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

Newsletter #95 September-November 2011

Hours: M-F 10 am to 8 pm Sat. 10 am to 6 pm Sun. Noon to 5 pm

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Used Book Sale

Every year our supply (oversupply) of used books gets larger. We're having a used book sale to try to reduce our supply. All used books will be 20% off, whether you have a discount card or not. The sale includes used paperbacks, used hardcovers, used magazines, used gaming books, and bagged books.

Because we have so many used audiobooks, we will be selling all used audiobooks at $5.00 each, whether cassette or CD. The sale runs from Friday, September 9 through Sunday, September 18. That gives you two weekends to take advantage of the sale.

This sale will be for customers shopping in the store - it does not apply to mail orders. If you're thinking about bringing in lots of used books to sell to us during the sale, expect a longer than normal wait.

Upcoming Signings

Michael Z. Williamson will be autographing at Uncle Hugo's on Saturday, September 10th, from 1:00-2:00 pm. His newest book is Rogue (in stock now), latest in the Freehold sf series.

How's Business? By Don Blyly

After a dreadful winter, the in-store business has just about recovered and the mail order business has gone up substantially. When the Borders going-out-of-business sales are over, I hope that we'll see more in-store business.

In addition to selling their remaining inventory during the bankruptcy sale, Borders plans to sell their customer records, including email addresses and complete lists of every book that every customer bought from them (presumably, only for customers who used their website or had a discount card – which the employees were forced to try to talk customers into buying for $25 up until shortly before the liquidation sale began).

The total collapse of Borders has suddenly awoken the publishing industry to the importance of the brick-and-mortar stores as a "showroom" for books. Decades ago, we'd have people come into the store, look at the books on our shelves for a long period of time while taking notes, and then go to the library to request the books that they found interesting (but not interesting enough to buy) at the Uncles. More recently, we've had people come into the store and look at the books on our shelves for a long period of time to decide what they wanted to order from Amazon. Now, we have people come into the store to look over the books on our shelves to decide what they wanted to buy as e-books. Because the publishing industry does very little advertising, the consumers' primary source of information about new titles comes from the bookstores. They've finally figured out that they are making money from those people doing their book research (but not book buying) at the Uncles. Supposedly, the publishers are brain-storming ideas about how they can help the brick-and-mortar stores to stay in business, so that we can continue to be "showrooms for books".

I was getting caught up on my bills with the publishers and feeling optimistic about perhaps being able to pull a little cash from the business to make some badly-needed repairs at home. Then, on a Friday night about 4 weeks ago, there was a loud sizzling noise, followed by a loud thud, and the air stopped moving at Uncle Hugo's. The next morning, I visited 3 hardware stores before I found the right size fuses for the rooftop air conditioner/furnace. After I plugged in the new fuses, the air started moving again. When I altered the temperature setting to get some cooling, the fuses blew again. On Monday the repairman came out, checked over the unit, and told me that one of the two compressors had shorted out. He had taken the bad compressor out of the circuit, but found enough other things that had gone bad or were about to go bad that he suggested replacing the 17-year-old unit with a new, more efficient model instead of putting thousands of dollars in repairs into such an old unit with so many problems. A sales engineer came out, looked over the situation, and gave me three quotes: about $5000 to repair the old unit, about $10,000 to replace the old unit with a new, more energy efficient unit of the same size, or about $15,000 to replace the old unit with a larger new unit with a more powerful fan that would also require replacing all the duct work above the suspended ceilings. I went for the middle bid, and the replacement unit was installed recently.

Once again we had lots more new titles than we had space for in the paper newsletter. We had to cut about half the listings. Most paranormal romances, gaming related items, action adventure series titles, Doctor Who books, kids and young adult novels, reissues, and non-fiction books were either eliminated or had their descriptions drastically shortened for the paper newsletter, but full information is on our website. There are also book reviews at our website. Thanks to the 100 or so people who switched from the paper newsletter to the electronic version in the last 3 months. That will save us about $400 per year in expenses.

Short Recommendations by Don Blyly

Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep ($8.99) came out in 1992 and won the Hugo Award for Best Novel of the year. It introduced a planet of dog-like aliens that are intelligent in one way as individuals and intelligent in a different way when they form packs. When a human spaceship crashes on the planet while fleeing an interstellar war, the children on the ship are at the not-so-tender mercy of the medieval Tine. After 19 years, we finally get the sequel, The Children of the Sky ($25.99, October). I made the mistake of assuming I'd remember enough of the first book after 19 years to enjoy the sequel. I did enjoy the sequel very much, but I wish I had re-read A Fire Upon the Deep before starting on the sequel.

