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

Newsletter #102 June-August 2013

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Author Events (at Uncle Edgar's)

Saturday, June 15, 1-2pm: David Housewright - The Last Kind Word

Author Events (at Uncle Hugo's)

Saturday, June 29, 1-2pm: Kelly McCullough - Blade Reforged and Neve Maslakovic - The Far Time Incident Friday, August 2, 1-2pm: Jack McDevitt Tuesday, August 6, 5-6pm Larry Correia - Warbound

Holiday Schedule

Monday, May 27: Closed Thursday, July 4: Closed

Award News

The nominees for the Hugo Award for Best Novel are Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed ($7.99), Captain Vorpatril’s Alliance by Lois McMaster Bujold ($25.00 signed), Blackout by Mira Grant ($9.99), 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson ($25.99), and Redshirts by John Scalzi ($14.99).

The finalists for the Nebula Award for Best Novel are Throne of the Crescent Moon by Saladin Ahmed ($7.99), Ironskin by Tina Connolly ($24.99), The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin ($14.99), The Drowning Girl by Caitlin R. Kiernan ($16.00), Glamour in Glass by Mary Robinette Kowal ($14.99), and 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson ($25.99).

The Edgar Award winners included Best Novel to Live by Night by Dennis Lehane ($16.99), Best First Novel to The Expats by Chris Pavone ($15.00), and Best Paperback Original to The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters ($14.95).

Several awards were presented at the Left Coast Crime convention. The Lefty (for the most humorous mystery of 2012) went to The Girl Next Door by Brad Parks ($15.99). The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award went to Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for Murder by Catriona MacPherson ($24.99). The Rocky (for best mystery novel set in the Left Coast Geographical Region) went to As the Crow Flies by Craig Johnson ($25.95, $15.00 trade pb due early June). The Watson (for mystery novel with the best sidekick) went to Bruja Brouhaha by Rochelle Staab ($7.99). The Dilys Award (for the mystery that the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association members most enjoyed selling) went to Before the Poison by Peter Robinson ($14.99).

The Agatha Award for Best Mystery Novel went to The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny ($25.99, $15.99 trade pb due early July) and for Best First Novel went to Lowcountry Boil by Susan M. Boyer ($15.95). How's Business? By Don Blyly

Business always goes down during the winter months of January, February, and into March until the weather starts to warm up, and that was true again this year. But then winter didn’t want to go away, and the weather continued to make it difficult for people to get to the Uncles. But when the winter finally ended and people could move around easily again, the used books just poured in at Uncle Hugo's. For people looking to buy used science fiction and fantasy, that means great selection, but piles of books on the floor–lots more piles than normal.

The Midwest Independent Booksellers Association held 3 spring meetings in various cities, including St. Paul. I didn’t attend, but there was a recap of the meeting distributed by e-mail, including some of the favorite lines used by local author William Kent Krueger when he addressed the group. My favorite was “Anyone who says they only have one life to live must not know how to read a book.”

Let me tell you about our yellow pages problems. Although I still often use the old fashioned yellow pages, I’m aware that most people have switched to the internet. So the yellow pages folks have for some years been bundling the old fashioned yellow pages ads with the internet ads. With a print ad, it will stay the same (right or wrong) for a year, so if you get it right you can then relax for a year. But the internet ads can be changed frequently, probably every day if the business wanted to go to the effort. But about 2 years ago strange changes started happening to our internet ads without my knowledge or permission. Suddenly, Uncle Hugo’s was offering wedding planning services and several other services that we have never in fact offered, and Uncle Edgar’s was suddenly in the comic book business, although Uncle Edgar’s has never handled comic books. Nobody ever called Uncle Hugo’s to ask about our wedding planning or any of those other services that we don’t really offer, but we received LOTS of calls at Uncle Edgar’s from people wanting to sell comic books, sports cards, and other things that people thought a comic book store might handle. And some of these callers insisted that we had to buy their comic books, because we advertised that in our yellow pages ad. And some people just walk into the store with old, beat-up comics and try to insist that we buy them. I knew that our yellow pages ad didn’t mention comic books, but I looked in the yellow pages just to be sure. Eventually one of the people on the phone specified the yellow pages ad on the internet, which is how I discovered how our internet ads had mutated. I managed to get all of the false information removed from both ads, and the Uncle Hugo’s ad has stayed clean. But the Uncle Edgar’s ad keeps mutating back to “comics”–and if you search for “comic books”, quite often Uncle Edgar’s would be the top store to pop up. I’ve removed the “comic books” information dozens of times, and our Dex sales rep has removed it several times, but it just keep mutating back. Sometimes the ad stays accurate for a few days, sometimes for a month, sometimes for a couple of months, but it always mutates back again. The last time this happened, I checked under “comic books” for Minneapolis, and seven stores popped up, only two of which actually sell comic books. I checked for St. Paul and found dozens of stores listed as selling comics, of which three actually sell comics. Some of the stores listed have been out of business for years, but didn’t sell comics when they were in business. Some of the stores listed don’t sell any kind of books, let alone comic books. I’ve let Dex know how unhappy I am to be paying them over $500 per month, and then have them publish false, unauthorized information about my stores.

Short Recommendations by Don Blyly

Julie E. Czerneda has written over a dozen sf novels, most of which I’ve read and enjoyed. I was very interested to pick up her first fantasy novel, A Turn of Light ($20.00 trade paperback, 854 pages–which means the publisher gave us the whole novel at once, instead of making the author chop it into a trilogy and making the reader wait years to get the whole story–as some publishers tend to do). The book is wonderful. Almost 20 years before the story begins, a group of refugees stumble upon a small vacant village where magic works (because it is where two worlds overlap). The village allowed some of the refugees to stay, but used nightmares to drive away others. As the story begins, Jenn (one of the first to be born in the village) is approaching her 19th birthday and is wondering if she can find a way to use magic to produce a husband for herself. Everybody in the village loves Jenn, but know that she’s a little strange–so it’s not a big surprise when she’s suddenly accompanied by a man that she claims she’s known her entire life, but nobody has ever seen before. As Jenn’s 19th birthday approaches, many other visitors start showing up at the village, some human and some not. The book is filled with delightful characters, some dark elements but mainly upbeat elements. The book comes to a good conclusion, so that many readers think the novel tells the whole story, but the author says there will be a second novel set in the village, coming in maybe a year or two. The cover art for the book is also wonderful, but I didn’t realize how wonderful until I was far enough into the story to start picking out little details from the art that I had initially missed. I’ve enjoyed Laura Resnick’s Esther Diamond series, featuring a woman who moves from Madison, Wisconsin to New York City to try to make it as an actress, but has to keep taking odd jobs to pay the rent. Her mis-adventures always end up in the midst of supernatural mayhem, with a lot of humor and a bit of romance. The first book in the series that I read was Doppelgangster ($7.99), where Esther is working as a singing waitress at an Italian restaurant that happens to be a mob hangout. When supernatural things start happening, Esther and some of her friends have to save the day. I enjoyed Doppelgangster enough to go back and read Esther’s first adventures in Disappearing Nightly ($7.99), and to follow her later adventures in Unsympathetic Magic ($7.99), Vamparazzi ($7.99), and Polterheist ($7.99), her latest. In Polterheist, Esther is so desperate for rent money that she takes a Christmas job as an elf at a major department store. The department store is trying to be politically correct, so the fourth floor is now Solsticeland instead of Christmasland, and is full of part-time employees who will be out of a job on December 25, so they have a certain attitude towards their jobs and management. The founders of the store have all died, leaving management to not too bright the next generation–all of whom fight with each other like cats and dogs. There are always two Santas on duty. One deals with the kids and the demanding parents until he can’t take it any more, at which point he swaps places with the Santa in the break room. All the part-time employees have nickname for each other, such as Moody Santa, Giggly Santa, Wheezy Santa, Diversity Santa, Drag Queen Santa, etc. Esther is Dreidel, Santa’s Jewish elf; Naughty and Nice are a pair of under-dressed elves that spend most of their time privately dealing with one of the sons who inherited the company. Fourth floor workers start disappearing, without even bothering to pick up their last pay checks, and other strange and dangerous things start happening, so Esther and her friends have to save the day again, with as much humor as possible.

Harry Turtledove has written a huge number of books, some of which I’ve enjoyed a lot, and some I couldn’t get into at all. Supervolcano: Eruption ($8.99) is the first of a series of disaster novels about a huge volcano eruption in Yellowstone (as happens about every 700,000 years, and last happened about 700,000 years ago). Because it’s a disaster novel, it’s necessary to have a bunch of characters to show the reader the disaster from a bunch of points of view. The characters in Supervolcano are well-drawn and a lot of fun to observe. The disaster is described in enough detail to be believable but not enough detail to become tedious. Because the characters are so much fun to observe, it’s possible to have humor even while states are being blown away and people are dying (off-stage) by the millions. I’ll be reading the next two books in the series. Supervolcano: All Fall Down ($26.95) will be coming in paperback in December, at which point Supervolcano: Things Fall Apart will come out in hardcover.

The Human Division by John Scalzi ($25.99) is the fifth book in the Old Man’s War series, and is very good. In the fierce competition for colony planets, the humans used to have an advantage against the hundreds of alien races because the Colonial Union had kept Earth in the dark about the true situation, and had been harvesting a hundred thousand new troops per year and hundreds of thousands of new colonists per year from overcrowded Earth. Now that Earth knows what’s really going on, it has cut ties with the Colonial Union and stopped the flow of troops and colonists. And some mysterious force is making Colonial ships disappear, while also seizing alien ships near the Colonial border (and making it look like humans are responsible). The novel was originally published as 13 digital installments, so Scalzi wrote it so that each installment tells a complete story, yet the 13 installments together make a complete novel, and he made it work. The book also contains 2 extra short stories. But the mysterious force seizing ships is still mysterious at the end of the book, so we’ll have more to look forward to in this universe.

The Shambling Guide to New York City by Mur Lafferty ($14.95, due May 28) is a light, funny urban fantasy by a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. Zoë Norris had been working for a publisher of travel guides, but lost her job when the publisher’s wife (who Zoë didn’t know about) found out about the affair the publisher had been having with Zoë. Zoë heads for New York City and tries to find a new publishing job, and eventually talks her way into a job for a small publisher of travel guides. But neither the publishing company staff nor the customers are human, much to Zoë’s surprise. She decides that working with vampires, zombies, minor godesses, etc., is better than being unemployed, if the job doesn’t kill her (which it might). Light, fluffy fun, and the first of a series.

I picked up The Dead of Winter by Lee Collins ($7.99), set in Colorado a few years after the Civil War. Cora Oglesby and her husband Ben had nothing left in Virginia after the war, so they’ve been traveling the West, bounty hunters looking for supernatural bad guys to kill. I found the book moderately entertaining, but I probably would have enjoyed it more if I were a fan of westerns. A puzzle develops around the middle of the book about Ben, which is resolved by the end of the book, but I’m still not sure what the story is about Ben’s horse. A sequel set four years later, She Returns from War ($7.99), recently came out.

Wolfhound Century by Peter Higgins ($25.99) is an interesting book that’s hard to categorize. Set on a planet that clearly is not Earth, in a country that is similar to revolutionary-era Russia (anarchist bombers, an unpopular and bloody war, several types of government agents who often plot against each other, a totalitarian leader, etc., but no communist party and no obvious religious structures or conflicts), Inspector Lom is summoned to the capital (somewhat similar to St. Petersburg) to catch a terrorist. Lom has been selected because he is not involved in any of the plots within the government. Beings have been falling to the surface of the planet after being engaged in an interstellar war. The humans refer to these beings as fallen angels, and the government has been implanting pieces of the fallen angels into people for various purposes. Now, a fallen angel has survived the fall to the planet and has bloody plans for using the humans. There are various Russian fantasy beings tossed into the story. The story has elements of historical novel, thriller, police procedural, and fantasy, and perhaps also science fiction. The way it ends, I’ll be dissatisfied if there isn’t a sequel.

The Ramal Extraction by Steve Perry ($7.99) is the first of a new series about a small band of former military people who form a specialized fighting force that travels the galaxy as mercenaries. On one planet, the galaxy-wide chain TotalMart is having problems with shipments being hijacked that the local police can’t seem to solve (because some of the local police are involved in the hijacking), so Col. “Rags” Cutter and his team are called in. From there, the team goes to the planet Ananda, where the daughter of a Rajah has been kidnapped shortly before she was to marry the son of another Rajah, and war could break out if she isn’t found and returned safely. The book is full of interesting characters (mostly humans, but not all) and lots of fast action. Much better than average popcorn without any danger of straining your brain.

Flashback by Dan Simmons ($10.00) is an interesting cross-genre book set in the U.S. a couple of decades in the future. Most of the population is addicted to flashback, a drug that lets them re-experience the best parts of their lives. Most of the world is in a recession, the country is falling apart and almost nobody cares. To bring in some hard currency, the U.S. and Russia have mandatory military drafts so that they can sell their armed forces to Japan and India as mercenaries for the war in China. The U.S. has already lost 4.5 states and the remaining states are administered by Japanese “advisors”. Six years before the novel begins, a Japanese billionaire’s son was savagely killed in Denver and Det. Nick Bottom worked on the investigation. Three months after that, Nick’s wife (who worked for the district attorney’s office) was killed in a car accident and Nick turned into a flashback addict so he can relive, over and over, the happy periods before she died, and he was fired from the police force. As the novel begins, the billionaire decides to hire Nick to try once again to find out who killed his son. Nick wants to get as much cash as possible from the billionaire, buy as much flashback as possible, disappear, and go back to reliving the happy times. But the billionaire has enforcers who track Nick down, confiscate his drugs, and force him to work on the case. Once Nick finds that his wife was somehow involved with the murdered son, and that her death probably was not an accident, he becomes obsessed with discovering how his wife was involved in the case, and in the process shows the reader what the world is like. If you simply accept the background as presented, the book is very good. If you start to question the way the world is presented, there are major problems. One example: the countryside is filled with gangs of heavily armed bandits, so all the farms, ranches, and small towns have been abandoned. But years after all the farmers and ranchers have fled to the big cities, there’s no shortage of food.

Recommendations by Elizabeth LaVelle

1889 London is the setting for The Yard by Alex Grecian ($26.95 signed hc, $16.00 trade pb). The Metropolitan Police Force has recently designated a dozen experienced detectives as the Murder Squad, hoping to restore public confidence in the police after their failure to catch Jack the Ripper. Inspector Walter Day is new to London and new to the Squad, and he has no idea why the legendary Inspector March chose him. So when a body found in a trunk at Euston Square train station turns out to be that of a Squad detective, Day is surprised when the commissioner chooses him to head up the investigation. With backup from Inspector Blacker, an Squad veteran with a fondness for bad puns, Day begins the hunt for the killer, assisted by the astute Dr. Bernard Kingsley, self-appointed forensic pathologist for the police. Grecian has a knack for creating complex, engaging characters. Day's wife Claire is a smart upper-class woman who has quite happily "married down" and is cheerfully trying to learn to care for her husband and house without the help of a phalanx of servants. After a childhood spent working in a Welsh coal mine, Nevil Hammersmith has come to London and become a constable, working tirelessly to help make the city a safer place. Blackleg is a burglar and a villain, but determined to help Hammersmith track down the chimney sweep who left a small boy to die, slowly and horribly, stuck in a chimney. The threads of the various subplots gradually come together, and loose ends are neatly tied up. I can't wait to read The Black Country ($26.95, signed copies expected 5/28), which sees Day, Hammersmith, and Kingsley sent to help a local constable investigate after members of a prominent family disappear from a coal-mining village in the British Midlands.

Ranchero by Rick Gavin ($14.99 trade pb) takes readers on a very funny, mayhem-filled road trip. When Nick Reid got sick of being a Virginia deputy, he wound up in the Mississippi Delta - where he's not entirely at ease as a member of the white minority - working as a repo man for an excitable appliance store owner. Sent to talk to Percy Dwayne, a member of the notorious Dubois (pronounced Dew-boys) cracker clan, about payments for a flat-screen TV, Nick gets walloped with a fireplace shovel and tied up with a lamp cord, after which Percy Dwayne goes on the lam with the TV. Also Nick's wallet, Nick's cellphone, and the car Nick happened to be driving, a mint-condition calypso-coral 1969 Ranchero that was greatly beloved by his landlady's late husband. So Nick calls his best buddy Desmond, a meticulous, methodical, 350-lb. black man. Together they hit the road to track down Percy Dwayne and get the car back, traveling in Desmond's ex-wife's Geo Metro (she got the Escalade in the divorce), armed with the fireplace shovel and a shotgun loaded with rubber riot-control pellets. But retrieving the Ranchero won't be easy; it's been stolen from Percy Dwayne, ending up in the hands of a psychopathic Acadian meth kingpin. To get the car back, Nick sets out to take apart the man's operation, one meth lab at a time, with some help from Percy Dwayne, his much older nephew Luther Dubois, and a couple of cracker swamp rats who know where the labs are. The book has a refreshingly low body count - the characters may tussle, getting scuffed up or walloped with the fireplace shovel or Tasered, but our heroes don't kill anybody. Gavin mines the comic potential of the many twists of the plot, from newcomer Nick's flippant but sympathetic observations on Delta lifestyles, to Desmond's pragmatic observations about their plans, to the over-the-top hijinks of the Dubois clan and the lowbrow slapstick of the swamp rats. I'm looking forward to reading Nick and Desmond's next adventure, Beluga ($24.99 hc).

Mystery Reviews by Gerri Balter

Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear ($25.99 signed hc or $15.99 trade pb) is my favorite novel so far in the Maisie Dobbs series. It starts when a group of men who have known Maisie since childhood ask her to look into the death of Eddie, a developmentally disabled man who had a way with horses and could gentle them when no one else could. The death has been ruled an accident. Maisie is glad to immerse herself in the case, since her personal life is not going well. Her assistant, Billy, is attacked while helping her investigate. Billy's wife blames Maisie, and refuses to let her see Billy. Maisie blames herself, too, and won’t let anyone else work on the case. The truth about Eddie’s death leaves her with a dilemma of whether to tell the truth or not.

Like most people, Geraldine Porter is thrilled to meet a writer and someone who shares her interest in miniatures in Mix-up in Miniature by Margaret Grace ($15.95). When the writer is murdered after Gerry left her, Gerry tells the police that when she left, the writer was in another room arguing with her brother. But, according to the police, the writer has no brother. Gerry refuses to believe it. When she receives a doll house from the murdered woman, Gerry believes it hides a clue to the murderer. Gerry’s granddaughter is the one who finds the dollhouse’s secret, which Gerry uses to trap the killer.

Although Abby Cooper is a psychic, she doesn’t usually get involved with ghosts. That changes in A Vision of Murder by Victoria Laurie ($7.99). Thanks to her sister, Abby invests in a house that needs renovating. When she begins seeing a dead woman haunting the house, she learns that the only way to get rid of the ghost is to find out who she was and solve her murder. Her boyfriend, FBI agent Dutch Rivers, helps her, and they find out the murder has to do with a hidden treasure from World War II. But a man who will kill anyone who gets in his way is looking for the same treasure, and hoping that Abby will lead him to it. She has no idea that he’s watching her until it’s too late.

Mind Over Murder by Allison Kingsley ($7.99) begins when Clara Quinn returns home after several years and begins to work in her cousin’s bookstore while she looks for another job. When Ana Jordan is found murdered in the store, one of the store’s employees, Molly, is the prime suspect because she made no secret of disliking the victim. Clara’s cousin begs her to find out the truth because Clara has something called the Quinn Sense, a voice that tells her things. But Clara wants nothing to do with the Quinn Sense. When the whole town believes Molly is guilty, Clara tries to find out the truth without using the Quinn Sense. Even without knowing about Clara’s talent, the killer is afraid of what Clara might find out.

Fruit of All Evil by Paige Shelton ($7.99) begins with Becca Robins, who sells her farm-made jams and preserves at the local farmers’ market, helping with her best friend Linda’s wedding. She’s had plenty of experience, having been married twice. Several others who work at the farmers’ market are happy to help. What could go wrong? Let’s start with the murder of Linda’s future mother-in-law. The wedding will have to be postponed, which is bad because the groom has to leave soon for a top-secret military mission. The only way they'll be able to marry before he leaves is for Becca to find the killer, before the killer finds her.

Do you like eclairs? I do. How could they be evil, I wondered, when I saw Evil Eclairs by Jessica Beck ($7.99). Suzanne Hart is furious when a local radio personality says she is a killer for selling donuts. After she goes down to the radio station and yells at him, he is strangled and one of her éclairs is shoved down his throat. Suzanne's business is hurt by the murder, so she feels she has to find the real killer before she goes bankrupt. She finds out that she wasn’t the only one who was attacked on the air. He also embezzled money in his previous job. Then there’s his wife, who doesn’t live with him and that few people knew existed. When one of her friends is harmed, Suzanne has to decide whether it’s worth going after the killer. Unfortunately, the killer has already decided to go after her. RECENTLY RECEIVED AND FORTHCOMING SCIENCE FICTION Already Received

