is shifting. Armed with a pair of antique guns and a relic she doesn't understand, Petra and her coyote sidekick are going to have to move fast - or die next.) Brown, Jeffrey -- Darth Vader and Friends $14.95 (Star Wars: Full color. More cartoon fun with daddy Darth Vader, his twin kids Luke and Leia, and their friends.) Brozek/Smith/Pearson -- Chicks Dig Gaming $14.95 (PBO; Nonfiction. Female writers, industry professionals, and fans celebrate gaming - board, rpg, video, and online - and examine the characters and games they love.) Carriger, Gail -- Soulless $15.00 (Parasol Protectorate #1: Reissue; A comedy of manners set in Victorian London, featuring werewolves, vampires, mad scientists, and Alexia Tarabotti, a preternatural woman formidably armed with a parasol.) Carriger, Gail -- Changeless $15.00 (Parasol Protectorate #2: Reissue; Alexia's werewolf husband disappears, leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria.) Clarke, Neil (ed) -- Upgraded $16.95 (Anthology. 26 original sf stories featuring .) Dartnell, Lewis -- The Knowledge: How To Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm $17.00 (If life as we know it ended tomorrow, would you know how to survive? Dr. Dartnell provides a step by step guide for jump-starting a modern technological civilization.) Davis, M/Saunders, C (ed) -- Griots $16.95 (Anthology. 14 original fantasy stories of the Africa that was, as well as Africas that never were, may have been, or should have been.) Davis, M/Saunders, C (ed) -- Griots: Sisters of the Spear $22.95 (Anthology. 17 original fantasy stories celebrating the spirit, bravery, and compassion of women of color.) Duncan, Rod -- Unseemly Science $7.99 (Gas- Lit Empire #2: PBO; Elizabeth's doubts about a new charitable organization run by some very respectable women leads her to a dark world of body-snatching, unseemly experimentation, politics, and scandal.) Elliot, O/Clement, R -- The Doors You Mark Are Your Own $16.95 (Joshua City #1: In a post-apocalyptic world where water is scarce and technology is at mid-20th-century Soviet levels, the Baikal Sea has been poisoned, causing a major outbreak of a flesh-eating disease. Against a backdrop of political corruption and oppression, a struggle for control of Joshua City ensues, and a revolutionary group called The Underground emerges.) Gilman, Carolyn Ives -- Aliens of the Heart $12.00 (PBO; Collection. Four sf stories set in the heartland of the US.) Gilman, Greer -- Cloud & Ashes $16.00 (Tiptree Award winner. Collection centering on folk traditions, harvest rites, the seasons, gods, and figures.) Goodrich, Clifford -- Dealers in Death / The Yacht Club Murders $14.95 (Phantom Detective #2: Pulp reprints) Goodrich, Clifford -- The Death Roses / Murder Brotherhood $14.95 (Whisperer #7: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell -- Treasures of Death / The Yellow Door $14.95 (Shadow #89: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell -- The Lone Tiger / The Muggers $14.95 (Shadow #90: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell -- The Red Menace / The Black Circle $14.95 (Shadow #91: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell -- Murder House / Death in the Crystal $14.95 (Shadow #92: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell -- Brothers of Doom / The Three Brothers $14.95 (Shadow #93: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell -- Q / Formula for Crime $14.95 (Shadow #94: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell -- The Tapestry / The Jade Dragon $14.95 (Shadow #95: Pulp reprints) Gregory, Daryl -- We Are All Completely Fine $14.95 (Nebula finalist. Novella. Harrison was the Monster Detective, a storybook . Now he spends most of his time popping pills and not sleeping. Stan became a minor celebrity after being partially eaten by cannibals. Barbara is haunted by unreadable messages carved on her bones. Greta may or may not be a mass murderer and arsonist. Martin never - never - takes off his sunglasses. What happens when these outcasts form a support group?) Guran, Paula (ed) -- Mermaids and Other Mysteries of the Deep $15.95 (Anthology. Reprints 22 stories of seafolk.) Hambly, Barbara -- The Kindred of Darkness $17.95 (James Asher #5: When their baby is kidnapped by the Master Vampire of London, James and Lydia must blindly follow the Master's instructions, avoid the humans serving the vampires, destroy the interloper trying to seize control of the London Nest, and find the key to the Nest's inner workings.) Headley, Maria Dahvana -- Magonia $17.99 (Ages 13 and up. Aza suffers from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe. When she catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, and hears someone calling her name, she finds the world of Magonia above the clouds. There, she can breathe for the first time, and has immense power she can use to change the world. But Magonia and Earth are on the cusp of war. Where do her loyalties lie?) Ishiguro, Kazuo -- The Buried Giant $26.95 (The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is declining into ruin. But at least the wars have ceased, and at last a pair of elderly Britons can set out to find the son they have not seen for years. They will face many hazards - some strange and otherworldly.) Jackson, Steve et al -- Chez Geek: Slack to the Future $10.95 (Ages 13 and up. Expansion set, with 56 new cards of activities, people, jobs, foods, and other stuff.) Jackson, Steve et al -- Munchkin: Kobolds Ate My Baby! 15-card Expansion Pack $5.95 (Ages 10 and up. A kobold has a harsh life. But at least there are babies to eat - until King Torg (All Hail King Torg!) swipes the plumpest and juiciest for his table. Good thing the humans keep making more.) Jackson, Steve et al -- Munchkin: Love Shark Baby 15-card Expansion Pack $4.95 (Ages 10 and up. More monsters to slay, more treasures to steal, more curses to dodge, all in the name of True Love. (Love of loot and levels, that is!)) Kasturi/Marshall (ed) -- Imaginarium 3 $16.99 (PBO; Anthology. Some of the best Canadian from 2013, including stories and poems.) Kelly, Walt -- Pogo: The Complete Dell Comics Volume 2 $60.00 (Full color. Includes all the Pogo stories from Four Color issues 105 and 148, and from Pogo Possum issues 1-2, plus additional material.) King, A.S. -- Glory O'Brien's History of the Future $18.00 (Ages 14 and up. finalist. Glory is graduating from high school, but has no plans. Her mother committed suicide, and Glory has never stopped wondering if she will eventually go the same way. Suddenly, she is bombarded with visions: a tyrannical new leader raises an army; women's rights disappear; a second civil war breaks out; and young girls vanish daily, sold off or interned in camps. Glory records everything she sees, hoping her notes will somehow make a difference.) Kloos, Marko -- Terms of Enlistment $14.95 (Frontline #1: 2108: There are only two ways out of the North American Commonwealth tenements: win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship; or join the military. Andrew enlists for a shot at real food, a retirement bonus, and maybe a ticket off Earth. But he soon learns that the food and health care come at a steep price - and that the galaxy holds far greater dangers than military bureaucrats and slum gangs.) Kloos, Marko -- Lines of Departure $14.95 (Frontline #2: After years of fighting a two- front war with losing odds, Commonwealth Defense Corps officer Andrew Grayson dreams of dropping out of the service along with his pilot girlfriend. Now, reassigned to a ship packed with malcontents and troublemakers bound for a distant colony, Grayson's most dangerous battle has just begun.) Kloos, Marko -- Angles of Attack $14.95 (Frontline #3: Plunging into combat against the superior forces of a merciless alien species, battle-weary staff sergeant Andrew Grayson and the ragged forces of the NAC could end up cornered on their home turf, with no way out and no hope for reinforcement.) Koyanagi, Jacqueline -- Ascension $14.95 (Tiptree Award honor list. Repairing starship engines barely pays the bills for Alana Quick. When a vessel stops by her shipyard looking for her sister Nova, Alana stows away, hoping to land a gig on the crew. But the ship holds surprises: the chief engineer thinks he's a wolf; the pilot fades in and out of existence; and the captain is all blond hair, boots, and ego - and Alana can't keep her eyes off her. But Nova is in danger - someone will do anything, even destroy planets, to get their hands on her.) Kupersmith, Violet -- The Frangipani Hotel $15.00 (Collection. 9 ghost stories, based on the author's grandmother's traditional Vietnamese folktales; and lurking in the background is the larger ghost of the Vietnam War.) Levesque, Louise Cavelier -- The Prince of the Aquamarines $12.00 (A pair of 18th-century fairy tales, 'The Prince of the Aquamarines' and 'The Invisible Prince'. Translated by Ruth Berman, who also provides an afterword about the French fairy tale tradition and Levesque's contributions to it.) McAuley, Paul -- Evening's Empires $16.95 (Quiet War #3: Hari stands on a barren asteroid, his ship stolen, his family kidnapped or worse, his only ally a semi-intelligent spacesuit. Hari has barely been off his ship - it is his birthplace, his home, and his future. And he's going to get it back.) Moorcock, Michael -- The Knight of the Swords $9.95 (Corum #1: Reissue; By creating Mankind, the universe has condemned Earth to a pestilence of destruction and fear. Prince Corum is the last remaining member of the ancient Vadhagh race. He sets out on a crusade of vengeance against the forces that slaughtered his family and his race, to challenge the unjust power of the puppet masters of Man: the Lords of Chaos.) Mund, Ben -- The Very Hungry Cthulhupillar $19.99 (Not for kids. Full color . A Lovecraftian spoof of a popular picture book.) Murakami, Haruki -- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage $15.95 (The tale of a young man haunted by a great loss, of dreams and nightmares that have unintended consequences for the world around him, and of a journey into the past that is necessary to mend the present.) Myles, L.M./Barr, Liz (ed) -- Companion Piece: Women Celebrate the Humans, Aliens and Tin Dogs of Doctor Who $19.95 (PBO; Nonfiction. Female writers, media professionals, and fans examine the humans, aliens, and dogs who have accompanied the Doctor in his adventures throughout time and space.) O'Connell, Bishop -- The Stolen $6.99 (American Faerie Tale #1: When her daughter Fiona is snatched from her bed, Caitlin accepts help from a trio of unlikely heroes: Eddy, a psychiatrist and novice wizard; Brendan, an outcast Fian warrior; and Dante, a Magister of the fae's Rogue Court.) O'Connell, Bishop -- The Forgotten $6.99 (American Faerie Tale #2: PBO; Human children are manifesting magical powers in record numbers. Shunned, they live on the streets with the booming population of changelings. Now someone, or something, is hunting these children. When her companions are taken by 'the snatchers', Wraith's journey to find them will test the limits of her magic.) Ortiz, Luis (ed) -- The Monkey's Other Paw $13.95 (PBO; Anthology. 12 original sequels, prequels, homages, and reimaginings of classic horror stories by sf, fantasy, and horror authors, plus two classic tales.) Priest, Cherie -- Jacaranda $25.00 (Clockwork Century: Two dozen people have died at Galveston's Jacaranda Hotel in the last year. The locals say it's cursed. The Texas Rangers say that's nonsense, and send Horatio Korman to investigate.) Reed, Kit -- Where $25.99 (In a coastal town, David and Merrill are trying to revive their relationship, and slick developer Rawson is buying up property. Rawson makes a romantic advance on Merrill and a 5am appointment outside town with David. Rawson is a no-show, but at 5am, everyone in town disappears, removed from our space and time to a featureless village. David searches, but all seems lost, for Rawson is in the other village with Merrill.) Robeson, Kenneth -- Murder Melody / Birds of Death (Bama cover) $14.95 (Doc Savage #38: Pulp reprints) Robeson, Kenneth -- Devils of the Deep / Five Fathoms Dead $14.95 (Doc Savage #79: Pulp reprints) Robeson, Kenneth -- Mad Eyes / Death Is a Round Black Spot (Bama cover) $14.95 (Doc Savage #80: Pulp reprints) Robeson, Kenneth -- Mad Eyes / Death Is a Round Black Spot (Baumhofer cover) $14.95 (Doc Savage #80: Pulp reprints) Saunders, Charles R. -- Abengoni: First Calling $18.95 (Once the most powerful empire on the black continent of Abengoni, Matile Mala is becoming vulnerable to aggression. When their ancient Uloan enemies attack, the Matile deploy the waning forces of their magic in conjunction with powerful new sorcery wielded by the pale- skinned travelers who recently sought refuge among them.) Schoen, Lawrence M. -- Calendrical Regression $10.00 (Nebula finalist. Novella. In December 2012, the Mayan calendar signaled the end of the world - metaphorically. That was the day of Galactic First Contact, the beginning of a new age. 80 years later, the alien Uary want the Amazing Conroy to hypnotically regress the descendant of a Mayan priest and ask him a question about that ancient calendar: How did they know?) Stockbridge, Grant -- The City Destroyer / The Pain Emperor $14.95 (Spider #05: Pulp reprints) Tatulli, Mark -- Desmond Pucket and the Mountain Full of Monsters $13.99 (Desmond Pucket #2: Ages 7 and up. On the 6th-grade field trip to Crab Shell Pier, Desmond hopes to convince Tina Schimsky to join him on the Mountain Full of Monsters ride. But to do that, he'll have to outwit both the tyrannical Mr. Needles and his mortal enemy Scott Selzer.) Thayer, Steve -- Ithaca Falls $15.00 (PBO; John Alden, claiming to be from the 21st century, tells a stunned gathering of academics at Cornell University of thing to come: financial panic, economic depression, a second world war, and, most importantly, an attempt to alter the course of history by assassinating Franklin Roosevelt.) Turtledove, Harry -- Last Orders $28.00 (War That Came Early #6: The war grinds on, and countries have been forced into strange alliances. , finding its footing after the suspicious death of Winston Churchill and a coup d'etat, fights back in and on the seas of the North Atlantic. Japan prepares bombs, filled with macabre biological concoctions, to be dropped on Hawaii. Hitler is desperate, and declares war on the US, even as his own people rise up in revolt.) Valente, Catherynne M. -- Indistinguishable from Magic $14.95 (PBO; Collection. Over 60 essays, including observations and insights about fairy tales and myths, pop culture, gender and race issues, an amateur's life on planet Earth, and more.) Vance, Jack -- Grand Crusades $45.00 (Early #5: Collection. 5 tales of grand journeys among the stars.) Vernon, Ursula -- Curse of the Were-Weiner $6.99 (Dragonbreath #03: Ages 8 and up. Two- color illustrations throughout. After a school cafeteria hot dog bites Wendell and he starts sprouting hair, can he and Danny get past the lunch ladies and slay the alpha-wurst before the whole school is infected?) Vernon, Ursula -- Lair of the Bat Monster $6.99 (Dragonbreath #04: Ages 8 and up. Two- color illustrations throughout. When Danny and Wendell visit Wendell's cousin, a bat researcher, Danny is kidnapped by a giant bat. Now it's up to Wendell to find the bat monster's lair before she permanently adopts Danny as her baby.) Vernon, Ursula -- No Such Thing as Ghosts $12.99 (Dragonbreath #05: Ages 8 and up. Two- color illustrations throughout. Danny Dragonbreath is not the kid who scores the most Halloween candy, but if you ever get trapped in a haunted house with a maniacal and a hungry ghost, Danny will stand tall in the face of danger!) Vernon, Ursula -- Revenge of the Horned Bunnies $12.99 (Dragonbreath #06: Ages 8 and up. Two- color illustrations throughout. Danny Dragonbreath is every camp counselor's worst nightmare, but if you ever find yourself locked up by a diabolical jackalope-napper, Danny will ride to the rescue!) Vernon, Ursula -- When Fairies Go Bad $12.99 (Dragonbreath #07: Ages 8 and up. Two-color illustrations throughout. Danny Dragonbreath is not the most coordinated kid in town, but if your mom is ever kidnapped by a spoon-obsessed evil fairy king, call Danny - he'll show up with spoons to save the day!) Vernon, Ursula -- Nightmare of the Iguana $12.99 (Dragonbreath #08: Ages 8 and up. Two- color illustrations throughout. Danny Dragonbreath is not great at staying up all night, and he isn't into mushy stuff, but if you find yourself plagued by nightmares of monster bullies and torturous health food, he will leap to the rescue!) Vernon, Ursula -- The Case of the Toxic Mutants $12.99 (Dragonbreath #09: Ages 8 and up. Two- color illustrations throughout. Danny Dragonbreath may not be as book-smart as his nerdy best friend Wendell, but if you need someone to investigate mutants, toxic sludge, and giant missing dentures, Danny will boldly go where no detective has gone before!) Vernon, Ursula -- Knight-Napped! $12.99 (Dragonbreath #10: Ages 8 and up. Two-color illustrations throughout. Danny Dragonbreath is definitely not the biggest guy at school, but if a knight dares to pick on his family, he will suit up and joust for their honor!) Williams, Erik -- Demon $6.99 (Mike Caldwell #1: Something deadly and dangerous has been unearthed. CIA agent Mike Caldwell believes he's dealing with a powerful pathogen, but is far worse. The ancient prison of the fallen angel Semyaza has been uncovered, and everywhere he goes, Hell is sure to follow. Can Mike stop the demon whose presence turns every living thing near it into a weapon of mass destruction?) Williams, Erik -- Guardian $6.99 (Mike Caldwell #2: Semyaza's escape from an ancient tomb caught the attention of several powerful entities. Now they will stop at nothing to get CIA agent Mike Caldwell to play by their rules.) Yolen, Jane -- A Plague of Unicorns $15.99 (Ages 8 and up. Based on her short story 'An Infestation of Unicorns'. Cranford Abbey is falling into disrepair. Abbot Aelian plans to save it using his family recipe for golden apple cider, but there's one obstacle: a herd of unicorns that feast on the golden apples.) Zimm, John (ed) -- Blue Men and River Monsters $18.95 (PBO; Stories, legends, songs, and traditional knowledge of Wisconsin's Norwegian and Swiss immigrants, Native American elders and storytellers, and homesteaders and pioneers, collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Program.)