I've been impressed by everything I've read by Michael Flynn, but I'm puzzled by what his publisher did with his latest two books. The January Dancer ($7.99) came out in hardcover in October, 2008, but was not released in paperback until July, 2011. The sequel, Up Jim River ($7.99) came out in hardcover in April, 2010 and in paperback in February, 2011. Why put the sequel out in paperback six months before the first book? Fortunately, they are written so that they can be read as independent novels. Thousands of years in the future, mankind has spread through a significant portion of the galaxy, but faster-than-light travel has recently been rediscovered after a dark age where each planet developed its own culture. Various factions are fighting for power among the human worlds, and there are powerful alien artifacts scattered about. In The January Dancer, a tramp freighter needs to make repairs near an unnamed planet and the crew stumbles onto an alien artifact of great power. Soon, agents of various powerful factions, plus a pirate fleet, are trying to seize the artifact. Great space opera results. In Up Jim River, the daughter of one of the agents in The January Dancer approaches an old man who was another of the agents in The January Dancer (who might be her father) to ask for his help in trying to find her mother, who disappeared on a later search for another alien artifact. Again, great space opera results.

The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin ($7.99) is a fantasy that has received lots of award nominations, and deservedly so. In a universe that once had 3 gods, and later had many more gods as the first 3 gods had kids, a war broke out among the 3 most powerful gods. Bright Itempas won the war, killed Enefa (another of the 3 major gods), and enslaved the other major god and those of the kids who picked the wrong side in the war. He decided that the family of his chief priest among the humans should rule the world, and he passed control of the enslaved gods to the ruling family to be used as weapons to conquer the world. The story takes place thousands of years later, when Yeine Darr is called to the ruling city of the world by her grandfather, the ruler of the world. Yeine's mother had been an heiress of the ruling Arameri family, but had abdicated and fled to another continent to live what seemed to be an ordinary life. Now, Yeine is named one of three possible heirs to rule the world, and she is not prepared for the snake-pit that is the capital of the world. And it takes her a while to learn that she has actually been picked to be the blood sacrifice that will allow one of the other candidates to become the new ruler of the world. But the enslaved gods have other plans for her.

Black Blade Blues by J.A. Pitts ($7.99) is an urban fantasy with Sarah Beauhall, apprentice blacksmith with attitude, as the protagonist. Sarah also works evenings as a props manager on low-budget films. When her favorite sword is broken on the set, she decides to reforge the sword. Things start to get strange when one of the extras on the film shows up to help her, claims to be a dwarf, claims that the sword is magical, and claims that shapeshifting dragons secretly rule mankind. It turns out that everything he tells her is true, and the dragons really want that magic sword. And Odin keeps showing up to give her advice. A subplot is that Sarah is from a very conservative family, has recently started a lesbian relationship, and is having all sorts of internal conflicts over this. This subplot is handled intelligently without getting preachy and without slowing down the primary plot. A sequel, Honeyed Words ($14.99), recently arrived, but I haven't had a chance to read it yet.

Land of the Dead ($7.99) by Thomas Harlan is the third in the series that began with Wasteland of Flint and House of Reeds (neither currently in print, but we often have used copies). In this series, the Japanese and the Aztecs united before the Europeans reached Mexico and went on the conquer the world and get into outer space, where they discovered lots of alien races and lots of strange alien artifacts that are very dangerous. The first two novels are very good space operas, but the third book becomes military sf, as alien fleets attack human ships to try to gain control of a major alien artifact discovered and being studied by the humans. The major characters are present in all three books, so it's best to read them in order.

Monster Hunter Alpha ($7.99) is the third of the extremely popular Monster Hunter series, and the series should be read in order. Monster Hunter International ($7.99, #1) and Monster Hunter Vendetta ($7.99, #2) have sold hundreds of copies at Uncle Hugo's, and Monster Hunter Alpha will clearly be our #1 seller for the month of August. There are monsters out there, but the government doesn't want the population to know about them. So, the government pays bounties on dead monsters to various Blackwater-like groups of monster hunters, of which Monster Hunter International is the best. The government also has a department for tracking monsters, doing cover-ups when monster attacks take place, and intimidating witnesses into keeping quiet about what really happened. In Monster Hunter Alpha Earl Harbinger, the head of Monster Hunter International, takes some vacation time and heads for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. He's been tipped off that Nikolai, a Russian werewolf that Earl has been fighting since the Vietnam War, is planning an attack on a small town in the U.P., and Earl plans to stop him. But some other baddies have misled both Earl and Nikolai into coming to the U.P. as part of their plot to wipe out the entire town and seize magical power. While there are some very funny lines in Alpha, it isn't as funny as the first two books. It is more tightly plotted, and at the end sets up the next in the series.

I really enjoyed Sandman Slim ($7.99, signed copies available) and Kill the Dead ($7.99), and I was delighted to receive an advance reading copy of Aloha From Hell ($23.99, due mid-October), the third in the Sandman Slim series. God's on vacation, Lucifer has moved back to Heaven, an insane killer has taken over Hell and plans a war between Heaven and Hell that will destroy the universe, and Stark (aka Sandman Slim) has a lot of work to do to save the day. While I enjoyed Aloha From Hell, I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the first two novels. That might be partly because on the terrible proof-reading of the advance reading copy, but I think it's also because Stark's snarkiness in the first two books was primarily directed towards a bunch of very interesting characters, while in the latest book much of his snarkiness is directed towards himself, with the other characters being much less interesting.

