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

Newsletter #101 March-May 2013

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Sales

The 39th Anniversary sale lasts Friday, March 1 through Sunday, March 10, giving you two weekends to take advantage of the sale. Uncle Hugo's is the oldest surviving science fiction bookstore in the United States. We opened for business on March 2, 1974. To encourage you to help us celebrate Uncle Hugo’s 39th Anniversary, we’re having a sale. Come into Uncle Hugo’s and Uncle Edgar’s and get 10% off everything except gift certificates. A discount card will save you even more - you’ll get both the 10% savings from the sale and the 10% savings from the discount card. (Sale prices apply to in-store sales, but not to mail orders.)

Author Events (at Uncle Hugo's)

Sunday, March 17, 1-2pm: William Alexander - Ghoulish Song Saturday, April 13, 1-2pm: Robin Hobb - Blood of Dragons and Elizabeth Bear - Shattered Pillars

Holiday Schedule

Sunday, March 31: Closed Monday, May 27: Closed

Award News

The finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award (for best sf published as a paperback original in the U.S.) are Blueprints of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot ($14.00), Harmony by Keith Brooks ($8.99), Helix War by Eric Brown ($8.99), The Not Yet by Moira Crone, Fountain of Age by Nancy Kress ($16.00), Lovestar by Andri Snaer Magnuson ($16.95), and Lost Everything by Brian Francis Slattery ($14.99).

The Mystery Writers of America have announced the nominees for the 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The winners will be announced May 2.

The nominees for Best Novel are The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins ($25.95 hc or $16.00 tr pb), The Gods of Gotham by Lyndsay Faye ($25.95, $16.00 tr pb due early March), Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn ($25.00), Potboiler by Jesse Kellerman ($25.95, $9.99 paperback due early March), Sunset by Al Lamanda, Live by Night by Dennis Lehane ($27.99, $16.99 tr pb due in May), and All I Did Was Shoot My Man by Walter Mosley ($26.95 signed hc or $15.00 tr pb).

The nominees for Best First Novel by an American Author are The Map of Lost Memories by Kim Fay ($26.00), Don’t Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman ($24.99, $14.99 tr pb early May), Mr. Churchill’s Secretary by Susan Elia MacNeal ($15.00), The Expats by Chris Pavone ($15.00), The 500 by Matthew Quirk ($15.99), and Black Fridays by Michael Sears ($25.95). The nominees for Best Paperback Original are Complication by Isaac Adamson ($15.95), Whiplash River by Lou Berney ($14.99), Bloodland by Alan Glynn ($16.00), Blessed are the Dead by Malla Nunn ($14.00), The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters ($14.95).

The nominees for the Simon & Schuster–Mary Higgins Clark Award (presented at the same ceremony as the Edgars, for the novel in the style of Mary Higgins Clark) are Dead Scared by S.J. Bolton ($15.99), A City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell ($25.99), The Reckoning by Jane Casey ($24.99), The Other Woman by Hank Phillippi Ryan ($24.99), Sleepwalker by Wendy Corsi Staub ($7.99).

Many mystery awards are presented at the Left Coast Crime Convention.

The nominees for the Lefty Award, for the most humorous mystery, are Cruising in Your Eighties is Murder by Mike Befeler, Swift Run by Laura DiSilverio ($25.99), December Dread by Jess Lourey ($14.99), Trail of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz ($25.00), The Girl Next Door by Brad Parks ($15.99), and Fit to Be Dead by Nancy Glass West.

The nominees for the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award (novels that occur before 1960) are The Twelve Clues of Christmas by Rhys Bowen ($24.95), A City of Broken Glass by Rebecca Cantrell ($25.99), Live by Night by Dennis Lehane ($27.99), Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder by Catriona McPherson ($24.99), and Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear ($25.99 signed hc or $15.99 trade pb).

The nominees for the Rocky (mysteries set in the west) are Buffalo Bill’s Dead Now by Margaret Coel ($25.95), Hush Money by Chuck Greaves ($24.99), Wicked Eddies by Beth Groundwater ($14.95), Sonora Crossing by Darrell James ($14.95), and As the Crow Flies by Craig Johnson ($25.95).

The nominees for the Watson (for mystery novel with the best sidekick) are In a Witch’s Wardrobe by Juliet Blackwell ($7.99), Taken by Robert Crais ($26.95 signed hc or $9.99 pb), Fun House by Chris Grabenstein ($25.00, $14.95 tr pb early May), When the Past Haunts You by L. C. Hayden, and Bruja Brouhaha by Rochelle Staab ($7.99).

How's Business? By Don Blyly

The last time I ordered some books from The Rue Morgue, Tom e-mailed back to say that so many mystery bookstores have been out of business lately. I assured him that we planned to be around for at least a few more years.

I just received an e-mail from a customer in Madison, Wisconsin, that Booked For Murder is for sale and if a purchaser cannot be found the store will be closing by the end of March. In this case, it’s not bad business but health problems of the owner’s parents forcing her to move to another state to care for them. If you’re interested, contact [email protected].

The Madison customer also mentioned that Barnes & Noble is planning to close their Madison store. Barnes & Noble is reported to be planning to close 15 to 20 stores per year over the next 10 years until they are down to just the most profitable stores. Many mid-size towns around the U.S. had all of their independent bookstores driven out of business by Borders and Barnes & Noble, and many of those town will find themselves without any bookstore.

We recently took part in an interesting experiment. HarperCollins Publishers had selected a number of cities for Kim Harrison events for the release of Ever After. Somebody came up with the idea of letting the fans vote for one additional city to have a Kim Harrison event. In the first phase of the voting, the top two cities were Minneapolis and Atlanta. Uncle Hugo’s agreed to be the prospective site for a Kim Harrison event and an Atlanta-area bookstore agreed to be the prospective site for Atlanta, and the voting went into a second round. Whichever city reached 150 “votes” first would win. (To “vote”, a fan had to provide credit card information to Togather.com to pre-purchase a copy of the book if their city won, with the assurance that their credit card would only be charged if their city won.) At the end of the contest, Minneapolis had 53 “votes” and I think Atlanta had 39, so neither store got an event. But HarperCollins agreed to send enough signed copies of Ever After to each store that all the voters would be able to buy a signed copy of the book at the store they voted for. A total of 8 people, 6 for Minneapolis and 2 for Atlanta, said they didn’t really care about the event, they just wanted signed books. So Togather.com took their money and passed along to Uncle Hugo’s the payments and names and addresses for the 6 who voted for Minneapolis, and I shipped out the books. That left 47 people who had voted for Minneapolis to try to match up with signed books, but Togather.com was not willing to provide names, addresses, or e-mail addresses for those 47 people. Instead, Togather.com sent them all an e-mail explaining what was going on and telling them to contact Uncle Hugo’s. Three customers e-mailed to say they would pick up their copies at the store, and two of them actually did so. Two customers e-mailed to asked how to order their signed copies by mail, and I sent back e-mails explaining how to do it–but neither ever placed an order. One employee had “voted” for 2 copies and he picked up his 2 copies (one for himself and one for a family member). We never heard from the other 40 people, leaving us with lots of extra signed copies of Ever After.

Short Recommendations by Don Blyly

Several years ago I really enjoyed Wen Spencer’s Ukiah Oregon series (Alien Taste, Tainted Trail, Bitter Waters, and Dog Warrior) about a half-alien private investigator on contemporary Earth, with hidden aliens among us. When the author stopped that series and switched to a different publisher, I didn’t continue to read her books, and that was a big mistake.

Tinker ($7.99) is an interesting fantasy/science fiction hybrid. When a satellite was put into orbit to generate a hyperphase gate to allow space ships to jump to distant parts of the universe, it had an unexpected side effect–it sent Pittsburgh to a parallel world, Elfhome. Once a month the gate is turned off for 24 hours to bring Pittsburgh back to Earth, and some people leave Pittsburgh, other people enter Pittsburgh (mainly graduate students doing research on various aspects of Elfhome), and a month’s worth of supplies are trucked into Pittsburgh. Then Pittsburgh goes back to Elfhome, land of the elves, where magic works, strange and dangerous critters and plants exist, and even the stars are different. Tinker is an 18-year-old orphan girl genius who runs a junkyard in Pittsburgh so that she has ready access to parts for her inventions, and she’s also trying to come up with a quantum mechanical explanation for magic. Early in the first book, Tinker becomes an elf princess through no fault of her own, which gets her involved in elf politics. What nobody originally realizes is that Earth and Elfhome are not the only parallel worlds that have been linked by the gate. The truly nasty rulers of the third world have already infiltrated various powerful governments and corporations on Earth and have started an invasion of Elfhome. Soon, Tinker is saving the world, often partly by accident and often with unintended consequences. The story and the war continues in Wolf Who Rules ($7.99) and Elfhome ($24.00), and the story isn’t finished at the end of Elfhome.

Last Newsletter I recommended Crown Thief ($7.99) by David Tallerman, but pointed out that it is the direct sequel to Giant Thief ($7.99) and should not be read without reading Giant Thief first. The problem was that the publisher was out of Giant Thief when Crown Thief was issued. I complained to the publisher, and they finally reprinted Giant Thief–three months after Crown Thief was issued.

I’ve been a fan of Gail Carriger’s Parasol Protectorate series (Soulless ($7.99), Changeless ($7.99), Blameless ($7.99), Heartless ($7.99), and Timeless ($7.99)) of adult steampunk Victorian-era novels with werewolves, vampires, and humor. I seldom read young adult novels, but I did read Etiquette & Espionage ($17.99), the first of 4 young adult novels set in the same universe, beginning 22 years before the adult series. Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her mother. Sophronia likes to dismantle clocks and climb trees, and her curtsy is terrible, so her mother sends her to finishing school. But this finishing school is not exactly what her mother had in mind. In addition to classes in manners, dance, the proper ways to curtsy, etc., there are also classes in knife- throwing, poisons, and espionage to train the next generation of female spies for the empire, and the instructors include a werewolf and a vampire. In a podcast interview the author points out that the level of technology in the young adult series is more advanced than in the later adult series, and that Sophronia will have a lot to do with certain technologies being abandoned.

Last year I recommended Babylon Steel by Gaie Sebold ($7.99) as good popcorn fantasy. Babylon Steel used to be a sword-for-hire for caravans, but is now the madam of a brothel called The Red Lantern in Scalentine, a trading city connected by portals to many different planes with many different species. In the second book, Dangerous Gifts ($8.99), Babylon agrees to travel to another plane to act as bodyguard for an alien female who’s about to shake up the political structure of her world. While much of the book involves Babylon learning about the politics, cultures, and threats of the world, she manages to spend some time giving advice and instruction to some sexually repressed aliens. There’s bound to be another novel coming soon.

Ever After by Kim Harrison ($27.99) is the latest in the Hollows series featuring witch Rachel Morgan. This series should be read in order because so much character development happens from book to book, and plot elements stretch across several books. If you’re a fan of the series, you should know that I enjoyed this novel more than the last couple, and that we have a bunch of signed copies. If you haven’t tried the series, start with Dead Witch Walking ($7.99). I’ve been recommending the Liaden Universe series by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller since the late 1980s, and I’m always happy to see a new book in the series. Necessity’s Child ($26.00 signed copies) arrived a few weeks ago, and it’s a stand-alone novel set shortly after Clan Korval has relocated to the planet Surebleak. Some new characters are developed who are likely to be significant in future books in the series. If you’ve been following the series, you want to read this book. The authors see this book as an alternate entry point to the series for new readers, and I’m afraid I have to disagree with them. Too many things are mentioned in the book which a fan of the series will understand, but they are not explained enough for a new reader to understand the significance of what they are reading. If you have somehow never discovered this excellent space opera series, don’t start with Necessity’s Child. Start at the beginning of the series, which is now available as The Agent Gambit ($12.00), which contains the first two novels, Agent of Change and Carpe Diem. You can then move on to The Dragon Variation ($12.00), which contains Local Custom, Scout’s Progress, and Conflict of Honors, after which you should read Korval’s Game ($12.00), which contains Plan B and I Dare. By that point, you should be hooked on the series and can start collecting the rest of the Liaden Universe novels.

I’ve enjoyed everything I’ve read by Patricia Briggs, both the traditional fantasies and the urban fantasies. The urban fantasy series began with Moon Called ($7.99), about Mercedes “Mercy” Thompson, a coyote shape-shifter who was raised by werewolves and now is a Volkswagen mechanic in Oregon. After a few of the Mercy Thompson books, along came the spin-off Alpha and Omega series featuring some of the secondary characters from the Mercy series. While I still enjoy the Mercy series, I enjoy the Alpha and Omega series even more. In the third of the spin-off series, Fair Game ($7.99), a serial killer that the FBI has never been able to catch has been moving around the country for decades. When word reaches the Oregon werewolves that the serial killer has now reached Boston and has managed to capture, torture, and murder three werewolves there, Anna and Charles fly to Boston to help the FBI track down the killer. Lots of action with interesting and entertaining characters is the result.

Promise of Blood by Brian McClellan ($23.99, coming mid-April) is the first of The Powder Mage Trilogy, and is a very good and original fantasy. Since the god Kresimir is said to have set up the world the way he wanted it, with the nine kingdoms, and left the world, there have been various kinds of people who could work magic. Some people have a Knack–the ability the work magic in one particular specialty (such as cooking, perhaps). A Knack can be useful, but the kings don’t get very excited about that. Some people have control over a wide variety of magics, and kings try to find them, train them, and force them into a royal Privileged cabal. But as technology advanced, black powder firearms were invented, and some people learned to become black powder mages. Such people could use their powers to guide a bullet a mile or more to kill a Privileged of an opposing king, could set off black powder at a distance with their minds, and could snort black powder to increase their stamina and sharpen their senses. Armies with firearms and black powder mages became more important in war than Priviliged cabals. And the Priviliged were not pleased. Field Marshal Tamas of Adro is a black powder mage and has recruited many other black powder mages to his army. When he learns that his king has foolishly spent Adro into near bankrupcy and now plans to hand effective control of his country to the empire of Kez in exchange for forgiveness of his debts, Tamas stages a coup, killing the king, his Priviliged cabal, and most of the nobility of Adro. Tamas thought that killing the second most powerful Privileged cabal in the world was the hard part, and now it would be a fairly simple matter to unite Adro and prepare to fight Kez. He has no idea what a complex mess he has gotten into.

Mystery Reviews by Gerri Balter

When wealthy businessman Nehemiah Wooten is murdered, the last thing Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy wants is to call in midwife Sarah Brandt. But in Murder on Lexington Avenue by Victoria Thompson ($7.99), he has little choice when the dead man's wife goes into labor with a child that no one knows she’s carrying. Wooten's daughter Electra is deaf, but his father didn’t believe in sign language, so she attends a school where only lip reading is caught. When Wooten found out Electra was seeing a young deaf man who taught at a sign language school, he did everything to keep them apart. Malloy has plenty of other suspects as well. The dead man’s wife is having an affair with a younger man, who is the father of her baby. Could he have killed the businessman? Malloy is forced to ask Sarah for help in finding the truth, especially after another person is killed.

In Earthway by Aimee & David Thurlo ($14.99), Ella Clah has tough decisions to make. Her daughter is staying with her father in Washington, DC, and seems to be having way too much fun. Ella likes living on the reservation. What if her daughter doesn’t want to come back? Then there’s the job offer she’s received. The job would pay much more than she’s getting now, but she would have to leave the reservation. Finally, there’s her relationship with Reverend Bilford Tome. He’s a devout Christian while she’s a traditionalist. When someone tries to kill Reverend Tome, she’s in charge of finding out who and why. But whatever she tries seems to fail, and she begins to realize that the killer knows exactly what she’s doing. It takes her entire family and Reverend Tome to help her find out the truth.

I enjoy all the Louise Penny novels, but A Trick of the Light ($14.99) is the best so far. Clara Morrow has had her dream of a one-woman show of her art come true. The day after the show, she finds a dead body in her garden, a friend who had belittled her work. Chief Inspector Gamache of the Quebec Surete and his team arrive to investigate. It’s tough for Gamache to return to Three Pines because he imprisoned one of the town’s most beloved inhabitants on a murder charge. Even though he later realized his mistake and found the real killer, he has not been forgiven. Meanwhile, Jean Guy Beauvoir, a member of Gamache’s team, is fighting his own problems. And Clara’s husband, an artist himself, is not happy at her success, a success that has eluded him. All this plays out during the investigation. The murdered woman made a great many enemies, but only one of them killed her. In spite of everything, Gamache will find the truth.

Coming Back by Marcia Muller ($7.99) tells what happens as Sharon McCone recovers from being shot. She is forced to be dependent, first on the therapists who help her learn to walk and talk, and then on friends and family because she can’t drive a car or fly a plane. It would be tough for anyone, but more so for a PI who runs her own firm. It becomes even worse when her family and friends feel unsure of her capabilities or worry that she is trying to do too much. One of the bright spots in Sharon’s recovery is her budding friendship with Piper, whom she meets during therapy. When Piper stops coming, Sharon is worried about her. When she goes to Piper’s home, she finds Piper lying on the floor, apparently drugged. Another woman comes in, says she is Piper’s aunt, and assures Sharon that she is taking care of Piper. Although Sharon leaves, she asks her staff to find out about this woman, and learns that the woman gave her a false name. In spite of her husband’s plea not to get involved, she feels that this is something she has to look into. Adah, a member of her staff, joins her when she goes back to Piper’s home, which is deserted. Adah and Sharon get separated and someone kidnaps Adah. Everyone blames Sharon. She accepts their blame, but is determined to find Adah and Piper. Reluctantly, the rest of her staff joins her, but it’s Sharon who finds out the truth.

I admit that I hate spider webs so when I saw the The Spider’s Web by Margaret Coel ($7.99), I hesitated to buy it, but I’m glad I did. Ned Windsong came back to the reservation to start a new life. He got a job. He started to learn the Sun Dance. The only surprise was that he came back with a white woman, Marcy Morrison, who claimed to be his fiancé. His former fiancé Roseanne Birdwoman couldn’t believe it. When he is murdered, many people on the reservation believe that Marcy killed him. Although Roseanne hates Marcy, she knows who the real killers are. Both her life and Marcy’s are in danger. Marcy’s father hires Vicky Holden to represent her. Roseanne is on her own, although she has gone to Father O’Malley for help. He isn’t so sure Marcy is innocent. She has been staying at the mission, and he sees something that worries him. Although Vicky and Father O’Malley disagree about who killed Ned, they work together to find the truth.

Laura DiSilverio has a very different protagonist in Die Buying ($7.99). After an injury ends her military career, E.J. Ferris gets a job as a mall cop while she tries to get a job in a police department. It isn’t easy due to her wounded knee. When some animal liberation people release reptiles from one of the stores, E.J. thinks her most dangerous job will be finding the snakes. Then a shopper finds the naked body of a man. The police don’t want E.J. involved in the case, but her grandfather, a former CIA agent, keeps investigating, and draws her in as well. The investigation brings her into contact with several people who could have committed the murder.

Buttercream Bump Off by Jenn McKinlay ($6.99) begins around Valentine’s Day. Mel Cooper’s mother Joyce has a date with Baxter Malloy. When it ends in his murder, Joyce is the prime suspect. Mel and her business partner Angie are determined to find out who the real killer is. That’s not Mel’s only problem. Everytime she tries to go on a date with her police officer boyfriend, he falls asleep from exhaustion. Then Mel’s other partner and friend Tate finally realizes that he cares for Angie, who is now dating someone else. Mel hopes that she can clear everything up so she can spend time with her boyfriend and keep him awake. It’s bad enough that the killer doesn’t want her to succeed; she also has a business rival who will do anything to thwart Mel’s successful cupcake bakery.

How dangerous can life as a book restorer be? That’s what Brooklyn Wainwright finds out in Murder Under Cover by Kate Carlisle ($7.99). When Brooklyn’s friend Robin brings her a copy of the Kama Sutra to appraise and restore, all Brooklyn expects is sore muscles after she and her boyfriend try out some of the moves. Instead her apartment is trashed, and people are dying around her, starting with a man Robin was dating. Luckily, Brooklyn’s boyfriend, British security expert Derek Stone, lets her move in with him and helps her investigate. None of it makes sense. She has nothing anyone wants, or does she? A Killer Column by Casey Mayes ($7.99) is an interesting book even if you aren’t interested in number puzzles. It begins when Savannah Stone learns that her column is being sold to a syndicate without her consent. She is furious, and lets her puzzle editor Derrick Duncan know it. When she goes back to apologize, she find his dead body, and winds up prime suspect in his murder. Her husband, a former police officer, comes to help her. The problem is that Derrick has been mean to everyone he’s come into contact with, including his wife. They all have motives and opportunities. Savannah and her husband have to find the killer before the killer comes after them.

Would you believe crab cakes could be used to murder someone? In Killer Crab Cakes by Livia J. Washburn ($6.99), Phyllis Newsom and her friends go to the Texas Gulf Coast, to a bed-and-breakfast run by her cousin, who is leaving for a few weeks to visit her first grandchild. Phyllis is happy to help her out by running the place. When one of the guests is murdered, Phyllis is determined to find the killer, especially since the housekeeper is the prime suspect. She soon learns that the dead man was not well liked, even by his family. Then she finds out that some of the guests know more about the dead man than she realized. The worst happens when the killer realizes Phyllis knows more than she should.

A Sheetcake Named Desire by Jacklyn Brady ($7.99) begins when Rita Lucero, a pastry chef, goes to New Orleans to convince Philippe Renier to sign divorce papers. Instead, she finds his dead body, and the police think she might have killed him. Since the divorce wasn’t final, she inherits his share of Zydeco Cakes. The employees aren’t happy to see her, but Philippe’s mother welcomes her, and shows her that she is needed at the company. When she learns that every time they try to bid on a cake, something bad happens, she realizes that someone is trying to sabotage the company. Could the saboteur also be the killer? Rita has to find out or she has no future. Of course, finding out the truth could keep her from having a future, as well.

A month ago, Kelly Flynn found a young woman named Holly in her yard, high on drugs, in Skein of the Crime by Maggie Sefton ($7.99). But Holly has been turning over a new leaf, so when she is found dead of a drug overdose, Kelly finds it hard to believe that Holly deliberately took the drugs, and sets out to discover who gave them to her. The problem is that a great many people around Holly have access to the drug, including Holly’s med student boyfriend, and his mother, who takes pain killers for a bad back. It all comes together when she realizes who the killer is.

Things are not going well for Abby Cooper in Better Read than Dead by Victoria Laurie ($7.99). Her boyfriend, FBI agent Dutch Rivers, has a new partner. When she makes fun of Abby’s profession as a psychic, Dutch says nothing. Dutch and Abby get into a big fight. Abby has money problems, but refuses to asks her rich sister for help, so when a friend asks her to read tarot cards at a wedding and reminds her that she owes him a favor, she reluctantly agrees. When she realizes that it’s a mob wedding, she leaves. The father of the bride tracks her down and coerces her to be his psychic, which could cost her a more than she realizes.

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Rider When the World Shook $15.95 (Reissue; Awakened from 250,000 years of suspended animation, an Atlantean uses astral projection to visit London and the battlefields of the Western Front. Unimpressed with the state of the world in the 1910s, he sets out to do what he's apparently done before - use a colossal gyroscope to drown the planet and restart the course of human history.) Hale, Ginn The Shattered Gates $14.95 (Rifter #1: PBO; When John opens a letter addressed to his missing roommate Kyle, he expects to find a house key, but instead is swept into a realm of magic, mysticism, revolutionaries, and assassins. Though he struggles to escape, John is drawn steadily closer to the fate he shares with Kyle - to awaken the Rifter and shatter a world.) Hambly, Barbara Blood Maidens $8.99 (James Asher #3: Reissue; 1911: James Asher, Oxford don and formerly on His Majesty's Secret Service, is forced to accompany vampire Don Simon Ysidro to St. Petersburg. Are they on the trail of a rogue vampire with a plan to achieve the power to walk in daylight? Or is Ysidro's real agenda to seek the woman he once loved?) Henry, Christina Black City $7.99 (Maddy Black #5: PBO; Maddy thought Azazel's depraved experiment died with him, but now Chicago is infested with vampires immune to the sun. Maddy is determined to do everything in her power to save her city from the resulting bloodbath.) Hite, K/Rodriguez, C The Antarctic Express $19.95 (Full color picture book. Lovecraft's 'At the Mountains of Madness' retold as a parody of 'The Polar Express'.) Hubbard, Tony A Demon Lies Within $15.95 (Following his murder, Andrew McMurray finds himself in the depths of hell, apprenticed to a demon master, learning to possess, torment and control the thoughts and actions of the living. Andrew's goal? Revenge on his wife and young son, whom he holds responsible for his murder.) Jones, Terry Animal Tales $16.99 (Kids; 16 absurd and inventive tales about the wonders of the animal kingdom.) Kashina, Anna (ed) Once Upon a Curse $16.95 (Anthology; reprints 11 fantasy stories inspired by myths and fairy tales) Kelly, Walt Bona Fide Balderdash $39.99 (Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Volume 2: Reprints the 1951-1952 comics, with daily strips in black & white, Sunday strips in color.) Kilpatrick, Nancy Vampyric Variations $13.95 (Collection; 10 short stories and novellas revealing the undead) Krol, Torsten The Secret Book of Sacred Things $22.95 (The coming of the Great Stone destroyed almost everything. High in a remote valley, Sister Luka and her female converts offer sacrifices to the scarred (and very close) moon that hangs over their convent, and 12-year-old Aurora endlessly writes down the name of the moon to keep her in the sky where she belongs. When an unexpected marvel occurs in the sky, it is clear that the moon is threatening to remake the world all over again.) Larwood, Kieran Freaks $16.99 (Kids; Born with weird abnormalities that make them misfits, Sheba the Wolfgirl, Monkeyboy, and Sister Moon spend their nights trapped in a sideshow. But during the day, they put their strange talents to use solving sinister crimes, determined to defend the street urchins disappearing from Victorian London's streets.) Le Guin, Ursula K. The Real and the Unreal: Where on Earth $24.00 (Selected Stories Volume 1: Collection; 18 stories selected by the author, focusing on realism and magical realism, and including satirical, political, and experimental earthbound stories.) Le Guin, Ursula K. The Real and the Unreal: Outer Space, Inner Lands $24.00 (Selected Stories Volume 2: Collection; 20 stories selected by the author, focusing on the fantastic.) Marciuliano, Francesco I Could Pee on This and Other Poems by Cats $12.95 (A small, gift-size hardcover with funny poems and full color cat photos.) Martin, G/Howden, M Game of Thrones A-Z $14.95 (PBO; A fan guide to the TV show, exploring its combination of political intrigue and family dysfunction against an epic fantasy background. Includes actor biographies and an episode guide.) Matthews, Patrick Dragon Run $16.99 (Kids; Al expects to follow in his successful father's footsteps, but on Testing Day he is ranked a zero. Fleeing the Cullers, who put zeroes to death, armed with only a sword and his wits, Al struggles to survive. But as he meets other outcasts, he comes to suspect that he's a pawn in a larger game - and that he might have the power to tip the scales in a struggle between man and dragon.) Medley, Linda Castle Waiting Volume 1 $24.99 (Full color graphic novel; collects the entire Harvey and Eisner award-winning comic book series into one mammoth volume, plus a concluding chapter written and drawn especially for this volume. The story of an isolated, abandoned castle and the eccentric inhabitants who bring it back to life, making it a refuge for misfits, outcasts, and others seeking sanctuary.) Moorcock, Michael The Laughter of Carthage $22.00 (Colonel Pyat #2: Reissue; Having fled Bolshevik Russia in late 1919, Pyat begins affairs with a baroness and a Greek prostitute while undertaking schemes to build flying machines in Europe and the US. His devotion to flamboyantly racist, particularly anti-Semitic doctrines - like his devotion to cocaine - remains unabated, and he both sings the praises of Mussolini and lectures across America for the Ku Klux Klan. Meanwhile, his best-kept secret is the fact that he is Jewish.) Moriarty, Chris The Inquisitor's Apprentice $7.99 (Kids; Early 20th century: Sacha's ability to see witches earns him an apprenticeship with the NYPD's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf, to help stop magical crime. With fellow apprentice Lily, Sacha investigates who is trying to kill Thomas Edison, whose mechanical witch detector could unleash the worst witch-hunt in American history.) Parkin, L/Pearson, L Ahistory: An Unauthorised History of the Doctor Who Universe $49.95 (Revised and expanded 3rd edition, incorporating all Doctor Who materials into a single timeline: TV, audio, novels, novellas, comics, webcomics, and spinoff series.) Parkinson, Siobhan Spellbound: Tales of Enchantment from Ancient Ireland $19.99 (Kids; Full color picture book. 7 ancient legends of Ireland, told for younger children.) Post, Andrew Knuckleduster $14.95 (PBO; Brody was blinded while serving in the military, and relies on expensive special lenses for sight. To pay for his vision, he became a vigilante for hire. When an old friend asks him to find his missing kid sister in Chicago, Brody uncovers a conspiracy that threatens everything he stands for, and is forced to face his future.) Powers, Tim Salvage and Demolition $30.00 (Novella; a rare book dealer opens a box of consignment items and encounters commonplace objects that serve as catalysts for an extraordinary and unpredictable adventure.) Price, Robert M. (ed) Worlds of Cthulhu $29.00 (Anthology; 11 original stories in a Lovecraftian vein.) Rendahl, Eileen Dead Letter Day $7.99 (Messenger #3: PBO; Melina's search for her missing werewolf friend leads to a mermaid, a deranged cop, patterns for Norwegian doilies, and the realization that she may be facing the most powerful enemy yet.) Rivers, Phoebe Ghost Town $5.99 (Saranormal #1: Kids; 12-year-old Sara has been psychic for as long as she can remember, but she hopes if she ignores her powers, they'll go away. Then she and her dad move to an old shore town, and she discovers the ghosts there can communicate with her - and one of them needs her help.) Rivers, Phoebe Haunted Memories $5.99 (Saranormal #2: Kids; It's time to start school, and, in her first psychic vision, Sara sees herself with a cute boy. She's sure Jayden is destined to be her first boyfriend, but he has a ghostly companion who seems intent on keeping them apart. Who is this ghost? And will Jayden's secrets keep Sara from falling in love?) Rivers, Phoebe Mischief Night $5.99 (Saranormal #3: Kids; With Halloween just around the corner, Sara and and her friend Lily unwittingly release the ghost of a young boy who was locked away in a closet long ago. The little ghost is full of mischief, and Sara is completely powerless over him. What makes this ghost so special? Then, during a party at Sara's house, ghostly visitors and real-life classmates collide.) Rivers, Phoebe Spirits of the Season $5.99 (Saranormal #4: Kids; It's Christmas time, and the streets are buzzing with holiday shoppers and ghostly activity. Sara is busy trying to figure out how to reunite Lady Azura with the spirit of her lost love, and wondering what to buy Jayden for Christmas. But secrets about who Sara is - and why she has powers - are about to be revealed.) Rivers, Phoebe Moment of Truth $5.99 (Saranormal #5: Kids; Sara's friend Lily has a crush on a boy - but he's not alive. Kyle and his family died in a car accident while visiting over the holidays, but Kyle isn't aware of his sudden death and can still walk around like he's alive. Only Sara knows he's really a spirit. Can she help Kyle learn the truth without hurting Lily in the process?) Rivers, Phoebe Giving Up the Ghost $5.99 (Saranormal #6: Kids; Sara is preoccupied with a new power she's just discovered: an ability to read minds that soon leads her down a frightening path. She and Lady Azura discover that the new ability is actually a curse. Can Sara overcome it before it destroys her relationships?) Roberts, Adam Jack Glass $24.95 (Jack Glass is the murderer - we know this from the start. But as the tales of three murders unfold, the reader will be surprised to find out that it was Glass who was the killer, and how he did it. And by the end our sympathies for the killer are fully engaged.) Robeson, Kenneth House of Death / The Hate Master / A Coffin for the Avenger! $14.95 (Avenger #8: Pulp reprints) Robeson, Kenneth The Awful Dynasty / The Angry Canary / The Swooning Lady $14.95 (Doc Savage #63: Pulp reprints) Rothfuss, Patrick The Adventure of the Princess and Mr. Whiffle $14.99 (NOT for kids. Really. A darkly humorous, twisted take on a classic children's picture book. Black & white illustrations throughout.) Scott, KL/Pierson, J Return to Collinwood $24.95 (Dark Shadows: Nonfiction; full color photos. A look back at four decades of the spooky soap opera.) Shanks, Edward The People of the Ruins $14.95 (Reissue; Trapped in a laboratory during a 1924 worker uprising, scientist and former artilleryman Jeremy Tuft awakens 150 years later - to a new Dark Age. He decides that pre-modern life is simpler and more peaceful - until half-savage tribes invade London, at which point he sets about reinventing 20th century weapons.) Shepherd, M (Moscoe, M) The First Casualty $7.99 (Jump Universe #1: Reissue; Four soldiers on different sides in a battle are about to discover the true nature of a terrible war: a quest for profit by the high command on both sides. What they will risk is nothing less than their lives.) Stanish/Myles (ed) Chicks Unravel Time: Women Journey Through Every Season of Doctor Who $19.95 (PBO; In these essays, woman writers, media professionals and scientists examine each season of new and classic Doctor Who from their unique perspectives.) Tavaci, Elspeth The Stone of Destiny: Tales from Turkey $8.99 (Kids; A poor stonecutter sets off on a perilous journey along the Silk Road to Istanbul, telling stories (authentic Turkish folk tales) to stay alive. Black & white illustrations.) Taylor, S.S. The Expeditioners $22.00 (Kids; Computers have failed, electricity is extinct, and the race to discover new lands is underway. Explorer Alexander West has just died under mysterious circumstances, but not before smuggling half of a strange map to his intrepid children - Kit the brain, M.K. the tinkerer, and Zander the brave. Why are so many government agents trying to steal the half-map? And where is the other half? It's up to the kids to get to the bottom of these questions, and fast.) Telep, Trisha (ed) The Mammoth Book of Futuristic Romance $13.95 (Anthology; 19 stories (18 originals, 1 reprint)) Thomas, Ian (writer) / Bolton, Adam (artist) Where's My Shoggoth? $11.95 (Full color picture book. A young man searches for his missing pet shoggoth, encountering various characters from the Cthulhu mythos along the way.) Trenary, Roland Mahlon Blaine: One-Eyed Visionary $25.00 (PBO; Adults only. A look at some of the illustrator's black & white work, published between 1917 and 1967, some of it erotic.) Vance, Jack Desperate Days: The Fox Valley Murders / The Pleasant Grove Murders / The Dark Ocean $45.00 (Selected Mysteries Volume 2: Omnibus reprint; 3 mystery novels) Wellman, Manly Wade The Complete John Thunstone $40.00 (Reprints 16 stories and 2 novels featuring a scholar and playboy who investigates occult events.)