Doctor Who Magazine #457 $9.99 (A long-lost interview with Third Doctor Jon Pertwee; showrunner Steven Moffat answers your questions; more.) Doctor Who Magazine #458 $9.99 (Preview and photos from episode 1 of the new season; interview with Frazer Hines; Dalek invasion! more.) Doctor Who Magazine #459 $9.99 (Previews: 4 new adventures for the Doctor and Clara; the ice warriors are back: writer Mark Gatiss on his new episode; more.) Locus #626 March 2013 $7.50 (Interviews with Isobelle Carmody and Lavie Tidhar; forthcoming books; Nebula Awards ballot; industry news, reviews, more.) Locus #627 April 2013 $7.50 (Interviews with Terry Bisson and Libba Bray; Crawford Award; Stoker finalists; industry news, reviews, more.) Locus #628 May 2013 $7.50 (Interviews with Tim Powers and Patrick & Teresa Nielsen Haydeon; small and independent presses; Hugo ballot; industry news, reviews, more.) Allen, Preston L. Every Boy Should Have a Man $15.95 (PBO; in a post-human world where creatures called oafs keep human-like 'mans' as beloved pets, a poor boy oaf brings home a man whom he hides under his bed in the hopes his parents won't find out. As oafs and mans gain insight into each other's worlds, they find they share a common 'humanity'.) Almond, D/McKean, D Mouse Bird Snake Wolf $17.99 (Kids; Illustrated novel. The gods have created a world that is safe and calm and wonderful, but it has gaps in it - until Harry, Sue, and Ben decide to conjure things to fill them. But as their ideas grow bolder, their conjuring grows more dangerous. Is it possible to unmake what's been made?) Andreadis/Holt (ed) The Other Half of the Sky $22.95 (Anthology; sf stories featuring female protagonists.) 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.) Asaro, Catherine (ed) Nebula Awards Showcase 2013 $18.00 (PBO; Anthology; short fiction nominated for the 2011 awards, plus excerpts from the winning novels.) Ballard, J.G. The Drowned World $15.95 (Reissue; 2145: Solar radiation and global warming have melted the ice caps, and Triassic-era jungles have overrun a submerged and tropical London. As they confront a surreal cityscape populated by giant iguanas, albino alligators, and endless swarms of malarial insects, biologist Dr. Robert Kerans and his team of scientists are transformed both physically and psychologically by this prehistoric environment.) Ballard, J.G. Hello America $15.95 (Reissue; Following the energy crisis of the late 20th century, America was abandoned. A century later, European explorers return. They find that the Bering Strait has been dammed and much of the country has become a desert, populated by isolated natives and the bizarre remnants of a disintegrated culture. The expedition sets off from Manhattan, through Holiday Inns and abandoned theme parks, to uncover a shocking new power in the heart of Las Vegas.) Ballard, J.G. The Unlimited Dream Company $15.95 (Reissue; When a light aircraft crashes into the Thames at Shepperton, the young pilot who struggles to the surface minutes later seems to have come back from the dead. Within hours, vultures invade rooftops, tropical vegetation overruns the quiet avenues, and the local inhabitants are propelled by the young man's urgent visions through ecstatic sexual celebrations toward an apocalyptic climax.) Bentley, Richard James Greenbeard $14.95 (PBO; Captain Greybagges is your typical 17th-century Cambridge-educated lawyer turned Caribbean pirate, as comfortable debating the virtues of William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, and compound interest as he is wielding a cutlass. When he hears a rumor about a fleet loaded with silver, he sets sail, only to find himself in a close encounter of a very different kind.) Black, Holly Doll Bones $16.99 (Kids; Three friends set out to lay a haunted bone-china doll to rest, but nothing goes according to plan. As their adventure turns into an epic journey, creepy things begin to happen.) Brown, Jeffrey Darth Vader and Son $14.95 (Cartoons that answer the question: What if Darth Vader had taken an active role in raising his son Luke?) Brown, Jeffrey Vader's Little Princess $14.95 (Cartoons that answer the question: What if Darth Vader had taken an active role in raising his daughter Leia?) Bull, Emma Territory $14.99 (Reissue; A magical version of the 1881 gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona; Signed copies) 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.) Campbell/Chapdelaine The John W. Campbell Letters Volume 1 $35.00 (Numbered of 750 copies. A 500+ page selection of letters that the legendary sf author and editor wrote; the list of recipients reads like a Who's Who of genre fiction and art.) Card, Orson Scott (ed) Ender's World $14.95 (PBO; Nonfiction; essays on the classic sf novel) Chu, Wesley The Lives of Tao $7.99 (PBO; Out-of-shape IT tech Roen is hearing voices in his head; he now has a passenger in his brain - Tao, an ancient alien whose race crash- landed on Earth long ago. Split into the peace-loving Prophus and the savage Genjix, the alien factions have been in a state of civil war for centuries. Both sides are searching for a way off-planet, and the Genjix will sacrifice the entire human race if that's what it takes. Meanwhile, Roen is having to train to be the ultimate secret agent - like that's going to end well.) Crone, Moira The Not Yet $15.95 (Philip K. Dick Award finalist. 2121: The Heirs control society's resources from their lavish walled city-states. Through life extension, they live hundreds of years. Outside, the poor barely survive. 20-year-old Malcolm is a Not Yet, counting on joining the elite. But when his fortune mysteriously disappears, he must sail to the New Orleans Islands for answers. On the way, he encounters the darkest side of Heirs privilege, which threatens everything he knows and loves.) D'Lacey, Joseph Black Feathers $7.99 (Black Dawn #1: PBO; A modern fantasy set in two epochs: the Black Dawn, a time of environmental apocalypse; and generations into the future in its aftermath, the Bright Day. In each era, a child undertakes a perilous journey to find The Crowman. In their hands lies the fate of the planet, as they attempt to discover whether The Crowman is a savior, or the final incarnation of evil.) Delany, Samuel R. Phallos $19.95 (Expanded from the 2004 edition. During the reign of the Emperor Hadrian, Neoptolomus searches for the stolen phallus of the nameless god of Hermopolis, within which are reputedly the ancient secrets of science and society that will lead to power, knowledge, and wealth.) Dick, Philip K. Counter-Clock World $13.95 (Reissue; Time has begun moving backward. People greet each other with 'goodbye', blow smoke into cigarettes, and rise from the dead. When one of those rising dead is the famous and powerful prophet Anarch Peak, a number of groups start a mad scramble to find him first. But their motives are not exactly benevolent, because Anarch Peak may just be worth more dead than alive, and these groups will do whatever they must to send him back to the grave.) Dick, Philip K. Dr. Futurity $13.95 (Reissue; When Dr. Parsons wakes up from a car accident, he finds himself in a future populated almost entirely by the young - death is fetishized, and those who survive to old age are put down. Parsons, with his desire to save lives, finds himself a criminal and outcast. But for one revolutionary group, he may be just the savior they need to heal and revive their cryogenically frozen leader. And when he and the group journey to 1500s California, what they find causes them to question what they know about history and the underpinnings of their society.) Dick, Philip K. Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said $13.95 (Reissue; Campbell Award winner; Hugo and Nebula finalist. Jason Taverner, world-famous talk show host, wakes up one day to find that no one knows who he is - including the databases of the totalitarian government. And in a society where lack of identification is a crime, Taverner has no choice but to go on the run.) Dick, Philip K. Lies, Inc. $13.95 (Reissue; Expanded from his novella 'The Unteleported Man'. When catastrophic overpopulation threatens Earth, one company offers to teleport citizens to an allegedly pristine new home for happy and industrious immigrants. But there is one problem: the teleportation machine only works in one direction. When Rachmael ben Applebaum discovers that some of the footage of happy settlers may have been faked, he sets out on an eighteen-year journey to see if anyone wants to come back.) Dick, Philip K. A Maze of Death $13.95 (Reissue; Delmak-O is a dangerous planet. Though there are only fourteen citizens, no one can trust anyone else, and death can strike at any moment. The planet is largely unexplored, populated mostly by gelatinous cube- shaped beings that give cryptic advice in the form of anagrams. Deities can be spoken to directly via a series of prayer amplifiers and transmitters, but they may not be happy about it. And the mysterious building in the distance draws all the colonists to it.) Dick, Philip K. Our Friends from Frolix 8 $13.95 (Reissue; Every citizen of Earth is tested as a child; some are found to be super-smart New Men, and some are Unusuals with various psychic powers; these join the elite who run the world. The vast majority are Undermen, performing menial jobs in an overpopulated world. Nick Appleton is an Underman, content to go with the flow and eke out an existence - until his son is classified as an Underman. Strengthening his resolve, and energizing the resistance movement, is news that a great resistance leader is returning from a trip to the furthest reaches of space. And he's brought help: a giant, indestructible alien.) Dick, Philip K. The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch $13.95 (Reissue; Exiles from a blistering Earth huddle miserably in Martian colonies; the only things that make life bearable are the drugs. Can-D 'translates' those who take it into the bodies of Barbie-like dolls. But now Palmer Eldritch has returned after disappearing a decade ago, bringing with him Chew-Z, a new drug even more powerful than Can-D, and as mysterious as Eldritch himself.) Dick, Philip K. The Divine Invasion $13.95 (Valis #2: Reissue; God is not dead, he has merely been exiled to another planet. And it is on this planet that God meets Herb Asher and convinces him to help retake Earth from the demonic Belial.) Dick, PK/Zelazny, R Deus Irae $13.95 (Reissue; After World War III, the Servants of Wrath cult deified the mysterious Carlton Lufteufel, creator of the doomsday weapon that wiped out much of humanity. But to worship the man, they need an image of him as a god, and no one has ever seen him. So the high priests send a limbless master painter named Tibor McMasters into the wilderness on a mission to find Lufteufel and capture his likeness. Unfortunately for Tibor, the nation's remaining Christians are willing to kill to ensure that the so-called Deus Irae remains hidden.) Dinnick, R/Tucker, M Alien Adventures: The Underwater War / Rain of Terror $10.99 (Doctor Who: Young Reader Adventures #3: PBO; Kids; 2 novels featuring the 11th Doctor, Rory, and Amy.) DiTerlizzi, T/Black, H The Field Guide $5.99 (Spiderwick #1: Reissue; Kids; When the Grace children go to stay at their great-aunt Lucinda's house, they discover a field guide to faeries and other beings, and begin to have some unusual experiences.) DiTerlizzi, T/Black, H The Seeing Stone $5.99 (Spiderwick #2: Reissue; Kids; When Simon goes missing, Jared and Mallory have to contend with a band of marauding goblins to save him.) DiTerlizzi, T/Black, H Lucinda's Secret $5.99 (Spiderwick #3: Reissue; Kids; With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them - and the Guide - the children turn to great-aunt Lucinda for answers.) DiTerlizzi, T/Black, H The Ironwood Tree $5.99 (Spiderwick #4: Reissue; Kids; After Mallory is kidnapped at her fencing meet, Jared and Simon search for her near an old quarry, and find themselves amidst dwarves and goblins.) DiTerlizzi, T/Black, H The Wrath of Mulgarath $5.99 (Spiderwick #5: Reissue; Kids; The children return home to find the mansion ransacked, and learn that Mulgarath has made off with both the Guide and their mother. But before they can face Mulgarath and his goblin army, they'll have to rescue Arthur Spiderwick from Lorengorm and the elves.) Dungworth, R/Rayner, J Step Back in Time: Extra Time / The Water Thief $10.99 (Doctor Who: PBO; Kids; 2 novels featuring the 11th Doctor, Rory, and Amy.) Edwards, Janet Earth Girl $17.95 (YA; 2788: Only the handicapped live on Earth. Jarra is a throwback, an 'ape', born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. She was sent to Earth at birth to save her life, and abandoned by her parents. Now eighteen, she fakes a military background for herself and joins a group of norms who are on Earth to excavate old cities. She wants to see their faces when they find out she's fooled them. She isn't expecting to make friends, to risk her life to save norms, or to fall in love.) Enjoe, Toh Self-Reference Engine $14.99 (Instructions for Use: Read chapters in order. Contemplate the dreams of 22 dead Freuds. Note your position in spacetime at all times (and spaces). Keep an eye out for a talking bobby sock. Beware the star-man Alpha Centauri. Warning: if reading this book on the back of a catfish statue, the text may vanish at any moment, and you may forget that it ever existed.) Farrer, Matthew Strange Flesh $8.99 (Android: PBO; Novel based on the game.) Faust, Christa The Zodiac Paradox $7.99 (Fringe: PBO; Novel based on the TV show, revealing how Walter Bishop and William Bell discovered the drug Cortexiphan, and the alternate universe.) Frei, Max The Stranger's Magic $15.95 (Labyrinths of Echo #3: Sir Max once again travels to the enchanted parallel world of Echo, where magic is commonplace and he fits right in.) Frost, Jeaniene Twice Tempted $7.99 (Night Prince #2: PBO; Leila's psychic abilities have been failing her, and now she isn't sure what the future holds. Circumstances send her back to the carnival circuit. And when she finds herself in the crosshairs of a killer, Leila must decide who to trust, the fiery vampire who arouses her passions, or the tortured knight who longs to be more than a friend.) Froud, Brian et al Dark Crystal: Creation Myths Volume 2 $19.95 (YA; Full color graphic novel. Part 2 of a 3-part prequel delving into the origins of the Skeksis, Mystics, Gelflings, the world of Thra, and the Dark Crystal. This volume tells the story behind the cracking of the crystal.) Grant, Maxwell The Thunder King / The Star of Delhi $14.95 (Shadow #68: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell The Garaucan Swindle / The Death Sleep $14.95 (Shadow #69: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell The Man from Scotland Yard / Zemba $14.95 (Shadow #70: Pulp reprints) Grant, Maxwell Spoils of the Shadow / House of Silence $14.95 (Shadow #71: Pulp reprints) Hale, Ginn The Holy Road $14.95 (Rifter #2: PBO; John has climbed the Thousand Steps in search of a way home. Among the mystic warrior priests, he witnesses astounding magic and learns that the golden key he lost - the one that can open a Great Gate so that he and his friends can return home - lies within his reach. But not even the remote mountain monastery is safe from violent turmoil in this age of rebellion and religious warfare.) Hautman, Pete The Obsidian Blade $8.99 (Klaatu Diskos #1: YA; When his parents disappear, 13- year-old Tucker suspects that the disks of shimmering air he keeps seeing hold the answer. So he steps into one, and is launched on a time-twisting journey from his small Midwestern town to a futuristic hospital run by digitally augmented healers, from the death of an ancient prophet to a forest at the end of time.) Hautman, Pete The Cydonian Pyramid $16.99 (Klaatu Diskos #2: YA; Lah Lia has been raised for one purpose: to be sacrificed through a diskos. But as she is about to be killed, a strange boy appears from the diskos, saving her and launching her on a time-spinning journey in which her fate is irreversibly linked to his.) Hodgson, William Hope The Night Land $15.95 (Abridged from the 1912 edition. In the far future, what remains of the human race dwells uneasily in an underground fortress-city surrounded by relentless Watching Things, Silent Ones, Hounds, Giants, Ab-humans, Brutes, and enormous slugs and spiders. An unnamed narrator follows a telepathic distress signal into the unfathomable darkness.) Holkins, J/Krahulik, M Passion's Howl $14.99 (Penny Arcade #8: PBO; Full color. Collects the 2008 strips of the popular webcomic starring geeky heroes Gabe and Tycho, plus creator commentary.) Hudspeth, E.B. The Resurrectionist: The Lost Work of Dr. Spencer Black $24.95 (Includes two books. The first is a fictional biography of Dr. Spencer Black, from a childhood spent exhuming corpses through his medical training in 1870s Philadelphia, his travels with carnivals, and his mysterious disappearance. The second is Black's magnum opus, The Codex Extinct Animalia, a Gray's Anatomy for mythological beasts, all rendered in meticulously detailed anatomical illustrations.) Humphrey, Theron Maddie on Things $15.95 (Maddie is a coonhound who accompanied her owner on a yearlong, cross-country trip while he worked on a photojournalism project. In his spare time, Humphrey took photos of Maddie doing what she does best: standing on things.) 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?) Itoh, Project Genocidal Organ $14.99 (The war on terror exploded, literally, the day Sarajevo was destroyed by a homemade nuclear device. The leading democracies have transformed into total surveillance states, and the developing world has drowned under a wave of genocides. The mysterious American John Paul seems to be behind it all. It's up to agent Clavis Shepherd to track John Paul, and to find the true heart of darkness: a genocidal organ.) Jackson, Chris A. Pirate's Honor $9.99 (Pathfinder Tales: PBO; Novel based on the role-playing game.) Jeschonek, Robert Rising Sun, Falling Shadows $8.99 (Tannhauser: Novel based on the game. 1954: The Great War continues. The forces of the Kaiser have sold their souls to demonic powers. President Edison has sanctioned the use of alien technology from Roswell. Enter the Shogunate, a warrior sect with their own shadowy agenda, whose forces are headed for Kamchatka. The 42nd Marines must discover their plans before it's too late.) Jonell, Lynne Hamster Magic $4.99 (Magical Mix-Ups #1: Kids; Celia Willow is sick of being the smallest in her family. So when she learns that her hamster can grant wishes, she blurts out her deepest desire. The problem? She wanted to be bigger - but NOT a giant hamster. Can the kids find a way to reverse this powerful magic?) Jones, Stephen (ed) Zombies! Tales of the Walking Dead (original titles: The Mammoth Book of Zombies) $14.95 (Reissue; Anthology including classic tales of the macabre, stories from the pulps, and stories by top horror authors.) Joshi, S.T. (ed) Weird Fiction Review #3 $25.00 (Fiction, essays, poetry, more.) Kaveney, Roz Rituals $18.95 (Rhapsody of Blood #1: Tiptree Award Honor List. Long ago, a god granted Mara her wish - to protect the weak against the strong. For millennia, she has avenged that god, and her dead sisters, against anyone who uses the Rituals of Blood to become a god through mass murder. Meanwhile, in modern-day England, a shocking incident shows Emma that the world is not as she thought: there are demons and gods, elves and vampires. Her weapon is knowledge, and she pursues it wherever it leads; the one thing she does not know is who she and her ghostly lover Caroline are working for.) Kessler, Liz Emily Windsnap and the Land of the Midnight Sun $15.99 (Emily Windsnap #5: Kids; Strange storms are blowing up from the ocean, caused by the nightmares of Neptune, King of the Sea. Convinced that his dreams herald an approaching threat, Neptune enlists half-mermaids Emily and Aaron to find and eliminate the source of the trouble.) 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.) Kosmatka, Ted Prophet of Bones $27.00 (Paul Carlson is summoned to a remote island to collect DNA samples from the ancient bones of a strange species of tool user, recently unearthed by an archaeological dig. The find raises questions that cast doubt on the very foundations of modern science, which has proven the world to be only 5800 years old.) Kuhlman, Evan Brother from a Box $6.99 (Kids; Matt Rambeau is finally a big brother - to a robot! Norman turns out to be a bit of a showoff, but Matt's still psyched to have a robotic sibling. But first a computer worm causes Norman to go berserk, and then odd men start showing up. Matt soon realizes that someone is trying to steal the robot - correction - his brother!) Lee, Tanith Tempting the Gods $13.99 (Collection; Reprints 12 of her fantasy stories from the 1980s and 1990s.) Levithan, David Every Day $17.99 (YA; Andre Norton Award finalist. A is a teen who wakes up every morning in a different body, living a different life. A has made peace with that, established guidelines: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere. It's all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin's girlfriend Rhiannon. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with day after day.) Link, K/Grant, G (ed) Steampunk! $12.99 (YA; Anthology; 14 original stories) Lovecraft/Culbard The Case of Charles Dexter Ward graphic novel $19.95 (Graphic novel; adaptation of the classic horror novel) MacLeod, Ken The Human Front $12.00 (PBO; Reprints novella 'The Human Front'. Also includes two short essays and an interview with MacLeod.) Magnason, Andri Snaer LoveStar $16.95 (Philip K. Dick Award finalist. The LoveStar corporation has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves, freeing mankind from wires and devices, and allowing consumerism, technology, and science to run rampant over all aspects of daily life. Soul mates are identified and brought together, while existing unvalidated relationships are torn asunder. Blissful young lovers Indridi and Sigrid have been 'calculated apart'. Forced to go to extreme lengths to prove their love, they wind up on a collision course with LoveStar's driven founder - who is on his own mission to find what might become the last idea in the world.) Mamatas/Washington (ed) The Future Is Japanese $14.99 (PBO; Anthology; 13 sf and fantasy stories about Japan (11 originals, 2 reprints).) McNeill, Graham Bones of the Yopasi $8.99 (Arkham Horror: Dark Waters #2: PBO; After being called to the mist-shrouded town of Kingsport to identify some strange bones, Miskatonic University professor Oliver Grayson must join an unlikely team of investigators to face a horrifying new threat. But can they conquer their own demons in time to confront their common enemy?) Medley, Linda Castle Waiting Volume 2 $29.99 (Black & white graphic novel; includes over 60 pages of additional story and epilogue. The feminist fairy tale continues as Lady Jain settles into her new life; unexpected visitors result in the discovery and exploration of a secret passageway. Plus Rackham and Chess arguing about the 'manly arts', an escape-prone goat, and more.) Mitsuse, Ryu 10 Billion Days and 100 Billion Nights $14.99 (Ten billion days - that is how long it will take the philosopher Plato to determine the true systems of the world. One hundred billion nights - that is how far into the future he and Christ and Siddhartha Gautama will travel to witness the end of the world and also its fiery birth.) Morrison, Grant et al Joe the Barbarian $19.99 (PBO; Full color graphic novel. Not for kids. Reprints issues 1-8 of the comic book. A diabetic boy slips into a delirious state that transforms his attempt to find food, switch on the lights, and answer his mom's phone call into a fantasy quest through a landscape of submarine pirate dwarves, Hell Hounds, Lightning Dwarves, and besieged castles) Myers, E.C. Fair Coin $16.99 (YA; Andre Norton Award winner. Ephraim discovers a coin that makes his wishes come true each time he flips it. But several wishes go disastrously wrong, and the world begins to change in unexpected ways. Can he control the coin's powers to return to the world he remembers?) Ness, Patrick A Monster Calls $8.99 (YA; Carnegie Medal winner. Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom window. But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting - he's been expecting the one from the nightmare he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments. The monster in his backyard is different. It wants something terrible and dangerous: the truth.) Nicholas, Douglas Something Red $25.00 (13th century England: As Molly, an Irish healer, and her companions try to get their wagons across the Pennine Mountains before snow blocks their way, they realize that they are being stalked by something terrible. When it becomes clear that the creature must be faced and defeated, or they will all surely die, Molly's apprentice Hob discovers there is much more to his adopted family than he realized.) O'Hearn, Kate The Flame of Olympus $6.99 (Pegasus #1: Kids; When Pegasus crashes onto a Manhattan roof during a storm, Emily's life changes forever. Allied with the winged horse, she finds herself in the center of a fierce battle between the Roman gods and a terrifying race of stone warriors.) O'Hearn, Kate Olympus at War $16.99 (Pegasus #2: Kids; Determined to rescue her father from the CRU, Emily and her friends make plans to sneak away from Olympus and back to New York. When the Nirads begin a new invasion, Emily and her friends become entangled in a dangerous conflict.) Odyssey, Shawn Thomas The Magician's Tower $15.99 (Oona Crate #2: Kids; Brave souls from all over Dark Street enter the Magician's Tower Contest - an array of dangerous tasks, riddles, and obstacles - in hopes of becoming the first successful contestant. This year, Oona is going to try her luck. As the contest commences, a punchbowl with great magical powers disappears from the carnival surrounding the Magician's Tower. Can Oona find the culprit?) Page, Ra (ed) Bio-Punk: Stories from the Far Side of Research $14.95 (PBO; Anthology. Science fiction, or currently being developed in the lab? 14 stories by writers who collaborated closely with scientists and ethicists in the forefront of their fields of research.) Pardoe, Blaine Lee Operation Night Eagle $8.99 (Tannhauser: PBO; Novel based on the game.) Pratchett, Terry The Light Fantastic $9.99 (Discworld #02: Reissue; With a monstrous red star on a collision course, the future of life on the Discworld appears uncertain at best. Fortunately, there is one individual who can save Discworld from total destruction. Unfortunately, that happens to be Rincewind, a singularly inept wizard who was last seen falling off the edge of the world.) Pratchett, Terry Equal Rites $9.99 (Discworld #03: Reissue; A dying wizard, searching for an eighth son of an eighth son to bestow his wizardly powers upon, unknowingly chooses an infant girl. This is going to cause a lot of chaos and confusion at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University, the Discworld's - up until now all-male - school for wizards.) Pratchett, Terry Mort $9.99 (Discworld #04: Reissue; Death comes to young Mort with an offer the young man can't refuse. Actually, it's a pretty good deal. As Death's apprentice, Mort will have free board and lodging. He'll get use of the company horse. But Mort soon discovers a downside to working for the Reaper Man - when it comes to your love life, the job can be a killer.) Pratt, Tim Liar's Blade $9.99 (Pathfinder Tales: PBO; Novel set in the world of the role-playing game.) Raymond, Alex The Tyrant of Mongo $39.95 (Complete Flash Gordon, Sundays 1937-1941: Full color graphic novel. The escalating tensions between Flash and Ming threaten to bring about a planetary war, and only Ming's estranged son-in-law Prince Barin can avert it.) Reese, Jenn Above World $7.99 (Above World #1: Kids; Andre Norton Award finalist. In a future of high tech and genetic modification, the Coral Kampii, like legendary mermaids, live isolated from the Above World. But when the devices that allow them to breathe underwater start to fail, 13-year-old Aluna and her friend Hoku go to that forbidden place to find help.) Reese, Jenn Mirage $16.99 (Above World #2: Kids; The maniacal Karl Strand is out to conquer the Above World, and the horselike Equians are next on his list. Aluna, Hoku, and their friends set out to warn the Equians, but find that the Equian leader has already been persuaded to add his forces to Strand's army. To have any chance of convincing the Equians to switch sides, the four friends must find a way to win the desert-wide competition known as the Thunder Trials.) Richards, Justin Monster Miscellany $12.99 (Doctor Who: Kids; Full color photos throughout. Essential facts, monster stats, and info about aliens from the TV series.) Robeson, Kenneth Nevlo / Death in Slow Motion / Vengeance on the Avenger $14.95 (Avenger #09: Pulp reprints) Robeson, Kenneth The Headless Men / King Joe Cay $14.95 (Doc Savage #64: Pulp reprints) Robeson, Kenneth Mystery Island / Trouble on Parade $14.95 (Doc Savage #65: Pulp reprints) Robeson, Kenneth The Midas Man / The Derelict of Skull Shoal (Bama cover) $14.95 (Doc Savage #66: Pulp reprints) Robeson, Kenneth The Midas Man / The Derelict of Skull Shoal (Baumhofer cover) $14.95 (Doc Savage #66: Pulp reprints) Salaam, Kiini Abura Ancient, Ancient $18.00 (PBO; Tiptree Award winner. 13 stories (10 reprints, 3 originals) of alternate worlds built around magic, sexuality, and the search for emotional comfort.) Samatar, Sofia A Stranger in Olondria $16.00 (Jevick has been raised on stories of Olondria, a land where books are as common as they are rare in his home. When he takes his merchant father's place on a selling trip to Olondria, Jevick's life is as close to perfect as he can imagine, until he is pulled off course and becomes haunted by the ghost of an illiterate young girl. He seeks the aid of Olondrian priests, only to become a pawn in the struggle between the empire's two most powerful cults.) Schwarz, Viviane The Sleepwalkers $9.99 (Kids; Graphic novel; three trainee Sleepwalkers must tackle a series of cliff-hanging dream predicaments as they prepare to help children trapped in nightmares.) Smith, O/Brake, C System Wipe / The Good, the Bad and the Alien $10.99 (Doctor Who: Young Reader Adventures #2: Kids; 2 novels featuring the 11th Doctor, Rory, and Amy.) Szecsi, Noemi The Finno-Ugrian Vampire $14.95 (Jerne has just returned to Budapest after a posh education in England, where reincarnations of the Bronte sisters taught her to write fairy tales. But the children's books Jerne writes are considered too bloody to be published. Jerne's grandmother is adamant: Jerne will have to give up her literary ambitions and follow family tradition by becoming a vampire.) Taber, Deb Necessary Ill $20.00 (PBO; Jin designs plagues to bring the world back into balance - between population and resources, creation and destruction, choice and certainty - a balance more important to it than any individual life. Sandy, a young woman thrust violently out of her farm life into the dispassionate science of neuters like Jin, discovers her own need for balance - between safety and adventure, art and science, self-protection and love. But as the world is thrown off balance for all, Jin and Sandy must learn to see in new ways, for the survival of friends and enemies alike.) Tolkien, J.R.R. The Fall of Arthur $25.00 (Tolkein's unfinished venture into the legends of Arthur, King of Britain, may well be regarded as his finest and most skillful achievement in the use of the Old English alliterative meter, and it depicts adventure only as Tolkien could have written.) Turner, Amber McRee Sway $6.99 (Kids; When her mom's welcome back party takes a turn for the disastrous, ten-year-old Cass finds herself stuck alone with her dull-as-dirt dad, who insists that they set off for the summer on a mysterious adventure. On the road, he introduces her to the amazing power of Sway, a seemingly magical force that can bring inspiration and joy to people in major need of help.) Varley, John Good-Bye Robinson Crusoe and Other Stories $45.00 (Collection; 11 previously uncollected sf stories and novellas; Signed copies) Verba, Joan Marie Sword of Queens $15.95 (In over 500 years, no one has ever seen the evil lord Tashtalon, but when he puts the kingdom of Somerlie to sleep every night, people disappear, never to be seen again. Gill thought these things could not possibly be changed, but strange events point her to the Sword of Queens, a magical weapon that can defeat Tashtalon; Signed copies) Warren, Robert B. Murder on Olympus $16.95 (PBO; After a stint with the Olympic Bureau of Investigation, Plato Jones was through with the Gods - they're all jerks - and their political games. Until he's drawn into a murder investigation where the targets are the Gods themselves. But how can he solve a crime that's impossible to commit? And what chance does a mortal PI have against something powerful enough to kill a God?) Wells, H.G./Basic, Zdenko Steampunk: H.G. Wells: The Time Machine / The War of the Worlds $18.95 (YA; The unabridged text of two classic sf novels plus short story 'The Country of the Blind', with dozens of full-color illustrations.) Yansky, Brian Alien Invasion and Other Inconveniences $6.99 (YA; When telepathic aliens take over the Earth, Jesse finds himself slave to an inept alien leader. On the bright side, he's developing telepathic powers. But even if he escapes, is there anywhere left to go?)