RECENTLY RECEIVED AND FORTHCOMING SCIENCE FICTION Already received

Doctor Who Magazine #434 $8.99 (Meet the Doctor's wife; new episode previews; interview with Hugh Bonneville; includes poster.) Doctor Who Magazine #435 $8.99 (Season finale: Birthshock; Alex Kingston interview; includes poster.) Doctor Who Magazine #436 $9.99 (Matt Smith will return: the latest on 2012; remembering Nicholas Courtney; Torchwood preview; more.) Doctor Who Magazine Special #28: The Sarah Jane Companion Volume 2 $13.99 (A special collector's edition showcasing exclusive info and pictures about series 3 and 4) Fantasy & Science Fiction July / Aug 2011 $7.50 (New fiction, reviews, more) Fantasy & Science Fiction Sept / Oct 2011 $7.50 (New fiction, reviews, more) Locus #605 June 2011 $6.95 (Interviews with Patricia A. McKillip and Saladin Ahmed; Nebula Award winners; Joanna Russ obituary and appreciations; forthcoming books; industry news, reviews, more.) Locus #606 July 2011 $6.95 (Interviews with Ted Chiang and Lev Grossman; Locus Award winners; Jeff Jones obituary and appreciations; industry news, reviews, more.) Locus #607 August 2011 $6.95 (Interviews with Paolo Bacigalupi and Karen Lord; Sturgeon and Campbell Award winners; industry news, reviews, more.) Adams, Scott Your Accomplishments Are Suspiciously Hard to Verify $16.99 (Dilbert: PBO; A themed collection of color and black & white comic strips showcasing the inefficiency of office life.) Alderman, Naomi Borrowed Time $11.99 (Doctor Who: Andrew Brown doesn't have enough time to prepare for that important presentation at the bank where he works. Mr. Symington and Mr. Blenkinsop offer to lend him some, at a very reasonable rate of interest. Can the Doctor, Amy, and Rory go undercover at the bank and stop Symington and Blenkinsop before they cash in their investments?) Ashley, Mike (ed) The Darker Sex $15.95 (PBO; Anthology; 11 tales of the supernatural and macabre by Victorian and Edwardian women writers.) Baggott, Julianna The Ever Breath $6.99 (Kids; Truman and Camille's grandmother whispers a tale about an orb that maintains the balance between our world and another. Soon Truman and Camille are in the Breath World; they learn that the orb has been stolen, and battle is being waged to retrieve it. Can they save not just one world but two?) Barclay, James Ravensoul $16.00 (Legends of the Raven #4: Reissue; The Garonin are dimensional travelers seeking new worlds to rape of the element of magical power. Technologically advanced in weaponry and armor, and facing only swords and magic, they are destroying everything in their path. Surely this is not a battle The Raven can win, even with allies both elven and dragon. But prevail they must, somehow.) Barnes, B/Southworth, P Runtime Error $14.95 (Not Invented Here #1: PBO; Full color collection of the webcomic about a geeky software design team.) Barry, Max Machine Man $14.95 (PBO; When scientist Charles Neumann loses a leg in an industrial accident, it's an opportunity. Charlie always thought his body could be better. He begins to explore a few ideas, to build better parts. Prosthetist Lola Shanks loves a good artificial limb. In Charlie, she sees a man on his way to becoming artificial everything. But others see a madman. Or a product. Or a weapon. ) Baum/Shanower/et al The Wonderful Wizard of Oz $19.99 (PBO; Kids; Full color graphic novel; collects issues 1-8 of the comic book adaptation of Baum's classic fantasy novel.) Bowden, Oliver The Secret Crusade $9.99 (Assassin's Creed #3: PBO; Based on the video game. To demonstrate his commitment to the Order, Altair must defeat nine deadly enemies, including Templar leader Robert de Sable.) Bracken, Alexandra Brightly Woven $8.99 (YA; Intent on stopping a war, wizard Wayland North and 16-year-old weaver Sydelle rush toward the capital, plagued by wild weather and pursued by an evil wizard. But can Sydelle reweave the frayed bonds between two kingdoms?) Braswell, Liz The Nine Lives of Chloe King: Fallen / Stolen / Chosen $10.99 (YA; Omnibus; Chloe is a normal girl - until her 16th birthday. Now she has heightened night vision, superfast reflexes - and claws. As she discovers where she comes from, she also learns that someone is out to get her. And nine lives might not be enough.) Brooks, Albert 2030 $25.99 (June 12, 2030, started out like any other day. Since cancer had been cured years before, America's population was aging rapidly. Millions of retirees were sucking dry benefits and resources. Young people around the country simmered with resentment as they struggled to maintain their parents' entitlement programs. But that day, a massive earthquake devastated Los Angeles, and the government, teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, was unable to respond. The fallout from the earthquake pits national hope for the future against assurances from the past, as refugees, billionaires, presidents, and revolutionaries all struggle to find their way.) Burk, G/Smith, R (eds) Time, Unincorporated: The Doctor Who Fanzine Archives Vol. 3: Writings on the New Series $24.95 (PBO; Nonfiction; over 60 essays, both from