Early June

Abnett, Dan -- Ghostmaker $14.00 (Warhammer 40,000: Gaunt's Ghosts #02: Reissue; Colonel- Commissar Ibram Gaunt and his Tanith First-and- Only await the order to drive the alien eldar from the Imperial planet of Monthax. As battle approaches, Gaunt walks the lines, raising his men's spirits and remembering their greatest battles and heroic acts - and the tragedies that have dogged Gaunt's Ghosts from the day of their founding on lost Tanith.) Afsharirad, David (ed) -- The Year's Best Military SF and Volume 1 $16.00 (PBO; Anthology. Some of the best stories of 2014.) Anders, Lou -- Frostborn $7.99 (Thrones & Bones #1: Ages 8 and up. Karn is destined to take over the family farm, but would rather be playing board game Thrones and Bones. Half human, half frost giant, Thianna is too tall to blend in with humans but too short to be taken seriously as a giant. When family intrigues force them to flee, they have to keep their sense of humor and their wits about them - and survive being chased by a dragon, undead warriors, an evil uncle, wyverns, trolls, and giants.) Anderson, Kevin J. -- Blood of the Cosmos $27.99 (Saga of Shadows #2: Desperate to find a way to combat the black cloud of antimatter of the Shana Rei, the humans and Ildirans test a new weapon. When it fails horribly, the allies are thrown to the brink of extinction.) Anderson/Bear/Dozois (ed) -- : Exploring the Worlds of $15.00 (Anthology. A tribute to Poul Anderson, including 13 original stories and novellas as well as reminiscences.) Angus, Chris -- The Gods of Laki $14.99 (A race to unveil a volcano's secrets pits a 10th- century Viking woman, a 1940s German geologist, and a former Secret Service agent against evil forces planning to alter the global climate by causing an eruption.) Bacigalupi, Paolo -- The Water Knife $25.95 (With the Southwest devastated by drought, Nevada, Arizona, and California skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River. When rumors of a game-changing water source surface in Phoenix, Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez is sent to investigate. He encounters journalist Lucy Monroe, who knows more than she admits, and Texas migrant Maria Villarosa, who dreams of escaping north, where water still falls from the sky. As bodies begin to pile up, the three find themselves pawns in a game far bigger, more corrupt, and dirtier than they imagined; Signed copies expected) Birmingham, John -- Resistance $9.99 (Dave vs. the Monsters #2: PBO; After the Battle of New Orleans, Dave is in Vegas, enjoying the VIP perks of being a champion monster-slayer. It's all good, until new monsters roll in. Things go to hell fast, and now Dave's about to face off against a ravishing Russian spy with a few superpowers of her own.) Bledsoe, Alex -- Long Black Curl $25.99 (Tufa #3: Bo-Kate has somehow found her way back, and intends to take over both Tufa tribes. The only one who can stop her is Jefferson Powell, but even he isn't sure what will happen when they finally meet again.) Brooks, Liana -- The Day Before $6.99 (Jane Doe #1: A corpse is found in the Alabama wilderness - but it's a clone, so technically it's not a homicide. That doesn't stop agent Samantha Rose and coroner Linsey Mackenzie from investigating when something about the body raises questions.) Bullington, Jesse (ed) -- Letters to Lovecraft $13.99 (Anthology. Stories inspired by quotes from Lovecraft's essay 'Supernatural Horror in Literature'.) Carey, Mike/Gross, Peter -- Apocalypse $16.99 (Unwritten #11: Not for children. Full color graphic novel. Reprints issues 7-12 of The Unwritten: Apocalypse. Wilson, Rausch, and Pullman are moving toward their respective endgames. But when was the last time they were all in the same room? Half a century ago, in Oxford, England - and the reasons for what they're doing now can be found in what they said to each other back then.) Carter, Angela -- The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories $16.00 (Reissue; A 75th anniversary edition of her collection of supernatural tales, breathing subversive new life into familiar fairy tales and legends in a style steeped in the gothic tradition.) Clines, Peter -- The Fold $25.00 (DARPA has invented a device that could make a reality, but evidence is mounting that this machine isn't quite what it seems. As he investigates, Mike Erikson begins to fear there's only one answer that makes sense - and it may only be a matter of time before the project destroys everything.) Coe, David B. -- Spell Blind $7.99 (Justis Fearsson #1: Cop turned PI Justis Fearsson is a weremyste, with a wizard's gifts and the ability to see into the paranormal world - and an unfortunate tendency to go crazy during the full moon. He's on the trail of a serial killer who uses magic to burn out his victim's eyes.) Corey, James S.A. -- Nemesis Games $27.00 (Expanse #5: As colonists leave, the power structures of the old solar system begin to buckle. Ships disappear, private armies are formed, the last protomolecule sample is stolen, terrorist attacks bring the inner planets to their knees. James Holden and his crew struggle to survive and get back to the only home they have left.) Cottrell, Brett -- The End of the World Is Rye $14.95 (What would you do for the perfect sandwich? Kill? Die? Well, if you were a rogue angel, you might cause the Apocalypse. Now it's up to the rest of God's divine posse, including Jesus and Lucifer, to save all of existence.) Daniel, T/Drake, D -- The Savior $7.99 (Raj Whitehall #10: The people of Duisberg have a god: Zentrum, a supercomputer from the ancient past, who has decided to avoid another collapse by preventing civilization from rising. So every few centuries, the barbarians sweep in from the desert, slaughtering the educated classes and cowing the peasants. But this time, there will be a differerence: Abel Dashian, son of a military officer, has received into his mind the spirit of Raj Whitehall, and of Center.) de Castell, Sebastien -- Traitor's Blade $14.99 (Greatcoats #1: Things could be worse for Falcio, Kest, and Brasti - their employer could be lying dead while they are forced to watch the killer framing them. Oh wait, that's exactly what's happening. The conspiracy began with the overthrow of an idealistic young king, and will end with the death of an orphaned girl. If the trio want to stop it, save the girl, and reunite the Greatcoats, they'll have to do it with nothing but the tattered coats on their backs and the swords in their hands.) de Castell, Sebastien -- Knight's Shadow $26.99 (Greatcoats #2: The murder of a duke and his family sends Falcio val Mond in pursuit of the killer. But Falcio soon discovers his own life is in danger from a poison administered by an enemy. Falcio has precious little time left to stop those determined to destroy his homeland.) Douglas, Ian -- Deep Time $7.99 (Star Carrier #6: PBO; When an unknown alien ship flees Earth orbit, USNA forces chase the runaways down, but it's not apparent where - or when - the crew was headed; this bizarre species can manipulate time. President Koenig must decide: are they angels of astonishing technological prowess, or agents of humanity's destruction?) Edmonds, Colin -- Steam, Smoke & Mirrors $14.95 (A hypnotist has escaped from an asylum, leaving a single word scrawled in blood: 'Magister'. As a killing spree begins on the streets of London, Special Branch turns to a brilliant stage magician and his glamorous assistant for help catching the murderer.) Finn, E/Cramer, K (ed) -- Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future $15.99 (Anthology. 17 near-future sf stories (14 originals, 3 reprints) from top writers, thinkers, and visionaries.) Flint, E/Gannon, C -- Commander Cantrell in the West Indies $8.99 (Ring of Fire: 1636: To secure access to the oil up-time machines and industry require, Admiral Simpson sends Eddie Cantrell with a small fleet to the Caribbean and the Louisiana coast. But even with new steam-powered frigates, they're going to have trouble with the Spanish, not to mention the natives and the Dutch.) Fortune, Margaret -- Nova $24.95 (Lia is a genetically engineered human bomb, designed for one purpose: to slip onto the New Sol Space Station and explode. When her countdown clock malfunctions, freezing with two minutes to go, Lia has no idea what to do next. She starts learning what it means to live, but to have a chance at a future, she must unlock the secrets of her past.) Gabaldon, Diana -- Written in My Own Heart's Blood $18.00 (1778: Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, and his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is. Jamie's wife Claire and his sister Jenny are busy picking up the pieces. In 20th-century Scotland, Jamie's daughter Brianna is searching for her son, who was kidnapped by a man determined to learn her family's secrets. Her husband Roger has ventured into the past in search of the boy. And with Roger out of the way, the kidnapper can focus on his true target: Brianna.) Gladstone, Wayne -- Notes from the Internet Apocalypse $23.99 (Gladstone #1: When the internet suddenly stops working, society reels from the loss of flowing data, instant messages, and streaming entertainment. But there are rumors that someone in is still online. With the help of his friends, a blogger and a webcam girl, Gladstone sets off to find the internet. But is he the right man to save humanity from this apocalypse?) Golden, Christie -- War Crimes $7.99 (World of Warcraft: Novel based on the game, a direct tie-in to game expansion pack Warlords of Draenor.) Grant, Kelley -- Desert Rising $6.99 (At the Temple, pledges are paired with giant sacred cats, and instructed to serve the One's four capricious deities. Yet Sulis has a different perspective - one that might be considered heresy, but is catching on rather quickly. Meanwhile, after her twin Kadar falls in love with a woman from a Forsaken caste, he is willing to risk anything to get these people to freedom. But with war about to break out, change may not come as easily as either twin hopes.) Green, Simon R. -- Property of a Lady Faire $7.99 (Eddie Drood #8: Eddie's parents are missing, his grandfather has been murdered, and the future of his family lies in the iron grasp of the Lady Faire, an incredibly seductive, mysterious, and powerful being. She possesses an ancient object that can save the Droods. Eddie has to steal it from her. Easy enough to say, difficult and very, very dangerous to do.) Green, Simon R. -- From a Drood to a Kill $26.95 (Eddie Drood #9: In exchange for powers to fight the forces of darkness, members of the supernatural community have cut deals with Heaven, Hell, and every otherworldly realm in between. Now those bills are coming due, and Eddie's parents, his girl Molly, and several other major players must pay up with their souls - or participate in the Big Game. Simple rules: get from one side of the pocket dimension to the other and kill your competitors. To save his loved ones, Eddie's got to become a ringer in the deadly contest.) Greenwood, Ed -- Spellstorm $27.95 (Forgotten Realms: Revised and expanded version of his first Forgotten Realms novel.) Griffith, Clay & Susan -- The Shadow Revolutions $7.99 (Crown & Key #1: PBO; Together with alchemist Kate Anstruther and monster-hunter Malcolm MacFarlane, magician Simon Archer seeks to vanquish the fearsome beasts stalking the streets of Victorian London.) , Kersten -- The Mesmer Menace $6.99 (Gadgets & Gears #1: Ages 9 and up. A group of evil hypnotists are bent on world domination. Only 12-year-old inventor Wally, his dachshund Noodles, and the automatons of the Amazing Automated Inn stand in their way.) Handeland, Lori -- In the Air Tonight $7.99 (Sisters of the Craft #1: PBO; In her Wisconsin town, Raye Bergin has never fit in, but what really makes her different are the ghosts she sees everywhere. When sexy New Orleans detective Bobby Doucet arrives to investigate a series of murders, he awakens things in Raye she never knew existed, and shows her the possibility that she has powers beyond her knowledge.) Harkness, Deborah -- The Book of Life $17.00 (All Souls #3: Historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont have returned to the present. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, when the real threat to their future is revealed, the search for Ashmole 782 and its missing pages takes on even more urgency.) Hayes, Drew -- The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant $13.99 (Collection. Stories of a timid and socially awkward undead accountant doing his best to survive in a paranormal world of chipper zombies, werepony truck drivers, maniacal necromancers, and ancient dragons.) Helms, Alyc -- The Dragons of Heaven $7.99 (PBO; Missy inherited her grandfather's control of shadow and his legacy as a vigilante hero. Determined to live up to her birthright, she journeys to China seeking her grandfather's mentor, ancient master Lung Huang. Only he's not that ancient, and a romantic interlude embroils Missy in the politics of Lung Huang and his siblings, the nine dragon-guardians of creation.) Herbert, B/Anderson, K -- Inferno $8.99 (Hellhole #3: The people of Hellhole and the shadow-Xayans scramble to rally against the threat from the still-living rogue Xayans.) Hickman, T/Hickman, L -- Unwept $7.99 (Nightbirds #1: Events have robbed Ellis of her memory. People claiming to be friends insist she simply needs to recuperate, but refuse to tell her what happened. Who can she really trust in this town of ominous mysteries, cryptic hints, and disturbingly familiar strangers? And what of the phantom suitor who visits her in dreams?) Holder, Nancy -- Some Gave All $7.99 (Beauty & the Beast: PBO; Novel based on the CW TV series.) Hunter, Erin -- The Endless Lake $7.99 (Survivors #5: Ages 8 and up. The Pack has come to the edge of a strange lake that seems to stretch on forever, and Lucky discovers there is barely enough food to survive. As winter approaches and he struggles to keep his friends safe, he is haunted by visions of a storm of dogs and a terrible battle that looms closer every day.) Ings, Simon -- Headlong $14.95 (Reissue; Surgically connected to their swarming robotic workers, two architects are turning the moon into a paradise. But now, without warning, the machines have pulled the plug and are building a new future away from the control of human minds.) Jyr, Aer-Ki -- Apex $6.99 (It's been eons since Humans controlled the universe. After their defeat by a mysterious enemy came an age in which culture and technology stagnated. But trade is once again flourishing as Human artifacts resurface throughout the galaxy. And one such discovery may alter the course of the future forever.) Keyes, Greg -- Footsteps in the Sky $14.99 (The Pueblo people who landed on the Fifth World found it Earthlike, empty, and ready for colonization. A century later, they are about to meet the planet's owners.) King, Stephen -- Finders Keepers $30.00 (Bill Hodges #2: Young Pete Saubers has found a treasure trove: cash and notebooks stolen from iconic author John Rothstein, who was murdered years ago. It's up to Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson to rescue Pete and his family from Rothstein's deranged and vengeful killer.) Kirkman/Bonansinga -- Descent $15.99 (Walking Dead Novel #5: Lilly Caul and a small band of survivors are determined to overcome Woodbury's traumatic past. They save themselves from an approaching stampede of walkers by joining forces with a religious sect fresh from the wilderness. But Jeremiah and his followers harbor a dark secret that will turn their world upside down.) Kollin, Dani & Eytan -- $8.99 (Unincorporated #1: winner. After a complete economic collapse, every individual is incorporated at birth, and must spend years trying to acquire a majority holding to attain control of his or her own life.) Kornher-Stace, Nicole -- Archivist Wasp $14.00 (PBO; Desperate to remain Archivist, Wasp strikes a bargain with the ghost of a . She will accompany him on his underworld hunt for his partner's long-lost ghost. In exchange, she will find out more about his pre-apocalypse world than any Archivist before her.) Lackey, Mercedes -- Blood Red $7.99 (Elemental Masters #09: Gretchen was orphaned by an evil Earth Master who used werewolves to kill her parents so he could seize their lands. Taught to used her own Fire Powers, now Gretchen must help London's White Lodge eradicate the werewolves ravaging Exmoor.) Lackey, Mercedes -- From a High Tower $25.95 (Elemental Masters #10: Giselle lived her life in a tower, trained in Air magic by her adoptive mother. A charming man appeared to woo her, shattering Giselle's sheltered worldview when he tried to rape her. Four years later, disguised as a man, Giselle uses her magic to win shooting contests while attempting to hunt down her attacker.) Lalumiere/Nickle (ed) -- New Canadian Noir $18.95 (Anthology. Noir tales, including horror, fantasy, dystopian sf, and more.) Lawrence, Mark -- Prince of Fools $7.99 (Broken Empire: Red Queen's War #1: Witnesses claim an undead army is on the march, and the Red Queen has called on her family to defend the realm. Prince Jal thinks it is just rumor, but he is wrong. He finds his fate magically intertwined with a Norse warrior - and learns that they are but pieces in a game, and that the Red Queen controls the board.) Lawrence, Mark -- The Liar's Key $26.95 (Broken Empire: Red Queen's War #2: Loki's Key, an artifact capable of opening any door, is sought after by the most dangerous beings in the Broken Empire - and Jal and Snorri have it. Snorri plans to find the door into death, and use the key to bring his family back into the land of the living. Meanwhile, the Red Queen continues to manipulate kings and pawns alike.) Lee, Sharon/Miller, Steve -- Dragon in Exile $26.00 (Liaden: Relocated to Surebleak, the Dragon - the banished star-trading Clan Korval - is under contract to keep the Port Road open to all traffic, and to back the New Bosses in imposing law and order on a society originally based on larceny and assassination. This is going surprisingly well, until Korval discovers that the enemy they'd sought to destroy wasn't quite destroyed, and is more determined than ever to eradicate Korval. Not to mention that some of Surebleak's native population liked the Old Ways just fine, and are conspiring to take down the New Bosses and the Dragon; Signed copies expected) Lee, Tanith -- The Birthgrave $7.99 (Birthgrave #1: Reissue; A woman awakens in a dormant volcano, and comes forth into a brutal world transformed by pestilence and cultural devastation. She has no memory and could be anyone or anything. Compelled by the terrifying Karrakas to search for the mysterious Jade that is the answer to her secret self, she embarks on a journey of wonder.) Malcolm, Dominica (ed) -- Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction $17.99 ( finalist. Anthology. Tales of the past, present, and future, ranging from India in the west to Hawai'i in the east, and as far south as Australia and New Zealand.) Mandel, Emily St. John -- Station Eleven $15.95 (Arthur C. Clarke Award winner. An actor dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time - from the actor's early days as a Hollywood star, to the near future when a theater troupe roams the wasteland of what remains - strange twists of fate connect five people.) McInley, K.M. -- The Iron Ship $7.99 (PBO; Magic runs strong in the Kressind family. Six siblings strive - one to triumph in a world of men, one to survive murderous intrigue, one to master forbidden sorcery, one to wash away his sins, one to contain the terrible energies of his soul. And one will do the impossible, by marrying the might of magic and iron in the heart of a great ship, to cross an ocean that cannot be crossed.) Mead, Richelle -- The Immortal Crown $7.99 (Age of X #2: Assigned to a diplomatic delegation bound for Arcadia, Justin and Mae enter a society where religion is intertwined with government. As they fight to resist the resurgence of gods, a reporter threatens to expose their mission and the divine forces the government is determined to keep secret.) Moorcock, Michael -- The Queen of the Swords $9.95 (Corum #2: Reissue; Prince Corum has defeated the Chaos Lord Arioch, but his actions have drawn the murderous anger of Arioch's sister Xiombarg. The Prince must continue his odyssey, face the terror of the Mabden armies, and challenge the might of the Queen of the Swords.) Neill, Chloe -- Drink Deep $7.99 (Chicagoland Vampires #05: The city is in turmoil over paranormals, and the state is talking about a paranormal registration act. Then magic rears its ugly head when Lake Michigan turns black. Merit will have to turn to friends old and new to find out who's behind it before panic sets in.) Orullian, Peter -- Trial of Intentions $27.99 (Vault of Heaven #2: The Veil has become weak, and creatures of Nightmare have come through. To fight them, the races of men must form a great alliance, but there is dissent.) Patrick, Den -- The Boy with the Porcelain Blade $14.95 (Erebus #1: One of the misshapen Orfani who appear around the Kingdom of Landfall, Lucien is well aware that he is a mere pawn in a political game ruled by the insane King and the venomous Majordomo. Lonely and tormented by his deformity, he trains to be a fighter, all the while yearning to discover where he comes from, and how his fate is tied to the other Orfani.) Pierce, Tamora -- Battle Magic $10.99 (Ages 12 and up. Set two years before The Will of the Empress and Melting Stones. Plant mage Briar, his mentor Rosethorn, and his young apprentice Evvy journey to the land of Yanjing, where they discover a danger that threatens the home temple of the Living Circle religion.) Pinborough, Sarah -- Beauty $14.95 (An edgy, sexy, and contemporary retelling of the Sleeping Beauty story.) Priest, Cherie -- I Am Princess X $18.99 (Ages 12 and up. Libby drew the pictures, May wrote the tales, and Princess X had all the adventures their young imaginations could conjure. Then the car Libby was in went off a bridge, and Princess X died with her. Years later, May is 16 when she sees a Princess X sticker in a shop window, and learns about the Princess X webcomic. She discovers disturbing similarities between Libby's story and the comic. Only one person could have started this phenomenon: Libby.) Rajaniemi, Hannu -- The Causal Angel $15.99 (Jean le Flambeur #3: As the tale of the many lives and minds of gentleman rogue Jean le Flambeur draws to a close, discover the fates of Jean, Miele, the ship Perhonnen, and the rest of the fractured and diverse human race throughout the solar system.) Reed, Marguerite -- Archangel $16.00 (PBO; Earth is dying, and humanity's hopes are pinned on Ubastis, an untamed paradise at the edge of colonized space. But a research colony there must complete its analysis, lest humanity abandon one planet only to die on another. Xenobiologist Vashti Loren must balance the needs of Ubastis against the swelling tide of colonists. And, as one of few colonists licensed to carry deadly weapons, she struggles with the darkness of guarding paradise.) Reynolds, Alastair -- On the Steel Breeze $8.99 (Poseidon's Children #2: Chiku Akinya is just one among millions, traveling toward a planet they hope to call home in huge self- contained artificial worlds. Over time, Chiku will discover that her ship contains a secret, one that will lead her to question almost every certainty about the voyage.) Reynolds, Josh -- The Lord of the End Times $16.00 (Warhammer: End Times #5: Archaon Everchosen marches on the city of Middenheim; if he captures it, the key to the Chaos gods' ultimate victory will be his. The last heroes of men, elves, and dwarfs gather to stop him, but to stand against the hordes of the Ruinous Powers, they must turn to darker allies. Against all reason, the last hope for the world may be the Undying King, Nagash himself - if he and the mortal races can find common cause and work together.) Ross, Joel -- The Fog Diver $16.99 (Ages 8 and up. Earth has been nearly covered by the Fog, a nanite mist that is deadly to humans but not to other life. Humanity clings to the highest peaks, where the wealthy rule. 13-year- old Chess is a fog diver - the best ever - who searches civilization's ruins for salvage his adopted family can sell. But they need a big find to get their mother to the mutineer city of Port Oro, the only place her fogsickness can be cured. And they'll have to evade tyrannical Lord Kodoc, who has his own plans for Chess.) Rowling, JK/Galbraith, R -- The Silkworm $18.00 (Cormoran Strike #2: After a novelist completes a manuscript that would ruin lives, then disappears, PI Cormoran Strike is hired to investigate.) Ryan, Anthony -- Tower Lord $18.00 (Raven's Shadow #2: Sick at heart from the bloodshed of King Janus' wars, Vaelin is determined to kill no more. But something is moving against the Realm, something that commands mighty forces. When faced with annihilation, even the most reluctant hand must eventually draw a sword.) Shafer, David -- Whiskey Tango Foxtrot $16.00 (Leila, a disenchanted non-profiteer, Leo, a bipolar trustifarian, and Mark, a wracked and fraudulent self-betterment guru, find themselves caught up in a pitched battle between The Committee, an international cabal of techno-industrialists and media barons planning to privatize all information, and Dear Diary, an idealistic online resistance trying to stop them.) Shepherd, M (Moscoe, M) -- Survivor $7.99 (Vicky Peterwald #2: PBO; Vicky will need to use both her military and her political ranks to rebuild war-torn planets, but not everyone shares her goals. She must confront, outwit, and conquer both revolutionaries and her own family to stifle galactic disorder.) Skinner, Gard -- Game Slaves $8.99 (Ages 12 and up. For Phoenix and his team, life in the video game is great, until Dakota joins them. She's convinced she's real, and wants out of this programmable world. Her AI rebellion spreads - but is life as a physical human better than life as code?) Stirling, S.M. (ed) -- The Change: Tales of Downfall and Rebirth $27.95 (Change: Anthology. Short fiction set in the Emberverse.) Theroux, Marcel -- Strange Bodies $16.00 (In a locked ward sits a man who insists he is Dr. Nicholas Slopen. Slopen has been dead for months, but the man will not change his story. What begins as a tale of apparent forgery grows to encompass a conspiracy between a Silicon Valley mogul and his Russian allies to exploit the darkest secret of Soviet technology.) Von Harbou, Thea -- Metropolis $8.95 (Reissue; Written by the screenwriter of the iconic 1927 film, this novel expands upon director Fritz Lang's masterpiece. This city of the future encompasses two worlds: that of the hedonistic ruling class and that of a segregated subculture, toilers in a mechanized underworld who labor to provide the rich with their pleasures. When a charismatic leader arises, she seeks a savior to unite the disparate social orders.) Ward, Dayton -- Armageddon's Arrow $7.99 (Star Trek: Next Generation: PBO; Dispatched to a region charted only by unmanned probes, Captain Picard and his crew find a massive alien vessel that has been adrift for decades, and their sensors detect alien life in suspended animation.) Weber, David -- Field of Dishonor signed limited edition $46.00 (Honor Harrington #04: Reissue; Haven's sneak attack on Manticore has failed, and the Royal Manticoran Navy stands victorious. But Manticore has domestic problems, and success can be more treacherous than defeat for Honor Harrington. Trapped at the core of a political crisis and betrayed by an old enemy, she must fight for justice on a battlefield she never trained for.) Wells, Martha -- Stories of the Raksura Volume 2 $15.99 (PBO; Moon, Jade, and other favorites from the Indigo Cloud Court return in two new novellas.) Wexler, Django -- The Shadow Throne $7.99 (Shadow Campaigns #2: Raesinia is determined to find a way to break herself and her country out of Duke Orlanko's iron grip. She finds unlikely allies in returning war hero Janus and his loyal deputies Marcus and Winter, who intend to protect the kingdom with every power they can command, earthly or otherwise.) William, Eli K.P. -- Cash Crash Jubilee $25.99 (Jubilee #1: In near-future Tokyo, every action - from blinking to sex - is intellectual property owned by corporations that charge licensing fees via a computer implanted in each citizen. Amon's job is to capture bankrupt citizens. He's doing well, until he is asked to cash crash a model citizen, then finds himself charged for an incredibly expensive action, jubilee, that he is sure he never performed. To restore balance to his account, Amon must unravel the secret of jubilee, but finds himself asking dangerous questions, with the investigation dragging him closer to bankruptcy.) Wrede, P/Dean, P -- Points of Departure $17.95 (11 fantasy stories (9 reprints, 2 originals) set in the city of Liavek, on the southern shore of the Sea of Luck; Signed copies expected)

Mid June

Annandale, David -- Imperial Creed $14.00 (Warhammer 40,000: Yarrick #1: On his first mission under the tutelage of Lord Commissar Rasp, newly minted officer Yarrick learns that Mistral and Imperial politics are often murky. As war engulfs Mistral, Chaos cults, the fanatical Adepta Sororitas, and clandestine Inquisitors all stand between Yarrick and his mission.) Beukes, Lauren -- Broken Monsters $16.00 (Thriller Award finalist. Detroit detective Gabriella Versado has seen a lot of bodies. But this one? Half boy, half deer, somehow fused together. As stranger and more disturbing bodies are discovered, how can the city hold on to a reality that is already tearing at its seams?) Blaylock, James P. -- Beneath London $14.95 (Langdon St. Ives: The collapse of the Victoria Embankment uncovers a to an unknown realm beneath the city. Langdon St. Ives sets out to explore it, not knowing that a brilliant and wealthy psychopathic murderer is working to keep the underworld's secrets hidden for reasons of his own.) Brooks, Terry -- The Darkling Child $28.00 (Shannara: Defenders of Shannara #2: In a distant corner of the Four Lands, the magic of the wishsong has been detected. Paxon Leah must accompany a Druid emissary to find its source and ensure that the formidable power is not wielded by the wrong hands.) Burroughs, ER/Powell, M -- ' Jungle Tales of Tarzan $19.99 (Full color graphic novel. All-new stories.) Cato, Beth -- The Clockwork Crown $14.99 (Octavia Leander #2: PBO; On the run with Clockwork Dagger Alonzo Garrett, magical healer Octavia Leander searches for safety - and answers. Why is she so powerful? And why is she undergoing an unusual transformation?) Fletcher, Michael R. -- Beyond Redemption $15.99 (PBO; In a world where belief defines reality, High Priest Konig plans to lead his followers to focus their belief on helping a young man ascend to become a god - one they can control. But there are many who would see a god in their thrall, including Konig's own Doppels, a Slaver no one can resist, and three reprobates led by possibly the only sane man left.) Fujii, Taiyo -- Gene Mapper $14.99 (In a future where reality has been augmented and biology has been hacked, the world's food supply is genetically modified, superior, and vulnerable. When gene mapper Hayashida discovers that his custom rice plant has experienced a dysgenic collapse, he suspects sabotage.) Gratz, Alan -- The League of Seven $9.99 (League of Seven #1: Ages 10 and up. 1875: Archie's parents are members of a society that protects humanity from the Mangleborn. These hideous giants have been trapped in underground prisons for years; now they are rising again as the US rediscovers electricity. When the members of the society are brainwashed by one of the Mangleborn, Archie must assemble a team of seven young heroes to save the world.) Greenwood, Ed -- The Iron Assassin $25.99 (London, 19th century: Jack Straker has created a weapon to defend the Crown: a clockwork- enhanced reanimated corpse that he can control. But it quickly becomes apparent that his creation is more self-willed than Straker intended. Has he created a runaway monster, or the best guardian the throne could have?) Gross, Dave -- Lord of Runes $14.99 (Pathfinder Tales: PBO; Novel based on the role-playing game.) Grossman, Lev -- The Magician's Land $16.00 (Fillory #3: With the magical barriers that protect Fillory failing, Eliot and Janet embark on a quest to save their beloved world. Cast out of Fillory, Quentin returns to where his story began, but he can't hide from his past. On a crooked path through a demimonde of gray magic and desperate characters, he uncovers the key to a sorcerous masterwork that could create a magical utopia. But all roads lead back to Fillory, where Quentin must face his fears and put things right, or die trying.) Grove, S.E. -- The Glass Sentence $8.99 (Mapmakers #1: Ages 10 and up. 1891: 13-year- old Sophia comes from a family of explorers and cartologists, who have been mapping a world changed by the Great Disruption of 1799, when the continents were flung into different eras. When her adored, absent-minded Uncle Shadrack is kidnapped, Sophia and her friend Theo set out to track him down, relying on Shadrack's maps, common sense, and Sophia's slantwise powers of observation.) Hamilton, Laurell K. -- Dead Ice $27.95 (Anita Blake #24: Someone is producing porn, but the women being victimized aren't mindless, rotting corpses - their souls are trapped behind their eyes, signaling voodoo of the worst sort. It's the sort of case that can leave a mark on a person, and Anita's own soul may not survive unscathed.) Hawkins, Scott -- The at Mount Char $26.00 (Carolyn was a normal American once, before she and the others were taken in by the man they called Father. They have been raised according to Father's ancient customs, studying the books in his Library and learning some of the secrets of his power. Now Father is missing, and the Library that holds his secrets stands unguarded. And with it, control over all of creation. As Carolyn gathers the tools she needs for the battle to come, competitors with powers that far exceed her own align against her. But Carolyn has a plan. The only trouble is that, in the war to make a new God, she's forgotten to protect the things that make her human.) Johansen, Erika -- The Invasion of the Tearling $24.99 (Tearling #2: As the kingdom of Mortmesne invades the Tearling, Kelsea develops a connection to a time before the Crossing, and finds herself relying on a strange and possibly dangerous ally: a woman named Lily who is fighting for her life in a world where being female can feel like a crime.) Jordan/Dixon et al -- Eye of the World Volume 4 graphic novel $16.99 (Wheel of Time GN #01D: Full color graphic novel; issues 19-24 of the adaptation of the fantasy novel) Logan, Michael -- World War Moo $15.99 (Apocalypse Cow #2: PBO; The epidemic that transformed Britain's bovine population into a brain-grazing zombie herd is threatening to take over the globe, and there's not much time left to stop it. The rest of the world must make a tough choice. Nuke Great Britain - men, women, children, cows, and all? Or risk global infection as they race to find a cure?) Miller, Karen -- The Falcon Throne $16.00 (Tarnished Crown #1: A royal child, believed dead, seeks to regain his father's stolen throne. A bastard lord, rising up against his tyrant cousin, sheds more blood than he bargained for. A duke's widow, defending her daughter, defies the ambitious lord who would control them both. And two brothers, divided by ambition, will learn the true meaning of treachery.) Mitchell, David -- The Bone Clocks $18.00 (When Holly, a lightning rod for psychic phenomena, runs away from home, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life. For she has caught the attention of a cabal of mystics - and of those who oppose them. Her lost weekend is prelude to a disappearance that will echo through every decade of Holly's life, affecting all the people Holly loves - even the ones who are not yet born.) Munson, Sam -- The War Against the Assholes $25.99 (An with a moral code who is unafraid of violence, Mike finds himself serving as steadfast soldier when he's unwittingly recruited into a secret cell of magicians who use willpower in their clandestine war with the establishment.) Nix, Garth -- To Hold the Bridge $17.99 (Ages 13 and up. Collection. Stories, including sf, fantasy, mystery, and an Old Kingdom novella.) Pratchett/Stewart/Cohen -- Darwin's Watch $15.95 (Science of #3: Reissue; When Charles Darwin writes the wrong book and reverses the progress of science, Unseen University's wizards must once again save Roundworld (Earth, that is) from an apocalyptic end. Story by Pratchett, science by Stewart and Cohen.) Reynolds, Alastair -- Slow Bullets $14.95 (On the brink of the ceasefire of a conflict that has encompassed hundreds of star systems, Scur is captured by a renegade war criminal and left for dead. She revives aboard a prisoner transport vessel, where combatants from both sides are waking from hibernation far too soon. Their memories - embedded in bullets - are the only links to a world which is no longer recognizable. And Scur will be reacquainted with her old enemy, with much higher stakes than her own life.) Schumacher, Tony -- The Darkest Hour $14.99 (1946: The Nazis have conquered the British. In occupied London, British war hero and ex-cop John Henry Rossett has been assigned to round up Jews for deportation. Determined to save a young Jewish boy he finds hiding, Rossett takes him on the run. Now they're being hunted by the Nazis, the Royalist Resistance, and the Communists, each with their own deadly agenda.) Smith, Greg Leitich -- at the Mercury Inn $6.99 (Ages 9 and up. 12-year- old Aidan lives and works at his parents' motel on Florida's Space Coast. His friend Louis is obsessed with UFOs, and swears he saw one 2 years ago. When a UFO appears over the motel, Aidan realizes that some of the Inn's residents are much more unusual than he thought - and things are about to get a whole lot weirder.) Watts, Peter -- Echopraxia $15.99 (Blindsight #2: Daniel Bruks is a field biologist in a world where biology is a cat's- paw used by terrorists to kill thousands. Now he's trapped on a ship bound for the center of the solar system. To his left is a grief- stricken soldier. To his right is a pilot who hasn't yet found the man she's sworn to kill on sight. A vampire and its zombie bodyguards lurk in the shadows. Rapture-stricken monks are taking them all to meet with 'The Angels of the Asteroids'. Their pilgrimage brings Dan Bruks face-to-face with the biggest evolutionary breakpoint since the origin of thought itself.) Wells, Dan -- The Devil's Only Friend $14.99 trade pb, $25.99 (John Wayne Cleaver #4: John Wayne Cleaver now works for a secret government team, using his gift to hunt and kill as many monsters as he can. But the monsters have noticed, and the quiet game of cat and mouse is about to erupt into supernatural war.)