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Alexander, Cassie Shapeshifted $7.99 (Edie Spence #3: PBO; Edie needs some vampire blood to heal her mother's breast cancer, and hopes to procure it at her new nursing job at the clinic across town. But vampire gang wars are rampant there, and old underground enemies are rising to the surface.) Antczak/Bassett (ed) Clockwork Fairy Tales $15.00 (Anthology; original steampunk stories inspired by traditional folk and fairy tales.) Archer, Jill Fiery Edge of Steel $7.99 (Noon Onyx #2: PBO; Noon is investigating several disappearances in the remote area of Halja; the townsfolk claim that an ancient, legendary evil is responsible.) Arthur, Keri Darkness Unmasked $7.99 (Dark Angels #5: PBO; With the first portal of hell permanently opened, the energies of the dark path are leaching into the world. And Risa will have to fight her greatest enemy to stop the nightmare.) Averill, Alan The Beautiful Land $16.00 (Tak explores parallel timelines for the Axon Corporation - until info he brings back gives Axon the means to maximize profits by changing the past, present, and future. If Axon succeeds, the woman Tak loves will cease to exist. So Tak 'borrows' a time travel device to transport them to an alternate timeline. But the device's inventor is searching for a particular timeline - and planning to destroy every other possible present and future to find it.) Bennett, Jenn Binding the Shadows $7.99 (Arcadia Bell #3: PBO; Cady discovers more about her magical abilities when her bar is the target of a demonic crime wave.) Bernobich, Beth Queen's Hunt $7.99 (River of Souls #2: On a quest to find one of the three fabled jewels of Lir, Ilse encounters a shipwrecked prisoner from another land, a woman who has a secret of her own - and one of the jewels. The two women become allies in their quest for the third jewel. Finding and controlling these stones could mean salvation for both their nations - and failure the ruin of their peoples.) Beukes, Lauren The Shining Girls $26.00 (A time-traveling serial killer is impossible to trace, until one of his victims survives; she must unravel an impossible mystery to track the killer down.) Bova, Ben Orion and King Arthur $7.99 (Orion #5: Orion finds himself in Britain, where he befriends a young warrior named Arthur, who dreams of uniting his quarreling countrymen and driving invaders from their lands. But Orion's Creator, Aten, has other plans for the timeline. He wants Arthur dead and forgotten - but Orion does not.) Brooks, Max World War Z (movie tie-in edition) $9.99 (The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the firsthand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the US and throughout the world, recording the testimony of men, women, and children.) Cameron, Stella Darkness Bred $8.00 (Chimney Rock #2: PBO; Since she escaped to Whidbey Island, danger has stalked Elin's every move. Her human traits, combined with her unique supernatural gifts, make her a prize to be possessed - or destroyed. Only the passion she shares with werehound Sean Black gives her hope for her future.) Card, O/Johnston, A Earth Afire $25.99 (First Formic War #2: Victor Delgado beat the alien ship to Earth, but not soon enough to convince skeptical governments there was a threat. When space stations, ships, and colonies go up in sudden flame, only Mazer Rackham and the Mobile Operations Police can move fast enough to meet the threat.) Chandler, A. Bertram Ride the Star Winds: The Anarch Lords / The Last Amazon / The Wild Ones / Catch the Star Winds $7.99 (John Grimes Vol. 4: Omnibus reprint; 4 novels and 5 short stories of space adventure) Ciotta, Beth His Clockwork Canary $7.99 (Darcys #2: PBO; Victorian London: Simon Darcy's plan to win a competition draws the attention of the Clockwork Canary, a sensationalist reporter; attraction ignites between them.) Clarke, Cassandra Rose The Pirate's Wish $9.99 (Ananna & Naji #2: PBO; YA; With the help of their friend Marjani and a rather unusual ally, Ananna and Naji make their way south again, seeking what seems to be beyond their reach. Unfortunately, Naji has enemies from the shadowy world known as the Mists, and Ananna must still face the repercussions of going up against the Pirate Confederation.) Collins, Suzanne Catching Fire $12.99 (Hunger Games #2: YA; Katniss Everdeen won the annual Hunger Games with Peeta Mellark, but only by defying the Capitol and their harsh rules. Now there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion.) Corey, James S.A. Abaddon's Gate $17.00 (Expanse #3: PBO; The alien artifact working through its program under the clouds of Venus has built a massive gate in the orbit of Uranus that leads to a starless dark. Jim Holden and his crew are part of a flotilla of scientific and military ships going out to examine the artifact. But behind the scenes, a plot to destroy Holden is unfolding. As the emissaries of the human race try to find whether the gate is an opportunity or a threat, the greatest danger is the one they brought with them.) Counter, Ben The Soul Drinkers Omnibus Volume 1: Soul Drinker / The Bleeding Chalice / Crimson Tears $17.50 (Warhammer 40,000: Omnibus reprint; 3 novels) Cushing, Peter Peter Cushing: The Complete Memoirs: An Autobiography / Past Forgetting $24.99 (Reprints both volumes of the fan-favorite actor's account of his career and personal life.) David, Peter After Earth $9.99 (Novelization of the film.) Davidson, MaryJanice Undead and Unstable $7.99 (Betsy Taylor #12: Determined to change the future for herself and her loved ones, Betsy's actions could have life-shattering repercussions. But that's to be expected when a friend returns from the dead, your dear sister happens to be the Antichrist, and your mother is the Devil.) Devon, Cat Sleeping with the Entity $7.99 (PBO; Daniella is hoping to open her cupcake shop - if her famous red velvet cupcakes can convince Nick, the head of the local business association, that the shop is a good addition to the sleepy neighborhood. Problem? Nick has fangs.) Dick, PK/Dufty, David How to Build an Android $16.00 (Nonfiction; the stranger-than-fiction story of the creation and loss of an artificially intelligent android of sf writer Philip K. Dick.) Epstein, A/Jacobson, A Circle of Heroes $6.99 (Familiars #3: Kids; To stop the army of undead animals that is wreaking havoc on the land, familiars Aldwyn, Skylar, and Gilbert must gather seven descendants of the most ancient and powerful animals in Vastia.) Epstein, A/Jacobson, A Starbounders $16.99 (Kids; Zachary is headed to Indigo 8, a top secret training center where future Starbounders learn the skills needed to protect the galaxy. When a plot to destroy Indigo 8 comes to light, Zachary must get back to Earth fast - before there's no Earth left!) Feehan, Christine Leopard's Prey $7.99 (Leopard People #6: PBO; Leopard-shifter homicide detective Remy Boudreux, in New Orleans on the trail of a serial killer, finds himself obsessed with a sultry jazz singer.) Fowler, Karen Joy We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves $26.95 (Meet the Cooke family: Mother and Dad, brother Lowell, sister Fern, and our narrator Rosemary: 'I spent the first 18 years of my life defined by one fact: that I was raised with a chimpanzee. I tell you Fern was a chimp and already you aren't thinking of her as my sister. But until Fern's expulsion, I'd scarcely known a moment alone. She was my whirlwind other half, and I loved her as a sister.') Fowler, Karen Joy What I Didn't See and Other Stories $16.00 (Collection; 12 stories with the sinister and the magical lurking just below the surfaces, including many award winners and finalists.) Gemmell, Stella The City $26.95 (Once a thriving metropolis, the City has sprawled beyond its bounds, inciting endless wars with its neighbors and creating a wasteland. To end the war, legendary hero Shuskara must free the City by killing the unnaturally long-lived Emperor.) Golden, Christine Starcraft II: Flashpoint $7.99 (Novel based on the video game's 'Heart of the Swarm' expansion.) Green, Simon R. Live and Let Drood $7.99 (Eddie Drood #6: Eddie's entire family has been banished to an alternate dimension. And when he finds out who - or what - attacked his clan, there will be payback.) Green, Simon R. Casino Infernale $26.95 (Eddie Drood #7: Casino Infernale is an annual event held by the Shadow Bank, financiers of all global supernatural crime. Eddie and Molly's mission: rig the game and bring down the Bank. But the stakes are high: winner takes all - and losers give up their souls.) Grimes, Linda In a Fix $7.99 (Ciel Halligan #1: Aura adaptor Ciel Halligan takes on her clients' appearances and slips into their lives to handle situations they don't want to deal with themselves. Her current job, snagging a marriage proposal for her client during an island vacation, is pretty enjoyable - until her resort bungalow is blown up and her client's date is snatched by modern-day Vikings.) Hamilton, Laurell K. Kiss the Dead $7.99 (Anita Blake #21: When a 15-year-old girl is abducted by vampires, it's up to Anita to find her. When she does, she's faced with an ordinary group of people, all recently turned and willing to die to avoid serving a master. And where there's one martyr, there will be more.) Harkness, Deborah Shadow of Night $17.00 (All Souls #2: Vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont and scholarly witch Diana Bishop are plunged back through time to Elizabethan London. Here Diana must locate a witch to tutor her in magic, Matthew is forced to confront a past he thought he had put to rest, and the mystery of the enchanted alchemical manuscript deepens.) Harper, Molly A Witch's Handbook of Kisses and Curses $7.99 (PBO; A deathbed promise to her grandmother sends Irish witch Nola on a quest to Half-Moon Hollow, Kentucky, where she is distracted from her search for hidden family artifacts by her new neighbor Jed, who keeps turning up half-naked at the strangest times.) Haskell, Merrie The Princess Curse $6.99 (Kids; 12 princesses suffer from a puzzling and silly curse. Reveka, an herbalist's apprentice, could certainly use the reward money for breaking the curse. Her efforts lead her to a shadowy stranger as charming as he is unsettling, and a blighted land in desperate need of healing.) Hickman, Tracy Blood of the Emperor $7.99 (Annals of Drakis #3: His burning desire for revenge against the emperor - whom Drakis believes has stolen any chance he has for finding peace - will set Drakis and his rebel army on a path that may bring down not only the emperor, but Drakis and his entire world as well.) Jonell, Lynne Lawn Mower Magic $4.99 (Magical Mix-Ups #2: Kids; When Derek Willow is invited to visit a friend in the family's old neighborhood, the Willow kids try to earn money for his train ticket using an enchanted, and very hungry, lawnmower.) Jordan/Dixon/Conley The Eye of the World Volume 1 $15.99 (Wheel of Time GN #01A: Full color graphic novel; issues 1-6 of the adaptation of fantasy novel) Kadrey, Richard Devil Said Bang $12.99 (Sandman Slim #4: While ruling the denizens of darkness does have perks, James Stark isn't exactly thrilled with the course of his career. He has to hold off a host of killers while working on his escape plan. Meanwhile, a serial killer ghost is running wild in LA, and Slim's angelic alter ego is hiding in the lost days of time with a cabal who can rewrite reality.) Kincaid, S.J. Insignia $9.99 (YA; Tom has been offered a place at an elite military academy, where his instincts for combat will be put to the test. If he passes, he'll become a superhuman war machine helping to lead his country to victory in WWIII. Life at the academy holds everything Tom ever wanted - but what will it cost him?) King, Stephen Joyland $12.95 (1973: College student Devin Jones comes to a North Carolina amusement park to work as a carny for the summer. There he must confront the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.) King, William Angel of Fire $14.00 (Warhammer 40,000: Macharian Crusade #1: Lord Commander Solar Macharius begins his legendary crusade to conquer the unknown worlds in the Segmentum Pacificus. The heretics of Karsk will be among the first to fall.) Kirkman, R/Bonansinga, J The Road to Woodbury $14.99 (Walking Dead Novel #2: The story of the Governor's ruthless conquest of Woodbury, Georgia.) Knutsson, Catherine Shadows Cast by Stars $9.99 (YA; Government forces are searching for people with aboriginal blood, which contains antibodies that protect them from the plague ravaging the world. Cassandra and her family flee to the Island, a territory protected by guerrillas, and by an energy barrier that keeps outsiders out and the spirit world in. But the creatures of the spirit world are angry, and they have chosen Cassandra to be their voice and instrument.) Kontis, Alethea Enchanted $8.99 (YA; Andre Norton Award finalist. It isn't easy being the rather overlooked youngest sibling. Sunday's only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true. When she meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. One night Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves, not realizing that her love has transformed him back into Prince Rumbold. He wants Sunday to fall in love with him as the man he is, not the frog he was. But Sunday is not so easy to woo.) Lackey, Mercedes Home from the Sea $7.99 (Elemental Masters #7: A fledgling Water Master with a rebellious nature, Mari Prothero has no intention of agreeing to an arranged marriage. But she has yet to learn that the Protheros are descended from Selkies. To continue her line, she must marry a full-blooded Selkie.) Lackey, Mercedes Steadfast $25.95 (Elemental Masters #8: Elemental Magician Lionel Hawkins is a stage magician who persuades Elementals of the Air to help him create illusions. So it doesn't take him long to realize that his new assistant Katie is an untrained Fire Magician. Can she harness her magic in time to stop her brute of a husband from murdering her?) Lackey/Flint/Freer Burdens of the Dead $25.00 (Heirs of Alexandria #4: In an alternate 15th century where magic is still part of life, Constantinople is under siege by the Venetians and their allies. Captain Benito Valdosta must deal with the goddess Hekate in order to save his daughter and destroy the fleets of the Chernobog assembling in the Black Sea.) Lafferty, Mur The Shambling Guide to New York City $15.00 (PBO; Hired by a shady New York publishing company, Zoe is assigned to write a guide to the city - for the undead. Blocked at every turn because she's human, she refuses to be put off, and delves deep into the monster world. But the job turns deadly when the careful balance between humans and monsters starts to crumble.) Larbalestier/Brennan Team Human $9.99 (YA; Mel lives in a city founded by vampires, but she doesn't know any personally - until one shows up at her high school, and Mel's best friend Cathy seems ready to fall in love with him. It's up to Mel to save Cathy from a mistake she might regret for all eternity.) Leisner, William The Shocks of Adversity $7.99 (Star Trek: PBO; On a mission to investigate an interstellar phenomenon, Captain Kirk and his crew find themselves drawn into a conflict between the Goeg Domain and its enemies.) McCaffrey, Anne & Todd Sky Dragons $7.99 (Pern: Pern's best chance to rebuild the dragon population and save the world from Thread lies with a group of young dragonriders stranded on an unexplored island, led by Xhinna, female rider of a blue dragon.) Modesitt Jr., L.E. Antiagon Fire $27.99 (Imager #7: Joined by his pregnant wife Vaelora, Quaeryt leads an army and a handful of imagers deeper into hostile lands, facing stiff-necked High Holders, attacks by land and sea, and a mysterious order of powerful women who seem to recognize the great destiny that awaits Quaeryt and Vaelora, as well as the cost of achieving it.) Mohr, Howard How to Talk Minnesotan $15.00 (Humor; a guide to Minnesota culture from a former A Prairie Home Companion writer, now updated for the 21st century) Monk, Devon Dead Iron $7.99 (Age of Steam #1: Men, monsters, machines, and magic battle for America. In this chaos, bounty hunter Cedar Hunt rides, cursed by lycanthropy. Then he's offered hope that his brother may yet survive. All he has to do is find the Holder, a powerful device now in the hands of an ancient Strange.) Newman, Emma Any Other Name $14.99 (Split Worlds #2: Cat has been forced into an arranged marriage with William, a situation that comes with far more strings than she anticipated, especially when she learns of his family's intentions for them both. Meanwhile, Max and the gargoyle investigate The Agency, a mysterious organization that appears to play by its own rules - and none of them favorable to Society. Over in Mundanus, Sam has discovered something very peculiar about his wife's employer, something that could herald a change for everyone in both sides of the Split Worlds.) Niven, Larry (creator) Man-Kzin Wars (25th Anniversary Edition) $15.00 (Man-Kzin #01: Reissue; Anthology; tales of the kzin, formerly invincible conquerors of all they encountered, as they struggle to deal with their ignominious defeat by the leaf-eating humans.) O'Neal, James The Double Human $7.99 (Tom Wilner #2: Undercover in the worst part of the Miami Quarantine Zone, cop Tom Wilner uncovers a serial killer known as 'The Vampire'. This killer isn't human - and neither are his victims.) Peeler, Nicole Tempest Reborn $8.00 (Jane True #6: PBO; Anyan may be trapped in an evil dragon and Blondie may be gone, but Jane is not about to give up. She's ready to tear down heaven and earth to save her lover.) Reynolds, Alastair Harvest of Time $9.99 (Doctor Who: A novel featuring the Third Doctor as played by Jon Pertwee.) Reynolds, Alastair Blue Remembered Earth $8.99 (Poseidon's Children #1: 150 years from now, Africa has become the world's dominant technological and economic power. Crime, war, disease, and poverty have been eliminated. The Moon and Mars are settled, and colonies stretch all the way out to the edge of the solar system. And the largest scientific instrument in history is about to make a discovery. Geoffrey Akinya's family controls a vast business empire. After the death of his grandmother Eunice - erstwhile space explorer and entrepreneur - something awkward has come to light on the Moon. Geoffrey is dispatched there to ensure the family name remains untarnished. But the secrets Eunice died with are about to be revealed - secrets that could change everything, or tear this near-utopia apart.) Riggs, Ransom Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children $10.99 (YA; Crawford Award shortlist. Tragedy sends 16-year-old Jacob to an island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home. As he explores the ruins, it becomes clear that the children may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined for good reason. And, impossible though it seems, they may still be alive.) Rivers, Phoebe Kindred Spirits $5.99 (Saranormal #8: Kids; Mason isn't very friendly, but Sara feels drawn to him. And the strangest things seem to happen whenever the two are together.) Ross, Deborah J. The Seven-Petaled Shield $7.99 (PBO; When an emperor conquers the city that safeguards the magical Seven-Petaled Shield, used eons ago to defeat the forces of primal chaos, the young queen and her adolescent son flee for their lives. When they are separated, fearing his mother is dead, the son transforms into the agent of chaos, a destroyer who threatens all the living world. The only ones standing in the way of annihilation are the mother he thinks is dead, a dispossessed enemy prince, a demented prophet, and the nomadic horsewoman whose love alone can heal the heart of the heir to the Shield.) Shepherd, M (Moscoe, M) The Price of Peace $7.99 (Jump Universe #2: Reissue; On the scattering of planets along the Rim, remnant thugs of the Unity Party still hold power. In the shipping lanes, pirates roam freely. Cmdr. Izzy Umboto and Lt. Terrence Tordon will soon learn that enforcing the peace can be just as expensive as fighting the war - and the cost will be counted in human lives.) Shevdon, Mike The Eighth Court $7.99 (Courts of the Feyre #4: The Eighth Court has been established, but petty rivalries and old disputes threaten its stability. The mongrels that make up the court are not helping, and Blackbird enlists the help of the warders to keep the peace. Has Blackbird bitten off more than she can chew? And can the uneasy peace between the courts continue under such tension and rivalry?) Skillingstead, Jack Life on the Preservation $7.99 (PBO; Inside the Seattle Preservation Dome it's always the Fifth of October, the city caught in an endless time loop. Graffiti artist Ian Palmer is the only one who knows the truth, and he is desperate to wake up the rest of the city - before the alien Curator of this human museum erases Ian's identity forever.) Spencer, Wen Eight Million Gods $25.00 (Nikki Delany #1: An American living in Japan, horror writer Nikki Delany becomes a suspect when a man is murdered with a blender, just as she described in her latest story. Then she's attacked by a raccoon in a business suit. After a series of blackouts, she finds she has a new companion, a boy that no one else can see who claims to be a god. Is she really being pursued by Japanese myths, or is she going insane?) Spencer, Wen Elfhome $7.99 (Tinker #3: Winter is coming, supplies are running low, and political ties are fraying. Hidden somewhere in Pittsburgh's crumbling neighborhoods, the oni are growing in number and attacking from the shadows. Tinker is determined to make her city a place of freedom. But seven elf children are already missing - and the oni eat their prisoners when they're no longer useful.) Starr, Jason The Craving $9.99 (Pack #2: There are nights Simon can't remember. Now one of those blackouts is coming back to haunt him - for Simon isn't the man he once was. He's a member of the Pack. And once you're in, it's impossible to get out.) Strahan, Jonathan (ed) Fearsome Journeys: The New Solaris Book of Fantasy $7.99 (PBO; Anthology; original stories.) Taylor, Thomas Haunters $17.99 (Kids; Three boys, three generations, one gift: the ability to travel through time through a portal of dreams, appearing as ghosts wherever and whenever they want. Eddie is a genius who has sworn to protect the past. Adam is a dream- terrorist set on changing history for his own ends. David is a neophyte who must fight for the future by keeping the other two apart.) TenNapel, Doug Tommysaurus Rex $10.99 (Reissue; Kids; Graphic novel. While exploring a cave near his grandpa's house, Ely discovers a full-grown but friendly Tyrannosaurus Rex. But Randy, the mean kid down the street, decides he's going to make life miserable for Ely and his new pet.) Weber, David War Maid's Choice $7.99 (Bahzell Bahnakson #4: Bahzell's adventures continue - and things get really complicated.) Wendig, Chuck The Blue Blazes $7.99 (Meet Mookie Pearl. Criminal underworld? He runs in it. Supernatural underworld? He hunts in it. Nothing stops Mookie when he's on the job. But when his daughter takes up arms and opposes him, something's gotta give.) Zahn, Timothy Cobra Slave $15.00 (Cobra Rebellion #1: PBO; The Dominion of Man threatens the Cobra worlds with enslavement as it moves to consolidate power. Meanwhile, Cobra Merrick Moreau is on a secret mission to a world of humans enslaved by Troft masters.)

Mid June

Acosta, Marta Dark Companion $9.99 (YA; When Jane manages to win a scholarship to exclusive Birch Grove Academy, things seem too good to be true. They are. Jane comes to suspect malign goings-on; she must find out why she was really brought to Birch Grove - and what she would risk to stay there.) Adams, Guy Makes You Stronger $7.99 (Deadbeat #1: Sometimes death is only the start of your problems. Max and Tom are old, old friends. Tom now owns a jazz nightclub called Deadbeat (which is something of an in-joke). In a churchyard one night they see a group of men loading a coffin into the back of a van. Why take a full coffin away from a graveyard? And, more importantly, why is the occupant still breathing?) Armstrong, Alan Racing the Moon $6.99 (Kids; 1947: Eleven year-old Alexis and her brother Chuck believe that the stars are within reach. In the midst of building their own rocket, they befriend an army scientist who is working to create food for future space travelers. The trio's shared interest in space travel leads to a series of adventures that they will never forget.) Balaban, Bob The Creature from the Seventh Grade: Boy or Beast $7.99 (Kids; Charlie has suddenly morphed into a giant mutant sea creature. Now his best friends are treating him like a science project, the cool kids are recruiting him for their clique, and, for some reason, his parents are acting like everything is perfectly normal.) Barry, Max Lexicon $26.95 (As the secret war between rival factions of 'poets' - adepts who wield the hidden power of language to manipulate others - becomes increasing lethal, it sends the world crashing toward a Tower of Babel event that would leave all language meaningless.) Beresford, J.D. Goslings (alternate title: A World of Women) $14.95 (Reissue; Originally published in 1913. When a plague kills off most of the world's men, Mr. Gosling abandons his family for a life of lechery. His sheltered daughters struggle to survive, eventually finding a place in a female-dominated agricultural commune, but their new life is threatened by their elders' prejudices about free love.) Bledsoe, Alex Wisp of a Thing $25.99 (Tufa #2: Musician Rob Quillen finds both music and mystery in the mountains of Cloud County, TN, where close-lipped locals guard their secrets even as Rob get caught up in a subtle power struggle he can't begin to comprehend. Only the night wind knows what part Rob will play when a curse must be broken at long last.) Browne, S.G. Lucky Bastard $15.00 (PI Nick Monday can steal other people's luck with just a handshake. Offered big bucks to find the stolen luck of the mayor of San Francisco, Nick soon winds up blackmailed by the Feds, kidnapped by the Chinese mob, and accosted by vegans and angry naked women with knives - all while trying to save a ten-year-old kid with the purest luck he's ever seen.) Counter, Ben The Soul Drinkers Omnibus Volume 2: Chapter War / Hellforged / Phalanx $17.50 (Warhammer 40,000: Omnibus reprint; 3 novels) Cox, Greg Man of Steel $7.99 (Novelization of the film.) Farmer, Philip Jose The Mad Goblin $12.95 (Caliban & Grandrith #3: Reissue; They are known as the Nine, grim rulers who discovered the key to eternal life. For millennia they have secretly held the world in thrall. Once, Doc Caliban was their servant and shared their secrets. Now, appalled by their tyranny, he dares to challenge their supremacy. Together with two henchmen whose superhuman skills match his own, Caliban sets out on the trail of the deadliest of the Nine: the mad goblin Iwaldi.) Fisher, Catherine Relic Master Part 1: The Dark City / The Lost Heiress (UK title: The Interrex) $9.99 (YA; In a devastated world, relics possess technologically advanced powers, and members of the Order are hunted by the government yet revered by the people. The only hope lies in Galen, a man of the Order and a Keeper of relics, and his 16- year-old apprentice Raffi. As they search for a relic with great power that has been hidden for centuries, they will be hunted, spied on, and tested. For there are also monsters - some human, some not - seeking the relic.) Fisher, Catherine Relic Master Part 2: The Hidden Coronet / The Margrave $9.99 (YA; Galen and his apprentice Raffi are searching for the relics with the power to save their city. First they hear of Flian's Coronet, which might be the only way to defeat the encroaching evil, but they must enlist some dangerous allies to find it. Then Raffi must face his deepest fears in the Pits of Maar; there, evil will be unmasked, and the greatest secret in all of the city will be revealed.) Gaiman, Neil The Ocean at the End of the Lane $25.99 Hardcover, $29.99 Unabridged Audiobook (A bewitching and harrowing tale of mystery, survival, memory, and magic that makes the impossible all too real.) Gorey, Edward/Saki The Unrest-Cure and Other Stories $14.95 (A selection of the famous Edwardian writer's whimsical, macabre stories, paired with illustrations by the peerless Gorey.) Guymer, David Headtaker $14.00 (Warhammer: Skaven warlord Queek Headtaker leads a surprise attack on the hold of Karak Azul, where King Kazador is gathering an army.) Harrison, Michelle 13 Secrets $7.00 (Elvesden Manor #3: Kids; The fairy messengers won't let Rowan be. When she sets out on a risky secret quest, will Tanya be able to prevent the past from consuming Rowan altogether?) King, William Fist of Demetrius $24.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Macharian Crusade #2: As the crusade reaches its apex, Lord Solar Macharius is drawn by a prophecy to the world of Demetrius in search of an ancient artefact. But others crave this potent weapon, and the dark eldar will do anything to obtain it.) Knight, Francis Before the Fall $15.00 (Rojan Dizon #2: PBO; Mage Rojan Dizon is just trying to keep his head down and restore power to the city of Mahala. Then a Downsider and emerging mage is found murdered, and mayhem results. After discovering the killer's identity, Rojan is going to be responsible either for all-out anarchy, or for a war with the neighboring countries that no one is prepared for. And there's nothing Roajn hates more than being responsible.) Martin, George et al Game of Thrones Volume 2 $25.00 (Song of Ice and Fire GN #1B: Full color. Comic book adaptation of the fantasy novel.) Mass, Wendy Pi in the Sky $17.00 (Kids; Joss is the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe. He comes from a family of overachievers, and is happy to let his older brothers shine. But when the Earth suddenly disappears, Joss is given the not-so- simple task of bringing it back.) McIntosh, Will Love Minus Eighty $16.00 (PBO; In a future where love is complicated and death is not necessarily the end, several interconnected people present a disquieting vision of romantic life as they navigate a world in which technology has reached the outer limits of morality and romance.) Melko, Paul The Broken Universe $15.99 (Possessing tech that allows him to travel across alternate worlds, John Rayburn begins building a transdimensional commercial empire, led by him and his friends and their doppelgangers from several parallel universes. Then the group's activities draw attention from other dimensional travelers, who would kill to control John's tech.) Moon, Elizabeth Limits of Power $26.00 (Paladin's Legacy #4: The Eight Kingdoms are under threat. Magical ability is popping up in family after family, even those with no known mage parentage, and some kingdoms are killing everyone in whom powers emerge. And with one very determined traitor intent on undoing any effort at peace, the future hangs in the balance.) Nadis, Fred The Man from Mars: Ray Palmer's Amazing Pulp Journey $28.95 (Nonfiction; biography of the writer and editor who ruled over US fantasy and supernatural pulps in the 1940s and 1950s.) Nicholas, Douglas Something Red $16.00 (13th century England: As Molly, an Irish healer, and her companions try to get their wagons across the Pennine Mountains before snow blocks their way, they realize that they are being stalked by something terrible. When it becomes clear that the creature must be faced and defeated, or they will all surely die, Molly's apprentice Hob discovers there is much more to his adopted family than he realized.) Palma, Felix J. The Map of the Sky $16.00 (H.G. Wells #2: Socialite Emma Harlow agrees to marry millionaire Montgomery Gilmore, but only if he accepts her challenge to reproduce the invasion featured in Wells' The War of the Worlds. Interconnected plots tell a tale of time travel and mystery, with appearances by a young Edgar Allan Poe as well as Captain Shackleton and Charles Winslow.) Patrick, Seth Reviver $25.99 (Jonah is able to temporarily revive the dead, so they can say goodbye to their loved ones, or tell the police who killed them. He's the best in the business. For every high-profile corpse, it's Jonah's job to find justice. But while reviving the victim of a brutal murder, he encounters a terrifying presence. Something is on the other side watching. Waiting.) Pratchett, T/Baxter, S The Long War $25.99 (A generation after the events of The Long Earth, humanity has spread across the new worlds opened up by Stepping, and fleets of airships link the stepwise Americas with trade and culture. A new 'America', called Valhalla, is emerging more than a million steps from Datum Earth, mirroring the core values of colonial America - and growing dissatisfied with Datum government control. Meanwhile, the Long Earth is suffused by the song of the trolls, graceful hive-mind humanoids, but the trolls are beginning to react to humanity's thoughtless exploitation. Joshua, now a married man, is summoned by Lobsang to deal with a growing crisis that threatens to plunge the Long Earth into a war unlike any mankind has waged before.) Raymond, Alex The Fall of Ming $39.95 (Complete Flash Gordon 1941-1946: Full color graphic novel. Flash Gordon and his companions continue their battles with the deadly Ming the Merciless.) Scholes, Ken Requiem $27.99 (Psalms of Isaak #4: Who is the Crimson Empress, and what does her conquest of the Named Lands really mean? Who holds the keys to the Moon Wizard's Tower? The plots within plots are expanding as the characters seek their way out of the maze of intrigue, discovering lands beyond their previous carefully controlled knowledge, where hidden truths reveal even deeper truths, and nothing is as it seemed to be.) Shulman, Polly The Wells Bequest $16.99 (Kids; Companion to The Grimm Legacy. After a tiny time machine appears in his room - with tiny versions of himself and a girl in it - Leo's search for answers leads to the Repository, and a secret collection of powerful objects straight out of classic sf novels. After a threat from a former Repository employee, Leo must attempt a journey to 1895 to warn Nikola Tesla about a dangerous invention.) Stephenson, Neal Some Remarks $15.99 (Collection; 18 essays and other writings.) Swain, James Shadow People $25.99 (Peter Warlock #2: Confronted during a seance by shadow people, evil spirits with the power to kidnap a person's soul, Peter is taken to another plane, where he barely survives an encounter with a serial killer about to claim a victim. Now Peter has only a few days to help the police figure out the killer's identity before another victim dies.) Thompson, Mary G. Escape from the Pipe Men! $16.99 (Kids; Ryan and Becky live as human exhibits in the Pipe Men's intergalactic zoo. When their father is accidentally poisoned, they must scour the universe for the antidote.) Ware, Danie Ecko Rising $14.95 (Ecko #1: In a futuristic London where technological body modification is the norm, Ecko is a testament to the extreme capabilities of his society, driven half mad by the systems running his body. He works as a criminal for hire, no job is too dangerous or insane. When a mission goes wrong and Ecko finds himself catapulted across dimensions into a peaceful and unadvanced society living in fear of 'magic', he must confront his own perceptions of reality and his place within it.) Wheeler, S.M. Sea Change $24.99 (An unhappy child, Lilly finds solace in the ocean in the form of Octavius, an eloquent and intelligent kraken who teaches her of friendship and loyalty. Forbidden by Lilly to harm humans, Octavius is captured by traders and sold to a circus, setting Lilly on a quest to win his freedom.) Yolen, J/Stemple, A The Hostage Prince $16.99 (Seelie Wars #1: Kids; Due to a series of misunderstandings, a prince and a midwife's apprentice find themselves having adventure after mishap after escape. Horrified to learn that their actions have divided the prince's kingdom, they work together to figure out how to stop the building war.) Zettel, Sarah Dust Girl $9.99 (American Fairy #1: YA; 1935: Callie helps her mother run a small hotel in Kansas, until her mother disappears in a dust storm. A mysterious man offers clues to her destiny and the path she must take. And warring fae factions are only too aware of the role this half-fae teenage girl will play in their fates.)