fanzines and written exclusively for this volume, that examine the new Doctor Who up to and including the 2010 series starring Matt Smith.) Cabell, James Branch Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice $14.95 (Reissue; Classic tale of a time-traveler's adventures through a supernatural dreamscape, including romances with Guenevere and The Lady of the Lake, and confrontations with God and the Devil.) Chick, Bryan Secrets and Shadows $6.99 (Secret Zoo #2: Kids; The evil Shadowist is determined to conquer the Secret Zoo. Will Noah and his companions have what it takes to complete their training and protect the magical world?) Cline, Ernest Ready Player One $24.00 (2044: To avoid the ugly realities of the world, most of humanity spends their time jacked into the OASIS, a virtual utopia. Including Wade Watts, who is obsessed with winning control of the OASIS and its founder's fortune by solving the riddles scattered throughout. Then Wade unlocks the first puzzle, and finds himself embroiled in a desperate race to claim the ultimate prize.) Donovan, Art The Art of Steampunk $19.95 (PBO; Full color photos of extraordinary devices and ingenious contraptions, plus notes about their creators.) Doyle, Larry Go, Mutants! $13.99 (What if the movies that glowed from drive-in screens in the 1950s and 1960s really happened? A world populated with the monsters, aliens, and mutants of B-movie legend, with all the beach parties, dances, and hotrod races of teen dramas. Romance! Danger! Intergalactic Conspiracy! Molting!) Ernest, J/Snoddy, B Give Me the Brain! $19.99 (YA; 112 cards, special oversized icky gray brain die, and rulesheet; 3-8 players, game time 1 hour. Welcome to the fast food restaurant of the damned! You and your zombie coworkers have a lot to do, and you have only one brain to share. Fortunately, most of the jobs don't need any brains at all. But when you need to think a little bit, you'll have to grab for the brain. Don't drop it! To win, get rid of all your jobs. Every turn, you can do a couple of things . . . and, if you're sneaky, you can also push a job or two onto the other players.) Falkner, Brian Brain Jack $9.99 (YA; Neuro-headsets have replaced computer keyboards, providing the internet at the speed of thought. As teen hacker Sam Wilson masters the new technology, he has a terrifying realization. If anything on his computer is vulnerable to an attack, what happens when his mind is linked to the system? Could consciousness itself be hacked? ) Finch, Paul Hunter's Moon $11.99 (Doctor Who: Leisure Platform 9 - a place where gamblers and villains rub shoulders with socialites and celebrities. Not a place to cheat at the games table, or to beat the wrong player - as Rory is about to find out.) French, Vivian The Heart of Glass $5.99 (Five Kingdoms #3: Kids; Gracie Gillypott and Prince Marcus set off to do some dwarf watching, trailed by Princess Marigold. Rushing to produce extra gold for a royal wedding, the dwarves have sent for some trolls to help, but the trolls have their own agenda: find a princess for their lonely king.) Frohock, Teresa Miserere: An Autumn Tale $14.99 (PBO; Exorcist Lucian Negru deserted his lover in Hell in exchange for saving his sister Catarina's soul, but Catarina doesn't want salvation. She wants Lucian to help her fulfill her dark covenant with the Fallen Angels by using his power to open the Hell Gates. Determined to rescue his lover, Lucian flees his sister, but Catarina's wrath isn't so easy to escape!) Gail, Otto Willi By Rocket to the Moon $9.95 (Reissue; 1931 novel reflecting space travel as envisioned by European experts of that era. Includes the original illustrations, plus an afterword about the author and his sources.) Gill, Peter 42: Douglas Adams' Amazingly Accurate Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything $13.95 (PBO; Detailed new research reveals the truth behind the world's funniest number: 42 elbowed past a whole bunch of other numbers queuing hopefully at the counter on the day the world's most interesting facts were being dished out.) Golden, Christie Ascension $27.00 (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi #8: Luke Skywalker, his son Ben, and the Sith Vestara are in hot pursuit of the dread power called Abeloth, who has joined forces with the Sith in a bid to take over the galaxy.) Goss, James Dead of Winter $11.99 (Doctor Who: In Dr. Bloom's clinic at a remote spot on the Italian coast, at the end of the 18th century, nothing is ever quite what it seems. Maria is a lonely little girl. She writes to her mother about the enigmatic Mrs. Pond, who arrives with her husband and her physician, and who will change everything. What she doesn't tell her mother, is the truth that everyone knows and no one says - that the only people who come here do so to die.) Griffith, George A Honeymoon in Space $9.95 (Reissue; The tale of a couple's tour of the solar system, originally serialized in 1900 as Stories of Other Worlds.) Groening, Matt Simpsons Treehouse of Horror: From Beyond the Grave $17.99 (PBO; Full color graphic novel; reprints issues 12-13 of the comic book