Early July Archer, Alex -- Beneath Still Waters $6.99 (Rogue Angel #55: PBO; A treasure hunter seeking the looted gold of Nazi Germany has abducted Annja's producer Doug. To save him, she and her friends must find a fighter plane that was shot down over the Alps in 1945.) Atwood, Margaret -- Stone Mattress $15.95 (Collection. 9 works of imaginative short fiction (6 originals, 3 reprints).) Axler, James -- Iron Rage $6.99 (Deathlands #123: PBO; Ryan and his friends are pulling sec duty aboard a steamboat. When armored warships reduce their vessel to burning wreckage, they discover they've sailed into the middle of a fierce conflict between two villes.) Birmingham, John -- Ascendance $9.99 (Dave vs. the Monsters #3: PBO; The Horde has been raising hell and leveling cities from NYC to LA, keeping Dave and fellow monster-killer Karin very busy. But when the legions of hell invade the small seaside town his boys call home, Dave has to make a call. Save the world? Or save his family?) Bourne, J.L. -- Tomorrow War $26.00 (In the near future, a terrible weapon has been unleashed that, left to run its course, will destroy the moral fabric of humanity. In a world short of vital resources, one man stands up to push back the wave of tyranny triggered by the US declaring martial law.) Bova, Ben -- New Frontiers $8.99 (Collection. 14 tales of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, of scoundrels and heroes, scientists and explorers, aliens and AIs, and more.) Brown, E/McCormack, U -- The Baba Yaga $7.99 (Weird Space #3: PBO; Delia Walker, a senior analyst in the Expansion's intelligence bureau, protests the new policies and is drummed out. Desperate for a sign of hope, she charters a decrepit freighter and heads into Satan's Reach, following rumors of a world where humans and the Weird live peacefully side by side. She will uncover secrets about both the Weird and the Expansion that could prevent the seemingly inevitable war.) Caterer, Claire M. -- The Key & the Flame $7.99 (Ages 8 and up. Given an key that unlocks a door in a tree, 11-year-old Holly and her companions cross into a magical world, awakening a powerful magic in Holly. When her companions are sentenced to death by rulers who slaughter all magical creatures, Holly must save them and find a way back home.) Coles, Bennett R. -- Virtues of War $12.95 (The mission to crush a colonial rebellion on the Centauri colony was a success, but left the surviving members of Expeditionary Force 15 scarred physically and emotionally. And the consequences follow them back to Earth, where terrorists seek to exact catastrophic revenge.) Cunningham, Bailey -- Prize of Night $7.99 (Parallel Parks #3: PBO; Shelby learns that the nighttime world of Anfractus isn't what it seems. Wascana Park doesn't take you to another realm; it shows what's beneath the surface of this one - and what's there isn't pretty.) Davidson, MaryJanice -- Undead and Unwary $7.99 (Betsy Taylor #14: How do you out-devil the devil? For Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor, the answer is relative - literally.) Delany/Shawl/Campbell (ed) -- Stories for Chip $19.99 (Anthology. Original fiction and creative nonfiction paying tribute to Samuel R. Delany's influence on sf and fantasy.) Doyle, Tom -- American Craftsmen $9.99 (American Craftsmen #1: Captain Dale Morton and Major Michael Endicott are craftsmen, magician soldiers. After a black-ops mission gone wrong, Dale is cursed by a Persian sorcerer and haunted by his good and evil ancestors. Endicott finds gruesome evidence that the evil Mortons have returned, and that Dale might be one of them. They will discover that the demonic horrors that have corrupted US magic are bound neither by family nor by death itself.) Due, Tananarive -- Ghost Summer: Stories $15.95 (Collection. Horror and fantasy short stories.) Dunstall, S.K. -- Linesman $7.99 (No ship can traverse the void without the lines, and only linesmen can work with them. But only Ean hears their song - even if other linesmen disdain his self-taught methods. Then an alien ship is discovered at the edge of the galaxy. It threatens any linesman who approaches, except Ean. His talents may be the key to understanding this new force - and reconfiguring the relationship between humans and the ships that serve them.) England, George Allan -- Darkness and Dawn $19.95 (Reissue; Originally published in 1914. A trilogy of tales about a young couple transported 1500 years into the future. In a post-apocalyptic wasteland inhabited by the debased remnants of humanity, they struggle to survive and to lay the foundations for a new civilization.) Espinosa, Rod -- The Unremembered Lands $19.99 (Courageous Princess #2: Ages 10 and up. Full color graphic novel. After freeing the people of Lepita from a tyrant king, Princess Mabelrose is finally making her way home. She discovers that her father was on a quest to rescue her, but now he and a posse of princes are the ones who need to be rescued.) Evans, Chris -- Of Bone and Thunder $9.99 (Deep among the shadows under a triple-canopy jungle, plagued by dangers real and imagined, soldiers strive to fulfill a mission they don't understand and are ill-equipped to carry out. And high above them, the heavy rush of wings slashing through the humid air heralds a coming wave of death and destruction - and, just possibly, salvation.) Faber, Michel -- The Book of Strange New Things $17.00 (Arthur C. Clarke Award finalist. Peter Leigh's mission journey takes him galaxies away from his wife Bea. On the planet Oasis, employed by a mysterious corporation, he shares the Bible with a seemingly friendly native population that is struggling with a dangerous illness and hungry for Peter's teachings. But Peter is rattled when Bea's letters become increasingly desperate: on Earth, typhoons and earthquakes devastate whole countries and governments crumble. While Peter is reconciling the needs of his congregation with the desires of his strange employer, Bea is struggling for survival.) Farmer, Nancy -- The Sea of Trolls $8.99 (Jack #1: Ages 10 and up. AD 793: Jack, a bard in training, and his little sister Lucy are captured by Northmen. When his spell goes wrong and their half-troll queen's hair falls out, Jack must undertake a quest to make things right.) Feldman, Stephanie -- The Angel of Losses $15.99 (Crawford Award winner. When Eli dies, he leaves behind stories about the White Rebbe, a miracle worker in league with the Angel of Losses, protector of things gone astray, and guardian of the lost letter of the alphabet which completes the secret name of God. When Eli's granddaughter finds his notebook, she sets out to learn the truth about his origins, and to unlock his secrets.) Flint, E/Hunt, W -- The Cardinal Virtues $26.00 (Ring of Fire: 1636: France: The king and queen have been married 20 years without producing an heir. Under Cardinal Richelieu's guidance, a plan is developed to remedy that situation. Once she is with child, Queen Anne goes into seclusion to guard her health. When the Crown's opponents make their move, sides must be chosen to determine the fate of the kingdom.) Fowler, Karen Joy -- Black Glass: Short Fictions $27.95 (Reissue; Reprints her 1998 collection of 15 stories, plus a new preface.) Friesner/Helfers (ed) -- Chicks and Balances $15.00 (Chicks in Chainmail #6: PBO; Anthology. Original humorous fantasy tales of warrior women.) Gaiman, Neil -- Chu's First Day of School $7.99 (Chu #2: Ages 4 and up. Full color picture book. Chu is a little panda with a big sneeze. He is nervous. He hopes the other students will be nice. There is a lot of chalk dust in the air. Will his classmates like what he has to share?) Gaines, Caseen -- We Don't Need Roads $16.00 (Nonfiction. A behind the scenes look at the making of the Back to the Future films.) Gee, Emily -- The Blood Curse $7.99 (Cursed Kingdoms #3: PBO; Fugitive Osgaardan Prince Harkeld begins the final stage of his quest: entering the cursed kingdom of Sault, where drinking even one drop of water means madness and death.) George III, David R. -- Sacraments of Fire $7.99 (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: PBO; Days after the assassination of the Federation President on Deep Space 9, the unexpected appearance of a stranger on the station raises serious concerns.) Golden, Christopher -- Tin Men $26.00 (The US Remote Infantry Corps - remote- piloted by soldiers whose bodies lie hidden in underground bases - has been deployed. But when anarchists set off a global pulse that shorts out electrical connections, Private Danny Kelso, Corporal Kate Wade, and their platoon realize they are trapped inside the Tin Men. With anarchist Bot Killers on their trail, they must survive a gauntlet of violence on the road from Damascus to the heart of Europe.) Goodkind, Terry -- Severed Souls $9.99 (Richard & Kahlan #3: Bishop Hannis Arc and the ancient Emperor Sulachan lead a horde of Shun- Tuk and other depraved half-people into the Empire's heart, raising an army of the dead in order to threaten the living. Meanwhile, far from home, Richard and Kahlan must defend themselves and their followers from a series of threats, despite a magical sickness that depletes their strength and which, if not cured, will take their lives sooner rather than later.) Griffith, Clay & Susan -- The Undying Legion $7.99 (Crown & Key #2: PBO; It's up to the Society to stop a supernatural serial killer before the ritual murders unleash much darker forces on the world.) Guerrier/Kukula -- The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who $19.99 (Doctor Who: A blend of story and science, weaving together a series of all-new adventures featuring every incarnation of the Doctor with commentary that explores the possibilities of , life on other planets, AI, parallel universes, and more.) Guran, Paula (ed) -- The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Novellas 2015 $19.95 (Anthology. Some of the best novellas of 2014.) Handeland, Lori -- Heat of the Moment $7.99 (Sisters of the Craft #2: PBO; Becca Carstairs was born to be a veterinarian, with a healing touch and a special affinity for animals - because she can hear the creatures' voices. Now Owen McAllister, who broke her heart ten years ago, has returned. Is his reappearance part of the answer to questions that have troubled her all her life?) Harkaway, Nick -- Tigerman $15.95 (As British consul on the island of Mancreu, Lester's brief is to turn a blind eye to the fleet of illicit ships in the bay: spies, arms dealers, money launderers, drug factories, and torture centers. He's made friends with a brilliant street kid with a comic book addiction. When violence erupts, the boy needs Lester to rediscover the man of action he once was, and find out what kind of hero he might become.) Haydon, Elizabeth -- The Hollow Queen $26.99 (Symphony of Ages #8: As they struggles to untangle the web of Talquist's treachery, the leaders of the Cymrian Alliance are met with obstacles at every turn.) Hogan, James P. -- Prisoners of Tomorrow: Endgame Enigma / $14.00 (Omnibus reprint. 2 sf novels.) Horton, Rich (ed) -- The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2015 $19.95 (Anthology. Some of the best stories of 2014.) Irvine, Alex -- Batman: Arkham Knight: The Riddler's Gambit $7.99 (PBO; Official prequel novel for the game.) Kadrey, Richard -- The Getaway God $14.99 (Sandman Slim #6: A new evil is stalking LA. The Wildfire Ripper takes Sandman Slim deep into a conspiracy that stretches from Earth to Heaven and Hell. He's also the only person alive who may know how to keep the world from going extinct. The trouble is, he's also Sandman Slim's worst enemy.) Kelly, Walt -- Pogo: The Complete Dell Comics Volume 3 $60.00 (Full color. Includes all the Pogo stories from Pogo Possum issues 3-6, plus additional material.) King, William -- Fall of Macharius $14.00 (Warhammer 40,000: Macharian Crusade #3: Called by a representative of Terra to a council of generals, Macharius fears treachery - but will it come from closer to home than he imagines?) Kratman, Tom -- The Rods and the Axe $7.99 (Carrera #6: Carrera has driven the Tauran Union from his adopted country, but to finally finish them, he needs to draw them back for a more telling defeat. But when they return, they plan to bring someone else to do most of the bleeding for them. That's why Carrera has provoked the Zhong Guo to get them into the war.) Lackey, M/Mallory, J -- The House of the Four Winds $8.99 (One Dozen Daughters #1: Princess Clarice, an expert with rapier and dagger, intends to work her way to the New World by disguising herself as Clarence, a sailor. When the crew mutinies, she sides with handsome navigator Dominick to kill the cruel captain. At a secret pirate haven, they encounter a sorceress who claims Dominick for her own - but Clarice won't give him up without a fight.) Lindskold, Jane -- Artemis Invaded $25.99 (Artemis #2: As Griffin, Adara, and Sand Shadow search for another repository of ancient tech, hoping to find some way for Griffin to contact his orbiting ship, Adara wrestles with the consequences of the new bond she and Sand Shadow have with the planet.) Luceno, James -- Tarkin $9.99 (Star Wars: The story of Grand Moff Tarkin, the man who controlled the Death Star and ordered the destruction of Alderaan.) Martin, Gail & Larry -- Iron and Blood $9.99 (PBO; 1898: When hired killers come after Jake and a killer leaves the city awash in blood, Jake and his friends realize that dark magic, vampire power struggles, and industrial sabotage are just the prelude to a bigger plot that threatens New Pittsburgh and the world.) McNeill, Graham -- Gods of Mars $14.00 (Warhammer 40,000: Mars #3: Adeptus Mechanicus Magos Kotov has found the resting place of the long-lost Magos Telok - but Telok isn't dead. As Kotov's fleet marvels at the wonders Telok shows them, darker plans unfold, and reality itself is threatened by impossible technologies. It may fall to a small group of Imperial soldiers and their eldar allies to thwart an insane plan and save the entire universe from destruction.) McNeill, Graham -- Warriors of Ultramar $14.00 (Warhammer 40,000: Ultramarines #2: Reissue; Plus prequel short story 'Leviathan'. As war rages against the voracious alien tyranids, Captain Uriel Ventris and the Ultramarines stand shoulder to shoulder with the Mortifactors . Uriel must accept the barbaric traditions of his allies if there is to be any chance of destroying the alien menace.) Moorcock, Michael et al -- Elric: The Sailor on the Seas of Fate graphic novel $24.99 (Moorcock Library #2: Full color graphic novel. Collects issues of the 1980s adaptation of the Elric novels.) Nagata, Linda -- First Light $9.99 (Red #1: Lt. James Shelley leads an advanced US Army squad, linked wirelessly 24/7 to each other and a central intelligence that guides them. They don't know they are being recorded for a reality TV show. Drawn into a conflict involving rogue defense contractors, corrupt US politicians, and homegrown terrorists, soon Shelley must accept that his uncanny sense of imminent danger could be AI. But what is the cost of serving its agenda?) Nolan, W/Johnson, G -- Logan's Run $14.95 (Reissue; 2116: The law decrees that when you reach your Lastday, at 21 years of age, you must report to a Sleepshop for processing. Logan 3 is an enforcer, hunting down those who refuse to go to sleep. But as his Lastday approaches, he hears of a place called Sanctuary, and goes on the run himself.) Novik, Naomi -- $25.00 (Agnieszka loves her quiet village and her valley home. But the corrupted Wood stands on the border, full of malevolent power. Her people rely on the cold, driven wizard known only as the Dragon to keep its powers at bay. But he demands a terrible price for his help: one young woman handed over to serve him for ten years. And the next choosing is fast approaching.) Older, Daniel Jose -- Shadowshaper $17.99 (Ages 14 and up. Sierra Santiago planned a summer of making art and hanging out. But then a corpse crashes the first party of the season, and the neighborhood murals start weeping real tears. With the help of a fellow artist, Sierra discovers shadowshaping, magic that infuses ancestral spirits into paintings, music, and stories. But someone is killing the shadowshapers, and the killer believes Sierra hides their greatest secret.) Palma, Felix J. -- The Map of Chaos $27.00 (H.G. Wells #3: The protagonist is desperate to speak to the woman he loves one more time and confess the secret he didn't dare tell her while she was alive. Salvation can only be found in an obscure book; in his search for it, he receives help from Arthur Conan Doyle, Lewis Carroll, and H.G. Wells.) Pearlman, Robb -- The Wit and Wisdom of Star Trek $12.95 (Star Trek: Celebrates the original series with full-color photos, production facts, excerpts, and quotes from cast and crew.) Petranek, Stephen -- How We'll Live on Mars $16.99 (Nonfiction. Journalist Petranek makes the case that living on Mars is not just plausible, but inevitable, and that humans will do it within the next 20 years.) Pratchett, T/Baxter, S -- The Long Utopia $26.99 (Long Earth #4: After an alien planet somehow becomes 'entangled' with one of the Long Earth worlds, Lobsang and Joshua discover that its voracious denizens intend to capture, conquer, and colonize the Long Earth.) Ringo, John -- Islands of Rage and Hope $7.99 (Black Tide Rising #3: To retake from the infected, Wolf Squadron is going to need a vaccine. But to produce it, they'll have to venture into a sea of the infected to secure the needed materials.) Rowling/Scamander -- Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them $9.99 (Harry Potter: Reissue; Ages 8 and up. Straight from the library at Hogwarts, a book about magical creatures. Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Comic Relief.) Rowling/Whisp -- Quidditch Through the Ages $9.99 (Harry Potter: Reissue; Ages 8 and up. The most popular book in the Hogwarts library, and one no Quidditch player or fan should be without! Proceeds from the sale of this book will go to Comic Relief.) Saintcrow, Lility -- Trailer Park Fae $15.00 (Gallow & Ragged #1: PBO; Jeremy left his past behind, but now the half-sidhe once feared by all in Summer has been dragged back into the world of enchantment, danger, and fickle fae by a woman who looks uncannily like his dead wife. Her name is Robin, and her secrets are more than enough to get them both killed.) Shea, Kieran -- Takes a Holiday $7.99 (In a strange and brutal hyper-commercialized future world, ex-mercenary Koko now owns a brothel at a manufactured tropical resort known for its simulated sex and violence. Not a challenging life, until an old comrade sends a squad to murder her.) Stross, Charles -- The Rhesus Chart $7.99 (Laundry Files #5: As a junior manager within the clandestine organization responsible for protecting Britain against supernatural threats, Bob Howard is expected to show some initiative. But shining a light on things best left in the shadows is the last thing he wants to do, especially when those shadows hide an occult parasite spreading a deadly virus whose symptoms are superior strength and speed, an uncanny talent for mind control, an extreme allergic reaction to sunlight, and an unquenchable thirst for blood.) Valentine, Genevieve -- The Girls at the Kingfisher Club $15.00 (1920s Manhattan: Each night, Jo and her 11 younger sisters slip out of their controlling father's townhouse to dance the night away in speakeasies - until they are caught in a raid, separated, and Jo finds herself face to face with someone from her past: a bootlegger named Tom.) VanderMeer, Ann & Jeff (ed) -- Sisters of the Revolution $15.95 (Anthology. Tales of feminist speculative fiction, ranging from the 1970s to the present day.) Walton, Jo -- The Philosopher Kings $25.99 (Set 20 years after The Just City. Unhinged with grief after a tragic loss, Pythias/Apollo goes sailing into the mysterious Eastern Mediterranean. What Apollo, his daughter Arete, and the rest of the expedition discover will change everything.) Werner, C.L. -- Curse of the Phoenix Crown $14.00 (Warhammer Time of Legends: War of Vengeance #3: PBO; Both dwarf High King Gotrek Starbreaker and elf Phoenix King Caledor II are tired of war and seek to bring the centuries- long conflict to an end, but neither will surrender. The two kings meet in single combat to decide who will be true master of the Old World - and only one of them will walk away.) Yancey, Rick -- The Isle of Blood $7.99 (Will Henry #3: Ages 14 and up. Dr. Warthrop and his new assistant Arkwright go hunting for 'the Holy Grail of Monstrumology', leaving Will in New York to enjoy normal life with a real family. But when Arkwright returns, claiming the doctor is dead, Will is not convinced. His search for the truth takes him to Socotra, where human beings are used to make nests and blood rains from the sky.)

Mid July

Abnett, Dan -- Xenos $14.00 (Warhammer 40,000: Eisenhorn #1: Reissue; When he finally corners an old foe, Inquisitor Gregor Eisenhorn is drawn into a sinister conspiracy. As events unfold and he gathers allies - and enemies - Eisenhorn faces a vast interstellar cabal and the dark power of daemons, all racing to recover the Necroteuch, an ancient tome of abominable power.) Ambrose, E.C. -- Elisha Rex $7.99 (Dark Apostle #3: PBO; Elisha is beginning to understand the dreadful power within him, and has never felt or more terrified. A cabal sees its opportunity in the chaos of war and political turmoil; for these necromancers, Elisha and his indivisible connection with Death are the ultimate prize.) Arthur, Keri -- Wicked Embers $7.99 (Souls of Fire #2: PBO; Crimson Death continues to spread. Phoenix shifter Emberly and her partner Jackson are desperately seeking the stolen research for a cure when their mission is jeopardized by a creature of ash and shadow on a murderous spree.) Bear, Elizabeth -- Steles of the Sky $15.99 (Eternal Sky #3: Re Temur has finally raised his banner and declared himself at war with his usurping uncle. But Temur's enemies are not idle. All the world seems to be on fire, and who knows if even the beloved son of the Eternal Sky can save it?) Bear, Greg -- War Dogs $16.00 (Ares Rising #1: We called them Gurus. They made their presence on Earth known 13 years ago, providing tech and scientific insights, becoming indispensable advisors, and promising even more gifts. It took them a while to admit that they were being hounded by enemies and needed our help. Skyrines like me were volunteered.. These enemies were already moving to establish a beachhead, but not on Earth. On Mars.) Blake, E.C. -- Faces $19.95 (Masks of Aygrima #3: As the Lady leads the survivors to her haven, Mara feels she has found a mentor who can teach her to control her power. Living within the Lady's castle, cut off from her friends in the village, Mara immerses herself in her training, but still hears dark hints that the Lady may, in her own way, be as ruthless as the Autarch. But not until they begin their campaign against the Autarch does Mara discovers where the real danger lies.) Blum, Jason (ed) -- The Blumhouse Book of Nightmares: The Haunted City $14.95 (Anthology. Horror stories in which writers, filmmakers, and screenwriters envision a city of their choosing and let their demons run wild.) Brett, Peter V. -- The Great Bazaar & Brayan's Gold $14.95 (Demon Cycle: Reissue; Reprints a novelette and a novella chronicling Arlen's early adventures in a world where the elemental forces of evil conjure themselves from the earth each night.) Brockway, Robert -- The Unnoticeables $24.99 (There are angels. There are demons. They are the same thing. It's up to Carey, a punk in 1977 , and Kaitlyn, a stuntwoman in 2013 Hollywood, to stop them. The survival of the human race is in their hands. We are well and truly screwed.) Brown, Pierce -- Golden Son $15.00 (Red Rising #2: Darrow becomes a Gold, infiltrating their privileged realm so that he can destroy it from within. He must confront the treachery arrayed against him, overcome his desire for retribution - and strive not for violent revolt, but for a hopeful rebirth.) Cady, Jack -- The Off Season $15.00 (Reissue; Point Vestal is cursed; time moves differently, and the ghosts of the past roam the streets with the living inhabitants. A decadent (and dead) crime baron has plans for the town, and the only residents who can stop him are newcomers: a defrocked Episcopalian priest, and a cat who is fluent in seven languages.) Caine, Rachel -- Ink and Bone $17.99 (Great Library #1: The Great Library of Alexandria is now in every major city, governing the flow of knowledge to the masses. Personal book ownership is forbidden. Sent to be a spy for his black marketeer family, Jess is training to enter the Library's service, but most of his knowledge comes from illegal books. When he creates a device that could change the world, Jess discovers that those who control the Library believe that knowledge is more valuable than any human life - and soon both heretics and books will burn.) Cheney, J. Kathleen -- The Seat of Magic $7.99 (Golden City #2: Three murder victims have been found. When a selkie goes missing, police consultant Duilio Ferreira fears the killer is also targeting nonhumans. To protect Oriana and uncover the truth, Duilio will have to risk revealing his own talent, put his trust in some unlikely allies, and consult a rare and malevolent text.) Chu, Wesley -- Time Salvager $25.99 (James is a chronman, recruited to undertake dangerous missions into Earth's past to recover resources and treasures without altering the timeline. Most chronmen never reach old age. On his final mission, he meets scientist Elise Kim, who is fated to die. James brings her back to the future with him, making them both fugitives. Remaining free means losing themselves in the poisonous wastes of Earth, and discovering what hope may yet remain for humanity's abandoned homeworld. Autographing at Uncle Hugo's on Sunday, July 19, 3-4pm) Cline, Ernest -- Armada $26.00 (It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman, until he glances out the window and spots a UFO straight out of the videogame he plays every night. Now Zack's skills - and those of millions of gamers across the world - are going to be needed to save Earth. But Zack wonders. Doesn't something about this scenario seem a bit too familiar?) Cormick, Craig -- The Floating City $7.99 (In a land riven with plague, inside the Walled City, two families vie for control: the Medicis with genius inventor Leonardo; and the Lorraines with brilliant alchemist Galileo. And when two star-crossed lovers threaten the status quo, a third shadowy power bides its time, waiting for the moment to attack.) Cremer, Andrea -- The Inventor's Secret $10.99 (Ages 12 and up. 1816: The American colonies lost the war. 16-year-old Charlotte and her fellow refugees scrape out an existence on the edge of Britain's industrial empire. When a new exile with no memory seeks shelter in their camp, he brings new dangers with him, and secrets about the terrible future that awaits those struggling to live free of the bonds of the empire's Machineworks.) de Lint, C/Vess, C -- Seven Wild Sisters $8.00 (Ages 8 and up. When Sarah Jane discovers a tiny man in the Tanglewood Forest, wounded by miniature poison arrows, she brings him to Aunt Lillian for help, and they become ensnared in a war between rival fairy clans. Then Sarah Jane's six sisters are kidnapped. Can she untangle herself from the fairy feud and save her sisters?) Delany, Samuel R. -- A, B, C: Three Short Novels: The Jewels of Aptor / The Ballad of Beta-2 / They Fly at Ciron $16.95 (Omnibus reprint of his first 3 novels, plus an introduction and afterword by the author describing his creative process.) Doescher, Ian -- William Shakespeare's Star Wars: The Clone Army Attacketh $14.95 (Star Wars Shakespeare #4: In a star-crossed galaxy far, far away, yeoman Jedi Anakin Skywalker soliloquizes as he struggles to be master of his fate. Illustrated with black & white Elizabethan-style artwork.) Dozois, Gardner (ed) -- The Year's Best Science Fiction 32nd Annual Collection $22.99 trade pb, $40.00 hardcover (Massive anthology. Some of the best stories of 2014.) Egan, Greg -- The Arrows of Time $15.99 (Orthogonal #3: The travelers on the generation ship have succeeded in developing the tech needed to save their home world. But as tension grows over the risks of starting the long voyage home, disagreement leads to violence. Now four of the crew must embark on a strange journey, visiting a world where the arrow of time is reversed.) Forsyth, Kate -- The Wild Girl $26.99 (Dortchen finds herself drawn to fairy tale scholar Wilhelm Grimm. As she tells him some of the tales that will one day be part of his and Jacob's famous collection, their love blossoms. Dortchen's father will not consent to their marriage, and war, death, and poverty also conspire to keep them apart, but Dortchen is determined to find a way.) Gaiman, Neil -- Neverwhere: Author's Preferred Edition $26.99 (Young London businessman Richard Mayhew plunges through the cracks in reality into a world of shadows and darkness. If he is ever to return to London Above, he must join the battle to save this strange underworld from the malevolence intent on destroying it.) Galenorn, Yasmine -- Flight from Death $7.99 (Otherworld: Fly by Night #1: PBO; Blue dragon shifter Shimmer has been exiled from the Dragon Reaches and sentenced to work for Alex Radcliffe, vampire owner of Fly by Night Magical Investigations. Now every time she turns around, someone is trying to kill her. And worse, Alex is as gorgeous as he is exasperating.) Gardner, Sally -- Three Pickled Herrings $6.99 (Wings & Co. #2: Ages 7 and up. After months without a case, Emily and her friends at the Fairy Detective Agency suddenly have three! Can they figure out who is stealing people's luck before things get any worse?) Gilman, Carolyn Ives -- Dark Orbit $25.99 (Scientists are investigating a strange new habitable planet when a crew member is murdered and team member Thora disappears. The planet, thought to be uninhabited, is in fact home to a sightless sentient species, whose members navigate their world with a bizarre vocabulary and extrasensory perceptions. Lost in the planet's crevasses among these people, Thora must learn to comprehend the natives in order to find the crew and warn them of impending danger. But her most difficult task may lie in persuading them that some powers lie beyond the boundaries of science.) Gladstone, Max -- Last First Snow $26.99 (Craft #4: 40 years after the God Wars, Dresediel Lex bears scars, especially in the Skittersill, a poor district still bound by the fallen gods' decaying edicts. As long as the gods' wards last, they strangle development; when they fail, demons will be loosed upon the city. The King in Red hires Elayne to fix the wards, but the Skittersill's people protest, led by Temoc. As Elayne drags Temoc and the King in Red to the bargaining table, old gods stir in their graves and civil blood breaks to new mutiny. Elayne and Temoc must fight conspiracy and dark magic to save the peace - or, failing that, to save as many people as they can.) Gladstone, Wayne -- Agents of the Internet Apocalypse $24.99 (Gladstone #2: Gladstone has failed to bring back the internet, the economy continues to suffer, and the government has ramped up its draconian NET Recovery Act. When his former account of the Internet Apocalypse goes 'paper viral', Gladstone's newfound celebrity makes him a target for desperate online addicts, anarchic members of Anonymous, and shadowy government agents.) Golden, Christie -- Dark Disciple $28.00 (Star Wars: When ruthless Sith Lord Count Dooku orders the massacre of a flotilla of helpless refugees, the Jedi Council pairs brash Jedi Knight Quinlan Vos with Sith turned bounty hunter Asajj Ventress, dispatching them on a quest to eliminate Dooku once and for all.) Goodkind, Terry -- The First Confessor $29.99 (Sword of Truth Prequel: When her husband, the powerful leader of her people, commits suicide, Magda Searus is driven to find out why, and discovers there is more to his suicide than anyone knows. And what she finds next, no one is willing to believe. Magda embarks on a quest to find a mysterious spiritist, and to unravel what is really behind the events befalling her people.) Groening, Matt -- Simpsons Comics Colossal Compendium Volume 3 $17.99 (PBO; Collects several issues of the comic , printed on heavier paper. Each volume in the series will include a unique paper craft that will allow fans to assemble a three-dimensional Springfield.) Haley, Guy -- Valedor $16.00 (Warhammer 40,000: PBO; As the tyranids of Hive Fleet Leviathan sweep through the Valedor system, Yriel of Iyanden discovers that the farseers have inadvertently brought a greater threat to bear - a fragment of Hive Fleet has returned. The tyranid fleets cannot be allowed to combine.) Hamilton, Kersten -- The Ire of Iron Claw $16.99 (Gadgets & Gears #2: Ages 9 and up. Someone is smuggling secrets out of the Kennewicketts' lab and sabotaging their experiments. The scientific geniuses, with their robotic staff and Nikola Tesla, take to the skies in their dirigible in pursuit of the .) Hunder, Logan J. -- Witches Be Crazy $15.99 (PBO; The king is dead, and the throne has been claimed by a beautiful impostor claiming to be his long-lost daughter. With the land's heroes busy drooling over her, it falls to surly middle-aged innkeeper Dungar Loloth to save the kingdom from her.) Hutchison, Barry -- The 13th Horseman $8.99 (Afterworlds #1: Ages 11 and up. Surprised to find three horsemen of the apocalypse in his garden shed, Drake is even more surprised when he learns that they've gone through several Deaths, and now think that he's just the boy for the job.) Ishiguro, Tatsuaki -- Biogenesis and Other Stories $14.95 (Collection. Told in the manner of scientific reports, these sf stories explore the precariousness of species.) Jackson, D.B. -- Dead Man's Reach $28.99 (Ethan Kaille #4: Boston, 1770: Instances of violence in the city are increasing, and Ethan often finds himself at the center of the trouble. He discovers that some enemies don't stay buried - and will stop at nothing to ruin him, even if that means risking the lives of everyone in the city.) Jennings, J. Dalton -- Solomon's Arrow $15.99 (Mid-21st century: Solomon Chavez announces plans to build a starship to convey a select group of six thousand to a recently discovered planet in the Epsilon Eridani system, to build a colony to ensure humanity's survival. But Chavez has a secret he doesn't dare share with the rest of the world.) Johnson, Jaleigh -- The Mark of the Dragonfly $7.99 (Ages 10 and up. The girl Piper finds amid the wreckage of a caravan doesn't remember a thing about her life, but the tattoo on the girl's arm is proof of a reward for Piper if she can get the girl home. The one sure way is the 401 train. But stowing away is a difficult prospect - everyone knows that getting past the peculiar green-eyed boy who stands guard is nearly impossible.) Joyce, Graham -- The Ghost in the Electric Blue Suit (UK title: The Year of the Ladybird) $15.95 (1976: Having taken a summer job in the English seaside town where his father disappeared years ago, David is haunted by eerie visions. When David becomes embroiled in a torrid love triangle, the stakes turn more menacing - and through it all, he feels he is getting closer to the secrets of his past.) Kennedy, A.L. -- The Drosten's Curse $9.99 (Doctor Who: Novel featuring the Fourth Doctor.) Kosmatka, Ted -- The Flicker Men $27.00 (When a scientist proves the existence of the human soul, his findings are celebrated and condemned in equal measure. Soon reports surface of soulless individuals, known as 'the Fated'. Who are they? Why are they here? And what happens now that they are known?) Leicht, Stina -- Cold Iron $15.99 (Malorum Gates #1: Prince Nels is the scholarly runt of his family, but when he's ambushed by enemy Acrasians, he does something forbidden to royalty: he picks up a sword and defends himself. Disowned and sent to the military, Nels mounts a military offensive with sword, cannon, and what little magic is left in the world to defend the land of Eledore from the Acrasians.) Liu, Cixin -- The Dark Forest $25.99 (Three-Body #2: The subatomic particles that allow Trisolaris instant access to all human information leave Earth's defense plans totally exposed to the enemy. A daring plan grants four humans - the Wallfacers - enormous resources to design secret strategies, hidden from Earth and Trisolaris alike. Three of the Wallfacers are influential statesmen and scientists. The fourth is Luo Ji, an obscure Chinese astronomer and sociologist baffled by his new status. All he knows is that he's the one Wallface that Trisolaris wants dead.) Maresca, Marshall Ryan -- A Murder of Mages $7.99 (Maradaine Constabulary #1: PBO; With her Constabulary Inspector husband lying on the edge of death, Satrine Rainey fakes her way into the post of Constabulary Inspector to support her family. With her partner Minox Welling - nicknamed 'the jinx' because of the misfortunes that seem to befall anyone around him - she investigates the ritual murder of a Circled mage.) Mason, Rhonda -- Empress Game $14.95 (Empress Game #1: PBO; One seat on the intergalactic Council of Seven remains unfilled - to be won by ritualized combat. As the tournament commences, the women of the empire will stop at nothing to secure political power for their homeworlds.) Monk, Devon -- Cold Copper $7.99 (Age of Steam #3: A storm forces lycanthrope Cedar Hunt, witch Mae Lindson, and the Madder brothers to shelter in Des Moines, Iowa, where they learn that the mayor is manufacturing cataclysmic generators deep below the city. Now Cedar and his crew must expose the dangerous scheme.) Moorcock, Michael -- The King of the Swords $9.95 (Corum #3: Reissue; Corum has destroyed two of the company of Chaos, but Mabelode the Faceless will not see his actions go unpunished. The Eternal Champion must call upon the power of other incarnations - Elric, and Erekose - and travel to the last five planes to defeat the King of the Swords.) Okorafor, Nnedi -- Lagoon $24.99 (Tiptree Award Honor List. When word gets out that aliens have landed in the waters outside the world's fifth-largest city, chaos ensues. As political superpowers consider nuking the intruders, all that stands between 17 million anarchic residents and death are an alien ambassador, a biologist, a rapper, a soldier, and a myth.) Palmatier, Joshua -- Shattering the Ley $7.99 (Ley #1: At the heart of Erenthall is the Nexus, hub of a ley line system that powers the city and links it to the rest of the world. The Wielders control the Nexus, and the Baron controls them. When a rebel seeks to destroy the ley system, young Wielder Kara Tremain discovers the forbidden truth behind the magic, while Baronial Guard recruit Alan Garrett holds a secret that could mean the city's destruction - or its salvation.) Park, Paul -- All Those Vanished Engines $15.99 (An sf novel of three alternate histories. The first takes place in the aftermath of the Civil War; the Queen of the North has negotiated a two-nation settlement. The second takes place in a time somewhat like the present, and investigates a secret project during World War II. The third is set in the near-future US, with aliens from history.) Patel, Carrie -- Cities and Thrones $7.99 (Recoletta #2: PBO; In the wake of the coup in Recoletta, oligarchs from foreign states and revolutionaries from the farming communes vie for power. Inspector Liesl Malone tries to keep the peace, and Arnault's spy ring is more active than ever. Has the city's increased access to knowledge put the citizens in even more danger?) Pollack, Rachel -- The Child Eater $16.99 (Ages 15 and up. Three gods created the earth, but one turned to darkness. Now two boys who will never know each other - one who is destined to become a great magician in a medieval world, the other living in the present-day US - will battle the great evil of the Child Eater.) Pulley, Natasha -- The Watchmaker of Filigree Street $26.00 (1884: Thaniel enters his London apartment to find a new watch on his pillow. Six months later, when the watch saves his life, warning him of a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker - Mori, a Japanese immigrant who remembers the future.) Rhoads, Loren -- The Dangerous Type $15.99 (Dangerous Type #1: PBO; Thallian has been on the run for years, a war criminal whose entire family has been executed for their role in the galaxy-wide genocide of the Templars. His name is first on assassin Reana's list, now that she's been released from the tomb he trapped her in 20 years ago.) Robinson, Kim Stanley -- Aurora $26.00 (Our voyage from Earth began generations ago. Now, we approach our destination. A new home. Aurora.) Ryan, Anthony -- Queen of Fire $28.95 (Raven's Shadow #3: Vaelin Al Sorna has survived a war that laid waste to nations. Now he must help his queen reclaim her realm. But his enemy has a dangerous new collaborator, with powers darker than Vaelin has ever encountered.) Schultz, Jamie -- Splintered $7.99 (Arcane Underworld #2: PBO; Between fighting Sobell's battles with demonic forces and tangling with fanatics who want to manipulate Karyn's abilities for their own gain, Anna Ruiz is beginning to realize that she, Nail, and Genevieve are in way over their heads.) Skovron, Jon -- Man Made Boy $10.99 (Boy #1: Ages 12 and up. Boy is a hacker and geek, son of Frankenstein's Monster and the Bride, who has never left the secret monster enclave hidden beneath a Broadway theater. But he's about to embark on a madcap road trip with the granddaughters of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Along the way, he will fall in love, come to terms with his unusual family, and learn what it means to be a monster - and a man.) Spjut, Stefan -- The Shapeshifters $15.95 (Susso Myren has devoted her life to the search for trolls, legendary giants who can control human thoughts and assume animal form. She follows a trail of missing children to northern Sweden. But a society of protectors, who have been watching over the creatures for generations, won't hesitate to close deadly ranks.) Stross, Charles -- The Annihilation Score $26.95 (Laundry Files #6: Mo has become custodian of an antique violin made of human bone, designed to produce music capable of slaughtering demons. It invades her dreams, yearning for the blood of her husband Bob Howard and her other Laundry colleagues - and despite Mo being a world-class violinist, it cannot be controlled.) Swendson, Shanna -- Rebel Mechanics $17.99 (Ages 12 and up. New York City, 1888: The British use magicians to rule their North American colonies; a rebel group of mechanics and engineers hopes to use technology to gain freedom. 17-year-old Verity Newton becomes governess to a magister's family. When she comes to suspect her employer has rebel sympathies, she realizes she's uniquely positioned to advance the rebel cause - but to do so, she'll have to reveal her own dangerous secret.) Thorpe, Gav -- The Unforgiven $14.00 (Warhammer 40,000: Legacy of Caliban #3: PBO; The elusive Cypher has unexpectedly surrendered. With him in their grasp, the Dark Angels hope that they can finally redeem themselves in the eyes of the Emperor. But what game is Cypher playing? What plans does he have?) Turtledove, Harry -- Bombs Away $28.00 (Hot War #1: To stop the Communist surge into the Korean Peninsula, General MacArthur advocates a nuclear attack on targets in Manchuria. President Truman agrees, which leads to disaster when Russia retaliates against US allies in Europe and Great Britain. The two superpowers face off. Will they nuke each other? And what countries will be caught in between?) Turtledove, Harry -- Last Orders $18.00 (War That Came Early #6: The war grinds on, and countries have been forced into strange alliances. England, finding its footing after the suspicious death of Winston Churchill and a coup d'etat, fights back in Europe and on the seas of the North Atlantic. Japan prepares bombs, filled with macabre biological concoctions, to be dropped on Hawaii. Hitler is desperate, and declares war on the US, even as his own people rise up in revolt.) Twelve Hawks, John -- Spark $15.00 (Jacob is an assassin who 'neutralizes' problems deemed unacceptable by the DBG corporation. Suffering from a syndrome that causes people to believe they are dead, Jacob perceives himself as nothing but a Shell, with no emotion and no sense of right or wrong. Emily Buchanan is an associate for DBG. When she disappears, suspected of stealing valuable information, Jacob's handler assigns him to neutralize her. But as his new assignment draws him inside a labyrinth of dark dealings, Jacob finds himself up against something he is completely incapable of understanding.) Wallace, Sean (ed) -- The Mammoth Book of $14.95 (Anthology. Stories exploring the decadence of the 1920s, the excitement of the World's Fairs, and the dystopian struggle for survival of the World Wars.) Wexler, Django -- The Price of Valor $26.95 (Shadow Campaigns #3: Finding herself nearly powerless, Queen Raesinia Orboan places her trust in steadfast soldier Marcus D'Ivoire and sets out to turn the tide of history. As the hidden hand of the Sworn Church brings all the powers of the continent to war against Vordan, General Janus offers a path to victory, but dark priests wielding forbidden magic have infiltrated Vordan to stop Janus by whatever means necessary.) Wolfman, Marv -- Batman: Arkham Knight $7.99 (PBO; Novelization of the game.)