Early July

Adams, Terry A. The D'neeran Factor: Sentience / Master of Chaos $8.99 (Omnibus reprint. Human telepaths who come from the planet D'neera are considered trustworthy but not quite human by true-humans. So the crew of a true-human exploratory starship is shocked when the message of greeting they're broadcasting to possible sentient life forms is answered - and the reply is directed to the single D'neeran aboard, navigator Lady Hanna, who finds herself pressed into service as ambassador, facing the possibility of interstellar war.) Allston, Aaron Mercy Kill $7.99 (Star Wars: X-Wing: A general in the Galactic Alliance Army, once renowned for his valor, is suspected of participating in the infamous Lecersen Conspiracy. With orders to expose and apprehend the traitor, the reactivated Wraith Squadron will become thieves, pirates, impostors, forgers, and targets, as they put their guts, their guns, and their riskiest game plan to the test.) Ambrose, E.C. Elisha Barber $24.95 (Dark Apostle #1: 14th-century England: Serving as a medic on the front lines of an unjust war, barber-surgeon Elisha Barber finds himself drawn into the perilous world of sorcery by a beautiful young witch. He must unravel conspiracies both magical and mundane as he tries to come to terms with his disturbing new abilities.) Anderson, Taylor Iron Gray Sea $7.99 (Destroyermen #7: War has engulfed the other Earth. The vast scope of the conflict has trapped Reddy and his crew far from either front, but they must battle a bigger ship. The long-awaited invasion of Grik Indiaa has begun, and the Human-Lemurian Alliance is pushing back against the twisted might of the Dominion. The diplomatic waters seethe with treachery, and a final, terrible plot explodes in the Empire of New Britain Isles.) Anderson, Taylor Storm Surge $26.95 (Destroyermen #8: In the Pacific, Matt Reddy and his crew begin to plan a bold raid against the very heart of the Grik Empire. The Alliance is on the offensive everywhere, but their enemies have new weapons, new tactics, and powerful and deadly new allies.) Archer, Alex Clockwork Doomsday $6.99 (Rogue Angel #43: PBO; The quest for an ancient butterfly key and the powerful automaton it controls reunites archaeologist Annja Creed with her friend Garin and his old mentor Roux.) Ashby, Madeline iD: The Second Machine Dynasty $14.99 (Javier is a self-replicating humanoid on a journey of redemption. His quest takes him from Amy's island, where his actions have devastating consequences for his friend, towards Mecha, where he will find either salvation or death.) Axler, James Storm Breakers $6.99 (Deathlands #111: PBO; To get medical help for one of his team, Ryan agrees to rescue a local baron's daughter from slavers. But the Atlantic waters harbor pre-dark secrets, including the terrifying specter of a USSR nuclear submarine - and its descendants.) Barrowman, John & CaroleHollow Earth $6.99 (Matt & Emily Calder #1: Kids; Together, twins Matt and Emily Calder can bring art to life and enter paintings at will. Now they're on the run, headed for a Scottish island, seeking their grandfather's protection from a group of villains that want to use the twins' power to release the devils and monsters trapped in the world of Hollow Earth.) Barrowman, John & CaroleThe Bone Quill $16.99 (Matt & Emily Calder #2: Kids; Matt and Emily are being watched - hunted - because only they can use The Book of Beasts and the bone quill to release the terrible demons and monsters one of their ancestors illustrated. And someone is tracking down the lost book, page by page. Matt and Emily must get to the bone quill first, before somebody gets to them.) Bennett, Christopher A Choice of Futures $7.99 (Star Trek Enterprise: Rise of the Federation: PBO; Captain Archer and his crew are looking forward to returning to exploration now that the Romulans have retreated behind the Neutral Zone. But will the fragile alliances forged in the heat of war hold?) Bleyer, Kevin Me the People $16.00 (The Daily Show writer Beyer does a complete rewrite of the US Constitution - dragging it into the 21st century, fixing its flaws, and answering its unresolved questions. Along the way, he visits the birthplace of democracy, heads to Independence Hall, and debates the contents of Article III with Justice Antonin Scalia.) Bornikova, Phillipa This Case Is Gonna Kill Me $7.99 (Linnet Ellery #1: Linnet comes from an affluent human family. When she begins her career at a vampire law firm, she discovers that, in a workplace where some humans will eventually achieve immense power and centuries of extra lifespan, office politics can be vicious beyond belief.) Brooks, Terry Bloodfire Quest $7.99 (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.) Chandler, Robert (ed) Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov $18.00 (Classic folk and fairy tales.) Clark, Henry What We Found in the Sofa and How It Saved the World $17.00 (Kids; The discovery of a rare zucchini-colored crayon between the cushions of a mysterious sofa at their bus stop leads three kids on a quest to save the Earth from an alien invasion.) Cohn, Rachel Beta $9.99 (Beta #1: YA; An experimental clone created to serve the wealthy inhabitants of an island paradise, Elysia comes to realize there is an undercurrent of discontent among the worker clones. She knows she is soulless and cannot feel and should not care. But when her one chance at happiness is ripped away, rage, terror, and desire threaten to overwhelm her, and Elysia must find the will to survive.) Colfer, Chris The Wishing Spell $8.00 (Land of Stories #1: Kids; Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book, twins Alex and Conner find themselves in a land of wonder and magic, face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they've read about. But getting back home is going to be harder than they thought.) Connor, Ellen Nightfall $7.99 (Dark Age Dawning #1: After the collapse of civilization, ex-Marine Mason struggles to protect Jenna, even as she is altered forever by supernatural forces.) Cook, Glen Wicked Bronze Ambition $7.99 (Garrett PI #14: PBO; Rumors are spreading that someone is organizing a Tournament of Swords, magically compelling the children of sorcerers to battle until only one is left alive. To protect his fiancee's daughter, Garrett will have to find out who is organizing the tournament - which is most likely impossible.) Correia, Larry Legion $7.99 (Monster Hunter #4: When hunters from around the world gather in Las Vegas for a conference, a creature left over from a WWII weapons experiment wakes up and goes on a rampage across the desert. A wager between rival companies turns into a race to see who can bag the creature first. But there's more to this case than meets the eye: the crew from MHI will have to stop an ancient god from turning Sin City into hell on earth; Autographing at Uncle Hugo's on Tuesday, August 6, 5-6pm) Costa, T.L. Playing Tyler $9.99 (PBO; YA; Tyler can't focus on school, on his future, on much of anything other than taking care of his older brother Brandon, who's in rehab again. The one thing Tyler doesn't suck at is playing video games. Then he's asked to test a video game. If his score's high enough, it could earn him a place in flight school. But when Brandon goes MIA from rehab, Tyler discovers that the game is more than it seems. Now Tyler will have to figure out what's really going on in time to save his brother.) DeKeyser, Stacy The Brixen Witch $6.99 (Kids; When Rudi Bauer accidentally takes a witch's coin, he unleashes her curse. He tries to return the coin, only to lose it on the witch's magic mountain just as the snows come. Rudi tries to find the coin again in the spring, but it has vanished - and a plague of rats has descended on his village. Then a stranger arrives and promises to rid the village of rats - for the price of the missing coin.) Dembski-Bowden, Aaron The Emperor's Gift $14.00 (Warhammer 40,000: A young boy is recruited into the Grey Knights; he must hone his fledgling psychic talents if he is to join the ranks of the Space Marine daemon hunters.) Derek the Ghost Monsters on the March $6.99 (Scary School #2: Kids; As winners of the Ghoul Games, the students are off to meet Zog the Monster King. When the king's daughter falls in love with Charles and follows him back to Scary School, Zog raises his army of monsters to invade the school. But the students and teachers will prove that scary monsters are no match for Scary School!) Devon, Cat The Entity Within $7.99 (PBO; Witches and vampires have always been archrivals; for Zoe and Damon, surrendering to their passion could mean losing their immortal powers. Is their desire worth the risk?) DiTerlizzi, Tony A Hero for WondLa $8.99 (WondLa #2: Kids; Hailey brings Nine and her friends to the colony of New Attica, where humans of all shapes and sizes live in apparent peace and harmony. But Eva soon realizes something sinister is going on - and if she doesn't stop it, it could mean the end of everyone on Orbona.) Elliott, Kate Cold Steel $18.00 (Spiritwalker #3: PBO; Plagued by trouble, treachery, and magic, Cat and her cousin Bee have their work cut out for them. Revolutions to plot. Enemies to crush. Handsome men to rescue.) Fforde, Jasper The Last Dragonslayer $7.99 (Kazam #1: YA; 15-year-old Jennifer runs Kazam, an employment agency for magicians, but it's hard to stay in business when magic is drying up. Now visions are predicting the death of the world's last dragon at the hands of an unnamed Dragonslayer. If the visions are true, everything will change for Jennifer and Kazam - because something known as Big Magic is coming.) Fletcher, Susan Falcon in the Glass $16.99 (Kids; Venice, 1487: Young Renzo has just a few months to prepare for a test of his glassblowing abilities, but desperately needs another pair of hands to help him when he practices at night. When he finds a girl hiding in the glassworks, he tries to get her to help, but she comes with baggage: ten other hungry children, who can communicate with birds and are condemned as witches. Caught between devotion to his family and his art and protecting the outcast children, Renzo struggles for a solution that will keep everyone safe.) Flynn, Michael On the Razor's Edge $25.99 (Spiral Arm #4: Donovan buigh is carried all the way to Terra to help plan the rebel assault on the Secret City - but if he doesn't remember the key information locked inside his fractured mind soon, the rebels may resort to torture to extract it. Meanwhile, Bridget ban organizes a pack of Hounds to go in pursuit of her daughter, despite knowing that Ravn Olafsdottr kidnapped the harper to lure Bridget in her wake.) French, John Ahriman: Exile $14.00 (Warhammer 40,000: PBO; Ahriman, a renegade Chaos Space Marine sorcerer, plots his return to power and the destruction of his enemies.) Gafla, Ofir Touche The World of the End $24.99 (Devastated by the untimely demise of his wife Marian, Ben Mendelssohn is willing to end his own life and enter the unknown beyond if it means a chance of getting her back. When he can't find her, he hires an unconventional afterlife investigator. But as evidence mounts that Marian is alive and well and living in Tel Aviv, Ben also uncovers unexpected truths that will haunt him throughout eternity.) Galenorn, Yasmine Night Vision $7.99 (Indigo Court #4: PBO; Wind Witch Cicely and her cousin Rhiannon are destined to become the Fae Queens of Winter and Summer. But when a renegade vampire kidnaps Rhiannon, Cicely must lead her forces in a bloody battle to save her cousin.) Gibson, Gary Stealing Light $13.95 (Shoal #1: 25th century: Only the alien Shoal possess the secret of FTL, giving them absolute control over galactic trade and exploration. Dakota Merrick is ex-military; she is currently piloting a civilian ship ferrying a team to a star system containing a derelict starship where they hope to salvage a functioning FTL drive of non-Shoal origin. But the Shoal are not ready to relinquish their monopoly.) Gibson, Gary Nova War $13.95 (Shoal #2: When Dakota and Corso find themselves imprisoned on a Bandati colony world far from Consortium space, it rapidly becomes clear to them that humanity's knowledge of the galaxy, filtered by the Shoal, is direly inaccurate - and that the Shoal may be the galaxy's one chance for peace.) Gibson, Gary Empire of Light $13.95 (Shoal #3: The nova war is spreading as the Emissaries wage a fierce and reckless campaign. While Dakota goes in search of the entity that created the Maker caches, Corso is left in charge of a fleet of human-piloted Magi ships, but finds his authority crumbling in the face of assassination attempts and sabotage.) Goyer, D/Cassutt, M Heaven's War $9.99 (Human refugees have begun to colonize the massive alien ship. The first challenge is survival. The second is discovering why The Architects brought them there. The third is breaking out of the habitat, because it's clear the ship is moving again - away from Earth.) Gratton, Tessa The Lost Sun $17.99 (United States of Asgard #1: YA; When Baldur, son of Odin and one of the most popular gods in the United States of Asgard, goes missing, Soren Bearskin, the son of an infamous beserker, and Astrid Glyn, daughter of a renowned seer, embark on a road trip to find him.) Grimes, Shaunta Viral Nation $9.99 (PBO; A virus killed most of the global population, until the Company stopped it with a vaccine they brought back from the future. Now they control everything. But to save her brother's life, Clover, an autistic sixteen-year-old, will take on the Company - and incite a revolution.) Guran, Paula (ed) After the End: Recent Apocalypses $15.95 (Anthology; post-apocalyptic stories published in the last decade.) Haig, Matt The Humans $25.00 (When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the human species are less than positive, and he is eager to complete the gruesome task assigned to him and head back to his own planet. But as time goes on, he starts to realize there may be more to this weird species than he first believed.) Haines, Jess Forsaken by the Others $7.99 (H&W Investigations #5: PBO; To escape a couple of irate East Coast werewolf packs, PI Shiarra Waynest temporarily relocates to Los Angeles, where local vampires are being attacked by zombies. Shia sets out to discover who could be powerful enough to control them - and reckless enough to target the immortal.) Haley, Guy Crash $7.99 (PBO; The Market rules all, plotting the rise and fall of fortunes without human intervention. To function, the Market must expand without end, so a bold venture to the stars is begun. But the colony fleet is sabotaged, leaving a small group marooned. They must fight for survival on a hostile planet, while secrets about both the nature of their shipwreck and the planet itself threaten to tear their fragile society apart.) Hamilton, Laurell K. Affliction $28.95 (Anita Blake #22: Micah's father is dying, rotting away inside from some strange ailment. Can Anita solve the mystery?) Harris/Kelner (ed) Death's Excellent Vacation $16.00 (Anthology; 13 original stories of supernatural R&R, including a new Sookie Stackhouse story by Charlaine Harris) Harrison, Kim Into the Woods: Tales from the Hollows and Beyond $16.99 (Collection; an original Hollows novella and 6 reprinted works of Hollows short fiction, plus 3 original and 1 reprinted non-Hollows works of short fiction.) Hearne, Kevin Hunted $7.99 (Iron Druid #6: PBO; Plus novella 'Two Ravens and One Crow'. Dodging the slings and arrows of not one but two goddesses of the hunt, Atticus, Granuaile, and wolfhound Oberon are making a mad dash across Europe to seek help from a friend of the Tuatha De Danann. The usual magical option of shifting planes is blocked, so the game plan is to run like hell. Crashing the marathon is the Norse god Loki; killing Atticus is the only loose end he needs to tie up before unleashing Ragnarok. Atticus and Granuaile have to outfox the huntresses and contain the god of mischief if they want to go on living - and still have a world to live in.) Horton, Rich (ed) The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2013 $19.95 (Anthology; some of the best stories published in 2012) Hoyt, Sarah A. Noah's Boy $15.00 (Shifters #3: PBO; While Rafiel Trall, a cop and lion shifter, is trying to find a solution for the crimes of a feral shifter, an entity takes out the Great Sky Dragon, head of all dragon shifters.) Hunter, Erin Tallstar's Revenge $18.99 (Warriors Super Edition #6: Kids; A young WindClan warrior's life is marred by tragedy that fills his heart with bitterness; he sets off on a dangerous path in search of revenge - far outside the bounds of the warrior code.) Hunter, Erin Warriors: The Untold Stories $6.99 (Kids; 3 novellas) Jackson, D.B. (Coe, D) Thieftaker $7.99 (Ethan Kaille #1: Boston, 1765: A conjurer who makes his living tracking down thieves, Ethan Kaile must face the most powerful members of Boston society as well as its seamy underbelly when he is hired to recover a necklace worn by a wealthy murder victim. And behind it all waits another conjurer, who has already killed in the service of powerful masters.) Jackson, D.B. (Coe, D) Thieves' Quarry $25.99 (Ethan Kaille #2: Murder, magic, and politics make loyalist conjurer and thieftaker Ethan Kaille a target in the powder keg of 1768 Boston.) Johnson, Suzanne River Road $14.99 (Drusilla Jaco #2: Wizards are dying, and someone or something from the Beyond is poisoning the waters of the Mississippi. DJ and Alex must find out who or what is behind these problems.) Kemp, Paul S. A Discourse in Steel $7.99 (Egil & Nix #2: PBO; Egil and Nix have retired. No more sword and hammer-play for them! But when two recent acquaintances need help, our hapless heroes find themselves up against the Thieves Guild. And when kidnapping the leader of the most powerful guild seems like the best course of action, you know you're in over your head.) Lambshead, John Wolf in Shadow $15.00 (PBO; Rhian, a Welsh girl on the run from tragedy and herself, finds a haunting and dangerous world of demons and shapeshifters on the streets of London's East End.) Lee, Sharon/Miller, Steve A Liaden Universe Constellation $15.00 (PBO; Collection; short fiction set in the Liaden universe (previously published in their chapbook series).) Lieberman/Rawlings The Silver Six $10.99 (Kids; Graphic novel. A group of orphans makes a daring escape from their orphanage to an uninhabited moon. But the powerful corporate boss who caused the deaths of their parents sends a relentless henchman to track them down. The resourceful kids decide there's only one thing to do: Fight back!) MacFarlane, Alex (ed) Aliens: Recent Encounters $15.95 (Anthology; sf stories published in the last decade.) Marr, Melissa The Arrivals $24.99 (Chloe goes to sleep, drunk and heartbroken, in Washington, DC, and wakes up in the Wasteland. She is welcomed by Jack and Kitty, brother and sister from a Wild West frontier town, but neither they nor any of their companions know why they were chosen. Two questions loom large: Why are we here? Is there a way out of this corrupt, demon-filled world?) McCaffrey, Anne Freedom's Choice $7.99 (Freedom #2: Reissue; Enslaved by the alien Catteni and forced to colonize a world not their own, the human settlers have accepted Botany as their home - a home worth fighting for.) McCullough, Kelly Blade Reforged $7.99 (Fallen Blade #4: PBO; Aral has learned that one of the few people willing to help him in his darkest days has been imprisoned by Maylien's uncle, King Thauvik. It was the death of Thauvik's half brother that earned Aral the name Kingslayer, and now he is thrust into a war that will see no end until he lives up to his name; Autographing at Uncle Hugo's Saturday, June 29, 1-2pm) McOmber, Adam The White Forest $16.00 (Jane has a gift that allows her to see the souls of manmade objects. When her friend Nathan becomes interested in a cult - led by a mystic who encourages his followers to explore dream manipulation - and then disappears, the famed Inspector Vidocq arrives in London to untangle events. But when a sinister truth emerges, Jane realizes she must use her talent to find Nathan before it's too late.) Niven, L/Harrington, M The Goliath Stone $24.99 (2052: Dr. Toby Glyer has effected miracle cures with his controversial nanites. This new form of life also has the potential to make Earth rich from the wealth of the asteroids. But as every parent learns, when you produce a thinking being, the plans it makes are not necessarily your plans. When a gigantic asteroid comes hurtling towards Earth, will the nanites be humanity's salvation, or its destruction?) Niven, L/Lerner, E Fate of Worlds $7.99 (Fleet of Worlds #5: Without warning the Ringworld has vanished, leaving behind three rival war fleets - who are now targeting the Puppeteers. But adventurer Louis Wu and the exiled Puppeteer known as Hindmost, marooned together for more than a decade, escaped from the Ringworld before it disappeared. And throughout those years, as he studied Ringworld technology, Hindmost has plotted to reclaim his power. One way or another, the fabled race of Puppeteers may have come to the end of their days.) Paquette, A.J. Paradox $17.99 (YA; Ana only knows her name because of the tag she finds pinned to her jumpsuit. She opens the hatch to discover that she has landed on a barren alien world. Instructions in her pocket tell her to observe and to survive, no doubt with help from the knives she carries on her belt. But to what purpose?) Piper, Lindsey Caged Warrior $7.99 (Dragon Kings #1: PBO; Only through combat in the Cages can Dragon Kings - an ancient race of demons once worshipped as earthly gods - earn the privilege of conceiving children. Expert warrior Leto is charged with training new arrival Audrey - the sparring partners learn that, in a violent underground world, love is the only prize worth winning.) Pratchett, T/Baxter, S The Long Earth $9.99 (Western Front, 1916: Private Percy Blakeney wakes up lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves of the trees. Where have the mud, blood, and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? Madison, Wisconsin, 2015: Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive scientist when she finds a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch, and a potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way humanity views the world.) Quaid, Jamie Damn Him to Hell $7.99 (Saturn's Daughter #2: PBO; Just when Tina finally lands a real job, the Zone is blasted by poisonous gas. And her sometimes-boyfriend is none too pleased to start receiving visitors from Hell - or that Tina sent his granny to Hell in his place.) Richardson, Kat Seawitch $7.99 (Greywalker #7: After a 25-year absence, a boat has mysteriously returned to its old berth in Seattle. The insurance company has hired Harper to find out what happened. Her investigation leads to a powerful being who may be responsible for the disappearance of the passengers and crew.) Riordan, Rick The Son of Neptune $9.99 (Heroes of Olympus #2: Kids; At Camp Half-Blood, demigods Jason, Piper, and Leo inherited a quest. But who are the other four mentioned in the prophesy? The answer may lie in another camp miles away, where a new arrival appears to be the son of Neptune, god of the sea.) Riordan, Rick et al The Sea of Monsters graphic novel $12.99 (Percy Jackson & the Olympians GN #2: Kids; Full color adaptation of the fantasy novel.) Robinson, Kim Stanley 2312 $10.00 (Nebula winner, Hugo finalist, Tiptree Award Honor List. Earth and Mars are locked in conflict over the things people always fight about: air, water, power. And there's a weapon loose in the solar system that could end humanity once and for all. Can two diplomats from rival factions find out who controls the weapon, and stop it from being used?) Robson, Cecy A Cursed Embrace $7.99 (Weird Girls #2: PBO; Celia's relationship with alpha werewolf Aric is jeopardized when weres turn up dead and all the evidence points to Celia's vampire friends.) Rowland, Diana White Trash Zombie Apocalypse $7.99 (Angel Crawford #3: PBO; When a zombie movie starts filming in town, things get crazy, and Angel suspects it's not just the plot of the movie that's rotten. Soon she's fighting her way through mud, blood, bullets, and intrigue.) Russell, Sean The Initiate Brother Duology: The Initiate Brother / Gatherer of Clouds $16.00 (Omnibus reprint. Plague and warfare have disturbed the peace of the ancient kingdom of Wa. The new Emperor is fearful of all who might wrest the Empire from his grasp, especially Lord Shonto. Not only is Shonto the greatest military genius of the age, but with him is Initiate Brother Shuyun, a young man gifted with extraordinary martial arts skills and unbelievable magical abilities.) Ryan, Anthony Blood Song $27.95 (Raven's Shadow #1: The Brothers of the Sixth Order are devoted to battle, and Vaelin will be trained and hardened to the austere, celibate, and dangerous life of a Warrior of the Faith. But one truth overpowers all the rest: Vaelin is destined for a future that will alter not only the realm, but the world.) Salvatore, R.A. & Geno Stone of Tymora $7.99 (Forgotten Realms: Maimun is an orphan who discovered a stone that make him forever lucky. Now he's being hunted by a demon, haunted by a spellcaster, and chased by a pirate. With Drizzt's help, he must unravel the secrets of the Stone of Tymora before his luck runs out.) Sandner/Weisman (ed) The Treasury of the Fantastic $19.95 (2nd edition. Fantasy stories by major literary figures of the pre-Tolkien era.) Soesbee, Ree Sea of Sorrows $8.99 (Guild War: PBO; Novel based on the online game.) Stackpole, Michael A. Vol'jin: Shadows of the Horde $26.00 (World of Warcraft: Novel based on the game.) Stross, Charles The Apocalypse Codex $7.99 (Laundry Files #4: When an American televangelist with the ability to heal miraculously becomes uncomfortably close to the British Prime Minister, The Laundry dispatches the brilliant but unpredictable Persephone Hazard to uncover the preacher's agenda. Bob Howard must make sure Persephone doesn't cause an international incident. But it's a supernatural incident that Bob needs to worry about.) Stross, Charles Neptune's Brood $25.95 (Set in the Saturn's Children universe. The human species is extinct - for the fourth time - due to its fragile nature. A metahuman descended from the robots that once served humanity, Krina is traveling to a water-world to find her sister. They each possess half of the Atlantis Carnet, a financial instrument capable of bringing down entire civilizations. But a body-double assassin is stalking Krina across the galaxy, ready to take the Carnet once it is whole - and leave no witnesses alive.) Thompson, Vicki Lewis Werewolf in Alaska $7.99 (Wild About You #5: PBO; Jake is the founder of Werewolves Against Random Mating, and that means a human like Rachel is off limits, no matter how attractive he finds her.) Vande Velde, Vivian Deadly Pink $6.99 (Kids; 14-year-old Grace has to find a way to get her older sister out of a princess-filled virtual reality game before it's too late.) Varley, John Slow Apocalypse $7.99 (Screenwriter Dave Marshall thought the scenario sounded implausible when he heard it from a government consultant on his last film: a scientist releases a virus that feeds on petroleum into an Iraqi oil field, but it spreads to infect the entire international fuel supply. Now it's become a terrifying reality.) Verne, Jules Travel Scholarships $29.95 (First English-language edition. Nine students set sail for their Caribbean island homelands, not knowing that, before they boarded, escaped convicts hijacked the ship and murdered the crew.) Warren, Christine Hungry Like a Wolf (original title: Fur Play) $7.99 (Others #15: When her father dies, Honor inherits the alpha position in a New England werewolf pack - whether she wants it or not. 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Mid July

Basu, Samit Turbulence $14.95 (Aman gets off a plane from London to Delhi and discovers that he has turned into a communications demigod. Indeed, everyone on Aman's flight now has extraordinary abilities. Aman wants to ensure that their new powers aren't wasted on costumed crime-fighting, celebrity endorsements, or reality television. He wants to heal the planet, but he finds helping some means harming others. Will it all end, as 80 years of superhero fiction suggest, in a meaningless slugfest?) Black, Jenna Replica $9.99 (16-year-old Nadia comes from an Executive family in the Corporate States. Her marriage has been arranged. Though Nadia and Nate aren't in love, they are happy enough with their match. Until Nate turns up dead, and Nadia was the last person to see him alive. When the new Nate wakes up in the replication tanks, he doesn't know what killed him. 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Carr, Caleb The Legend of Broken $16.00 (Medieval Germany: In the kingdom of Broken, legend meets history, science defies all expectation, and a solder struggles to save a fortress city besieged by enemies within and without.) Clines, Peter Ex-Communication $14.00 (PBO; In the years since the wave of living death swept the globe, St. George and his fellow heroes haven't just kept LA's last humans alive, they've created a bustling town that's swelling with new refugees. But now one of the heroes seems to be losing his mind, the implacable enemy known as Legion has found new ways of using zombies as pawns in his attacks, and outside the Mount, something ancient and monstrous is hell-bent on revenge.) Cohen, Rich Alex and the Amazing Time Machine $6.99 (Kids; Alex is a pretty ordinary kid, except for his high IQ and fondness for books about time travel. When two hitmen kidnap his brother, inventing a time machine is only half the battle. 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Early August