series.) Grossman, Lev The Magician King $26.95 (Fillory #2: Fillory's royal luxury is starting to pall. After a morning hunt takes a sinister turn, Quentin and Julia charter a magical ship and sail for the outer reaches of their kingdom. The cruise becomes an adventure when the two are dumped back into the last place Quentin ever wants to see: his parent's house. And only the black, twisted magic that Julia learned on the streets can save them; Signed copies) Hambly, Barbara Blood Maidens $15.95 (James Asher #3: 1911: James Asher, Oxford don and formerly on His Majesty's Secret Service, is forced to accompany vampire Don Simon Ysidro to St. Petersburg. Are they on the trail of a rogue vampire with a plan to achieve the power to walk in daylight? Or is Ysidro's real agenda to seek the woman he once loved?) Hamilton, Kersten Tyger Tyger $8.99 (Goblin Wars #1: YA; Soon after the alluring Finn arrives at her family's home, 16-year-old Teagan and her brother are drawn into the battle Finn's family has fought since the 13th century, when Fionn MacCumhaill angered the goblin king.) Holmes, Jeannie Blood Secrets $7.99 (Alexandra Sabian #2: PBO; Alex is facing an official inquiry. To redeem herself, she must once again work with Varik Baudelaire, her former mentor and ex-fiance, as he spearheads a search for a missing college student.) Howard, Robert E. Conan the Barbarian $7.99 (Collection; 6 classic sword & sorcery tales) Hunt, Gabriel Hunt Through Napoleon's Web $14.00 (Hunt #6: PBO; The quest to save his sister's life takes Hunt to Corsica and Marrakesh, and pits him against the calculating, ingenious mind of the long-dead Napoleon Bonaparte.) Jackson, S/Kovalic, J Munchkin Zombies $24.99 (Kids; 168 cards plus instructions; 3-6 players, game time 1-2 hours. Braaiiinns. The players are zombies, kicking down doors and eating brains. The 'monsters' they're attacking are people, some helpless and some hazardous, with a few rogue zombies thrown in. The armor is whatever they've blundered across during their lurching search for brains. So bravely the munchkins go forth, with mousetraps on their feet and a bowling trophy protecting their poor rotting heads, to level up or to die. Again.) Jacobs, John Hornor Southern Gods $14.99 (PBO; WWII veteran Bull Ingram is hired by a Memphis DJ to find a blues man whose dark, driving music is said to make living men insane and dead men rise. The trail leads to backwoods Arkansas, where Ingram will learn that there are forces more malevolent than the Devil and reckonings more painful than Hell.) Jakober, Marie The Demon Left Behind $14.95 (PBO; When demon researchers embody themselves as humans to study the troubled world in the 21st century, the youngest member of Melusine's team is mysteriously lost. Determined to find him, Melusine invites a human investigative reporter to join the team. The search leads to far more trouble than the team had bargained for.) Kessler, Liz Philippa Fisher's Fairy Godsister $6.99 (Philippa Fisher #1: Kids; Philippa would like nothing more than to summon a fairy. Still, she is taken aback when Daisy, a new girl at school, announces that she is Philippa's fairy godsister (since they're both the same age), obliged to grant her human charge the customary three wishes. Now, if only Philippa would wish for something that makes her life better, not worse!) Kessler, Liz Philippa Fisher and the Dream-Maker's Daughter $6.99 (Philippa Fisher #2: Kids; Philippa is feeling lonely on vacation. When she meets sad-eyed Robyn and her very strict dad, Philippa wonders what they could be hiding. Then fairy godsister Daisy sneaks by for a visit, but quickly flies off on a furtive mission. Philippa longs to know what's up with her friends, but friendships can be tricky when there are secrets - and unexpected danger - involved! ) Kessler, Liz Philippa Fisher and the Fairy's Promise $6.99 (Philippa Fisher #3: Kids; Can Philippa and her fairy godsister keep the link between worlds from closing forever?) Klise, Kate Over My Dead Body $5.99 (43 Old Cemetery Road #2: Kids; Policy dictates that Seymour cannot live in the mansion without parents. Ignatius B. Grumply tries to explain that he and Seymour have a lovely living arrangement with the ghost of Olive C. Spence. The authorities are not convinced. But this clever trio will be tough to break up.) Law, Ingrid Scumble $7.99 (Kids; Ledge's savvy - making little things fall apart - turns out to be more powerful than anyone thought. Unfortunately, his savvy disaster is witnessed by wannabe reporter Sarah Cabot. Ledge must stop her from turning family secrets into headlines.) Lee, Edward Lucifer's Lottery $14.00 (Just as he's about to enter a seminary, a young man learns he's the winner of a lottery held every 666 years, in which the winner receives eternal youth, wealth, and a personal tour of hell.) Lovric, Michelle The Undrowned Child $17.99 (Kids; 1899: When she accompanies her scientist parents to Venice to investigate a series of violent natural disasters, 11-year-old Teodora is drawn into an adventure involving mermaids, an ancient prophecy, and the fate of the