Early March

Adams/Cohen (ed) Oz Reimagined: New Tales from the Emerald City and Beyond $14.95 (Anthology) Aguirre, Ann Agave Kiss $7.99 (Corine Solomon #5: PBO; Corine is determined to bring back her lover Chance, who made the ultimate sacrifice. But the clock is ticking - and she also has to deal with debt-collecting demons and a maniacal archangel while trying to help a dying friend.) Alexander, William Ghoulish Song $16.99 HC, $19.99 Unabridged audio read by the author (Kids; In the town of Zombay, Kaile wants to be a musician, and is delighted when a goblin gives her a bone flute. But the flute's single mournful song separates Kaile and her shadow. They learn the flute is tied to a ghoul made from the bones of those who drowned in the River. With the ghoul chasing her and the River threatening to flood, will Kaile and her shadow be able to learn the right tune to keep Zombay safe? Autographing at Uncle Hugo's Sunday, March 17, 1-2pm) Annandale, David The Death of Antagonis $12.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Battles #12: PBO; The Black Dragons fall upon the world of Antagonis, summoned to combat the plague of undeath that has engulfed the planet.) Archer, Alex Staff of Judea $6.99 (Rogue Angel #41: PBO; Annja agrees to lead a party to recover the treasure of the Jewish Temple in Judea - only to discover the expedition is really one man's quest to gain control of the mystical Staff of Aaron.) Axler, James Chrono Spasm $6.99 (Deathlands #109: PBO; Ryan Cawdor and his group learn that dangerous experiments are taking place at a long-abandoned Alaskan military base.) Baum, L. Frank Oz: The Complete Collection Volume 3: The Patchwork Girl of Oz / Tik-Tok of Oz / The Scarecrow of Oz $10.99 (Oz #7 / #8 / #9: Kids; Omnibus reprint; 3 classic fantasy novels) Baum, L. Frank Oz: The Complete Collection Volume 4: Rinkitink in Oz / The Lost Princess of Oz / The Tin Woodman of Oz $10.99 (Oz #10 / #11 / #12: Kids; Omnibus reprint; 3 classic fantasy novels) Baum/Thompson Oz: The Complete Collection Volume 5: The Magic of Oz / Glinda of Oz / The Royal Book of Oz $10.99 (Oz #13 / #14 / #15: Kids; Omnibus reprint; 3 classic fantasy novels) Beal, Clifford Gideon's Angel $7.99 (1653: Richard Treadwell, an exiled royalist officer, returns to England to assassinate the new Lord Protector - and discovers that a secret army is bent on the same quest, guided by the Devil's hand. When demonic entities are summoned, Treadwell must save Crowmwell in order to save England from a literal descent into Hell.) Birmingham, John Angels of Vengeance $7.99 (Without Warning #3: While leading the battle to rebuild America in the face of predation by pirates and freebooters, President Kipper faces a challenge to his leadership from a rogue governor who has proclaimed himself a sovereign power in Texas.) Bishop, Anne Bridge of Dreams $7.99 (Ephemera #3: When wizards threaten Glorianna Belladonna and her work to keep Ephemera balanced, her brother Lee sacrifices himself to save her, and ends up an asylum inmate in the city of Vision. A darkness is spreading through Vision, perplexing the Shamans who protect it, and Lee is the only one who can shed any light on its mysteries.) Bishop, Anne Written in Red $26.95 (Others #1: Meg can see the future when her skin is cut. When she escapes from the human Controller who has enslaved her, the only safe place she can hide is in a business district operated by the Others - unearthly entities who rule the Earth and prey on humans. She applies for a job as Human Liaison there, but shape-shifter Simon Wolfgard is reluctant to hire her. He senses she's keeping a secret, and she doesn't smell like human prey. When he learns that she's wanted by the government, he must decide if she's worth the fight between humans and Others that will surely follow.) Bisson, Terry Any Day Now $15.95 (1960s: Clay is a small-town boy whose future is all mapped out. His travels take him to an isolated New Mexico commune under threat from a national revolution, with Clay battling to find his place in the new America - and hoping desperately to forget what happened back East with the girl he loved.) Bonilla, Amanda Crave the Darkness $7.99 (Shaede Assassin #3: PBO; Darian's dangerous missions have driven her lover Tyler to his breaking point. Now, as Darian hunts down a would-be assassin, she digs up long-buried secrets, including one about Tyler that could destroy what is left between them.) Bradley, MZ/Ross, D Children of Kings $24.95 (Darkover: When smugglers start arming the Dry Towners with forbidden weapons, Gareth Elhalyn, grandson of Regis Hastur and heir to the throne, takes off on a secret mission to stop them.) Briggs, Patricia Frost Burned $26.95 (Mercy Thompson #7: When the werewolf pack is abducted, Mercy is forced to seek assistance from the most unlikely of allies: the vampire seethe.) Brin, David Existence $9.99 (On the neural link world wide web, a crowd can gather in an instant if something interesting is happening. Into that maelstrom of shared experience drops a game-changer: an alien artifact, plucked from Earth orbit, that wants to communicate. News leaks out fast, and the world reacts as it always does, with fear and hope and selfishness and love and violence.) Brooks, Terry Wards of Faerie $7.99 (Dark Legacy of Shannara #1: The Four Lands hang in the balance between science and magic as subversives take up arms against the Druid Council. Humans and their allies have developed weapons using forbidden science that long ago destroyed the world. Then a clue to four sets of Elfstones is discovered. Their magic has been missing for thousands of years. If it can be regained, the balance of power may shift once again.) Burgis, Stephanie Renegade Magic $6.99 (Kat Stephenson #2: Kids; Regency England: The powerful Lord Ravenscroft has expelled Kat from the Order of Guardians, citing her utter lack of ladylike propriety. But when Kat's foolish brother Charles unwittingly invokes the furious force of Sulis Minerva in Bath, it's up to Kat to rescue her family.) Cargill, C. Robert Dreams and Shadows $24.99 (Once bold explorers and youthful denizens of a magical realm, Ewan is now an Austin musician who has just met his dream girl, while Colby cannot escape the consequences of an innocent wish. But while they left the Limestone Kingdom as children, it has never forgotten them. And in a world where angels relax on rooftops, whiskey-swilling genies argue metaphysics with foul- mouthed wizards, and monsters in the shadows feed on fear, you can never outrun your fate. ) Chambers, Andy Path of the Incubus $8.99 (Warhammer 40,000: PBO; The eternal city of Commorragh has been cast into turmoil by the Dysjunction. As the streets are inundated with horrors from beyond the veil, the supreme overlord Asdrubael Vect battles to keep his enemies in check and maintain his stranglehold on the riven city.) Cherryh, C.J. Intruder $7.99 (Foreigner #13: Human diplomat Bren Cameron's mission is to persuade the rebel leader, a young atevi lord who has never seen a human, to cease his hostile actions against the west. Is Bren a shrewd enough negotiator to stay alive, and not alienate his allies, while also representing the interests of their enemies?) Clines, Peter Ex-Heroes $14.00 (A year after the plague of living death spread around the globe, the Mighty Dragon and his superhuman companions protect a few thousand survivors in their film-studio-turned-fortress. But the living dead aren't the only threat. Former allies, their powers and psyches hideously twisted, lurk in the ruins of Los Angeles. And just a few miles away, another group is slowly amassing power, led by an enemy with the most terrifying ability of all.) Coates, Deborah Deep Down $25.99 (Hallie Michaels #2: Hallie gets a call asking her to help an elderly neighbor who is being stalked by creatures from the underworld that are harbingers of death. Meanwhile, strange events herald the arrival of ghosts from deputy Boyd Davies' past.) Cook, Glen Garrett for Hire: Deadly Quicksilver Lies / Petty Pewter Gods / Faded Steel Heat $17.00 (Garrett PI #7 / #8 / #9: Omnibus reprint; 3 hardboiled urban fantasy novels featuring a human PI) Counter, Ben Van Horstmann $14.00 (Warhammer: Heroes #4: PBO; Egrimm van Horstmann is the most promising wizard the College of Light has ever seen, and seems destined to lead the College into a bright new future. But his true motives are sinister - he plans to unleash an ancient dragon imprisoned beneath the college, and bring ruin to the Empire in the name of the Dark Gods.) Czerneda, Julie E. A Turn of Light $20.00 (Night's Edge #1: The isolated village of Marrowdell is the place where two worlds overlap, and at the turn of light - sunset - the world of magic known as the Verge can briefly be seen. Jenn belongs to both Verge and Marrowdell, but she doesn't know how special she is, or that her invisible friend Wisp is actually a dragon, sent to guard her and keep her from leaving the valley. When Jenn's spell to create a husband goes awry, Wisp is transformed into a man. But he is not the only newcomer to Marrowdell - and far from the most dangerous of those who are suddenly finding their way to the valley.) Daniel, Tony Guardian of Night $7.99 (Alien commander Captain Arid Ricimer plans to defect to Earth with his officers and his superweapon-equipped starship; he and his new human allies will have to face down the forces of a tyrannical star empire.) Daniel, Tony Devil's Bargain $7.99 (Star Trek: PBO; Captain Kirk and his crew have been sent to evacuate a Federation mining colony threatened with an extinction-level event, but the colonists don't want to leave their claims.) Datlow, Ellen (ed) Hauntings $16.95 (PBO; Anthology; the most chilling ghost stories of the past 25 years) Davidson, MaryJanice Undead and Underwater $15.00 (Betsy Taylor: PBO; Collection; in these original novellas, Betsy Taylor meets Fred the mermaid, superhero Karen Kilher, and Lara Wyndham.) de Lint, Charles The Cats of Tanglewood Forest $17.99 (Kids; Novel-length version of the 2003 picture book. When Lillian is bitten by a snake, the magical cats of the forest surrounding her farmstead save her by turning her into a kitten. To turn herself back into a girl, Lillian must undertake a perilous adventure through untamed lands of fabled creatures.) Dick, Philip K. The Transmigration of Timothy Archer $13.95 (Valis Trilogy #3: Reissue; After Episcopalian Bishop Timothy Archer finds ancient scrolls bearing the words of Jesus from two centuries before his birth, he journeys to Israel in the hopes of finding more about Christ's true identity - and whether psychedelic mushrooms had anything to do with it. Haunted by the suicides of his son and mistress, Archer cannot prevent himself from falling deeper into the rabbit hole. ) Drake, D/Stirling, S.M. Hope Reborn: The Forge / The Hammer $13.00 (Raj Whitehall #1 / #2: Omnibus reprint; 2 sf novels) Drake, David The Road of Danger $7.99 (RCN #9: Captain Daniel Leary and spy-officer Adele Mundy have been sent to a quiet sector to help a local admiral put down a coup before it takes place. But the admiral doesn't want their help, and sends them on a wild goose chase to another sector, where they must stop a pirate plot - and once again save the Republic of Cinnabar despite itself.) Ekman, Stefan Here Be Dragons: Exploring Fantasy Maps and Settings $27.95 (A scholarly look at what fantasy maps can tell us about what is important in their fictional worlds and the stories that take place there. Discusses works by Tolkien, Brust, Nix, Holdstock, Pratchett, de Lint, Mieville, McKillip, Powers, Goldstein, Donaldson, Jordan, and Gaiman and Vess.) Emerson, Kevin The Fellowship for Alien Detection $16.99 (Kids; Two kids from opposite sides of the country find themselves on a road trip to save the world from an impending alien attack) Feist, Raymond E. A Crown Imperiled $7.99 (Chaoswar #2: The Kesh's invading hordes have descended upon Krondor, but the Conclave and its followers face an even more powerful enemy. Treachery and betrayal threaten the alliance from within, and Pug's magic and wisdom may not be enough to save them.) Forward, Toby Dragonborn $7.99 (Kids; When his master dies, apprentice wizard Sam sets out, his dragon at his side, to find a new master. But there are dangerous forces who want Sam's powers for themselves.) Harrison, M. John Empty Space: A Haunting $14.99 (Kefahuchi Tract #3: In the near future, an elderly English widow is stirred from her mundane existence by surreal omens and visitations. Centuries later, the space freighter Nova Swing takes on an illegal alien artifact as cargo, with consequences beyond reckoning. While on a distant planet, a nameless policewoman tries to bring order to an event zone where ordinary physics do not apply, only to find herself caught up in something even stranger and more sublime.) Hayes, Erica Redemption $7.99 (Seven Signs #2: PBO; Japheth is a fallen angel battling a scourge of vampires unleashed by a blood-drinking demon. Rose never wanted to be a vampire; feeling abandoned by God, she is taking revenge on his minions. When Rose and Japheth meet, the battle is fierce - and charged with desire. Then they discover a common enemy in the Demon Prince who changed Rose, and form a dangerous alliance.) Hobb, Robin The Willful Princess and the Piebald Prince $35.00 (Novella set deep in the history behind the Farseer series; Signed copies) Holt, Tom Doughnut $13.99 (Renowned physicist Pieter van Goyen has died, leaving his safety deposit box to his friend Theo. The apparently worthless contents will set Theo on a quest of epic proportions. A journey that will rewrite the laws of physics. A battle to save humanity. This is the tale of a man who had nothing and gave it all up to find his destiny - and a doughnut.) Hopkinson, Nalo The Chaos $9.99 (YA; 16-year-old Scotch's brother has disappeared, swallowed up by a bubble of light. Soon the Chaos that claimed her brother affects the city at large. Scotch needs to get to the bottom of this ASAP - and she knows that the shadowy entity that's begun trailing her every move is probably not going to help.) Hoyt, Sarah A. A Few Good Men $14.00 (Darkship: Earth's Revolution #1: PBO; Near future Earth: Luce Keeva is attempting to take the reins of power after his father's assassination. But a worldwide war of revolution is looming, and a shadowy group known as the Sons of Liberty may prove to be Luce's only ally in a fight to throw off an evil from the past that has enslaved humanity for generations.) Hughes, Matthew Hell to Pay $7.99 (To Hell & Back #3: PBO; Actuary turned superhero Chesney Arnstruther's adventures in the underworld continue. Meet Arthur Wrigley, whose nasty little hobby is fleecing widows. Meet Simon Magus, mystic and magician from Biblical times now very much enamored of Vegas. And pray you never meet the Chikkichikk, a proud and ancient race of warrior dinosaurs.) Hunt, Stephen Secrets of the Fire Sea $7.99 (Jackelian World #4: On the isolated island of Jago, someone has murdered Archbishop Alice Grey, and tried to kill Alice's ward Hannah. Hannah must unravel a chain of ancient riddles to save her own life and put an end to a deadly power struggle.) Hunter, Erin The Sun Trail $16.99 (Warriors: Dawn of the Clans #1: Kids; First in a prequel story arc revealing the origins of the four Clans.) Jernigan, Zachary No Return $26.99 (On Jeroun, there is no question as to whether god exists - only what Adrash's intentions are. Warring factions of white and black suits prove their opposition to the orbiting god with a great tournament. And on the other side of the world, two Royal Outbound Mages have formed a plan to appease Adrash and bring peace to the planet.) Jones, Darynda Death, Doom, and Detention $9.99 (Lorelei #2: PBO; YA; Lorelei is dealing with the reality that Satan's second-in-command has taken up residence inside her body, and that she has a crush on the Angel of Death. Now something sinister has come to town, hoping to hear Lorelei's dying breath as it strangles it out of her.) Katsu, Alma The Taker $7.99 (Taker #1: At the turn of the 19th century, St. Andrew, Maine, was a Puritan settlement. Consumed by her love for the son of the town's founder, Lanny will do anything to be with him forever. But the price she pays is steep - an immortal bond that chains her to a terrible fate for all eternity. And now, two centuries later, the key to her healing and her salvation lies with Dr. Luke Findley.) Kazimer, J.A. Froggy Style $15.00 (F***ed-Up Fairytale #2: PBO; When he turns thirty, the Frog Prince will turn back into a frog, unless he marries the girl who originally turned him human. He's convinced Beauty, a lovely blonde with a sleep disorder, is the One. But there's a hit out on her, and if she's killed before they're married, it's back to his lilypad forever. The assassin must be stopped. But it seems Beauty isn't too keen on getting married - and a sexy tattoo artist has the Prince's heart hopping.) Kenyon, Nate The Order $7.99 (Diablo III: Novel based on the game. The sole survivor of an ancient order holds the fate of the mortal world in his hands.) King, Stephen The Wind Through the Keyhole $9.99 (Dark Tower: In the guilt-ridden year following his mother's death, Roland Deschain is sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shapeshifter. Taking charge of Bill Streeter, the brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness of the recent slaughter, Roland calms him by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime.) Knight, Francis Fade to Black $14.99 (Rojan Dizon #1: Today isn't Rojan's day. His latest bounty almost killed him, and his niece has been kidnapped. Now he's got to use his pain magic to find her, and there's a good chance it will end up destroying him.) Lovegrove, James The Age of Voodoo $8.99 (Pantheon #5: PBO; Lex Dove leads a black ops team into a old Cold War bunker on a remote island, where they will face barely human monsters, the fruits of an experiment in science and voodoo gone wrong. And deep in the earth, a god is waiting, whose anger will be fearsome if roused.) McGuire, Seanan Midnight Blue-Light Special $7.99 (InCryptid #2: PBO; When Verity learns that the Covenant of St. George is on their way to assess the city's readiness for a cryptid purge, she know that everything she loves is on the line. Alliances will be tested, lives will be lost, and the talking mice in her apartment will immortalize everything as holy writ - if there's anyone left standing when all is said and done.) Meyers, Theresa The Chosen $6.99 (Legend Chronicles #3: PBO; This steampunk romance follows a sexy shapeshifter and a Wild West maverick across the ancient ruins of Central America.) Murphy, C.E. Mountain Echoes $14.95 (Walker Papers #8: PBO; Joanne's father is missing, stolen from the timeline. She must return to North Carolina to find him, and to meet Aidan, the son she left behind long ago. She finds her beloved Appalachians being torn apart by an evil reaching forward from the distant past. Only by calling on every aspect of her shamanic powers can she pull the past apart and weave a better future.) Nevill, Adam Last Days $15.99 (Kyle Freeman's assignment to make a documentary about the paranormal myths surrounding a notorious 1970s cult leads to a series of uncanny events. Exactly what is it the cult managed to awaken - and what is its interest in Kyle?) Newman, Emma Between Two Thorns $14.99 (In Aquae Sulis, Bath's secret mirror city, the new season is starting, but the Master of Ceremonies is missing. Max, an Arbiter of the Split Worlds Treaty, is assigned the task of finding him, with no one to help but a dislocated soul and a mad sorcerer.) Norton, Andre The Forerunner Factor: Forerunner / Forerunner: The Second Venture $7.99 (Omnibus reprint; 2 sf novels) Patten, E.J. Return to Exile $7.99 (Hunter Chronicles #1: Kids; For 11 years, young Sky has studied traps, puzzles, science, and the secret lore of the Hunters of Legend. He and his family have hidden from enemies while his uncle sacrificed everything to protect them. Now Sky must confront the secrets of his past. What has his uncle been preparing him for? Who is Sky, really, and why are people trying to kill him?) Pehov, Alexey Shadow Blizzard $8.99 (Siala #3: Before he can complete his quest - stealing the magic Rainbow Horn that will restore peace to his world - Harold will have to brave the most fearsome obstacles yet, and face them alone.) Pyper, Andrew The Demonologist $25.00 (In a terrifying quest guided by symbols and riddles from the pages of Paradise Lost, Professor David Ullman must use his expertise in demonic mythology to rescue his daughter from the Underworld.) Reaves, M/Bohnhoff, M The Last Jedi $7.99 (Star Wars: PBO; Jedi Jax Pavan has been striking blows against the Empire, as a lone guerrilla fighter and as a valued partner of a Coruscant- based resistance group. Now he's taking on his most critical mission: transporting a valued leader, targeted for assassination, from Coruscant to safety on a distant world.) Reichert, Mickey Zucker The Books of Barakhai: The Beasts of Barakhai / The Lost Dragons of Barakhai $8.99 (Barakhai #1 / #2: Omnibus reprint; 2 fantasy novels) Reus, Katie Mating Instinct $7.99 (Moon Shifter #3: PBO; When lupine shifter Jayce shared his passion with human seer Kat a year ago, he refused to make her his bondmate. Then, when an attack left Kat near death, another lupine shifter turned her. Jayce is furious that he wasn't the one to save her, and determined to show Kat that he is the one she should rely on.) Salvatore, R.A. The Last Threshold $27.95 (Forgotten Realms: Neverwinter Saga #4: Determined to stand once again for what's right in the Realms, Drizzt forges a new road north toward Icewind Dale. Will his new companions follow? Can he fight the darkness alone? Either way, he knows now where he's headed - back to the only place that's ever felt like home.) Schwarz, Liesel A Conspiracy of Alchemists $25.00 (Spark reactors power the airways, creatures of Light and Shadow walk openly among us, and a deadly game of Alchemists and Warlocks has begun. When an unusual cargo drags airship pilot Elle Chance into the affairs of the mysterious Mr. Marsh, she must confront her destiny, and do everything in her power to stop the Alchemists from unleashing a magical apocalypse.) Scott, Julianna The Holders $9.99 (YA; Becca's brother Ryland hears voices in his head. When they hear about a school in Ireland where Ryland will fit in, Becca agrees to join him on his journey. At St. Brigid's they find a world beyond their imagination, as they piece together information about their family heritage and the legend of the Holder race.) Shawl, Nisi (ed) The Wiscon Chronicles Volume 6: Futures of Feminism and Fandom $15.00 (WisCon is the world's largest feminist science fiction convention, held annually in Madison, Wisconsin. This volume explores some of the issues of interest at WisCon 2011.) Singh, Nalini Wild Invitation $7.99 (Psy-Changeling: PBO; Collection; 4 paranormal novellas (2 reprints, 2 originals)) Somers, Jeff Trickster $7.99 (Lem & Mags #1: PBO; Strong spells require more blood, and Lem won't use other people's blood to cast spells. So when he and his friend Mags encounter a girl who has been kidnapped and marked with magic rune tattoos, it's not at all clear whether they're powerful enough to save her, or themselves. Turns out the world's preeminent mage has earth-shattering plans for the girl - and Lem and Mags just got in the way.) Stephenson, Neal et al The Mongoliad Book 3 $14.95 (Foreworld #3: The cardinals remain deadlocked, unable to choose a new pope. Only the Binders and a mad priest have a hope of uniting the Church against the invading Mongol host. The warrior-monks, both in the East and in the West, sharpen their swords for a final battle. The Khan of Khans must be slain if Christendom is to survive. ) Strahan, Jonathan (ed) The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 7 $19.99 (Anthology) Strom-Martin/Underwood (ed) Futuredaze $14.95 (YA; Anthology; original stories and poems that spark the imagination and make us yearn for the possibilities of a world yet to come.) Thurman, Rob Slashback $7.99 (Cal Leandros #8: PBO; Spring-heeled Jack is back. He hasn't forgotten what the Leandros brothers did to his serial-killer protege. And he is going to make them pay.) Tuck, James R. Blood and Magick $7.99 (Deacon Chalk #3: PBO; Occult bounty hunter Deacon Chalk must battle a trio of malevolent witches to keep three were-dog children safe. He must partner with a ruthless government agent to stay one step ahead of the allies and friends he now suspects. And to save humans and shape-shifters alike, he must embrace a power beyond his imagining, putting his team at stake, and his soul on the line.) Valente, Catherynne M. Six-Gun Snow White $40.00 (Novella. The fairy tale retold in the Old West, where Coyote is just as likely to be found as the seven dwarves; Signed copies expected) Viguie, Debbie The Last Grave $7.99 (Witch Hunt #2: PBO; Samantha relocated to San Francisco, hoping to forget her past. But strange clues in her latest murder case lead to the Santa Cruz mountains, a place she has been warned against - a place where witches live.) Ward, J.R. Rapture $7.99 (Fallen Angels #3: The new man in reporter Mels Carmichael's life is more than a lover - stricken with amnesia, he's a mystery. When his memory returns, his past plunges them into a war between angels and demons.) Weber, David Shadow of Freedom $26.00 (Honorverse #6: According to their messenger, the Mobius Liberation Front is planning to throw off Solarian rule, aided by their powerful ally Manticore. Mike Henke sees a problem: she's never heard of the MLF. They've been duped by the Mesan Alliance in a plot to destroy Manticore's reputation as the champion of freedom. Mike has no orders to help them, but no one is going to send thousands of patriots to their deaths, trusting in Manticoran help that will never come. Not on her watch; Signed copies) Wells, Dan Partials $9.99 (Partials #1: YA; The human race is all but extinct, devastated by war with the Partials - engineered organic beings identical to humans - and by RM, a weaponized virus. No baby has been born immune to RM in more than a decade. As RM ravages the community and mandatory pregnancy laws push what's left of humanity to the brink of civil war, Kira, a 16-year-old medic-in-training, makes a desperate decision to save the last of her race. She will find that the survival of humans and Partials alike rests in her attempts to uncover the connections between them.) Wells, Dan Fragments $17.99 (Partials #2: YA; Kira, Samm, and Marcus fight to stop a war that could destroy what's left of their races.)

Mid March

Baucom, Ian Through the Skylight $17.99 (Kids; Jared, Shireen, and Miranda have received three glittering gifts from an old Venetian shopkeeper. But will they be able to use them to save Rashid, Maria, and Francesca, who have been kidnapped by slavers centuries in the past?) Bear, Elizabeth Shattered Pillars $26.99 (Eternal Sky #2: Magic, politics, and war set Re-Temur, the exiled heir to the great Khagan, and his friend Sarmarkar, a Wizard of Tsarepheth, against dark forces determined to conquer all the empires along the Celadon Highway; Autographing at Uncle Hugo's Saturday, April 13, 1-2pm) Blaylock, James P. Lord Kelvin's Machine $12.95 (Langdon St. Ives: Reissue; Within the magical gears of Lord Kelvin's incredible machine lies the secret of time. The deadly Dr. Ignacio Narbondo would murder to possess it. Scientist and explorer Professor Langdon St. Ives would do anything to use it. For the doctor it means mastery of the world. For the professor it means saving his beloved wife from death. A daring race against time begins.) Brooks, Terry Bloodfire Quest $28.00 (Dark Legacy of Shannara #2: The quest for the missing Elfstones has gone badly awry. The Druid Order has been decimated, and its survivors are trapped inside a hellish dimension. One young Druid will have to make the ultimate sacrifice.) Card, Orson Scott The Gate Thief $24.99 (Mithermages #2: When Danny North took power from Loki, he also took the responsibility for the Great Gates. And when he faces the mages Bel and Ishtoreth, he will come to understand why Loki closed the gates all those centuries ago.) Clare, Cassandra Clockwork Prince $12.99 (Infernal Devices #2: YA; Tessa has found safety with the Shadowhunters, but it proves fleeting when it becomes clear that the Magister will stop at nothing to use Tessa's powers for his own dark ends.) Datlow/Windling (ed) Queen Victoria's Book of Spells $15.99 (Anthology; stories set in an alternate 19th century, ranging from steampunk to Austen- and Trollope-inspired works.) Davidson, MaryJanice You and I, Me and You $24.99 (Cadence Jones #3: Cadence and her sisters find themselves knee-deep in a new case that brings the escaped Threefer Killers back on the scene.) Davis, Jim Garfield Sings for His Supper $14.00 (Garfield #55: PBO; Full color comic strips.) Duncan, Glen Talulla Rising $14.95 (Sequel to The Last Werewolf. Talulla must face her werewolf future without Jake. When her son is born, she hopes the worst is over - but instead she must deal with a psychotic new WOCOP leader, blood-drinking religious fanatics, a pack of London werewolves, and the oldest vampire on earth.) Farmer, Philip Jose The Wind Whales of Ishmael $9.95 (Reissue; Ishmael, lone survivor of a doomed whaling ship, falls through a rift in time and space to a future Earth - an Earth of blood- sucking vegetation and a blood-red sun, of barren canyons where once the Pacific Ocean roared. Here too there are whales to hunt - but whales that soar through a dark blue sky.) Hopkinson, Nalo Sister Mine $23.99 (As the only one in her family without magic, Makeda has decided to move out on her own and make a life for herself among the humans. But when her demigod father suddenly sheds his human form and disappears, Makeda will have to discover her own talent in order to find him.) Howey, Hugh Wool $15.00 Trade PB, $26.00 HC (In a toxic landscape, a community exists in a giant underground silo, living by regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo - he asks to go outside. Appointed to replace him is Juliette, a gifted mechanic with no training in law. About to be entrusted with fixing the silo, she will soon learn just how badly her world is broken) Irvine, Ian Rebellion $15.99 (Tainted Realm #2: Traitor-king Lyf is back, bent on wiping out Hightspall and rebuilding his ancient realm. He is hunting Tali, for the master pearl she bears inside her holds the key to saving Hightspall - or destroying it.) Morden, Simon The Curve of the Earth $15.99 (Petrovitch #4: Petrovitch has saved the Metrozone from ruin more than once - and made a few enemies in the process, including Reconstruction America. So when his adopted daughter goes missing, he's got a clue who's responsible. And there's no way he'll let them get away with it.) Newman, Kim Jago $15.95 (Reissue; Paul and his girlfriend have come to a tiny English village for the summer. Their rural retreat gradually sours as the laws of nature begin to break down around them, and the village, swollen by a rock festival of cataclysmic proportions, prepares to reap a harvest of horror.) Pettersson, Vicki The Lost $14.99 (Celestial Blues #2: A new drug is literally eating tweakers' flesh, and reporter Kit Craig is determined to break the story and get the drug off the street. Her crusade will propel her and her lover Grif, a minor angel, into a confrontation with a drug cartel. Meanwhile, the Pures have a secret agenda, and a scheme that will leave Kit and Grif scrambling to stay alive.) Schroeder, Karl Ashes of Candesce $17.99 (Virga #5: As Artificial Nature makes its final bid to destroy Virga, it's up to Leal to unite the quarreling clans of her world against the threat.) Walton, David Quintessence $25.99 (In pursuit of a substance he believes will grant magical powers and immortality, alchemist Christopher Sinclair takes ship for the Western Ocean. Fleeing an inquisition, physician Stephen Parris and his daughter follow Sinclair to an island on the edge of the world that teems with fantastical animals and alluring mysteries.) Yolen, Jane/Stemple, Adam B.U.G. (Big Ugly Guy) $16.99 (Kids; Tired of being bullied for being Jewish, Sammy decides to build a golem - a protector from Jewish folklore, made of clay and animated by the ineffable name of God. The golem protects Sammy and his friend Skink from the bullies, and he's a great drummer for their klezmer fusion band. But golems come with a warning: they will protect you until they don't.)