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Big Egos $16.00 (In the near future, a bioengineering firm has revolutionized role- playing games with Egos, a product that allows customers to become fictional characters or dead celebrities for several hours by having a DNA-laced cocktail injected into their brain stems. When an anomaly turns up in a group that has been injected regularly for three years, the corporate brass wave it off as nothing to worry about. But the man who has been injecting them finds he is exhibiting the same anomaly. Truth is, he's started to lose the ability to separate fact from fiction.) Caine, Rachel Terminated $7.99 (Revivalist #3: PBO; Addicted to the pharmaceutical drug that keeps her body from decomposing, Bryn must stop a group of powerful investors seeking to eliminate the existing addicts. And she will need to find the cure to have any hope of preserving the lives of her friends, and her own dwindling humanity.) Canavan, Trudi The Traitor Queen $8.00 (Traitor Spy #3: Lorkin returns from his exile with the Traitor rebels, tasked with brokering an alliance between his people and the Traitors. To harness the power of an entirely new kind of gemstone magic, he had to become a black magician. This knowledge could transform the Guild of Magicians - or make Lorkin an outcast forever.) Carter, Scott William Wooden Bones $6.99 (Kids; Since he changed, Pino has struggled to live a quiet life with his father Gepetto. But a boy who used to be a wooden puppet doesn't fit in well. When he creates a replica of Gepetto's late wife and brings it to life, the two are chased out of their village by a mob demanding the resurrection of their own loved ones. Facing a world that wants to use him for his powers, when Pino discovers that his abilities are slowly transforming him back into a puppet, will he strike a deal with those who only want to use him, or stand up for who he really is?) Choo, Yangsze The Ghost Bride $24.99 (Li Lan, the daughter of a Chinese family in colonial Malaysia, has few suitors since her father lost his fortune. Instead, the wealthy Lim family urges her to become a ghost bride for their son, who recently died under mysterious circumstances. Such a union would guarantee Li Lan a home for the rest of her days, but at what price? Night after night, Li Lan is drawn into the shadowy parallel world of the Chinese afterlife, where she must uncover the Lim family's darkest secrets - and the truth about her own family.) Connor, Ellen Midnight $7.99 (Dark Age Dawning #2: As bloodthirsty raiders strike again and again at Valle de Bravo, Chris and Rosa battle hellhounds and dust pirates while also fighting their desperate attraction.) Correia, Larry Warbound (limited signed edition) $27.00 (Grimnoir Chronicles #3: 1933: The Power, a living creature from another universe, is the source of mankind's magic. Now it has been discovered by a predator that eats magic and leaves destroyed worlds in its wake. Former PI Jake Sullivan puts together a ragtag crew of airship pirates and Grimnoir knights, and sets out on a suicide mission to stop the predator before it's too late; Autographing at Uncle Hugo's on Tuesday, August 6, 5-6pm) Counter, Ben Seventh Retribution $14.00 (Warhammer 40,000: PBO; Captain Darnath Lysander, hero of the Imperial Fists, leads his brothers in an assault on a daemon world.) Cronin, Justin The Twelve $9.99 (Passage #2: Present day: Three strangers' lives intertwine as they navigate the chaos caused by a U.S. government experiment gone wrong. 100 years in the future: Amy, Peter, Alicia, and the others hunt the twelve original virals, unaware that the rules of the game have changed.) 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Each volume in the series will include a unique paper craft - volume 1 has a replica of Moe's Tavern - that will allow fans to assemble a three-dimensional Springfield.) Heinlein, Robert A. Assignment in Eternity $7.99 (Classic sf reprint; 2 novellas and 2 stories) Hines, Jim C. Libriomancer $7.99 (Magic Ex Libris #1: A member of a secret organization founded long ago by Johannes Gutenberg, Isaac is a Libriomancer, able to reach magically into books and draw forth objects. Attacked by vampires, he manages to escape, and discovers that they have been attacking other magic users as well. With the help of a motorcycle-riding Dryad who packs a semi-automatic, Isaac finds himself hunting the dark power that has been manipulating both humans and vampires.) Hines, Jim C. Codex Born $24.95 (Magic Ex Libris #2: 500 years ago, Johannes Gutenberg discovered the art of libriomancy, allowing him to reach into books to create things from their pages. Gutenberg's power brought him many enemies. Born from the pages of a pulp fantasy novel, dryad Lena Greenwood was created to be the ultimate fantasy woman, strong and deadly, but shaped by the needs and desires of her companions. Her powers are unique, and Gutenberg's enemies hope to use those powers for themselves. But their plan could unleash a far darker evil.) Hough, Jason M. The Darwin Elevator $9.99 (Dire Earth #1: PBO; 23rd century: The world has succumbed to an alien plague, with most of the population transformed into mindless, savage creatures. The planet's refugees flock to Darwin, Australia, where a space elevator - created by the architects of this apocalypse, the Builders - emits a plague- suppressing aura. Skyler Luiken has a rare immunity to the plague. Backed by an international crew of fellow immunes, he leads missions into the dangerous wasteland beyond the aura's edge to find the resources Darwin needs to stave off collapse. But when the Elevator starts to malfunction, Skyler is tapped, along with brilliant scientist Dr. Tania Sharma, to solve the mystery of the failing alien technology and save the ragged remnants of humanity.) Hreinsson, Vidar (ed) Comic Sagas and Tales from Iceland $17.00 (Stories from the 13th to 15th century, a time of civil unrest and social upheaval, shaped by Iceland's oral culture and conversion to Christianity.) Jayne, Hannah Under a Spell $7.99 (Underworld Detection Agency #5: PBO; Sophie's latest assignment sends her undercover into a frightening realm: her old high school, where she must deal with mean girls - and a secret witch coven about to sacrifice a missing student.) Jeapes, Ben Phoenicia's Worlds $7.99 (PBO; Earth's only extrasolar colony is caught in the grip of an ice age. When tragedy strikes the colony, to save it from starvation and collapse, Alex Mateo must make the long, slower than light journey back to Earth. But it is his brother Quin who must watch his world collapse around him - and become its ultimate savior.) Johnson, Jean Hellfire $7.99 (Ia #3: PBO; With the Salik breaking through the Blockade and plunging the known galaxy into war, Ia must assemble a crew that can rise to the challenge - a crew that will trust her prophecies.) Jones, Terry The Saga of Erik the Viking (30th anniversary edition) $16.99 (Reissue; Kids; In this odd and charming children's story, a ship's crew journeys in search of adventure in the land where the sun goes at night. (Not to be confused with the Terry Jones film of the same name, which has some similarities, but a much more adult tone.)) Kadrey, Richard Kill City Blues $24.99 (Sandman Slim #5: Stark has managed to get out of Hell, renounce his title as the new Lucifer, and settle back into life in Los Angeles. But along the way he misplaced the Qomrama Om Ya, a weapon from the banished older gods, who are also searching for their lost power. The hunt leads Stark to an abandoned shopping mall infested with Lurkers and wretched bottom-feeding Sub Rosa families; somewhere in the kill zone of the mall is a dead man with the answers Stark needs. All Stark has to do is find the dead man, get back out alive, and outrun some angry old gods - and a few killers - on his tail.) Kenyon, S/Love, D Rise of the Gryphon $7.99 (Belador #4: PBO; Evalle Kincaid must turn her back on the Beladors to protect those she loves, and the world, from annihilation.) Kollin, Dani & Eytan The Unincorporated Future $16.99 (Unincorporated #4: Resurrected following the death of Justin Cord, Sandra O'Toole has become a Machiavellian leader determined to win the Civil War against the inner planets at almost any cost. And the war has been going badly. Nothing is predictable, even the behavior of artificial intelligences. There may be only one way out, but it is not surrender.) Lalumiere, Claude (ed) Super Stories of Heroes & Villains $15.95 (Tales of caped crusaders and their nemeses, by writers from the worlds of comics, fantasy, horror, sf, and noir.) Lansdale, Joe R. Deadman's Road $14.95 (2nd edition; 5 tales featuring pissed-off gunslinging preacher Jebediah Mercer as he does battle with zombies, werewolves, evil spirits, and more in the Wild West.) Lawrence, Mark King of Thorns $7.99 (Broken Empire #2: As King Jorg's need for revenge against his father continues to consume him, his enemies march toward his castle. But beneath the castle Jorg has found ancient artifacts, and the secrets they hold can be put to terrible use in the coming battle.) Lawrence, Mark Emperor of Thorns $25.95 (Broken Empire #3: The Emperor is chosen not by sword, but by vote - which has never happened. King Jorg plans to change that one way or the other. He's uncovered more of the lost technology of the land, and he won't hesitate to lose it. Standing in his way is a necromancer: the Dead King has returned.) Lore, Pittacus I Am Number Four: The Lost Files $9.99 (Lorien Legacies: YA; 3 novellas about the inner workings of the Mogadorian regime and how they engineered the attack on Lorien.) Malan, Violette Shadowlands $7.99 (Dispatched to the Shadowlands to call home the People who remain refugees there, Stormwolf discovers that the Hounds of the Wild Hunt now prey upon the souls of humans, draining them of the magic that is their lifeblood. With the help of mortal psychic Valory Martin, Stormwolf must find the magic needed to defeat the Hunt.) McCaffery, Todd (ed) Dragonwriter: A Tribute to Anne McCaffrey and Pern $14.95 (Nonfiction; remembrances of and tributes to the award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer, from friends, fans, and fellow authors.) McNeill, Graham Angel Exterminatus $9.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Horus Heresy #23: When Fulgrim offers Perturabo a chance to lead an expedition in search of an ancient xenos weapon, the Iron Warriors and the Emperor's Children unite to venture deep into the great warp-rift known as 'The Eye', pursued by a ragged band of survivors from Isstvan V and the revenants of a dead eldar world.) Messenger, Shannon Keeper of the Lost Cities $6.99 (Kids; 12-year-old Sophie has never quite fit into her life, or connected with people. She thinks it's because she can read minds. Then she meets Fitz, another Telepath, and learns that she has never felt at home because she isn't. Now she is forced to leave behind the only family she knows for a new life in a vastly different place. But Sophie still has secrets, and they're buried deep in her memory for good reason. What is her true identity, and why was she hidden among humans?) Myklusch, Matt The End of Infinity $7.99 (Imagine Nation #3: Kids; The final battle has arrived - it's time for Jack to discover if he's going to be the greatest hero the world has ever known, or the greatest villain.) Neill, Chloe Biting Bad $15.00 (Chicagoland Vampires #8: PBO; Anti-vampire riots are erupting all over town, striking vampires where it hurts the most. Merit and her allies rush to figure out who's behind the attacks, who will be targeted next, and whether there's any way to stop the wanton destruction.) Newman, Kim Anno Dracula $7.99 (1888: Queen Victoria has taken as her new consort the Wallachian prince Count Dracula. His bloodline spreads through London as its citizens increasingly choose to become vampires. In the backstreets of Whitechapel, a killer is cutting down vampire girls. 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Detroit cop Alex McKnight has traded his badge for a cabin in the woods, but now a murderer with the same MO as the one who shot Alex and his partner has arrived, and it seems like it'll be a frozen day in Hell before McKnight can unravel truth from deception in the small Michigan town.) Harrar, George Reunion at Red Paint Bay $14.95 (PBO; Maine newspaper editor Simon Howe finds his predictable life disrupted by the arrival of a disturbing anonymous postcard that engages him and his family in a psychological battle with an stalker; Signed copies) Hart, Carolyn The Devereaux Legacy $13.95 (Reissue; The folks running the Devereaux plantation tell Leah Devereaux that she's a dead woman - presumed dead since the day her parents died. Leah has returned to South Carolina to uncover the truth about their deaths. While her cousin Merrick welcomes her, others tell her to stop meddling in old secrets. 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Izzo, Jean-Claude Chourmo $15.00 (Marseilles #2: Reissue; Ex-cop Fabio Montale infiltrates a dangerous underworld of mobsters, religious fanatics, and crooked cops to find out the truth about the disappearance of his cousin's son.) Izzo, Jean-Claude Solea $15.00 (Marseilles #3: Reissue; The body count is growing as the Mafia hunt journalist-activist Babette Bellini; she turns to her former lover, ex-cop Fabio Montale, for help.) Jacques, Jacqueline The Colours of Corruption $16.95 (PBO; London, 1893: A desperately poor cleaner named Mary witnesses a murder, and works with Archie, an artist, to provide the police with a drawing of the killer. Archie persuades her to sit for a portrait, but has no idea that this one woman will link his wealthiest clients, the poorest slums, terrible secrets, and a violent thug.) Jance, J.A. 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Lawson, Mike House Blood $15.00 (Joe DeMarco #7: A Washington lobbyist, convicted of killing his partner, insists he was framed. Joe DeMarco is asked to look into the seemingly hopeless case; the trail leads to a pharmaceutical company willing to do anything to get disposable human subjects for a drug trial.) Lee, Y.S. The Traitor in the Tunnel $7.99 (Agency #3: YA; Mary Quinn is undercover at Buckingham Palace, hunting a petty thief, when the Prince of Wales witnesses a murder. Meanwhile, engineer James Easton is at work shoring up the sewers beneath the palace, where an unexpected tunnel seems to be very much in use. Can Mary and James solve the mystery and protect the royal family?) Lehane, Dennis A Drink Before the War $9.99 (Kenzie & Gennaro #1: Reissue; Powerful Boston politicians are willing to pay PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro big money for a seemingly small job: finding the missing cleaning woman who stole some secret documents. But this crime is no ordinary theft - it's about justice.) Lehane, Dennis Darkness, Take My Hand $9.99 (Kenzie & Gennaro #2: Reissue; PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired by a prominent psychiatrist running scared from Boston's Irish mobsters.) Lehane, Dennis Sacred $9.99 (Kenzie & Gennaro #3: Reissue; A grief-stricken woman has vanished without a trace. So has the detective hired to find her. And a lot of money. The case leads Boston PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro into unexpected territory.) Lehane, Dennis Gone, Baby, Gone $9.99 (Kenzie & Gennaro #4: Reissue; Boston PIs Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro are hired to find abducted 4-year-old Amanda McCready. When a second child disappears, the two detectives intensify their search.) Lehane, Dennis Prayers for Rain $9.99 (Kenzie & Gennaro #5: Reissue; When a former client jumps from a Boston landmark, PI Patrick Kenzie discovers that a sadistic stalker targeted the woman and methodically drove her to her death. The law can't touch the monster - but Kenzie and his former partner Angela Gennaro can.) Leon, Donna Doctored Evidence $14.00 (Brunetti #13: Reissue; When a wealthy woman is found murdered, the authorities suspect her maid; when the maid meets an untimely end trying to escape from border police, Brunetti takes the case.) Leonard, Elmore Pronto $14.99 (Raylan Givens #1: Reissue; Miami bookie Harry Arno once ditched him in an airport; this time, US Marshal Raylan Givens is determined to find the fugitive's Italian hideaway - before a Sicilian hitman does.) Leonard, Elmore Riding the Rap $14.99 (Raylan Givens #2: Reissue; A debt-ridden Palm Beach playboy decided to take somebody rich hostage - and chose bookie Harry Arno. Problem is, US Marshal Raylan Givens is sleeping with Harry's ex-girlfriend Joyce, and she wants Harry found.) Lewman, David The Case of the Plagued Play $5.99 (Club CSI #6: PBO; Kids; Someone is trying to sabotage the school play, and it's up to Club CSI to make sure the show goes on.) Low, Robert The Lion Wakes $16.99 (Kingdom #1: 1296: King Edward I of England arranges for John Baliol, a man he knows he can manipulate, to take control of Scotland after the death of King Alexander III. But unrest is rife, and many are determined to throw off England's control - including an angry young man who will come to be known as Robert the Bruce.) Lynch, Jim Truth Like the Sun $15.00 (Hammett Prize finalist. A cat-and-mouse story of urban intrigue in Seattle, set in 1962, when Seattle hosted the World's Fair, and in 2001, after its transformation in the Microsoft gold rush.) MacInnes, Helen Decision at Delphi $9.95 (Reissue; When a national travel magazine sent New York architect Ken Strang to Europe to sketch Greek ruins, he didn't know until it was too late that he had become the pawn in a murderous game of international intrigue.) Maron, Margaret One Coffee With $12.95 (Sigrid Harald #1: PBO; NYPD homicide detective Sigrid Harald investigates when murder strikes the Art Department of Vanderlyn College. Everyone in the department had both motive and opportunity, but who poisoned the deputy chairman's morning coffee?) Maron, Margaret Death of a Butterfly $12.95 (Sigrid Harald #2: Reissue; NYPD homicide detective Sigrid Harald investigates the death of Julie Redmond, a beautiful, self-centered and demanding woman; digging into Redmond's past reveals a web of blackmail, murder, and stolen gems.) Maron, Margaret Death in Blue Folders $12.95 (Sigrid Harald #3: Reissue; Attorney Clayton Gladwell keeps sensitive cases in blue folders that only he can access. When he announces his impending retirement, someone decides that those secrets won't be safe unless Gladwell is dead; NYPD homicide detective Sigrid Harald investigates.) Marsh, Ngaio Death at the Bar $14.95 (Roderick Alleyn #09: Reissue; Darts is nobody's idea of a low-risk amusement, but it is rarely lethal. Tell that to the famous barrister who was enjoying a pint at the pub, and is now residing at the morgue. Inspector Alleyn has a growing hunch that the peculiar accident can be traced to an old legal case.) Marsh, Ngaio Surfeit of Lampreys (alternate title: Death of a Peer) $14.95 (Roderick Alleyn #10: Reissue; The aristocratic Lamprey family exemplifies charm, wit, and a chronic lack of funds. So they may perhaps be forgiven for doing a little jig when the wealthy but unpleasant Lord Wutherwood is killed and the resulting inheritance saves their bacon. Inspector Alleyn would like to figure out whether they murdered their benefactor.) Marsh, Ngaio Death and the Dancing Footman $14.95 (Roderick Alleyn #11: Reissue; The wealthy (and generally unspeakable) Jonathan Royal has decided to throw a party and, just for fun, has studded the guest-list with people who loathe one another. When a blizzard imprisons them all in Royal's country house, murder ensues. And there are nearly as many suspects as there are potential victims. Eventually, Inspector Alleyn makes his way through the snow to sort things out.) Marsh, Ngaio Colour Scheme $14.95 (Roderick Alleyn #12: Reissue; Colonel Claire's mud-baths resort in New Zealand is on the brink of being taken over by a local blowhard who may be a Nazi spy. Inspector Alleyn has been sent to the resort to sort things out. But he's in disguise, and even the canniest readers will have trouble picking him out from the resort's motley cast of characters.) McCarry, Charles The Shanghai Factor $26.00 (A nameless young spy working for a shadowy US agency is sent undercover at a massive Chinese conglomerate, tasked with learning the secrets of the powerful CEO, who is believed to be a front man for the Chinese government's largest foreign intelligence agency.) McPherson, Catriona As She Left It $14.99 (PBO; When she was 12, Opal Jones escaped her mum's endless drinking. Returning to their Leeds cottage after her mum's death, Opal feels like she's gone back in time - except that her favorite neighbor's grandson disappeared years ago. As the door Opal closed on her past begins to open, she uncovers more secrets about the people who were once her friends.) Miller, Derek Norwegian by Night $26.00 (Sheldon Horowitz has left New York to live with his granddaughter and her husband in Norway. When a dispute between a neighbor and a stranger turns dire, Sheldon shields the neighbor's young son, and they flee the scene. But old age and circumstances are altering Sheldon's experience of time and memory; he and the boy head across the Norwegian wilderness, on the run from demons both real and imagined.) Minnesota Crime Wave Fifteen Tales of Murder, Mayhem, and Malice from the Land of Minnesota Nice $16.00 (Anthology; 15 stories by Minnesota crime writers.) Morris, Marc The Norman Conquest $32.00 (Nonfiction; explains why the Norman Conquest was the most significant cultural and military episode in English history, as language, law, architecture, and even attitudes toward life itself were altered) Morris, R.N. Summon Up the Blood $15.95 (Silas Quinn #1: London, 1914: A killer's victims all have one thing in common: there is no blood in their bodies. DI Silas Quinn's search for the killer leads to the members of an exclusive gentlemen's club.) Neri, Kris Revenge on Route 66 $17.95 (Tracy Eaton #4: Cafe owner Lucy Crier plugged her ex and went to the big house for murder. That's why it's perplexing when she's seen dodging traffic along Route 66. Aging Hollywood hunk Alec Grainger uses that mystery as a lure for his daughter Tracy and her sweetie Drew. But the road takes a darker turn when Lucy's smarmy son turns up dead, and an even stranger bend when the FBI calls Tracy one of America's Most Wanted.) Odyssey, Shawn Thomas The Magician's Tower $15.99 (Oona Crate #2: Kids; Brave souls from all over Dark Street enter the Magician's Tower Contest - an array of dangerous tasks, riddles, and obstacles - in hopes of becoming the first successful contestant. This year, Oona is going to try her luck. As the contest commences, a punchbowl with great magical powers disappears from the carnival surrounding the Magician's Tower. Can Oona find the culprit?) Parker, Robert B. Stranger in Paradise audiobook $14.99 (Jesse Stone #07: Unabridged. Hired to find a mobster's daughter, Apache hitman Crow resurfaces in Paradise, but has qualms when the mobster wants his ex-wife killed.) Parker, Robert B. Cold Service audiobook $14.99 (Spenser #32: Unabridged. When a bodyguard job goes wrong, Hawk's client and his family are killed, and Hawk is critically wounded. Hawk and Spenser learn that the Ukrainian mob was responsible for the hit, but taking down their operation will require some questionable techniques and even more questionable allies.) Parker, Robert B. Painted Ladies adiobook $14.99 (Spenser #38: Unabridged. Spenser agrees to provide protection during a ransom exchange - money for a stolen painting. When he fails to protect his client and the painting remains stolen, he enters into a game of cat- and-mouse with the thieves.) Pascoe/Fassbender By the Balls: The Complete Collection $16.95 (Reprints 2 hardboiled novels featuring PI Ben Drake, plus 5 short stories (2 original to this volume).) Pearce, Michael The Donkey-Vous $14.95 (Mamur Zapt #03: Reissue; 1900s Egypt: How is it possible that two tourists disappeared while taking tea on the terrace at the highly respectable Shepheard's Hotel, and no one saw anything? Are these ordinary crimes, or symbolic blows at the British? Captain Owen, head of Cairo's Political CID, investigates.) Pearce, Michael The Men Behind $14.95 (Mamur Zapt #04: Reissue; Last Laugh Dagger finalist. 1900s Egypt: Captain Owen, head of Cairo's Political CID, investigates a series of attacks aimed at public officials.) Pearce, Michael The Bride Box $28.95 (Mamur Zapt #17: 1912: When a little girl is discovered riding under a train from Luxor, Captain Owen, head of Cairo's political CID, is called in to investigate. Owen finds himself confronting a political storm when his investigations uncover a tangled web of family loyalties and betrayals, with its roots in a slave trade long supposed to have been stamped out in Egypt.) Penzler, Otto (ed) The Big Book of Ghost Stories $25.00 (PBO; Anthology; reprints 79 haunting tales.) Perry, Thomas The Boyfriend $25.00 (Former LAPD homicide detective Jack Till now works as a PI. When the parents of a recently murdered young woman ask for his help, Till reluctantly takes the case after the police come up empty, and discovers that the victim is just one of several young female escorts killed in different cities in the exact same way; Signed copies) Piccirilli, Tom The Last Kind Words $15.00 (Rand Family #1: Raised in a family of small-time grifters, Terry decided to go straight after his older brother Collie went on a killing spree. Year later, weeks before his scheduled execution, Collie contacts Terry, claiming that he wasn't responsible for one of the murders, and that the real killer is still out there.) Plakcy, Neil S. Natural Predators $14.99 (Kimo Kanapa'aka #7: Plus bonus short story 'Alpha and Omega'. When the body of an O'ahu patrician is found in a warehouse fire, openly gay homicide detective Kimo Kanapa'aka and his detective partner Ray Donne dig deep into island history in order to understand the victim, his killer, and their motives.) Pryor, Mark The Bookseller $15.95 (Hugo Marston #1: Max, the elderly owner of a Paris bookstall, is abducted at gunpoint. His friend Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, launches a search, enlisting the help of semiretired CIA agent Tom Green. Their investigation reveals that Max was a Holocaust survivor and later became a Nazi hunter. Is his disappearance somehow tied to his grim history, or even to the mysterious old books he sold? Before long, other booksellers start to disappear, their bodies found floating in the Seine.) Pryor, Mark The Crypt Thief $15.95 (Hugo Marston #2: PBO; Two tourists, one of them American, are murdered in a Parisian cemetery. The killer then steals part of the skeleton of a long-dead Moulin Rouge dancer. Hugo Marston, head of security at the US Embassy, helps investigate.) Reiss, Tom The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo $16.00 (Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of General Alex Dumas, son of a black slave, who made his way to Paris, where he rose to command armies at the height of the Revolution. His larger-than-life achievements were the inspiration for his son Alexandre Dumas' swashbuckling novels.) Resnick, Mike Dog in the Manger $13.95 (Eli Paxton #1: Reissue; Plus Paxton short story 'Even Butterflies Can Sting'. When PI Eli Paxton is hired to find a missing Westminster Dog Show winner, it turns out to be anything but a routine case. People are dying, a cargo plane has gone missing, and someone is taking shots at him.) Rice, Craig The Wrong Murder $14.95 (John Malone #03: Reissue; Jake and Helene are about to tie the knot - except Helene has been arrested for speeding. And Jake has bet a wedding guest that she can't commit a murder he can't solve - which she thinks would be a great way to get her picture in the newspaper. When a corpse turns up, Jake thinks it's part of the bet, and enlists the help of lawyer John J. Malone.) Richter, William Dark Eyes $9.99 (YA; Thriller Award finalist. Adopted from a Russian orphanage as a child, 16-year-old Wally is determined to find her birth mother. But can she do it before her murderous birth father finds her?) Robeson, Kenneth Nevlo / Death in Slow Motion / Vengeance on the Avenger $14.95 (Avenger #09: Pulp reprints) Robins, Madeleine E. Sold for Endless Rue $25.99 (13th century: After a blighted childhood, Laura finds purpose in the home of a midwife and healer, and enrolls in Salerno's medical school. Heartbroken after an unhappy love affair, and rejected as impure by her adopted mother, Laura steals an infant girl, Bieta, to raise as her own. Determined to protect her adored daughter from the ravages of the world, Laura isolates her in a tower. Bieta, as determined as Laura, escapes to find adventure and love.) Rollins, James Bloodline audiobook $19.99 (SIGMA Force #8: Plus original bonus story 'Tracker'. 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.) Round, Jeffrey Lake on the Mountain $11.99 (Dan Sharp #1: PBO; Lambda Award finalist. Dan Sharp is invited to a wedding on a yacht; when a member of the wedding party is swept overboard, a case of mistaken identity leads to confusion as the wrong person is reported missing. The hunt for a possible killer leads Dan deeper into the troubled waters of the private lives of a family of rich WASPs) Savage, Angela Behind the Night Bazaar $15.95 (Jayne Keeney #1: Reissue; Ned Kelly Award finalist. Australian Jayne Keeney works as a PI in Bangkok. She heads north to visit a close friend in Chiang Mai, but murder is in the air there. Jayne must get past arrogant expats and corrupt officials to get to the truth.) Scudiere, A.J. Phoenix $14.95 (Jason doesn't remember his life before he was adopted at age seven; years later, when his adoptive mother reveals that Jason had a brother, he sets out to learn the truth about his past.) Sedley, Kate The Christmas Wassail $29.95 (Roger the Chapman #22: Christmas, 1483: Roger is looking forward to twelve days of peace and celebration with his wife and children in Bristol. But the murders of two of the town's prominent citizens, both veterans of the French wars, scupper Roger's hopes as he is drawn into the hunt for the killer.) Shapiro, B.A. The Art Forger $14.95 (In 1990, 13 works of art, worth millions, were stolen from the Gardner Museum in Boston. It remains the largest unsolved art heist in history, and struggling young artist Claire Roth is about to discover that there's more to this crime than meets the eye.) Slaughter, Karin Blindsighted $9.99 (Grant County #01: Reissue; There's a serial killer at work in Heartsdale, Georgia - one whose identity is hidden somewhere in coroner Sara Linton's secret past.) Slaughter, Karin Kisscut $9.99 (Grant County #02: Reissue; When an argument at the local skating rink leads to death, coroner Sara Linton uncovers evidence of self-mutilation and long- term abuse, but her investigation is frustrated at every turn by the cold silence of the family and friends of the slain girl.) Smith, Dan The Child Thief $25.95 (A troubled Great War veteran races across the frozen steppe of 1930s Ukraine to save a child from a shadowy killer with unthinkable plans.) Solana, Teresa The Sound of One Hand Killing $14.95 (Eduard & Borja #3: Two detectives, brothers Borja and Eduard, are hired to research the world of alternative therapies. They enroll for a course at a ritzy meditation center, only to discover the director murdered. Meanwhile, the violent death of a CIA agent neighbor drags them into an international conspiracy - complicated by Borja's attempt to smuggle a priceless figurine.) Spencer-Fleming, Julia To Darkness and to Death $14.99 (Fergusson & Van Alstyne #5: Reissue; Millie van der Hoeven has decided to sell her family's Adirondack estate to a nature conservancy. But on the day of the land transfer, her brother calls the police to report that Millie has disappeared in the cold November forest. Reverend Clare Fergusson joins the search; she and police chief Russ Van Alstyne discover that someone is desperate to stop the sale.) Stamboulieh, Katrina In Plain Sight $14.95 (When her best friend Samantha is murdered, Rea suspects Sam's boyfriend Peter, a Russian national, had her murdered to keep his dealings with Afghanistan secret. When the Minneapolis police don't find any evidence, Rea decides to investigate on her own; Signed copies) Stead, Rebecca Liar & Spy $15.99 (Kids; Agatha Award finalist. After moving to Brooklyn, Georges meets Safer, a twelve-year-old self-appointed spy, and becomes his first recruit, assigned to track the mysterious man who lives in the apartment upstairs. But as Safer becomes more demanding, Georges starts to wonder: what is a game, and what is a lie?) Stewart, Mary This Rough Magic $14.95 (Reissue; Edgar Award finalist. Actress Lucy Waring is delighted to spend a holiday with her sister on the Greek island of Corfu, especially when she learns that a nearby house has been rented by Sir Julian Gale, an English theatrical legend. But when a local boy is killed, and someone begins shooting at a tame dolphin in the bay, it becomes clear that all is not sunny in their corner of the island.) Symonds, Tim Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Bulgarian Codex $12.95 (1900: Holmes and Watson are summoned to Sofia, Bulgaria, where the most ancient sacred manuscript in the Old Bulgarian language has been stolen. Its disappearance could lead to the outbreak of war between Russia, Austro-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire.) Thursfield, Fred Sherlock Holmes and the Terrible Secret $14.95 (At the beginning of the Great War, Sherlock Holmes is coaxed out of retirement to track down an exotic dancer and retrieve a secret accidentally given to her by a young patent clerk, before it falls into the hands of a hostile government.) Todd, Charles A Long Shadow $14.99 (Ian Rutledge #08: 1919: When Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge finds a brass cartridge casing with mysterious markings, he pockets it. When he finds another, he realizes someone is hunting him. But who? And will Rutledge live long enough to find out why?) Vargas, Fred The Three Evangelists $17.99 (2006 International Dagger winner. Sophia discovers that a tree has appeared overnight in the garden of her Paris house. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours: Vandoosler, an ex-cop, and three historians, Mathias, Marc, and Lucien. They agree to dig around the tree and see if something has been buried there, but find nothing. A few weeks later, Sophia disappears. When her body is found burned to ashes in a car, Vandoosler and the historians set out to learn who killed her.) Webb, Wendy The Fate of Mercy Alban $15.99 (PBO; Grace has spent more than 20 years avoiding her childhood home on the shores of Lake Superior. When her mother's unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds there is more haunting the hallways than her own personal demons.) Wishnia, Kenneth (KJA) Soft Money $16.95 (Filomena Buscarsela #2: Reissue; Plus bonus story 'Under the Big Black Sun'. NYC, 1980s: When the owner of a neighborhood bodega is murdered, it falls into the overcrowded category of just another ethnic crime, and will probably go unsolved. The dead man's sister turns to ex-cop Filomena Buscarela for help.) Wright, Tom What Dies in Summer $14.95 (When Jim and his cousin L.A. discover the body of a brutally raped and murdered girl in a field, an investigation begins that will put both their lives in danger.) Zafon, Carlos Ruiz The Prisoner of Heaven audiobook $19.99 (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.)