city.) Maberry, Jonathan Rot & Ruin $9.99 (YA; In the zombie-infested America where Benny Imura lives, everyone must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn't want to apprentice as a zombie hunter, but he has no choice. He expects a tedious job whacking zombies for cash, but what he gets is a vocation that will teach him what it means to be human.) MacLeod, Ken The Restoration Game $16.00 (In a tiny, troubled region of the former Soviet Union, revolution is brewing. Its organizers need a safe place to meet, and where better than the virtual spaces of an online game? Lucy, who works for a games company in Edinburgh, has a project that almost seems made for the job: a game inspired by an epic folktale Lucy's mother concocted, based on Lucy's birthplace. As Lucy digs up details to slot into the game, she finds the secrets of her family's past, the darker secrets of her birthplace's past, and hints about the crucial role she is destined to play in The Restoration Game.) Mann, George Paradox Lost $11.99 (Doctor Who: London, 1910: An unsuspecting thief finds himself confronted by grey-skinned creatures that are waiting to devour his mind. London, 2789: The remains of an ancient android are dredged from the Thames. When reactivated, it has a warning that can only be delivered to the Doctor. With Amy and Rory, he must solve a mystery that has spanned over a thousand years, or the deadly alien Squall will devour the world.) Mansbach, A/Cortes, R *Go the F**k to Sleep* $14.95 HC, $4.99 Unabridged Audiobook read by Samuel L. Jackson (Full color. A humorously profane picture book for aggravated parents / relatives / babysitters of young children) Marchetta, Melina Finnikin of the Rock $9.99 (YA; Finnikin, who was a child when the royal family of Lumatere was murdered, joins forces with a fellow exile, who claims that her dark dreams will lead them to a surviving royal child and a way to regain the throne.) Mazzanoble, Shelly Confessions of a Part-time Sorceress $12.95 (Dungeons & Dragons: PBO; Nonfiction; chronicles how she became a D&D fan, as well as covering the basics of playing the game.) McCormack, Una Way Through the Woods $11.99 (Doctor Who: After Rory disappears in 1917, the Doctor and Amy are desperate to find out what's happened to him. At the core of the mystery lies an ancient wood. Something has been waiting there for thousands of years. Something that is now waking up.) McElligott/Tuxbury Benjamin Franklinstein Lives! $7.99 (Kids; Hidden in his basement, boy genius Victor discovers Ben Franklin in suspended animation. An accident awakens Ben, but when he runs low on energy, he turns into a rampaging monster hungry for electricity. Can Victor keep him supplied? And what about getting ready for the school science fair?) Mead, Richelle Vampire Academy $7.99 (Vampire Academy #1: Reissue; YA; Two years after a horrible incident made them run away, vampire princess Lissa and her guardian-in-training Rose are found and returned to St. Vladimir's Academy. Lissa focuses on mastering magic, Rose on physical training, as they try to avoid the perils of gossips, cliques, pranks, and sinister plots.) Moench, Doug et al Doc Savage $19.99 (Showcase Presents: PBO; Black & white graphic novel. Reprints issues 1-8 of the comic book (originally published by Curtis in the 1970s).) Moody, David Autumn: Purification $14.99 (Autumn #3: PBO; Vastly outnumbered, survivors are hiding in an underground bunker, which is surrounded by thousands of reanimated corpses. As air vents and exhausts become blocked, they must fight back, or suffocate and die underground.) Moorat, A.E. Henry VIII: Wolfman $15.95 (PBO; The bloodthirsty, larger than life English king as you've never seen him before . . .) Morden, Simon The Lost Art $10.99 (YA; A millennium after a devastating war, with a Church suppressing science and technology, a descendant of the tribes who fled the planet during the long-ago war returns with wondrous technology. But can its potency match that of the Church's most closely guarded secret, buried deep in a lead-lined chamber?) mugumogu I Am Maru $15.99 (Nonfiction; full-color photo book with text in English and Japanese, featuring the internet's star feline Maru.) Murdock, Catherine Wisdom's Kiss $16.99 (YA; Princess Wisdom longs for adventure beyond the staid old kingdom of Montagne. Tips, a soldier, longs to keep his true identity a secret. Fortitude, a maid, longs only for Tips. They might attain their dreams - while preserving their land from ruin - if only they can bear one another's company long enough to come up with a plan.) Newman, Kim Anno Dracula $14.95 (Reissue; 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. Vampire Genevieve Dieudonne and Charles Beauregard of the Diogenes Club are drawn together as they both hunt the sadistic killer) Nikakis, K.S. The Cry of the Marwing $12.95 (Kira Chronicles #3: Reunited with Caledon, Kira heads for her homeland, but as they approach Allogrenia, they're confronted by Shargh. With the prophecy drawing towards its chilling conclusion, Kira realizes that victory over the Shargh may cost her everyone and everything