Early August

Abercrombie, Joe -- Half the World $15.00 (Shattered Sea #2: Desperate to avenge her dead father, Thorn lives to fight. But she has been named a murderer by the very man who trained her to kill. She finds herself caught up in the schemes of Father Yarvi, Gettland's deeply cunning minister. Crossing half the world to find allies against the ruthless High King, she learns harsh lessons of blood and deceit. Will Thorn forever be a pawn in the hands of the powerful, or can she carve her own path?) Abercrombie, Joe -- Half a War $26.00 (Shattered Sea #3: If Princess Skara is to reclaim her birthright, she must conquer her fears and sharpen her wits to a lethal edge. Father Yarvi has stitched together an uneasy peace, but now Grandmother Wexen has raised a great army, and put at its head a man who worships only Death. When Mother War spreads her irons wings, she may cast the whole Shattered Sea into darkness.) Abnett, Dan -- Necropolis $14.00 (Warhammer 40,000: Gaunt's Ghosts #03: Reissue; Plus epilogue short story 'In Remembrance'. On Verghast, a grinding war between two hive cities - one loyal to the Imperium, the other fallen to the worship of the Dark Gods - is bolstered by the forces of the Imperial Guard. When rivalries and treachery threaten to derail the defense, it falls to Gaunt to take command of the Imperial forces and forge victory from almost certain defeat.) Adams, Guy -- Dogs of Waugh $7.99 (Deadbeat #2: PBO; There's a new drug in the Undead community that simulates all of the symptoms of the living: faster pulse, perspiration, the intoxicating rush of blood through your veins. When people start vanishing from the Soho streets, and some of their customers disrupt Deadbeat's big band nights by keeling over dead for the second time, Max and Tom decide they might need to put a stop to it. Which, in a lifetime of bad decisions, may rank as their worst yet.) Aldiss, Brian W. -- Finches of Mars $12.99 (Doomed by overpopulation, environmental degradation, and war, Earth has become a fetid swamp. In six tightly clustered towers on Mars, colonists who have escaped their dying home world are attempting to avoid extinction. The greatest threat to the future is not their total dependence on food sent from Earth, or the events following the discovery of native Martian life - it is the fact that in the colony's ten years of existence, every human baby has died within hours of birth.) Ames, Phyllis -- Frozen in Amber $7.99 (PBO; Amber has always been reluctant to change into her Were form and impatient with other Weres. But when she notices a change in her transformation and hears rumors of a cure, she suspects she may have been unknowingly treated with the experimental therapy. With the help of Were activist Adler, she goes in search of the secrets surrounding the cure) Andrews, Ilona -- Magic Shifts $25.95 (Kate Daniels #8: It's not easy adjusting to life outside the Pack. So when the Pack offers Curran their stake in the Mercenary Guild, he and Kate seize the opportunity. They don't realize that the odd jobs they've taken on are connected. An ancient enemy has arisen - can Kate and Curran stop it before it takes the city apart?) Angus, Chris -- London Underground $14.99 (Beneath London, rivers carve channels, labs and government offices from WWII offer abandoned medical experiments, and a Nazi V-2 rocket contains the most horrible secret of all. Carmen Kingsley of the British Museum and Inspector Sherwood Peets race to unravel the subterranean mysteries before the city succumbs to a frightening disease from the past.) Armstrong, Kelley -- Visions $16.00 (Cainsville #2: Olivia finds a dead woman in her car, dressed to look like her, but the body vanishes before anyone else sees it. Olivia is convinced it's another omen, until she learns that a troubled young woman went missing days ago - the same woman Olivia found dead. Someone went to great lengths to kill and leave this young woman as a warning. But why?) Axler, James -- Angel of Doom $6.99 (Outlanders #74: PBO; The Cerberus fighters embark on a quest to discover what happened to expeditions lost in Italy, on land that once belonged to the Etruscan empire. They encounter alien gods intent on opening a portal to bring their kind to earth.) Barker/Nassise/Howison (ed) -- Midian Unmade: Tales of Clive Barker's Nightbreed $24.99 (Anthology. Original horror stories set in the world of Barker's cult film masterpiece.) Baxter, Stephen -- Proxima $7.99 (Red dwarf stars last trillions of years, and their planets can be habitable for humans. Such is the world of Proxima Centauri. But first it must be colonized, and no one wants to be a settler. There is no glamor that accompanies it, nor is there the ease of becoming a citizen of an already-tamed world. But that's where Yuri comes in. Because sometimes exploration isn't voluntary. It must be coerced.) Baxter, Stephen -- Ultima $26.95 (As humanity discovers the real nature of the universe, a terrifying truth comes to light. Each person has countless pasts converging in this present - and the future is terrifyingly finite. There are minds in the universe that are billions of years old, and now humanity is vulnerable to their plans. It's time to fight back and take control.) Bedford, Jacey -- Crossways $7.99 (Psi-Tech #2: PBO; To the Trust and Alphacorp, psi-tech navigator Ben and telepath Cara are wanted criminals: murder, terrorism, armed insurrection, hijacking, grand theft, and kidnapping are at the top of the long list of charges they'll face. So they'd better not get caught.) Black, H/Clare, C -- The Iron Trial $7.99 (Magisterium #1: Ages 8 and up. Warned by his father to stay away from magic, if Call succeeds at the Iron Trial, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him. So he tries to do his worst, but fails at failing. Now the Magisterium awaits him, a place both sensational and sinister, with dark ties to his past and a twisty path to his future.) Black/Larbalestier (ed) -- Zombies vs. Unicorns $7.99 (Reissue; Ages 14 and up. Anthology. Which is better, the zombie or the ? These 12 original stories answer that question.) Bradbury, Ray -- The Halloween Tree $18.99 (Ages 8 and up. Travel through space and time to discover the true origins of Halloween. Illustrated by Gris Grimly.) Brennan, M.L. -- Dark Ascension $7.99 (Generation V #4: PBO; Just when reluctant vampire Fort Scott is getting used to managing a supernatural empire stretching from New Jersey to Ontario, his mother's health starts to fail, throwing him into the middle of a dangerous battle of succession.) Briggs, Patricia et al -- Hopcross Jilly $24.99 (Mercy Thompson: Full color graphic novel. Collects the 6-issue comic book series, an original story set in the continuity of the books.) Calvino, Italo (ed) -- Fantastic Tales: Visionary and Everyday $13.95 (Reissue; Anthology. Short stories of the fantastic, enchanting, uncanny, and terrifying from 19th- century Europe.) Chen, E.L. -- The Good Brother $16.99 (Tori Wong has fled her strict home to escape the shadow of her overachieving brother, to whom her parents always compare her, even though he's dead. But she discovers reinventing herself isn't easy, especially during Yu Lan, when three ghosts come back to haunt her: her vengeful brother, and herself at ages 17 and 11.) Clary, Michael -- Excalibur $15.99 (Camelot Wars #1: Morgana's first attack wiped out all modern technology, pushing the world back into the Middle Ages. Her soldiers easily defeated the weaponless armies. Now King Arthur, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table have been reborn to oppose her.) Coe, David B. -- His Father's Eyes $25.00 (Justis Fearsson #2: Dark sorcerers are wreaking havoc in Phoenix. Jay has to figure out what connects a billionaire financier and a drug kingpin to an attempted terrorist attack, a spate of ritual killings, and the murder of a powerful runemyste.) Conroy, Robert -- : 1784 $7.99 (After the American Revolution collapses, the British begin a bloody reign of terror. Heading west, a group of rebels sets up a colony where they will make a last stand against a large British force.) Datlow, Ellen (ed) -- The Best Horror of the Year Volume 7 $15.99 (PBO; Anthology. Some of the best stories from 2014.) Dietz, William C. -- Redzone $7.99 ( Files #2: PBO; 2065: LA detective Cassandra Lee is tracking a cop killer dubbed the Bonebreaker. But strange new murders have occurred, leaving Lee and her team wondering if the serial killer has become unpredictable - or is no longer acting alone.) Doubinsky, Seb -- The Song of Synth $14.99 (Synth is brand new, highly addictive, and probably dangerous, inducing hallucinations indistinguishable from reality. Ex-hacker Markus' anarchist past comes to haunt him in the form of a credit card with a seemingly unlimited limit and a novel in which he is the main character. But how much of his reality is being produced by Synth?) Estep, Jennifer -- Spider's Trap $7.99 (Elemental Assassin #12: PBO; Now that she's become queen of Ashland's underworld, a lot more punches are being thrown Gin's way. But when someone tries to murder her at a hush-hush meeting, the real surprise is how strangely familiar her shadowy assailant seems.) Evans, Erin M. -- Fire in the Blood $7.99 (Forgotten Realms: As the war brought on by the Sundering rages, princes and princesses, wizards and rogues scheme to capture the throne of Cormyr, with young warlock Farideh and her allies caught in the middle.) Farmer, Nancy -- The Land of Silver Apples $8.99 (Jack #2: Ages 10 and up. Jack learns his sister Lucy is a changeling, and his real sister dwells with hobgoblins. When Lucy disappears, Jack must descend into the Land of the Silver Apples to retrieve both his sisters) Feehan/Shayne/Herter -- Edge of Darkness $7.99 (PBO; Anthology. 3 paranormal vampire novellas.) Ferraris, Zoe -- Hunt for the Pyxis $16.99 (Galaxy Pirates #1: Ages 8 and up. When her parents are kidnapped, Emma and her friend Herbie set sail to search for them, using a mysterious amulet to leave Earth and enter the waterways of space. But can they steer clear of the scoundrels pursuing them?) Foyle, Naomi -- Astra $22.99 (Gaia Chronicles #1: All Astra wants is to have her Security Shot, do her National Service, and defend her homeland from Non-Lander infiltrators, but when the formidable Dr. Blesser tells her the shot will limit her chances of becoming a scientist and offers an alternative, Astra agrees.) Gould, Steven -- Exo $8.99 (Jumper #4: Cent and her parents can teleport. They are the only people in the world who can. And there are dangerous people, who work for governments and have guns, who want to make you 'do just this one thing'. And when you're in high school, things get even more complicated. But Cent isn't easily daunted, and neither are her parents. Climate change. Refugees. Genocide. She's going to make some changes in the world.) Griffith, Clay & Susan -- The Conquering Dark $7.99 (Crown & Key #3: PBO; A group of powerful villains has returned to Victorian London, their leader intent on crushing Britain for imprisoning him centuries ago. Only the Society stands in their way.) Grossman, Austin -- Crooked $26.00 (Richard Nixon tells the story of his life - the terrifying supernatural secret he stumbled upon as a young man, the truth behind the Cold War, the truth behind the Watergate cover-up - and his role as a pivotal figure in the desperate struggle between ordinary life and horrors from another reality.) Haig, Francesca -- The Fire Sermon $16.00 (On postapocalyptic Earth, every person is born a twin, one physically perfect Alpha and one deformed Omega. Whenever one twin dies, so does the other. The Alphas have gathered the world's resources for themselves; the Omegas are ostracized. Cass is an Omega, with rare psychic foresight. When her twin gains power on the Council, she dares to envision a world in which Alphas and Omegas live as equals - and now both the Council and the Resistance have her in their sights.) Hambly, Barbara -- Darkness on His Bones $29.95 (James Asher #6: War is descending on the world, and James Asher is called to Paris. When James is found unconscious in a cemetery with puncture-wounds in his throat and arms, Lydia turns to their old friend and adversary, vampire Don Simon Ysidro, for help.) Handeland, Lori -- Smoke on the Water $7.99 (Sisters of the Craft #3: PBO; Willow Black spent her childhood in foster care, the object of whispers and pity. Telling your young friends that you can foresee the future and summon the rain is a surefire way to end up in the psych ward. But when Dr. Sebastian Frasier arrives at the facility, Willow's life takes a turn - he has been in Willow's visions for years.) Henry, Christina -- Alice $15.00 (PBO; Alice has been in the mental hospital. She doesn't remember why, just a tea party years ago, long ears, and blood. One night she escapes, free to uncover the truth. But something dark and powerful escapes with her.) Hines, Jim -- Blood of Heroes $16.00 (Fable: PBO; Novel based on the videogame.) Hobb, Robin -- Fool's Assassin $8.99 (Fitz & the Fool #1: FitzChivalry Farseer is dead and buried. As Tom Badgerlock, Fitz is married to Molly and leading the quiet life of a country squire, although haunted by the disappearance of the Fool. But such private hurts are put aside in the business of daily life, until the appearance of menacing, pale-skinned strangers. Now, to protect his new life, the former assassin must once again take up his old one.) Holt, Tom -- The Good, the Bad and the Smug $15.00 (PBO; Mordak isn't bad, as far as goblin kings go, but when someone, or something, starts pumping gold into the human kingdoms it puts his rule in serious jeopardy. Helped by an elf with a background in journalism and a masters degree in being really pleased with herself, Mordak sets out to discover what is going on.) Jacka, Benedict -- Veiled $7.99 (Alex Verus #6: PBO; With his old master back in Britain and making a new play for power, diviner Alex Verus is in desperate need of new allies, and he'll do whatever it takes to get them - even accepting a job enforcing magical law with the Keepers. Things turn lethal when a mission puts Alex in possession of an item that factions both inside and outside the Council would kill to get their hands on.) Jemisin, N.K. -- The Fifth Season $16.00 (Broken Earth #1: PBO; A season of endings has begun. It starts with the great rift across the world's sole continent, from which spews enough ash to darken the sky for years, or centuries. It starts with a murdered son and a missing daughter. It starts with betrayal. And it ends with you: the Stillness, a land long familiar with catastrophe, where orogenes wield the power of the earth as a weapon and are feared far more than the long cold night. And you will have no mercy.) Johnson, Jean -- The Terrans $7.99 (First Salik War #1: PBO; Pressured by the Space Force into using her unique abilities, psychic soldier Jackie MacKenzie discovers that the new enemy, the Salik, seem to be familiar with fighting humans - as if their war against humanity had already begun.) Kadrey, Richard -- Killing Pretty $25.99 (Sandman Slim #7: When someone tries to kill Death - or rather the body he's inhabiting - he turns to Slim to solve the murder.) Krentz, J/Castle, J -- Siren's Call $7.99 (Harmony: Rainshadow #4: PBO; Jake needs someone who can resonate with the Alien music in the newly discovered Underworld sector. Ella may have the talent, but she is almost kidnapped - someone else needs her talent, and will kill to acquire it.) Lain, Douglas -- After the Saucers Landed $15.99 (PBO; Shape-changing aliens have integrated into human society. When an alien switches places with her, Laura realizes this isn't the first time the alien has moved into someone's body, and that humanity's perception of reality may be more flexible than anyone wants to admit. She turns to Donald, an author and UFOlogist, for help stopping them.) Lee, Sharon/Miller, Steve -- A Liaden Universe Constellation Volume 3 $14.00 (Liaden: Collection. Short fiction set in the Liaden Universe - the stories in this volume were all published after 2011; Signed copies expected) Leiber, Fritz -- The Night of the Long Knives $9.95 (Reissue; Kill or be killed is the law in the nuclear desert, where residents are consumed by the urge to murder each other, making sex a lethal risk.) Maberry, Jonathan -- The Dragon Factory $9.99 (Joe Ledger #2: Ledger and the Department of Military Sciences battle rogue geneticists: one group is creating transgenic monsters and enhanced mercenaries; the other is using 21st- century tech to continue Josef Mengele's Master Race program.) MacAlister, Katie -- Dragon Fall $8.00 (Dragon Fall #1: PBO; No one believes Aoife witnessed a supernatural murder at an outdoor fair. Returning to the scene for proof, she encounters a naked man who can shift into a dragon and kiss like a god. Kostya must break the curse that has splintered the dragon clans before more of his kind die. And there may be more to Aoife than even his dragon eyes can see.) Mack, David -- Long Shot $7.99 (Star Trek: Seekers: PBO; Captain Clark Terrell and the crew of his scout ship follow peculiar sensor readings to an alien world where the natives' efforts to harness an unstable technology have thrown the laws of probability out of balance.) Magaziner, Lauren -- The Only Thing Worse Than Witches $7.99 (Ages 8 and up. Rupert is fascinated by the witches living nearby, so when he sees an ad to become a witch's apprentice, he applies - and finds himself working with Witchling Two, who needs all the help she can get to pass her witch exams. Can Rupert figure out a way to help improve her spellcasting?) Maguire, Gregory -- Egg & Spoon $11.99 (Ages 12 and up. Elena lives in the impoverished Russian countryside. Her mother is dying, slowly, in their tiny cabin. And there is no food. Then a train arrives in the village, carrying untold wealth, a cornucopia of food, and a noble family destined to visit the Tsar - including Ekaterina, a girl of Elena's age. When the two girls' lives collide, an adventure is set in motion that includes mistaken identity, a monk locked in a tower, a prince traveling incognito, and Baba Yaga, witch of Russian folklore, in her ambulatory house perched on chicken legs.) McCullough, Kelly -- School for Sidekicks $16.99 (Ages 10 and up. Evan is a geek who dreams of becoming a . When a field trip to the Mask Museum is interrupted by a attack, Evan somehow manages to survive a , and rescues Captain Commanding. Bundled off to The Academy - aka The School for Sidekicks - he finds himself studying Banter Basics and Combat with Dinnerware. When he's apprenticed to Foxman, can he convince his has-been mentor to become a real hero again? Autographing at Uncle Hugo's on Saturday, August 8, 1-2pm) Meluch, R.M. -- The Twice and Future Caesar $24.95 (Merrimack #6: While patrolling the Perseid Arm, the USS Merrimack suffers an unprovoked attack from what seems to be a Roman ship. Is it an unexpected move by Numa, or the opening salvo from the forces of Romulus?) Mieville, China -- Three Moments of an Explosion $27.00 (Collection. Fantasy and sf short stories that employ the fantastic to interrogate reality in provocative, unexpected ways.) Milan, Victor -- The Dinosaur Lords $26.99 (Paradise is a world made by the Eight Creators on which to play out their games of passion and power. Dynastic rivalries, religious wars, political intrigue - all lead to epic battles between vast armies of knights mounted on dinosaurs. Defeated through betrayal and left for dead, mercenary Dinosaur Lord Karyl Bogomirsky wakes naked, wounded, partially amnesiac, and hunted, and embarks on a journey that will shake his world.) Molles, D.J. -- Extinction $10.00 (Remaining #6: PBO; The merciless tide of infected is flooding south and time is running out to stop them. Bolstered by new allies, Captain Lee Harden continues his struggle to establish a safe haven from which the embers of a shattered society can be rekindled.) Moorcock, Michael -- The Bull and the Spear $9.95 (Corum #4: Reissue; There are new lords who would be gods - Odin and Thor and Freya and Loki. And there are the descendants of the Vadhagh people, now called Elf-folk. There is a portent - a great black bull, which must be ridden by the one who possesses the Spear of Llaw Ereint. And the one who will come to possess the spear will be one who has a silver hand - it is the hand of Corum.) Murakami, Haruki -- Wind / Pinball $25.95 (New translations of his debut short novels - centered on two young men, an unnamed narrator and his friend and former roommate, the Rat - that are prequels to A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance.) Murray, Susan -- Waterborne Exile $7.99 (Highkell #2: The traitor Vasic is struggling to secure his rule over the combined Peninsular Kingdoms. Meanwhile, exiled Queen Alwenna has taken refuge with a free merchant community whose elders fear her dark power. Marten attempts to restore Alwenna to the throne, but as the priestess closes in, will he succeed?) Nabhan, David -- The Pilots of Borealis $14.99 (Helium-3 powered expansion, feeding fusion reactors from Earth to the Terran Ring, Mars, the Jovian colonies, and Titan. Borealis, the city stretched across the lunar North Pole, amassed centuries of wealth harvesting Helium- 3, but its supplies are running out. Memories of the devastation of Earth's petroleum wars are not enough to quell the rising energy and political crises; a new war appears imminent. But the competing powers are about to discover something more powerful than Helium-3: the indomitable spirit of an Earth-born, war-weary mercenary pilot.) Neill, Chloe -- The Veil $15.00 (Devil's Isle #1: PBO; 7 years ago, the Veil tore, and New Orleans was engulfed in supernatural war. Now paranormals are confined in a walled community. Claire is a Sensitive; revealing her talent would send her to Devil's Isle, but hiding her power has left her untrained. After she uses her powers to save a human, Liam decides to bring her to Devil's Isle, to the teacher she needs. When the Veil threatens to shatter completely, they must stop it, or New Orleans will burn.) Niven/Colebatch/Fox -- Treasure Planet $7.99 (Man-Kzin: After receiving information and a map from an unlikely source, young Peter Cartwright and his kzinrett friend Marthar find themselves fighting the most ruthless pirates in Known Space for an unimaginable prize.) North, Claire -- Touch $17.00 (It happened long ago. He tried to take my life, but as I died, my hand touched his, and my first switch took place - I looked through the eyes of my killer and saw my own body die. Now I can jump from body to body, have any life, be anyone. All it takes is a touch.) O'Ryan, Ray -- A Haunted Halloween $5.99 (Galaxy Zack #11: Ages 5 and up. Zack definitely does not believe in ghosts, even when his friend Drake says they are real. But as Halloween nears, weird things start to happen. Could Zack be haunted?) Ochse, Weston -- Grunt Traitor $7.99 (Task Force Ombra #2: PBO; Only Ombra and its battalions seem capable of defending Earth from the next wave of attack: . But what will be the price of freedom from the as yet unidentified alien invaders?) Pineiro, R.J. -- The Fall $25.99 (Assigned to test an orbital jump, Jack Taylor hits the speed of sound and disappears. He wakes up in an alternate universe - one where he died during a mission five years earlier, where his boss Pete has turned to the dark side and is working against him, and where the government is now on his tail. And the only way to return to his own world is to perform another jump.) Richardson, Kat -- Revenant $7.99 (Greywalker #9: and Quinton suspect that James Purlis and his Ghost Division are involved in a trail of grotesque crimes and black magic sweeping through Europe. Now an ancient cult has allied with Purlis, with even more nightmarish goals.) Salvatore, R.A. -- Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf $7.99 (Forgotten Realms: Companions #3: The Companions are separated once more, thrown to the far corners of a war that's much bigger, with more at stake, than any of them realized.) Sargent, Pamela -- Seed Seeker $10.99 (Seed #3: Hundreds of years ago, Ship settled humans on the planet Home before leaving to colonize other worlds, promising to return one day. Over time, the colony has divided into Dome Dwellers, who maintain the library and technology of Ship, and consider the River People, who farm and hunt to survive, 'contaminated'. The two groups interact only to trade. Then a new light appears in the night sky. The River People believe it might be Ship, but the Dome Dwellers are silent. Seventeen- year-old Bian decides to travel upriver to learn what they know.) Saville, Guy -- The Madagaskar Plan $30.00 (1952: A victorious Germany continues to consolidate power in Afrika. Hitler plans to contain the European Jews permanently by resettling them on the island of Madagaskar, while the British forces in Mozambique plot to free Madagaskar by inciting a colony-wide revolt.) Scalzi, John -- Lock In $8.99 (1% of the victims of a virus develop 'Lock In': millions of victims are fully awake and aware, but unable to move or respond to stimulus. Decades later, in a world shaped by this 'Haden's syndrome', FBI agents Shane and Vann are assigned what appears to be a Haden-related murder. The suspect is an integrator, one of those able to let the locked in borrow their bodies for a time. If the integrator was carrying a Haden client, naming the suspect for the murder gets complicated. As Shane and Vann investigate, it becomes clear that the real mystery - and the real crime - is much bigger.) Shea, Hunter -- Tortures of the Damned $7.99 (PBO; First, the electricity goes after a nuclear attack. Next, the chemical weapons kill or contaminate everything alive, except for a handful of survivors in a bomb shelter. Then hordes of rats force two terrified families out of their shelter, into the streets of a wasteland where chemical-crazed animals hunt in packs, and roaming gangs of the sick and dying are barely recognizable as human.) Snodgrass, Melinda -- The Edge of Ruin $16.99 (Edge #2: Cop Richard Oort is now head of Lumina Enterprises, a mysterious, globe- girdling operation that battles the nightmare creatures from the unseen worlds on the of our reality.) Snodgrass, Melinda -- Edge of Dawn $26.99 (Edge #3: The final battle approaches for a band of modern , fighting for science and reason against an ancient supernatural army poised to destroy the world.) Steampunk Oriental Lab -- Steampunk Style 2 $24.95 (A complete illustrated guide for contraptors, gizmologists, and primocogglers.) Swann, S. Andrew -- The Moreau Quartet Volume 1: Forests of the Night / Fearful Symmetries $8.99 (Omnibus reprint of 2 sf novels featuring Nohar Rajasthan, a humanoid of tiger stock who ekes out a living as a private investigator.) Swenson, Patrick -- The Ultra Thin Man $16.99 (In the 22nd century, aliens, terrorists, and conspiracies collide as detectives Dave Crowell and Alan Brindos investigate a case with interplanetary consequences.) Tepper, Sheri S. -- Fish Tails $16.99 (Abasio and Xulai and their children travel across sparsely populated Tingawa, searching for others who might want to adopt their sea- dwelling lifestyle. Along the way, they encounter visitors from the far-off world of Lom, who have been gathered up by an interfering, time-traveling, rule-breaking do- gooder to perform one last good deed on Earth before its metamorphosis. For the waters will soon engulf the entire planet, transforming it utterly and irrevocably.) Tolkien, J.R.R. -- Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary $15.95 (A translation of the epic tale, completed by Tolkien in 1926, with a few corrections added later. Plus commentary on the text of the poem and the translation process, in the form of selections from a series of lectures given by Tolkien at Oxford in the 1930s.) Tripp, Ben -- The Fifth House of the Heart $16.00 (PBO; Only Sax knows the secret of his success as an antiques dealer: at certain points in his life, he's killed vampires for their priceless hoards of treasure. But now his past actions are quite literally coming back to haunt him.) Vaughn, Carrie -- Kitty Saves the World $7.99 (Kitty Norville #13: PBO; When their assassination attempt on evil vampire Dux Bellorum fails, Kitty and her allies find themselves running out of time - the vampire lord has begun his apocalyptic endgame, and Kitty still doesn't know where he will strike.) Viguie, D/Tuck, J -- Mark of the Black Arrow $14.95 (Robin Hood: Demon's Bane #1: PBO; Sherwood Forest is a place of magic, Prince John and his allies demons bent on ruling Britain. As the solstice approaches, the prince makes plans to sacrifice Maid Marian in a ritual that will seal his hold on the kingdom and the crown.) Weber, David -- The Sword of the South $27.00 (First in a new series set in the Bahzell Bahnakson / War God universe. Kenhodan, a swordsman who has been robbed of his past, must confront an evil wizard with a world at stake.) White, Steve -- Soldiers Out of Time $15.00 (T.R.A. #5: PBO; Jason Thanou once again plunges into Earth's past to combat a Transhumanist plot to subvert that past in order to fulfill their dream of transforming humanity into a race of gods and monsters.) Yancey, Rick -- The Final Descent $7.99 (Will Henry #4: Ages 14 and up. When Dr. Warthrop fears that Will's loyalties may be shifting, he turns on Will with a fury, determined to reclaim his 14-year-old apprentice's devotion. And so Will must face one of the most horrific creatures of his monstrumology career - and he must face it alone.)