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Adler-Olsen, Jussi A Conspiracy of Faith (UK title: Redemption) $26.95 (Department Q #3: Detective Carl Morck receives a bottle that contains an old and decayed message, written in blood. It is a cry for help from two young brothers, tied and bound in a boathouse by the sea. Could it be real? Who are these boys, and why weren't they reported missing? Could they possibly still be alive?) Allen, Jeffrey Father Knows Death $7.99 (Stay at Home Dad #3: PBO; On a trip to the county fair, Deuce has his hands full caring for his precocious daughter and keeping his ten- months-pregnant wife sane - and that's before he finds a dead body in the freezer at the concession stand.) Ampuero, Roberto The Neruda Case $16.00 (Cayetano Brule #6: 1970s: Dying poet Pablo Neruda recruits Cayetano Brule to help him solve the last great mystery of his life, sending him on a whirlwind expedition, to Cuba and East Berlin then back to Chile, where Pinochet's coup plays out against the final revelations of the journey.) Atkins, Ace The Broken Places $26.95 (Quinn Colson #3: Sheriff Quinn Colson has to cope when an infamous murderer is released from prison. The victim's family is intent on revenge, and the gang who helped the killer on his last armored car robbery has broken out of prison, figuring he's headed for the hidden loot.) Barry, Kevin City of Bohane $15.00 (Near future: The once-great city of Bohane on the west coast of Ireland is infested by vice and split along tribal lines. For years it has all been under the control of the Hartnett Fancy gang. But there's trouble in the air: Hartnett's old nemesis is back in town; his trusted henchmen are getting ambitious; and his missus wants him to give it all up and go straight.) Blake, Robin A Dark Anatomy $15.99 (Cragg & Fidelis #1: 1740: When a Lancashire squire's wife is found in the woods, her throat slashed, coroner Titus Craig enlists the help of astute young doctor Luke Fidelis to throw light on the case.) Bolin, Janet Thread and Buried $7.99 (Threadville #3: PBO; When a body shrouded in material from Threadville turns up in Willow's back yard, she'll have to unravel the deadly mystery before she gets tangled up in the killer's string of murders.) Bond, Michael Monsieur Pamplemousse on Probation $16.95 (Pamplemousse #12: Reissue; Sent to report on Chef Andre Dulac, currently in line for Le Guide's top award, Monsieur Pamplemousse opens a can of worms which threatens the very sanctity of France's premier gastronomic bible. In an attempt to get at the truth, he harnesses a state-of-the-art TV camera to his ever-faithful hound Pommes Frites.) Bond, Michael Monsieur Pamplemousse Hits the Headlines $16.95 (Pamplemousse #14: Reissue; France's premier TV cookery program ends spectacularly when the chef is killed. Pommes Frites, sniffer dog extraordinaire, has his own views on the matter: Claude Chavignol was a bad egg if ever he's seen one. Soon as he and his master Monsieur Pamplemousse find themselves caught up in murder, blackmail, and unrequited lust in high places.) Bonnice, L/Kananen, S Fear of Our Father $9.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; Stacey was shocked when her brother admitted murdering their abusive father, and later their helpless mother - and even more shocked when he claimed that Stacey helped him.) Bradshaw, Mel Fire on the Runway $17.99 (Paul Shenstone #2: 1920s Toronto: When a grenade explodes outside a hotel room, Lucy, the room's occupant, disappears. Police detective Paul Shenstone believes someone is trying to assassinate her. When he finds her, he learns the reason: she has uncovered dangerous secrets that threaten world peace. Shenstone must protect her and pursue her attackers - and help get her message to the corridors of power) Brandon, Chase The Cryptos Conundrum $9.99 (A copper sculpture stands in the CIA courtyard, emblazoned with an indecipherable message. Dr. Jonathan Chalmers knows exactly what it says. He heads a CIA group tasked with containing the greatest secret our government has ever kept - and planning for its consequences. If Chalmers can't save us, nobody can.) Brennan, Allison Stolen $7.99 (Lucy Kincaid #6: PBO; PI Sean Rogan's past catches up with him: he must clear his name and help the FBI take down a rogue agent, or go to prison. Forced to keep Lucy in the dark, the longer Sean is undercover, the more dangerous the mission becomes.) Brown, Eli Cinnamon and Gunpowder $26.00 (1819: Chef Owen Wedgwood has been kidnapped by ruthless pirate Mad Hannah Mabbot. He will be spared as long as he puts exquisite food in front of her every Sunday without fail. Mabbot, hunted by a privateer and plagued by a saboteur on her ship, pushes her crew past exhaustion in her search for the notorious Brass Fox.) Burke, James Lee A Morning for Flamingos $9.99 (Robicheaux #04: Reissue; His partner is dead, slain during a prisoner's bloody flight to freedom that left Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux critically wounded and facing the ghosts of his past. After rejoining the New lberia police force, he trails a killer into the Big Easy, and finds himself caught up in the lethal undercurrents of a mob double cross as he confronts his most dangerous enemy - himself.) Camilleri, Andrea Death in Sicily: The Shape of Water / The Terra-Cotta Dog / The Snack Thief $20.00 (Montalbano #01 / #02 / #03: Omnibus reprint; 3 novels featuring the quirky middle-aged Sicilian police inspector.) Campbell, Mark Sherlock Holmes $14.95 (Nonfiction; a look at the iconic fictional detective.) Campion, Alexander Killer Critique $15.00 (Capucine Culinary #3: When a noted food critic is killed with an obscure poison at a Paris restaurant, Capucine LeTellier is called in to investigate.) Carlisle, Kate A Cookbook Conspiracy $23.95 (Bibliophile #7: Brooklyn Wainwright is asked to restore an antique cookbook for her sister's ex-boyfriend, a successful chef. When the ex is found dead, and Brooklyn's sister becomes a suspect, Brooklyn will have to turn up the heat on the investigation.) Carroll, Grace Murder After a Fashion $7.99 (Accessories #3: PBO; Rita takes a cooking class with a celebrity chef, but her appetite is ruined when murder becomes the main course.) Child, Lee A Wanted Man $9.99 (Jack Reacher #16: All Reacher wanted was a ride to Virginia. But he soon discovers he has hitched more than a ride. He has tied himself to a massive conspiracy that makes him a threat - to both the criminals and the FBI.) Christie, Pamela Death and the Courtesan $15.00 (PBO; Regency England: When a paper knife stolen during one of her salons is discovered at the scene of a rival courtesan's murder, Arabella finds herself a suspect, and sets out to untangle a web of deception.) Christie/Cook, Cathy The Agatha Christie Miscellany $16.95 (Examines the Queen of Mystery's place in literary history, her books, film and TV adaptations, and her iconic characters, with facts, trivia, and quotes.) Cochran, Peg Steamed to Death $7.99 (Gourmet De-Lite #2: PBO; Aging soap star Felicity Davenport is using Gigi's Gourmet De-Lite to help her shed a few pounds. But when Felicity is murdered in her sauna, things start getting too hot for Gigi to handle.) Connolly, Sheila Monument to the Dead $7.99 (Nell Pratt #4: PBO; When the philanthropists of Philadelphia start dying of mysterious causes, Nell sets out to trace the connections between the victims, hoping to uncover the murderer before another do-gooder is done in.) Conrad, Hy Mr. Monk Helps Himself $23.95 (Monk #16: While studying for her PI license, Natalie heads to a weekend self-help retreat. When the retreat's charismatic leader jumps off a cliff in full view of everyone, it looks like suicide, but Natalie is sure it's murder.) Constable, Benjamin Three Lives of Tomomi Ishikawa $16.00 (A suicide note, clues hidden in paintings, a deadly game of wits, and an imaginary cat draw readers through the streets of Paris and New York on an intricate adventure.) Costa, Shelley You Cannoli Die Once $7.99 (PBO; Philadelphia chef Eve Angelotta and her cousins start their own investigation to clear their grandmother's name after she's arrested for her boyfriend's murder.) Cussler, C/Brown, G The Storm $9.99 (NUMA Files #10: In the middle of the Indian Ocean, a swarm of black particles attacks a NUMA research vessel, killing everyone aboard, while the ship goes up in flames. What Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala find when they reach the smoldering hulk leads them to a plan to permanently alter the weather on a global scale. It will kill millions - and it has already begun.) Cussler, C/Brown, G Zero Hour $28.95 (NUMA Files #11: A scientist thinks he has found a way to tap into zero point energy, but his machines are causing earthquakes and fissures in tectonic plates. It's up to Kurt Austin and the NUMA team to find and destroy them.) Davis, Krista The Diva Frosts a Cupcake $7.99 (Domestic Diva #7: PBO; For Sophie, planning a cupcake fundraising event turns sour when one of the bakery's partners leaves to open a competing shop. When one of the shop's employees is murdered, Sophie must sift through the clues to find the killer.) Deaver, Jeffery The Kill Room $28.00 (Lincoln Rhyme #10: When a US citizen is targeted by the US government, and assassinated by an elite sniper in the Bahamas, forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme investigates.) Downing, David Zoo Station $9.99 (John Russell #1: Reissue; Berlin, 1939: An acquaintance from his old communist days approaches Anglo-American journalist John Russell to do some work for the Soviets; when the British and the Nazis notice his involvement, Russell is dragged into the murky world of warring intelligence services.) Ennis, Michael The Malice of Fortune $15.95 (1502: Courtesan Damiata joins forces with Niccolo Machiavelli and Leonardo da Vinci to find out who is behind a murder that appears to be connected to the 1497 murder of the Borgia pope's favorite son.) Evanovich, J/Hughes, C Full Tilt $8.99 (Jamie Swift #2: Reissue; A story about a crime in quiet Beaumont, South Carolina, takes Jamie and her sexy, mysterious silent partner Max for a ride on the wild side, complete with two assassins and an insane poacher.) Fante, Dan Point Doom $14.99 (PBO; Failed PI J.D. Fiorella, now 46 and sober, is working hard to get it together. Then a friend is murdered. Determined to exact vengeance, J.D. follows a twisting trail of clues that leads him to unexpected truths about himself, and to a psychopathic killer with an eerie connection to his past.) Ferraris, Zoe Kingdom of Strangers $15.00 (Katya Hijazi #3: The bodies of 19 women, unearthed in the Saudi Arabian desert, reveal that a serial killer has been operating undetected for years. The inspector in charge of the case is distracted by the disappearance of his mistress, which he can't report since adultery is punishable by death. He turns to Katya, one of the few women on the force, for help.) Furst, Alan Mission to Paris $16.00 (Late summer, 1938: Hollywood film star Fredric Stahl is on his way to Paris to make a movie. A Nazi secret bureau has been waging political warfare against France, using bribery, intimidation, and corrupt newspapers to weaken French morale. For their purposes, Fredric Stahl is a perfect agent of influence, and they attack him. What they don't know is that Stahl, horrified by the Nazi war on Jews and intellectuals, has become part of an informal spy service being run out of the American embassy in Paris.) Gardiner, Meg Ransom River $7.99 (Rory Mackenzie vowed never to return to her hometown of Ransom River, CA, but she is summoned for jury duty. Her return dredges up troubling memories from her childhood that she can no longer ignore, but bringing the truth to light just might destroy her.) Gaus, P.L. The Names of Our Tears $15.00 (Amish-Country #8: PBO; Ruth Zook returns to Holmes County, Ohio, carrying a heavy suitcase. Coerced into becoming a drug mule, Ruth destroys her illicit burden, and pays for it with her life. When Fannie Helmuth reveals that she was also coerced, Sheriff Robertson realizes that the drug dealers' operation reaches all the way to Florida's Pinecraft Amish community.) Glynn, Alan Graveland $16.00 (A Wall Street investment banker is shot dead while jogging in Central Park. Hours later, a hedge-fund manager is gunned down outside a restaurant. Are these killings a coordinated terrorist attack, or just a coincidence? Investigative journalist Ellen Dorsey has a hunch they're neither.) Gran, Sara Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway $20.00 (Claire DeWitt #2: Claire investigates the robbery that led to the death of her ex-boyfriend, a popular musician in the San Francisco scene.) Greenwood, Kerry Medea $14.95 (Medea is a priestess of Hecate. She is the custodian of the wood in which the Golden Fleece is hung. She alone can tame the giant serpent which guards the grove. And then Jason and his Argonauts come.) Gruley, Bryan The Skeleton Box $16.00 (Starvation Lake #3: A series of mysterious break-ins is plaguing the town, and worry turns to panic when a break-in leads to the death of a beloved citizen. Newspaper editor Gus Carpenter and reporter Luke Whistler set out to uncover the truth behind the death, and the break-ins.) Hagedorn, Jessica (ed) Manila Noir $15.95 (Anthology; original stories set in the capital of the Philippines.) Hall, Tarquin The Case of the Deadly Butter Chicken $16.00 (Vish Puri #3: The father of a top Pakistani cricketeer dies during a post-match dinner, his butter chicken poisoned. PI Vish Puri follows a trail that leads from Delhi deep into Pakistan. The last piece of the puzzle, however, turns up closer to home. It seems that the one person who can identify the killer is the one woman in the world with whom Puri has sworn never to work: his Mummy-ji.) Hammett/Cline, Sally Dashiell Hammett: Man of Mystery $19.95 (Nonfiction; Cline uses fresh research, including interviews with Hammett's family, to reexamine the life and works of the writer who changed the face of crime fiction.) Housewright, David The Last Kind Word $25.99 (Mac McKenzie #10: When the ATF gets a lead on a cache of illegal guns near the Canadian border, they ask McKenzie to go undercover to help get the gunrunners. What could possibly go wrong? Autographing at Uncle Edgar's on Saturday, June 15, 1-2pm) Howell, Dorothy Tote Bags and Toe Tags $7.99 (Haley Randolph #5: Just because Haley lacks some qualifications for her new position as corporate events coordinator does not mean she murdered the company's chief of security.) Humphreys, C.C. A Place Called Armageddon: Constantinople 1453 $15.99 (1453: Gregoras had vowed never to return to Constantinople, where he had been betrayed by his brother. But now, with an Ottoman army outside its walls, the city can only be held by men and mercenaries as skilled in battle as Gregoras.) Jackson, L/Bush, N Something Wicked $7.99 (Oregon Coast #3: PBO; A killer is determined to destroy the Colony and everyone in it.) Johnson, Craig As the Crow Flies $15.00 (Walt Longmire #8: A trip to the Cheyenne Reservation to find a site for his daughter's wedding turns horrific when Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire sees a young woman plummeting from Painted Warrior's cliffs. It's not Walt's turf, but newly appointed tribal police chief Lolo Long talks him into helping with the investigation.) Johnson, Craig A Serpent's Tooth $26.95 (Walt Longmire #9: Cord Lynear, a Mormon 'lost boy', is back in Absaroka County to search for his missing mother. The clues leads Sheriff Longmire, Deputy Victoria Moretti, and Henry Standing Bear to an interstate polygamy group with a stockpile of weapons.) Kahn, Michael A. The Flinch Factor $14.95 (Rachel Gold #8: While representing a blue-color neighborhood fighting a powerful developer intent on bulldozing their homes to erect a gated community, attorney Rachel Gold also looks into a contractor's death, which may have been murder staged to look like an overdose.) Kallentoft, Mons Summer Death (UK title: Summertime Death) $25.99 (Malin Fors #2: A teenage girl is found naked and bleeding in a Linkoping park, without any recollection of what has happened to her. Next, a grisly discovery is made on a beach. With the whole town on edge, police superintendent Malin Fors must uncover the secrets behind these crimes.) Kaplan, Andrew Scorpion Deception $9.99 (Scorpion #3: PBO; CIA-turned-freelance agent Scorpion hunts a faceless enemy - a mysterious Iranian known only as the Gardener.) Kellerman, Jonathan Gone $9.99 (Alex Delaware #20: Reissue; After the savage murder of a young woman, psychologist Alex Delaware and LAPD homicide cop Milo Sturgis unearth more questions than answers - and a host of eerily identical killings.) Kelly, Diane Death, Taxes, and Hot Pink Leg Warmers $7.99 (Tara Holloway #5: PBO; IRS special agent Tara Holloway goes undercover as a bookkeeper in a strip club to get the goods on the sleazy owner.) Kernick, Simon Siege $15.00 (Highly trained gunmen storm the luxurious Stanhope Hotel on London's Park Lane, demanding the government meet their requests within five hours, or they will blow up the building and everyone still inside it.) Keskinen, Karen Blood Orange $24.99 (Santa Barbara PI Jaymie Zarlin has built her business on finding missing persons and runaways, but when the teenage girl chosen to play Daphne in the annual solstice parade is murdered, she agrees to investigate.) King, Stephen Joyland $12.95 (1973: College student Devin Jones comes to a North Carolina amusement park to work as a carny for the summer. There he must confront the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.) Kingsley, Allison Trouble Vision $7.99 (Raven's Nest Bookstore #3: PBO; When the mayor calls a press conference about the controversial resort being built in town, residents show up to express their concerns. But when the debating turns to fighting, Clara gets a premonition that's nothing but trouble.) Koontz, Dean Deeply Odd $28.00 (Odd Thomas #6: In a sinister encounter with a rogue truck driver tricked up like a rhinestone cowboy, Odd has a vision of a multiple homicide that has not yet been committed. Can Odd make sure a crime that hasn't happened yet, never does?) Laurie, Victoria Lethal Outlook $7.99 (Psychic Eye #10: A mysterious lady asks Abby to help find a missing person, but Abby discovers that the woman's family won't put their faith in a psychic. Worse, they begin to suspect that Abby is interested in the woman's husband and might be to blame for her disappearance.) LeBor, Adam The Geneva Option $14.99 (Yael Azoulay #1: Sent to negotiate with a Hutu warlord wanted for genocide, to bring stability to the region so the West can exploit the mineral wealth, Yael Azoulay realizes that the UN is prepared to turn a blind eye to mass murder, and finds herself on the run, hunted by the world's intelligence and law enforcement agencies) Lippman, Laura And When She Was Good $14.99 Trade PB, $19.99 Unabridged Audiobook (Heloise put her pimp in prison, and created a new life for herself, running an escort service from a quiet suburb. But another suburban madam has just turned up dead, and it's all too possible that the pimp is still lethal from behind bars. How far will Heloise go to protect her son and the life she's built for him?) Logan, Kylie Mayhem at the Orient Express $7.99 (Literary Ladies #1: PBO; The League of Literary Ladies has a real mystery to solve when the owner of the newest Chinese restaurant on the island of South Bass has the bad fortune to be murdered.) Longworth, M.L. Death in the Vines $15.00 (Verlaque & Bonnet #3: PBO; A crime wave jolts Aix-en- Provence, culminating in murder. Judge Antoine Verlaque and Commisioner Paulik investigate, with some help from Marine Bonnet.) Ludlow, Jack Son of Blood $16.95 (Crusades #1: 12th century: The newly elected Pope Gregory vents his spleen against the Normans by encouraging them to sail to Byzantium and fight the Turks. Robert de Hauteville's first-born son Bohemund, now seventeen and a formidable warrior, has come to fight in his army. Bohemund seeks to assert his natural right as the heir of Robert's dukedom, but Robert's second son Borsa is now legally entitled to inherit. A battle between the sons is inevitable, and loyalties and blood ties will count for nothing.) Ludlum/Freveletti The Janus Reprisal $8.00 (Covert-One #10: A World Health Organization conference is attacked by terrorists and samples of virulent bacteria and viruses are stolen; Covert-One operative Jon Smith must stop the culprits before they unleash biological weapons on the world.) Lynch, Sean Wounded Prey $14.99 (Farrell & Kearns #1: When a young girl is found murdered, hanging from a tree, retired San Francisco cop Bob Farrell realizes his worst nightmare has come true. Twenty years ago, a government agency stopped him from putting away a killer - and now that killer is back in business.) Marston, Edward The Stationmaster's Farewell $16.95 (Robert Colbeck #09: 1857: Joel Heygate was the popular stationmaster at Exeter St. David's railway station, so the town is horrified when his remains are discovered in the embers of the annual Bonfire Night celebration. Scotland Yard sends DI Robert Colbeck to investigate.) Martin, Carol Ann Looming Murder $7.99 (Weaving #1: PBO; Della Wright has moved to the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains to open a weaving studio. When a local businessman is murdered and one of her students is a suspect, Della sets out to catch the real killer.) Mason, J/Stephens, S Dead Man's Best Friend $5.99 (Dog and His Girl #2: Kids; When Cassie's police chief mom is suspended from the force pending an investigation, and won't say why, Cassie and Dodge, a retired police dog, decide to investigate and clear the chief's name.) Matthews, Jeanne Her Boyfriend's Bones $14.95 (Dinah Pelerin #4: On the Greek island of Samos, Dinah discovers her Norwegian cop boyfriend Thor had an ulterior motive for choosing their holiday destination: guns being used by terrorists in Norway have been traced back to the island. When Thor's car plunges off a cliff and he disappears, Dinah fears he was either kidnapped or murdered, and sets out to find him.) Maxwell, Edith A Tine to Live, a Tine to Die $24.00 (Local Foods #1: New farmer Cam Flaherty has to fire her only employee when he refuses to follow organic growing practices; she winds up a murder suspect when he's found with a pitchfork through his neck.) McDade, Travis Thieves of Book Row $27.95 (Nonfiction; a portrait of Manhattan's Book Row in the 1920s and 1930s, and the story behind a heist in the rare book room of the New York Public Library, planned by book dealer Harry Gold.) Monaghan, Annabel A Girl Named Digit $7.99 (Digit Higgins #1: YA; When Farrah, the daughter of a UCLA math professor, unknowingly cracks a terrorist group's number sequence, her senior year gets a lot more interesting. Soon she is investigating the case, on the run from terrorists, and faking her own kidnapping.) O'Brien, Kevin Unspeakable $9.99 (PBO; A therapist suspects one of her patients is a killer. She has no proof, but as the body count rises, so do her fears.) Pearson, Ridley Choke Point $26.95 (Chu & Knox #2: A philanthropist hires Rutherford Risk to shut down an Amsterdam sweatshop that enslaves young girls. To complete the mission, Chu and Knox will also have to shut down the criminal organization behind it.) Pendleton, Don (creator) Ivory Wave $5.99 (Executioner #415: PBO; Bolan must find out who is making a legal but lethal drug concoction that is killing US teens, and shut down the operation for good.) Pendleton, Don (creator) Counter Force $6.99 (Stony Man #125: PBO; Stony Man must rescue a US Marine unit that is being detained by Iraqi insurgents.) Pendleton, Don (creator) Apocalypse Ark $6.99 (SuperBolan #158: PBO; Bolan must stop militant members of a secret cult from destroying the Vatican and ushering in the Apocalypse.) Pirro, Jeanine Sly Fox $7.99 (Dani Fox #1: Westchester, NY, 1976: Spearheading the country's first domestic violence unit in a shifting legal landscape, ADA Dani Fox discovers a seemingly simple case has some shocking twists. But she has to figure out which colleagues she can trust, and which she'll end up battling both in and out of the courtroom.) Resnick, Mike The Trojan Colt $15.95 (Eli Paxton #2: Hired to guard a high-priced yearling bred from a recently retired winner, Eli Paxton is only days into the job when the yearling's young groom goes missing. Asked by the boy's parents to investigate, Paxton focuses on the breeding farm in Lexington, Kentucky, where he discovers another staff member disappeared recently.) Robertson, Imogen Island of Bones $15.00 (Westerman & Crowther #3: 1783: When laborers discover an extra body inside an ancient tomb on his family's Lake District estate, anatomist Gabriel Crowther heads home to investigate.) Rohmer, Sax The Bride of Fu-Manchu $9.95 (Fu-Manchu #7: Reissue; An epidemic sweeps the French Riviera - a biological weapon created by Dr. Fu-Manchu. Denis Nayland-Smith is summoned to help stop his arch-foe before the plague is spread across Europe.) Rotstein, Robert Corrupt Practices $15.95 (An LA church, considered by some to be a cult, charges Rich Baxter with embezzlement. Attorney Parker Stern despises the cult, but he hasn't entered a courtroom since developing severe stage fright. When the case takes an unexpected turn, Parker surprises himself and agrees to take on the church.) Rowen, Michelle Bled & Breakfast $7.99 (Immortality Bites #2: PBO; Vampire agents Sarah and Thierry go to Salem, Massachusetts, where witches still live, to investigate the disappearance of three vampires. But the case may awaken some dark secrets from Thierry's past.) Rutherford, Alex Ruler of the World $16.99 (Empire of the Moghul #3: 1500s: Akbar, the third great Moghul Emperor, extends his rule over much of Asia, commanding tens of thousands of men, elephants, and innovative weapons. Despite the bloodshed which results, his empire is based on universal religious tolerance. But as his oldest son Salim grows to manhood, the relationship between father and son becomes tainted by rebellion, and by competition to be the greatest Moghul of them all.) Rutherford, Alex The Tainted Throne $29.99 (Empire of the Moghul #4: India, 1606: Moghul Emperor Jahangir is doomed. No amount of wealth and ruthlessness can protect him from his sons' desire for power. And with Khurram and his half-brothers each still determined to be their father's heir, the savage battle for the Moghul throne will be more ferocious than even Timur could have imagined.) Scarrow, Simon Centurion $15.95 (Macro & Cato #08: Reissue; Parthia is vying with Rome for control of Palmyra, an officially neutral kingdom whose royal household is on the brink of open revolt. A task force under the command of experienced soldiers Macro and Cato is dispatched to defend its king and guard its borders. When Parthia hears of the Roman army's presence, it starts amassing its troops for war.) Sefton, Maggie Cast On, Kill Off $7.99 (Knitting #10: Kelly's knitting pal Megan is about to get hitched, and all the planning is falling into place - until the seamstress is found dead. Now it's up to Kelly and her fellow knitters to solve the case.) Sefton, Maggie Close Knit Killer $25.95 (Knitting #11: When a familiar face is found dead in his car outside the House of Lambspun, Kelly and her friends must sort through a long list of fleeced suspects to catch the killer.) Shaffer, A/Keith, Wm H The Last Line $25.99 (With Mexico descending into anarchy, the drug cartels have kicked up the heat, allying with Hezbollah and the Iranian secret service in a plot aimed at destroying the US. As intelligence agent Chris Teller races to unravel the plot, he discovers that the most pernicious enemies are the members of a treasonous cabal within the US government.) Sherez, Stav A Dark Redemption $17.00 (Carrigan #1: DI Carrigan and DS Miller investigate the rape and murder of a Ugandan student. Plunged into an underworld of London's illegal immigrant communities, they discover that the murdered woman's research may have threatened to reveal things that some people will go to any lengths to keep secret.) Sipila, Jarkko Cold Trail $13.95 (Helsinki Homicide: A convicted wife-murderer escapes from his father's funeral. But why would he flee now, with over half his sentence served? As the manhunt begins, Detective Lt. Kari Takamaki and his homicide team dig into the old evidence. Was the man guilty? Or an innocent man unjustly sentenced to life in prison? Signed copies expected) Soos, Troy Hunting a Detroit Tiger $14.00 (Mickey Rawlings #4: Reissue; 1920: Mickey is hoping for a regular place in the Tigers' lineup. But when an old-time baseball player is killed, Mickey finds himself accused of the crime.) Speller, Elizabeth The Strange Fate of Kitty Easton $14.95 (Laurence Bartram #2: 1924: Thirteen years ago, 5-year-old Kitty disappeared from her bed and was never seen again. Now, while Great War veteran Laurence Bartram is a guest at the Easton manor house, a young maid vanishes. When a body is discovered, Laurence is drawn into the estate's forgotten places, where deadly secrets lie in wait.) Stevens, Taylor The Doll $24.00 (Vanessa Munroe #3: Munroe goes up against a human trafficking ring run by a shadowy figure known as the Doll Maker.) Urban, Milos Lord Mord $14.95 (19th-century Prague: Count Arco, a debauched womanizer, makes a lone stand against the destruction of the Jewish Quarter, with its Bohemian nightlife and whorehouses. He buys a house and refuses to move out, battling the corrupt officials at the Town Hall. Then the Quarter is rocked by a murderer - and Arco is distracted by a femme fatale whose heart he must conquer.) Wasdin, H/Templin, S Outcasts $7.99 (SEAL Team Six: A quartet of elite SEALs is tasked with taking out seven al Qaeda members vying to replace Osama bin Laden. As they pursue their third target, they uncover a plot against the US.) Watterson, Kate Charred $7.99 (Ellie MacIntosh #2: PBO; Milwaukee homicide detective Ellie MacIntosh is called in when an unidentified corpse is found at an arson scene; her investigation turns up ties to a cold case.) Wendelboe, C.M. Death on the Greasy Grass $16.00 (Manny Tano #3: PBO; When a reenactor is killed right in front of him at the site of the Battle of Little Big Horn, FBI agent Manny Tano begins to understand that the secrets of the past have a way of stirring up trouble in the present.) White, Stephen Line of Fire $9.99 (Alan Gregory #18: A new witness has the authorities reopening the investigation into the suicide of a woman named J. Winter Brown; the trail that leads back to psychologist Alan Gregory and his equally culpable friend Sam Purdy has turned white-hot.) Wolf, Dick The Intercept $9.99 PB, $19.99 Unabridged Audiobook (Jeremy Fisk #1: An attempted hijacking has been thwarted, but Jeremy Fisk of the NYPD's Intelligence Division suspects that a devastating attack is imminent. An Arabian national who was on the flight has disappeared into Manhattan, and it's up to Fisk to find him.)

Mid June

Berry, Steve The King's Deception $27.00 (Cotton Malone #8: Cotton Malone and his son Gary are headed to Europe. As a favor to his former boss, Malone agrees to escort a teenage fugitive back to England. But after he is greeted at gunpoint in London, both the fugitive and Gary disappear, and Malone learns that he's stumbled into a high- stakes diplomatic showdown fueled by shocking Tudor secrets.) Cleave, Paul Cemetery Lake $16.00 (Theodore Tate #1: PI Theodore Tate is overseeing an exhumation; when doubts are raised about the identity of the body found in the coffin, he knows he should walk away and let his former colleagues on the police force deal with it, but his strong sense of justice intervenes.) Davis, Lindsey The Ides of April $25.99 (Flavia Albia #1: Settled in her father Falco's ramshackle former digs in Fountain Court, Flavia Albia is working as a private informer. Hired to help investigate a fatal accident, she finds herself stuck with a truly awful client, facing a well-heeled, well-connected opponent. When her client dies under suspicious circumstances, it's just one of a series of similar deaths - and Flavia is now a suspect.) Downing, David Masaryk Station $26.95 (John Russell #6: 1948: Berlin is still occupied by the four Allied powers and largely in ruins, entangled in the new Soviet/American Cold War. John Russell works for Stalin's NKVD and the newly created CIA, trying his best to cut himself loose from both before his double-agency is discovered. He and his Soviet liaison Shchepkin search for one piece of intelligence so damning it could silence the wrath of one nation and solicit the protection of the other.) Estleman, Loren D. The Confessions of Al Capone $27.99 (Biographical novel about the notorious gangster.) Evanovich, J/Goldberg, L The Heist $28.00 (Kate O'Hare #1: What's an FBI agent to do after she's caught the world's most wanted - and irresistibly charming - con man? Partner up with him.) Fay, Kim The Map of Lost Memories $15.00 (Edgar finalist, best first novel. 1925: Irene is given a rare map believed to lead to a set of copper scrolls that chronicle the lost history of Cambodia's ancient Khmer civilization. Finding them would be the archaeological discovery of the century. But as she and her fellow adventurers sweep across borders and make startling discoveries, their quest becomes increasingly dangerous.) Grebe, C/Traff, A More Bitter than Death $16.00 (Siri Bergman #2: Psychotherapist Dr. Siri Bergman is assisting with a research project on domestic abuse, hosting a self-help group for survivors. When a woman's boyfriend becomes prime suspect in a high-profile murder, Siri finds herself embroiled in the investigation.) Hallinan, Timothy The Fear Artist $14.95 (Poke Rafferty #5: A chance encounter on a Bangkok sidewalk catapults Rafferty into the margins of the war on terror; the opponent he faces is a virtuoso artist whose medium is fear.) Hamilton, Donald The Silencers $7.99 (Matt Helm #04: Reissue; Helm is sent to extract a female agent working undercover in a Mexican bar. When she is killed, Helm teams up with the woman's sister, fighting to save the lives of a group of scientists and US officials.) Hamilton, Steve Die a Stranger $14.99 (Alex McKnight #09: When his friend Vinnie goes missing, Alex can't help but be worried. There's a crime war creeping into Michigan's Upper Peninsula, leaving bodies in its wake. Alex wouldn't have expected his friend to be involved, but when a stranger arrives in town looking for Vinnie, Alex finds out that the stakes are higher than he imagined.) Hammer, Lotte & Soren The Hanging $24.99 (Detective Konrad Simonsen and his murder squad investigate when the naked bodies of five men are found hanging from the ceiling of a school gym.) Hamrick, Janice Death Rides Again $25.99 (Jocelyn Shore #3: Jocelyn heads to her family's Texas ranch for a reunion. When her cousin Ruby June disappears and then Ruby June's no- good husband turns up dead, the police focus on the family as the most likely suspects; Jocelyn and her cousin Kyla decide to investigate.) Hart, Carolyn Escape from Paris $13.95 (Reissue; Paris, 1940: Two American sisters risk their lives to save a downed British airman from the Gestapo. On Christmas Eve, the Gestapo sets a trap, and death is only a step behind the women.) Hiaasen, Carl Bad Monkey $26.95 (Former Miami cop Andrew Yancy has a human arm in his freezer. He sees a lot of holes in the boating-accident / shark-luncheon explanation for how it was parted from its owner, and if Yancy can prove murder, maybe the Monroe County sheriff will rescue him from his grisly Health Inspector gig.) Hill, Antonio The Summer of Dead Toys $26.00 (Salgado #1: Inspector Hector Salgado, an Argentine living in Barcelona, is assigned to a routine accidental death: a college student's fall from a balcony in a ritzy neighborhoods. Salgado discovers the death was not simple, and drugs might be involved. The trail will lead him deep into the underbelly of Barcelona's high society.) Hoag, Tami The 9th Girl $26.95 (Kovac & Liska #4: Minneapolis homicide detectives Sam Kovac and Nikki Liska investigate the death of an unidentifiable woman, the ninth Jane Doe of the year; they fear she may be the victim of a transient serial killer.) Holt, Anne Death of a Demon $16.00 (Hanne Wilhelmsen #3: The steely director of an Oslo orphanage is found stabbed with a kitchen knife, and a 12-year-old orphan boy is missing. Could the child be the murderer? As police search for him, Chief Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen orders an investigation of the home's employees.) Holt, Jonathan The Abomination $25.99 (Carnivia #1: Working her first murder case, Venetian Carabiniere Captain Kat Tapo must unravel a dark conspiracy linking the CIA and the Catholic Church.) Kaaberbol, L/Friis, A Invisible Murder $14.00 (Nina Borg #2: Roma children are falling mysteriously ill at a refugee camp. Red Cross nurse Nina Borg agrees to help, and discovers that the situation at the camp is unexpectedly complicated - and perilous.) Keller, Julia A Killing in the Hills $14.99 (Bell Elkins #1: After three elderly men are gunned down at the local diner, one of the witnesses gradually realizes she may have seen the shooter - and that he might be someone she knows.) Kelly, Mary Louise Anonymous Sources $26.00 (The son of a Washington power broker falls from a Harvard bell tower. Did he jump, or was he pushed? As reporter Alexandra James follows leads, she begins to grasp that the young man may have been killed to hide a conspiracy within the White House itself.) Kennedy, Emma The Case of the Fatal Phantom $7.99 (Wilma Tenderfoot #3: Kids; After her dog Pickle snuffles up a mummified body holding an ancient-looking key at Blackheart Mansion, Wilma chases down hidden treasure - rumored to be guarded by a deadly phantom - and discovers another clue about her parents.) Kuhns, Eleanor Death of a Dyer $24.99 (Will Rees #2: 1790s Maine: Will Rees is back on his farm, living contentedly with his teenaged son David and housekeeper Lydia. When he's asked to look into an old friend's murder, he quickly discovers that everyone - from the dead man's wife to his son to the shy serving girl - is hiding something.) MacInnes, Helen The Venetian Affair $9.95 (Reissue; While on assignment in Paris and Venice, an American journalist works desperately to expose Communist espionage activities.) O'Connell, John Baskerville $16.00 (Dartmoor, 1900: Arthur Conan Doyle and his friend Bertram Fletcher Robinson are researching a detective novel collaboration with a new hero, featuring a monstrous dog. London, 1902: The Hound of the Baskervilles is published, featuring Holmes back from the dead. Conan Doyle and Fletcher Robinson have not spoken for two years, and the book is credited to just one author. But who really wrote it? And what happened on the moor to drive two friends apart?) O'Melveny, Regina The Book of Madness and Cures $15.00 (16th-century Venice: Gabriella Mondini is a woman who practices medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has brought her into this all-male profession. When he disappears, Gabriella is no longer permitted to treat her patients, women who need her desperately, without his patronage. She sets out across Europe to find where - and why - he has gone, following clues from his occasional enigmatic letters.) Patterson, J/Karp, M NYPD Red $15.00 (When a famous producer is poisoned at a New York City film festival, it's just the first in a series of wildly theatrical killings.) Pocalyko, Michael The Navigator $24.99 (A potential trillion-dollar deal for an entirely new global communication system draws a financier, a political aide, and a tech start-up veteran into a web of intrigue and dangerous secrets.) Renn, Diana Tokyo Heist $8.99 (YA; Her father's newest clients are the victims of an art robbery: van Gogh sketches have been stolen from their home. 16-year-old Violet's search for the missing art takes her from the Seattle Art Museum, to the yakuza-infested streets of Tokyo, to a secluded inn in Kyoto.) Robertson, Imogen Circle of Shadows $27.95 (Westerman & Crowther #4: 1784: When her brother-in- law is suspected of killing a German aristocrat, Mrs. Westerman and reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther head to the German court to investigate.) Romano, Stephen Resurrection Express $7.99 (There is nothing Elroy can't hack. But for the past two years, he's been incarcerated after a job gone bad, driven to near-madness by the revelation of his wife's murder. Now a mysterious visitor offers Elroy his freedom if he'll do another job, sweetening the deal with proof that his wife might be alive. All Elroy has to do is hack into one of the deadliest security grids in the world) Roy, Lori Until She Comes Home $26.95 (1958 Detroit: A pair of seemingly unrelated murders crumbles the facade of a changing neighborhood.) Silver, Elizabeth L. The Execution of Noa P. Singleton $25.00 (Noa spoke not a word at her brief trial. Now she sits on death row. She is visited by Marlene Dixon, a high-powered Philadelphia attorney and the heartbroken mother of the woman Noa was imprisoned for killing. She tells Noa that she will do everything in her considerable power to convince the governor to commute Noa's sentence - if Noa will finally reveal what led her to commit her crime.) Smith, Alexander McCall Trains and Lovers $22.00 (As they travel by rail from Edinburgh to London, four strangers entertain one another with tales of how trains have changed their lives.) Smith, Noble Sons of Zeus $25.99 (431 BCE: The Greek city-state of Plataea becomes the arena where the struggle between the democracy of Athens and the tyranny of Sparta begins. After a traitor opens the city gates, young warrior Nikia makes a daring escape, gathers an army, and leads this ragtag band into a suicidal battle at the gates of the citadel - a battle that will decide the fates of his family, his friends, and his beloved.) Taylor, Patrick Pray for Us Sinners $24.99 (Belfast, 1973: A British Army bomb-disposal expert goes undercover in the Provisional IRA, tasked with identifying their bomb-maker. Meanwhile the bomb-maker, distressed that his bombs are being used against civilian targets, seeks to leave the IRA, but must complete one last mission to receive his discharge.) Thoft, Ingrid Loyalty $25.95 (In a family of high-powered lawyers, Fina is a law school dropout who works as the family firm's PI. When her sister-in-law disappears, she is caught up in a case unlike any she's worked before.) Tope, Rebecca Malice in the Cotswolds $16.95 (Thea Osborne #10: When a house-sitting assignment takes Thea and her dog to an isolated village, Thea finds herself ill at ease. Her intuition is proved right when a local boy is found strangled. His mother becomes the prime suspect, but Thea believes in her innocence, and investigates.) Vachss, Andrew Aftershock $26.95 (The small coastal town seems idyllic. But when the star pitcher of the girls' softball team guns down the most popular boy in school, the shockwaves reverberate far beyond the school's walls. In the wake of the killing, two of the town's newer residents are determined to get to the truth of the incident - and to whatever town secret the shooter is guarding.) Wahloo, Per The Assignment $15.00 (Reissue; When Manuel Ortega is appointed to replace an assassinated Provincial Resident, he is plunged into a corrupt world. Two extremist factions are at odds, and Ortega is caught in the middle, surrounded by people he's not sure he can trust. As the tension rises, Ortega must take action, but what will he do?) Wahloo, Per The Generals $15.00 (Reissue; Corporal Velder is on trial, accused of acts against the military, government, and society. As the proceedings unfold, we learn of the island country's descent into tyranny, and the civil war that erupted when a secret armed force brought the current generals to power. The tribunal forces Velder to reconstruct the events, battles, and defeat of the rebellion. As the inevitable verdict is pronounced, Velder's testimony just might produce another revolution.) Wahloo, Per A Necessary Action (UK title: The Lorry) $15.00 (Reissue; Willi Mohr - former German soldier, starving artist, drifter - is arrested and subjected to a lengthy interrogation. Unwillingly, he is drawn back to the year he spent in Spain, the deaths of a Norwegian couple he shared a house with there, and his attempts to discover how they died. As the interrogation intensifies, Mohr realizes that his activities have implicated him in a dangerous political situation.) Walker, Walter Crime of Privilege $26.00 (A murder on Cape Cod. A rape in Palm Beach. All they have in common is the presence of one of America's most beloved and influential families. But nobody is asking questions.) Winslow, Don The Kings of Cool $16.00 (Prequel to Savages. The story of how Ben, Chon, and O became the people they are, from their parents' lives in 1960s southern California to their own lives in the recent past.) Xiaolong, Qiu The Enigma of China $25.99 (Chen Cao #8: Chief Inspector Chen Cao is a rising cadre in the party, in line to take over the top political position in the Shanghai police department, and a highly respected policeman. Which is why he's brought in by the Party to sign off on the investigation into the death of an important party member. Though everyone wants it to be a suicide, the evidence doesn't add up.)