she loves.) O'Bannon, Rockne et al The Beginning of the End of the Beginning $9.99 (Farscape #1: Full color graphic novel set immediately after the Peacekeeper Wars. Moya's crew helps Rygel return to Hyneria and take back his rightful place as Dominar.) O'Bannon, Rockne et al Strange Detractors $12.99 (Farscape #2: Full color graphic novel. A strange virus is affecting Moya's crew - and all of the Uncharted Territories.) O'Bannon, Rockne et al Gone and Back $12.99 (Farscape #3: Full color graphic novel. Crichton finds himself in an alternate timeline where everything he knew is wrong. How will he get back?) O'Bannon, Rockne et al Tangled Roots $12.99 (Farscape #4: PBO; Full color graphic novel. While Crichton is on the trail of the man hunting his and Aeryn's son, Aeryn must discover the origins of the Sebacean people.) O'Bannon, Rockne et al D'Argo's Lament $12.99 (Farscape Uncharted Tales: Full color graphic novel; takes place during the third season of the TV series. While trying to find the right equipment to repair Moya, D'Argo finds himself caught between two warring faction.) O'Bannon, Rockne et al D'Argo's Quest $12.99 (Farscape Uncharted Tales: PBO; Full color graphic novel; takes place after the third season of the TV series. D'Argo sets out to track down his wife's killer.) O'Bannon, Rockne et al D'Argo's Trial $12.99 (Farscape Uncharted Tales: PBO; Full color graphic novel; set before he became captain of Moya. D'Argo's life with a Sebacean woman and their hybrid son proves treacherous, with the Peacekeepers keeping a close watch on the family.) O'Bannon, Rockne et al Let Sleeping Dogs Lie $9.99 (Farscape: Scorpius #1: PBO; Full color graphic novel. Scorpius finds himself deposed from his throne on Hyneria, but makes a bold new discovery that could put him back on top of the Uncharted Territories.) O'Bannon, Rockne et al Glorious Basterds $12.99 (Farscape: Scorpius #2: PBO; Full color graphic novel. After 25 years the Kkore return to the Uncharted Territories. Scorpius rises to the rank of General in their army, and is sent to take revenge against the Scarrans. But is his good fortune a trap?) Polansky, Daniel Low Town $25.95 (Drug dealers, hustlers, brothels, dirty politics, corrupt cops, and sorcery. Welcome to Low Town. After a fall from grace five years ago, a man known as the Warden leads a life of crime there, addicted to cheap violence and expensive drugs. Until his discovery of a murdered child sets him on a collision course with his past life.) Powers, Tim The Bible Repairman and Other Stories $14.95 (PBO; Collection; 6 works of darkly fantastic short fiction previously available only in limited editions) Riordan, Rick The Red Pyramid $9.99 (Kane Chronicles #1: Kids; Sadie and Carter Kane discover that the gods of Egypt are waking, and the worst of them - Set - has his sights on the Kanes. To stop him, the siblings embark on a quest that brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs. ) Roberts, Adam The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo $16.95 (Drawn into a dark conspiracy, Lizbreath Salamander will have to rely on more than her beautiful scales and her vicious claws. A member of a secretive dragon clan has disappeared. As Lizbreath delves deeper into their history, she realizes that they will do anything to defend their secrets.) Roberts, Adam I Am Scrooge: A Zombie Story for Christmas $14.95 (Will the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future be able to save the world from a top-hatted and crinolined zombie horde? Mankind's survival lies in the hands of one of literature's scrawniest and meanest heroes.) Robson, Justina Down to the Bone $16.00 (Quantum Gravity #5: PBO; Lila Black is now a shape-shifting machine plugged into the Signal. Zal, the elf rock star with a demon soul, is now a shadow form. Teazle the demon is on the way to becoming an angel. Meanwhile the human world is seeing an influx of the returning dead, and they're not the only ones. Many old evils are returning to haunt the living.) Ryman, Geoff The Child Garden $16.00 (Reissue; Winner of the Clarke and Campbell Awards. In a future London, humans photosythesize, organics have replaced electronics, viruses educate people, and very few live past 40. But Milena is resistant to the viruses. She's alone, until she meets Rolfa, a Genetically Engineered Polar Woman, and realizes she might be able to find a place for herself after all.) Ryman, Geoff Paradise Tales and Other Stories $16.00 (PBO; Collection; 16 sf and fantasy stories (1 original to this collection) that range from present-day Cambodia to the far future) Schafer, Courtney The Whitefire Crossing $14.99 (PBO; Dev is a smuggler with the perfect cover: caravan guide. A promise to a dying friend forces him to take on a singularly dangerous cargo: Kiran, a young apprentice who is on the run from one of the most powerful mages in Ninavel and harboring a deadly secret.) Sedia, Ekaterina Heart of Iron $14.95 (PBO; In a Russia where the Decembrists' rebellion was successful, a feud with the emperor lands Sasha at university, where she becomes one of its first female