Early April

Abe, Shana The Sweetest Dark $16.00 (YA; Lora hears songs that no one else can hear. As the Great War begins, she is chosen to be a charity student at a boarding school on the English coast. There she meets two young men. With their help, she will discover her latent powers - just in time to fight an evil that is descending upon the school.) Adams, Guy The Good, the Bad and the Infernal $7.99 (PBO; Every 100 years a town appears for a single day, containing a doorway to heaven. It is due to appear in 1889 as a Western ghost town. Among those hoping to be there are a traveling preacher and his simple messiah, a freak show pack of outlaws, and an aging gunslinger who lost his wings at the very beginning of creation and wants nothing more than to settle old scores.) Armstrong, Kelley The Calling $9.99 (Darkness Rising #2: YA; On the run, Maya and her friends crash- land in the Vancouver Island wilderness. They'll need all their extraordinary abilities to survive and get back home.) Asquith, Ros Letters from an Alien Schoolboy $12.95 (Kids; Flowkee (aka Nigel) is an alien with a mission: to collect children from his school on Earth to be Improved and taken back to his home planet. But when other aliens threaten Earth, Flowkee and his family must find a way to protect their new Earthling friends from extinction.) Axelrod, J/Walker, S The Battle of Blood and Ink $14.99 (Graphic novel; Ashe publishes a newsletter revealing the hidden treasures and secrets of the flying city of Amperstam - including many that the government doesn't want known. When she uncovers the horror of exactly how the city travels the skies, she finds herself on the run from thugs and assassins.) Baker, Adam Juggernaut $24.99 (Iraq, 2005: A crew of battle-scarred privateers, killers, and thieves search for an abandoned convoy rumored to contain millions of pounds of Saddam's gold, and find themselves fighting for their lives against an army that won't stay dead.) Bardsley, Michele Only Lycans Need Apply $7.99 (Broken Heart #9: PBO; When archaeologist Moira Jameson found the ancient tomb of the two most powerful vampires in history, she knew she was in for a lot of trouble. Luckily, a sexy werewolf named Drake has her back.) Barron, Laird The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All $26.99 (Interlinking tales of cosmic horror by the award-winning author) Battersby, Lee The Marching Dead $7.99 (Marius #2: PBO; Something has stopped the dead from dying. It's up to Marius, Gerd, and Gerd's not-dead-enough Granny to journey across the continent and put the dead back in the afterlife where they belong.) Bechdel, Alison Are You My Mother? $15.95 (A graphic novel about her mother: voracious reader, music lover, amateur actor. Also a woman unhappily married to a closeted gay man, with artistic aspirations that simmered under the surface of Bechdel's childhood, and who stopped touching or kissing her daughter good night, forever, when Bechdel was seven.) Black, Holly Black Heart $9.99 (Curse Workers #3: YA; Cassel's mother is on the lam, the girl he loves is about to join the Mob, and new secrets are coming to light. When the Feds ask him to do the one thing he said he would never do again, he needs to sort out what's a con and what's truth - and make his biggest gamble yet.) Briggs, Nicholas The Dalek Generation $9.99 (Doctor Who: Featuring the 11th Doctor and Amy. Sunlight 349 is one of countless Dalek Foundation worlds created to house billions suffering from economic hardship. The Doctor arrives, suspicious of any world where the Daleks are apparently a force for good, and determined to find out the truth.) Burgis, Stephanie Stolen Magic $17.99 (Kat Stephenson #3: Kids; Kat's initiation into the Order of Guardians is fast approaching, along with her sister Angeline's wedding - and trouble. A boy with powerful magic is hunting Kat; a villain is trying to kill Angeline; and a magical robbery could spell the end of the Order. Can Kat save her sister's life, the Order, and England itself?) Burt, Marissa Storybound $7.99 (Kids; 12-year-old Una opens a mysterious book, and finds herself transported to the land of Story, where children go to school to learn to be characters, and adults search for full-time character work in stories written just for them. There the devious Tale Keeper watches Una's every move, and there are whispers of a deadly secret that seems to revolve around Una herself.) Caine, Rachel Bitter Blood $9.99 (Morganville Vampires #13: YA; With the vampires indulging their every whim, the human population is taking up arms. And a TV show arrives in town looking for ghosts just as vampire and human politics collide. Can Claire and her friends keep the peace without ending up on the nightly news - or worse?) Carey, Mike/Gross, P The Wound $14.99 (Unwritten #7: Full color graphic novel. Not for kids. The War of Words is over, but the real world and fictional world are both in turmoil, and the damage seems to be spreading. Can Tommy heal 'The Wound' before the real and fictional worlds crumble?) Caterer, Claire M. The Key & the Flame $17.99 (Kids; 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.) Chandler, A. Bertram Galactic Courier: Star Courier / To Keep the Ship / Matilda's Stepchildren / Star Loot $7.99 (John Grimes Vol. 3: Omnibus reprint; 4 novels of space adventure) Cherryh, C.J. Protector $24.95 (Foreigner #14: For his birthday, Cajeiri has been promised he can have the young human children he knew from his voyage visit for two weeks. It's Bren's responsibility to entertain the guests, keep a major security problem secret, and let the lonely eight-year-old prince reestablish his controversial relationship with the only other children he's ever met.) Christopher, Adam The Age Atomic $14.99 (PBO; The Empire State is dying. The Fissure connecting the pocket universe to New York has vanished, plunging the city into a deep freeze, and the populace are demanding a return to Prohibition and rationing as energy supplies dwindle. Meanwhile, in 1954 New York, Nimrod finds his department subsumed by a new group, Atoms For Peace. As Rad uncovers a new threat to his city, Atoms For Peace prepare their army for a total conquest - or destruction - of the Empire State.) Cox, Greg The Weight of Worlds $7.99 (Star Trek: PBO; Kirk, Spock, and Sulu must protect a remote Federation colony from the dreaded Coven, beings from another galaxy with plans to conquer the entire Federation.) Dembski-Bowden, Aaron Betrayer $16.00 (Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy #24: PBO; The Shadow Crusade has begun. While the Ultramarines reel from Kor Phaeron's surprise attack on Calth, Lorgar leads the rest of the Word Bearers deep into the realm of Ultramar.) Donbavand, Tommy Shroud of Sorrow $9.99 (Doctor Who: Featuring the 11th Doctor and Amy. 1963: It is the day after John F. Kennedy's assassination, and the faces of the dead are everywhere. PC Reg Cranfield sees his late father in the mists along Totter's Lane. Reporter Mae Callon sees her grandmother in a coffee stain on her desk. FBI Special Agent Warren Skeet finds his long-dead partner staring back at him from raindrops on a window pane. Then the faces begin to talk, and scream, and push through into our world. As the alien Shroud begins to feast on the grief of a world in mourning, can the Doctor dig deep enough into his own sorrow to save mankind?) Drake, D/Daniel, T The Heretic $25.00 (Raj Whitehall #9: On a planet being kept at a flintlock level of technology by its controlling AI, uploaded versions of Raj and Center have arrived. Now they need a hero to break the Land's stasis. Abel Dashian, the son of a local military commander, has just lost his mother to a simple infection. He is ready to dare anything to avenge her death and bring about change.) Druon, Maurice The Iron King $14.99 (Accursed Kings #1: Philip the Fair governs his realm with an iron hand. A web of scandal, murder, and intrigue is weaving itself around him, but his downfall will come from an unexpected quarter: he sentences Jacques Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, to be burned at the stake, thus drawing down upon himself a curse that will destroy his entire dynasty.) Ellison, Harlan Web of the City $9.95 (Reissue; Reprints the novel inspired by Ellison's experiences going undercover inside a 1950s street gang, plus three thematically-related short stories.) Estep, Jennifer Deadly Sting $7.99 (Elemental Assassin #8: PBO; Gin is coerced into attending a high society gala; the event gets much more interesting when a group of thieves arrive, planning to steal valuable, dangerous gems, and take hostages.) Fehervari, Peter Fire Caste $11.99 (Warhammer 40,000: PBO; Fresh Imperial Guard forces from the Arkhan Confederates are sent to the jungles of the Dolorosa Coil to annihilate the xenos. But the Confederates soon find themselves broken and scattered, fighting a desperate guerrilla war.) Flint, Eric et al 1636: The Kremlin Games $7.99 (Ring of Fire: Grantville has bounced back and established its new mission and identity - leaving Bernie Zeppi unable to figure out what to do with himself. Then a Russian emissary arrives and hires him to travel to Moscow and bring the future to a Russia mired in serfdom and convoluted imperial plots. Bernie figures it will be an easy gig. He didn't expect to find his sense of purpose there, from fighting needless typhoid deaths to building Russia's first dirigible. Or to find himself, and the Russian noblewoman he's come to love, embroiled in deadly Kremlin politics.) Flynn, Michael The Wreck of The River of Stars $17.99 (Firestar #5: Reissue; The Farnsworth fusion drive doomed the great interplanetary sailing ships. Former luxury liner The River of Stars is now a tramp freighter, retrofitted with engines, her sails unused for years. When catastrophic engine failure strikes, the crew's sailors plot to save her with a glorious last gasp of the old ways.) Freer, Dave Dog and Dragon $7.99 (Dragon's Ring #2: Flung from her homeland into the world of Lyonesse, will Meb prove to be the prophesied Defender, able to put things right? And will the Dragon Fionn and Meb's magical sheep dog Dileas be able to track her across time and space in time to help?) Gannon, Charles E. Fire with Fire $14.00 (PBO; 2117: Intelligence analyst Caine Riordan is sent to a newly settled world to investigate whether a primitive native species was once sentient enough to have built a lost civilization. But with assassins and saboteurs dogging his every step, it's clear someone doesn't want his mission to succeed.) Gerstein, Mordicai How to Bicycle to the Moon to Plant Sunflowers $16.99 ( Kids; Full color picture book; a step-by-step guide to visiting the moon on your bicycle.) Gill, David Macinnis Invisible Sun $9.99 (YA; During an ill-advised raid on Lyme's complex, Vienne is captured, and Durango is left for dead. He must overcome bounty hunters, treacherous terrain, a civil war, and a vengeful warrior monk to free Vienne from a brain-washing pyromaniac who wants to rule Mars - and kill Durango in the process.) Griffin, Kylie Vengeance Born $7.99 (Light Blade #1: PBO; When Annika, half-blood daughter of the Na'Reish leader, learns that Kalan, a Light Blade warrior, is a prisoner in her father's dungeon, she agrees to free him in exchange for his protection. Marked for death for helping him, Annika must learn to trust Kalan as they journey to the border and discover a shocking truth that could throw the human race into a civil war.) Grimwood, Jon Courtenay The Exiled Blade $15.99 (Assassini #3: A violent attack on Lady Giulietta's son forces Tycho back into the treacherous intrigue of the court to track down those responsible. As Venice teeters on the brink of civil war, its warring families prepare to discover who is a player and who is a pawn.) Gustainis, Justin Play with Fire / Midnight at the Oasis $7.99 (Morris & Chastain #4: PBO; Houses of worship are being burned - usually while full of people; the occult sleuths must uncover the meaning and terrifying purpose behind the fires. And when terrorists conjure a deadly djinn to lay waste to the US, it's up to Morris & Chastain to stop it.) Haldeman, Joe The Best of Joe Haldeman $45.00 (A career-spanning collection of 19 short works, each with a new introduction by the author) Harris, Charlaine Deadlocked $7.99 (Southern Vampire #12: A body has shown up in Eric Northman's front yard - the body of a woman whose blood he just drank. It's up to Sookie and Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks the dead girl's fate has nothing to do with her, but she's wrong - a devious enemy is out to make Sookie's world come crashing down.) Harrison, Thea Rising Darkness $7.99 (Game of Shadows #1: PBO; The disturbing dreams Mary has had all her life are becoming more intense. Then she meets Michael. He's handsome, enigmatic and knows more than he can say. In his company, she slowly remembers. Thousands of years ago, the one called the Deceiver came to destroy the world, and seven others followed to stop him. Reincarnated over and over, they carry on - and so Mary finds herself drawn into the battle once again. Then she remembers who killed her during her last life, nine hundred years ago. It was Michael.) Herbert, B/Anderson, K Awakening $27.99 (Hellhole #2: With a Monarchy crackdown coming, General Adolphus must pull together all the resources of the Hellhole colony, the ever- expanding shadow-Xayan settlement, and his connections with the other Deep Zone worlds. But they face an even greater threat from a group of powerful rogue Xayan telemancers bent on Hellhole's destruction.) Higgins, Peter Wolfhound Century $25.99 (In an alternate Stalinist Russia, Inspector Lom is summoned to Mirgorod to catch a terrorist. In the capital city, he finds a murky world of secret police and revolutionaries, cabarets and doomed artists. He has been chosen because he is an outsider, not involved in the party power struggles. And because of the sliver of angel stone implanted in his head.) Holkins, J/Krahulik, M Passion's Howl $14.99 (Penny Arcade #8: Full color. Collects the 2009 strips of the popular webcomic starring geeky heroes Gabe and Tycho, plus creator commentary.) Hughes, Alex Sharp $7.99 (Mindspace #2: PBO; Parts for illegal Tech are being hijacked all over the city, the same parts used to bring the world to its knees in the Tech Wars sixty years ago. Plus a cop-killer is on the loose. It falls to a telepath to try to close both cases, and prove his worth once and for all.) Hunter, Erin The Last Hope $7.99 (Warriors: Omen of the Stars #6: Kids; Jayfeather, Dovewing, and Lionblaze have struggled to unravel the prophecy that unites them. As the final battle against the Dark Forest approaches, they turn to Firestar, ThunderClan, and StarClan for help. Will they be able to save the warrior Clans from destruction?) Hunter, Faith Blood Trade $7.99 (Jane Yellowrock #6: PBO; Natchez is being terrorized by rogue vampires, and the Master has called in Jane to take back the streets. But he didn't tell her that there's something different about these vamps - something that makes them harder to kill.) Jones, Darynda Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet $7.99 (Charley Davidson #4: A woman who is convinced someone is trying to kill her shows up on Charley's doorstep. Everyone the woman knows swears she's insane, but Charley believes her. Meanwhile, the city of Albuquerque has been taken hostage by an arsonist, and Charley is having trouble staying away from sexy son of Satan Reyes Farrow.) Jones, Terry Fairy Tales $16.99 (Reissue; Kids; 30 unusual and humorous fairy tales) Jones, Terry Fantastic Stories $16.99 (Reissue; Kids; 21 humorous tales of adventure, magic, and fantasy) Kay, Guy Gavriel River of Stars $26.95 (Set four centuries after Under Heaven, and inspired by the glittering, decadent Song dynasty, this is a tale of prideful emperors, battling courtiers, bandits and soldiers, nomadic invasions, and a woman battling in her own way, to find a new place for women in the world.) Kenyon, Sherrilyn Time Untime $7.99 (Dark-Hunter #22: Kateri has always been plagued with dreams she doesn't understand. Images of places she's never been and of a man she's never met. She refuses to believe in anything supernatural - but it's hard to deny something when it comes and kicks in your front door, and brings you face to face with the warrior who has haunted you your entire life.) King, S/Vincent, B The Dark Tower Companion $17.00 (Dark Tower: A compendium of the mythology, history, and geography of the epic fantasy series, cataloguing the major characters, locations, and themes, and examining its connections to King's other novels. Includes a travel guide to the story's real-world locations.) Knight, E.E. Appalachian Overthrow $24.95 (Vampire Earth #10: Takes place in the time between Valentine's Exile and Fall with Honor. Angered by the dangerous conditions and brutal treatment of workers in the Appalachian coal mines, Ahn-Kha forges the miners into an army that will wage guerrilla warfare against the Maynes family and their Kurian masters - and free the Appalachians from their tyranny.) Kowal, Mary Robinette Without a Summer $24.99 (Jane #3: Back in London, Jane and Nathan must solve a crisis of international proportions while trying to find an eligible bachelor for Jane's sister Melody.) Krentz, J/Quick, A Crystal Gardens $7.99 (Ladies of Lantern Street #1: Lucas has never been one to ignore a lady in danger, even if she is trespassing on his property. Quickly disposing of Evangeline's would-be assassin, he insists they keep the matter private. There are rumors enough already, about treasure buried under his garden, and occult botanical experiments performed by his uncle. With Evangeline's skill for detection, and Lucas' sense of the criminal mind, they soon discover that they have a common enemy. And as the energy emanating from Crystal Gardens intensifies, they realize that to survive they must unearth what has been buried for too long.) Lackey, M/Edghill, R Sacrifices $10.99 (Shadow Grail #3: YA; Under the guise of a company called Breakthrough Adventure Systems, the Shadow Knights have taken over Oakhurst Academy. The new regime is brutal, designed to turn the students into soldiers wielding both weapons and magic. Anyone who protests disappears. Can Spirit and her friends put a stop to this?) Long, Nathan Gotrek & Felix: The Fourth Omnibus: Elfslayer / Shamanslayer / Zombieslayer $17.50 (Warhammer: Omnibus reprint) Marco, John The Forever Knight $25.95 (Bronze Knight #1: After betraying his king and losing his true love, renowned warrior Lukien wishes only for death. Instead, he is given a chance for redemption: to be the protector of the Inhumans, fragile mortals with magical powers who live deep in the desert.) McCaffrey, Anne Freedom's Landing $7.99 (Freedom #1: Reissue; Kristin Bjornsen's life changed the day the spaceships floated into view above Denver. As human slaves are herded into a massive vessel, she realizes her fight for freedom is just beginning.) McIntosh, Fiona The Scrivener's Tale $14.99 (Psychologist turned writer Gabe Figaret was done with patients for good, until he was asked to mentor Angelina, a young mute woman. When she starts speaking about another realm called Morgravia, he soon comes under the spell of her compelling visions.) Modesitt Jr., L.E. Princeps $8.99 (Imager #5: When a volcano devastates the old capital of Telaryn, Quaeryt and his wife Vaelora are dispatched to replace the governor killed in the eruption. They must restore order to a city filled with chaos and corruption, and do it quickly, before the regiment assisting them departs to bolster Telaryn's border defenses.) Mosley, Walter The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin $7.99 (Crosstown to Oblivion #1: Two speculative tales, bound Ace Double-style. The Gift of Fire: The Titan Prometheus is unchained and walks into present-day South Central Los Angeles. On the Head of a Pin: Thanks to advanced animatronic editing techniques, long-dead stars can now share the screen with today's A-list. But one night two animators discover something lingering in the rendered footage: an entity that will lead them beyond the reality they know.) Mosley, Walter Stepping Stone / The Love Machine $24.99 (Crosstown to Oblivion #3: From life's meaning to the nature of good and evil, these two short novels take us on speculative journeys beyond the reality we have come to know. In each tale, someone in our world today is given insight into these long-pondered mysteries. But how would the world really receive the answers?) Nix, Garth/Williams, Sean The Monster $6.99 (Troubletwisters #2: Kids; Many bizarre things have happened since Jaide and Jack moved to Portland, but they have yet to meet the city's strangest resident - a creature that comes out only at night, a beast that defies human description. When they see it, destruction and disaster won't be far away. ) O'Ryan, Ray Hello, Nebulon! $4.99 (Galaxy Zack #1: Kids; Zack is nervous about starting a new school. He meets Drake, a Nebulite boy who also loves to explore and learn about the planets, but there are still a lot of differences between Nebulon and Earth.) O'Ryan, Ray Journey to Juno $4.99 (Galaxy Zack #2: Kids; When his school's Explorer's Club visits Juno, Zack is not thrilled to be partnered with Seth the bully, who lets Zack do the work while he goofs off.) Peake, M/Gilmore, M Titus Awakes $15.95 (Gormenghast #4: The final volume of the Gormenghast story, outlined by Peake, finished by his wife, and recently discovered by his granddaughter in her attic.) Pinborough, Sarah A Matter of Blood $16.00 (Forgotten Gods #1: Near-future London: A gang hit leaves two schoolboys dead. A serial killer known as the Man of Flies leaves a message on his victims: 'Nothing is sacred'. And DI Cass Jones becomes a suspect when his brother's family is murdered. Links between the cases emerge, but Cass has more questions than answers - and the Man of Flies continues to kill.) Raby, Amy Assassin's Gambit $7.99 (Hearts & Thrones #1: PBO; Vitala, an assassin for the resistance, plans to seduce her way into the emperor's bed and deal him a fatal blow, sparking a battle of succession that could change the face of the empire. But Lucien's quick mind and considerable skills awaken unexpected desires in Vitala, weakening her resolve to finish her mission.) Richards, Justin Plague of the Cybermen $9.99 (Doctor Who: Featuring the 11th Doctor and Amy. When the Doctor arrives in the 19th-century village of Klimtenburg, he discovers the residents suffering from some kind of plague - a wasting disease. The victims face a horrible death - but what's worse, the dead seem to be leaving their graves. The Plague Warriors have returned. The Doctor is confident he knows what's really happening; he understands where the dead go, and he's sure the Plague Warriors are just a myth. But as some of the Doctor's oldest and most terrible enemies start to awaken he realizes that maybe - just maybe - he's misjudged the situation.) Rodda, Emily The Silver Door $16.99 (Rye #2: Kids; Weld is still under attack by skimmers, and Rye must discover who is sending them before it's too late. Also, his brother Sholto is still missing. Rye must choose a door and venture into the unknown again. Will he be able to save Sholto, and Weld?) Rothfuss, Patrick The Wise Man's Fear $9.99 (Kingkiller #2: My name is Kvothe. I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me . . .) Ryman, Geoff The Warrior Who Carried Life $16.95 (Only men are allowed into the wells of vision. Cara's mother defies this edict and is killed, but not before returning with a vision of terrible and wonderful things that are to come - and all because of five-year-old Cara. Years later, evil destroys the rest of Cara's family. In a rage, she uses magic to transform herself into a male warrior. But she finds that to defeat her enemies, she must break the cycle of violence, not continue it. As her mother's vision of destiny is fulfilled, the wonderful follows the terrible, and a quest for revenge becomes a quest for eternal life.) Sawyer, Robert J. Red Planet Blues $25.95 (Working the mean streets of the Martian frontier town of New Klondike, PI Alex Lomax uncovers clues to the decades-old murders of the men who first discovered life on Mars - and possibly the location of a legendary lode of rare Martian fossils that some are willing to kill to possess.) Sawyer, Robert J. Triggers $7.99 (When an experimental device for modifying memories is accidentally amplified, one of those affected is the US president. Now he has someone else's memories, and someone else has his - including the plans for a secret military operation) Scott, M.J. Iron Kin $7.99 (Half-Light City #3: PBO; Saskia, a metal mage, hopes that negotiations will bring lasting peace between humans and the other denizens of the city. To ensure it, she forges an alliance with Fen, a dangerous Fae. His visions may hold the key to peace - but he may also be Saskia's undoing.) Smith, Clete Barrett Alien on a Rampage $6.99 (Kids; David is looking forward to spending another summer at his grandmother's Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast, a vacation hotspot for aliens. But no one believes him when he discovers that the new repairman really is an alien mastermind with a plot to destroy the planet. Will David be able to save Earth before it's too late?) Smith, Sherwood Banner of the Damned $7.99 (Set in the Inda universe, four hundred years later. Princess Lasva leaves Colend and becomes deeply involved with the Marlovens and their magic, marrying their Prince Ivandred. But the Marloven king's mage is in league with Norsunder, an enemy of Colend. As war wages on, all are forced to redefine love, loyalty, and power) Snicket, Lemony The Dark $16.99 (Picture book. The dark lives in the same house as Laszlo. Mostly the dark stays in the basement and doesn't come into Lazslo's room. But one night, it pays him a visit.) Steele, Jon The Watchers $9.99 (Angelus #1: A series of gruesome murders near the Lausanne cathedral may be the work of fallen angels.) Sylvan, Dianne Of Shadow Born $7.99 (Shadow World #4: PBO; A young witch used her powers to heal Miranda, who was weak and near death. Now the grief-stricken Vampire Queen must deal with a new regime of vampires that threatens the entire Shadow World.) Thompson, Colin Barry $9.99 (Kids; Picture book. Barry came to save the Earth, but he's been trapped down the back of the couch for decades. With only a bright red lipstick to help him, can he emerge from the darkness and save the world from floods, droughts, wars, and reality TV?) Traviss, Karen The Slab $9.99 (Gears of War: Novel based on the game.) Vance, Jack Magic Highways $45.00 (Early Jack Vance #3: Collection; 16 space adventures written from 1946-1956) Vande Velde, Vivian Frogged $16.99 (Kids; Princess Imogene kisses a frog to break the spell he's under - and gets turned into a frog herself!) Vaughn, Carrie Kitty Rocks the House $7.99 (Kitty Norville #11: PBO; A new werewolf shows up in Denver and threatens to split the pack by challenging Kitty's authority - just when she needs all the allies she can muster to go against the ancient vampire Roman.) Weber, David On Basilisk Station - Leather-bound 20th Anniversary Edition $36.00 (Honor Harrington #1: Honor Harrington has been exiled to Basilisk Station and given an antiquated ship to police the system. The vindictive superior who sent her there wants her to fail. But he's made one mistake: he's made her mad; Signed copies) Weis, M/Hickman, T Rage of the Dragon $7.99 (Dragonships #3: With the Gods of the New Dawn amassing a vast army, Skylan finds allies in former enemies. They must sail the Sea of Tears into the Forbidden Empire of the Cyclops to implement a delicate plan. But a new enemy, deep in the sea, draws upon powers never harnessed by land dwellers.) Wells, Martha Emilie and the Hollow World $9.99 (YA; While running away from home for reasons that are eminently defensible, Emilie's plans to stow away on a steamship and reach her cousin in the big city go awry, landing her on the wrong ship and at the beginning of a fantastic adventure.) Whates, Ian (ed) Solaris Rising 2 $8.99 (PBO; Anthology; original stories by bestselling and cutting edge sf authors.)