Early July

Ablow, Keith Inside the Mind of Casey Anthony $7.99 (Nonfiction; a top forensic psychiatrist provides a detailed psychological portrait of of accused murderer Casey Anthony and her family.) Adams, Riley Rubbed Out $7.99 (Memphis BBQ #4: PBO; Lulu finds more than a taste of trouble at the Rock and Ribs festival when a pitmaster is murdered and the police start grilling her best friend.) Allen, Robin Out of the Frying Pan $14.99 (Poppy Markham #3: PBO; Shortly after being elected president of the Friends of Good Earth Preserves, diva-restaurateur Dana White is struck down in her own kitchen. Can Poppy figure out who decided to get rid of her?) Barclay, Linwood Trust Your Eyes $9.99 (Thomas Kilbride is a reclusive schizophrenic who uses a computer program to travel the world. In a street view of NYC, he detects an image that looks like a woman being murdered. His brother Ray humors him with a half- hearted investigation, but soon realizes they have stumbled onto a conspiracy - and now they are in the crosshairs.) Barrett, Lorna Murder on the Half Shelf $7.99 (Booktown #6: Bookstore owner Tricia Miles was looking forward to a free night's stay at Pippa and John Comfort's Sheer Comfort Inn - until she discovered Pippa murdered in the backyard, and learned that Jon is actually Harry Tyler, a man Tricia loved years ago - and believed dead.) Barrett, Lorna Not the Killing Type $25.95 (Booktown #7: It's time for the Chamber of Commerce elections, with the Chamber president being challenged by Tricia's sister Angelica. Then Stan Berry throws his hat in the ring. When Stan is found murdered, Angelica asks Tricia to help her clear her name and win the election.) Bassett, Richard Hitler's Spy Chief $15.95 (Nonfiction; the story of Wilhelm Canaris, Hitler's intelligence chief, and his role in the conspiracy to assassinate the Fuehrer.) Beaton, M.C. Hiss and Hers $7.99 (Agatha Raisin #23: Agatha foots the bill for a charity ball, just to have a chance to dance with the local gardener. When he doesn't show up, she finds his body in a compost heap, murdered by poisonous snake bite.) Benacquista, Tonino Malavita $15.00 (Fred Blake #1: The Blakes are new to a small town in Normandy, trying to hide the fact that father Fred is really a relocated ex-goodfella. When a mobster gets wind of their location, it's Mafia mayhem.) Billingham, Mark Sleepyhead $14.00 (Thorne #01: Reissue; An attacker has killed three women. Alison, the fourth victim, has survived a stroke that was deliberately induced - she is aware of everything going on around her, but cannot move or communicate. The police believe Alison was the killer's first mistake. Then DI Tom Thorne discovers the horrifying truth: Alison wasn't the mistake, the three dead women were, as the attacker honed his technique.) Billingham, Mark Scaredy Cat $14.00 (Thorne #02: Reissue; DI Tom Thorne must find a pair of murderers who are working in tandem, killing women at the same time in different parts of London.) Blackwell, Juliet Tarnished and Torn $7.99 (Witchcraft #5: PBO; When a jewelry merchant is killed in a way that suggests an old-fashioned witch hunt, the police suspect Lily's estranged father.) Blaedel, Sara Only One Life $14.95 (Louise Rick #2: When a young Jordanian immigrant girl is found in Holbraek Fjord with a piece of concrete tied around her waist, Inspector Rick investigates. Was it an 'honor killing'?) Blair, Annette Tulle Death Do Us Part $7.99 (Vintage Magic #6: PBO; Decades ago, a scavenger hunt at Mystic Country Club ended in an unexplained death, hastily concealed. Now Maddie has been invited to participate in a Club event, but one touch of the vintage petticoat used to hide evidence of the original crime hurtles Maddie into a scavenger hunt of her own.) Blake, James Carlos The Rules of Wolfe $24.00 (Eddie is a young member of the Wolfe family of Texas gunrunners. Unhappy with his minor role in family operations, he crosses the border to work security for a Mexican drug cartel. When he falls for the wrong woman, they wind up on the run in the deadly Sonoran desert.) Blake, Richard The Ghosts of Athens $12.95 (Aelric #5: AD 612: British adventurer Aelric, now a senator of the Roman Empire, arrives in Athens to find the city threatened by an army. Not to mention an explosive religious dispute, an unexplained corpse, and hints of something worse than murder.) Booth, Stephen Dead and Buried $10.95 (Cooper & Fry #12: When an intruder breaks into an abandoned pub, DS Ben Cooper is on the case, and swiftly unearths a pair of grim surprises. The first is evidence of a years-old double homicide, and the second is a fresh corpse. What links the three deaths? For Cooper and his rival DI Diane Fry, it's the most twisted investigation of their lives.) Bourbon, Melissa A Custom-Fit Crime $7.99 (Magical Dressmaking #4: PBO; First someone breaks into the shop, then a rival designer is found dead. When a near-miss makes it clear a friend could be the next victim, Harlow must untangle the evidence.) Brown, Karen The Longings of Wayward Girls $15.00 (Young Sadie and her best friend play a seemingly harmless prank on a neighbor girl. Soon after, the girl disappears from a backyard barbecue and is never seen again. Twenty years later, Sadie lives in the same quiet suburb, and seems to have put her past behind her. But when a boy from her childhood returns to town, the nightmares of that summer will begin to resurface, and its unsolved mysteries will finally become clear.) Burke, James Lee Two for Texas (alternate title: Sabine Spring) $15.00 (Reissue; Son Holland never intended to kill a prison guard while escaping from a Louisiana chain gang. On the run through the bayou with a fellow escapee and an Indian woman, Son crosses the river to Texas, where the only chance the travelers have for survival awaits in a violent storm of revolution led by General Houston.) Cain, Chelsea Kill You Twice $7.99 (Archie Sheridan #5: A torture-murder took place over a period of hours on a sunny summer morning in a Portland park. Archie is investigating when he gets a call from a doctor at the mental hospital. Archie's nemesis, serial killer Gretchen Lowell, claims to have inside knowledge about the killing.) Campion, Alexander Death of a Chef $24.00 (Capucine Culinary #4: Capucine's best friend buys a vintage Louis Vuitton steamer trunk at the Paris flea market, and is horrified to discover it contains a man's body.) Chandler, Jessie Pickle in the Middle Murder $14.99 (Shay O'Hanlon #3: PBO; Shay accompanies her gun-toting cop girlfriend J.T. to the Minnesota Renaissance Festival. While trying to rein in her newest dog's overactive nose, Shay finds a dead man in the privy, with a bullet hole in his skull. When J.T. is arrested for the porta-potty murder, Shay scrambles to prove her innocence.) Cleland, Jane K. Lethal Treasure $24.99 (Josie Prescott #8: At an auction for the contents of abandoned storage units, Josie is drawn into a murder investigation when another bidder is found dead inside the unit he won.) Coel, Margaret Watching Eagles Soar: Stories from the Wind River and Beyond $15.00 (Collection of short stories plus two essays on writing in the West.) Cook, Thomas H. The Crime of Julian Wells $14.00 (When famed true-crime writer Julian Wells' body is found in a boat drifting on a Montauk pond, the death is obviously a suicide. But why would Julian Wells have taken his own life? And was this his only crime?) Cooper, Glenn The Keepers of the Library $7.99 (Will Piper #3: FBI agent Will Piper is retired, but when a new Doomsday killer emerges, and Will's teenage son disappears, Will is instantly drawn back into the case.) Cooper, Mike Clawback $15.00 (Silas Cade #1: Someone is killing off Wall Street's shadiest financiers; it's up to Silas Cade, a black ops veteran and gray-zone contractor, to get to the bottom of it.) Cooper, Mike Full Ratchet $27.95 (Silas Cade #2: Tough guy auditor Silas Cade takes a job in western Pennsylvania, but finds that Main Street is just as dirty as Wall Street. His revelations catch the attention of Russian mobsters and an assassin.) Coulter, Catherine Backfire $9.99 (FBI Thriller #16: A mysterious note delivered to FBI agent Dillon Savich has him and his partner Lacey Sherlock on edge, just as they're starting an investigation into the shooting of their longtime friend, San Francisco judge Ramsey Hunt.) Crook, Jeff The Sleeping and the Dead $14.99 (Jackie Lyons #1: Called to photograph the crime scene of the Playhouse Killer's latest victim, Jackie discovers that her new camera captures images of ghosts. It also points her towards clues the detective in her won't let go. Did the man she just started dating kill his wife? Is the Playhouse Killer someone she knows?) de Castrique, Mark A Murder in Passing $14.95 (Sam Blackman #4: The agency has no clients. So when partner Nakayla Robertson suggests a mushroom hunt on the site of an historic freed-slave commune, Sam Blackman reluctantly agrees - and stumbles across a skeleton.) de Giovanni, Maurizio The Crocodile $17.00 (Three young people with very diverse backgrounds have been found murdered in three different Naples neighborhoods, each shot with a single bullet, execution style. While his colleagues see little or no connection, Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono smells a rat.) Disher, Garry Port Vila Blues $14.95 (Wyatt Wareen #5: Wyatt bypasses the alarm, snatches the cash, eludes the cops, and makes it safely back to his hideout in Hobart. It's the diamond-studded Tiffany brooch - and perhaps the girl - that undoes him. Now some very hard people want to put Wyatt and that brooch out of circulation.) Dorgan, B/Hagberg, D Gridlock $26.99 (Osborne & Borden #2: In rural North Dakota, a lineman is electrocuted and the local cop sent to investigate is shot to death. County sheriff Nate Osborne and journalist Ashley Borden find themselves up against an ex-Spetsnaz terrorist intent on taking down the US power grid.) Douglas, Carole Nelson Cat in a White Tie and Tails $7.99 (Midnight Louie #24: Midnight Louie goes along as chaperone when Temple and her fiance Matt head to Chicago to visit Matt's family. When Louie is snatched, the catnapping's surprising motive leads back to Vegas, to a string of unsolved murders connected to magic - and ex-magician Max Kinsella.) Dufresne, John No Regrets, Coyote $25.95 (Wylie has a rare ability to view a crime scene, consider the evidence, and determine what's likely to have happened. When five members of the Halliday family are killed, the police think it was murder-suicide, but Wiley's not so sure, and begins his own investigation, turning up a web of corruption involving the police union, lawyers, politicians, and the Russian mob.) Dunnett, Kaitlyn Bagpipes, Brides, and Homicides $7.99 (Liss MacCrimmon #6: Moosetookalook is hosting the Western Maine Highland Games, and Liss is getting married this weekend. But when a professor is murdered, she once again finds herself in the center of the mystery.) Dupont, James Shadow of the Corps $24.95 (When JAG attorney Dale Riley takes on the wrong client - a combat pilot accused of unlawfully bombing a village in northeastern Afghanistan - his world comes undone. Never mind saving his career; now he's fighting to save his life and his family.) Egan, Kevin Midnight $24.99 (When a New York County judge dies, his staff is kept on until the end of that calendar year. So when Judge Canter quietly expires in his chambers on December 31st, his staff sets out to make it look like he died at home on New Year's Day. The conspiracy grows increasingly dangerous after a crooked union boss and a mob enforcer get involved.) Estleman, Loren D. Infernal Angels $12.99 (Amos Walker #21: Hired to recover some stolen HDTV converter boxes, PI Walker ends up working with the local police and the feds when it turns out the boxes were being used to smuggle high-grade heroin.) Ferey, Caryl Mapuche $18.00 (When the emasculated corpse of a transvestite is found at a Buenos Aires port, Jana turns to PI Ruben Calderon for help. Together they plunge into the corrupt heart of the Argentinian political system on the hunt for a vicious murderer.) Fforde, Jasper The Last Dragonslayer $7.99 (Kazam #1: YA; 15-year-old Jennifer runs Kazam, an employment agency for magicians, but it's hard to stay in business when magic is drying up. Now visions are predicting the death of the world's last dragon at the hands of an unnamed Dragonslayer. If the visions are true, everything will change for Jennifer and Kazam - because something known as Big Magic is coming.) Fiechter, J.J. Death by Publication $14.95 (Reissue; When French novelist Nicolas Fabry publishes a new novel in France, London publisher Sir Edward Destry plunges into grief and fury. Fabry's heroine is modeled on the only woman Destry ever loved, for whose suicide Destry blamed himself. Now he discovers Fabry was responsible for her death. Destry plots his revenge, translating Fabry's novel into English and devising a plan guaranteed to cause disgrace and ruin.) Foster, Rose The Industry $8.99 (YA; When 16-year-old Kirra stumbles across an unusual puzzle on the internet and solves it, she is kidnapped by a shadowy organization, and discovers how valuable her code-breaking skills are. When she refuses to help them, they decide to break her - by any means at their disposal.) Francis, Felix Bloodline $9.99 (When Mark accuses his jockey sister of losing a race on purpose, she storms off. Hours later, she falls to her death from a London hotel balcony. Devastated and guilty, Mark goes in search of answers. What led her to jump? Or was it not suicide after all?) Freemantle, Brian Red Star Falling $25.99 (Charlie Muffin #16: In a botched escape from Russia, MI5 spy Charlie Muffin is seized by Russian intelligence. Moscow is determined to extract every secret of Western espionage of Charlie's thirty-year career. Charlie is determined to resist the interrogation - and to learn from it if his wife and daughter escaped the trap that snared him.) Georget, Philippe Summertime All the Cats Are Bored $17.00 (The Mediterranean town of Perpignan is full of tourists. Tired cops Sebag and Molino are jolted out of their routine when a young Dutch woman is found brutally murdered on the beach, and another disappears in the city. With the media screaming about a serial killer, the detectives find themselves thrust into the middle of a diabolical game.) Gerber, Daryl Wood Final Sentence $7.99 (Cookbook Nook #1: PBO; When Jenna Hart leaves the world of advertising to help her aunt open a culinary bookstore, celebrity chef Desiree Divine agrees to appear at the grand opening. But she stirs up more trouble than business - especially when she turns up dead.) Goldsworthy, Adrian Beat the Drums Slowly $12.95 (106th Foot #2: Winter, 1808: Separated from the rest of the army in the initial chaos of a retreat, Hamish Williams chances upon the daughter of his commanding officer. The pair battle the elements and evade the pursing French, picking up a ragtag band of fellow stragglers along the way. When they learn that a unit of French cavalry is threatening to turn the retreat into a massacre, Williams and his little band are the only thing standing between them and their goal.) Gordon, David Mystery Girl $25.00 (A failed experimental novelist becomes the assistant to a corpulent, brilliant detective. What starts as a simple surveillance job becomes a hair- raising case involving cult movies and mistaken identity.) Grabenstein, Chris Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library $16.99 (Kids; 12 kids win invitations to an overnight of fun, food, and games at the new town library, designed by the most notorious and creative gamemaker in the world. But when morning comes, the doors remain locked. The kids must solve every clue and secret puzzle to find the hidden escape route.) Greaves, Chuck Green-Eyed Lady $25.99 (Jack MacTaggart #2: Lawyer Jack MacTaggart has only days to clear a US Senate candidate's name after the man fall victim to a honeytrap.) Griffin, Laura Exposed $7.99 (Tracers #7: PBO; Forensic photographer Maddie Callahan and FBI agent Brian Beckmann form an uneasy partnership to find a vicious criminal.) Griffin/Butterworth The Spymasters $9.99 (Men at War #7: Summer, 1943: OSS agent Dick Canidy and his team must figure out how to sabotage Germany's new aerial torpedo rockets, and find out who is feeding Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviets.) Guinn, Matthew The Resurrectionist $25.95 (At South Carolina Medical College, Dr. Thacker's PR work for the dean takes a detour into the past when the bones of African-American slaves are unearthed on campus. In the 19th century, one of the school's founders purchased Nemo, a slave with unusual knife skills, who became an unacknowledged member of the surgical faculty by day, and a resurrectionist by night. Nemo would seize his self-respect in ways no one could anticipate.) Hale, Bruce Playing with Fire $15.99 (School for S.P.I.E.S. #1: Kids; Juvenile delinquent and budding pyromaniac Max Segredo ends up on the very heavily guarded doorstep of Merry Sunshine Orphanage, where he learns a few things: first, cracking a cipher isn't as hard as it seems; second, never sass your instructor if she's holding throwing knives; and third, he may not be an orphan after all. Max and the rest of the students are sent on a mission to keep a dangerous weapon out of the hands of LOTUS, an international group bent on world domination.) Hallinan, Timothy The Fame Thief $25.00 (Junior Bender #3: Junior is hauled in for a meeting with Hollywood's scariest mob boss turned movie mogul, who wants him to find out who destroyed a starlet's career by taking compromising photos of her. It happened over 60 years ago, but Junior starts digging, and finds that some vendettas never die - they only get more dangerous.) Hamilton, Ian The Wild Beasts of Wuhan $15.00 (Ava Lee #3: As forensic accountant Ava Lee infiltrates an opulent auction house, she uncovers a massive web of corruption, where high art and high-stakes fraud threaten more than just her client's business. This is one scam that could get her killed.) Hamilton, Steve Let It Burn $25.99 (Alex McKnight #10: A trip to Detroit reminds Alex of the last case he worked as a cop there, which was solved after he left; he does a little digging, and finds out that the real culprit may still be out there, preying on more victims.) Hechtman, Betty Yarn to Go $7.99 (Yarn Retreat #1: PBO; When her grandmother dies and leaves her a yarn retreat business, dessert chef Casey Feldstein rises to the occasion. When a retreat regular is murdered, Casey must unravel whodunnit.) Hempel, Sandra The Inheritor's Powder $26.95 (Nonfiction; in the early 19th century, arsenic was so frequently used by potential beneficiaries of wills that it was nicknamed 'the inheritor's powder.' But it was difficult to prove that a victim had been poisoned, let alone identify the contaminated food or drink. Then a suspicious death in 1833 led James Marsh, the brilliant chemist assigned to the case, to attempt to create a test that could pinpoint the presence of arsenic.) Hiebert, Michael Dream with Little Angels $15.00 (In 1975, a teenage girl disappears in Alvin, Alabama. New detective Leah Teal is assigned the case. Months later, the girl turns up dead. Now it's 1987, and another girl goes missing. Then another. Leah is sure these incidents are connected to her unsolved first case - and then Leah's daughter joins the list of missing girls.) Hilmo, Tess With a Name Like Love $6.99 (Kids; Arriving in town for a 3-day revival meeting, Ollie meets Jimmy, whose mother is in jail for murdering his father. Jimmy insists that his mother is innocent, and Ollie believes him. Still, even if Ollie convinces her daddy to stay in town, how can two kids free a grown woman who has signed a confession?) Hilton, Matt Blood and Ashes $9.99 (Joe Hunter #5: The battle to save a dead woman's family starts Joe Hunter on a trail of death that leads right to the heart of a white supremacist conspiracy.) Hollis, Lee Death of a Coupon Clipper $7.99 (Hayley Powell #3: PBO; Hayley is thrilled to be selected for an extreme coupon-clipping reality game show that's coming to town, especially since her competition is nasty nurse Candace Culpepper. But when Haley stumbles across Candace's corpse, she knows the next thing she'll be selected for will probably be a police lineup.) Hozy, S.P. The Scarlet Macaw $17.99 (The sudden death of gallery owner Peter Stone sends Maris from Singapore to Canada to reconnect with her family. There she becomes immersed in the books Peter left her, stories of love and betrayal from Singapore's past. Back in Singapore, she searches for answers to the mystery of three people - a writer, his young wife, and their baby - who seem to be linked to Stone. Along the way, she finds herself caught up in circumstances involving smuggling and possible murder.) Hubbard, Janet Bordeaux $14.95 (Vengeance in the Vineyard #2: While in Bordeaux acting as bodyguard to a famous American wine critic, NYPD detective Max Maguire once again finds herself assisting Olivier Chaumont with a murder investigation.) Hyzy, Julie Grace Takes Off $7.99 (Manor House #4: PBO; Grace and her boss Bennett are returning from a trip to Tuscany. On the plane, Grace catches a woman trying to poison Bennett. The woman isn't talking, but before long there are two dead bodies. Now Grace has to wing it to find a mile-high murderer.) Jacobs/Hjalmarsson The Quotable Book Lover $12.95 (A collection of classic quotes celebrating the printed and bound word.) James, Steven The King $9.99 (Patrick Bowers #5: PBO; A demon from Patrick's past forces him into a desperate hunt to save his fiancee and his stepdaughter, and stop an international conspiracy from perpetrating the worst act of terrorism in US history.) John, David Flight from Berlin $14.99 (Berlin, 1936: A chance meeting leads British journalist Richard Denham and American newspaper columnist Eleanor Emerson into a treacherous game involving the Gestapo, the British Secret Intelligence Service, and a dossier that could destroy the Third Reich's leadership.) Kane, Andrea The Line Between Here and Gone $7.99 (Forensic Instincts #2: Amanda Gleason's newborn son is battling a rare immune deficiency. The best chance for a cure lies with his father, who was murdered. Or was he? Forensic Instincts agrees to track him down, but there are ruthless forces determined to thwart the investigation.) Kepler, Lars The Fire Witness $27.00 (Joona Linna #3: Flora Hansen makes a living by pretending to commune with the dead. But after a gruesome murder at a rural home for wayward girls, Hansen begins to suffer visions that are all too real. She calls the police, claiming to have seen a ghost, but only detective Joona Linna puts aside his skepticism long enough to listen.) Land, Jon Strong Vengeance $7.99 (Caitlin Strong #4: Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong is investigating the murder of an oil-rig crew. They had found the wreckage of a sunken treasure ship - and something else, connected to a terrorist attack about to be launched by an American-born cleric.) Laurie, Victoria Deadly Forecast $23.95 (Psychic Eye #11: Wedding bells are ringing for psychic Abby Cooper, but her husband-to-be has been assigned to a case involving a series of suicide bombings, and Abby's spirit guides are warning her of imminent danger.) Leon, Donna Death in a Strange Country $14.00 (Brunetti #02: Reissue; Commissario Guido Brunetti finds himself knee-deep in a toxic waste cover-up with political ties.) London, Meg Laced with Poison $7.99 (Sweet Nothings Lingerie #2: PBO; Emma and Arabella hope a trunk show at the home of a local socialite will boost sales at their lingerie shop. But after a guest has a bite of a deadly cupcake, Emma must think fast before a friend goes to jail and the killer gives the cops the slip.) Lovitt, Zane The Midnight Promise $16.00 (Melbourne PI John Dorn is a classic gumshoe: his woman has left him; he lives in his office; he drinks too much; and his one friend, a lawyer named Demetri, hands Dorn an endless supply of hopeless cases and lost causes.) Lowell, Virginia One Dead Cookie $7.99 (Cookie Cutter Shop #4: PBO; When the body of a famous soap star is found on Olivia's porch, she and Maddie will have to find out who in town has a sweet tooth for murder.) MacRae, Molly Dyeing Wishes $7.99 (Haunted Yarn Shop #2: PBO; When Kath and her friends from the fiber and needlework group find two dead bodies spread under a tall tree, Kath and her ghostly sidekick Geneva are determined to hang the killer out to dry.) Martin, William The Lincoln Letter $9.99 (When a recently discovered letter penned by Abraham Lincoln suggests that Lincoln kept a diary, treasure hunters Peter Fallon and Evangeline Carrington head for Washington, DC, to hunt for the diary.) Mathews, Francine Jack 1939 $16.00 (1939: When 22-year-old Jack Kennedy decides to travel through Europe doing research for his Harvard senior thesis, FDR asks Jack to be his eyes and ears, hoping to stop the flow of German money flooding the US to buy the 1940 presidential election - an election that Hitler wants Roosevelt to lose.) McCallin, Luke The Man from Berlin $15.00 (Gregor Reinhardt #1: In WWII Yugoslavia, military intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt investigates the murders of a German officer and a young Yugoslavian filmmaker who was a hero to her people.) McCoy, Max Of Grave Concern $7.99 (Ophelia Wylde #1: PBO; After wasting her money on a phony psychic, young Civil War widow Ophelia Wylde decides she could play that game. She heads west, selling her services as a spiritual medium who speaks to the dead. But in Dodge City, an unfortunate 'reading' of a girl who's still living exposes her. As punishment, the mob drags Ophelia to Boot Hill and buries her alive in a fresh grave overnight. That's when the dead start speaking to her for real. And they've got lots to say.) McKenna, Shannon One Wrong Move $7.99 (Alex has spent most of his life on the run from his mob family, but when he learns his aunt is dying, he risks going home to say goodbye.He's prepared for anything except the phone call from a friend that sends him on a dangerous ride with a woman who holds a deadly secret.) Meier, Leslie Back to School Murder $7.99 (Lucy Stone #04: Reissue; Mother and part-time reporter Lucy Stone investigates a murder at the Tinker's Cove elementary school.) Millar, Louise Accidents Happen $15.00 (Kate Parker has weathered unimaginable horrors. Her parents died in a traffic accident on her wedding night, and her husband Hugo was murdered during a break-in. But her streak of bad luck may actually be something far more sinister.) Mofina, Rick Into the Dark $7.99 (PBO; The sole survivor of a family tragedy, and a grieving cop who lures a killer from the shadows, race the clock to save the next victim.) Monbrun, Estelle Murder Chez Proust $14.95 (Reissue; When the haughty, conniving president of the Proust Association is murdered, Inspector Foucheroux is overwhelmed by a seemingly endless list of suspects; almost everyone the woman knew had motive to kill her.) Morrigan, Laura Woof at the Door $7.99 (Call of the Wilde #1: PBO; Animal behaviorist Grace Wilde keeps her ability to communicate psychically with animals under wraps, but when a Doberman is the only witness to a crime, Grace will have to let the cat out of the bag to catch a killer.) Nabb, Magdalen Death of an Englishman $9.99 (Guarnaccia #01: Reissue; When a well-connected Englishman is murdered, Scotland Yard dispatches two officers to 'assist' the Florentine Carabinieri in solving the crime. But it is Marshal Guarnaccia who manages to figure out what happened, and why.) Patterson, J/Paetro, M 11th Hour $10.00 (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, J/Roughan, H Second Honeymoon $28.00 (John O'Hara #2: FBI Agent John O'Hara is on the trail of a serial killer who is targeting honeymooners, while Special Agent Sarah Brubaker is hunting a serial killer whose victims all have one chilling thing in common.) Pendleton, Don (creator) Extraction $5.99 (Executioner #416: PBO; Bolan goes after terrorists who have kidnapped the US Secretary of State in Madagascar.) Pendleton, Don (creator) Lethal Stakes $6.99 (SuperBolan #159: PBO; Bolan must stop a wealthy Chinese spymaster from seizing control of a revolutionary new missile system.) Penny, Louise The Beautiful Mystery $15.99 (Inspector Gamache #8: Chief Inspector Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir investigate when the renowned choir director of an isolated, cloistered Quebec monastery is murdered.) Pilgrim, Kitty The Stolen Chalice $7.99 (Stapleton & Sinclair #2: While oceanographer Cordelia Stapleton and archaeologist John Sinclair are attending a gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, an art theft ring pulls heists all over NYC, stealing pieces of Egyptian art, including the legendary Sardonyx Cup, an ancient chalice.) Puzo, M/Falco, E The Family Corleone $8.00 (A prequel to The Godfather, inspired by a Puzo screenplay and written by Falco.) Quinn, Spencer A Fistful of Collars $16.00 (Chet & Bernie #5: The mayor lures a movie shoot to the Valley, and hires Chet and Bernie to keep the film's bad-boy star out of trouble. They discover that the actor's past includes a mysterious connection to the Valley - and the people who might know about it are turning up dead.) Randisi, Robert J. The Reluctant Pinkerton $6.99 (Talbot Roper #2: PBO; Roper is in Fort Worth, where someone is sabotaging the Union Stockyard. Going undercover to infiltrate it, Roper knows the men he's up against are smart - and deadly.) Rollins, James The Eye of God $27.99 (SIGMA Force #9: Commander Gray Pierce and SIGMA - joined by a pair of Vatican historians - race to uncover a truth tied to the fall of the Roman Empire, to a mystery bound in the roots of Christianity's origins, and to a weapon hidden for centuries that holds the fate of humanity.) Rosenfelt, David Leader of the Pack $15.99 (Andy Carpenter #10: Andy has always believed that his client Joey Desimone didn't commit the murder he was convicted of. So when Joey asks Andy to take his dog Tara to visit Joey's uncle in a rest home, he agrees. When Andy tries to explain why he's there, it jogs something in the uncle's confused mind that leaves Andy wondering if the old man holds the key to Joey's freedom after all this time.) Ryan, Hank Phillippi The Other Woman $7.99 (Jane Ryland #1: Mary Higgins Clark Award winner. Reporter Jane Ryland is tracking down a candidate's secret mistress just days before a pivotal election. Detective Jake Brogan is after a possible serial killer who is hunting down young women under Boston's bridges. It becomes clear their cases are connected; a ruthless killer will stop at nothing to silence a scandal.) Scheier, Leah Secret Letters $8.99 (Kids; When she learns that Sherlock Holmes might be her biological father, Dora heads to London to enlist his help finding her cousin's stolen love letters. When she learns Holmes has died, Dora must rely on her wits - and the assistance of a young detective - to save her cousin's reputation.) Schur, Norman W. British English from A to Zed $12.95 (Contains more than 5500 British terms and their American equivalents, each with a short explanation of the term's history and an example of its use.) Siegel, Sheldon The Terrorist Next Door $14.95 (David Gold #1: David Gold is a third-generation native of hardscrabble South Chicago, and a decorated homicide detective. His new partner A.C. Battle moved from Mississippi to the penal colony of high rises near the Dan Ryan Expressway. Their first case puts them on the trail of a lone wolf using untraceable cell phones to set off fire bombs all over the city.) Silva, Daniel The Fallen Angel $9.99 (Gabriel Allon #12: Gabriel's trip to Rome to restore a Caravaggio masterpiece for the Vatican grows complicated when he's summoned to St. Peter's Basilica, where a woman lies dead. The Vatican police have ruled it a suicidal fall, but Monsignor Luigi Donati has his doubts, and asks Gabriel to quietly pursue the truth.) Slaughter, Karin Unseen $27.00 (Grant County #11 / Will Trent #7: Will is in Macon, undercover as a scary ex-con. Sara has no idea where he is, but comes to Macon when her cop stepson is gunned down, and unknowingly winds up working the same case Will is. Soon danger swirls around both of them.) Soos, Troy The Cincinnati Red Stalkings $14.00 (Mickey Rawlings #5: Reissue; 1921: Utility infielder Mickey Rawlings finds himself embroiled in a mix of conspiracy, lies, and murder that could end his career - and his life.) Steding, Sarah A Diet to Die For $7.99 (Jen Stevens #1: PBO; Who iced the cupcake queen? New York City event planner Jen Stevens is determined to find out. With the help of her BFFs - food blogger Gabby and life coach Elizabeth - she starts looking for clues.) Tracy, P.J. Off the Grid $9.99 (Monkeewrench #6: On a sailboat off Florida, Grace MacBride thwarts a murder attempt on retired FBI agent John Smith. In Minneapolis, homicide detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth investigate 6 murders in the same neighborhood within 24 hours. There have been similar murders in other US cities, and the accumulated evidence points to a suspect that shocks them to the core - and puts the Monkeewrench team in the line of fire.) Tremayne, Peter Behold a Pale Horse $15.99 (Sister Fidelma #22: AD 664: Fidelma takes a detour on her trip home from Rome when she receives word that Brother Ruadan is dying. She undertakes a treacherous journey to his remote abbey, where one murder follows another and a vicious war is in the offing. It's up to Fidelma to unravel a conspiracy before it's too late.) Unger, Lisa Heartbroken $7.99 (Three very different women find themselves on Heart Island, in the middle of a lake in the Adirondacks - an island with a terrifying history that they will have to face before their time there runs out.) Vargas, Fred The Ghost Riders of Ordebec $15.00 (Commissaire Adamsberg #7: Commissaire Adamsberg has no jurisdiction in Ordebec, but cannot ignore a widow's plea, and heads there to investigate the disappearances of evildoers who have been visited by a band of ghostly horsemen.) Vater, Tom The Cambodian Book of the Dead $14.99 (2001: PI Maier travels to Phnom Penh to find the missing heir to a Hamburg coffee empire. His search uncovers a tale of mass murder that reaches from the Cambodian killing fields back to Europe's concentration camps. And to prevent more innocent lives from being destroyed, Maier will have to write the last terrifying chapter of the tale himself.) Vichi, Marco Death in August $14.95 (Bordelli #1: Florence, 1963: When a wealthy old woman dies suspiciously, Inspector Bordelli investigates, with the help of his young protege, the victim's eccentric brother, and a semi-retired petty thief.) Vichi, Marco Death and the Olive Grove $25.00 (Bordelli #2: Florence, 1964: A little girl's body has been found, strangled, with a horrible bite mark on the belly. Then another girl is murdered the same way; Inspector Bordelli investigates.) Walters, Minette Innocent Victims $13.00 (2 novellas about seemingly normal people driven to commit heinous crimes.)