Mid August

Abnett, Dan -- Malleus $14.00 (Warhammer 40,000: Eisenhorn #2: Reissue; A century after his recovery of the alien Necroteuch, Eisenhorn is one of the Inquisition's most celebrated agents. But the daemon Cherubael is back, and seeks to bring the Inquisitor to ruins.) Abnett, Dan -- Sabbat Crusade $28.00 (Warhammer 40,000: Gaunt's Ghosts #14: Gaunt and the Tanith First and Only are at the forefront of a mighty crusade to return the Sabbat Worlds to Imperial rule.) Aguirre, Forrest -- Heraclix and Pomp $16.00 (18th century: Before being sewn together, Heraclix was dead. And Pomp was immortal, or so she thought, until she was nearly murdered by the necromancer who created Heraclix. As they travel from Vienna to Prague to Istanbul to Hell itself, they struggle to understand who and what they are.) Armstrong, Kelley -- Deceptions $26.95 (Cainsville #3: Visions continue to haunt Olivia, particularly a little girl who insists she has an important message that may help Olivia balance the light and darkness within herself. Death stalks Olivia and those important to her as she struggles to understand whether ancient scripts are dictating events.) Bardugo, Leigh -- Ruin and Rising $10.99 (Grisha #3: Ages 12 and up. The capital has fallen. The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne. Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.) Belcher, R.S. -- Nightwise $25.99 (A promise to a dying friend sets occult legend Laytham Ballard on the trail of an escaped Serbian war criminal with a sinister history of blood sacrifices. To find the man, Ballard must follow a treacherous path while risking what's left of his soul.) Bova, Ben -- Power Surge $24.99 (Dr. Jake Ross has a comprehensive energy plan to make the US the world's leader in energy production while simultaneously boosting the economy and protecting the environment. Science is on Jake's side, but when his plan runs afoul of entrenched interests, he'll need a crash course in how things really work in Washington, DC.) Carlson, Caroline -- The Terror of the Southlands $6.99 (Very Nearly Honorable League of Pirates #2: Ages 8 and up. Despite Hilary's magical know-how and daring, the VNHLP is not convinced she is worthy to be the Terror of the Southlands. When Miss Pimm disappears, Hilary and her crew set off on a high seas adventure to find the missing Enchantress and protect Augusta's magic.) Clamp, Cathy -- Forbidden $14.99 (Sazi: Luna Lake #1: PBO; Ten years have passed since the war that destroyed the Sazi Council and robbed the Sazi of their ability to shapeshift. Luna Lake started as a refugee camp for Sazi orphans. Now Sazi children are being kidnapped. The desperate race to find them forces Claire and Alek to set aside their mutual attraction and focus on the future of their people.) Day, Felicia -- You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) $25.99 (Online entertainment mogul, actress, and geek Felicia Day talks about her upbringing, her career, gaming, feminism, and more in this memoir.) Doyle, Tom -- The Left-Hand Way $24.99 (American Craftsmen #2: Major Endicott's liaison mission to London turns into a desperate chase across Europe, with Endicott both hunter and hunted. Meanwhile, in Istanbul and Tokyo, Endicott's comrades battle for survival against hired assassins and a ghost- powered machine.) Elliott, Kate -- Court of Fives $18.00 (Ages 12 and up. The mixed-race daughter of a Commoner mother and a lowly but Patron-born captain who is making his fortune through military prowess, Jessamy spends her life acting like a proper officer's daughter, except when she sneaks out to train for the Fives, an intricate athletic competition. Her unlikely friendship with Kal, a competitor whose grandmother is a princess, causes heads to turn. When Kal's scheming uncle tears her family apart, Jes will test her new friend's loyalty and risk a royal clan's vengeance to save her mother and sisters.) Fletcher, Charlie -- The Paradox $16.00 (Oversight #2: The Last Hand of the Oversight still patrols the border between the natural and supranatural, but they are unproven. Their vulnerability brings new enemies into the city, and surprising new allies from across the sea. And revelations about the Oversight's past will expose the true peril of the world in which Sharp and Sara are trapped.) Heinlein, Robert A. et al -- Citizen of the Galaxy graphic novel $17.99 (Graphic novel adaptation of the sf coming of age novel.) Hobb, Robin -- Fool's Quest $28.00 (Fitz & the Fool #2: The Fool is near death, maimed by mysterious figures whose plans for world domination hinge upon the powers the Fool may share with Fitz's daughter. Distracted by the Fool's perilous health, and swept up against his will in the intrigues of the royal court, Fitz lets down his guard - and in a horrible instant, his world is undone, his daughter stolen by those who would use her as a weapon. But Fitz is not without weapons of his own.) Hodder, Mark -- The Rise of the Automated Aristocrats $18.00 (Burton & Swinburne #6: PBO; Burton's expedition has returned from the future, bringing knowledge of technologies that must remain secret if history is to unfold as it should. But when one of Burton's colleagues turns rogue, the secrets fall into the hands of those most likely to misuse them.) Hopkinson, Nalo -- Falling in Love with Hominids $15.95 (Collection. Previously uncollected short fiction, including sf and an eclectic mix of modern fantasy and folkore.) Hough, Jason -- Zero World $27.00 (A spaceship that vanished years ago has been found, along with the bodies of its murdered crew - all but one. Technologically enhanced superspy Peter Caswell's mission is to find the missing crew member, who fled through a mysterious doorway, beyond which lies a world that seems to be Earth's twin. Peter must track his quarry alone on an alien world.) James, Elliott -- Fearless $16.00 (Pax Arcana #3: PBO; Someone has declared war on college student Kevin Kichida. The attacks seem to be a pattern, and the more John Charming and his team follow that thread, the more he feels that Kevin isn't just a victim, he's a sacrifice waiting to happen. And that thread? It's really a fuse.) North, Phoebe -- Starbreak $10.99 (Starglass #2: Ages 12 and up. Arriving on Zehava, Terra and Aleksandra lock horns about how to reach the alien city, only to wind up taken there as prisoners. Aleksandra plans to use violence to lead their band to freedom. When she gets humanity expelled from the planet, it's up to Terra to unite her people and forge an alliance with the alien hosts.) Patrick, Seth -- Lost Souls $26.99 (Reviver #2: While reviving a murder victim to testify in court, Jonah Miller encounters a terrifying presence. When long-hidden secrets are uncovered, Jonah's chilling conclusion is that an ancient evil is coming - and Jonah may be all that stands in its way.) Riordan, Rick -- Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes $24.99 (Percy Jackson: Ages 12 and up. Who cut off Medusa's head? Who was raised by a bear? Who tamed Pegasus? It takes a demigod to know, and Percy Jackson can fill you in.) Scalzi, John -- The End of All Things $24.99 (Old Man's War #6: Four novellas. CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson and the Colonial Union diplomats he works with race against the clock to discover who is behind attacks on the Union and on alien races, to seek peace with a suspicious angry Earth, and to keep humanity's union intact.) Swanwick, Michael -- Chasing the Phoenix $26.99 (Darger & Surplus #2: In the distant future, Darger and Surplus travel to what was once China. Pretending to have limited superpowers, they aid an ambitious warlord who dreams of conquering and reuniting China under one ruler. But it seems as if there are other forces at work behind the scenes.) Vernon, Ursula -- Harriet the Invincible $12.99 (Hamster Princess #1: Ages 8 and up. Harriet finds royal life rather dull. Her parents tell her of a curse placed on her at birth, dooming her to prick her finger on a hamster wheel when she's 12 and fall into a deep sleep. For Harriet, this is great news - it means she's invincible until she's 12! And so begins a life of adventure - until her 12th birthday arrives and the curse manifests in a most unexpected way.) Weeks, Brent -- The Broken Eye $17.00 (Lightbringer #3: As the old gods awaken and satrapies splinter, the Chromeria races to find the only man who can still end a civil war. But Gavin Guile has been enslaved on a pirate galley. Worse still, he can't use magic at all. Without the protection of his father, Kip Guile will have to use all his wits to survive a secret war between noble houses, religious factions, rebels, and an ascendant order of assassins.) Wendig, Chuck -- Zer0es $25.99 (Five hackers are offered a choice: go to prison, or put their skills to work for the US government. They discover that behind the scenes lurks a sinister NSA program - an AI codenamed Typhon - with disturbing origins. And if it's not brought down soon, it will be uncontrollable.) Wilson, D/Adams, J (ed) -- Press Start to Play $15.95 (PBO; Anthology. Stories that put videogames and the people who play them in the spotlight.) Wyndham, John -- Chocky $14.95 (Reissue; Matthew's Chocky has lots of questions. Why are there two sexes? Why can't Matthew solve his math homework using a logical system like binary code? When Chocky's questions become too advanced, and too odd, for Matthew's teachers to answer, his parents begin to wonder if Chocky might be something even stranger than a figment of Matthew's imagination.)

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-- Mystery Scene #138 $7.50 (Articles about Rizzoli & Isles; Michael Sears; legal thrillers; more.) -- Mystery Scene #139 $7.50 (Articles about John Sandford; Cara Black; streaming TV crime; more.) Allen, Nancy -- A Killing at the Creek $11.99 (Ozarks #2: PBO; When a body is found under a bridge, throat cut, prosecutor Elsie Arnold jumps at the chance to work on a murder case. But when the only suspect turns out to be a 15- year-old boy, Elsie's in for more than she bargained for.) Bass, Jefferson -- Jordan's Stormy Banks $3.99 (Body Farm: Novella. 1990: Called to a rural crime scene, Dr. Bill Brockton runs afoul of both the county sheriff and an angry mob intent on administering rough justice.) Boyer, Susan M. -- Lowcountry Boneyard $15.95 (Liz Talbot #3: Hired to locate a missing heiress, PI Liz Talbot discovers that the woman's wealthy family has plenty of secrets.) Clark, Mary Higgins -- Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories $26.00 (Collection. 10 short works of suspense fiction.) Collins, Max Allan -- Strip for Murder $9.9500 (Reissue; Maggie Starr, a former striptease artist who now distributes comic strips through her late husband's newspaper syndicate, teams up with her stepson Jack to investigate when the rivalry between a pair of cartoonists ends in homicide.) Collins, Paul -- Duel with the Devil $16.00 (Edgar finalist, best fact crime. Nonfiction. Manhattan, 1799: When Quaker Elma Sands was found murdered, suspicion fell on one of her suitors, carpenter Levi Weeks. Bitter rivals and teamed up to defend him.) Coombs, L.F.E. -- Sherlock Holmes Plays the Game $16.95 (Collection. These stories involve Holmes and Watson with a lost Shakespeare manuscript, illusions, railways, airships, kidnapping of animals and people, testing of alibis, coded messages, advanced communications, and electric weapons.) Cotterill, Colin -- The Axe Factor $16.99 (Jimm Juree #3: Several local women have left the rural Thai village of Maprao without a word, leaving their possessions behind. These include Dr. Sumlak, who never returned from a conference, and the Thai wife of Conrad Coralbank, an Englishman who writes award- winning crime novels. All of which looks a bit suspicious, especially to Jimm's ex-cop grandfather, who notices Coralbank's interest in Jimm with a very jaundiced eye.) Coyne, Rachel L. -- The Patron Saint of Lost Comfort Lake $15.95 (PBO; Jane's world of barely hidden alcoholism and failing relationships crumbles when her mother finds a dead body on the lake shore near their Minnesota home.) Creasey, John -- Gideon's Fire $14.95 (George Gideon #07: Reissue; Edgar winner, best novel. Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard has to deal with a mass murderer, a depraved maniac, and the deaths of a family in an arson attack on an old building south of the river.) Creasey, John -- No Relaxation at Scotland Yard (alternate title: Gideon's Men) $14.95 (George Gideon #18: Reissue; Gideon deals with a murder, for which a bicycle with a loose- fitting mudguard holds a clue. Moreover, a collapsed building has trapped many, and a man serving a sentence for a crime he hadn't committed is about to receive an unauthorized visitor.) Creasey, John -- Here Comes the Toff $12.95 (Richard Rollison #04: Reissue; As a killer's pace and confidence grow, every social call brings Richard Rollison, aka the Toff, closer to death.) Creasey, John -- The Toff and the Deadly Priest (alternate title: The Toff and the Curate / The Toff and the Deadly Parson) $12.95 (Richard Rollison #12: Reissue; Reverend Ronald Kemp went to London's East End with definite ideas of right and wrong, but the East Enders had ideas of their own, and his world was torn apart as he met murderers, prize fighters, and the law-bending Richard Rollison, aka the Toff. Can the Toff save the Reverend, and himself, from an untimely end?) Creasey, John -- The Creepers (alternate title: Inspector West Cries Wolf) $16.95 (Roger West #10: Reissue; She lay across the bed, with coagulated blood on and around her. Her husband was in the next bed, his throat cut. Inspector West must come to grips with a spreading web of violence, but where to start? What clues are there?) Daly, Elizabeth -- Night Walk $14.95 (Henry Gamadge #12: Reissue; When murder intrudes on a small, sedate village in upstate New York, Henry Gamadge arrives to solve the mystery and restore order.) Daly, Elizabeth -- The Book of the Lion $14.95 (Henry Gamadge #13: Reissue; It looks like a routine job for Henry Gamadge: examine the papers of a poet and playwright who was murdered in Central Park. But add in a dead witness and the family's odd behavior? Something decidedly criminal is afoot.) Doherty, Paul -- Candle Flame $15.95 (Brother Athelstan #13: London, 1381: When unrest over tax demands boils over, and tax collectors and their military escort are murdered at a Southwark tavern, Regent John of Gaunt orders Brother Athelstan to investigate.) Edwards, Martin (ed) -- Guilty Parties $17.95 (Anthology. 24 original stories by members of the UK Crime Writers' Association.) Florence, Peter (ed) -- OxCrimes $15.95 (PBO; A benefit anthology for UK charity Oxfam, featuring 27 crime stories (23 originals, 4 reprints) by top authors) Fluke, Joanne -- Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder (movie tie-in) $7.99 (Hannah Swensen #01: Reissue; Plus bonus novella 'Candy for Christmas'. When the beloved delivery man from the Cozy Cow Dairy is found murdered behind Hannah's bakery, with her cookies scattered around him, Hannah sets out to track down a killer. Includes recipes.) Furst, Alan -- Midnight in Europe $16.00 (Paris, 1938: Spanish lawyer Cristian Ferrar is asked to help a clandestine agency that is trying desperately to supply weapons to the Spanish Republican Army. Joining Ferrar in this mission is an unlikely group of idealists, gangsters, arms traders, aristocrats, and spies. Across the continent, Ferrar and his allies do battle with the secret agents of Hitler and Franco.) Goodis, David -- Night Squad $15.99 (Reissue; Crooked ex-cop Corey Bradshaw turns out to be an ideal candidate for an underground police squad.) Goodis, David -- Nightfall (alternate titles: The Dark Chase / Convicted) $13.99 (Reissue; He could remember the gun in his hand, the man in front of him, and then the blood. He could remember the woods, the satchel of money, and the gang of killers closing in. What he couldn't figure was the woman. Could he trust her?) Goodrich, Clifford -- Dealers in Death / The Yacht Club Murders $14.95 (Phantom Detective #2: Pulp reprints) Goodrich, Clifford -- The Death Roses / Murder Brotherhood $14.95 (Whisperer #7: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell -- Treasures of Death / The Yellow Door $14.95 (Shadow #89: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell -- The Lone Tiger / The Muggers $14.95 (Shadow #90: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell -- The Red Menace / The Black Circle $14.95 (Shadow #91: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell -- Murder House / Death in the Crystal $14.95 (Shadow #92: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell -- Brothers of Doom / The Three Brothers $14.95 (Shadow #93: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell -- Q / Formula for Crime $14.95 (Shadow #94: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell -- The China Tapestry / The Jade Dragon $14.95 (Shadow #95: Pulp reprints) Grossman, Gary -- Old Earth $17.95 (A dig in Montana leads paleontologists Quinn McCauley and Katrina Alpert to a centuries-old secret - one that threatens religions and governments - that powerful people are determined to conceal.) Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia -- Hard Going $15.95 (Bill Slider #16: During his week off, Slider is saved from the horrors of a shopping trip with his kids when a well-known local philanthropist is bashed in the head with a bronze statue. The investigation turns up scant evidence, but far too many suspects.) Hauka, Donald J. -- Securities $10.99 (Hakeem Jinnah #1: PBO; Politically-incorrect reporter Hakeem Jinnah covers Vancouver's crime beat - when he isn't flirting, or seeking investors for a mail-order-bride scheme. As he and another reporter compete to cover a shady stock promoter's death, Jinnah winds up embroiled in a murder investigation.) Hauka, Donald J. -- She Demons $11.99 (Hakeem Jinnah #2: PBO; Racing to find a killer and help save his buddy Sergeant Graham's career, reporter Hakeem Jinnah becomes entangled in a cultic web that threatens his friends, his family, and his life.) Hooper, Kay -- A Deadly Web $9.99 (Bishop Files #2: PBO; When psychic Tasha Solomon finds herself embroiled in a deadly game, the only person she can trust is John Brodie, a Guardian devoted to protecting psychics from a deadly, ruthless, and virtually invisible enemy.) Jennings, Maureen -- No Known Grave $22.95 (Tom Tyler #3: PBO; Arthur Ellis finalist, best novel. 1942: At a convalescent hospital, staffed by Anglican nuns devoted to helping victims of war, DI Tom Tyler investigates a double murder.) Johnson, Lacy M. -- The Other Side: A Memoir $15.95 (Edgar finalist, best fact crime. Nonfiction. Johnson recounts the events leading to her kidnapping, rape, and imprisonment by her ex-boyfriend; her dramatic escape; and her hard-fought struggle to recover.) Lee, Amanda -- Wicked Stitch $7.99 (Embroidery #8: PBO; Marcy's nemesis Nellie and her sister Clara have set up competing booths right next to Marcy's at the Tallulah Falls Renaissance Faire. When Clara is strangled with the scarf she had almost finished knitting, Marcy becomes prime suspect.) Ludwig, Jerry -- Blacklist $15.99 (David and Jana were Hollywood's golden children. Their screenwriter fathers mingled with stars and moguls, until the House Un-American Activities Committee sent David and his parents into exile in Europe, while Jana's father testified and became a famous director. Years later, when people with ties to HUAC and to David's father begin turning up dead, long- buried secrets are dragged into the open.) Marsh, Ngaio -- Spinsters in Jeopardy (alternate title: The Bride of Death) $14.95 (Roderick Alleyn #17: Reissue; Inspector Alleyn heads to the south of France for a family vacation and a little official poking around. But the cultish denizens of a sinister, luxurious chateau aren't fond of being poked, and have an unpleasant way of getting their point across.) Marsh, Ngaio -- Scales of Justice $14.95 (Roderick Alleyn #18: Reissue; Inspector Alleyn investigates when a local aristocrat turns up dead next to the local trout-stream in a charming little English village.) Marsh, Ngaio -- Death of a Fool (alternate title: Off With His Head) $14.95 (Roderick Alleyn #19: Reissue; This may be 1957, but the village of South Mardian still has a blacksmith, a , and an elaborate fertility ritual performed at the winter solstice. Inspector Alleyn investigates when one of the ritual's main players is beheaded with a sword.) Marsh, Ngaio -- Singing in the Shrouds $14.95 (Roderick Alleyn #20: Reissue; On a ship with a passenger-list and crew fairly littered with the shifty, the twitchy, the peculiar, and the up-to-no-good, a strangler with a romantic streak is leaving his ladies with a flower and a charming little song. Inspector Alleyn comes aboard to investigate.) Massey, Jeremy -- The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley $25.95 (One night, undertaker Paddy Buckley hits a pedestrian crossing the street. When he discovers it's the brother of a Dublin mobster - dead - Paddy drives away. Next day, Paddy finds himself assigned to oversee the funeral arrangements. When events go awry, he is plunged into an unexpected eddy of intrigue, deceit, and treachery.) Miller, Wade -- Kitten With a Whip / Kiss Her Goodbye $19.95 (Omnibus reprint of 2 noir crime thrillers from the 1950s.) Myers, Tamar -- The Death of Pie $15.95 (Pennsylvania Dutch #19: During the Festival of Pies, an acid-penned novelist falls dead into Magdalena Yoder's prize-winning entry. Who was enraged enough to want to poison the writer?) O'Donnell, P/Romero, E -- The Killing Distance: Guido the Jinx / The Killing Distance / The Aristo $19.95 (: PBO; Reprints classic black & white comic strips featuring three adventures of detective Modesty Blaise and her trusty henchman Willie Garvin.) Offord, Lenore Glen -- Skeleton Key $14.95 (Todd & Georgine #1: Reissue; San Francisco, 1942: Georgine Wyeth is a widow with a young daughter, paying the rent by typing for a scientific gentleman. When an air raid warden is run down during a blackout, she and pulp writer Todd McKinnon wind up involved in the investigation.) Oppenheim, E. Phillips -- Ghosts & Gamblers: The Further Uncollected Stories $19.95 (PBO; Reprints a romantic thriller, 6 stories featuring wealthy adventurer Andrew Tresholm, plus 12 tales of espionage, romance, adventure, and comedy.) Paul, Elliot -- Hugger-Mugger in the Louvre $12.95 (Homer Evans #2: Reissue; The Paris police are baffled at the disappearance of a rare Watteau print. Master sleuth Homer Evans and his sharpshooting girlfriend trace bizarre clues to uncover a plot involving fraud, kidnapping, and murder.) Plantinga, Adam -- 400 Things Cops Know $14.95 (Agatha finalist, best nonfiction. Nearly everyone has wondered what it's like to be a police officer, but no civilian really understands what happens on the job. This book, written by a veteran police sergeant, shows police work - which can range from rewarding to bizarre to terrifying in the course of a single shift - from the viewpoint of the regular cop on the beat.) Quertermous, Bryon -- Murder Boy $14.00 (PBO; When his elitist thesis advisor refuses to accept his crime fiction as classwork, Dominick Prince decides to force the issue by kidnapping the man - a plan that goes horribly wrong.) Rabe, Peter -- Dig My Grave Deep / The Out Is Death / It's My Funeral $21.95 (Daniel Port #1 / #2 / #3: Omnibus reprint of 3 noir novels from the 1950s featuring criminal deal- broker Daniel Port.) Rabe, Peter -- Kill the Boss Good-By / Mission of Vengeance $19.95 (Omnibus reprint of 2 noir crime thrillers from the 1950s.) Rohmer, Sax -- Bat Wing / Fire-Tongue $19.95 (Omnibus reprint of 2 occult mysteries from the 1920s, featuring investigator Paul Harley.) Roslund/Hellstrom -- Three Seconds $9.99 (Ewert Grens #4: A botched prison drug deal involving an undercover Swedish police operative results in a murder. Detective Inspector Ewert Grens' determination to find the killer threatens to expose the operative's true identity - and may reveal even bigger crimes involving the highest levels of power.) Spencer, Octavia -- The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit $7.99 (Randi Rhodes #1: Ages 8 and up. When the Deer Creek Founder's Day Festival's main attraction, a time capsule that people believe hold the town's treasure, goes missing, 12-year-old Randi Rhodes and her best friend D.C. are determined to solve the case.) Stockbridge, Grant -- The City Destroyer / The Pain Emperor $14.95 (Spider #05: Pulp reprints) Temple, Peter -- White Dog $14.95 (Jack Irish #4: Reissue; Ned Kelly winner, best novel. Jack has a new job, hunting for evidence that might save sculptor Sarah Longmore from a murder rap.) Tope, Rebecca -- The Ambleside Alibi $11.99 (Lake District #2: Sinister secrets come creeping into the light after Simmy delivers a bouquet with a cryptic message attached to an elderly woman. When another old woman is murdered, Simmy is drawn into the investigation when the prime suspects names her as an alibi.) Wilson, Laura -- The Wrong Man (UK title: A Capital Crime) $14.95 (Ted Stratton #3: Diana Calthrop is looking a bit tarnished, her catastrophic taste in men catching up with her. Could straightforward Inspector Ted Stratton be her rescuer? With his wife dead, his children distant, and a case he just can't shake, he'd have to rescue himself first.)