Mid April

Star Trek The Next Generation Classic Quotes $12.95 (Full color photographs and quotes from all seven seasons of the TV series.) Clegg, Brian How to Build a Time Machine $15.99 (Nonfiction; Clegg provides an understanding of what time is and how it can be manipulated, exploring the possibilities for real time travel that emerge from quantum entanglement, superluminal speeds, neutron star cylinders, and wormholes in space.) Cornell, Paul London Falling $24.99 (During an investigation, police officers Quill, Costain, Sefton, and Ross come into contact with an artifact that gives them the Sight. Armed with police instincts and procedures, they take on the otherworldly creatures secretly prowling London.) Cushing/Miller, David Peter Cushing: A Life in Film $24.95 (The career and achievements of this much admired and very private actor, drawing upon conversations with Cushing's friends and colleagues, archive material held by the BBC and Hammer Film Productions, and previously unpublished correspondence with Cushing himself.) Dick, Philip K. Clans of the Alphane Moon $13.95 (Reissue; For years, the third moon in the Alphane system was used as a psychiatric hospital. But when war broke out between Earth and the Alphanes, the hospital was left unguarded, and the inmates set up their own society. When Earth sends a delegation to take back the colony, they find enclaves of depressives, schizophrenics, paranoiacs, and other mentally ill people- united to repel what they see as a foreign invasion.) Dick, Philip K. Galactic Pot-Healer $13.95 (Reissue; Sometimes even gods need help - in this case, an alien creature known as The Glimmung, which looks alternately like a flaming wheel, a teenage girl, and a swirling mass of ocean life. In order to raise a sunken city, he summons beings from across the galaxy. Joe Fernwright is one of those summoned, needed for his skills at repairing broken ceramics. But from the moment Joe arrives on Plowman's Planet, things start to go awry.) Evenson, Brian Immobility $14.99 (Josef Horkai opens his eyes, remembers nothing. He finds out that a catastrophe has destroyed life as we know it. Someone claiming to be his friend tells him something crucial has been stolen. He can't be told what, or why, but he's got to get it back, or something bad is going to happen.) Flanagan, John The Invaders $8.99 (Brotherband #2: Kids; The Herons have won the Brotherband competition! But their celebration is cut short when the Skandians' most sacred artifact is stolen - and the Herons are to blame. To recover it, they must traverse stormy seas and battle a group of deadly pirates.) Fredsti, Dana Plague Nation $7.99 (Ashley Parker #2: PBO; Ashley and the others who are immune to the zombie virus are forced to travel to a secret laboratory in San Francisco. En route some are killed, and others are kidnapped by their shadowy foe. As the plague begins to manifest nationwide, the truth begins to emerge about paramilitary group DZN.) Grindstaff, Kit The Flame in the Mist $16.99 (Kids; When the secrets and lies behind Jemma's life at Agromond Castle begin to unravel, she finds herself in a chilling race for her life, as ghosts and misfits, a mysterious book and an ancient prophecy reveal the truth about her past, and her destiny.) Groening, Matt Bart Simpson Big Shot $15.99 (PBO; Full color graphic novel; reprints several issues of the comic book series.) Grossman, Austin You $25.99 (Russell meets a crew of nerds hacking the frontiers of both technology and entertainment when he joins Black Arts game studio. When their revolutionary next-gen game is threatened by a mysterious glitch, Russell must unravel a mystery leading back twenty years, through real and virtual worlds, to a secret that changed the history of gaming.) Hobb, Robin Blood of Dragons $27.99 (Rain Wilds #4: The dragons and their keepers have found the lost city of Kelsingra. The dragons have learned to use their wings, and their humans have begun transforming into Elderings. But they have not found the silver wells the dragons need to survive. And time is of the essence. Tintaglia has returned, badly wounded, and only the silver can revive her. If she dies, so will the ancient dragon memories she carries - and all hope for the dragons' survival; Autographing at Uncle Hugo's Saturday, April 13, 1-2pm) Lackey, Mercedes Trio of Sorcery $14.99 (Collection; a short novel and two novellas of urban fantasy, featuring witch Diana Tregarde, shaman PI Jennie Talldeer, and techno-shaman Ellen McBride.) Lu, Marie Legend $9.99 (June & Day #1: YA; North America has split into two warring nations. 15-year-old June is being groomed for the highest military circles. 15-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. When June's brother is murdered, Day is the prime suspect. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth - and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets.) Maslakovic, Neve The Far Time Incident $14.95 (When a professor's time-travel lab is the scene of some foul play, St. Sunniva University is thrown into upheaval. Julia and Nate are assigned to examine this rare mishap - and make it quietly go away. But when the investigation points toward murder, those involved in the case unexpectedly find themselves stranded in ancient Pompeii just prior to the eruption of the volcano. Can Julia and Nate - along with two grad students and a Shakespearean scholar - navigate time and outwit history itself to save the group and expose the school's saboteur?) Matthews, J/Dangler, M Faeryland: The Secret World of the Hidden Ones $27.50 (Full color illustrations throughout. An overview of faeries around the world.) McClellan, Brian Promise of Blood $23.99 (Powder Mage #1: Field Marshal Tamas' coup against his king sent corrupt aristocrats to the guillotine and brought bread to the starving. But it also provoked war with the Nine Nations, internal attacks by royalist fanatics, and a scramble for money and power by his supposed allies. Tamas is relying heavily on his few remaining powder mages. As attacks batter them from within and without, the credulous are whispering about the gods waking to walk the earth. No modern educated man believes that sort of thing. But they should.) Mignola, M/Golden, C Joe Golem and the Drowning City $17.99 (Illustrated novel. In 1925, earthquakes and a rising sea level left Lower Manhattan submerged under 30 feet of water. 50 years have passed since then, and the city is home to scavengers, poor people, and those too stubborn to be defeated by circumstance. Among them are 14-year-old Molly and her friend and employer Felix, once a celebrated stage magician, now a psychic medium. When a seance goes horribly wrong, Felix is abducted, and Molly finds herself on the run. Her flight will lead her into the company of a mysterious man, and his stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem, whose own past is a mystery to him, but who walks his own dreams as a man of stone and clay, brought to life for the sole purpose of hunting witches.) Mihaley, James You Can't Have My Planet, But Take My Brother, Please $6.99 (Kids; 13-year-old Giles is not as charming as his sister, and not as brainy as his goody-goody brother. But when Giles witnesses an alien realtor showing Earth to possible new tenants, he knows he'd better do something. With the help of an alien 'attorney' and the maddest scientist ever, Giles just might save humans from eviction from Earth.) Moorcock, Michael The Land Leviathan $9.95 (Oswald Bastable #2: Reissue; Alternate 1904: Most of the Western world has been devastated by a short, horrific war fought with futuristic devices and biological weapons. Now a Black Attila is conquering the remnants of the Western nations in an attempt to bring social order.) Rivers, Phoebe The Secrets Within $5.99 (Saranormal #7: Kids; A new ability allows Sara to know impossible things, like secrets kept by long-dead people, and answers to decades-old mysteries. But having such an awesome power comes with great responsibility. Can Sara shoulder the burden of her newest ability?) Sage, Angie Fyre $17.99 (Septimus Heap #7: Kids; To destroy the power of the evil Two-Faced Ring forever, the ancient Alchemie Fyre must be relit, a task that sends Septimus to the very origins of Magyk and Physik, testing both his skills and his loyalties.) Warrington, Freda Grail of the Summer Stars $27.99 (Aetherial Tales #3: When a mysterious painting, depicting a ruined palace and a scarlet-haired goddess in front of a fiery city, is stolen from an art gallery, the woman who curates the gallery and an ancient fey man find themselves compelled to discover the meaning behind the painting and the key it holds to their futures.) WETA Workshop The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Chronicles II: Creatures & Characters $39.99 (Lavishly illustrated with behind the scenes photos, digital renderings, and film stills. A comprehensive guide, species by species and character by character, through the film's huge ensemble cast and menagerie of creatures, showing how each came to be realized for the film.) Wilson, G. Willow Alif the Unseen $16.00 (In a Middle Eastern country, a hacker calling himself Alif shields his clients - dissidents, Islamists, and other watched groups - from surveillance, and tries to stay out of trouble. But the woman Alif loves has jilted him for the head of state security, known as 'the Hand of God'. And Alif's computer has just been breached by the state's electronic security. Driven underground, Alif discovers the secret book of the jinn, which both he and the Hand suspect may unleash a new level of information technology. Alif struggles to survive, aided by forces seen and unseen.) Wraight, Chris Blood of Asaheim $24.99 (Warhammer 40,000: There is friction amongst the ranks of the Space Wolves Chapter, as the proud Space Marines enter into an uneasy alliance with the devout Sisters of Battle on a war-torn Ecclesiarchy world.)

Early May

Abnett, D/Vincent, N Gilead's Blood $14.00 (Warhammer: Reissue; Gilead Lothain, shadowfast warrior and last of the line of Tor Anrok, travels the land with his faithful retainer Fithvael, battling corrupt humans, beastmen, warriors of the Dark Gods, and more.) Aguirre, A.A. Bronze Gods $7.99 (Apparatus Infernum #1: PBO; Janus is a charming rogue with an uncanny sixth sense; Celeste is all logic, and the first female inspector in the CID. They work all hours in the city of steam and shadows, and collar more criminals than anyone. When a missing heiress is found murdered, it becomes clear there's a madman on the loose, weaving blood and magic in a lethal ritual that could mean the end of everything.) Amis, Kingsley The Alteration $14.95 (Reissue; Campbell Memorial Award winner. 1976: The world has been frozen in intellectual and spiritual time since Martin Luther became Pope in the 16th century. Hubert is a boy with a faultless voice. In his choir's audience are experts to determine whether that voice should be preserved by performing an operation. This is the story of how Hubert realizes what lies in store for him, and how he deals with the whirlpool of piety, menace, terror, and passion that he soon finds himself in.) Anderson, Kevin J. Hair Raising $15.00 (Dan Shamble #3: PBO; Zombie PI Dan Shamble is out to catch a serial scalper stalking the werewolves of the Unnatural Quarter.) Archer, Alex The Vanishing Tribe $6.99 (Rogue Angel #42: PBO; Clues to a mythical city lead Annja into the wilds of Africa.) Axler, James Sins of Honor $6.99 (Deathlands #110: PBO; Forced to kill another hunter, Ryan and his companions find themselves pursued by the dead man's widow and her predark tanks and artillery.) Axler, James Sorrow Space $6.99 (Outlanders #65: PBO; A glitch in a quantum portal traps Kane and his team in an alternate world, on the decaying streets of Dead Earth, where life itself is a crime. Cerberus is all that stands between the real world and the invasion of the dead.) Bardugo, Leigh Shadow and Bone $9.99 (Grisha #1: YA; Surrounded by enemies, the nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of a refugee.) Black, Jenna Rogue Descendant $7.99 (Nikki Glass #3: PBO; When Anderson orders Nikki to track down Konstantin, complications arise. As she tries to figure out who the true enemy is, she must deal with her tumultuous relationship with Jamaal, who is struggling to control his death magic.) Braden, William Henri, le chat noir $12.99 (Through his short films and interactions with an enthusiastic online community, Henri the existential cat's contemplation of and disillusionment with the world has struck a chord with millions of fans, and his ennui has captivated people all over the world. This collection of Henri's musings features never-before-seen photos and quotes.) Brennan, M.L. Generation V $7.99 (PBO; Fort has a terrible job and a terrible roommate, and he's a vampire - sort of. He's still mostly human. He decides to investigate when a new vampire arrives in town and young girls start disappearing, but without having matured into full vampirehood, Fort's rescue mission might just kill him.) Brown, Eric The Serene Invasion $8.99 (2025: Earth is an ailing world, riven by war, terrorism, poverty, dwindling resources, and insurmountable ideological divides. Then the alien Serene arrive, bringing peace, and an end to poverty and violence. But not everyone supports the seemingly benign invasion - some wish to return to the bad old days, and will stop at nothing to oppose the Serene.) Campbell, Jack Invincible $7.99 (Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier #2: Admiral Black Jack Geary and the First Fleet are tasked with exploring the frontier beyond Syndic space - a mission Jack suspects is intended to put the fleet, and himself, in harm's way.) Card, O.S./Johnston, A Earth Unaware $7.99 (First Formic War #1: An independent mining ship is out beyond Pluto when their telescopes pick up a massive fast-moving object coming in- system. But they have problems: their ship is old, and there are claim-jumping corporate mining ships moving into their part of space. A distant object that might or might not be an alien ship seems unimportant. They're wrong. The first Formic War is about to begin.) Carlson, Amanda Hot Blooded $13.99 (Jessica McClain #2: PBO; Jessica has just discovered that she's the biggest threat the supernatural world has seen in centuries. Even as she tries to find Rourke and defeat the goddess who kidnapped him, the Underworld comes calling, and Jessica finds herself accused of crimes she hasn't committed.) Clines, Peter Ex-Patriots $14.00 (Two years after the plague of living death spread around the globe, hope reaches the ruins of Los Angeles in the form of a very special US Army battalion. The men and women of Project Krypton survived the outbreak because they are super-soldiers, created to be better, stronger, and faster than normal humans. Their secure base in Arizona beckons as a refuge for the beleaguered superheroes and their charges. But a dark secret lies at the heart of Project Krypton, and those behind it wield an awesome and terrifying power.) Columbus, C/Vizzini, N House of Secrets $17.99 (Kids; By the time the Walker kids realize a neighbor has sinister plans for them, they've been banished to a primeval forest. Bloodthirsty warriors patrol the woods, supernatural pirates roam the seas, and a power-hungry queen rules the land. To survive, the kids will have to be brave, fight against their darkest impulses, and discover their connection to a secret legacy.) Cross, Kady The Girl in the Clockwork Collar $9.99 (Steampunk Chronicles #2: YA; 1897: Finlay and her fellow teen misfits journey from London to NYC, where they'll need all their supernatural abilities to rescue their friend Jasper from a criminal gang.) Dawson, Delilah S. Wicked as She Wants $7.99 (Blud #2: PBO; Blud princess Ahna embarks on a dangerous journey to reclaim what is rightfully hers. Back in her country, she must choose between the heart she never knew she had and the land she was born to rule. But with the help of the handsome and mysterious Casper, she may find a way to have it all.) Douglas, Ian (Keith, Wm) Deep Space $7.99 (Star Carrier #4: PBO; Twenty years after the fragile truce with the Sh'daar, Koenig is now President of the USNA, and Gray is soon to be promoted to commander of the entire battle group - a position he might not be ready for. The truce with the alien Sh'daar is unraveling, and humankind still knows little about them.) Ewing, Al The Fictional Man $9.99 (In a Los Angeles where Fictional characters are 'translated' into cloned human bodies, writer Niles Golan is on the verge of hitting the big time - if he can just stay on top of reality long enough.) Flint, Eric/Spoor, Ryk Portal $25.00 (Boundary #3: Stuck on Europa, Madeline Fathom, Helen Sutter, A.J. Baker and the team must survive lethal radiation, vacuum, and ice hard as steel while they figure out how to make their ship fly again. And Europa has one more surprise waiting for them - which might be the deadliest trap in the solar system.) Frater, Rhiannon Siege $8.99 (As the World Dies #3: The people of Ashley Oaks are stunned to discover that the Vice President is alive and commanding the remnants of the US military. What's left of the US government has plans for this group of determined survivors.) Friesner, Esther Spirit's Princess $10.99 (YA; The tribe's shamaness has an amazing vision: one day Himiko, the chieftain's daughter, will be spiritual and tribal leader over all of Japan. Himiko's early teen years are filled with shaman lessons, unexpected friendships, and dealings with other tribes. ) Gaiman, N/Reaves, M InterWorld $9.99 (InterWorld #1: Reissue; YA; One day, Joey Harker walks straight out of his world and into another dimension. Joey's walk between worlds makes him prey to armies of magic and science, both determined to harness Joey's power. The only thing standing in their way is an army of Joeys, all from different dimensions and all determined to save the worlds. Now Joey must make a choice: return to the life he knows or join the battle to the end.) Gaiman, N/Reaves, M The Silver Dream $18.99 (InterWorld #2: YA; A stranger named Acacia somehow follows Joey back to InterWorld's base. No one knows who she is, where she's from, or how she knows so much about InterWorld. But there's a traitor hidden among them, and if Joey has any hope of saving InterWorld, the multiverse, and the mission, he's going to have to rely on his wits, and, just possibly, on the mysterious Acacia.) Gaiman, Neil (ed) Unnatural Creatures $9.99 (YA; This anthology to benefit literacy nonprofit 826DC reprints 16 stories of fantastical creatures) Goelman, Ari The Path of Names $16.99 (Kids; 13-year-old Dahlia's reluctance about attending Camp Arava changes to wonder when the first thing she sees is two girls walking through a solid wall. Why is Dahlia the only one who can see them? And what's up with the overgrown, strangely shaped hedge maze that none of the campers are allowed to touch?) Golden, Christie Jaina Proudmoore: Tides of War $7.99 (World of Warcraft: When a beloved peacekeeper is pressed to the limit by an inconceivable horror, will it change her forever? Break her? Or redefine her role on Azeroth?) Greenberger, R et al After Earth: A Perfect Beast $9.99 (Prequel to the film.) Greenwood, Ed Elminster Enraged $7.99 (Forgotten Realms: Sage of Shadowdale #2: Inhabiting the body of a fallen dark elf, Elminster begins to rally Cormyr's Wizards of War. Manshoon has plans as well: to conquer Cormyr and be the new Emperor, and hunt down the Sage's clones.) Haley, Guy Baneblade $14.00 (Warhammer 40,000: PBO; The mighty Baneblade super-heavy battle tank comes to bring death and destruction to the foes of the Imperium in a bitter war against the orks in the Kalidar system.) Hanover, M.L.N. Graveyard Child $7.99 (Black Sun's Daughter #5: PBO; Jayne heads home to find answers to some of her questions, arriving during preparations for her brother's shotgun wedding. Then the Invisible College arrives, intent on stopping the ceremony. And in the shadows of Jayne's childhood home, a greater threat waits: the Graveyard Child.) Harper, Steven The Havoc Machine $7.99 (Clockwork Empire #4: PBO; Thad's life is dedicated to hunting and killing clockworkers. Mr. Griffin seeks his help with Lord Havoc, a mad clockwork scientist who has built a dangerous machine. But Mr. Griffin doesn't care if Havoc lives or dies - all he wants is the invention.) Healy, Christopher The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom $7.99 (Kids; Rejected by their princesses and cast out of their castles, Liam, Frederic, Duncan, and Gustav stumble upon an evil plot that could endanger all of their kingdoms. Now it's up to them to triumph over their various shortcomings, face off against bandits, trolls, witches, and dragons, and become the heroes no one ever thought they could be.) Heinlein, Robert A. The Star Beast (alternate title: The Star Lummox) $7.99 (Reissue; Lummox has been a family pet for generations, but - with eight legs, a thick hide and huge size - is nobody's idea of man's best friend. Nevertheless, John Stuart XI, descendant of the starman who brought Lummox back to Earth, loves him. But when Lummox eats a neighbor's car and begins to grow again, the Feds decide enough is enough. John isn't about to let the authorities take his pet away, even if it means Earth forever.) Held, Rhiannon Silver $7.99 (Andrew, the enforcer for the Roanoke werewolf pack, finds Silver, a lone Were. She's beautiful and crazy, and someone has tortured her by injecting silver into her veins. When Andrew and Silver join forces to track down this menace, they discover their passion for each other.) Hendee, Barb The Mist-Torn Witches $7.99 (PBO; Sisters Celine and Amelie scrape out a living in their small village selling herbal medicines and pretending to read people's futures. Forced to flee a warlord prince, they agree to use their 'skills' as seers to solve a series of bizarre deaths, in exchange for the protection of the warlord's brother. Their survival depends on catching a murderer who appears to walk through walls and vanish without a trace - and the danger grows with each passing night.) Hill, Joe NOS4A2 $28.99 (Charles Manx likes to take kids for rides. With his old car, he can slip right out of the everyday world, and onto the hidden roads that transport them to an astonishing - and terrifying - playground. Now Vic, the only kid ever to escape from Manx, is grown up and desperate to forget. But Manx never stopped thinking about her. He's on the road again, and he's picked up a new passenger: Vic's son.) Kerr, P.B. (Philip) The Grave Robbers of Genghis Khan $8.99 (Children of the Lamp #7: Kids; When volcanoes all over the world begin to erupt, spewing peculiar golden lava, will djinn twins John and Philippa and their Uncle Nimrod be able to use their powers to save the day once again?) Kittredge, Caitlin Dark Days $7.99 (Black London #6: PBO; There's a revolution brewing in Hell, and Jack might be the only one who can stop Belial's rival from ripping a hole between the Black and the mortal world. But to win, Jack will have to do the one thing he swore he never would: become a servant to the Morrigan.) Koch, Gini Alien in the House $7.99 (Alien #7: PBO; When a US Representative dies at the Centaurion Embassy, it's up to Kitty and the rest of the diplomatic corps to stop the killer before anyone else becomes a casualty - particularly the victim's replacement, Jeff Martini.) Lackey, Mercedes et al World Divided $7.99 (Secret World #2: Meta-hero organizations Echo and CCCP must hunt down the Thule Society - the puppetmasters behind the Nazi robot invasion - and try to put an end to the multi-universe plague they have unleashed. Meanwhile, a sadistic supervillain arises who just may have the wealth and cunning to defeat both heroes and Thulians alike.) Lasky, Kathryn Spirit Wolf $6.99 (Wolves of the Beyond #5: Kids; Banished as a pup, Faolan survived and returned as the lowest member of the wolf pack. But there's something about him that inspires certain wolves - and leaves other deeply suspicious. With a dangerous threat on the horizon, the pack must choose. Will they trust Faolan with the task of leading?) Lebbon, Tim Into the Void $27.00 (Star Wars: Dawn of the Jedi: The leader of a fanatical cult is bent on opening a cosmic gateway using dreaded dark matter as the key, risking a cataclysmic reaction that will consume the entire star system. The Je'daii Council has summoned Lanoree to prevent it - and the dangerous madman she must track down and stop is the brother she thought was dead.) Leigh, Stephen Assassin's Dawn: Slow Fall to Dawn / Dance of the Hag / A Quiet of Stone $8.99 (Hoorka #1 / #2 / #3: Omnibus reprint; 3 sf novels. The Hoorka is a guild of assassins with a single law: if the victim can survive until dawn, the victim goes free. This law is not popular with the rich and powerful who hire the guild, leaving the Hoorka dealing with some unpleasant consequences of their own ethics.) Maas, Sarah J. Throne of Glass $9.99 (YA; Celaena the assassin must defeat 23 other criminals in a competition at the castle in order to be released from prison. But something evil dwells in the castle. When her competitors start dying, her fight for freedom becomes a fight for survival.) MacAlister, Katie Time Thief $7.99 (PBO; When Peter discovers his own family is stealing time from Kiya, all bets are off. While she may drive him crazy at times, there are some serious sparks between them. And he's not going to let secrets, lies, or a devious murderer keep Kiya from where she belongs: at his side.) Mariotte, Jeff The Folded World $7.99 (Star Trek: PBO; Responding to a ship's distress call, Captain Kirk and his crew encounter an anomaly unlike anything they've ever experienced, then find the distressed ship - along with many others - being held in place by an enormous unidentified vessel.) Martinez, Michael J. The Daedalus Incident $15.99 (Bizarre quakes rumble over Mars, disrupting its mining operations Then rocks begin to roll, seemingly of their own volition, carving canals as they converge to form a towering structure. The only clues Lt. Jain and her survey team have stem from the emissions of a mysterious blue radiation, and from a 300-year-old journal that is writing itself. Thomas Weatherby is an 18th-century man, aboard a frigate sailing the high seas between continents - and the immense Void between the Known Worlds, tracking a mystic who seeks to upset the balance of the planets.) Mieville, China Railsea $10.99 (YA; Young doctor's assistant Sham is in search of life's purpose aboard a locomotive on the hunt for the great elusive moldywarpe Mocker-Jack. But in an old train wreck at the outskirts of the world, Sham discovers a secret: astonishing evidence, of an impossible journey left unfinished. Sham decides to complete it - but the decision might cost him his life.) Moon, Elizabeth Echoes of Betrayal $7.99 (Paladin's Legacy #3: In Lyonya, King Kieri prepares to marry, but whispers from the spirits of his ancestors continue to warn of treachery and murder. In Tsaia, King Mikeli faces unrest among his nobles over his decision to grant title and estates to Dorrin, a Verrakaien woman who possesses the forbidden magic. And the wild offspring of a dragon are on the loose, sowing death and destruction, and upsetting the ancient balance of power between dragonkind, humans, elves, and gnomes.) Moriarty, Chris Ghost Spin $16.00 (Catherine Li #3: The UN's interstellar empire is failing as its quantum teleportation network collapses. Humanity's only hope of survival is the Drift, a region of space where FTL travel seems possible. As the cold war between the human-led UN and the clone-dominated Syndicates heats up, whoever controls the Drift will chart the future course of human evolution - and no one wants to be left behind in a universe where the price of failure is extinction. ) Nasir, Jamil Tunnel Out of Death $25.99 (The search for a comatose woman's consciousness leads machine-enhanced PI Heath Ransom through a tear in the fabric of reality. There secret government agencies and a nonhuman entity do battle in a multi-level reality. When Ransom learns to move back and forth between two different versions of his life, and begins to realize that everyone around him may be a super-realistic android, that is only the beginning of a wholesale deconstruction of reality that threatens more than his sanity.) Norton, Andre Children of the Gates: Here Abide Monsters / Yurth Burden $13.00 (Omnibus reprint; 2 sf coming of age stories set on fantastic worlds) Novik, Naomi Crucible of Gold $7.99 (Temeraire #7: Captain Will Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire are sent to South America to negotiate with the Incas. If they fail, Napoleon may conquer that continent in his campaign for world domination.) Packard, Edward The Forbidden Castle $5.99 (U-Ventures: Kids; The Cave of Time has brought you back to medieval England. Can you solve the riddle of the Forbidden Castle and find its treasure with the king and his army right behind you? You decide how the story ends.) Parker, Steve Deathwatch $14.00 (Warhammer 40,000: PBO; On a distant world, a new terror has emerged, a murderous shadow that stalks the dark, and only the elite Deathwatch Space Marines can stop it. Under the direction of a mysterious Lord Inquisitor, they must cleanse this planet, or die in the attempt.) Poitier, Sidney Montaro Caine $26.00 (A baby is born with a coin in her hand. An orphan crafts a mysterious wooden object. The CEO of a large corporation finds himself under extraordinary pressure at work and at home. And on a Caribbean hilltop, a medicine man seems to understand the meaning of all these events - and to hold the key to the future.) Powell, Laura Burn Mark $9.99 (YA; In a modern world where witches are hunted and burned at the stake, Cleo is from a family of witches, desperate to develop the Fae and become a witch herself. Lucas is the privileged son of the Chief Prosecutor for the Inquisition. One day, both Cleo and Lucas develop the Fae.) Prineas, Sarah Summerkin $16.99 (Fer #2: Kids; Fer is now rightful Lady of the Summerlands, but her people don't know what to make of her ways. To prove herself worthy of the crown, Fer is summoned to a contest where her strengths and skills will be tested and her loyalties challenged. If she fails, she will lose her land, and the Way will be closed to her forever.) Reid, Rob Year Zero $15.00 (Late one afternoon, young intellectual-property lawyer Nick Carter has two very odd visitors. Now Nick may be our only hope against the aliens, who have realized that they owe such enormous fines on their vast collections of pirated music that it would be a lot cheaper to destroy the Earth.) Ridgway, Bee The River of No Return $27.95 (A man and a woman travel through time in a quest to bring down a secret society that controls the past and, thus, the future. ) Sagara, Michelle Silence $7.99 (Queen of the Dead #1: YA; Ever since her boyfriend died, Emma has been coming to the graveyard at night. But tonight Emma and her dog are not alone - there are two others in the cemetery: Eric, a new student at Emma's school; and an ancient woman who looks as though she is made of rags, who reaches out to Emma with a grip as chilling as death.) Schoon, Christian Zenn Scarlett $9.99 (YA; Zenn is training to be an exoveterinarian. But after a series of inexplicable animal escapes and other near-disasters, the school is in danger of being shut down by alien-hating officials. To unravel the events plaguing her school, Zenn will have to put her exovet skills to work in ways she never imagined.) Simmons, Dan Flashback $9.99 (The US is near collapse, but 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to a drug that allows them to re-experience the best moments of their lives. When an addicted ex-detective investigates the murder of a government advisor's son, he becomes the one man who may be able to change the course of an entire nation that is turning away from the future to live in the past.) Sutherland, Tui T. The Dragonet Prophecy $6.99 (Wings of Fire #1: Kids; Clay and his friends have grown up in secret under a mountain. The five young dragons are destined to end the war that's been raging between the tribes of Pyrrhia. But not every dragonet wants a destiny. When one of their own is threatened, Clay and his friends decide to escape. Maybe they can break free and end the war at the same time - or maybe they'll risk everything.) Swain, James Dark Magic $7.99 (Peter Warlock #1: Every night, stage magician Peter Warlock amazes audiences in NYC. But his real work is with a group of psychics who gaze into the future to help prevent crimes. But now, as they struggle to avert tragedy, they are being hunted by evil psychics determined to silence them forever.) Tolkien/Blackham, R Tolkien and the Peril of War $19.95 (Nonfiction; a look at the impact the Great War had on Tolkien's life and work.) Treadwell, James Advent $16.00 (Gavin Stokes #1: When his parents and his school can't cope with the things he sees - things they tell him don't exist - 15-year-old Gavin Stokes is sent to the countryside to live with his aunt. There he finds people who are like him, who see things too. They all tell him the same thing: magic exists, and it's leaking back into our world - bringing something terrible with it.) Tregillis, Ian Necessary Evil $25.99 (Milkweed #3: London, 1940. Again. Raybould Marsh has traveled to another Earth in a desperate attempt to save at least one timeline from the cosmic horrors who destroyed his timeline. To do this, he must remove all traces of the supermen created by the Nazi war machine. But the mad seer Greta has sent a version of herself to thwart him.) Turner, Joan Frances Dust $7.99 (Jessie was in a car crash and died. After she was buried, she arose as a zombie. There are gangs of undead roaming the Indiana woods, fighting, hunting, hidden. When a mysterious illness threatens both zombies and humans, Jessie must decide whether to stay and fight, or flee to survive.) van Vogt, A.E. Transgalactic: Empire of the Atom / The Wizard of Linn / Mission to the Stars (alternate title: The Mixed Men) $7.99 (Omnibus reprint; 3 sf novels) Viehl, Lynn Nightbound $7.99 (Lords of the Darkyn #3: PBO; Archaeologist Dr. Alys Stuart is infamous for her extraordinary theories, especially those concerning the Knights Templar, and she is unaware that her research is funded by the Kyn coffers. When the Kyn sends Beaumaris of York to assist and protect her, she doesn't expect the surge of attraction she feels for him. When a powerful Templar artifact surfaces, Alys and Beau must trust each other enough to stop mankind's greed for immortality from sparking a war between mortals and Kyn.) Vincent, Rachel Oath Bound $7.99 (Unbound #3: PBO; When a tragedy strikes her family, Sera needs justice. And the only way to get it is to reveal her heritage - including a rare Skill - and seize control of the Tower Syndicate from her cunning and malicious aunt. And so Sera is on the run with a man she can't figure out, a target on her back and the new knowledge of just how powerful she really is.) Weber, David / BuNine House of Steel: The Honorverse Companion $15.00 Trade PB, $25.00 HC (Honorverse: An new short Honorverse novel by Weber, plus a compendium of tech, specs, history and backstory.) Wecker, Helene The Golem and the Jinni $26.99 (1899: Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a rabbi who died during the voyage to New York City. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire, trapped in an old copper flask until accidentally released in New York. Like their immigrant neighbors, they struggle to make their way in this strange new place, while masking their supernatural origins. Meeting by chance, they become unlikely friends, until a terrifying incident drives them back to their separate worlds. But a powerful threat will soon bring them together again.) Wendig, Chuck Gods and Monsters: Unclean Spirits $9.99 (A tangle of gods and divine hierarchies once kept the world in balance - a grim and bloody balance, but a balance just the same. But a single god gained dominance. As Lucifer fell to Hell, the gods and goddesses fell to earth. And there they remain - but they would do anything to reclaim the true seat of power.) Wingrove, David The Middle Kingdom $14.95 (Chung Kuo Recast #3: 2196: Chung Kuo has been shaken after more than a century of peace enforced by tyranny. The seven ruling T'ang struggle to maintain Stasis, even as their massive cities descend into chaos. The rebels responsible for assassinating the Minister of the Edict seize the opportunity to effect Change. But the assassination was orchestrated by those far closer to the ruling powers, and this betrayal, the first of many, will lead to the War of Two Directions.) Yu, Charles Sorry Please Thank You $15.00 (Collection; 13 sf and fantasy stories) Zahn, Timothy Judgment at Proteus $7.99 (Quadrail #5: Frank Compton discovers that the Shonkla'raa, ancient enemies thought to be long dead, are rising again. If Compton and Bayta can't stop them, they will destroy the Quadrail and billions of lives throughout the galaxy.)