Mid July

Adams, Guy The Sherlock Files $17.99 (Official guide to seasons 1 and 2 of the hit BBC series; blog entries, police reports, case notes, plus exclusive interviews with actors and writers.) Andrews, Donna The Hen of the Baskervilles $24.99 (Meg Langslow #15: When her friend Molly's unfaithful husband turns up murdered at the Caerphilly fair, Meg sets out to find the killer and clear her friend's name.) Burton, Milton T. These Mortal Remains $26.99 (Bo Handel #2: The shooting of an African-American deputy puts Texas sheriff Bo Handel on the trail of a group of white supremacists occupying a compound on the edge of town.) Cain, James The Cocktail Waitress $14.95 (A beautiful young widow takes a job at a cocktail lounge, where she meets a handsome young schemer who makes her blood race, and a wealthy but unwell older man who rewards her for her attentions with a $50,000 tip and an unconventional offer of marriage.) Castle/David/Atkins etc A Calm Before Storm $19.99 (Derrick Storm #3: Full color graphic novel; collects issue 1-5 of the comic book. Who is The Fear? What does he want with Derrick? And why is Derrick's father next on the hit list?) Castro, Joy Nearer Home $25.99 (Nola Cespedes #2: On an early morning run, Nola finds a dead body. Worse, the victim is her former journalism professor. Not convinced the killing was random, and not one to put much trust in the New Orleans police, Nola decides to investigate.) Clement, Blaize & John The Cat Sitter's Cradle $24.99 (Dixie Hemingway #8: Dixie spots an exotic bird rarely seen north of the equator. When she digs into where the bird came from, she grows increasingly suspicious of its origins.) Daheim, Mary Gone with the Win $23.99 (Bed & Breakfast #28: Someone from Judith's past comes knocking: Ruby's mother was strangled years before, soon after her divorce from Ruby's father, and the killer is still at large. Undaunted, Judith agrees to help Ruby.) Disher, Garry Fallout $25.00 (Wyatt Wareen #6: Wyatt joins forces with his nephew Raymond to lift some artwork. It should be an easy job; the gallery is under construction and Wyatt has performed similar heists. When things go south, Wyatt must decide - will Raymond prove to be a worthy pupil, or dead weight?) Doiron, Paul Bad Little Falls $14.99 (Mike Bowditch #3: Maine game warden Mike Bowditch has been exiled to an outpost on the Canadian border. When he's called out during a blizzard, what starts as a rescue mission soon becomes a baffling murder investigation when he finds the body of a notorious drug dealer.) Doiron, Paul Massacre Pond $24.99 (Mike Bowditch #4: A wealthy animal rights activist is buying up land to create a new national park. Maine game warden Mike Bowditch investigates when someone leaves moose carcasses on the woman's estate; the case grows more sinister when the woman's daughter is killed in a suspicious car accident.) Fitzgerald, Conor The Namesake $16.00 (Alec Blume #3: When magistrate Matteo Arconti's namesake, an insurance man from Milan, is found dead outside the court buildings, it's a clear message of intimidation from a powerful crime syndicate. While his partner Caterina investigates, Commissario Alec Blume devises an scheme to lure the Mafioso responsible out of hiding.) Florio, John Sugar Pop Moon $15.95 (Jersey Leo works at a dive owned by one of New York's most notorious gangsters. So when he inadvertently purchases counterfeit moonshine with the owner's money - a potentially fatal mistake - he sets out to track down the bootlegger.) Gagnon, Michelle Don't Turn Around $9.99 (YA; 16-year-old Noa lives off the grid, using her hacking skills to stay anonymous and alone. When she wakes up on a table with an IV in her arm and no memory of how she got there, Noa starts to wish she had someone on her side. Enter Peter, the leader of a hacker alliance. He needs people with Noa's talents on his team, especially after a shady corporation threatens his life.) Gortner, C.W. The Tudor Conspiracy $15.99 (Spymaster #2: England, 1553: Hunted by a shadowy foe in Queen Mary's court, Brendan Prescott plunges into London's treacherous underworld to unravel a conspiracy that could put Princess Elizabeth on the throne - or send her to her death.) Haines, Kathryn Miller The Girl Is Trouble $10.99 (Iris Anderson #2: YA; 1940s: Iris is now allowed to help out at her pop's detective agency as long as she follows his rules and learns his techniques. But when she uncovers details about her mother's supposed suicide, Iris is thrown headfirst into an intensely personal case.) Houston, Philip et al Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception $14.99 (Nonfiction; Three former CIA officers - authorities on recognizing deceptive behavior - share their techniques for spotting a lie. Includes anecdotes from their careers in counterintelligence.) Huston, Charlie Skinner $26.00 (Skinner founded his career in 'asset protection' on fear. To touch anyone under his protection was to invite destruction. Effective, until his CIA handlers began to fear him as much as his enemies did, and banished him to the hinterlands of the intelligence community. Now an evolving cyber-terrorist attack is about to end that exile.) Kane/Prepolec (ed) Beyond Rue Morgue $14.95 (Anthology; stories based around Edgar Allan Poe's detective character Le Chevalier C. Auguste Dupin.) Limon, Martin The Joy Brigade $14.95 (Sueno & Bascom #8: 1970s: Kim Il-Sung has vowed to reunite North and South Korea before he hands control over to his son, which means North Korea is planning to cross the DMZ. Sergeant George Sueno's mission is to prevent this by sneaking into the north to get his hands on an ancient map that details the secret tunnels running under the DMZ) London, C. Alexander We Sled with Dragons $7.99 (Accidental Adventure #4: PBO; Kids; The Navel twins' latest reluctant adventure takes them to the North Pole, where they are forced to skydive, go dog sledding, get rescued by a man in a hot air balloon (who looks vaguely like Santa), and finally find the long-lost Library of Alexandria.) Lutz, Lisa The Last Word $25.00 (Spellmans #6: After Izzy's hostile takeover of Spellman Investigations, Izzy's parents go on strike. Her sister Rae comes back into the family business with questionable motivations. And before long, Izzy finds herself accused of embezzling from a former client.) MacInnes, Helen The Salzburg Connection $9.95 (Reissue; 1966: When a British agent recovers a sealed chest from an Austrian lake, the Nazi secrets he uncovers are far-reaching and lethal, drawing a New York attorney - in Salzburg on the trail of a missing colleague - into the shadowy underworld of international espionage.) Mankell, Henning A Treacherous Paradise $26.95 (1905: At 19, Hanna Renstrom leaves Sweden to seek a better life. In a few years, she finds herself widowed and the owner of a bordello in Portuguese East Africa, where colonialism and white supremacy rule. She is isolated within society by her profession and her sex, and, among the bordello's black prostitutes, by her color. She wrestles with loneliness, and with the racism she's meant to adopt unthinkingly. As her life becomes increasingly intertwined with the prostitutes, she will make a decision that defies every expectation society has of her.) McGoran, Jon Drift $24.99 (When he visits the house he's inherited in rural Pennsylvania, narcotics detective Doyle Carrick is unpleasantly surprised to see high-powered drug dealers driving the local roads - dealers the brass back in Philadelphia don't want to hear about.) Morton, Kate The Secret Keeper $16.00 (50 years ago, Laurel witnessed a crime that challenged everything she knew about her family, especially her wonderful mother. Now, as her mother's 90th birthday party approaches, Laurel realizes this might be her last chance to find answers to the questions that haunt her from that long-ago day.) Piccirilli, Tom The Last Whisper in the Dark $26.00 (Rand Family #2: Terry Rand's old friend Chub hasn't been seen since he supplied a getaway car for a heist that went wrong. Terry just wants to bring Chub home to his wife and child, but winds up dodging mobsters, horror movie moguls, and murderers - and the truth about a crime of his own.) Pochoda, Ivy Visitation Street $25.99 (It's summertime in Red Hook, a blue-collar dockside Brooklyn neighborhood. Two teenagers, June and Val, take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what they can see. And then they disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore and found semi-conscious in the weeds. This event will echo through the lives of a diverse group of Red Hook residents.) Potzsch, Oliver The Poisoned Pilgrim $18.00 (Jakob Kuisl #4: 1666: The physician Simon and his wife Magdalena set out on a pilgrimage to Andechs Abbey. There Simon meets Brother Virgilius, a watchmaker and inventor of eerie automata. When the monk disappears and his workshop is destroyed, Simon calls in Jakob Kuisl.) Pronzini, Bill Nemesis $25.99 (Nameless Detective #38: Verity Daniels claims to be receiving threatening demands for money. Jake Runyon agrees to investigate, planning to set a trap for the extortionist. But the case is not as clear-cut as it first appears - and Verity Daniels is not the helpless victim. When Runyon ends up falsely accused of a crime, Nameless and his partner Tamara Corbin work to clear Runyon's good name.) Ryan, William The Twelfth Department $25.99 (Alexei Korolev #3: Moscow, 1937: When Captain Alexei Korolev is assigned to a sensitive case - the murder of an important man - he soon realizes that, if State Security or the NKVD decides he's interfering, he might lose his job, if he's lucky. Or his whole family might die if he's not.) Sayers, Dorothy L. Lord Peter: The Complete Lord Peter Wimsey Stories $16.99 (Collects all the classic detective stories featuring aristocratic sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey.) Shames, Terry A Killing at Cotton Hill $15.95 (When Dora Lee Parjeter is murdered, her old friend, former police chief Samuel Craddock, steps in. He discovers that a lot of people may have had it in for Dora Lee. As Craddock digs to find the identity of the killer, the human foibles of the residents of the small Texas town are revealed.) Silva, Daniel The English Girl $27.99 (Gabriel Allon #13: When a young British woman vanishes on the island of Corsica, a Prime Minister's career is threatened. Allon, the wayward son of Israeli intelligence, is thrust into a game of shadows where the only thing more dangerous than his enemies might be the truth.) Spann, Susan Claws of the Cat $24.99 (Shinobi #1: 16th-century Kyoto: When a samurai is murdered in a teahouse, master ninja Hiro has no desire to get involved, but the beautiful entertainer accused of the crime enlists the help of Father Mateo, the Portuguese priest Hiro is sworn to protect.) Stevenson, Steve The King of Scotland's Sword $5.99 (Agatha: Girl of Mystery #3: Kids; Agatha heads to the Highlands to solve the mystery surrounding the disappearance of a priceless sword said to have belonged to Scottish hero Robert the Bruce.) Toperoff, Sam Lillian and Dash $15.95 (Novel about fast-living, hard-drinking literary couple Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman, whose affair spanned three decades.) van de Wetering, J Outsider in Amsterdam $9.99 (Grijpstra & de Gier #01: Reissue; When the founder of a new religious society/commune is found hanging from a ceiling beam, Detective- Adjutant Gripstra and Sergeant de Gier of the Amsterdam police are sent to investigate.) Walker, Martin The Devil's Cave $24.95 (Bruno #5: It's spring in the French town of St. Denis, and a dead woman has been found floating in a boat on the river. Evidence suggests the occult may be involved. As questions mount, Bruno and his colleagues draw closer to a showdown in the place the locals call the Devil's Cave.) Winters, Ben H. Countdown City $14.95 (Hank Palace #2: There are just 74 days to go before an asteroid collides with Earth. With the Concord police force operating under the auspices of the US Justice Department, detective Hank Palace's days of solving crimes are over, until a woman from his past begs for help finding her missing husband. With society falling to shambles, Hank pieces together what few clues he can.)

Early August

Abbott, Allyson K. Murder on the Rocks $7.99 (Mack's Bar #1: PBO; Milwaukee bar owner Mack Dalton has extra-perceptive senses, so when she stumbles upon a dead body in the alley behind the bar - where her father was shot months earlier - she can tell there's something fishy in the air. The lead detective thinks the deaths are linked, and he'll need Mack's help to find the murderer among a crowd of eccentric bar regulars.) Alden, Jami Guilty as Sin $8.00 (PBO; When Kate was a teenager, her brother was kidnapped and murdered. Now she is an advocate for missing children, and her newest case brings her back to the small town where she lost her brother - and where she left behind Tommy, the first boy she ever loved.) Alexander, Tasha Death in the Floating City $14.99 (Lady Emily #7: Years ago, Emma Callum scandalized polite society when she eloped with an Italian count. Now her father-in-law has been murdered, and her husband has vanished. Lady Emily heads to Venice to investigate) Ashford, Lindsay The Mysterious Death of Miss Jane Austen $14.99 (Accident or murder? Inspired by letters and diaries from the Austen archive, a fictional account of the circumstances surrounding Jane Austen's mysterious death.) Barclay, Linwood A Tap on the Window $25.95 (A girl drenched in rain taps on PI Cal Weaver's car window and asks for a ride. Even though he knows a man picking up a teenage hitchhiker is a fool, he lets her in. After a brief stop at a roadside diner, Cal senses that something's not right with the girl or the situation. But it's too late. He's already involved.) Benn, James R. Billy Boyle $9.99 (Billy Boyle #1: Reissue; 1942: Family connections earn 22-year- old Irish-American cop Billy Boyle a place on General Eisenhower's London staff. With the Allies working on a plan to liberate Norway, Uncle Ike dispatches Billy to the Norwegian government in exile, where he fears there may be a German spy.) Benn, James R. 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Soos, Troy Hanging Curve $14.00 (Mickey Rawlings #6: Reissue; 1922: When he gets a chance to play against the East St. Louis Cubs, a black semi-pro team, Mickey willingly risks his career to step across baseball's color line. When one of the Negro League stars is lynched in the ballpark, Mickey investigates.) Stead, Rebecca Liar & Spy $6.99 (Kids; Agatha Award finalist. After moving to Brooklyn, Georges meets Safer, a twelve-year-old self-appointed spy, and becomes his first recruit, assigned to track the mysterious man who lives in the apartment upstairs. But as Safer becomes more demanding, Georges starts to wonder: what is a game, and what is a lie?) Suarez, Daniel Kill Decision $9.99 (A scientist and a special ops soldier set out to prevent the deployment of an unmanned, automated army of drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute targets without human intervention.) Tremayne, Peter The Seventh Trumpet $25.99 (Sister Fidelma #23: Ireland, 670: When the body of a murdered young noble is discovered not far from Cashel, the King calls upon his sister Fidelma and her companion Eadulf to investigate.) Webb, Debra Revenge $6.00 (Faces of Evil #5: PBO; When a beloved high school teacher appears on her doorstep, Deputy Chief Jess Harris is flooded with fond memories - until the woman reveals she's about to be charged with murder.) Wenger, Christine Do or Diner $7.99 (Comfort Food #1: PBO; When Trixie agrees to take over her aunt's diner, she pictures Lake Ontario views and delicious comfort food. But her first health inspection turns into a nightmare when the inspector keels over in his Blue Plate Special.) Westlake, Donald E. Dancing Aztecs (alternate title: A New York Dance) $13.95 (Reissue; A South American republic plans to capitalize on its national symbol, a gold statue of a dancing Aztec priest, by having a sculptor make copies for sale abroad. The sculptor replaces the original with a fake, and ships the real one to NYC for an illicit sale to a museum. The statues are packed in five crates. Asked to pick up crate 'E' at the airport, Jerry Manelli is confused by his client's Spanish accent and takes crate 'A' instead. The statue disappears into the city, leading him on a baffling chase, which - if he comes up with the wrong Aztec - could cost him his life.) White, Randy Wayne Gone $9.99 (Hannah Smith #1: Folks come to Hannah Smith with their problems, even though her unorthodox methods sometimes make those on the receiving end very unhappy - even violent. And when she's asked to find a missing girl, that's exactly what happens.) Wilcox, John Fire Across the Veldt $29.95 (Simon Fonthill #9: South Africa, 1900: Simon Fonthill, his wife Alice, 352 Jenkins, and tracker Mzingeli are traveling to Pretoria to meet with General Kitchener. When he learns that the next Boer move will be to attack the Cape Colony, Fonthill must race to locate and defeat the enemy forces in time.) Willig, Lauren The Passion of the Purple Plumeria $15.00 (Pink Carnation #10: PBO; When her little sister goes missing from her English boarding school, the Pink Carnation sends her second-in-command Gwen Meadows to investigate the girl's disappearance. Gwen must cooperate with Colonel William Reid, whose daughter has also gone missing, to track down the young ladies - before others with nefarious intent get their hands on them.) Winter, Ariel S. The Twenty-Year Death $14.95 (1931: The body found in the gutter in France led the police inspector to the dead man's beautiful daughter - and to her hot-tempered American husband. 1941: A hardboiled private eye, hired to keep a movie studio's leading lady happy, uncovers the truth behind the brutal slaying of a Hollywood starlet. 1951: A desperate man pursuing his last chance at redemption finds himself with blood on his hands and the police on his trail. Three separate novels, each penned in the style of a different giant of the mystery genre; taken together, they tell the story of an author whose life is shattered when violence and tragedy consume the people closest to him.)

Mid August

Bertsch, David Riley Death Canyon $25.00 (Jake Trent #1: Prosecutor turned fishing guide Jake Trent's life is upended by a series of deaths near Jackson Hole, Wyoming. When fresh evidence makes Jake a murder suspect, he teams up with park ranger Noelle Klimpton to get to the bottom of things.) Black, Benjamin Holy Orders $26.00 (Quirke #6: 1950s Dublin: When the body of his daughter's friend is brought to his autopsy table, Quirke investigates, along with Inspector Hackett, and learns just how far the Catholic Church and its supporters will go to protect their interests.) Blake, Robin Dark Waters $25.99 (Cragg & Fidelis #2: 1741: The drowning of drunken publican Antony Egan is no surprise, and the inquest's verdict is accidental death. But coroner Titus Cragg's close friend, Dr. Luke Fidelis, finds evidence to cast doubt on the events leading to Egan's demise. Suspicions are further roused when a well-to-do farmer collapses.) Cain, Chelsea Let Me Go $25.99 (Archie Sheridan #6: With escaped serial killer Gretchen Lowell on the loose, the investigation into the murder of a DEA agent demanding his attention, and journalist Susan Ward showing up at his apartment needing a favor, it's going to be a long Halloween weekend for detective Archie Sheridan; Signed copies expected) Cleverly, Barbara A Spider in the Cup $26.95 (Joe Sandilands #11: 1933: A young woman's body is unearthed on the banks of the Thames, one toe missing and a priceless gold coin in her mouth. When a strange set of coincidences links the body to a visiting US Senator that Joe is assigned to protect, he realizes that the Senator is caught up in a very dangerous game.) Crider, Bill Compound Murder $24.99 (Dan Rhodes #20: When a college instructor is found dead, Sheriff Rhodes arrests a student who was fleeing the campus, but further investigation turns up more suspects.) Cross, Neil Luther: The Calling $15.99 (Prequel to the BBC series.) Dahl, Arne Bad Blood $25.95 (Intercrime #2: The team is quietly assigned to track down an American serial killer on the loose in Sweden. As victims are discovered tortured to death on the outskirts of Stockholm, panic grows.) Flynn, Vince The Last Man $9.99 (Mitch Rapp #11: Rapp heads to Afghanistan to track down a missing CIA agent.) Hamilton, Donald Murderers' Row $7.99 (Matt Helm #05: Reissue; Assigned to assault a fellow agent to help establish her cover, Helm is pursued by his own government when the woman turns up dead. Now he must complete her assignment and assassinate an enemy operative.) Handler, David Runaway Man $24.99 (Baby-faced Benji Golden specializes in tracking down teen runaways. Park Avenue's classiest law firm hires him to find a missing student, but the investigation gets dangerous when someone gets killed.) Hart, Carolyn Brave Hearts $13.95 (Reissue; Married to a British diplomat, Catharine Cavanaugh plays the dutiful wife in war-time London. Then she meets war correspondent Jack Maguire, and discovers love again. When Catharine and her husband are transferred to the Philippines, Jack follows. The Japanese attack, forcing the trapped civilians into a harrowing adventure to escape the advancing army.) Hiller, Mischa Shake Off $15.00 (1989: A refugee whose family was murdered by extremists, intelligence operative Michel Khoury has one mission: the peaceful resolution of the Middle East conflict that upended his life. When his secrets turn deadly, he and his neighbor Helen find themselves pursued through London, Cambridge, Berlin, and the Scottish countryside.) Koryta, Michael The Prophet $15.00 (When they were teenagers, their sister was abducted and murdered. Now a new killing, with ties to each of them, forces a painful and adversarial reunion between two brothers, as their sister's killer terrorizes their small Midwestern town.) Krueger, William Kent Tamarack County $24.99 (Cork O'Connor #13: As winter storms isolate Minnesota's sleepy Tamarack County, a vengeful force is at work, spinning a deadly web centered on a murder that occurred over twenty years ago. An innocent man may have been convicted, and Cork was the deputy in charge of the investigation that sent the man to prison.) Mason, Jamie Three Graves Full $16.00 (When extraordinary circumstances drive Jason Getty to murder, he buries the body in his backyard, then struggles to come to terms with the reality of his actions. Just when he's finally learning to live with it, a landscaper discovers a body on Jason's property - but it's not the body Jason buried.) Menino, Holly Murder, She Rode $25.99 (A former world-class rider and a horse trainer, Tink Elledge plans to see her prized horse take home the victory at the Brandywine Three- Day Event. But before the event can begin, a truck accident kills a respected horseman and a talented colt. Then a young rider disappears. Tink sets out to unravel a plot that threatens the reputations and lives of the men and women she hopes to defeat on the course.) O'Connell, Carol It Happens in the Dark $26.95 (Mallory #11: First a woman is found dead in the front row at a play; then the playwright is found with his throat slashed. NYPD detective Kathy Mallory investigates - and the killer is leaving her messages on the backstage blackboard.) Pattison, Eliot Original Death $26.00 (Duncan McCallum #3: 1760s Colonial America: Duncan McCallum and his companion Conawago reach a little settlement of Christian Indians and find its residents ritually murdered. Conawago perceives the deaths as a sign of a crisis in the spiritworld which he must resolve. Trying to make sense of the murders, Duncan is accused of the crimes by the British army.) Reichs, Kathy Bones Are Forever $7.99 (Temperance Brennan #15: Asked to examine the corpses of three dead babies in Montreal, Brennan's assignment is complicated by the fact that her long-time flame Detective Ryan is investigating the infants' mother. When the woman flees, the trail leads to remote Yellowknife.) Ritter, Todd Devil's Night $25.99 (Kat Campbell #3: Perry Hollow's one and only museum - home to all the town's historical artifacts - has been set on fire. Arriving at the scene, Police Chief Kat Campbell learns that the museum curator is dead - bludgeoned, not burned.) Rollins, J/Cantrell, R The Blood Gospel audiobook $19.99 (Order of the Sanguines #1: An earthquake at Masada, Israel, reveals a tomb. A military forensic expert, a Vatican priest, and an archaeologist are sent to explore it, but an attack at the site sends the three racing to recover a tome rumored to have been written by Christ's own hand, said to hold the secrets to His divinity, and telling of a time when Christ made a miraculous offer - a pact of salvation for those who had been damned for eternity.) Rowland, Laura Joh The Incense Game $14.99 (Sano Ichiro #16: 1703: An earthquake leaves the shogun's court teetering on the brink of chaos. When a nobleman's daughters are found dead from incense poisoning, he threatens to topple the regime unless Sano Ichiro finds the killer.) Russell, Sheldon The Hanging of Samuel Ash $25.99 (Hook Runyon #4: Railroad bull Hook Runyon is called to investigate a malfunctioning wigwag signal in the middle of nowhere. He finds a young man strung up there, strangled to death. Hook vows to find the dead boy's family, as well as his killer.) Shepherd, Lynn A Fatal Likeness $26.00 (Charles Maddox #2: Charles finds his investigative services have been engaged by no less than the son of celebrated writers Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley. The family wants him to discover whether a cache of papers they've been offered, attributed to the poet, are authentic.) Stroud, Carsten Niceville $14.95 (Nick & Kate Kavanaugh #1: One fine spring day, security camera footage captures the precise moment of young Rainey Teague's instant, inexplicable disappearance. Special forces veteran Nick Kavanaugh is in charge of the search; he and his wife Kate find themselves drawn into a shadow world between life and death, where they will come face to face with an ancient malevolent power that lies beneath the town.)