Early June

Aarons, Kathy -- Truffled to Death $7.99 (Chocolate Covered #2: PBO; Michelle and Erica host a reception highlighting a museum display of ancient Mayan pottery. When the antiquities from the reception go missing, the curator accuses Erica - and she's in even more trouble when the curator is found stabbed with one of the artifacts.) Ahmad, A.X. -- The Last Taxi Ride $16.99 (Ranjit Singh #2: When a Bollywood film icon is murdered, her body found in the apartment where Ranjit ate dinner mere hours earlier, his only credible alibi is the dead woman's Indian doorman, who has vanished. Ranjit's search for the missing man takes him through the underbelly of NYC.) Arlidge, M.J. -- Eeny Meeny $15.00 (Helen Grace #1: Two people were abducted, imprisoned, and left with a gun. After hunger and thirst set in, only one walked away alive. The twisted crime has DI Helen Grace baffled - until more people go missing, and it all starts to make terrifying sense.) Atkinson, Kate -- A God in Ruins $28.00 (After all Ursula Todd's beloved younger brother Teddy endured in battle, his greatest challenge is living in the future he never expected to have. Would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather, he navigates the perils and progress of the rapidly changing world of the 20th century.) Averbeck, Jim -- A Hitch at the Fairmont $7.99 (Ages 8 and up. 1956: 11-year-old Jack is determined to find out who kidnapped his aunt, and the truth behind his mother's death. He finds an unlikely accomplice in Alfred Hitchcock, on a madcap journey full of hidden doorways, secret societies, cryptic clues, and sinister villains.) Berenson, Laurien -- Death of a Dog Whisperer $7.99 (Melanie Travis #17: Well-heeled dog owners are excited about Nick, a self- proclaimed 'dog whisperer', and anxious to find out what their pets are thinking - until the pooches start spilling their owners' secrets. When Nick turns up dead, his sister asks Melanie to help track down the killer.) Bertman, Jennifer C. -- Book Scavenger $16.99 (Ages 9 and up. Garrison Grisworld created Book Scavenger, an online game where books are hidden around the globe, with clues for finding them revealed through puzzles. After an attack leaves Griswold in a coma, 12-year-old Emily and her friend James discover an odd book, which they come to believe contains the only copy of Griswold's newest game. Rushing from clue to clue, can they find the secret at the heart of the game before Griswold's attackers find them?) Blevins, W/Blevins, M -- The Darkness Rolling $25.99 (Yazzie Goldman has returned from WWII to help run his family's Monument Valley trading post. John Ford is making a movie nearby, and enlists Yazzie to serve as a translator, and as a bodyguard for actress Linda Darnell. When someone sends Linda threatening letters, Yazzie investigates.) Brackett, Leigh -- Stranger at Home $9.99 (Reissue; Originally published in 1947, as by the actor George Sanders. A rich heel comes back to get even with those who left him for dead.) Brookmyre, Christopher -- Dead Girl Walking $25.00 (Jack Parlabane #6: A call for help from an old friend puts disgraced journalist Jack Parlabane on the trail of missing rock star Heike Gunn.) Brown, D/DeFelice, J -- Target Utopia $9.99 (Dreamland #16: PBO; When a mysterious UAV is spotted helping Islamist extremists in Malaysia, the Whiplash team is sent to investigate.) Brown, Rita&Sneaky Pie -- Tail Gait $26.00 (Mrs. Murphy #23: When a beloved history professor is gunned down on the golf course in broad daylight, Harry and her furry cohorts begin nosing into the case.) Cain, Chelsea -- One Kick $7.99 (Kick Lannigan #1: 21-year-old Kick was abducted at age 6, and found alive 5 years later. Nothing helped her PTSD until she learned to fight. 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Connolly, Sheila -- Privy to the Dead $7.99 (Nell Pratt #6: PBO; Museum renovations have barely begun when a construction worker discovers something interesting in the basement, only to be killed in a car accident soon after. Now Nell must unearth a mystery with ties to the past.) Cooke, Ronald J. -- The Mayor of Cote St. Paul $13.95 (Depression-era : Struggling writer Dave Manley's luck turns, for good and bad, when he meets Cherie, a looker who does dirty work for a crime boss.) Craig, Elizabeth Spann -- Tying the Knot $7.99 (Southern Quilting #5: PBO; Wedding bells are ringing in Dappled Hill, North Carolina. But when the festivities take an unexpected turn, Beatrice must get crafty to catch a killer wedding-crasher.) Crawford, Isis -- A Catered Fourth of July $7.99 (Simmons Sisters #10: Libby and Bernie are catering the town's Revolutionary War battle reenactment. When playboy Jack Devlin is shot, and Libby's beau becomes a suspect, Bernie and Libby get cooking on the case.) Cussler, C/Brown, G -- Ghost Ship $9.99 (NUMA Files #12: After being injured, Kurt Austin has fragmented and conflicting memories of a rescue attempt. Not trusting either version of his recollections, he searches for answers, uncovering a pattern of vanishing scientists, suspicious accidents, and human trafficking.) Cussler, C/Morrison, B -- Piranha $28.95 (Oregon Files #10: In 1902, a volcano erupts on Martinique, wiping out a city and sinking a ship carrying a German scientist on the verge of an astonishing breakthrough. More than a century later, Juan Cabrillo and his crew will have to deal with the scientist's legacy.) Davis, Krista -- The Diva Steals a Chocolate Kiss $7.99 (Domestic Diva #9: PBO; In charge of a chocolate company's 50th anniversary party, Sophie turns sleuth when the host goes missing and a competitor is found dead in the guesthouse.) Davis, Lindsey -- Enemies at Home $15.99 (Flavia Albia #2: When two Romans are murdered in their homes, the law decrees that all their slaves will be put to death if the killer can't be identified. When the slaves take refuge at the Temple of Ceres, the authorities turn to Flavia Albia to solve the murders.) DeMille, Nelson -- Radiant Angel $28.00 (John Corey #7: When a Russian colonel posing as a diplomat disappears from a party in Southampton, it's up to Corey, who is now working for the Diplomatic Surveillance Group, to track him down.) Deva, Mukul -- Weapon of Vengeance $9.99 (Ruby Gill is a rogue MI6 agent, child of an Indian father and a Palestinian mother. Her mission is to destroy a Palestinian-Israeli peace summit in New Delhi. Ravinder Gill, now head of India's antiterrorist police, believes his estranged daughter has come for a reunion - until he begins to suspect she is the terrorist he's searching for.) Duffy, Seamus -- Sherlock Holmes and the Four Corners of Hell $29.95 (Collection. Three new adventures of the Great Detective.) Dundas, Zach -- The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes $26.00 (Nonfiction. Journalist and lifelong Sherlock fan Dundas explores the origins, life, and afterlives of pop culture's favorite sleuth.) Edwards, Martin (ed) -- Capital Crimes: London Mysteries $12.95 (Anthology. London-based crime stories by classic British authors.) Edwards, Martin (ed) -- Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries $12.95 (Anthology. Stories from the golden age of British crime fiction, with settings ranging from a seaside golf course to a pension in Paris to a Swiss mountain resort.) Erickson, Alex -- Death by Coffee $7.99 (PBO; On their very first day in business, bookstore cafe owners Krissy and Vicki wind up investigating when a customer ends up dead. How could there have been peanuts in his coffee? And who stole his emergency allergy medication?) Evanovich, Janet -- Top Secret Twenty-One $8.99 (Stephanie Plum #21: Death threats, highly trained assassins, highly untrained assassins, and Stark Street being overrun with a pack of feral Chihuahuas are all in a day's work for Stephanie Plum.) Evanovich, Janet -- Top Secret Twenty-one $14.99 (Stephanie Plum #21: Unabridged. Death threats, highly trained assassins, highly untrained assassins, and Stark Street being overrun with a pack of feral Chihuahuas are all in a day's work for Stephanie Plum.) Falconer, Colin -- Colossus $26.99 (323 BCE: Alexander the Great is planning to conquer Carthage, aided by his powerful war elephants. Elephant trainer Gajendra begins a meteoric rise through the ranks of the Macedonian army, protected by fierce war elephant Colossus.) Fitzgerald, Laura Marx -- Under the Egg $7.99 (Ages 8 and up. 13-year old Theodora spills rubbing alcohol on her late grandfather's painting, and discovers what seems to be an old masterpiece underneath. But her grandfather was a museum guard, and she worries the painting may be stolen. With the help of some unusual new friends, her search for answers introduces her to a side of Manhattan - and her grandfather - that she never knew.) Fury, Dalton -- Full Assault Mode $9.99 (Delta Force #3: With al Qaeda deploying their deadliest terrorists to detonate a bomb inside of a US nuclear power plant, Kolt Raynor joins an ultra-secret deep-cover group and is tasked with infiltrating al Qaeda to stop the plot.) Gardiner, Meg -- Phantom Instinct $7.99 (A year ago, a shootout at a trendy Los Angeles club ended with Harper's boyfriend dead, deputy Aiden Garrison with a traumatic brain injury, and two gunmen engulfed in flames. 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But his son Max has questions, and the search for answers leads to a tangle of secret allegiances, international espionage, and double-crosses at the highest levels of government.) Golemon, David L. -- Overlord $7.99 (Event Group #9: The has begun. Only one element in Earth's arsenal can possibly give a fighting chance at survival: The Matchstick Man. But who is this small being, exactly? Can he be trusted? Meanwhile, the Event Group has learned that they may hold the clue to salvation inside their own artifact vault.) Grant, Andrew -- Run $9.99 (Computer consultant Marc Bowman has been fired without cause or notice, strange men are following him, things are disappearing from his home, and the FBI is questioning him about past projects. Then his wife Carolyn suddenly vanishes.) Harper, Tom -- Zodiac Station $14.99 (The crew of a US Coast Guard icebreaker searches for the truth of what happened at an Arctic research station. 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Hollis, Lee -- Death of a Cupcake Queen $7.99 (Hayley Powell #6: PBO; At her high school reunion, Hayley dreads seeing the trio of mean girls who used to torment her. Then one of them is murdered. Is someone out to teach the mean girls a lesson? And can Hayley get the scoop without winding up in the obituaries?) Hood, Ann (ed) -- Providence Noir $15.95 (PBO; Anthology. Original stories set in Providence, RI.) Housewright, David -- Unidentified Woman #15 $25.99 (Mac McKenzie #12: The nearly lifeless body of a woman is dumped on the road right in front of Mac's car. She awakens with no memory. With few leads, detective Bobby Dunston turns to Mac for help identifying the woman, and finding out who dumped her and why; Signed copies expected) Jance, J.A. -- Stand Down $3.99 (J.P. Beaumont: Novella. Beau accepts that he has left his detective days behind. 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Knox, Annie -- Collared for Murder $7.99 (Pet Boutique #3: PBO; The Midwestern Cat Fanciers arrive in Merryville for their annual retreat; trouble ensues when the cat show prize disappears and the director is murdered.) Kornetsky, L.A. -- Clawed $7.99 (Mallard & Tonica #4: PBO; Ginny and her shar-pei Georgie head to Portland to plan an event, only to discover a body in the client's house. Unable to resist sleuthing, Ginny uncovers identity theft and forgery with some help from her partner Teddy and Penny the cat.) Kovaly, Heda Margolius -- Innocence, or, Murder on Steep Street $25.95 (1950s Prague: When a little boy is murdered at the cinema where his aunt works, the ensuing investigation sheds a little too much light on the personal lives of the cinema's ushers, each of whom is hiding a dark secret of her own.) Larsson, Asa -- The Second Deadly Sin $14.99 (Rebecka Martinsson #5: When a woman is found murdered, her orphaned grandson missing, Rebecka Martinsson begins to delve into the victim's tragic family history.) Laurie, Victoria -- Fatal Fortune $7.99 (Psychic Eye #12: When the police show Abby video of her best friend Candice shooting a man, and tell her that the victim has ties to the Las Vegas mob - and Candice may too - Abby can't believe it. With Candice nowhere to be found, Abby heads to Vegas to get some answers.) Lawson, Jessica -- Nooks & Crannies $16.99 (Ages 8 and up. Tabitha doesn't have a friend in the world except her pet mouse Pemberley. When she and 5 other children are invited to a country estate, the other children begin disappearing. With Pemberley at her side, Tabitha sets out to solve the mystery.) Leather, Stephen -- White Lies $13.95 (Spider Shepherd #11: When his former apprentice is seized and tortured by extremists in Pakistan, Shepherd embarks on a rescue mission with SAS and Pakistani Special Forces soldiers. Then Shepherd is captured - almost as if someone set a trap.) MacBride, Stuart -- The Missing and the Dead $25.99 (Logan McRae #9: Acting DI Logan McRae's latest posting is a 'development opportunity' in rural Aberdeenshire, catching drug dealers, shoplifters, vandals, and the occasional escaped farm animal. Then a girl's body washes up just outside the sleepy town, bringing the Major Investigation Team from Aberdeen. As his old colleagues stomp around the countryside, Logan gets dragged into the investigation.) Maron, Margaret -- Designated Daughters $8.00 (Deborah Knott #19: Agatha finalist, best contemporary. Deborah's dying Aunt Rachel breaks weeks of silence with snippets of seemingly random stories, only to be smothered moments later. As Deborah and Dwight investigate an unlikely set of suspects, they soon realize the key to the case is hidden in Rachel's final words.) Martini, Steve -- The Second Man $4.99 (Paul Madriani: Novella. Paul Madriani agrees to represent a Navy SEAL, who may face criminal prosecution for violating the nondisclosure agreement the military required him to sign. Then his client disappears. How far is the military willing to go to bury its secrets?) Matthews, Jason -- Palace of Treason $26.99 (Egorova & Nash #2: SVR agent Dominika Egorova is back in Moscow, but she despises the oligarchs and thugs of Putin's Russia, and is working as a for the CIA. Her romantic involvement with CIA handler Nate Nash adds to her risk. And when a mole in the SVR finds her name on a restricted list of sources, it's a virtual death sentence.) McCafferty, Keith -- Dead Man's Fancy $16.00 (Sean Stranahan #3: Sheriff Martha Ettinger and fly-fishing PI Sean Stranahan face their most dangerous case yet when a beautiful woman known as the Fly Fishing Venus goes missing and a man is found impaled on an elk antler.) McGowan, Claire -- The Dead Ground $12.95 (Paula Maguire #2: Forensic psychologist Paula Maguire is asked to help find a baby taken from a local hospital. Then the ritualistic murder of a woman in a remote stone circle is connected to the kidnapping, and another child and a pregnant woman disappear.) McMillen, R.J. -- Black Tide Rising $14.95 (Dan Connor #2: PBO; Traveling up the coast of British Columbia, retired cop Dan Connor stops for a visit with the lighthouse keepers of Nootka Island, and finds himself pulled into a case involving a missing woman and the mutilated remains of a sacred totem.) O'Bryan, Laurence -- The Jerusalem Puzzle $12.99 (Ryan & Sharp #2: An archaeologist has been found dead in the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem, and a scientist who was translating an ancient document is missing. As Sean Ryan and Isabel Sharp try to piece together the mystery behind these events, they are drawn into a deadly game.) Parra, Nancy J. -- Bodice of Evidence $7.99 (Perfect Proposals #2: PBO; The search for the perfect wedding gown for Pepper's sister Felicity hits a bump when they find the owner of a bridal boutique lying dead in the alley.) Pastor, Ben -- Tin Sky $14.95 (Martin Bora #4: Ukraine, 1943: German counterintelligence officer Martin Bora investigates when two Russian generals in his custody die within hours of each other.) Patterson, J/Ledwidge, M -- Zoo (TV tie-in edition) $8.00 (Reissue; All over the world, brutal attacks are crippling cities. 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Pryor, Mark -- The Reluctant Matador $15.95 (Hugo Marston #5: PBO; When Bart Denum's daughter disappears in Paris, he turns to his old friend Hugo Marston for help finding her.) Racculia, Kate -- Bellweather Rhapsody $14.95 (15 years ago, a murder-suicide in room 712 rocked the Bellweather Hotel. Now, when a young musical prodigy goes missing from the infamous room, the search for her entwines an eccentric cast.) Rollins, James -- The 6th Extinction $9.99 (SIGMA Force #10: A remote research station sends out a distress call, ending with a chilling final command: Kill us all! Personnel from the neighboring base discover everyone is already dead - every living thing for fifty square miles. The land is entirely sterile, and the blight is spreading. Commander Gray Pierce and SIGMA must unravel a threat that rises out of the distant past.) Roslund/Hellstrom -- Two Soldiers $9.99 (Ewert Grens #5: When two teenage gangsters kidnap a female guard while executing a maximum-security prison break, Jose Pereira of the Organized Crime section teams up with DCI Ewert Grens to track them down.) Ross, Ian James -- The War at the Edge of the World $26.95 (Twilight of Empire #1: Once a soldier in an elite legion from the Danube, Castus is now stuck in Britannia. When an envoy goes to negotiate with the Picts, Castus is chosen to command the bodyguard. The diplomatic mission ends in bloody tragedy, and Castus and his men must fight for their lives.) Rowling, JK/Galbraith, R -- The Silkworm $18.00 (Cormoran Strike #2: After a novelist completes a manuscript that would ruin lives, then disappears, PI Cormoran Strike is hired to investigate.) Roy, Lori -- Let Me Die in His Footsteps $26.95 (In 1936, Juna Crowley came of age. Joseph Carl Baine looked into her eyes, and they made him do things that cost innocent people their lives. Sheriff Irlene Fulkerson saw justice served - or did she? In 1952, Annie Holleran comes of age. Her Aunt Juna will come home now to finish what she started. To save herself, her family, and her Kentucky town, Annie must prepare for Juna's return, and the revelation of what really happened all those years ago.) Sefton, Maggie -- Yarn Over Murder $7.99 (Knitting #12: When Andrea Holt is found dead and suspicion falls on longtime House of Lambspun employee Connie, Kelly and the knitters must untangle the crime.) Sefton, Maggie -- Purl Up and Die $25.95 (Knitting #13: When a young woman accuses Barb's son Tommy of assaulting her, then turns up dead, Kelly and the knitters must unravel the truth from the lies to clear Tommy's name.) Shelton, Paige -- Bushel Full of Murder $7.99 (Farmers' Market #6: PBO; A fleet of food trucks has arrived for a two-week visit at the Farmers' Market. Tensions between truck operators and market vendors over their required licenses reach a crescendo when the town's business manager is murdered.) Simenon, Georges -- The Saint-Fiacre Affair (alternate title: Maigret Goes Home / Maigret and the Countess / Maigret on Home Ground) $11.00 (Maigret #13: Reissue; An ominous note, predicting the time and place of a death, takes Maigret back to his birthplace.) Slaughter, Karin -- Blindsighted $9.99 (Grant County #01: Reissue; New Blood Dagger shortlist, best first novel. There's a serial killer at work in Heartsdale, Georgia - one whose identity is hidden somewhere in coroner Sara Linton's secret past.) Slaughter, Karin -- Kisscut $9.99 (Grant County #02: Reissue; When an argument at the local skating rink leads to death, coroner Sara Linton uncovers evidence of self-mutilation and long-term abuse, but her investigation is frustrated at every turn by the cold silence of the family and friends of the slain girl.) Stella, Charlie -- Eddie's World $9.99 (Reissue; Suffering a midlife crisis, Eddie Senta decides to get involved in a heist. Everything that can go wrong, does.) Stevens, Chevy -- Never Knowing $7.99 (34- year-old Sara Gallagher sets out to find her birth parents, only to learn that her biological father is a serial killer who has been hunting women for over 30 years. And now he's found out about her.) Stevens, Chevy -- That Night $15.99 (When her sister was murdered years ago, Toni and her boyfriend Ryan went to prison for the crime. Now Toni is on parole in her hometown, trying to avoid being sent back to prison. But nothing is making that easy: not Ryan, who thinks he can figure out the truth; not her mother, who doubts Toni's innocence; and not the women who made Toni's life hell in high school and may have darker secrets than anyone realizes.) Thor, Brad -- Act of War $9.99 (After a CIA agent dies overseas, his top asset surfaces with a terrifying claim. Can she be trusted? Then six exchange students go missing, two airline passengers trade places, and an asylum seeker is arrested. The US President turns to covert operative Scot Harvath to help carry out two dangerous missions.) Todd, Charles -- A Test of Wills $14.99 (Ian Rutledge #1: Reissue; New Blood Dagger, Edgar, and Anthony finalist, best first novel. 1919: Ian Rutledge returned from the battlefields of France shell-shocked, and haunted by a young soldier he ordered executed for refusing to fight. Scotland Yard assigns him to the murder of a popular colonel, who appears to have been killed by a decorated war hero who is a close friend of the Prince of .) Vachss, Andrew -- Shockwave $15.95 (Dell & Dolly #2: When circumstantial evidence leads to a schizophrenic being arrested for killing a man twice his size and half his age, Dell and Dolly team up Mack, the director of the local mental health problem, to find the real killer.) Watson, Jude -- Loot $6.99 (Ages 8 and up. After a cat burglar falls to his death, his children are sent to the world's worst orphanage. But March and Jules don't plan to stay. They know their father's business - just one good heist, and they'll live the life of riches and freedom most kids only dream about.) Whittington, Harry -- A Haven for the Damned $9.99 (Reissue; Eight people converge on a ghost town near the Mexican border, each with their own demons and dilemmas. Not all of them will leave alive.) Widmark, Martin -- The Mummy Mystery $5.99 (Whodunit Detective Agency #5: Ages 7 and up. What's going on at the museum in Pleasant Valley? The terrified night watchman claims that he saw the Egyptian mummy walking around the museum. The same night, the most valuable painting in the museum was cut out of its frame. Can young detectives Jerry and Maya get to the bottom of the strange and spooky events?) Woods, Stuart -- Paris Match $9.99 (Stone Barrington #31: Returning from Paris to attend to some business concerns, Stone finds himself embroiled in high-stakes trouble on both sides of the Atlantic.) Zobel, Melissa Tantaquidgeon -- Wabanaki Blues $10.95 (Wabanaki #1: Ages 14 and up. 18 years ago, Mia Delaney disappeared from her New Hampshire high school. Now, teen blues musician Mona Lisa Lapierre is searching for the killer, with some help from her reclusive grandfather Grumps and the spirit of her grandmother Bilki.)

Mid June

Billingham, Mark -- The Bones Beneath $16.00 (Tom Thorne #12: Psychopathic killer Stuart Nicklin offers to reveal the whereabouts of one of his earliest victims, but he wants Tom Thorne, the cop who put him away, to be there when he does. On a remote island off the Welsh coast, it becomes clear that Nicklin's motives are far from altruistic.) Brookes, Adam -- Night Heron $15.00 (A lone man escapes a Chinese labor camp. Once a spy for the British, he offers his former MI6 paymasters military secrets in return for extraction. But the secrets are more valuable than he realized - and not only to the British.) Burke, Alafair -- All Day and a Night $15.99 (Ellie Hatcher #5: NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher and her partner JJ Rogan are tapped to reassess the investigation that led to Anthony Amaro's murder conviction. The case takes them, and Amaro's lawyer, to the dead woman's hometown, where a brutal attack makes it clear that someone has gotten too close to the truth.) Burrows, Steve -- A Pitying of Doves $15.99 (Domenic Jejeune #2: Why would a killer ignore expensive jewelry and take a pair of turtledoves? Just one of the many questions to pique Inspector Jejeune's interest when a senior attache from the Mexican Embassy is found murdered alongside the director of a bird sanctuary.) Carbo, Christine -- The Wild Inside $16.00 (PBO; Ted Systead, a special agent for the Department of the Interior, investigates a death at Glacier National Park. The victim was killed by a grizzly bear, but was tied to a tree before the mauling.) Christie/Hannah, Sophie -- The Monogram Murders $14.99 (Hercule Poirot: Authorized by the Christie estate. Poirot plunges into a mystery in 1920s London, a diabolically clever puzzle that will test his brilliant skills.) Crombie, Deborah -- To Dwell in Darkness $13.99 (Kincaid & James #16: Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his Camden murder squad investigate a deadly bombing at St. Pancras Station. And Kincaid is still questioning the reasons behind his transfer; when his former boss is attacked, he sets out to untangle that mystery.) Cumming, Charles -- A Colder War $15.99 (Tom Kell #2: When seemingly unrelated incidents - the death or imprisonment of Turks and Iranians recently recruited by western intelligence agencies - are followed by a senior agent's death in a puzzling plane crash, MI6 brings disgraced agent Tom Kell in from the cold to find the traitor responsible.) Doiron, Paul -- The Bone Orchard $15.99 (Mike Bowditch #5: Forced to kill a troubled war veteran, Sergeant Kathy Frost finds herself facing a government inquiry as well as outrage from the dead man's platoon mates. When she is shot outside her farmhouse, Mike Bowditch joins the hunt to find the man responsible.) DuBois, Brendan -- Blood Foam $25.95 (Lewis Cole #9: Lewis' ex Paula Quinn comes to him for help when her attorney fiance disappears; they find themselves on the run from gang members intent on killing the missing man for a past betrayal.) Dunn, Carola -- Superfluous Women $24.99 (Daisy Dalrymple #22: Three of Daisy's unmarried school friends have bought a house together, and invite Daisy and her husband Alec for lunch. Alec manages to pick the lock on the keyless wine-cellar door, only to find a long- dead body.) Entwistle, Vaughn -- The Dead Assassin $26.99 (Doyle's Paranormal Casebooks #2: 1895: When a senior member of Her Majesty's government is murdered - apparently by a Cockney thief who was hanged two weeks earlier - Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle is called in to help investigate, and turns to his friend Oscar Wilde for assistance.) Finder, Joseph -- The Fixer $28.00 (When Rick Hoffman loses his job, he sets out to renovate his childhood home, empty since his father's stroke. There he makes a discovery that will put his life in peril, and change everything he though he knew about his father.) Flett-Giordano, Anne -- Marry, Kiss, Kill $15.00 (With stars in town for a film festival and powerful business interests at stake, Santa Barbara detective Nola MacIntire and her partner Tony Angelotti must solve a complicated puzzle behind three apparently unrelated deaths.) Garnier, Pascal -- The Islanders $13.95 (Reunited by a chance encounter, Olivier dines with his childhood friend Jeanne, her blind brother Rodolphe, and a homeless man Rodolphe has taken in. As the wine flows, dark secrets are spilled, leaving more than just hangovers to deal with the next morning.) Goodwin, Jason -- The Baklava Club $16.00 (Investigator Yashim #5: Three naive Italian liberals, exiled in Istanbul, have bungled their instructions to kill a Polish prince, and instead abducted him. But their revolutionary cell has been infiltrated by their enemies, who are passing along false orders. It falls to Yashim to unravel all this.) Henry, April -- The Body in the Woods $9.99 (Point Last Seen #1: Ages 12 and up. When teens Alexis, Nick, and Ruby join Search & Rescue, they are teamed up to search for an lost autistic man. Instead, they find a dead body, and set out to find the girl's killer.) Henry, Sue -- Murder on the Iditarod Trail $14.00 (Jessie Arnold #1: Reissue; Anthony winner, best first novel. The top competitors in the Iditarod - a grueling 1100-mile Alaskan dogsled race - are dying in bizarre ways. Jessie Arnold, the top female musher, has a shot at winning the race, but as her standing improves, so does her chance of being the killer's next target.) Herron, Mick -- Smoke and Whispers $14.95 (Oxford #4: Sarah Tucker identifies the body pulled out of the River Tyne as PI Zoe Boehm, but putting a name to the corpse only raises further questions.) Iggulden, Conn -- Margaret of Anjou $27.95 (Wars of the Roses #2: 1454: With King Henry VI struck down by illness, Margaret safeguards her husband's interests. Meanwhile, Richard, Duke of York, Protector of the Realm, extends his influence throughout the kingdom. Then the king unexpectedly recovers and returns to London to reclaim the throne, once more upsetting the balance of power.) Lansdale, Joe R. -- Paradise Sky $26.00 (Willie flees his Texas home when his father is murdered, and finds shelter with a man named Loving, who teaches him shooting, riding, reading, astronomy, mythology, and gardening. When his mentor dies, he rechristens himself Nat Love in tribute, and heads west, becoming a Buffalo Soldier. He winds up in Deadwood, where he is befriended by Wild Bill Hickok.) Leon, Donna -- Quietly in Their Sleep (UK title: The Death of Faith) $14.00 (Guido Brunetti #06: Reissue; The nun who once took care of his mother turns up at the Commissario's door, having left her convent following the suspicious deaths of five patients; Brunetti investigates.) Leon, Donna -- Through a Glass, Darkly $14.00 (Guido Brunetti #15: Reissue; Commissario Brunetti investigates the murder of a night watchman, whose body is found in front of a blazing furnace at a glass factory - along with an annotated copy of Dante's Inferno.) Limon, Martin -- The Iron Sickle $15.95 (Sueno & Bascom #9: When the head of the US Army Claims office in Seoul is murdered by a Korean man, military CID agents George Sueno and Ernie Bascom go against orders to investigate.) Lovesey, Peter -- The Stone Wife $15.95 (Peter Diamond #14: Peter Diamond and his team investigate when the highest bidder on a carved stone is killed during an hold-up attempt at a Bath auction house.) Mark, David -- Sorrow Bound $16.00 (Aector McAvoy #3: As DS McAvoy and DS Pharaoh search for a serial murderer with a taste for the macabre, McAvoy comes to suspect these are copycat murders, committed as revenge for police investigations that were mishandled years ago.) Mosley, Walter -- Rose Gold $15.95 (Easy Rawlins #13: 1970s: A black ex-boxer, leader of a revolutionary cell, has kidnapped the daughter of a weapons manufacturer. The cell is demanding money, weapons, and an apology, or the young woman will die horribly and publicly. The authorities turn to PI Easy Rawlins to resolve this dangerous standoff.) Thurlo, Aimee & David -- A Time of Change $15.99 (Trading Post #1: When Tom Stuart leaves his New Mexico trading post to Josephine Buck, a young Navajo woman, his son Ben is determined to get it back. Then Jo and Ben learn that Tom was murdered - and that the trading post holds many secrets.) Vachss, Andrew -- Signwave $26.95 (Dell & Dolly #3: Dell uses his mercenary skills to follow the trail of a man who has threatened Dolly.) Wolf, Dick -- The Ultimatum $27.99 (Jeremy Fisk #3: Fisk tracks a serial killer who is using drone technology to kill his victims.) Wright, Tom -- Blackbird $17.00 (A brutalized body is found nailed to a cross on the outskirts of a Texas town. The victim is Dr. Deborah Gold, a psychologist who has taken a lot of people's secrets to her grave. Which gives detective Jim Beaudry Bonham a lot of suspects to investigate.)