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Abnett, D/Vincent, N Gilead's Curse $14.00 (Warhammer: PBO; Beneath the earth, the dangerous and insane Rat King, its powers amplified by evil magic, plots Gilead Lothain's downfall, while a bloodthirsty vampire count becomes an unlikely ally - and Gilead's deadliest foe.) Abraham, Daniel The Tyrant's Law $16.99 (Dagger & Coin #3: PBO; The tyrant Geder Palliako had led his nation to war, but every victory has called forth another conflict. Now the greater war spreads out before him, and he is bent on bringing peace. No matter how many people he has to kill to do it.) Adams, Scott Your New Job Title Is 'Accomplice' $12.99 (Dilbert: PBO; More office mayhem and madness from Dilbert and his coworkers.) Asher, Neal Zero Point $15.99 (Owners #2: On Earth, where the Committee's network of control is ruined, the ruthless Serene Galahad scrambles to seize command. On Mars, Var Delex fights for the survival of Antares Base. Aboard the Argus Space Station, hurtling toward the red planet, Alan Saul's mind has expanded into the computer network, and he has discovered the ghastly experiments of the Humanoid Unit Development, the possibility of eternal life, and a madman who may hold the keys to interstellar flight.) Bacigalupi, Paolo The Drowned Cities $9.99 (YA; In the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, when refugees Mahlia and Mouse are confronted by soldiers from the United Patriotic Front, Mahlia must make a decision - risk everything to save Mouse, the boy who once saved her, or flee on her own to safety.) Beane, Odette Reawakened $14.99 (Once Upon a Time: Novel based on the TV show, narrated by August, a writer with one foot in the non-magical world and one foot in fairy-tale land.) Bemis, John Claude The Prince Who Fell from the Sky $6.99 (Kids; The animals tell stories of the Skinless Ones, whose cities and roads once covered the earth, but the Skinless disappeared long ago. Then one of the ancients' sky vehicles crashes to the ground, and from it emerges a Skinless One, a child. Rather than turn him over to the wolves who rule the Forest, Casseomae the bear chooses to protect this human cub. But where among the animals will a human child be safe? And is Casseomae threatening the safety of the Forest and all its tribes by protecting him?) Briggs, Patricia et al Cry Wolf Volume 2 graphic novel $24.95 (Alpha & Omega GN #1A: Full color graphic novel; continues the adaptation of the novel) Caine, Rachel Fall of Night $17.99 (Morganville Vampires #14: YA; Claire gets accepted into the graduate program at MIT. In a special advanced study program, she is able to work on her machine to cancel the mental abilities of vampires. But when she begins testing it on live subjects, things quickly spiral out of control.) Cameron, Anne The Lightning Catcher $16.99 (Kids; Eleven-year-old Angus discovers he is a Storm Prophet - he can predict and control extreme weather. While learning about his powers at the Perilous Exploratorium for Weather and Vicious Storms, Angus learns that his mom and dad are Lightning Catchers . When they're kidnapped, it's up to Angus and his friends to rescue them.) Campbell, Jack (Hemry) Guardian $26.95 (Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier #3: Black Jack Geary's latest mission: return safely to Alliance space with representatives of the alien Dancers and a captured warship that might be the most valuable object in human history. But despite the peace treaty, the Syndicate Worlds regime threatens to make the fleet's homeward journey grueling and perilous.) Colfer, Eoin The Reluctant Assassin $17.99 (W.A.R.P. #1: YA; Apprenticed to Garrick, a Victorian illusionist turned criminal, young Riley is inadvertently transported via wormhole to modern-day London, with Garrick close behind. Chevie, a young FBI agent in disgrace, teams up with Riley; together they must evade Garrick, who is determined to track down Riley and then use Chevie's timekey to return to Victorian London and change the world - and not in a good way.) Drake, Jocelynn Dead Man's Deal $14.99 (Asylum Tales #2: PBO; Gage is the best tattoo artist in town, but he's using forbidden magic in his designs, and the wizards intend to punish him for it. Too bad if innocent humans and monsters and entire cities get in the way. Gage will be the sacrifice they need to quell a magical uprising - but first they have to find him.) Esslemont, Ian C. Blood and Bone $17.99 (Malazan Empire #5: Saeng grew up listening to the voices out of her land's forgotten past. And when the magus Thaumaturgs mount an invasion of the neighboring jungle, those voices send her and her brother on a desperate mission. To the south, the desert tribes are united by the arrival of a foreign warleader known as the Grey Ghost. Meanwhile, word comes to the Crimson Guard of a mercenary contract in Jacuruku. Their employer: Ardata herself.) Feist, Raymond E. Magician's End $29.99 (Chaoswar #3: Discover Pug's fate as prophecy becomes truth in the final book of the Riftwar Cycle.) Foster, Alan Dean Star Trek Into Darkness $16.00 (Novelization of the film.) Funke, Cornelia Ghost Knight $7.99 (Kids; 11-year-old Jon and his quirky new friend Ella must uncover the secrets of a centuries-old murder, but they are being haunted by terrifying spirits bent on revenge. So Jon summons the ghost of Knight Longspee to protect them. But can Longspee truly be trusted?) Gaiman, Neil Make Good Art $12.99 (The text of his 2012 speech to the graduating class of the University of Arts in Philadelphia.) Grey, Mini Toys in Space $16.99 (Kids; Picture book. One summer night, the toys are left outside, and see the stars for the first time. One grows bigger, and before long the toys are traveling by spaceship into the unknown.) Harris, Charlaine Dead Ever After $27.95 (Southern Vampire #13: A shocking murder rocks Bon Temps, and Sookie is arrested for the crime. The evidence against her is weak, and she makes bail. Investigating the killing, she'll learn that what passes for truth in Bon Temps is only a convenient lie.) Harrison, Mette Ivie The Rose Throne $16.99 (YA; An ancient prophecy hints that the kingdoms of two princesses from rival lands - one with magic and one without - will be united under one rule, and one rule only. Can either of these two princesses, rivals though they have never met, afford to let the other live?) Harstad, Johan 172 Hours on the Moon $8.99 (YA; Three teenagers, the winners of NASA's worldwide lottery, are about to become the first young people in space. But something sinister is waiting for them on the moon's desolate surface. And in the black vacuum of space, no one is coming to save them.) Holt, Christopher The Vanishing $6.99 (Last Dogs #1: Kids; When all the humans in his world disappear, Max, a yellow Labrador Retriever, begins the search for his family. Joined by friends Rocky and Gizmo, Max sets off to find Madame Curie, a wise old black Lab. Madame had a premonition of astonishing events to come - she might know where Max's family is. Along the way, the trio will face a pack of angry wolves, forage for food in a land where kibble is akin to gold, befriend a house full of cats, and outsmart a gang of subway rats. Ultimately, they'll have to escape from the biggest threat of all: the Corporation, a supposedly perfect society for dogs and by dogs, where nothing is quite as it seems. ) Holyoke, Polly The Neptune Project $16.99 (Kids; Nere has never understood why she feels so much more comfortable in water than on land, until she learns that she has been genetically altered to survive in the ocean. The kids of the Neptune Project will be able to build a better future under the sea, safe from their country's famines, wars, and harsh laws. But to reach the Neptune colony, Nere and her fellow mutates must swim through dangerous waters, relying on their wits, dolphins, and each other to evade undersea creatures - and a government that will stop at nothing to capture them dead or alive.) Hume, M.K. Death of an Empire $16.00 (Merlin Prophecy #2: Myrddion Merlinus embarks on a quest to uncover his rapist father's identity, traveling with his band of loyal companions through war-ravaged France, Rome, and Ravenna to Constantinople.) Hunter, Erin The Empty City $7.99 (Survivors #1: Kids; The humans are gone, and a new animal is ready to rule the world. Which animals are brave enough to take control when disaster strikes? And what enemies will stand in their way?) Hunter, Erin A Hidden Enemy $16.99 (Survivors #2: Kids; The Leashed Dogs have settled in the forest, but a fierce pack of Wild Dogs will stop at nothing to ensure the land is theirs alone.) Klimo, Kate The Dragon in the Sea $6.99 (Dragon Keepers #5: Kids; Jesse and Daisy try to help their dragon Emmy protect the egg holding Emmy's baby brother. Their adventures take them into the Watery Realms, home to merpeople, selkies, and water zombies.) Krokos, Dan The Planet Thieves $15.99 (Kids; It was supposed to be a routine voyage, so the cadets from the Academy for Earth Space Command could log their required spacetime for the quarter. Then aliens captured the ship. With the crew dead, injured, or taken prisoner, it's up to 13-year-old Mason and his classmates to take back the ship and rescue the survivors.) Lanagan, Margo Yellowcake $16.99 (YA; Collection; 10 short stories ranging from fantasy and fairy tale to horror and stark reality) Logan, Michael Apocalypse Cow $14.99 (Forget the cud - they want blood. Can an unlikely trio of losers save Britain from a rampaging horde of zombie cows?) Marr/Armstrong Loki's Wolves $16.99 (Blackwell Pages #1: Kids; Matt Thorsen knows every Norse myth, saga, and god - because it's family history. Most people in Blackwell, South Dakota, are direct descendants of either Loki or Thor. But the gods died long ago. When the rune readers reveal that Ragnarok is coming and the kids will stand in for the gods in the final battle, Matt and his friends must race to put together a team to prevent the end of the world.) McNeill, Graham Elves: Defenders of Ulthuan / Sons of Ellyrion / Guardians of the Forest $17.50 (Warhammer: Omnibus reprint) Nesbet, Anne The Cabinet of Earths $6.99 (Kids; While spending a year in Paris with their family, Maya and James find themselves caught up in some very old, dark magic. A purple- eyed man follows them. Statues seem to have Maya's face. And an eerie cabinet filled with mysterious colored bottles calls to her. When James becomes the target of dark forces, Maya decides she must answer the call of the Cabinet of Earths, despite the danger.) Nix, Garth A Confusion of Princes $9.99 (YA; Prince Khemri is training to become a Prince of the Empire, enhanced with biological and technological improvements that make him faster, stronger and smarter. And should he die, and be deemed worthy, he will be reborn. 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But when murder disrupts her home, it's up to Claire and detective Jakob Fisher to find the not- so-simple truth.) Camilleri, Andrea The Dance of the Seagull $15.00 (Montalbano #15: Inspector Montalbano is watching a seagull do an odd dance on the beach outside his home when the bird suddenly drops dead. Then he learns that his right-hand man Fazio is missing, last seen on the docks working on a case. Setting out to find him, Montalbano discovers that the seagull's dance of death may provide the key to understanding a macabre world of sadism, extortion, and murder.) Child, Lincoln The Third Gate $7.99 (Jeremy Logan #1: An archaeological team is attempting to locate the tomb of Egypt's King Narmer, and his double crown, which supposedly possesses mystical powers. When harrowing occurrences raise fears that the expedition is cursed, Professor Jeremy Logan is brought in to investigate.) 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Cussler, C/Scott, J The Thief $9.99 (Isaac Bell #5: 1910: A pair of European scientists have a new invention that will revolutionize business and popular culture; Bell must stop an agent intent on stealing it for the Germans.) Cussler, C/Scott, J The Striker $27.95 (Isaac Bell #6: 1902: Hired to hunt for radical unionist saboteurs in the coal mines, Bell is witness to a terrible accident that makes him suspect that provocateurs were involved, and finds himself pitted against two ruthless, ambitious, cold-blooded opponents.) Dare, Lila Wave Good-Bye $7.99 (Southern Beauty Shop #4: PBO; With Violetta's losing business to a new super salon, Grace becomes prime suspect when her competitor is murdered. It's up to the ladies at Violetta's to save her.) Davidson, Hilary Evil in All Its Disguises $25.99 (Lily Moore #3: On a press trip to an Acapulco resort, a deadly trap is set - and travel journalist Lily Moore is the bait.) DeCandido, Keith R.A. The Zoo Job $7.99 (Leverage: PBO; Novel based on the TV show. A zoo owner turns to Nate and the team for help when a pair of black rhinos she'd arranged to borrow never arrive.) Dorgan, B/Hagberg, D Blowout $9.99 (The US President has created the Dakota District Initiative, a top- secret research team working to produce clean energy from coal. After powerful enemies order a brutal assault on the experimental power station, a war-hero sheriff and a brash journalist search for the attackers.) Downing, David Lehrter Station $15.95 (John Russell #5: Paris, November 1945: Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin and John Russell are entangled in a Soviet intelligence net. Their only way out is to come up with something important enough to make a deal with the Americans.) Edwardson, Ake Room No. 10 $25.99 (Erik Winter #7: A woman is found hanged in a Gothenburg hotel room, leaving behind a puzzling note. As he works the case, Inspector Winter recalls that one of his first cases concerned a young woman who disappeared from the same hotel room. He becomes convinced that the missing woman was also murdered - possibly by the same killer.) Evans, Stephanie Jaye Safe from Harm $15.00 (Sugar Land #2: PBO; A text message brings Texas minister Bear Wells rushing home to find his teenage daughter Jo cradling the dead body of her friend Phoebe. It looks like suicide, but Jo doesn't believe it. When she sneaks out to confront her suspect, Bear prays he'll find her in time - and that he'll be forgiven for what he might have to do to save her.) Faye, Lyndsay The Gods of Gotham $16.00 (Timothy Wilde #1: Edgar finalist, best novel. 1845: Timothy Wilde is a member of the brand-new NYC PD, his beat at the edge of the world's most notorious slum. As he's making his rounds one night, he finds a young girl covered in blood, who claims that dozens of bodies are buried in the forest north of 23rd Street.) Fiedler, Chrystle Scent to Kill $15.00 (Willow McQuade #2: PBO; Willow's ex becomes prime suspect in the murder of a Long Island TV producer, and turns to her for help. To find the killer, Willow must deal with a haunted mansion, strange accidents, and death threats, while trying to untangle a homicide identical to one committed during Prohibition.) Fields, Tricia Scratchgravel Road $24.99 (Josie Gray #2: Josie finds Cassidy Harper nearly dead of heatstroke in the desert, beside the body of a Mexican immigrant. When Josie sees the ominous wounds on the man's body, she knows she needs to find answers fast.) French, Nicci Blue Monday $16.00 (Frieda Klein #1: When a young boy is abducted, psychotherapist Frieda Klein cannot ignore the fact that his photo perfectly matches the boy one of her patients describes from his fantasies. Before long, Frieda reluctantly finds herself serving as sidekick to DCI Karlsson in a desperate race to find the kidnapper.) Gross, Andrew 15 Seconds $9.99 (Henry is on his way to a convention when he is stopped for a traffic violation. When the cop is shot by a stranger in a speeding car, Henry is suspected of the killing. He turns to his friend Mike for help - but then Mike is killed, and again the evidence points to Henry. To clear his name, Henry must find out who is behind the plot to destroy him.) Hamilton, Victoria Bowled Over $7.99 (Vintage Kitchen #2: PBO; When a former friend is murdered with Jaymie's vintage glass bowl, she'll have to figure out who wants to frame her for murder, and why.) Harris, C.S. When Maidens Mourn $7.99 (Sebastian St. Cyr #7: 1812: When Gabrielle Tennyson is murdered, aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his wife Hero Jarvis find themselves involved in an intrigue concerning the myth of King Arthur, Camelot, and a future poet laureate.) Harris, C.S. What Darkness Brings $24.95 (Sebastian St. Cyr #8: 1812: When his ex-lover Kat's husband is accused of murdering a diamond merchant, aristocrat Sebastian St. Cyr and his wife Hero are drawn into the investigation. Sebastian finds his marriage tested by the shadows of his first love, especially when he begins to suspect that Kat is keeping secrets.) Hart, Erin The Book of Killowen $26.00 (Gavin & Maguire #4: Archaeologist Cormac Maguire and pathologist Nora Gavin are back in the bogs, investigating a 9th-century body found buried in the trunk of a car. Pinned beneath it is the body of a philosopher who disappeared months ago. Both men were viciously murdered, but centuries apart, so how did they end up buried together? Signed copies expected) Hathaway, Jill Slide $9.99 (YA; Vee isn't narcoleptic; when she passes out, she slides into somebody else's mind and experiences the world through that person's eyes. One night, she slides into the mind of someone holding a bloody knife, standing over Sophie's slashed body. Vee must find a way to unmask the killer before anyone else dies.) Henry, April The Night She Disappeared $9.99 (YA; When Kayla, a delivery girl at Pete's Pizza, goes missing, Gabie is horrified to learn that the suspected kidnapper had asked if the girl with the Mini Cooper - the car Gabie uses to make deliveries - was working. Gabie and her coworker Drew team up to try to find Kayla before it's too late.) Hirahara, Naomi Strawberry Yellow $15.00 (Mas Arai #5: Curmudgeonly Japanese-American gardener Mas Arai returns to the strawberry fields of Watsonville, California, for the funeral of a cousin, and gets entangled investigating the murder of a young woman. Was his cousin murdered too?) Jackson, Lisa You Don't Want to Know $7.99 (For Ava Garrison, the disappearance of her toddler is only the beginning of her nightmare.) Kuhns, Eleanor A Simple Murder $14.99 (Will Rees #1: Winner of the Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel competition. 1796: The search for his runaway son leads traveling weaver Will Rees to a Shaker settlement in Maine, where one of the elders asks him to investigate a young woman's murder.) Lamb, Victoria The Queen's Secret $16.00 (Tudor Court #1: Lucy Morgan is a young African singer and court entertainer who was raised by a spy in London. Employed by Queen Elizabeth to spy on Robert Dudley and his mistress, Lucy uncovers more than she bargained for - including a plot to kill the queen.) Lambdin, Dewey Hostile Shores $25.99 (Alan Lewrie #19: 1805: After the British wrest control of South Africa from the Dutch at the Battle of Cape Town, Lewrie and his crew head to South America, where British attacks on the Spanish colonies have not fared so well.) Landay, William Defending Jacob $7.99 (Assistant DA Andy Barber is blindsided when his teenage son Jacob is charged with the stabbing death of a fellow student.) Larsen, K.J. Some Like It Hot $14.95 (Cat DeLuca #3: When an old friend buys a trenchcoat and opens his own agency, PI Cat DeLuca sees a train wreck. Because everything Billy Bonham knows about being a PI, he learned from Humphrey Bogart. When Billy is gunned down, it's up to Cat to save his outrageous client and nail a murderer.) Lawrence, Caroline P.K. Pinkerton and the Deadly Desperadoes $6.99 (Kids; 1862: When twelve-year- old Pinky Pinkerton's foster parents are murdered by a gang of desperadoes, Pinky goes on the run with his Sioux mother's priceless deed to land and silver mines in the Nevada Mountains. But relying on disguises will only keep Pinky hidden for so long, and the desperadoes are closing in.) Lyons, C.J. Black Sheep $7.99 (PBO; When the man she holds responsible for her father's death asks her to help find his missing daughter, the search takes Caitlyn back to her North Carolina hometown, and an unknown enemy who will do anything to keep the truth buried.) Macbain, Bruce The Bull Slayer $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (Plinius Secundus #2: Pliny, newly appointed governor of Bithynia, pursues one baffling lead after another when a high Roman official is found murdered on a desolate hillside far from the capital. ) MacInnes, Helen Assignment in Brittany $9.95 (Reissue; Three hours ago he was Martin Hearne, British Intelligence agent. Now he is in Nazi-occupied Brittany, posing as Frenchman Bertrand Corlay. From now on he is one wrong step away from death.) Mackenzie, Jassy Random Violence $9.99 (Jade de Jong #1: Reissue; Returning to Johannesburg after 10 years, PI Jade de Jong offers to help Supt. David Patel, her father's former assistant, investigate an apparent car-jacking in which a wealthy woman was murdered.) McKevett, G.A. Buried in Buttercream $7.99 (Savannah Reid #17: First their planned wedding hall was damaged by a brushfire. Location number two disappeared under a mudslide. Now plus-size sleuth Savannah Reid and her fiance Dirk find themselves with a murder to solve when their wedding planner is killed on the morning of their wedding.) Mina, Denise Gods and Beasts $25.99 (Alex Morrow #3: The search for the gunman who robbed a busy Glasgow post office and murdered a bystander leads DI Alex Morrow to a sinister political network, and the realization that no corner of the city is safe.) Ohlsson, Kristina Silenced $25.00 (Fredrika Bergman #2: A girl was assaulted and raped fifteen years ago; a man with no ID is killed in a hit and run; a priest and his wife are found dead, apparent suicides. Inspector Bergman and her colleagues discover that a thread of evil connects the seemingly unrelated cases.) Olshan, Joseph Cloudland $14.99 (Near her Vermont home, ex-reporter Catherine Winslow discovers a woman's body leaning against a tree, the latest victim of a serial killer. With the help of a forensic psychiatrist neighbor and a local detective, Catherine starts to research the killings - and comes to realize that friends and acquaintances may be suspects.) Parker/Penzler (ed) In Pursuit of Spenser: Mystery Writers on Robert B. Parker and the Creation of an American Hero $14.95 (Edgar finalist, best critical/biographical. Some of today's bestselling mystery authors discuss Parker and his impact.) Parks, Brad The Good Cop $24.99 (Carter Ross #4: First Carter is assigned to cover the killing of a Newark cop. Then the story's off because the man committed suicide. But the man's widow doesn't think he killed himself. When Carter's calls to the police and the morgue are repeatedly blocked, it's clear there's something more going on.) Parrish, P.J. Heart of Ice $7.99 (Louis Kincaid #10: PBO; Kincaid is vacationing on Mackinac Island with his daughter Lily; when they discover a pile of human bones in an abandoned hunting lodge, the inexperienced police chief asks Kincaid to help with the cold case. ) Patterson, J/Paetro, M 11th Hour $14.99 (Women's Murder Club #11: A vigilante is killing San Francisco's high-ranking criminals - using a gun from the police evidence locker. And a pair of severed heads have just been found, elaborately displayed in a movie star's garden.) Patterson, James Angel $7.99 (Maximum Ride #7: YA; A doomsday cult's threat to the world brings Max, Fang, and friends together in Paris. And this time, it might just be little Angel who is the true heroine.) Patterson, William Slice $9.99 (PBO; With her psychopathic husband Emil dead, Jessie is ready to stop running, and return to her hometown with her young daughter Abby. Then the murders start - each victim connected to Jessie. Do the answers lie in her troubled past?) Pendleton, Don (creator) Night's Reckoning $5.99 (Executioner #412: PBO; When a Balkan warlord escapes from prison days before his war crimes trial, Bolan is tasked with recapturing the man before the right-wing group that freed him can turn him into a martyr.) Pendleton, Don (creator) Escalation Tactic $6.99 (SuperBolan #156: PBO; Bolan heads a task force assigned with infiltrating both sides of a bloody drug cartel conflict.) Phelps, M. William Kiss of the She-Devil $7.99 (PBO; Nonfiction. A twisted love triangle ends in the murder of Michigan librarian Martha Gail Fulton.) Quirk, Matthew The 500 $15.99 (Edgar finalist, best first novel. A year ago, fresh out of law school, former con artist Mike Ford landed his dream job. Now he's staring down the barrel of a gun, pursued by two of the world's most dangerous men. To get out, he'll have to do all the things he thought he'd never do again: lie, cheat, steal - and this time, maybe even kill.) Quirk, Matthew The 500 audiobook $19.98 (Unabridged) Renner, James The Man from Primrose Lane $16.00 (In West Akron, Ohio, there lived an elderly recluse who always wore mittens, even in July. He had no friends and no family - and on a summer day, someone murdered him. Four years later, heartbroken by his wife's suicide, true-crime author David Neff decides to investigate the murder.) Robb, J.D. Calculated in Death $27.95 (Eve Dallas #37: When a woman is murdered on Manhattan's Upper East Side and someone steals files from her office, Lt. Eve Dallas must immerse herself in the world of big business to find out who's behind the hit.) Rohmer, Sax The Mask of Fu-Manchu $9.95 (Fu-Manchu #6: Reissue; After retrieving the relics buried in the tomb of the Veiled Prophet, archaeologist Sir Lionel Barton blows up the tomb. The heretics faithful to the prophet interpret the fireball as his second coming, and begin a violent uprising.. Meanwhile, the insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu wants to acquire the powerful relics for his own evil ends.) Ryan, Annelise Lucky Stiff $7.99 (Mattie Winston #4: PBO; Deputy coroner Mattie Winston and detective Steve Hurley investigate when the body of a paraplegic man who recently won a huge casino jackpot is found in the burnt remains of a house.) Scottoline, Lisa Come Home $15.99 (Jill Farrow's life is turned upside down when her ex- stepdaughter Abby turns up on her doorstep with shocking news: Jill's ex-husband is dead. Abby believes he was murdered, and wants Jill to help find the killer.) Sidebottom, Harry The Caspian Gates $15.95 (Warrior of Rome #4: 262: After a mighty earthquake, Ephesus lies shattered, and the Goths are sailing there, intent on pillaging the weakened city. Only Ballista knows the ways of the Goths, and how to defeat them.) Sigurdardottir, Yrsa The Day Is Dark $15.99 (Thora Godmundsdottir #4: When contact is lost with two Icelanders working in a harsh and sparsely populated area on the coast of Greenland, Thora is hired to investigate.) Slaughter, Karin Criminal $7.99 (Grant County #10 / Will Trent #6: The agents of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation dive into a shocking crime from 1975 to prevent an even greater terror from being unleashed on present-day Atlanta.) Smith, Alexander McCall The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection $14.95 (The best apprentice at Speedy Motors is in trouble with the law and stuck with the worst lawyer in Gaborone. Grace Makutsi and Phuti Radiphuti are building the house of their dreams, but their builder is not completely on the up and up. And Mma Potokwane has been dismissed from her post as matron at the orphan farm. Can the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency help restore the beloved matron to her rightful position?) Soos, Troy Murder at Fenway Park $14.00 (Mickey Rawlings #1: Reissue; Boston, 1912: Mickey Rawlings finally makes it to the major leagues, only to be fingered for a teammate's murder. If he can't clear his name, it's going to be a short season in the majors and a long one behind bars.) St. James, Simone An Inquiry Into Love and Death $14.00 (PBO; 1920s England: A young woman searches for the truth behind her uncle's mysterious death in a town haunted by a restless ghost. The arrival of a handsome Scotland Yard inspector with mysteries of his own leaves her with more questions than answers.) Stabenow, Dana Bad Blood $25.99 (Kate Shugak #20: Sergeant Jim Chopin and investigator Kate Shugak find themselves entangled in a murderous tribal rivalry when the body of a young ne'er-do-well is found wedged in a fish wheel and the prime suspect disappears; Signed copies expected) Steinhauer, Olen The Nearest Exit $9.99 (Milo Weaver #2: Before he can get back to the CIA's dirty work, Milo must prove his loyalty to his new bosses, who know little of Milo's background, and less about who is pulling the strings in the government.) Sturges, P.G. Angel's Gate $27.00 (Shortcut Man #3: Hired by a woman whose sister is missing, the case leads Dick Henry to an aging, amorous Los Angeles movie mogul who keeps a stable of young starlets, and to a deeper mystery involving a death years earlier.) Swanson, Denise Nickeled-and-Dimed to Death $7.99 (Dime Store #2: PBO; When Elise Whitmore is shot and Dev's good friend Boone is taken into custody, Dev must clear his name and find the real killer.) Talty, Stephan Black Irish $26.00 (When Jimmy Ryan's mangled corpse is found in a church basement, the sacrilege sends a chill through the working class Irish-American enclave of South Buffalo. But in a town ruled by an old-world code of silence and secrecy, homicide detective Abbie Kearney's search for answers is stonewalled at every turn, even by fellow cops. ) Townsend, Kari Lee Trouble in the Tarot $7.99 (Fortune Teller #3: PBO; When a local baker gets run over by a big white Cadillac, psychic Sunny Meadows can see nothing good coming from her Granny being found at the crime scene.) Watson, S.J. Before I Go to Sleep $7.99 (A woman with a damaged memory desperately searches for the truth. Who is she? And who can she trust?) White, Randy Wayne Night Moves $26.95 (Doc Ford #20: Both Doc and his friend Tomlinson have buried secrets - and one of those secrets is about to come alive with a vengeance; Signed copies expected) Whittle, Tina Blood, Ash, and Bone $14.95 (Tai Randolph #3: Tai's plan for a calm trip to the Savannah Civil War Expo is interrupted, first by the search for a missing Civil War artifact, then by murder, this time involving the KKK and Tai's unapologetically unreconstructed kinfolk.) Wynne-Jones, Tim Rex Zero and the End of the World $6.99 (Rex Zero #1: Kids; Rex wonders why everyone seems so scared in his new hometown of Ottawa. Is it spies? Kidnappers? A shadowy creature in Adams Park? What's a boy to do?) Wynne-Jones, Tim Rex Zero, King of Nothing $6.99 (Rex Zero #2: Kids; Rex and his friends hatch a plan to replace the nasty 6th grade substitute teacher, but events spin out of control. Meanwhile, Rex's world is full of mysteries. There's the beautiful woman in white. Why does she have a black eye? There's the little black book filled with names. Who could it belong to? And why has Rex's father hidden a letter that begins: 'Mein Liebchen'?) Wynne-Jones, Tim Rex Zero, The Great Pretender $6.99 (Rex Zero #3: Kids; When his family moves again, Rex stumbles into 7th grade in a new school district, pretending to be someone he's not, and using his overactive imagination to resolve one of life's most vexing problems: just when everything is going well, why does it have to change?)

Mid March

Arnott, Jake The House of Rumour $26.00 (Larry Zagorski, an sf writer turned US fighter pilot, searches for connections between what seem like disparate events, while conspiracy theories begin to suggest a single force is behind them, in this novel that moves from WWII spy intrigue (featuring Ian Fleming) to occultism (Aleister Crowley) to the West Coast sf set (Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, and L. Ron Hubbard) to the 1980s New Wave music scene in the UK.) Ballantyne, Lisa The Guilty One $14.99 (London solicitor Daniel Hunter is called in on the case of Sebastian, an 11-year-old boy accused of killing a child. As chilling facts emerge, the case unearths troubling childhood memories that Daniel has long kept buried.) Bannister, Jo Deadly Virtues $24.99 (The English town of Norbold is famous for its low crime rate, thanks to the Chief Superintendent's zero-tolerance policy. But numbers never tell the whole story. Jerome knows he is going to die, and that it will look like a mishap. He's determined to let someone know, even if it's only Ash, the concussed man in the next cell. After Jerome is found, beaten to death by an inmate in another cell, Ash is unable to forget Jerome's cryptic last words to him, and is determined to get to the truth. Now police recruit Hazel Best must decide whether pursuing that truth is worth her career.) Berk, Josh Guy Langman, Crime Scene Procrastinator $8.99 (YA; When his friend Anoop asked Guy to join the school forensics club with him (and maybe impress some girls), Guy agreed. They certainly weren't expecting to find a real dead body on the simulated crime scene they're assigned to collect evidence from.) Bonner, Brynn Paging the Dead $15.00 (PBO; When a client ends up dead and the evidence points to them, genealogist Sophie McClure and her business partner Esme Sabatier must find the killer to clear their names.) Box, C.J. Breaking Point $26.95 (Joe Pickett #13: Two EPA employees have been murdered, and all signs point to local businessman Lyle Pendergast as the killer. It looks like Lyle's problems with the EPA just piled up until he snapped, but the more Joe Pickett looks into it, the more he begins to wonder; Signed copies expected) Clark, Mary Higgins The Lost Years $7.99 (A Biblical scholar finds a parchment, stolen from the Vatican library in the 15th century, that might be a letter written by Jesus Christ. When he's found shot to death in his New Jersey home, his wife is hiding in the closet, incoherent and clutching the murder weapon. The police suspect her, but the couple's daughter believes her father's death is tied to the parchment, now missing.) Coben, Harlan Six Years $27.95 (Six years have passed since Jake Fisher watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry Todd. So when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself away from the funeral. But Todd's widow, who was married to Todd for over a decade, is not Natalie. Jake's search for the woman who broke his heart and lied to him soon puts his life at risk.) Corby, Gary The Ionia Sanction $14.95 (Nicolaos #2: Hired by Pericles to find out who murdered a diplomat, Nico soon finds himself on a mission to Ephesus to stop a plot to invade and destroy Athens.) Gould, Sasha Cross My Heart $8.99 (YA; Venice, 1585: When her sister Beatrice drowns, 16-year- old Laura is ordered to marry Beatrice's betrothed, a repulsive old merchant. Panicked, Laura betrays a powerful man to earn her way into the Segreta, a society of women who deal in secrets. The day after she joins their ranks, the merchant is publicly humiliated and exiled. Soon, however, Laura begins to suspect that her sister's death was murder - and that the women of the Segreta might be involved.) Grossman, Paul Children of Wrath $15.99 (1929: Jewish detective Willi Kraus investigates when floodwaters cause the Berlin sewer system to disgorge a burlap sack - full of children's bones with teeth marks on them, and a Bible with a single phrase circled in red.) Harlow, Jennifer What's a Witch to Do? $14.99 (Midnight Magic #1: PBO; Mona runs a magic shop and leads a large coven, and now someone is out to kill her. Good thing werewolf Adam Blue has arrived to protect her. When a demon begins stalking her, she and Adam team up to find out who wants her dead.) Hiaasen, Carl Chomp $8.99 (Kids; When his animal-wrangler dad takes a job with reality TV show Expedition Survival!, Wahoo figures he'll also have to do some wrangling - to keep his unpredictable father from killing the show's boneheaded star, and to help Tuna hide from her abusive father. They've only been in the Everglades for a day when the star gets bitten by a bat and goes missing in a storm. Search parties head out and promptly get lost themselves. Then Tuna's dad shows up with a gun . . .) Jay, Gerald The Paris Directive $15.00 (Mazerelle #1: Reiner's hit, on an American industrialist vacationing in France, is compromised when innocent people are in the wrong place at the wrong time. All evidence points to a local Arab handyman, but both Inspector Mazarelle and Molly, the daughter of two of the victims, have doubts, forcing Reiner to return to ensure they see things as he arranged them.) Johansen, Iris Sleep No More $7.99 (Eve Duncan #14: Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan finds herself on another missing-persons case. A woman named Beth Avery, who has been locked up in a psychiatric facility for years, has vanished. And her connection to Eve is deeper than Eve can imagine.) Kazinski, A.J. The Last Good Man $16.00 (Around the world, humanitarians are dying, each with the same strange mark on their back. When the news reaches Copenhagen, veteran detective Niels Bentzon is assigned to find Denmark's 'good people' and warn them. But Bentzon is a man who is trained to see the worst in humanity, and one by one, candidates are crossed off his list. He's about to give up when a brilliant astrophysicist helps him find the pattern to the killings. There are two more to come. They will occur in Venice and Copenhagen. And the time is now.) Kirk, David Child of Vengeance $25.95 (16th-century Japan: Bennosuke worships his samurai father, but has been raised by his uncle, a Buddhist monk who urges the boy to forgo the violence of the samurai. When his father returns, gravely injured, Bennosuke is forced to confront truths about his family's history and his own place in it. These revelations soon guide him down the samurai's path, awash with blood, bravery, and vengeance.) Knight, Alanna Deadly Legacy $16.95 (Rose McQuinn #7: 1901: Rose agrees to deliver a legacy for a neighbor, but the errand turns dangerous when she's attacked on the train, and returns to Edinburgh to find her neighbor dead.) Leon, Donna Acqua Alta $14.00 (Brunetti #5: Reissue; Art historian Dotoressa Brett Lynch, an American who spearheaded a recent exhibition of Chinese pottery, lives with her lover Flavia Petrelli, the reigning diva of La Scala. When Brett is attacked and beaten, Commissario Brunetti's investigation takes him to dark, wet corners of Venice, and into a sinister web of art theft, fakery, and base human desires.) Leon, Donna Uniform Justice $14.00 (Brunetti #12: Reissue; When a young cadet is found hanged at Venice's elite military academy, Commissario Brunetti is faced with a wall of silence. Is the military protecting its own, or has he uncovered a sinister conspiracy?) Ludlow, Jack A Bitter Field $16.95 (Roads to War #3: As Hitler sets his sights on the Sudetenland, not everyone in Britain is willing to appease him. Convinced that the Fuehrer's land- hunger is insatiable, the head of the SIS recruits Cal Jardine to help him prove Czechoslovakia is threatened with invasion.) Mackenzie, Jassy The Fallen $14.95 (Jade de Jong #3: During their scuba diving holiday in St. Lucia, David Patel breaks up with Jade. But they put their differences aside when their diving instructor is found stabbed to death, the only clue a postcard from Johannesburg.) Masterman, Becky Rage Against the Dying $24.99 (Brigid Quinn's experiences hunting sexual predators for the FBI have left her with memories she wishes she didn't have and lethal skills she hopes never to need again. Her early retirement is interrupted when a man confesses to the worst unsolved case of her career - the disappearance and presumed murder of a young associate.) Mishani, D.A. The Missing File $25.99 (Avraham Avraham #1: Police detective Avraham Avraham investigates when a 16-year-old boy disappears without a trace on his way to school in suburban Tel Aviv.) Patterson, J/Ledwidge, M Now You See Her $9.99 (Nina would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York - including lying about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she must go back to Florida and confront the murderous evil she fled 18 years ago.) Perry, Anne Dorchester Terrace $16.00 (Thomas Pitt #27: Rumors reach Thomas Pitt of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover to London rail line, on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel to visit his royal English kin. Why would anyone destroy an entire train to kill one obscure Austrian royal? Or are the rumors designed to distract Pitt from an even more devastating plot?) Reichs, Kathy Seizure $8.99 (Virals #2: YA; The Loggerhead Island Research Center is out of funding and might have to shut down. To save it, Tory and her friends go looking for Anne Bonney's pirate treasure - but they aren't the only ones, and this time, their special powers may not be enough to dig them out of trouble.) Soderberg, Alexander The Andalucian Friend $26.00 (Sophie Brinkmann likes Hector Guzman's quiet charm and easy smile, and the way he welcomes her into his family. She quickly learns, though, that his smooth facade masks something sinister. Guzman is head of an international crime ring smuggling drugs and weapons, and involved in a deadly turf war.) Thompson, James Helsinki Blood $26.95 (Kari Vaara #4: Kari Vaara is approached by an Estonian woman who begs him to find her daughter, a young woman with Down syndrome who was promised work and a better life in Finland, and has since disappeared.) Thomson, June The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes $16.95 (Collection; 7 original stories of the great detective) Wagner, Jan Costin Silence $14.95 (Kimmo Joentaa #2: A young girl disappears while cycling to volleyball practice. Her abandoned bike is found in exactly the same place as that of another girl, who was murdered 33 years earlier. Finnish detective Kimmo Joentaa calls upon the help of his older colleague Ketola, who worked on the original, unsolved murder.) Wilcox, John The War of the Dragon Lady $16.95 (Simon Fonthill #8: China, 1900: The Boxers are rampaging through the countryside, killing foreigners. Retired Army scout Simon Fonthill, his wife Alice, and his comrade 352 Jenkins are caught up in the chaos as they try to escort Alice's missionary uncle and his family to safety) Zafon, Carlos Ruiz The Prisoner of Heaven $14.99 (Cemetery of Forgotten Books #3: Barcelona, 1957: When a stranger visits the Sempere bookshop and threatens to divulge a terrible secret from the city's dark past, Fermin and Daniel are plunged into a dangerous adventure that leads back to the 1940s and the early days of Franco's dictatorship.)

Early April

Albert, Susan Wittig Cat's Claw $7.99 (China Bayles #20: Pecan Spring's computer guru has been shot dead in his kitchen. At first police chief Sheila Dawson believes it's suicide, but further investigation reveals the wound wasn't self-inflicted. When a man who broke into the computer shop before the murder goes missing, she's sure the two crimes are connected.) Albert, Susan Wittig Widow's Tears $25.95 (China Bayles #21: While her friend Ruby investigates a supposedly haunted B&B, China walks into a storm of trouble in nearby Pecan Springs when the bank is robbed and a teller is killed. Before she can identify the killers, China is drawn into the mystery of the haunted house, and opens the door on some very real danger.) Alden, Laura Curse of the PTA $7.99 (Beth Kennedy #4: PBO; When the consultant hired to advise on a financial windfall is murdered on school property, PTA president Beth Kennedy must catch the killer.) Allan, Barbara Antiques Disposal $7.99 (Trash 'n' Treasures #6: When Brandy and her mother Vivian win an abandoned storage unit's contents, the good news is a rare vintage cornet. The bad new is the recently stowed body of Big Jim Bob. When the duo finds another stashed victim, the hunt is on for the killer.) Archer, Connie A Broth of Betrayal $7.99 (Soup Lover's #2: PBO; When a local mechanic is murdered and the mayor disappears, Lucky Jamieson puts soup-making on the back burner while she investigates.) Ashley-Hollinger, Mika Precious Bones $7.99 (Kids; Florida, 1949: After a storm, 10-year-old Bones uncovers the bodies of two Yankee real estate agents at the edge of the swamp. Earlier, the men had trespassed on her family's land, but her father Nolay had scared them away with his gun. Now the evidence of foul play points to Nolay, and the only person who might help him is Sheriff LeRoy, who is as slow as pond water. So Bones decides to take matters into her own hands.) Atherton, Nancy Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch $8.99 (Aunt Dimity #17: Amelia Thistle moves to Finch to work on a riddle: a fragment of family diary hints that one of her ancestors may have been Mistress Meg, the Mad Witch of Finch. Following the clue, Lori Shepherd hunts through Finch's darkest corners, and, with Aunt Dimity's otherworldly help, inches closer to the true story of Meg - and Amelia.) Atkinson, Kate Life After Life $27.99 (In 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife, and dies. On that same night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, while the century marches on. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world? And if she can, will she? ) Baldacci, David The Forgotten $14.99 (John Puller #2: When his aunt is found drowned in her pool, the police rule the death an accident, but a letter she sent just before she died makes John Puller suspect otherwise.) Barrick, Ella The Homicide Hustle $7.99 (Ballroom Dance #3: PBO; When a reality dance show comes to Washington, DC, Stacy is first in line to compete. But she'll have to hustle to catch a killer after the show's producer is murdered.) Beason, Pamela Undercurrents $7.99 (Summer Westin #3: PBO; Summer jumps at the opportunity to cover a marine survey in the Galapagos Islands. But when her diving partner's air supply is contaminated with carbon monoxide, she fears someone may be trying to sabotage the expedition.) Beaton, M.C. Death of Yesterday $23.99 (Hamish Macbeth #29: Sergeant Hamish Macbeth has a crime to investigate, but the only known witness is dead.) Black, Benjamin Vengeance $16.00 (Quirke #5: Victor de Courcy takes his boat far out to sea. With him is his business partner's son, who becomes the sole witness when de Courcy shoots himself in the chest. DI Hackett and Quirke are investigating when a second death makes it apparent that some terrible secret is threatening to destroy the lives and reputations of some of Dublin's elite.) Blake, Daniel City of the Dead (UK title: City of Sins) $7.99 (Franco Patrese #2: New Orleans homicide detective Franco Patrese and his partner Selma Fawcett track a serial killer who seems steeped in voodoo and linked to a priestess who practices her dark arts in the clear light of day - and the glare of the media.) Blake, Heather The Good, the Bad, and the Witchy $7.99 (Wishcraft #3: PBO; An Enchanted Village celebration is cut short when the cake delivery boy is found dead. Now his ghost has imprinted on Darcy - they're bonded until she can untangle the thicket surrounding his murder.) Bond, Larry Exit Plan $9.99 (Jerry Mitchell #3: Jerry Mitchell's submarine is ordered to a rendezvous off the Iranian coast, where SEALs are to extract two Iranian nationals with sensitive information about their country's nuclear weapons program. When they find themselves surrounded by Iranian Revolutionary Guards, they must create a bold plan to escape.) Brightwell, Emily Mrs. Jeffries Takes Tea at Three: Mrs. Jeffries Plays the Cook / Mrs. Jeffries and the Missing Alibi / Mrs. Jeffries Stands Corrected $16.00 (Mrs. Jeffries #7 / #8 / #9: Omnibus reprint; 3 Victorian mysteries featuring the sleuthing housekeeper of a Scotland Yard inspector.) Charbonneau, Joelle End Me a Tenor $7.99 (Glee Club #2: PBO; When a world-renowned tenor drops dead during rehearsal, Paige must find a killer who's no choirboy.) Cook, J.J. That Old Flame of Mine $7.99 (Sweet Pepper Fire Brigade #1: PBO; When a dear friend dies in a blaze, new fire chief Stella Griffin suspects arson and foul play. What she doesn't expect is that the ghost of the small town's old fire chief is about to help her smoke out a killer.) Cosse, Laurence Bitter Almonds $16.00 (How can a person living in Paris in the 21st century possibly survive without knowing how to read or write? How does she catch a bus, or pay a bill, or withdraw money from the bank? Edith can hardly believe it when she learns that Fadila, her sixty-year-old housemaid, is completely illiterate, and decides to become Fadila's French teacher. During their lessons, the oh-so-Parisian Edith and Moroccan immigrant Fadila begin to understand one another as never before, and from this understanding will blossom friendship.) Curtis, Waverly Chihuahua Confidential $7.99 (Barking Detective #2: PBO; In Hollywood to perform on reality TV show Dancing with Dogs, novice PI Geri Sullivan and her sleuthing Chihuahua Pepe investigate when the judge everyone loves to hate becomes the judge someone wanted dead. ) Daheim, Mary The Wurst Is Yet to Come $7.99 (Bed & Breakfast #27: Judith volunteers to help out at the state B&B booth during Oktoberfest in Little Bavaria. But before the beer begins to flow, she finds a dead body. This time, Judith is determined not to get involved. Unfortunately, her reputation has preceded her.) DiSilverio, Laura Malled to Death $7.99 (Mall Cop #3: PBO; With a famous action star for a father, mall cop E.J. Ferris is familiar with Hollywood hullabaloo. She's less than thrilled when her dad arranges to film in her mall - especially after a crew member is killed. Cut the cameras - there's a real gunman on the loose!) Dunn, Matthew Sentinel $9.99 (Will Cochrane #2: A message from an agent operating deep undercover sends CIA special agent Will Cochrane to Russia. His mission: infiltrate a submarine base and unmask a double agent - before the US and Russia end up at war.) Edwards, Martin The Frozen Shroud $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (Lake District #6: Daniel Kind, a specialist in the history of murder, becomes fascinated by a pair of murders committed decades apart on Halloween in Ravenbank. He spends Halloween at a party there, only to find death returning to this beautiful but isolated spot. Once again, the victim is a woman, with her damaged face is shrouded from view.) Ellis, Kate The Shadow Collector $29.95 (Wesley Peterson #17: 18 years ago, Lilith and her mother were rumored to be witches; when they killed two girls and fed their bodies to the pigs, they were swiftly brought to justice. When a young woman is found murdered at a neighboring farm, just as Lilith returns to her old home, DI Wesley Peterson is called in to investigate.) Ellison, Harlan Web of the City $9.95 (Reissue; Reprints the novel inspired by Ellison's experiences going undercover inside a 1950s street gang, plus three thematically-related short stories.) Ellory, R.J. A Quiet Vendetta $15.95 (When the governor's daughter disappears in New Orleans, the case quickly grows very strange. The kidnapper doesn't want money, he wants time alone with a minor government functionary. By the time the pieces fall into place, it's already too late.) Ephron, Hallie There Was an Old Woman $25.99 (A young woman becomes entangled in a terrifying web of deception and madness involving her elderly neighbor.) Estleman, Loren D. Alive! $24.99 (Valentino #3: A hot tip sends film archivist Valentino on the hunt for long-lost footage: Bela Lugosi's screen test for the role of Frankenstein's monster. But someone is willing to kill to get their hands on that reel. Can a crew of steampunk fans find a way to save Valentino and the infamously bad screen test?) Fairstein, Linda Night Watch $9.99 (Alexandra Cooper #14: The distinguished and wealthy Head of the World Economic Bureau has been arrested, accused of attacking a maid in his hotel. As the world watches to see how the scandal will unfold, Alex finds her attention torn between preparing the alleged victim to testify, and a murder case with ties too close to home.) Farris, Peter Last Call for the Living $7.99 (When a bank heist turns deadly, young teller Charlie Colquitt is taken hostage. Special Agent Sallie Crews and Sheriff Tommy Lang catch the case. Rescuing Charlie might be the key to salvation for the hard-drinking, despondent Lang.) Flynn, K/Lavoie, R Notes on a Killing $9.99 (PBO; Nonfiction. One man stood to gain from Pen Meyer's disappearance: Ken Carpenter. But there was no evidence - no blood, no DNA, no body. Then detectives found notes hidden beneath a leather chair that turned out to be a playbook for murder.) Goldenbaum, Sally A Fatal Fleece $15.00 (Seaside Knitters #6: The death of a local fisherman has the Seaside Knitters casting their net for a killer, before knitter Cass Halloran ends up behind bars.) Golemon, David L. Ripper $7.99 (Event Group #7: A small cache of 19th-century notebooks is uncovered, with instructions for creating a mutant gene to turn an ordinary person into an aggressive fighting machine. When the formula is loosed in the Event Group complex, brother will battle brother.) Grant, Teresa The Paris Affair $15.00 (Suzanne & Malcolm Rannoch #3: In the wake of the Battle of Waterloo, the French royalists are quick to exact vengeance for everything since the Revolution. In this seething atmosphere, British spy Malcolm Rannoch learns that his murdered half-sister may have left behind a secret child; he and his wife Suzanne set out for Paris to find the girl.) Grecian, Alex The Yard $16.00 (Murder Squad #1: 1889: Scotland Yard has only 12 detectives in the Murder Squad. When one of them turns up dead, the squad's newest hire, Walter Day, is assigned the case. He finds an ally in Dr. Bernard Kingsley, the Yard's forensic pathologist. Together they track the killer, who is clearly not finished with the Murder Squad.) Haas, Wolf The Bone Man $14.95 (Brenner #2: Brenner investigates a grisly murder at a beloved restaurant where snooty Viennese gourmands go to eat fried chicken.) Haines, Carolyn Bonefire of the Vanities $7.99 (Sarah Booth Delaney #12: Sarah Booth is on the trail of a psychic operating from a haunted estate on the edge of town. The medium promises to reunite grieving family members with their dearly departed, but it seems suspicious that she will only accept vulnerable and wealthy clients.) Hamrick, Janice Death Makes the Cut $7.99 (Jocelyn Shore #2: When Jocelyn's friend Fred Argus, a fellow teacher, is found dead on campus, the Austin police uncover evidence that he may have been selling drugs. Shocked by the insinuation, Jocelyn starts asking questions that make everyone uneasy. When she's attacked, she realizes someone is determined to keep the secrets behind Fred's death hidden.) Harris, Charlaine Deadlocked $7.99 (Southern Vampire #12: A body has shown up in Eric Northman's front yard - the body of a woman whose blood he just drank. It's up to Sookie and Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks the dead girl's fate has nothing to do with her, but she's wrong - a devious enemy is out to make Sookie's world come crashing down.) Haynes, Dana Ice Cold Kill $25.99 (A former Shin-Bet agent now in exile in the US, Daria Gibron works primarily as an interpreter. But she can't resist an occasional freelance job as an operative - a habit that has left a trail of corpses behind her, as well as several very dangerous enemies who would stop at nothing to get revenge.) Hemingway, Sean The Tomb of Alexander $12.95 (Alexander's tomb was the most respected shrine in the Roman Empire. And then it disappeared. Centuries later, on a dig in Crete, archaeologist Tom Carr is convinced he's discovered a vital clue. He and artist Victoria Price are prepared to risk everything to find the tomb.) Jecks, Michael City of Fiends $8.99 (Knights Templar #31: 1327: Arriving in Exeter to inform the sheriff that King Edward II has escaped, Sir Baldwin de Furnshill finds himself tasked with uncovering the truth behind the gruesome murder of a young maid.) Kaehler, Tammy Braking Points $14.95 (Kate Reilly #2: Kate wrecks her race car, sending a visiting NASCAR star to the hospital, and loses her cool on-camera, then ends the day by discovering her boyfriend with a friend of hers - a dead friend. Her friend's killer is still out there - and aiming at Kate.) Kellerman, Jonathan When the Bough Breaks $9.99 (Alex Delaware #1: Reissue; Edgar and Anthony winner, best first novel. Dr. Morton Hander practiced a strange brand of psychiatry, specializing in fraud, extortion, and sexual manipulation. When he's murdered in his apartment, the police have no leads, just a possible witness: 7-year-old Melody Quinn. It's psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware's job to try to unlock the terrible secret buried in Melody's memory.) Kerr, Philip Prague Fatale $16.00 (Bernie Gunther #8: September 1941: Reinhard Heydrich is celebrating his appointment as Reichsprotector of Czechoslovakia. All his guests are high-ranking Party members and each is a suspect in a crime yet to be committed: the murder of Heydrich himself. A murder does occur, but the victim is Heydrich's young adjutant, found dead in his room, the door and windows bolted from the inside. Anticipating foul play, Heydrich had already ordered Bernie Gunther to Prague. Now, searching for the killer, Gunther must pick through the lives of some of the Reich's most odious officials.) Krueger, William Kent Ordinary Grace $24.99 (In the summer of 1961, Frank Drum was thirteen, living in a small Minnesota town, with his Methodist minister father, artistic mother, talented sister, and kid brother. When tragedy unexpectedly comes to call on his family, Frank finds himself thrust into an adult world full of secrets, lies, adultery, and betrayal; Signed copies expected) Leif, Katia The Money Kill $7.99 (Karen Schaeffer #4: The offer of $30,000 for one day's PI work in London, followed by a family vacation in an exotic locale, seems too good to be true. And, as Mac and Karen soon discover, it is - on the sun-drenched Mediterranean island of Sardinia, their children disappear.) Leon, Donna The Golden Egg $26.00 (Brunetti #22: To please his wife, Commissario Brunetti investigates the death of a mentally handicapped man who has just died of a sleeping pill overdose. Surprisingly, he finds the man had no birth certificate, no passport - as far as the government is concerned, the man never existed. As secrets unravel, Brunetti suspects an aristocratic family might be connected to the death. But why would anyone want this sweet, simple-minded man dead?) Link, Charlotte The Other Child $25.95 (When a student is murdered in Scarborough, the investigators have no leads. Months later, after a similar murder, they struggle to establish a connection between the victims. Detective Valerie Almond suspects the obvious: a rift within the second victim's family. But there is far more to the case, a dark secret linked to the evacuation of children to Scarborough during WWII.) London, C. Alexander We Give a Squid a Wedgie $7.99 (Accidental Adventure #3: PBO; Kids; Oliver and Celia find out their mother is in mortal danger, stranded on an island with an enormous squid. So they reluctantly don their wet suits and take a journey to the Pacific Ocean.) Lupton, Rosamund Afterwards $14.00 (The school was on fire, and Grace's last memory is of trying to reach her daughter Jenny. When they awaken in the hospital, they learn that someone set the fire, and Jenny might still be in danger. Grace realizes she may be the only one who can discover the culprit.) Lyons, David Ice Fire $7.99 (Jock Boucher #1: US District Judge Jock Boucher goes up against a ruthless global energy company, following a trail of clues to the bottom of the ocean - and finding himself targeted by killers.) Mark, David The Dark Winter $15.00 (Aector McAvoy #1: DS Aector McAvoy notices a pattern in a series of suspicious deaths in the northern England port city of Hull: all the victims were sole survivors of various tragedies. As he strives to connect the cases to a single culprit, he is torn between his duties and his desire to spend more time with his family.) McClure, James The Song Dog $14.95 (Kramer & Zondi Prequel: Reissue; 1962: Lt. Tromp Kramer has been ordered to a small town in northern Zululand to investigate the death of the town's chief detective, an Afrikaner maverick with many secrets. There he crosses paths with Bantu DS Mickey Zondi, who is trying to locate a multiple killer. Despite their racial differences, the two men sense a kinship - one that might prove dangerous in rural South Africa.) McKinlay, Jenn Going, Going, Ganache $7.99 (Cupcake Bakery #5: PBO; When a magazine photo shoot ends up a cupcake-flinging fiasco, Melanie and Angie offer the magazine staff a team-building lesson baking cupcakes for charity. But when the creative director is murdered, they'll have to figure out the killer's identity before anyone else gets frosted.) McKinty, Adrian The Cold Cold Ground $15.95 (Troubles #1: Northern Ireland, 1981: With Belfast on the verge of outright civil war, the Thatcher government has flooded the area with soldiers. In the midst of the chaos, Sean Duffy, a Catholic detective in the almost entirely Protestant Royal Ulster Constabulary, is trying to track down a serial killer who is targeting gay men. Then he discovers that one of the victims was involved in the IRA.) Messner, Kate Capture the Flag $6.99 (Kids; When they learn that the famous flag that inspired 'The Star-Spangled Banner' has been stolen, 7th-graders Anna, Jose, and Henry pursue suspects while snowed in at a Washington, DC, airport.) O'Donnell, Peter et al The Girl in the Iron Mask: Fiona / Walkabout / The Girl In The Iron Mask $19.95 (Modesty Blaise: Reprints classic black & white comic strips featuring three adventures of detective Modesty Blaise and her trusty henchman Willie Garvin.) Palmer, Daniel Helpless $9.99 (Back in Shilo, NH, to raise his daughter Jill after his ex-wife Kelly is murdered, Tom Hawkins coaches Jill's high school soccer team. But first a Shilo cop makes it clear he suspects Tom of Kelly's murder, and then an anonymous blog post alleges the coach is sleeping with one of his players. To prove his innocence, Tom must unravel a tangle of lies about his past.) Parker, R/Atkins, A Lullaby $9.99 (Spenser #40: 14-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Boston PI Spenser to look into her mother's death, pointing him to two toughs who were overlooked in the original investigation. Neither the Boston PD nor the hardened residents of Southie's housing projects are keen on his dredging up the past, but Spenser starts to realize that Mattie may be on to something - and it could get a lot more dangerous.) Parker, T. Jefferson The Jaguar $15.00 (Charlie Hood #5: Crooked LA deputy Bradley Smith and lawman Charlie Hood must team up to rescue the woman they both love, songwriter Erin McKenna, when she is abducted by a cartel leader who wants her to write a folk ballad recording his exploits as an outlaw.) Parry, Joshua Alan Virus Thirteen $7.99 (PBO; James Logan learns that security has been breached at the biotech lab where his wife's research team is on lockdown. To save her he must confront a desperate terrorist, armed government agents, and an invisible killer: Virus Thirteen.) Patterson, J/Ledwidge, M I, Michael Bennett $14.99 (Michael Bennett #5: Detective Michael Bennett hunts a master criminal who is terrorizing NYC - and targeting Bennett's 10 children.) Pearson, Ridley The Risk Agent $9.99 (Risk Agent #1: Grace Chu is a forensic accountant, educated in the US and a veteran of the Chinese military. John Knox is a civilian trained in both combat and culture. Their mission: find out who is behind a kidnapping in Shanghai, and locate the hostages ahead of the deadline.) Pendleton, Don (creator) Double Cross $5.99 (Executioner #413: PBO; When a Haitian gang turns the streets of Miami into a death zone, Bolan is sent in to neutralize the situation.) Pendleton, Don (creator) Nuclear Intent $6.99 (Stony Man #124: PBO; A plot to bomb Israel that threatens to push the US into war sends Phoenix Force to Yemen to track down the bomb while Able Team hunts down the masterminds in the US.) Pendleton, Don (creator) Crisis Diplomacy $6.99 (SuperBolan #157: PBO; When high-ranking officials are kidnapped at an international conference on WMD, the ransom demands are enough to cripple the world's economies. Bolan goes after the terrorists.) Petrucha, Stefan Ripper $9.99 (YA; 1895: There is a killer loose in NYC, but 14-year-old Carver Young, the adopted son of a Pinkerton detective, is the only one who seems to see the connection between the recent string of murders and the Jack the Ripper killings. And time is winding down until the killer claims another victim.) Rickman, Phil The Secrets of Pain $12.95 (Merrily Watkins #11: A former SAS trooper turned SAS chaplain, responsible for the spiritual welfare of the hardest men in uniform, is coming close to a breakdown as security reasons force him to try and handle a case that would normally be passed to diocesan exorcist Merrily Watkins. Meanwhile, with recession biting deep in the countryside along the Welsh border, old barbaric evils are being revived. Merrily is persuaded to venture into areas where neither a priest nor a woman are welcome, to unearth secrets linked with the border's pagan past.) Robb, J.D. Delusion in Death $7.99 (Eve Dallas #36: When eighty people end up dead in a downtown bar, Lieutenant Eve Dallas tries to sort out the inexplicable event; surviving witnesses report seeing monsters and swarms of bees, and experiencing feelings of fear, rage, and paranoia.) Robertson, Michael The Baker Street Translation $24.99 (Heath Brothers #3: Robert Buxton, Reggie Heath's rival for the love of Laura Rankin, has gone missing. Reggie must suss things out before an upcoming royal event. If he doesn't, something very bad will happen to everyone at the event - and to Laura.) Rollins, James Bloodline $9.99 (SIGMA Force #8: A firebombing at a US fertility clinic reveals a group of women collected from around the world and enslaved to bear children. One woman lives long enough to give birth to a stillborn child; a genetic study reveals that the child has a triple helix of DNA.) Ross, Ann B. Miss Julia to the Rescue $16.00 (Miss Julia #13: Hazel Marie's new husband has gone missing on his latest PI job, and police in West Virginia have detained an injured man fitting his description. Now it's up to Miss Julia and Etta Mae to free him before he cusses himself into a jail cell.) Shane, Trevor Children of the Underground $15.00 (Children of Paranoia #2: The secret, endless war between two opposing sides had been raging for as long as anyone could remember. When she was 17, Maria was pulled into this war, and they killed her lover and stole her child. Now they are telling her to go home, to forget all she's lost. But Maria is going to do whatever it takes to get back what belongs to her. And that means starting a war of her own.) Slan, Joanna Campbell Death of a Dowager $15.00 (Jane Eyre #2: PBO; In London, Jane and her friend Lucy are snubbed by the Dowager Lady Ingram. Attempting to rebuild good will, they go to see her the next day, only to have her drop dead before their eyes. And Lucy is poised to take the blame, unless Jane can clear her friend's name.) Soos, Troy Murder at Ebbets Field $14.00 (Mickey Rawlings #2: Reissue; Brooklyn, 1914: With the race for the pennant heating up, Mickey is dreaming of playing in the World Series. Then he finds the body of a movie star - who happens to be the new owner of the Dodgers - washed up on the beach at Coney Island. He learns that she was poisoned, she may not have been the first victim - and the killer's streak may not be over yet.) St. James, Dorothy Oak and Dagger $7.99 (White House Gardener #3: PBO; The gardeners are blamed when important historical documents go missing from the curator's office. When the curator is found dead, the evidence points to chief gardener Gordon Sims. It's up to organic gardener Casey Calhoun to clear Gordon's name.) Stedman, M.L. The Light Between Oceans $16.00 (1921: On an isolated island, a boat washes ashore carrying a dead man and a living baby. The lighthouse keeper wants to report the incident immediately, but his wife has lost her third child, and wants to keep the baby. Two years later, they return to the mainland, and are reminded that there are other people in the world - and that one of them is desperate to find her lost baby.) Stout, Rex Her Forbidden Knight $12.95 (Reissue; Includes the bonus short story 'An Officer and a Lady'. Stout's first detective novel follows naive Lila Williams, a telegraph operator at New York's swankiest hotel, as she becomes unwittingly enmeshed in the operations of a counterfeiting ring. By chance, the innocent Lila finds herself swept off her pretty feet and into safety - or is it peril?) Swerling, Beverly Bristol House $27.95 (The modern-day search for several long-missing pieces of ancient Judaica proves to be connected to a shadowy world of Tudor intrigue involving Thomas Cromwell, Jewish treasure, and sexual secrets. Historian Annie Kendall and investigative reporter Geoff Harris intend to puzzle out these mysteries - at their own peril.) Thomas, Ross The Seersucker Whipsaw $13.95 (Reissue; American Clinton Shartelle is hired to make sure that a British industrialist's favored candidate wins the presidency of a small African country that's about to be cut loose from the British Empire. But the opposition is backed by the CIA, for whom murder is just another political tool.) Webb, Debra Obsession $3.99 (Faces of Evil #1: In her determination to stop a serial killer, Jess Harris broke the rules. With her career in need of resuscitation, she jumps at a chance to advise on a case in Birmingham, Alabama, where four young women have gone missing. But the crazed serial killer from her past follows Jess to Birmingham.) Webb, Debra Impulse $3.99 (Faces of Evil #2: The Player wants his vengeance, and with each new death Jess becomes more certain that the only way to stop the Player is to give him what he really wants: her.) Webb, Debra Power $3.99 (Faces of Evil #3: When a celebrated ballet instructor is found dead, the death is ruled an accident. Still, Jess can't shake the feeling that there's more to the story, and her investigation leads her into the worlds of Birmingham's gang culture and of its powerful elite.) Williams, Timothy Another Sun $25.00 (Newly assigned to the island of Guadeloupe, French-born judge Anne Marie Laveaud is called in to make a ruling on a seemingly open-and-shut murder case. She must navigate the unfamiliar Caribbean justice system to confirm her suspicions that all is not as it seems.) Wilson, Robert Capital Punishment $28.00 (Charles Boxer #1: Kidnap and recovery specialist Charles Boxer is hired to find an Indian tycoon's daughter, but the man's crooked business empire has made him a lot of enemies, and the kidnappers are looking for payback, not cash. To save the girl, Boxer must dodge religious fanatics, Indian mobsters, and London crime lords.) Winspear, Jacqueline Leaving Everything Most Loved $26.99 (Maisie Dobbs #10: London, 1933: Two month after an Indian immigrant's body was found in a London canal, the woman's brother arrives in England, and asks Maisie to discover the truth about the death; Signed copies expected) Wolf, Jack The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones $16.00 (London, 1751: Tristan Hart, a promising young surgeon-in-training, is obsessed with the nature of pain and medically preventing it, but equally strong - and much harder to control - is his obsession with causing it. Desperate to understand his deviant desires before they are his undoing, he uses the new tools of the age - reason and science and skepticism - to plumb the depths of his own dark mind.) Woods, Stuart Severe Clear $9.99 (Stone Barrington #24: Stone is in Bel-Air overseeing a fancy hotel's star-studded grand opening - and according to the NSA, the event may have attracted terrorist attention. To ensure the safety of his guests, Stone may call in a few favors from his friends at the CIA.)