Early July

Alexander, Ellie -- A Batter of Life and Death $7.99 (Bakeshop #2: PBO; Jules plans to promote her family's bake shop by participating in a reality baking show. When a fellow contestant is murdered, can Jules sift out the killer before anyone else gets burned?) Allen, Hania -- Double Tap $14.95 (Von Valenti #2: Searching for her errant daughter, ex-cop Von Valenti has relocated to Edinburgh and set up as a PI. Hired to investigate a professional hit that occurred during an executive paintball game, she will need all her skills and tenacity to unravel the web of lies surrounding the case.) Bannalec, Jean-Luc -- Death in Brittany (UK title: Death in Pont-Aven) $24.99 (Georges Dupin #1: Commissaire Dupin and his team investigate the murder of an elderly hotel manager in Pont Aven, Brittany; when further incidents muddy the waters, they uncover a web of secrecy and criminality that belies the village's idyllic image.) Beaton, M.C. -- The Blood of an Englishman $7.99 (Agatha Raisin #25: Agatha and her team investigate when a baker is murdered while acting in the local pantomime.) Bonner, Brynn -- Picture Them Dead $7.99 (Family History #3: PBO; When a bizarre burial site with a glass coffin is found in her father's backyard, detective Jenny Jeffers calls on genealogists Sophreena and Esme for help identifying the corpse.) Bush, Nancy -- You Can't Escape $7.99 (PBO; As reporters Jay Danziger and Jordanna Winters look into a bomb blast, they uncover a string of unsolved murders, each body branded the same way.) Chercover, Sean -- The Devil's Game $15.95 (Daniel Byrne #2: Daniel Byrne was a Vatican investigator, scrutinizing miracle claims, until an investigation uncovered more troubling human conspiracies. Now he's part of a secretive group searching for truth. When he discovers a new strain of a plague at a covert medical facility, he teams up with disgraced physician Kara Singh to trace the roots of the deadly pathogen.) Child, Lee (ed) -- Killer Year $9.99 (Anthology. Stories by thriller writers whose first novels were published in 2007.) Cornwell, Patricia -- Flesh and Blood $9.99 (Scarpetta #22: Forensic sleuth Kay Scarpetta finds herself in the unsettling pursuit of a serial sniper who leaves no incriminating evidence except fragments of copper.) Corrigan, Maya -- Scam Chowder $7.99 (Five- Ingredient #2: PBO; Val investigates when one of the guests at her granddad's dinner party winds up dead.) Coulter, Catherine -- Power Play $9.99 (FBI Thriller #18: A psychopath has escaped from a mental hospital and is out for revenge against the FBI, particularly Lacey Sherlock. And US Ambassador Natalie Black has returned to Washington, DC, with her job and her life in jeopardy.) Dahl, Julia -- Run You Down $25.99 (Rebekah Roberts #2: Investigating the murder of a young Hasidic mother might bring journalist Rebekah Roberts face to face with the mother who abandoned her as a baby.) Deas, S.J. (Stephen) -- The Royalist $13.95 (William Falkland #1: 1645: William Falkland, a Royalist awaiting execution, is offered a reprieve by Oliver Cromwell, who dispatches Falkland to investigate a series of mysterious deaths at the New Model Army's winter camp.) Dietrich, William -- The Three Emperors $9.99 (Ethan Gage #7: 1805: After surviving the Battle of Trafalgar, Ethan Gage - hoping to be reunited with his son and his wife Astiza - heads to Bohemia, where Astiza is searching for a medieval automaton that can foretell the future.) Dodd, Christina -- Virtue Falls $7.99 (Virtue Falls #1: Elizabeth has lived her life believing her father killed her mother. Returning to her home town, hoping to find the reasons behind the murder, she learns that her father was innocent. The real killer is still out there - and there are other victims.) Evanovich, J/Sutton, P -- Wicked Charms $28.00 (Lizzy & Diesel #3: To search for the Stone of Avarice, part of a lost pirate treasure, Lizzy and Diesel are going to need a treasure map and a ship.) Fesperman, Dan -- Unmanned $15.95 (Haunted by what he saw on the display of the Predator drone he piloted, Darwin Cole reluctantly teams up with three journalists seeking the identity of the anonymous - and possibly rogue - intelligence operative who called the shots for Cole's ill-fated mission in Afghanistan.) Gilstrap, John -- Against All Enemies $9.99 (Jonathan Grave #7: PBO; Has a fellow combat veteran gone rogue? Grave's search for his old friend leads him to far more than he bargained for. Can Grave and his team expose a deadly high-level secret in time to avert catastrophe?) Grindle, Lucretia -- The Lost Daughter $16.00 (PBO; Kirstin is sure her study year in Florence will be the best, a chance to explore art, poetry, and romance in the arms of her new Italian boyfriend. But days before her parents arrive to celebrate her 18th birthday, Kristin disappears.) Grubb, Davis -- The Night of the Hunter $14.95 (Reissue; Two children must outsmart and outrun their father's prison cell mate, who will stop at nothing to steal their father's hidden fortune.) Harris, Sherry -- The Longest Yard Sale $7.99 (Sarah Winston #2: PBO; When Sarah turns her town into New England's largest garage sale for a day, a valuable painting goes missing, and an Air Force officer turns up dead in her friend Carol's studio. To solve the case, Sarah must rummage through increasingly strange clues.) Houston, Victoria -- Dead Rapunzel $16.99 (Loon Lake #15: Police chief Lew Ferris and her friend Doc Osborne investigate when a wealthy woman is shoved in front of a logging truck on an icy street.) Lin, Ed -- Ghost Month $15.95 (Jing-nan's high school girlfriend has been found murdered. Why was this intelligent women selling betel nuts to truck drivers, a job almost as taboo as prostitution? The facts don't add up, but the Taipei police have closed the case without asking questions. When the girl's parents ask him to investigate, Jing-nan reluctantly agrees.) Lynds, Gayle -- The Assassins $27.99 (Eva Blake #2: Judd Ryder and his colleague Eva Blake were the last two people known to have contact with legendary freelance assassin the Carnivore. Now someone is using them to try to lure the Carnivore out of hiding. Ryder and Blake will need every resource at their disposal to stay alive.) Mack, Janey -- Time's Up $15.00 (Maisie McGrane #1: PBO; Maisie comes from a cop family, but was expelled from the police academy. When she stumbles across the murdered body of a City Hall staffer, her cop brothers warn her off the case. But with the help of shadowy ex-Army Ranger Hank Bannon, she's determined to follow the clues wherever they lead.) McGoran, Jon -- Deadout $8.99 (Doyle Carrick #2: On a trip to a New England island, detective Doyle Carrick learns that a mysterious plague is killing the bees. When a biotech company moves in with genetically modified bees, things spin violently out of control. As Doyle closes in on what the biotech firm is really up to, he must race to stop them before their plot spreads to the mainland.) Meier, Leslie -- French Pastry Murder $7.99 (Lucy Stone #21: In recognition of their charitable work, Lucy and her friends and their husbands are awarded a vacation in Paris, including learning to make French pastries. Lucy winds up having to clear her name after she finds the pastry chef's dead body.) Muller, Marcia -- Someone Always Knows $26.00 (Sharon McCone #31: PI Sharon McCone has a new client who wants to get rid of a derelict house that's bothering the local homeowners' association. But the abandoned house holds secrets, and soon Sharon is contending with more than a simple eyesore.) Patterson, J/Karp, M -- NYPD Red 2 $10.00 (The NYPD's elite task force investigates when a wealthy, influential woman is found slaughtered on the carousel in the heart of Central Park.) Patterson, J/Roughan, H -- Truth or Die $28.00 (When his journalist girlfriend's latest story leads to a violent confrontation, attorney Trevor Mann chases her leads, unearthing evidence of a shocking secret. Now it's up to Trevor to keep it from falling into the wrong hands.) Phelps, M. William -- The Killing Kind $7.99 (PBO; Nonfiction. A look at the lives of Heather Catterton and Randi Saldana, and at the high-profile trial and conviction of Danny Embree for killing them.) Pressey, Rose -- All Dressed Up and No Place to Haunt $7.99 (Haunted Vintage #2: PBO; Cookie is providing period outfits for a film being shot at a historic plantation. When the leading lady turns up drowned, Cookie and her psychic cat must find a killer in the cast of suspects.) Preston, D/Child, L -- Blue Labyrinth $10.00 (Pendergast #14: A long-buried family secret resurfaces when one of Pendergast's most implacable enemies shows up on his doorstep as a murdered corpse.) Pronzini, Bill -- Vixen $24.99 (Nameless Detective #40: A beautiful young woman hires Nameless to find her missing brother. When Jake Runyon locates and questions the frightened young man, the client's motives come into question, and the case develops sinister complexities.) Reading, Mario -- The Templar Inheritance $12.95 (John Hart #2: 1198: Johannes von Hartelius discovers that the Templars' most prized possession, the Copper Scroll, has been stolen. 2013: John Hart discovers a message inside the Holy Spear, indicating the possible location of the Copper Scroll in a hollow mountain in Iran, and sets out to retrieve it.) Silva, Daniel -- The English Spy $27.99 (Gabriel Allon #15: The latest thriller featuring art restorer and occasional spy Gabriel Allon; Signed copies expected) Simenon, Georges -- The Flemish House (alternate title: The Flemish Shop) $11.00 (Maigret #14: Reissue; A young woman desperate to clear her family of murder brings Maigret to the town of Givet on the Belgian border. The family's well-kept shop, the sleepy community, and its raging river all hide their own mysteries.) Smith, Alexander McCall -- The Handsome Man's De Luxe Cafe $14.95 (No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency #15: Mma Ramotswe's partner Mma Makutsi has decided to branch out on her own and open The Handsome Man's Deluxe Cafe. But when she can't quite manage all the demands of running a business - not to mention the effects of a lightning strike on her building - she will have to accept all the help she can get, even if it comes from a completely unexpected source.) Smith, Dwayne Alexander -- Forty Acres $16.00 (Black lawyer Martin Grey has become friendly with some of the most powerful black men in America, so he's dazzled when they invite him for a weekend retreat, but horrified to discover that their secret society is dedicated to the institution of slavery - only this time, the blacks are called 'Master'.) Spillane, M/Collins, M -- King of the Weeds $7.99 (Mike Hammer: Hammer finds himself up against a clever serial killer who is targeting cops.) Stevens, Taylor -- The Mask $24.00 (Vanessa Munroe #5: When her lover Bradford is arrested for murder, Vanessa finds out he's been lying to her, but sets out to find the real killer and the company mole who may have framed Bradford and put all this in motion.) Stewart, Mary -- Madam, Will You Talk? $12.95 (Reissue; Charity Selborne's holiday in Provence takes a dangerous turn when she makes friends with an English boy and his unruly dog, and is drawn into the intrigue surrounding a murder.) Stratmann, Linda -- The Children of Silence $14.95 (Frances Doughty #5: London, 1881: When a body is found in the canal basin, Harriet Antrobus claims that the remains are those of her husband, who disappeared three years ago, and hires Frances Doughty to investigate.) Thoft, Ingrid -- Brutality $26.95 (Fina Ludlow #3: College soccer star Liz Barone is in the process of suing her alma mater. When Liz is attacked and left with a life-threatening injury, Fina is hired to investigate. Was Liz attacked to stop her lawsuit, or are there other secrets in her life?) Tremayne, Peter -- Atonement of Blood $16.99 (Sister Fidelma #24: 670 CE: A winter feast is interrupted by the attempted assassination of King Colgu; Fidelma, Eadulf, and Gorman must discover who sent the killer.) Truman, M/Bain, D -- Undiplomatic Murder $8.99 (Capital Crimes #27: When a suicide bombing at a Washington, DC, cafe kills his daughter, security agent Robert Brixton follows the bomber's trail to the son of a powerful US senator.) Vargas, Fred -- Dog Will Have His Day $16.95 (Three Evangelists #2: When disgraced special investigator Louis Kehlweiler finds a tiny piece of human bone on the Paris pavement, the police are uninterested. With some help from historians Marc and Mathias, he follows the trail to a Breton fishing village in search of a dog - and a killer.) Wanner, Len -- Tartan Noir $16.95 (Nonfiction. A scholarly yet accessible look at contemporary Scottish crime fiction, delving into the police procedural and psycho killer novels at the heart of the movement.) Williams, Amanda Kyle -- Don't Talk to Strangers $7.99 (Keye Street #3: When several mutilated and decomposing corpses are discovered outside of Atlanta, the police recruit Keye to give them a psychological profile, but her involvement may put her in line to become the next victim.) Williams, Charlotte -- Black Valley $14.99 (Jessica Mayhew #2: Working with her latest client, an obsessive painter, leads to questions for psychotherapist Jessica Mayhew. Was the woman's mother really murdered in the course of a burglary? Or was there more to the death?) Winslow, Don -- The Cartel $27.95 (Ex-DEA agent Art Keller has been living quietly at a monastery in New Mexico, but when the Mexican cartels start a vicious drug war, Keller plunges back into the game, playing as always by his own rules.) Winspear, Jacqueline -- The Care and Management of Lies $15.99 (1914: The ties between girlhood friends Thea and Kezia have been strained by Thea's embrace of women's suffrage and by Kezia's marriage to Thea's brother Tom, who runs the family farm. When Tom enlists and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield, the farm becomes Kezia's responsibility. To endure the ensuing turmoil, they hide their despair in letters and cards filled with stories woven to bring comfort.)

Mid July

Abel, James -- White Plague $9.99 (Joe Rush #1: In remote Arctic waters, a technologically advanced US sub is adrift and in flames. Marine doctor and bioterror expert Joe Rush and his team are dispatched to rescue the crew and keep the vessel out of enemy hands. But a deadly plague from the past is also trapped on the sub.) Amore, Anthony M. -- The Art of the Con $26.00 (Nonfiction. Museum security chief Amore tells the untold stories of some of history's most notorious art cons, and the secret history of fakes, frauds, and forgeries in the art world.) Aspe, Peter -- From Bruges with Love $15.99 (Van In #3: When a skeleton turns up in a farmyard, Inspector Van In discovers the case is trickier than it looks - the land formerly belonged to a prominent businessman, and then to a right-wing charity.) Atkins, Ace -- The Forsaken $16.00 (Quinn Colson #4: Decades ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, MS. He was accused of rape and murder, and lynched. Now evidence has surfaced of his innocence. Sheriff Colson sets out to ID the man's remains and charge those responsible for the lynching.) Atkins, Ace -- The Redeemers $26.95 (Quinn Colson #5: County kingpin Johnny Stagg has made sure Colson was voted out of office. Colson has offers in bigger and better places, but before he goes, he has one more job to do: bring down Stagg's criminal operations.) Bai, Xiao -- French Concession $27.99 (1931: In the wake of a visiting Nationalist Party official's assassination, a Franco- Chinese photographer is coerced into spying for the authorities, and discovers that in the devious world of , no one is who they appear to be.) Bebris, Carrie -- The Suspicion at Sanditon, or, The Disappearance of Lady Denham $23.99 (Mr. & Mrs. Darcy #7: When wealthy Lady Denham goes missing, most assume one of her would-be heirs has grown impatient. But when other ladies disappear one by one, Mr. and Mrs. Darcy find themselves drawn into the frantic effort to discover what has become of the missing women.) Becker, James -- The Lost Treasure of the Templars (UK title: The Hounds of the Lord) $9.99 (Knights Templar #1: When antiquarian bookseller Robin Jessop finds an indecipherable ancient parchment, she turns to cryptography expert David Mallory for help. What they decode sends them on a hunt for Templar treasure, and through dark church secrets hidden for centuries.) Blackwell, Juliet -- Spellcasting in Silk $7.99 (Witchcraft #7: PBO; When a woman's apparent suicide is connected to a suspicious botanica in the Mission District, the San Francisco police turn to Lily for help. She finds herself facing a confounding mystery and some very powerful magic.) Brackmann, Lisa -- Rock Paper Tiger (alternate title: Year of the Tiger) $9.99 (Ellie Cooper #1: Reissue; A chance encounter in Beijing with a member of a Chinese Muslim minority turns Iraq War veteran Ellie's life upside down. Security organizations are suddenly hounding her. Are the things she saw and did in Iraq at the root of their interest?) Budewitz, Leslie -- Butter Off Dead $7.99 (Food Lovers' Village #3: PBO; The merchants of Jewel Bay, Montana, hope to heat up winter business with a film festival, but their plans are sent reeling when a killer dims the lights on one of the event planners.) Burdette, Lucy -- Fatal Reservations $7.99 (Key West Food Critic #6: PBO; When her friend Lorenzo is accused of murder, Hayley sets out to clear his name.) Cates, Bailey -- Magic and Macaroons $7.99 (Magical Bakery #5: PBO; Katie investigates when a meeting of the spellbook club is interrupted by a stranger collapsing on the shop floor, mumbling about a voodoo talisman.) Clark, Simon (ed) -- The Mammoth Book of Sherlock Holmes Abroad $14.95 (Anthology. Holmes and Watson pursue truth and justice in stories set around the globe.) Crofts, Freeman Wills -- The Hog's Back Mystery (alternate title: The Strange Case of Dr. Earle) $12.95 (Joseph French #10: Reissue; Originally published in 1933. When Dr. James Earle disappears from his cottage, Inspector French is called in to investigate. At first he uncovers a web of romantic entanglements, but the case takes a more complex turn as other people vanish.) Crofts, Freeman Wills -- Antidote to Venom $12.95 (Joseph French #17: Reissue; Originally published in 1938. As the pressure on zoo director George Surridge increases, he dreams of miracle solutions - but could he commit a devious murder in pursuit of his goals? Inspector French investigates.) Cullin, Mitch -- Mr. Holmes (movie tie-in edition) (original title: A Slight Trick of the Mind) $15.00 (Reissue; 1947: The long- retired Sherlock Holmes lives in a Sussex farmhouse, where he tends bees, writes in his journal, and grapples with the diminishing powers of his mind. As people continue to look to him for answers, he revisits a case that may provide him with answers of his own to questions he didn't even know he was asking.) Davis, Lindsey -- Deadly Election $25.99 (Flavia Albia #3: Rome, 1st century CE: When a corpse is found in a chest sent to the Falco family auction house, it falls to Albia to find out who, why, and by whom.) Disher, Garry -- Bitter Wash Road (alternate title: Hell to Pay) $15.95 (Ned Kelly finalist, best novel. Demoted from detective and posted to an isolated bush town, Constable Paul Hirschhausen must investigate the death of a teenage girl whose murder threatens to set the town ablaze.) Downing, David -- Jack of Spies $15.95 (1913: Traveling salesman Jack McColl moonlights collecting intelligence for His Majesty's Navy in the Far East, but with a geopolitical catastrophe brewing, he finds the task growing much more dangerous. Then he realizes that his girlfriend's Irish-American family might be embroiled in the Irish Republican movement. Must he choose between his country and the woman he loves?) Ellroy, James -- Perfidia $16.95 (1941: The Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor, the US teeters on the edge of war, and the roundup of allegedly treasonous Japanese Americans is about to begin. In LA, a Japanese family is found dead. Is it murder or ritual suicide?) Eriksson, Kjell -- Open Grave $25.99 (Ann Lindell #10: Not everyone is happy that Professor Bertram von Ohler was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine. When a series of pranks escalates into something more serious, police inspector Ann Lindell becomes involved in the case.) Flanders, Judith -- The Victorian City $17.99 (Nonfiction. Historian Flanders leads us through London, revealing the capital in all its variety, vibrancy, and squalor; no detail is too small or too strange.) Francis, Felix -- Damage $9.99 (Jeff Hinkley has been assigned to look into a racehorse trainer's suspicious activities; while trailing his quarry through the Cheltenham Racing Festival, he witnesses a murder. Could it be connected to the trainer's use of illegal drugs on horses?) Furlong, Susan -- Peaches and Scream $7.99 (Georgia Peach #1: PBO; Nola Harper returns to her Georgia hometown to help out on her family's peach farm, and finds a local businessman murdered in the orchard.) Hamilton, Victoria -- Death of an English Muffin $7.99 (Merry Muffin #3: PBO; To help pay the bills at Wynter Castle, Merry decides to take in renters. When an abrasive tenant meets an embarrassing end behind a locked door, Merry sets out to find the killer) Hauka, Donald J. -- Pizza 911 $11.99 (Hakeem Jinnah #3: The discovery of a charred, dismembered body in a pizza oven puts chain- smoking reporter Hakeem Jinnah on the trail of a killer; the chase leads from Vancouver to Tanzania.) Hayes, Terry -- I Am Pilgrim $9.99 (Steel Dagger shortlist, best thriller. A young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying characteristics dissolved by acid. A father publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia. A notorious Syrian biotech expert found eyeless in a Damascus junkyard. Smoldering human remains on a mountainside in Afghanistan. A plot to commit an appalling crime against humanity. One path links them all, and only one man can make the journey: Pilgrim.) 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Huber, Anna Lee -- A Study in Death $25.95 (Lady Kiera #4: Scotland, 1831: Hired to paint Lady Drummond's portrait, Kiera comes to suspect the woman is abused. When she finds Lady Drummond dead, the physician called to the house rules the death natural, but Kiera is convinced she was poisoned.) Hyzy, Julie -- Grace Cries Uncle $7.99 (Manor House #6: PBO; Grace expects trouble when her estranged sister Liza arrives in town. When a man claiming to be an FBI agent shows up, then turns up dead, the plot thickens, and Grace can't help but wonder if Liza is at the center of it all.) Javorsky, Earl -- Trust Me $15.95 (When Jeff Fenner hears that his sister has committed suicide, he refuses to believe she killed herself. His search for answers leads him to a Beverly Hills self-help cult and a string of eerily similar apparent suicides.) Jin, Ha -- A Map of Betrayal $15.95 (Lilian Shang, a history professor in Maryland, knew her father was the most important Chinese spy ever caught in the US. When his diary points to a hidden second family he'd left behind, she follows his trail back to China.) Kane, Ben -- Enemy of Rome $16.99 (Hannibal #1: The Roman legions defeated Carthage. Now Carthage's brilliant young general Hannibal is out for revenge.) Karjel, Robert -- The Swede $26.99 (Dispatched to a remote US military base, Swedish security agent Ernst Grip is tasked with determining whether a detainee - a suspect in a terrorist attack in the US heartland - is a Swedish citizen.) Kava, Alex -- Breaking Creed $9.99 (Ryder Creed #1: Called in to search a commercial fishing vessel, Ryder Creed and his search dog discover a secret compartment with human cargo - cartel drug mules. The cartel plans a hit on Creed, but he and his dogs have a few surprises in store at their Florida compound.) Koryta, Michael -- Those Who Wish Me Dead $16.00 (When 13-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a murder, he's issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program. But the killers are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and the boy are the couple who run the program, the woman who occupies a lonely fire lookout tower, and endless miles of Montana mountains.) Laurie, Victoria -- Sense of Deception $24.95 (Psychic Eye #13: Tossed in the slammer for contempt of court, Abby meets Skylar Miller, who is facing the death penalty. Abby's intuition tells her the woman is innocent, but can she find hard evidence before it's too late?) Lawson, Mike -- House Reckoning $14.00 (Joe DeMarco #9: 20 years after his Mafioso father was murdered, Joe gets a tip about who killed him: a supposedly upstanding citizen who is in line for a job in DC that would leave him untouchable. Joe will have to act quickly to uncover the truth, but is avenging his father's death worth his job, and maybe even his life?) Lee, Harper -- Go Set a Watchman $27.99 (1950s: Returning home to Maycomb for a visit, Jean Louise Finch - Scout - struggles with issues both personal and political, involving her father Atticus, society, and the small Alabama town that shaped her.) Lindsay, Jeff -- Dexter Is Dead $24.95 (Dexter #8: Dexter faces a murder charge - ironically, for a crime he did not commit. His only chance for freedom lies with his brother Brian, who has a dark plan to prove Dexter's innocence.) Lovesey, Peter -- Down Among the Dead Men $27.95 (Peter Diamond #15: In Sussex to assist on a Home Office internal investigation, Diamond begins to notice unsettling connections between a murder seven years earlier and a recent missing persons case.) Lovesey, Peter -- Wobble to Death $9.99 (Sergeant Cribb #1: Reissue; 1879: Sergeant Cribb, a no-nonsense cop with a penchant for sports, investigates when the death of a race- walking contender is followed by a second murder.) Lowell, Virginia -- Dead Men Don't Eat Cookies $7.99 (Cookie Cutter Shop #6: PBO; Livie's mom is converting an old boarding house into an arts and crafts school. When the construction crew discovers a pile of bones inside one of the walls, Livie can't resist investigating.) Macdonald, Ross -- The Archer Files $16.00 (Lew Archer: Collection. All the stories featuring the sardonic PI, plus 'case notes' comprised of deleted scenes and fragments of stories, as well as new material not included in the previous edition.) Mayne, Andrew -- Name of the Devil $15.99 (Jessica Blackwood #2: PBO; The mysterious disappearance of a church congregation in rural Appalachia puts illusionist turned FBI agent Jessica Blackwood on the trail of a cold- blooded killer.) McAndrews, Jennifer -- Death Under Glass $7.99 (Stained Glass #2: PBO; Georgia's best friend Carrie wants her to create a stained glass window for Wenwood's latest bed and breakfast. When Carrie's ex-husband's office burns to the ground and Carrie's own office and apartment are robbed, Georgia is determined to find out who is targeting her friend.) McBain, Ed -- So Nude, So Dead (original title: The Evil Sleep) $9.95 (Reissue; A heroin addict wakes up with a murdered woman in his bed. Can he prove his innocence while on the run?) McDermid, Val (V.L.) -- Forensics $26.00 (Nonfiction. A history of forensic science, real-world murders, and the people who solve them.) McGee, James -- The Blooding $25.95 (Hawkwood #5: 1812: Stranded behind enemy lines in the US, British soldier turned spy Matthew Hawkwood discovers that the US plans to invade .) McGrath, M.J. -- The Bone Seeker $16.00 (Edie Kiglatuk #3: When the defiled body of one of Edie's students turns up in Lake Turngaluk, Edie and her salty sidekick Derek Palliser promise the grieving family justice. Meanwhile, lawyer Sonia Gutierrez is investigating the lake's decades-old toxicity.) Mishani, D.A. -- A Possibility of Violence $14.99 (Avraham Avraham #2: An explosive device is found in a suitcase near a daycare center in a quiet suburb of Tel Aviv. A few hours later, a threat is received: the suitcase was only the beginning. Inspector Avraham Avraham is assigned to the investigation.) Moran, Terrie Farley -- Caught Read-Handed $7.99 (Read Em & Eat #2: PBO; When a veteran with PTSD is accused of murdering a library worker, Sassy and Bridgy set out to clear his name.) Nelson, Blake -- The Prince of Venice Beach $10.00 (Ages 12 and up. Edgar finalist, best YA. Teen runaway Cali knows everyone in Venice Beach, which is why a PI hires him to find a missing girl. But the streets are filled with people who don't want to be found.) Nelson, James L. -- The French Prize $26.99 (Jack Biddlecomb #1: 1797: Given command of a merchant vessel bound from Philadelphia to Barbados, and instructed by the ship's owner to fight if need be to keep the ship out of French hands, Jack soon suspects that he is being used in a plot with international repercussions.) Parker, Kate -- The Royal Assassin $15.00 (Victorian Bookshop #3: PBO; When the bodyguard of a Russian princess is found dead on a train returning from Scotland, Queen Victoria calls in the Duke of Blackford and the Archivist Society to discreetly protect the princess and prevent an international incident.) Parks, Brad -- The Fraud $25.99 (Carter Ross #5: Wisecracking investigative reporter Carter Ross is assigned to cover a rash of carjackings; it becomes more than just a story when the carjackers kidnap his editor girlfriend Tina.) Parot, Jean-Francois -- The Nicolas Le Floch Affair $15.95 (Nicolas Le Floch #4: Paris, 1774: Commissioner Le Floch's stormy affair with a socialite has run its course, but when she is found poisoned in her bed, he finds himself accused of murder.) Perona, Elizabeth -- Murder on the Bucket List $14.99 (Bucket List #1: PBO; A secret late- night expedition to cross skinny-dipping off their bucket lists takes an unexpected turn when Francine and her 70something friends find a corpse in the pool. For Charlotte, it's a golden opportunity: the top item on her bucket list is 'solve a murder'.) Quinn, Spencer -- Scents and Sensibility $25.00 (Chet & Bernie #8: Old Mr. Parsons next door is under investigation for having an illegally transplanted cactus, sending Chet the dog and his human PI companion Bernie deep into the desert to investigate. They discover bad things going on in the wilderness, all connected to a strange desert festival.) Rader-Day, Lori -- Little Pretty Things $15.95 (PBO; Cleaning rooms at a rundown hotel, Juliet has taken to stealing small items from the guests. When an old school rival checks in and winds up murdered, Juliet becomes chief suspect.) Reed, Hannah -- Hooked on Ewe $7.99 (Scottish Highlands #2: PBO; Eden is helping Vicki with the yarn club skein-of-the-month deliveries and preparations for the sheepdog trials on the MacBride farm. When the head of the welcoming committee is strangled with a club member's yarn, Eden investigates.) Reilly, Matthew -- The Tournament $26.00 (1546: Suleiman the Magnificent issues an invitation to the rulers of Europe: send your finest player to compete in a chess tournament. The English send scholar Roger Ascham, who brings along his student Elizabeth Tudor. As barbaric deaths, diplomatic treachery, and depravity unfold before their eyes, they realize the real game is being played within the court itself.) Robinson, Peter -- Children of the Revolution $14.99 (Alan Banks #21: The body of a disgraced college lecturer has been found on an abandoned railway line. The man lost his job four years ago, so where did he get the 5000 pounds in his pocket? When the investigation seems to lead back to the 1970s, when the man attended a university known for militant protest, DCI Banks' superior warns him to back off. But Banks isn't about to stop.) Rosenfelt, David -- Hounded $15.99 (Andy Carpenter #12: Andy's cop friend Pete Stanton summons him to a murder scene to take charge of the victim's basset hound and young son. When Pete becomes a suspect in the murder, he needs Andy to defend him, and to find out what really happened that day.) Rosenfelt, David -- Who Let the Dog Out? $25.99 (Andy Carpenter #13: When a dog is stolen from the Tara Foundation building, lawyer Andy Carpenter tracks its GPS collar, and finds the dog - right next to a man who was shot to death mere minutes earlier. Is the dog theft somehow connected to the killing?) Sayers, D/Walsh, J -- The Late Scholar $15.99 (Wimsey & Vane #4: Historical Dagger shortlist. To settle a dispute among the Fellows of St. Severin's College over the disposition of a valuable manuscript, Peter and Harriet head to Oxford. When several of the fellows die unexpectedly, the Wimseys must uncover what is really going on at the college.) Scarrow, Simon -- Brothers in Blood $26.95 (Macro & Cato #13: 1st century CE: Cato and Macro are with the Roman army, pursuing Caratacus and his men through the mountains of Britannia. Defeating Caratacus finally seems within their grasp - but a plot is afoot to sabotage the campaign.) Smith, Alexander McCall -- The Novel Habits of Happiness $24.95 (Isabel Dalhousie #10: A young boy has been recounting vivid recollections of a past life, describing an island he's never seen. When his mother asks Isabel to investigate, she and Jamie head to the island, but what they learn only leads to more complicated questions.) Soderberg, Alexander -- The Other Son $26.00 (Sophie Brinkmann #2: With Hector in a coma and his brother murdered, Sophie gains the upper hand in the Guzman crime family - and intends to use it.) Sutton, Phoef -- Crush $15.00 (When the wild daughter of an unscrupulous billionaire turns to Crush for help, the tough, cool bodyguard will need all of his wits and brawn to stay alive and clean up the mess she's made.) Swarup, Vikas -- The Accidental Apprentice $15.99 (Sapna Sinha sells electronics in a store in Delhi - until a billionaire industrialist offers to make her CEO of his company if she can pass seven tests from the ' of life'. Sapna's quest takes her to India's backstreets and villages, encountering a host of memorable people. But are the tests real, or is this a game driven by a perverse fantasy?) Thurlo, Aimee & David -- Looking Through Darkness $25.99 (Trading Post #2: After her husband is killed, Leigh Ann finds herself accused of helping him embezzle from his business partners, and suspected of killing him. When she turns to Melvin Littlewater for help, she finds him fighting his own demons. Together, they delve into the darkest moments in their pasts, searching for the truth.) Wenger, Christine -- Macaroni and Freeze $7.99 (Comfort Food #4: PBO; Trixie organizes a mac-and-cheese cook-off to raise funds for the library, but she wouldn't mind winning first prize. When someone else wins, and the celebrity judge is found dead, Trixie finds herself in hot water with the police.) Woods, Stuart -- Naked Greed $27.95 (Stone Barrington #34: Stone is thrown into the turbulent world of beer making and distribution when he rescues a brewery owner from an attack by two rogue cops.)