Mid April

Atherton, Nancy Aunt Dimity and the Lost Prince $25.95 (Aunt Dimity #18: With Aunt Dimity's otherworldly guidance, Lori's search for the true owner of a finely wrought silver sleigh figurine leads her to a tangled web of secrets stretching back to the blood-drenched soil of the Russian Revolution.) Barber, Christine When the Devil Doesn't Show $24.99 (Montoya #3: When an unidentified corpse is found at the scene of a house fire, the search for the man's identity takes detective Gil Montoya to the nearby Los Alamos National Laboratory, suspecting that the man's ties to the nuclear testing facility hold the reason for his death.) Barnes, Linda The Perfect Ghost $24.99 (Shy Em Moore is the writing half of a celebrity biography team. Her charismatic partner Teddy does the interviewing and schmoozing. When Teddy dies in a car accident, Em honors his memory by deciding to finish the interviews for their current project with a reclusive film director. But she soon hears whispers of skeletons in the director's closet - and then the police begin looking into Teddy's crash.) Bissell, Sallie Music of Ghosts $14.99 (Mary Crow #5: PBO; In the Appalachian woods, a cabin that was the scene of a double murder decades ago lures young thrill seekers. When a politician's daughter is murdered there, her flesh mutilated with disturbing symbols, the dead girl's boss finds himself in hot water when evidence points to him as the prime suspect. It's up to attorney Mary Crow to discover the truth.) Brookmyre, Christopher Where the Bodies Are Buried $15.00 (McLeod & Sharp #1: Glasgow: When a small-time dealer turns up dead, no one is surprised: he'd been sleeping with a drug trafficker's girlfriend and had made himself enemies. So many, in fact, that Detective Supt. Catherine McLeod doesn't know where to start. Meanwhile, Jasmine Sharp is doing her best to be a PI, but Jim, who was meant to be showing her the ropes, has just disappeared. When she finds out that Jim's disappearance has something to do with the dealer's death, she teams up with Catherine.) Calkins, Susanna A Murder at Rosamund's Gate $24.99 (17th century England: Lucy Campion's life is an endless round of household chores, until a fellow servant is killed and Lucy's brother is arrested for the crime. Her quest to identify the true murderer takes Lucy into raucous printing shops, secretive gypsy camps, the foul streets of London, and even the bowels of Newgate Prison.) Campbell, Colin Jamaica Plain $14.99 (Resurrection Man #1: When he lands in Boston to extradite a thug, the first thing rogue UK cop Jim Grant does is buy a map. The second is get laid. Third is almost get himself killed interviewing his prisoner.) Carter, Stephen L. The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln $15.95 (President Lincoln survives the assassination attempt, only to be faced with impeachment. Abigail, a young black woman, is hired by a law firm to assist in Lincoln's defense. When one of the lead lawyers is murdered, she is plunged into a web of intrigue, politics, and conspiracy.) Cha, Steph Follow Her Home $24.99 (A Philip Marlowe buff, Juniper Song jumps at the chance to play detective when her friend Luke asks her to find out if his father is having an affair. Then she's knocked out while investigating a mysterious car, finds a body in her car trunk, and realizes she's becoming embroiled in a crime that goes far beyond child's play.) Child, Lee (ed) Vengeance (Mystery Writers of America Presents) $15.99 (Anthology; 21 original stories about crimes and those who avenge them.) Clark, Mary Higgins Daddy's Gone A Hunting $26.99 (A dark secret from a family's past threatens the lives of sisters Kate and Hannah Connelly.) Cotterill, Colin Grandad, There's A Head on the Beach $15.99 (Jimm Juree #2: Jimm has mixed feelings when a head washes up on the beach near their southern Thailand home. It's tragic, of course, but it could be the sort of sensational murder that would help her journalism career. Now all she has to do is find out who was murdered, and why.) Crompton, Richard The Hour of the Red God $26.00 (Nairobi, Kenya, 2007: Detective Mollel, a former Maasai warrior, investigates the brutal murder of a Maasai prostitute.) Doudera, Vicki Final Settlement $14.99 (Darby Farr #4: PBO; The Hurricane Harbor police chief's assistant appears to have drowned accidentally, but when Darby discovers that the woman was supplementing her income with blackmail, a lot of the locals suddenly look like murder suspects.) Frommer, Sara Hoskinson Her Brother's Keeper $15.95 (Joan Spencer #7: PBO; With her daughter's wedding just a few days away, the last thing Joan needs is something else to worry about. Then her mother-in-law, whose mind is failing fast, lands smack in the middle of a murder.) Grebe, C/Traff, A Some Kind of Peace $16.00 (Siri Bergman #1: Psychotherapist Dr. Siri Bergman lives in a cottage outside Stockholm. Terrified of the dark, she leaves the lights on when she goes to bed. When one of her patients is found dead near her cottage, she knows that someone has been watching her. As she begins to investigate with the help of a young policeman, nearly everyone in her inner circle becomes a suspect.) Grisham, John The Accused $7.99 (Theodore Boone #3: Kids; There's been a robbery, and Theo is the accused. With his reputation on the line, and the evidence building against him, he'll do whatever it takes to prove his innocence.) Hall, Gregory The Dark Backward $14.95 (Reissue; Mary Reynolds was in love and now she's in trouble. Also in Norfolk, where she and her husband Geoffrey bought a house. The ink was hardly dry on the contract when Geoffrey was found dead, and Mary began to learn that she didn't really know her husband. And the secrets he kept, the bits that he'd left out? Those are the ones that could kill her.) Hutton, Ewart Good People $25.99 (Capaldi #1: DS Glyn Capaldi has fallen from grace in Cardiff and been exiled to the Welsh countryside. When six men and a young woman disappear after a night of rugby and drink, they don't all reappear. The ones that do are good people with a good explanation. Only Capaldi remains unconvinced.) Kanon, Joseph Istanbul Passage $16.00 (1945: Istanbul survived WWII by trafficking in secrets and lies. Now, as the espionage community begins to pack up, expat American Leon Bauer is given a routine assignment. When the job goes fatally wrong, Leon is plunged into a tangle of shifting loyalties and moral uncertainty.) Kerr, Philip A Man Without Breath $26.95 (Bernie Gunther #9: 1943: When word reaches Berlin of the Katyn Forest massacre of Polish army officers, Bernie is dispatched to gather proof of Russian complicity in the war crime. But in Smolensk, the truth is as much a victim of war as those dead Polish officers.) Lewis, Robert K. Untold Damage $14.99 (Mark Mallen #1: PBO; When his best friend from the police academy is murdered, an address found in the dead man's pocket points to former undercover cop Mark Mallen as the prime suspect.) Lovesey, Peter Cop to Corpse $14.95 (Peter Diamond #12: Inspector Peter Diamond must track down a sniper who is murdering policemen.) Lyndon, Robert Hawk Quest $25.99 (1072: The Normans have captured England. The Turks have captured a Norman knight. And in order to free him, a soldier named Vallon must capture four rare hawks, braving Arctic seas, Viking warlords, and blood-drenched battlefields.) MacInnes, Helen North from Rome $9.95 (Reissue; When American Bill Lammiter saves the mysterious Rosana Di Feo from a kidnapping attempt in Rome, she begs him to stay and help her, drawing him into a hazardous game of international intrigue where allies can be as difficult to identify as enemies.) Maitland, Barry The Malcontenta $14.95 (Brock & Kolla #2: Reissue; Winner, Ned Kelly Award. On temporary assignment, DS Kolla is desperate to escape the second-rate duties assigned to her, so she jumps at the chance to investigate the death of a physiotherapist at an exclusive spa. Is a cover-up taking place to protect the wealthy clients? When she's pulled off the case, she turns to DCI Brock for help.) Maitland, Barry Silvermeadow $14.95 (Brock & Kolla #5: Reissue; Finalist, Ned Kelly Award. When he learns that killer and thief Upper North may have surfaced, DCI Brock assembles his team. Their manhunt centers on the mall where North was spotted. To camouflage their search, they take on the case of a missing girl who worked there - and discover rumors of other girls disappearing there. Very quickly, the mall and its colorful cast of characters become key to both investigations.) Marklund, Liza Lifetime $25.00 (Annika Bengtzon #7: A police officer is found naked on his bed, bullets through his head and stomach. His wife is traumatized, rambling about a woman entering the house, killing him, and running off with their son. The evidence implicates the wife, but reporter Annika Bengtzon is determined to clear the wife's name and find the missing boy.) Parker, T. Jefferson The Famous and the Dead $26.95 (Charlie Hood #6: Bradley Jones is an LA deputy, and an employee of the Baja Cartel. LA deputy Charlie Hood knows all of Bradley's secrets; the question is what he'll do with the information.) Perry, Anne Midnight at Marble Arch $27.00 (Thomas Pitt #28: The horrifying rape and apparent suicide of the wife of a wealthy merchant banker falls outside the new jurisdiction of Special Branch head Thomas Pitt, but so pervasively offensive are the rumors about the victim that Pitt quietly takes a hand in the investigation. And what can be done to avenge another terrible crime, the assault on the teenage daughter of the Portuguese ambassador?) Potter, Ellen The Humming Room $6.99 (Kids; When her parents are murdered, Roo goes to live with her uncle, whose house is teeming with ghost stories and secrets. What are those eerie noises she keeps hearing? And who is that strange boy who lives on the river? People are lying to her, and Roo becomes determined to find the truth. ) Ross, Ann B. Miss Julia Stirs Up Trouble $26.95 (Miss Julia #14: Miss Julia is less than thrilled when Hazel Marie's no-good uncle shows up. What could he possibly want?) Simonson, Sheila Beyond Confusion $15.95 (Latouche County #3: PBO; A tribal chief offers an inherited farmhouse for a branch library, but Meg's vengeful rival plans to contest the will. Then the farmhouse is vandalized, the chief's home is firebombed, and, when her rival falls to her death, Meg becomes a murder suspect. ) Spillane, M/Collins, M Lady, Go Die! $7.99 (Mike Hammer: Spillane's lost 1940s novel, completed by Collins and never before published. Hammer and Velda take a vacation at a Long Island beach town; a New York party girl who lives nearby has gone missing. When she turns up naked and dead on a statue in the town square, Hammer investigates.) Stewart, Trenton Lee The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict $7.99 (Mysterious Benedict Society Prequel: Kids; 9-year-old Nicholas is being sent to a new orphanage, where he will encounter vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances - and a mystery that could change his life forever.) Thurlo, Aimee & David A Time of Change $24.99 (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.) Upson, Nicola Fear in the Sunlight $14.99 (Josephine Tey #4: 1936: At Josephine's 40th birthday celebration, Alfred Hitchcock has one or two tricks up his sleeve to keep the party entertained - and expose their deepest fears. But things get out of hand when an actress is slashed to death at a nearby cemetery. Inspector Penrose isn't satisfied with the way the case is resolved; several years later, another murder sends him back to the scene of the original crime to uncover the truth.) Verdon, John Let the Devil Sleep $15.00 (Dave Gurney #3: Ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney examines a notorious murder spree case - one whose motives have been enshrined as law enforcement dogma - and discovers that everyone has it wrong.) Wait, Lea Shadows on a Cape Cod Wedding $15.95 (Antique Print #6: PBO; Maggie is on Cape Cod, helping with a friend's wedding preparations. When a neighbor is murdered, Maggie is pressed into service as a counselor and interpreter. After another murder, and a hurricane, Maggie finds she has become a target.) Waite, Urban The Carrion Birds $25.99 (Ray is calm, cool, and efficient under pressure, usually with a gun in his hand. Useful skills when you're paid to hurt people who stand in your employer's way. But Ray wants to make a new life far from the violence of the last ten years. One last job will take him there. All he has to do is steal a rival's stash.) Walker, Martin The Crowded Grave $14.95 (Bruno #4: When an archaeological dig looking for Cro- Magnon and Neanderthal remains turns up a distinctly modern corpse, Bruno's investigation leads to Europe's recent dark history of terrorist and counterterrorist tactics.) Woods, Stuart Unintended Consequences $26.95 (Stone Barrington #26: When Stone awakens in a Paris hospital with no recollection of the past four days, he sets out to learn what happened to him, and why.)

Early May

Adler-Olsen, Jussi The Absent One (UK title: Disgrace) $16.00 (Department Q #2: A closed case lands on Detective Carl Morck's desk: a brother and sister were murdered two decades ago, and one of the suspects confessed. Irregularities in the case files lead Morck to a homeless woman with secrets that certain influential people would kill to keep buried.) Andrews, Donna Some Like It Hawk $7.99 (Meg Langslow #14: Caerphilly mortgaged its public buildings, and then the lender foreclosed. To thwart them, the town clerk has been barricaded in the courthouse basement for over a year, his stand made possible by an old tunnel leading from the basement to the town's bandstand. Then one of the lender's executives is found shot, apparently from inside the basement. Someone is trying to end the siege by framing the clerk; Meg sets out to find the real killer.) Baker, J.I. The Empty Glass $16.00 (1962: Arriving at the home of the world's most famous movie star, Los Angeles County Deputy Coroner Ben Fitzgerald discovers Marilyn Monroe's diary, revealing a doomed love affair with a man she refers to as the General. In the following days, Ben unravels a wide-ranging cover-up in the aftermath of the star's 'suicide', and finds himself trapped in a conspiracy.) Baldacci, David The Hit $27.99 (Will Robie #2: When a government assassin turns rogue and begins hunting down members of his unit, Will Robie is called in to stop him.) Berlin, Eric The Puzzler's Mansion $7.99 (Winston Breen #3: Kids; Winston and his friends accompany Mr. Penrose for a weekend of puzzles and games at the mansion of a famous musician. When some guests' prizes and belongings inexplicably disappear, some of the guests try to figure out who is stealing things, and others become suspects.) Bowen, Gail Kaleidoscope $14.99 (Joanne Kilbourn #13: Joanne and her family and pets are at the lake when they learn that their house has been blown up. And that is just the first of several terrible incidents. Before long she is witness to events even more distressing than a destroyed home, and begins to understand what it's like to live in a world where she can count on nothing.) Brightwell, Emily Mrs. Jeffries Turns the Tide $7.99 (Mrs. Jeffries #31: PBO; When beautiful newcomer Ellen Langston-Jones is found dead in the communal gardens, Inspector Witherspoon settles on Lucius Montague as the culprit, but housekeeper Mrs. Jeffries has doubts.) Brown, Duffy Killer in Crinolines $7.99 (Consignment Shop #2: PBO; When Reagan's dear friend Chantilly is arrested for Simon Ambrose's murder, Reagan vows to clear her name. Simon may have broken Chantilly's heart, but Reagan knows Chantilly would never kill for love.) Brown, Rita&Sneaky Pie The Big Cat Nap $7.99 (Mrs. Murphy #20: Inexplicable car accidents are being attributed to driver error, but Harry suspects that something is amiss, and begins to investigate, aided by her intrepid team of feline, canine, and equine helpers.) Burdette, Lucy Topped Chef $7.99 (Key West Food Critic #3: PBO; When Hayley's boss signs her up to help judge the Key West Topped Chef contest, she's both nervous and excited. But after a fellow judge turns up dead, it's up to Hayley to find the killer.) Cameron, Marc State of Emergency $9.99 (Jericho Quinn #3: PBO; Quinn and his team of specialists must track down the black-market arms dealer behind a wave of terrorism. When the trail leads to South America, Quinn must join a 6000-mile motorcycle rally that's about to become the most dangerous race in history.) Carlotto, Massimo At the End of a Dull Day $16.00 (Giorgio Pellegrini #2: His lawyer has been playing him, and now Giorgio is forced into service as an errand boy for a crime syndicate. To get back to his peaceful life as a successful businessman, he's going to have to find a way to shake off the mob.) Carlson, Alyse The Begonia Bribe $7.99 (Garden Society #2: PBO; When a beauty pageant for little girls decides to hold their event in a Roanoke park, Camellia is called in to help with the details. Then one of the judges, a local newsman and Lothario, is found dead, poisoned by some sort of plant. Camellia needs to dig through the evidence to uproot a killer.) Carman, Patrick Floors $6.99 (Kids; Each floor of The Whippet Hotel has its own quirks and secrets. Leo should know most of them - he is the maintenance man's son. But a whole lot more mystery gets thrown his way when a series of cryptic boxes are left for him, leading him to hidden floors, strange puzzles, and unexpected alliances.) Casey, Jane The Reckoning $15.99 (Maeve Kerrigan #2: Finalist, 2013 Mary Higgins Clark Award. Two sex offenders who have served their time have been tortured and killed. Is someone trying his own hand at justice? DC Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent have their doubts, until they learn that their killer might be a mobster searching for his missing teenaged daughter.) Castle, Richard Frozen Heat $9.99 (Nikki Heat #4: Nikki's latest homicide case turns out to be connected to her mother's unsolved murder. As she and Jameson Rook work to solve the new murder, Nikki is forced to confront unexplored areas of her mother's background.) Castle, Richard et al Deadly Storm $14.99 (Derrick Storm GN #1: Graphic novel; this adventure takes our hero from the gritty world of the PI to the globe-hopping intrigue of the CIA.) Clark, Carol Higgins Gypped $7.99 (Regan Reilly #15: In LA while Jack attends a conference, Regan is contacted by Zelda, an old friend who suspects she is being gypped by her business manager. Regan and Jack look into Zelda's business deals, and uncover a scam.) Clark, Marcia Guilt by Degrees $7.99 (Rachel Knight #2: With no suspects, the homicide of a homeless man is a near-impossible case for DA Rachel Knight, but she's got backup from tough-as-nails Detective Bailey Keller. As Rachel and Bailey stir things up, they uncover a connection to the vicious murder of an LA cop.) Cleave, Paul Blood Men $16.00 (Twenty years ago, a serial killer was sentenced to the penitentiary. That man was Edward Hunter's father. Now violence has made an unwelcome appearance in Edward's world, and he's going to need his father's help.) Cleave, Paul The Killing Hour $16.00 (Imagine waking up covered in blood - but it's not your blood. You have a bump on your head and can't remember last night. The newspaper reports that two young women were brutally murdered. You recognize their names. And now you're a murder suspect. Welcome to Charlie's world.) Cleeves, Ann Silent Voices $24.99 (Vera Stanhope #4: When Inspector Vera Stanhope finds a woman's body in the sauna at her gym, she wonders if for once it's death from natural causes, but a closer inspection reveals bruising on the victim's throat.) Coes, Ben The Last Refuge $9.99 (Dewey Andreas #3: With time running out, Andreas must defeat his most fearsome opponent yet to stop Iran from nuking Tel Aviv.) Colfer, Eoin Plugged $14.95 (Daniel McEvoy #1: First his girlfriend gets murdered in the casino parking lot. Then lots of people around him start dying, and not of natural causes. Suddenly Irish expat bouncer Dan McEvoy's got half the New Jersey mob, dirty cops and his man-crazy upstairs neighbor after him. And he still doesn't know what's going on.) Colfer, Eoin Screwed $25.95 (Daniel McEvoy #2: Daniel McEvoy, a down-on-his-luck Irish bouncer at a seedy New Jersey bar, solved a bizarre string of murders with the help of a motley crew of unlikely characters. But when people around him continue to die mysteriously, Daniel is called into action once again. ) Colquhoun, Kate Murder in the First-Class Carriage: The First Victorian Railway Killing $15.95 (Nonfiction. Did a small, neat, mild-mannered, Dickens-reading tailor commit the first railway murder in history, an 1864 crime that shocked both America and Britain?) Cook, Thomas H. Fatherhood and Other Stories $24.95 (Short fiction from the acclaimed crime writer.) Coonts, Stephen Pirate Alley $26.99 (Jake Grafton #11: A cruise ship has been captured by Somali pirates, but a captured Al Qaeda operative hints at a more dangerous conspiracy. Jake Grafton is assigned to negotiate with the pirate chief, while Tommy Carmellini and a team of operatives plan to save the hostages and keep the US from being maneuvered into war.) Cox, Greg The Bestseller Job $7.99 (Leverage: PBO; Novel based on the TV show. The team sets out to keep a dead author's estranged brother from getting his hands on money the author planned to give to human-rights groups.) Cumming, Charles A Foreign Country $9.99 (First an elderly French couple are brutally murdered while vacationing in Egypt. Next a young French accountant is kidnapped on the streets of Paris. Then the woman who is about to become head of MI6 disappears in the south of France. Desperate to find her, and to keep the press from learning that she's missing, the British turn to disgraced MI6 officer Thomas Kell.) de Giovanni, Maurizio Blood Curse $17.00 (Ricciardi #2: Naples, 1931: An elderly woman has been beaten to death in her apartment. No one wants to talk to the cops, but Commissario Ricciardi and Brigadier Maione gradually learn that the victim was a fortuneteller who manipulated and deceived her clients, among them some of the city's rich and powerful. ) Donally, Claire Cat Nap $7.99 (Sunny & Shadow #2: PBO; Sunny agrees to help vet Jane Rigsdale confront her ex Martin about his money-grubbing ways. When Martin is murdered, Sunny and her cat Shadow team up to sniff out the killer and clear Jane's name.) Evans, Bill Blackmail Earth $9.99 (In a high-stakes collision between extreme weather and international politics, the fate of the whole world hangs in the balance.) Fanning, Diane Sleep My Darlings $7.99 (PBO; Tampa mother Julie Schenecker killed her teenage daughters. Had her manic depression driven her to the point of insanity? Or was hers a case of cold, calculated violence and manipulation?) Flint, Shamini A Deadly Cambodian Crime Spree $12.95 (Inspector Singh #4: When a key member of the international war crimes tribunal in Phnom Penh is murdered, the authorities are determined to write off the incident as a random act of violence. But Inspector Singh, attending as an observer, thinks otherwise, and finds himself caught up in an case with its roots in the Cambodian killing fields.) Fluke, Joanne Video Kill $7.99 (Reissue; Each victim resembles a Hitchcock star, each killing echoes one of the legendary director's films, and the only clue left behind is a gruesome video of the killer's handiwork. Allison knows her screenwriter husband has been extra busy lately. Katy knows her detective ex is hunting for the killer. Each senses something unusual about the men's behavior. But as they attempt to find the truth, they unwitting draw closer to a madman searching for his next leading lady.) Flynn, Gillian Gone Girl $15.00 (Edgar finalist, best novel. Amy, a beautiful, clever, perfectionist, disappears on her wedding anniversary. Her husband Nick, the town's golden boy, parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Is he a killer? And if he isn't, where is Amy?) French, Paul Midnight in Peking $16.00 (Edgar finalist, best fact crime. Nonfiction. Peking, 1937: A British detective and a Chinese detective team up when the mutilated body of a British schoolgirl is discovered.) French, Tana Broken Harbor $16.00 (Dublin Murder Squad #4: A man and his two young children are dead, and his wife is in intensive care. Mick Kennedy and his rookie partner think the case will be easy, but too many small things can't be explained. The half-dozen baby monitors, their cameras pointing at holes smashed in the family's walls. The files erased from the family computer. The story the wife told her sister about a shadowy intruder who was slipping past all locks.) Friedman, Daniel Don't Ever Get Old $14.99 (Edgar finalist, best first novel. When Buck, an 87-year- old retired Memphis cop, learns that an old adversary may have escaped Germany with a fortune in stolen gold, he decides to hunt down the fugitive and claim the loot. His investigation quickly attracts unfriendly attention from a Mississippi loan shark, a 7' tall Hasidic Jew, and a bloodthirsty maniac) Galbraith, Robert The Cuckoo's Calling $25.99 (C.M. Strike #1: PI Strike is hired to investigate the death of a supermodel that the police have ruled a suicide.) Gapper, John A Fatal Debt $7.99 (Ben Cowper is pressured into discharging an investment banker from the psych ward. Days later, news breaks of a fatal shooting at the banker's mansion. With circumstances conspiring to incriminate Ben, and a conviction-hungry DA closing in, Ben has no choice but to penetrate the banker's inner circle and expose the truth behind a web of malice disguised as madness. ) Goldberg, Lee Mr. Monk Gets Even $7.99 (Monk #15: When criminal mastermind Dale the Whale escapes during a prison transfer, all signs point to Captain Stottlemeyer being his accomplice. It's up to Adrian Monk to clear the captain's name.) Goldsworthy, Adrian True Soldier Gentleman $12.95 (106th Foot #1: 1808: Hamish Williams is a gentleman volunteer, serving with the ranks but living with the officers, and uncomfortable in both worlds. But he is determined to prove himself worthy of advancement, and with the 106th bound for Portugal to fight the French, he knows his chance is at hand.) Grabenstein, Chris Fun House $14.95 (John Ceepak #7: Straight-arrow cop John Ceepak and his wisecracking young partner Danny Boyle are assigned to babysit the cast of a reality TV show, and try to keep the rowdy kids from breaking the law. Then a cast member is murdered, and others are threatened with the same fate.) Grabenstein, Chris Free Fall $25.00 (John Ceepak #8: Wise-cracking cop Danny Boyle and straight- arrow Chief of Detectives John Ceepak do their best to help Danny's friend, a young nurse who claims she's been falsely accused of aggravated assault by a prestigious Jersey shore doctor. When one of the nurse's home health care patients turns up dead, Ceepak and Danny have to wonder. Did they just help a friend get away with murder?) Graves, Sarah A Bat in the Belfry $26.00 (Home Repair is Homicide #16: When the body of local teenager Karen Hansen is found in the steeple of the Seaman's Church, and evidence seems to point to one of Sam's friends, Jake and her sleuthing partner Ellie get to work.) Gray, Alex Sleep Like the Dead $11.95 (Lorimer #8: There's a hitman in Glasgow, unpaid and angry, who's decided to settle his own debts. Without witnesses or much evidence, DCI Lorimer and his team struggle to solve the string of seemingly unconnected professional killings.) Hagberg, David Castro's Daughter $7.99 (Kirk McGarvey #16: On his deathbed, Fidel Castro summons his illegitimate daughter Maria Leon, and makes her promise to contact Kirk McGarvey to help her on a quest to find Cibola, the fabled seven cities of gold. Desperate to find the elusive McGarvey, Leon kidnaps his closest friend.) Hallinan, Timothy Crashed $9.99 (Junior Bender #1: Trey Annunziato has blackmailed burglar Junior Bender into acting as a PI on the set of Trey's porn movie, which someone keeps sabotaging. For Thistle Downing, a beloved child actress turned junkie, her starring role doing all that's unwholesome on camera will be a scandalous fall from grace. Junior knows what he should do - get Thistle out and find her help. But doing the right thing will put him on the wrong side of LA's scariest mob boss. ) Hambly, Barbara Good Man Friday $29.95 (Benjamin January #12: 1838: Benjamin January agrees to accompany sugar planter Henri Viellard and his young wife Chloe on a mission to Washington, DC, to search for their missing friend.) Hart, Carolyn Death Comes Silently $7.99 (Death on Demand #22: While hosting a book signing by a popular local writer, Annie gets several voice mails from Gretchen Burkholt, who has scandalous news she's eager to share. When Annie goes to see her, she finds Gretchen dead, with an ax by her side.) Harvey, Michael The Innocence Game $24.95 (Three Chicago journalism students, invited to participate in an elite class focused on exonerating the falsely accused, find themselves drawn into a web of distrust, deceit, and corruption when someone sends them two chilling clues to the long-ago murder of a young boy.) Hayder, Mo Poppet $25.00 (Jack Caffery #6: After a patient is released from a high-security mental health ward, the staff realizes that he was connected to episodes of self-harm among the ward's patients, and that he was released in error. Will the terrifying little effigies he made provide the clues detective Jack Caffery needs to track down the man before he can kill again?) Henshaw, Mark Red Cell $16.00 (Two CIA outcasts, rookie agent Kyra Stryker and unorthodox analyst Jonathan Burke, must race to stop a secret Chinese weapon that threatens to provoke a world war.) Herron, Mick Dead Lions $25.95 (Slough House #2: When a Cold War-era spy is found dead on a bus outside Oxford, far from his usual haunts, the irascible Jackson Lamb is convinced the man was murdered. As the disgraced MI5 agents of Slough House dig into the case, they uncover a tangle of Cold War secrets leading back to Alexander Popov, who is either a Soviet bogeyman, or the most dangerous man in the world.) Hillier, Jennifer Freak $7.99 (Abby Maddox, serving time for slashing Jerry Isaac's throat during the harrowing capture of her serial-killer lover, may be the only key to solving a new wave of murders: the killer has been sending her love letters, and carving the message 'Free Abby Maddox' on his victims' bodies. Jerry must coax the truth from isolated, dangerous Abby, before her number-one fan takes another life.) Hjorth/Rosenfeldt Dark Secrets $14.99 (Sebastian Bergman #1: When a teenage boy disappears, then is found dead in a marsh, the police ask psychologist and profiler Sebastian Bergman to help with the case. The investigation uncovers disturbing secrets about the boy's past.) Hooper, Kay Haven $9.99 (Bishop/Special Crimes #13: An investigator who uses her psychic abilities in her work, Jessie has long been plagued by something that happened to her as a teen. She's come back home to uncover the truth - and the ones responsible. Could her sister Emma's nightmares about girls being tortured and killed be connected to Jessie's quest?) Jagger, R.J. A Way with Murder $14.95 (PI Bryson Wilde finds himself entangled in two deadly assignments, one for a young raven-haired attorney on the run, and the other for a pretty little dollface who is too mysterious to trust and too hypnotic to resist.) Jance, J.A. Judgment Call $9.99 (Joanna Brady #15: Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady's personal and professional worlds collide when her daughter Jenny stumbles across the murdered body of the principal from her high school. The ensuing investigation reveals secrets no parent wants to hear.) Kadare, Ismail The File on H. $14.95 (Reissue; 1930s: On a trip to the Albanian highlands to research the tradition of the oral epic, two Americans with an early model of a marvelous invention - the tape recorder - are mistaken for spies; their reseach excites suspicion and puts them in the middle of Balkan ethnic strife.) Kadare, Ismail The Pyramid $14.95 (Reissue; 26th century BCE: Cheops wants to forgo the construction of his pyramid, but his court sages tell him the pyramid is not a tomb, but a paradox: designed to appease the masses by oppressing them, wasting the country's wealth to keep security and prosperity, ever the fonts of sedition, at bay. As the pyramid begins to rise, rumors multiply, a secret police force is formed, and conspiracies - real and imagined - swirl around the edifice.) Kadare, Ismail The Successor $14.95 (Reissue; Mehmet Shehu, the man expected to succeed hated Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, has died suddenly and mysteriously. Did he commit suicide or was he murdered? That is the burning question.) Kang, Jay Caspian The Dead Do Not Improve $15.00 (After his elderly neighbor is murdered, Philip Kim finds himself the focus of an elaborate, violent scheme. In a suddenly menacing San Francisco, he must fend off militant surfers and aggressive creative writing students as he - aided by the laconic cops handling his case - tries to find out who's causing the trouble.) 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The case takes him still further into the Breslau underworld he knows only too well. ) Krueger, William Kent Trickster's Point $16.00 (Cork O'Connor #12: Cork's wilderness bow hunting trip with Minnesota's first Native American governor-elect, Jubal Little, goes very wrong when Jubal is shot through the heart with one of Cork's arrows. Cork knows he's been set up, and as he works to clear his name and track the real killer, he recalls his long, complex relationship with Jubal, the Native kid who wanted to be a populist politician but grew into a man capable of treachery and murder.) Lackberg, Camilla The Stranger $25.95 (Patrik Hedstrom #4: A Fjallbacka woman is killed in a car crash, but it isn't a clear-cut drunk driving case. The victim's blood contains high alcohol levels, but she rarely drank a drop. Meanwhile, a reality TV show begins shooting in the town, and a drunken party ends with an unpopular contestant's murder. Could there be a murderer among the cast and crew?) le Carre, John A Delicate Truth $28.95 (2008: Wildlife, a counter-terrorist operation, is being mounted on the British crown colony of Gibraltar to abduct a high-value jihadist arms- buyer. 2011: A disgraced Special Forces soldier delivers a message from the dead. Was Operation Wildlife the success it was cracked up to be, or a human tragedy that was ruthlessly covered up? Signed copies expected) Leon, Donna Beastly Things $15.00 (Brunetti #21: The body of a man is found in a canal, damaged by tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe. Commissario Guido Brunetti has little to work with: no locals have been reported missing, and no hotel guests have disappeared. The only clue comes from the autopsy: the man suffered from a rare disease.) Lock, Joan Dead Image $14.95 (Ernest Best #1: 1874: The explosion was heard 20 miles away. It killed boatmen and wrecked an artist's villa. But what caused the Regents Park explosion? Fenian bombs? Sabotage by rival railways? Or was it something personal? And whose was the other body found in the canal? Scotland Yard's Sgt. Ernest Best struggles to find the answers.) Lovesey, Peter The Tooth Tattoo $25.95 (Peter Diamond #13: Bath, England: A body is found in the city canal, and the only clue to the dead woman's identity is a musical note tattooed on her tooth. For Head of CID Peter Diamond, who wouldn't know a Stradivarius from a French horn, the investigation is his most demanding ever; Signed copies expected) Manfredi, Valerio Massimo The Ancient Curse $10.95 (Fabrizio, a young archaeologist, has discovered that a famous Etruscan statue contains a mysterious object when a phone call warns him to abandon his research at once. How is this connected to a series of gruesome deaths, where the victims were involved in the desecration of a tomb, and seem to have been torn apart by a beast of unimaginable size? ) Mark, David Original Skin $26.95 (Aector McAvoy #2: When a depressed young man is found strung up naked in his East Yorkshire apartment, the authorities are only too happy to call it a suicide, but DS Aector McAvoy soon begins to suspect that someone has gotten away with murder.) Matthews, Jason Red Sparrow $26.99 (In Putin-era Russia, a young Russian spy, unwillingly trained as a seductress, and a first-tour CIA officer, handler for America's most valuable mole in Moscow, collide in a charged atmosphere of tradecraft, deception, and a forbidden spiral of carnal attraction.) McGee, James Hawkwood (UK title: Ratcatcher) $15.95 (Matthew Hawkwood #1: 1811: Ordered to investigate the double murder of a coachman and a naval courier, Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood wonders about the high-level interest in this ordinary case. Then another body is discovered, revealing ties to a Napoleonic plot against Britain.) McGee, James Rapscallion $25.95 (Matthew Hawkwood #3: For a French prisoner of war, there is only one fate worse than the gallows: the prison ships. Few survive their dreadful conditions. Yet reports persist of a sinister smuggling operation within this brutal world. When the officers sent to investigate disappear, the Royal Navy turns to Bow Street for help. It's time to send in Hawkwood.) Meltzer, Brad (ed) The Mystery Box (Mystery Writers of America Presents) $15.99 Trade PB, $24.99 HC (Anthology; original short stories by top thriller writers.) Mogford, Thomas Shadow of the Rock $16.00 (Spike Sanguinetti #1: When his old school friend Solomon shows up in Gibraltar, accused of a murder in Tangier, lawyer Spike Sanguinetti heads to Tangier to try to delay extradition. Solomon's boss at Dunetech, on the verge of financing an enormous solar-power site in the Sahara, wants the trial delayed. A Bedouin girl insists Dunetech is behind her father's disappearance. Spike must uncover the truth in a world of corruption and murderous lies.) Mugavero, Liz Kneading to Die $7.99 (Pawsitively Organic #1: PBO; When she finds the town vet dead under a pile of kibble, and becomes the prime suspect, Stan Connor must find the real killer before she can get back to work baking organic pet treats.) Myers, Tamar The Girl Who Married an Eagle $13.99 (Belgian Congo #4: PBO; Young American missionary Julia Newton is teaching at a boarding school for runaway child brides in the Belgian Congo. Escaping an arranged marriage, eight-year-old Early Dusk makes her way to the school. As Congolese independence looms, and Early Dusk's jilted husband seeks revenge, it's up to Julia and Early Dusk to try to save the school, with some help from Cripple, Their Death, and Amanda Brown.) Nesbo, Jo Phantom $14.95 (Harry Hole #9: When the boy he helped raise is arrested for murder, Harry returns to Oslo to prove that Oleg isn't a killer. Barred from rejoining the police force, Harry undertakes an increasingly dangerous, solitary investigation.) O'Shea, Dan Penance $14.99 (John Lynch #1: An old woman steps out of a confessional and is shot dead by a sniper with what at first appears to be an impossible shot. A team is dispatched from Langley to put the shooter - and anyone else who gets in the way - in a body bag before a half-century of national secrets are revealed. Chicago detective John Lynch finds himself cast into an underworld of political corruption and guilty secrets, as he tries to uncover the truth before another innocent citizen gets killed.) O'Sullivan, Kathryn Foal Play $24.99 (Winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Novel competition. When a dead body washes up on the shore of their Outer Banks town, fire chief Colleen McCabe is determined to investigate, even though sheriff Bill Dorman makes it clear he doesn't want her poking around. ) Palmer, Daniel Stolen $25.00 (When their cut-rate insurance won't cover his wife's treatment, John Bodine steals a customer's identity and files a false claim for Ruby's medication. The plan works perfectly - until the customer contacts John and demands they commit crimes. John assumes it's a sick joke, until people start dying.) Parker, R/Atkins, A Wonderland $26.95 (Spenser #41: Boxing trainer Henry Cimoli asks Spenser for help: a developer is trying to buy Henry's condo, and sent thugs to move the process along. Spenser and his apprentice Sixkill find a trail leading to a mysterious woman, a Las Vegas kingpin, and a plan to turn a chunk of land north of Boston into a casino.) Parker, Richard Scare Me $14.99 (A wealthy businessman gets an anonymous call asking him when he last Googled himself. Online he finds a website has been set up in his name, showing photos of the inside of his house, along with photos of six houses he's never seen before. In the first of those, a gruesome murder has already take place. Then he's told that, to keep his family safe, he has to visit each of the houses in person - before the police discover what has happened there.) Parra, Nancy J. Gluten for Punishment $7.99 (Baker's Treat #1: PBO; When a local wheat farmer is murdered outside her gluten-free bakery, Toni is determined to find the killer before bad publicity and vandalism shut her down.) Patterson, J/Ellis, D Guilty Wives $9.99 (A dream trip to a luxurious Monte Carlo resort for four days of pampering becomes a nightmare when Abbie and her three best friends are framed for a double murder. Who wants them locked away for life?) Patterson, J/Paetro, M 12th of Never $27.99 (Women's Murder Club #12: After her daughter's birth, Lindsay Boxer returns to work to face two high-profile cases.) Pendleton, Don (creator) Prison Code $5.99 (Executioner #414: PBO; When a plot to unleash WMD on US soil is discovered in a coded message, all clues lead to a notorious prison in upstate New York; Bolan goes in undercover as an inmate to stop the attack from happening.) Pitcher, Chelsea The S-Word $10.99 (YA; Lizzie in bed with Angie's boyfriend? Angie stops talking to her, and doesn't intervene when Lizzie gets branded a slut. But after Lizzie kills herself, photocopies of her diary show up around school. Angry that someone is still targeting Lizzie after her death, Angie uses clues from the diary to investigate. Exactly who made Lizzie feel life was no longer worth living?) Purser, Ann The Sleeping Salesman Enquiry $7.99 (Ivy Beasley #4: PBO; After the banns of Ivy and Roy's marriage are announced, and an anonymous voice shouts out a protest, the wedding may be off. And with the discovery of a body in a bed in a nearby furniture shop, Ivy and her team of sleuths at Enquire Within may be closer to a dangerous reception than they realize.) Rodriguez, Linda Every Broken Trust $25.99 (Skeet Bannion #2: A party to celebrate the visit of a Kansas City politician and his entourage rapidly turns to disaster when Skeet's best friend Karen finds a body in the University's storage caves and is attacked herself.) Sandford, John Stolen Prey $9.99 (Lucas Davenport #22: In Deephaven, MN, an entire family has been killed - husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. It looks an awful lot like the kind of retribution Lucas has seen in drug killings, but the husband was a banker. It just doesn't seem to fit. Until it does - and leads Lucas into the darkest nightmare of his life.) Sandford, John Silken Prey $27.95 (Lucas Davenport #23: When a political fixer disappears, the clues lead troublingly to the Minneapolis police department, and then to a woman who has very definite ideas about the way the world should work, and the money and ruthlessness to make it happen - no matter who gets in the way.) Santora, Nick Fifteen Digits $14.99 (After five blue-collar guys who handle mountains of sensitive paperwork for a law firm are approached by an ambitious young attorney looking for information, they decide to use the documents that pass through their hands every day to get rich. But when the massive amounts of money get noticed, they'll find they're in too deep.) Saylor, Steven The Seven Wonders $14.99 (Roma Sub Rosa Prequel: 92 BC: 18-year-old Gordianus and his tutor embark on a journey to see the Seven Wonders of the World. At each of the Wonders, they encounter a mystery to challenge their powers of deduction.) Simmons, Dan Flashback $9.99 (The US is near collapse, but 87% of the population doesn't care: they're addicted to a drug that allows them to re-experience the best moments of their lives. When an addicted ex-detective investigates the murder of a government advisor's son, he becomes the one man who may be able to change the course of an entire nation that is turning away from the future to live in the past.) Smith, Alexander McCall A Conspiracy of Friends $15.00 (Corduroy Mansions #3: There's never a dull moment for the residents of Corduroy Mansions, but uppermost in everyone's mind is terrier Freddie de la Hay, who has disappeared while on a mystery tour around the Suffolk countryside.) Soos, Troy Murder at Wrigley Field $14.00 (Mickey Rawlings #3: Reissue; Chicago, 1918: Major League baseball may be suspended for the duration of the war, and anti- German sentiment is running high. When Mickey's best friend, rookie Willie Kaiser, is shot right on the diamond, Mickey doesn't buy the official explanation of a stray bullet, and decides to investigate.) Spillane/Collins Complex 90 $22.99 (Mike Hammer: In Moscow with a conservative politician on a fact-finding mission, Hammer is imprisoned by the KGB on a bogus charge, and creates an international incident by getting into a fire fight with Russian agents. A single question dogs him: Why was he singled out to accompany the senator to Russia in the first place?) Staab, Rochelle Hex on the Ex $7.99 (Mind for Murder #3: PBO; After Liz's ex-husband Jarret encounters a death omen, her former best friend Laycee is found dead in Jarret's home. When Liz becomes prime suspect, she turns to occult professor Nick Garfield for help.) Stanley, Michael Deadly Harvest $14.99 (Detective Kubu #4: PBO; Kubu and Samantha, the only woman detective on the Botswana police force, investigate a series of disappearances and murders, trying to find out who is using human body parts to make their potions more potent.) Stuart, Julia The Pigeon Pie Mystery $14.95 (When Indian Princess Alexandrina is left penniless, Queen Victoria grants her, and her maid Pooki, a home in Hampton Court Palace. Alexandrina is befriended by three eccentric widows, who invite her to a picnic. When one of the guests dies after eating a pie Pooki baked, she becomes the #1 suspect. Alexandrina isn't about to let her faithful servant hang, and begins an investigation of her own.) Sweeney, Leann The Cat, the Mill, and the Murder $7.99 (Cats in Trouble #5: PBO; When Jillian volunteered to help relocate a feral cat colony living in an abandoned mill, she never expected to find a woman living there. Jeannie refuses to leave the mill or abandon the ghost of her cat, but ends up being taken out on a stretcher following an accident. Then a body is found concealed in the mill. It's up to Jillian and a mysterious new feline friend to find out who the killer is.) Swierczynski, Duane Point & Shoot $14.99 (Charlie Hardie #3: Charlie finds himself trapped inside an orbiting satellite, with a year's supply of air, food, and water, and no way to communicate. He must complete his twelve months' duty, or his family will have an 'accident'. He discovers his prison contains the most dangerous secrets in the world - and to make his family safe, he'll have to use those secrets as leverage against his faceless captors.) Tanenbaum, Robert K. Bad Faith $9.99 (Butch Karp #24: When a boy dies of treatable cancer because his parents relied on prayer instead of seeking medical help, New York DA Butch Karp prosecutes the parents for reckless manslaughter. The case develops an unexpected twist: their spiritual advisor is the beneficiary of the boy's life insurance.) Thompson, Victoria Murder on Fifth Avenue $7.99 (Gaslight #14: Upper-class Felix Decker opposes his daughter Sarah's involvement with an Irish Catholic policeman. But when a member of the exclusive Knickerbocker Club is killed, Decker forms an uneasy alliance with Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to discreetly solve the murder.) Toyne, Simon The Key $9.99 (Liv Adamsen #2: Liv and Gabriel uncover a revelation dating back to the creation of man. Meanwhile, the Sancti are determined to reclaim the Sacrament and restore their source of power. Liv and Gabriel must elude capture, and journey to the place where all life began to find the answers before it's too late.) Vachss, Andrew Mortal Lock $15.95 (PBO; Previously uncollected noir-tinged stories, plus a screenplay.) Viets, Elaine Final Sail $7.99 (Dead-End Job #11: To catch a jewel smuggler, Helen goes undercover as a stewardess on a private yacht.) Waid, Mark et al A Very Civil Armageddon $14.99 (Steed and Mrs. Peel #1: Full color graphic novel. The Hellfire Club has infiltrated all aspects of British society, and John Steed and Emma Peel can't trust anyone - except one another.) Webb, Debra Rage $5.99 (Faces of Evil #4: Jess investigates the dismemberment of a Birmingham cop's wife. The discovery of two more headless victims makes Jess wonder if it's a gang-related slaying, a personal vendetta, or something else.) Wilson, F. Paul The Touch $7.99 (Adversary Cycle #3: Reissue; Dr. Alan Bulmer discovers one day that he can cure any illness with the touch of his hand. Although he tries to hide his power, word inevitably leaks out, and his life begins to unravel. Plus bonus story 'Dat- tay-vao'.) Wood, Tom The Enemy $9.99 (Victor #2: Assassin Victor has joined forces with a CIA special unit. His first assignment: Three strangers. Three hits, fast and clean. It should have been simple, but with each hit he plunges deeper into a conspiracy where no one, least of all the people he knows, can be trusted.) Xiaolong, Qiu Don't Cry, Tai Lake $14.99 (Chen Cao #7: Shanghai's Inspector Chen has his vacation at Tai Lake interrupted by the murder of the director of one of the local factories responsible for polluting the lake. The local police suspect the leader of an ecological group, and Chen must tread carefully to uncover the truth.) Young, Tom The Renegades $9.99 (Parson & Gold #3: American troops rush to deliver aid after an earthquake hits Afghanistan. But a Taliban splinter group begins shooting medical workers, downing helicopters, and killing anyone who accepts aid. Parson, Gold, and the Afghan aircrews must find a way to strike back.) Zerries, A.J. Stealing from the Dead $7.99 (Detective Greta Strasser uncovers a murderous plot to steal millions from Holocaust survivors.) Zimmerman, Jean The Orphanmaster $16.00 (New Amsterdam, 1663: Orphans are disappearing, and among those looking into things are 22-year-old trader Blandine van Couvering, herself an orphan, and British spy Edward Drummond. Suspects abound, including the governor's nephew, and the colony's own corrupt orphanmaster.)

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Ahmad, A.X. The Caretaker $24.99 (Ranjit Singh, a disgraced Indian Army Captain, works as a caretaker on Martha's Vineyard. Needing a place to stay, he moves his family into a senator's empty house. When armed men break in looking for an antique porcelain doll, Singh is drawn into the senator's shadowy world.) Anderson, Howard Albert of Adelaide $14.99 (Albert the platypus escapes from the Adelaide Zoo and sets out in search of the fabled 'Old Australia', a land of liberty and peace for animals. On his journey, he encounters a pyromaniac wombat, drunken bandicoots, and gun- slinging kangaroos, and discovers a skill for survival he never knew he had.) Bonk, John J. Madhattan Mystery $7.99 (Kids; When Lexi overhears a plot to steal Cleopatra's jewels from New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, she and her brother Kevin join forces with budding investigative journalist Kim, hoping to track down the thieves and rake in the reward money. Can the kids find out who's behind the jewel heist without getting into too much trouble themselves?) Brandreth, Gyles Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol $16.00 (Oscar Wilde #6: France, 1897: Oscar Wilde shares a drink with a mysterious stranger, and recounts the tale of his time in Reading Gaol, where, despite the harsh terms of his confinement, he was asked to investigate the murders of a brutal warder and the prison chaplain.) Brown, Dan Inferno $29.95 (Robert Langdon #4: In Italy, symbologist Robert Langdon is drawn into a harrowing world centered on Dante's Inferno, battling a chilling adversary and grappling with an ingenious riddle that pulls him into a landscape of classical art, secret passageways, and futuristic science.) Buckley, Christopher They Eat Puppies, Don't They? $14.99 (In an attempt to gain Congressional approval for a top-secret weapons system, lobbyist Bird McIntrye and Neo-Con wonkette Angel Templeton start a rumor that the Chinese secret service is trying to assassinate the Dalai Lama.) Casey, Jane The Last Girl $24.99 (Maeve Kerrigan #3: 14-year-old Lydia returns to her London home to discover the bodies of her mother and twin sister in the living room, while her father, barrister Philip Kennford, lies unconscious and bleeding upstairs. DC Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent suspect that Kennford might have staged the attack on himself after killing his wife and daughter. But Kennford is a self-possessed, intelligent man who knows criminal law inside out; proving that he's guilty will be difficult.) Coonts, Deborah Lucky Bastard $25.99 (Lucky O'Toole #4: The resort is hosting a car show; Lucky's day takes a turn for the worse when a woman's body is found on the hood of a Ferrari with a stiletto heel embedded in her carotid artery.) Corby, Gary Sacred Games $25.95 (Nicolaos #3: 460 BCE: Nico's best friend Timodemus is competing at the Olympics in the pankration, a deadly martial art. His only serious rival is Parmonos from Sparta. When Parmonos is found beaten to death, the Judges are sure Timodemus is the killer - who else could have killed such a great fighter? Nico and Diotima have four days to save their friend from a death sentence.) Corley, Elizabeth Requiem Mass $24.99 (Andrew Fenwick #1: Twenty years ago, a young woman fell to her death. There were four schoolmates with her at the time, and one or more of them were responsible. Now someone is bent on vengeance, and DCI Andrew Fenwick is caught in a desperate race to stop the killer's vendetta.) Cronin, Doreen The Legend of Diamond Lil $5.99 (J.J. Tully #2: Kids; All search-and-rescue dog J.J. Tully wants is to enjoy his retirement. But mama chicken Moosh and chicks Dirt and Sugar are acting strange. A possum keeps finding its way into the chicken coop. And J.J. has questions about Diamond Lil, the fancy new dog next door. He'll have to track down the clues and sniff out the evidence to save the day.) Davis, Lindsey Master and God $16.99 (A fire in first-century Rome leads to a lifelong friendship between Gaius Vinius, an imperial bodyguard, and Flavia Lucilla, a member of the imperial court who creates toupees for the balding Emperor Domitian. Together they watch Domitian's once-talented rule unravel into madness and cruelty, until those closest to him conspire to remove him.) Delaney, Luke Cold Killing $14.99 (What looks like a straightforward domestic murder ensnares London DI Sean Corrigan in an increasingly dangerous game with a serial killer who changes his MO with each kill and leaves no forensic evidence behind.) DeSilva, Bruce Cliff Walk $14.99 (Liam Mulligan #2: At first there appears to be no connection between the discovery of a child's severed arm in the garbage of a pig farm and the murder of an internet pornographer. But as investigative reporter Liam Mulligan digs into Rhode Island's thriving sex business, strange connections emerge. Promised free sex with hookers if he minds his own business - and a beating if he doesn't - Mulligan enlists Thanks-Dad, the newspaper publisher's son, and Attila the Nun, the state's colorful Attorney General, in his quest for the truth.) Erdrich, Louise The Round House $15.99 (Winner, 2012 National Book Award. 1988: Geraldine Coutts, an Ojibwe woman living on a North Dakota reservation, is brutally attacked, but refuses to share the details of what happened with the police, or with her husband Bazil, the tribal judge. Bazil searches for clues to the attacker's identity and motives. Meanwhile, their 13-year-old son Joe sets out with three friends to find the truth.) Fesperman, Dan The Double Game $15.95 (A few years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, a spook turned novelist reveals to young journalist Bill Cage that he'd once considered spying for the enemy. Two decades later, Cage receives an anonymous note hinting that he should have dug deeper, and sets out to find the truth.) Gibson, Gregory The Old Turk's Load $24.00 (1967: When a five million dollar shipment of heroin disappears, crime lord Angelo DiNoto isn't the only one willing to turn over every rock (and bust some heads, arms, legs, etc.) to locate it.) Goldenbaum, Sally Angora Alibi $24.95 (Seaside Knitters #7: When the young man who did odd jobs at the doctor's office is murdered, it will take the Seaside Knitters' attention to patterns - and their commitment to bringing Izzy and Sam's baby into a peaceful town - to solve the mystery.) Grecian, Alex The Black Country $26.95 (Murder Squad #2: When members of a prominent family disappear from a village in the British Midlands, the local constable sends for Scotland Yard. Inspector Walter Day, Sgt. Nevil Hammersmith, and Dr. Bernard Kingsley respond. But the villagers have secrets, and the more the three investigate, the more they realize they may never be allowed to leave.) Griffiths, Elly A Room Full of Bones $14.95 (Galloway & Nelson #4: When Ruth Galloway arrives to supervise the opening of a coffin containing the bones of a medieval bishop, she finds the museum's curator lying dead. Soon after, the museum's owner is also found dead. Ruth and DCI Harry Nelson must discover how Aboriginal skulls, drug smuggling, and the mystery of 'The Dreaming' hold the answers to these deaths.) Hallinan, Timothy Little Elvises $14.00 (Junior Bender #2: Having unfortunately developed a reputation as a competent PI for crooks, Junior is now being bullied into proving that an aging music industry mogul didn't murder the nasty tabloid journalist he'd threatened to kill.) Hanson, Victor Davis The End of Sparta $18.00 (The battles of one of the greatest generals of ancient Greece, Epaminondas, are seen through the eyes of Melon, a farmer who leaves his fields to serve in the army and help spread democracy. ) Harris, Charlaine Dead Ever After $27.95 (Southern Vampire #13: A shocking murder rocks Bon Temps, and Sookie is arrested for the crime. The evidence against her is weak, and she makes bail. Investigating the killing, she'll learn that what passes for truth in Bon Temps is only a convenient lie.) Hart, Carolyn Dead, White, and Blue $25.95 (Death on Demand #23: On July 4th, two islanders disappear. Annie and Max soon find themselves following a twisted trail marked by adultery, blackmail, and betrayal as they pursue a cold-blooded killer.) Hunt, Alaric Cuts Through Bone $24.99 (Winner of the PWA Best First Private Eye Novel competition. A Manhattan heiress has been murdered with a gun belonging to her fiance Greg Olsen. Hired to get Olsen off, PI Clayton Guthrie and his young associate Rachel Vasquez search for an elusive eyewitness while butting heads with the NYPD.) Jakubowski, Maxim (ed) The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries 10 $13.95 (Anthology) Kane, Ben Rebellion $26.99 (Spartacus #2: After their victories over the Roman army, Spartacus wants to lead his men over the Alps and home, but Castus and Gannicus want to march on Rome and bring the Republic to its knees.) Krosoczka, Jarrett J. The Frog Who Croaked $12.99 (Platypus Police Squad #1: Kids; Hotshot rookie Rick Zengo and hard-nosed old-timer Corey O'Malley investigate a crime at the docks involving a missing schoolteacher of the amphibious persuasion and a duffle bag full of illegal fish. All the clues point to Kalamazoo's most powerful businessman.) Lehane, Dennis Live by Night $16.99 (Edgar finalist, best novel. Joe Coughlin, the youngest son of a prominent Boston police captain, moves from childhood petty theft up the ladder of organized crime, enjoying the riches, thrills, and notoriety of being an outlaw in the Prohibition era.) Lipperman, Lizbeth Heard It Through the Grapevine $14.99 (Dead Sister Talking #1: PBO; The death of her sister Tessa brings Lainey Garcia back to her Texas hometown, where she finds herself confronted by Tessa's ghost. Lainey and her surviving sisters set out to fulfill Tessa's beyond-the-grave wish: finding out who killed her. Hidden among the vines of Tessa's wine-making business is a killer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants.) Lutz, Lisa Trail of the Spellmans $15.00 (Spellmans #5: When parents hire Spellman Investigations to follow their daughter, Rae is assigned to the case, but fakes the surveillance reports. A socialite has Izzy follow her husband, despite a conspicuous lack of suspicion. Then a man hires the firm to follow his sister, who turns out to be the socialite.) MacBride, Stuart Close to the Bone $24.99 (Logan McRae #8: Someone's leaving little knots of bones outside DI McRae's house, but he has bigger things to worry about. Rival drug gangs are fighting; two teen lovers are missing; someone's crippling Asian immigrants; and Logan's been lumbered with an ambitious new DS, a mountain of paperwork, and unwelcome attention from his superiors and the local crime boss.) MacInerney, Karen Brush with Death $14.99 (Gray Whale Inn #5: PBO; When she finds her niece Gwen's mentor dead, innkeeper Natalie Barnes sets out to uncover the truth behind the murder.) Macintyre, Ben Double Cross: The True Story of the D-Day Spies $15.00 (Edgar finalist, best fact crime. The story of the spies who paved the way for the successful D-Day invasion of Normandy by tricking the Nazis into believing that the Allies would attack Calais and Norway.) MacNeal, Susan Elia His Majesty's Hope $15.00 (Maggie Hope #3: PBO; Maggie's first assignment as a member of the elite Special Operations Executive sends her to infiltrate the highest levels of Berlin society, gathering information to pass on to London HQ. But the secrets she unveils will expose a darker, more dangerous side of WWII, and of her own past.) McKinty, Adrian I Hear the Sirens in the Street $15.95 (Troubles #2: Northern Ireland, 1982: A torso in a suitcase turns out to belong to an American tourist who once served in the US military. When the trail leads to the doorstep of a beautiful young woman whose husband was recently assassinated by the IRA, detective Sean Duffy finds himself caught between his romantic instincts, gross professional misconduct, and powerful men he should know better than to mess with.) Moehringer, J.R. Sutton $15.99 (Novel based on the life of bank robber Willie Sutton.) Morrell, David Murder as a Fine Art $25.99 (19th century London: In a series of horrific murders, the killer seems to be imitating Thomas De Quincey's true crime pamphlet. Determined to prevent more atrocities, but crippled by opium addiction, De Quincey searches for the killer, aided by his daughter Emily and two determined Scotland Yard detectives.) 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Ulfelder, Steve Shotgun Lullaby $25.99 (Conway Sax #3: Gus is a wise-ass who drives Conway nuts, but also reminds him of his estranged son. So Conway is helping Gus stay sober. When there's a triple homicide at the halfway house, Conway suspects Gus was the intended victim, and resolves to find the killer.) Viets, Elaine Board Stiff $23.95 (Dead-End Job #12: One of Sunny Jim's customers was killed in a paddle boarding mishap, and he's sure it was no accident. Helen and Phil are going to have to work fast to catch the killer before he pulls another victim under.) Watson, Geoff Edison's Gold $7.99 (Kids; Tom Edison's only hope to stop his family from moving to Kansas is solving a family mystery. The famous ancestor he's named for had discovered the formula for changing metal into gold. Can Tom and his friends uncover the formula in time, and escape the clutches of an evil billionaire?) Wein, Elizabeth Code Name Verity $9.99 (YA; Edgar finalist, best young adult novel. 1943: A British spy plane crashes in France. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun. When 'Verity' is arrested by the Gestapo, her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face execution. As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot, and why she left her in the wrecked plane. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?) Young, Felicity Antidote to Murder $16.00 (Dody McCleland #2: PBO; 1911: Autopsy surgeon Dody McCleland finds herself framed for the murder of a scullery maid who died from a bungled abortion.)