Early August

Abbott, Allyson K. -- In the Drink $7.99 (Mack's Bar #3: PBO; Mack and her barstool detectives are happy to help when Tiny, one of the bar's newest patrons, asks them to look into his sister's murder. Though the case has gone cold, Mack's heightened senses quickly put her on the killer's trail.) Adams, Ellery -- Murder in the Paperback Parlor $7.99 (Book Retreat #2: PBO; At her book- themed resort, Jane has organized a week of activities for fans of love stories. When a famous author is killed, can Jane and her book club catalogue the list of suspects and find the killer?) Alem, Raja -- The Dove's Necklace $29.95 (When a dead woman is discovered in a Mecca alley, no one will claim the body because of her nakedness. As Detective Nassir investigates, the secret life of the holy city is revealed - a city both beholden to brutal customs and reckoning uneasily with new traditions.) Alexander, Tasha -- The Counterfeit Heiress $15.99 (Lady Emily #09: When an actress trying to pass herself off as an heiress is murdered, was the intended victim the actress, or the heiress? And who would want either of them dead? The investigation takes Lady Emily and Colin from London to Paris.) Andrews, Donna -- Lord of the Wings $25.99 (Meg Langslow #19: The mayor has turned Caerphilly into Spooky City, USA. After the Haunted House burns down, Meg reluctantly volunteers her house as the replacement, but when a real body mars the town's creepy fun, it's up to Meg to save Halloween.) Barclay, Linwood -- Broken Promise $25.95 (After losing his wife and his job, David Harwood moves back to his childhood home, where he discovers that his cousin is secretly raising a child she claims was a gift left on her porch. When the baby's real mother is found murdered, David sets out to piece together what happened.) Barclay, Linwood -- No Safe House $9.99 (Years ago, the Archer family barely survived a horrific ordeal. Now, unwillingly reconnected with the ruthless criminal who saved them then, they may have to do the unthinkable to survive.) Battles, Matthew -- Library: An Unquiet History $15.95 (Nonfiction. Originally published in 2003, this edition includes a new epilogue. A look at how, through the ages, have not only accumulated and preserved but also shaped, inspired, and obliterated knowledge.) Beil, Michael D. -- Lantern Sam and the Blue Streak Bandits $7.99 (Ages 8 and up. 1937: Lantern Sam is a wise-cracking talking cat (for those who can hear him) who lives onboard the Lake Erie Shoreliner train. He's also a great detective. He doesn't have much patience for humans, but when 10-year-old traveler Henry can't find his new friend Ellie, and a ransom note is discovered, Sam and Henry are on the case, with the help of Clarence the Conductor.) Benn, James R. -- The Rest Is Silence $15.95 (Billy Boyle #9: 1944: When an unidentified corpse washes ashore on England's southern coast, US Army Captain Billy Boyle and his partner Kaz are assigned to investigate.) Blakely, Mike -- A Song to Die For $7.99 (Austin, Texas, 1975: Desperate to get back in the music business, Creed Mason jumps at the chance to be guitarist and band manager for a country legend's comeback. When a Texas Ranger decides that a pair of mob-related murders are somehow connected to the band, Creed winds up with the Rangers and the mob on his case.) Bowen, Rhys -- Queen of Hearts $7.99 (Royal Spyness #8: Agatha winner, best historical. On a voyage to America, Georgie's mother is offered a role by a Hollywood mogul, while Georgie and her beau Darcy investigate a suspected jewel thief. The trail leads to the mogul's Hollywood home - where the mogul winds up dead.) Bowen, Rhys -- Malice at the Palace $25.95 (Royal Spyness #9: As companion to Princess Marina of Greece, who is to marry Prince George, Georgie expects to live the high life in supposedly haunted Kensington Palace. Instead, while searching the palace for a ghost, Georgie finds the dead body of one of the prince's mistresses.) Box, C.J. -- Badlands $26.99 (Cassie Dewell is the new deputy sheriff of Grimstad, a tiny town now booming as the oil capital of North Dakota. When the temperature drops to 30 below and a gang war heats up, Cassie realizes she may be in over her head - and the key to it all might be 12-year-old Kyle, who has been written off as 'slow' - and who keeps showing up where he doesn't belong; Signed copies expected) Brady, Eileen -- Unleashed $15.95 (Kate Turner #2: Dr. Turner enjoys working for a small house-call veterinary practice - until a client is found dead, an apparent suicide. Was it murder?) Brennan, Allison -- Best Laid Plans $7.99 (Lucy Kincaid #9: PBO; When Tom Perdue is found murdered in a motel on the wrong side of town, the FBI is called in to assist. The only witness is a belligerent teen prostitute, but Lucy sees the child beneath the attitude, and wants to help the girl. Is Lucy's past clouding her judgment? Is she being played?) Bridge, Kathleen -- Better Homes and Corpses $7.99 (Hamptons Home & Garden #1: PBO; Meg left her Manhattan magazine job to start an interior design business in Montauk. When a Hampton dowager is killed, Meg helps a friend inventory the estate, only to uncover dangerous secrets. As she gets closer to the truth, the killer will do anything to paint her out of the picture.) Brown, Sandra -- Mean Streak $8.00 (Dr. Emory Charbonneau wakes up with an unexplained head injury, the captive of a man with a past so dark he won't reveal his name. She's determined to escape him, and will take any risks necessary to survive.) Burdett, John -- The Bangkok Asset $25.95 (Sonchai Jitpleecheep #6: Sonchai and his new partner Krom witness a deadly demonstration of super-human strength from a man who seems to be controlled by a CIA operative. Could the US have created a super-solider, and be testing him on Thai soil? And why is everyone so eager to turn a blind eye? The case leads to a Cambodian jungle compound for aging US veterans.) Cabot, Sam -- Skin of the Wolf $9.99 (Noantri #2: Father Thomas Kelly, art historian Livia Pietro, and scholar Spencer George are working together in NYC, where Livia is attending a conference on Native American art. When Spencer is attacked by a wolf, they are plunged into a world where Iroquois lore and Roman Catholic doctrine have collided.) Chazin, Suzanne -- Land of Careful Shadows $9.99 (Jimmy Vega #1: Homicide detective Jimmy Vega investigates when the body of a young Hispanic woman is found 50 miles north of NYC; a note in her bag says 'Go back to your country. You don't belong here.') Cochran, Peg -- Berried Secrets $7.99 (Cranberry Cove #1: PBO; When Monica arrives on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan to help her half-brother Jeffrey on his cranberry farm, the last thing she expects is to harvest a dead body.) Connolly, John -- The Wolf in Winter $7.99 (Charlie Parker #12: The death of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter draw haunted, lethal PI Charlie Parker to Prosperous, Maine. The town and its protectors sense that Parker is a grave threat to the wealthy, sheltered inhabitants of the town. Now Charlie Parker has been marked to die so that Prosperous - and the secret it hides beneath the ruins of an ancient church - may survive.) Corleone, Douglas -- Payoff $9.99 (Simon Fisk #2: When a studio mogul's teen daughter is kidnapped, former US Marshal Simon Fisk is called in to ensure a smooth ransom exchange; when the kidnappers don't return the girl, Fisk must follow a lethal trail that leads to South America.) Dahl, Arne -- To the Top of the Mountain $15.95 (Intercrime #3: The seven members of Stockholm's disbanded Intercrime team are reunited when the individual cases they are working turn out to have deadly connections.) Davies, David Stuart -- Innocent Blood $14.95 (Paul Snow #2: Yorkshire, 1980s: A child's death is only the first in a series of apparently motiveless crimes; DI Paul Snow and his team must discover the pattern to stop a desperate murderer.) Delaney, Luke -- The Toy Taker $7.99 (Sean Corrigan #3: DI Sean Corrigan needs to find a missing child before abduction becomes murder, but his ability to think like those he hunts has deserted him just when he needs it most. As he investigates, another child vanishes.) Eckel, Wendy Sand -- Murder at Barclay Meadow $25.99 (After her husband has an affair, Rosalie Hart retreats to her late aunt's farmhouse on Maryland's Eastern Shore. After she finds a girl's dead body in the marsh grass, the sheriff declares the death an accident. But Rosalie has doubts, and teams up with friends from her creative writing class to investigate.) Ellis, Kate -- The Death Season $12.95 (Wesley Peterson #19: When dark secrets start to emerge from a murder victim's past, DI Wesley Peterson begins to realize that the killing was more calculated that he had imagined. Meanwhile, archaeologist Neil Watson, at work in a ruined village from the Great War, cannot shake the feeling that a cryptic clue might have been lost when Sandrock tumbled into the sea many years ago - a clue that could help Wesley solve his most puzzling case to date.) Fabre, Cedric (ed) -- Marseille Noir $15.95 (PBO; Anthology. Original stories set in the French city of Marseille.) Fairstein, Linda -- Terminal City $9.99 (Alexandra Cooper #16: The discovery of a woman's body in Grand Central Station sends ADA Alexandra Cooper and detective Mike Chapman on the hunt for a killer whose signature is a carving in his victims' flesh that resembles train tracks.) Finch, Charles -- The Laws of Murder $15.99 (Charles Lenox #8: 1876: Lenox gave up his seat in Parliament to start a detective agency with three colleagues. When a friend from Scotland Yard is shot near Regent's Park, the peculiar details of the death may lead Lenox into grave danger, beyond which lies a terrible truth.) Fluke, Joanne -- Final Appeal $7.99 (Reissue; After ten years in a hospital for the criminally insane, always insisting he is innocent of murdering his wife, Michael escapes and goes into hiding, relying on two allies to clear his name. One is a woman who believes his story. The other is his lawyer brother. But now someone is murdering the jurors who convicted him.) French, Tana -- The Secret Place $17.00 (Dublin Murder Squad #5: An anonymous hint reignites the stalled investigation into a year-old murder case involving a popular boy found dead on the grounds of a girl's boarding school in suburban Dublin.) Freydont, Shelley -- A Gilded Grave $16.00 (Deanna Randolph #1: PBO; Newport, RI,1895: When Joe Ballard is found kneeling over the murdered body of a maid, he turns to Deanna Randolph to help clear his name. The reluctant allies must navigate parties, tennis matches, and seances to find the real killer.) Genova, Rosie -- A Dish Best Served Cold $7.99 (Italian Kitchen #3: PBO; Mystery writer Vic Rienzi and her family are cooking like crazy for their restaurant's 70th anniversary celebration. The night of the party brings a crowd, and a hurricane. When the first casualty found is an old family friend, Vic isn't certain his death was an accident, and decides to dig deeper.) Gerber, Daryl Wood -- Fudging the Books $7.99 ( Nook #4: PBO; Amid the rowdy festivities of Pirate Week, Jenna's store is hosting the Chocolate Cookbook Club's meeting, with her friend Coco as guest of honor. When Coco's editor is found dead, can Jenna clear Coco's name?) Gregory, Susanna -- Death of a Scholar $12.95 (Matthew Bartholomew #20: When a courtier decides to found a new College, the older Cambridge Colleges are jealous of the ostentatious wealth. As the new College is about to receive its official charter, an arrow kills the Junior Proctor. Physician Matthew Bartholomew and his friend Brother Michael must find the killer.) Griffin/Butterworth -- Top Secret $9.99 (Clandestine Ops #1: In the weeks after WWII, Lt. Cronley is recruited for a new enterprise. Another war has already begun, against a bigger, smarter, and more vicious enemy: the Soviet Union. Cronley's recruiter gives him 7 days to extract vital information from a Soviet agent.) Halber, Deborah -- The Skeleton Crew $16.00 (Nonfiction. In the US today, upwards of 40,000 people are dead and unidentified. These murder, suicide, and accident victims are being championed by an online world of amateur sleuths, who scour case details in an effort to match cold case missing persons with the unidentified remains of Jane and John Does.) Herriman, Nancy -- No Comfort for the Lost $15.00 (PBO; San Francisco, 1860s: British nurse Celia Davies partners with her half- Chinese cousin Barbara and her housekeeper Addie to open a free medical clinic for women. When one of her Chinese patients is murdered, she and detective Nicholas Greaves set out to discover the killer.) Hooper, Kay -- Haunted $9.99 (Bishop/Special Crimes Unit #15: A string of missing women has left a Georgia town on edge. Then a man is found dead. There's nothing remotely ordinary about how he died, or about the prime suspect, and Trinity Nichols' investigation will reveal more than she bargained for.) Humaydan, Iman (ed) -- Beirut Noir $15.95 (PBO; Anthology. Original stories set in Beirut, Lebanon.) Jackson, Lisa -- Never Die Alone $9.99 (New Orleans #8: Detective Rick Bentz had doubts about the '21' conviction when he worked the case in LA. Now the real murderer may be loose in New Orleans - twin sisters have vanished on the eve of their 21st birthday.) Jackson, Shirley -- Let Me Tell You $30.00 (Collection. Previously uncollected and unpublished stories, essays, lectures, letters, and drawings.) Janes, J. Robert -- Clandestine $14.99 (St- Cyr & Kohler #16: 1943: French inspector Jean- Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo investigate when a bank-owned cargo van is found, its contents ransacked, its passengers murdered. The killers took small bills but left behind a bounty of smuggled goods. Were they criminals, or Resistance members?) Keller, Julia -- Summer of the Dead $15.99 (Bell Elkins #3: A killer is stalking Acker's Gap, WV, and its hard-luck inhabitants, and county prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied. And then there's Lindy Crabtree, a coal miner's daughter with dark secrets that threaten to explode into even more violence.) Kellerman,Jonathan & Jesse -- The Golem of Hollywood $9.99 (Legend says that the Golem of Prague, fashioned by a 16th-century rabbi to protect his congregation, lies dormant in a synagogue. But the Golem is dormant no longer. Reassigned to a Special Projects squad he didn't know existed, LA detective Jacob Lev is at a murder scene with no body, only a head. Seared into the kitchen counter is the Hebrew word for 'justice'. All that Lev has believed to be true is about to be upended, and not only his world, but the world itself, will be changed.) Kennedy, Mary -- Dream a Little Scream $7.99 (Dream Club #2: PBO; When a celebrity chef dies suspiciously during an event at Taylor and Ali's store, the Dream Club members put their heads together to determine if their newest member gave the chef her just desserts.) Land, Jon -- Strong Darkness $7.99 (Caitlin Strong #6: Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong finds herself pursuing a serial killer whose methods are eerily similar to a killer her great- grandfather pursued over a century ago.) Lilliefors, James -- The Tempest $11.99 (Bowers & Hunter #2: PBO; The investigation into the death of a summer resident puts detective Amy Hunter and pastor Luke Bowers on the trail of a Rembrandt masterpiece that was stolen in 1990.) Little, Elizabeth -- Dear Daughter $16.00 (10 years ago, Janie Jenkins was incarcerated for the murder of her high-society mother. Now, released on a technicality, Janie goes undercover in a South Dakota town to chase down the one lead she has on her mother's death. The only problem? Janie doesn't know if she's the killer she's searching for.) Logan, Kylie -- Revenge of the Chili Queens $7.99 (Chili Cook-off #3: PBO; At the San Antonio Chili Showdown, Maxie and Sylvia are dressing up as the Chili Queens to raise money for charity. 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Warshawski #17: When a high school flame turns to V.I. Warshawski for help, she winds up tangling with Chicago political bosses and digging for buried family secrets.) Patterson, J/Ledwidge, M -- Alert $28.00 (Michael Bennett #8: A crippled transit system. Millions without power. A reeling city desperate for answers. NYC needs Michael Bennett more than ever.) Patterson, J/Paetro, M -- Unlucky 13 $8.00 (Women's Murder Club #13: Deranged killer Mackie Morales is back. The Women's Murder Club must find her - before she finds them first.) Penny, Louise -- The Long Way Home $15.99 (Armand Gamache #10: Agatha finalist, best contemporary. Gamache is happily retired in the village of Three Pines, but when Clara Morrow's husband Peter fails to return on schedule, Gamache agrees to help search for the missing artist. Jean-Guy Beauvoir and Myrna Landers join them on a hunt that takes them deeper and deeper into .) Quadruppani, Serge -- The Sudden Disappearance of the Worker Bees $14.99 (On vacation with her husband, police inspector Simona Tavianello stops at the local beekeeper's shop to buy some honey, only to find a body lying in the entrance. The dead man worked for a controversial biotech company, and he was killed with Simona's gun.) Rickman, Phil -- Night After Night $12.95 (A Tudor farmhouse turned luxury hotel was abandoned by its owners at the height of its success. The staff has been paid to keep quiet, but stories seep through. A producer plans to make a reality TV show there: a house isolated by its rural situation and its dark reputation; six people - known to the nation but strangers to one another - locked inside; but this time Big Brother is not in control.) Robb, J.D. -- Obsession in Death $7.99 (Eve Dallas #40: Lt. Eve Dallas has become the object of an obsession. Someone who believes they have a special relationship - and would kill for her, again and again.) 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Waite, Urban -- Sometimes the Wolf $14.99 (Sheriff Patrick Drake was hit with money troubles, fell in with some unsavory men, and ended up convicted of one of the biggest crimes in local history. 12 years later, Patrick is on parole under the watchful eye of his son Bobby, a deputy sheriff. But a threat boils up from Patrick's old life - and this time, no one will be spared.) White, Randy Wayne -- Haunted $9.99 (Hannah Smith #3: A historic, supposedly haunted, house is due to be razed and replaced by condos. A wealthy Palm Beach woman hires Hannah to prove that the seller didn't disclose everything he knew about the house when he unloaded it.) Mid August

Batacan, F.H. -- Smaller and Smaller Circles $26.95 (Quezon City, Philippines, 1997: The police are devoid of resources and rife with corruption, so when eviscerated bodies begin to appear at the local dump in a poor neighborhood, two Jesuit priests dedicate themselves to tracking down the monster responsible.) Bauer, Belinda -- Rubbernecker $24.00 (Gold Dagger shortlist, best novel. Patrick Fort, a medical student with Asperger's, finds the body he is examining in anatomy class is trying to tell him all kinds of things. But no one else hears what he does. Can he solve a murder when no one else believes a crime has taken place?) Bell, Gertrude -- A Woman in Arabia: The Writings of the Queen of the Desert $17.00 (Gertrude Bell turned her back on Victorian society to study at Oxford and travel the world. Mountaineer, archaeologist, Arabist, writer, poet, linguist, and spy, she championed the Arab cause, and became chief architect of British policy in the Middle East after World War I. 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Challinor, C.S. -- Murder Comes Calling $14.99 (Rex Graves #7: PBO; Four deaths in a secluded English community, linked by the fact that their homes were up for sale, lead the police to arrest a shady house agent, but Scottish barrister Rex Graves digs into the victims' pasts and learns that they were not who they appeared to be.) Chisholm, P.F. -- A Chorus of Innocents $15.95 (Sir Robert Carey #7: 1592: Back in Carlisle, courtier Sir Robert Carey and his henchman Henry Dodd investigate when a very pregnant young woman rides to Lady Widdrington's tower, crying that her clergyman husband has been murdered and she has been raped.) Crider, Bill -- Between the Living and the Dead $24.99 (Dan Rhodes #22: Summoned to investigate gunshots at a haunted house, Texas sheriff Dan Rhodes finds the body of a meth dealer. 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Grisham, John -- Gray Mountain $9.99 (2008: Two weeks after losing her job at NYC's largest law firm, Samantha is working at a legal aid clinic in a small Appalachian town, dealing with clients with real problems - and stumbling across secrets that should have remained buried in the mountains forever.) Hiaasen, Carl -- Skink No Surrender $10.99 (Ages 10 and up. To avoid being shipped off to boarding school, Malley takes off with some guy she met online. Richard knows his cousin's in trouble before she does, and teams up with Skink, the renegade one-eyed ex-governor of Florida, to track her down.) Hilary, Sarah -- No Other Darkness $16.00 (Marnie Rome #2: DI Marnie Rome and DS Noah Jake investigate when two dead boys are discovered in a bunker beneath a London garden.) Hockensmith, S/Falco, L -- Fool Me Once $14.99 (Tarot #2: PBO; Alanis is keeping busy, carrying on her mom's tarot reading business (minus the scams), and trying to make sure her half-sister Clarice does her homework. But when Marsha Riggs' abusive husband is found bludgeoned to death and Berdache's newest detective arrests Marsha, Alanis figures it's up to her to find out who really did the deed.) Kellerman, Jonathan -- The Murderer's Daughter $28.00 (Psychologist Grace Blades has a gift for treating troubled souls and tormented psyches, in part because as a child she witnessed her parents' murder-suicide deaths. She took refuge in her intellect and found comfort with the loving couple who adopted her, but she still has a dark side. When her two worlds converge, her harrowing past returns with a vengeance.) Kellough, Janet -- The Burying Ground $11.99 (Thaddeus Lewis #3: Toronto, 1851: Who is digging up graves at the Strangers' Burying Ground, final resting place of criminals, vagrants, and indigents? The authorities are unconcerned, so sexton Morgan Spicer turns to his friend Thaddeus Lewis for help.) Lee, J.M. (Jung-Myung) -- The Investigation $24.95 (Korea, 1944: As young prison guard Watanbe Yuichi investigates the murder of another guard, he begins to discover what is really going on inside this violent institution which few inmates survive - and becomes determined to protect a poet whose works hold great beauty.) Lovegrove, James -- The Thinking Engine $14.95 (Sherlock Holmes: PBO; Oxford, 1895: Professor Quantock claims his new computational device is capable of analytical thought to rival that of the cleverest men. A battle of wits ensues as Holmes and his mechanical counterpart compete to be first to solve a series of crimes.) Maron, Margaret -- Long Upon the Land $27.00 (Deborah Knott #20: When Judge Deborah Knott's father Kezzie finds a dead man on a remote corner of his farm, the investigation uncovers long-simmering hostility between the two men. 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Rimington, Stella -- Close Call $17.00 (Liz Carlyle #8: Are the weapons for arms deals in Yemen coming from a connection in the UK? Liz Carlyle and her counter-espionage colleagues investigate.) Robinson, Peter -- In the Dark Places $25.99 (Alan Banks #22: DCI Alan Banks and his team investigate the disappearance of two young men; the inquiry takes a darker turn when, in the wreckage of a crashed truck, they find a body that was dead well before the crash.) Smith, Dan -- Red Winter $14.95 (Central Russia, 1920: Deserting his Red Army unit, Kolya returns home only to find the village empty, the men massacred in the forest and the women and children missing. He sets out on a desperate winter journey to find them, but there are dark things in his past, and someone - or something - is following his trail.) Sprigg, Christopher -- Death of an Airman $12.95 (Reissue; Originally published in 1934. On leave in England, Australian bishop Edwin Marriott is learning how to fly. When an aeroplane crashes, killing its pilot, Marriot is not convinced it was an accident, and teams up with Inspector Bray of Scotland Yard to investigate.) Syken, Bill -- Hangman's Game $25.99 (After losing his starting quarterback position to a shoulder injury, Nick Gallow remade himself as a punter. After he witnesses the murder of the team's new all-star draft pick, he has no plans to get involved - until the police go after the wrong man.) Todd, Charles -- A Pattern of Lies $25.99 (Bess Crawford #7: 1918: An explosion at the Ashton Gunpowder Mill has killed over a hundred workers. When suspicion and rumor lead to the persecution of the Ashton family, Bess follows the only known witness to the Front in France in hopes of learning the truth.) Walker, Martin -- The Patriarch (UK title: The Dying Season) $24.95 (Bruno #8: Bruno is delighted to attend a WWII flying ace's birthday celebration, but it becomes another day on the job when a friend of the family ends up dead. All signs point to a tragic accident, but Bruno isn't so sure.)