students. The pressure intensifies when Sasha's only friends - Chinese students - start disappearing, and she begins to realize that her new British companion Jack has bigger secrets than she can imagine. Sasha and Jack find themselves trying to stop a war brewing between the three empires.) Sparkes, Ali Frozen in Time $7.99 (Kids; Ben and Rachel discover an underground vault in their garden, holding two children who have been asleep for decades! How will Fred and Polly fit into the 21st-century world? How is cryonic suspension even possible? What happened to their father? And why does it feel like they're being followed?) Stanton, Steve Retribution $14.95 (Bloodlight Chronicles #2: PBO; After Mia is murdered in retribution, Zakariah goes on a quest to contact her spirit, while Rix wants revenge, no matter the cost. He teams up with Niko in a quest to track down Mia's murderer.) Stapledon, Olaf Last and First Men $11.95 (Reissue; An imaginative, ambitious history of humanity's future that spans billions of years and abounds with prescient speculations. Originally published in 1931.) Stapledon, Olaf Last Men in London $10.95 (Reissue; A super-intelligent mega-human from the remote future travels back to the 20th century to inhabit the consciousness of an Englishman named Paul, observing Paul's childhood, his experiences during the Great War, and his postwar life as a teacher, and providing commentary on modern life, the horrors of warfare, and the disintegrating state of Western society.) Strongman, Jay Steampunk: The Art of Victorian Futurism $35.00 (Full color art book; steampunk gizmos, gadgets, costumes, and more.) Tanner, Lian Museum of Thieves $7.99 (Kids; 12-year-old Goldie escapes from the oppressive city of Jewel to the Museum of Dunt. Only the cunning mind of a thief can understand the museum's strange rooms, but Goldie has a talent for thieving. Which comes in handy, because the authorities in Jewel have plans for the museum that threaten the lives of everyone Goldie loves.) Thompson, Jill Scary Godmother Comic Book Stories $24.99 (PBO; Kids; Black & white graphic novel; reprints her whimsical, humorous, and slightly spooky comic books, plus the related activity book and a gallery of full color cover art. Join young human Hannah Marie and her monster friends on their adventures!) Tribe, S/Goss, J The Dalek Handbook $15.99 (Doctor Who: Nonfiction; a complete guide to the Doctor's greatest enemies. Full color illustrations throughout.) Turner, Megan Whalen A Conspiracy of Kings $7.99 (Eugenides #4: YA; Sophos, heir to the kingdom of Sounis, has been missing and is presumed dead. So when he turns up in Attolia, the obvious question becomes: where has he been all this time?) Turtledove, Harry The Disunited States of America $9.99 (Crosstime Traffic #4: Reissue; Two teenage protagonists from different versions of the US meet in a backwater town. Beckie is with her grandmother and uncle in a car loaded with assault rifles meant for African-American rebels in Virginia, which is on the brink of a race-related civil war as well as a war with Ohio. Into the chaos comes Justin Monroe, a Crosstime Traffic traveler on a trade mission with his mother. Justin and Beckie have read about historic wars, but neither expected a front-row seat at one.) Underbakke, Kyrstin Campus Outcasts $19.95 (The University of Minnesota. A place for students to learn, live, and laugh. For the Others - non-human students - there is hope of not being alone in the struggle to hide their true nature. A group known as the Campus Outcasts gives Others a place to belong. The Outcasts struggle against physical foes as they try to maintain passing grades; Signed copies) Valtat, Jean-Christophe Aurorarama $25.95 (Campbell Memorial Award finalist. 1908: New Venice, 'the pearl of the Arctic', a place of ice palaces and pneumatic tubes, is wracked by tensions: Eskimos circling the city; suffragette riots; drug roundups by the secret police force known as the Gentlemen of the Night. The Gentlemen are hunting for the author of a radical pamphlet calling for revolt. Their lead suspect is Brentford Orsini, one of the city's most prominent figures. As the Gentlemen tighten the net around him, Orsini receives a mysterious message from a long-lost love that compels him to act.) Watts, Peter Legion $16.00 (Crysis: PBO; Novelization of video game Crysis 2. One man will be brought back from the edge of death to put on the armor and combat technology of the future. His mission: carry the fight to the aliens and drive them back.) White, Ruth You'll Like It Here (Everybody Does) $16.99 (Kids; While Meggie and David Blue are from another planet, they're a lot like Earth kids. Then an accident takes their family to a far planet where people are kept submissive through drugs and brainwashing. The Blues, who have spent time in free societies, must do what they can: plan their escape, and vow to help others. ) Williamson, Michael Z. Rogue $24.00 (Freehold: Kenneth Chinran #2: After his experiences in the recent war, a sociopathic member of the elite unit Chinran commanded is now highly trained, with the knowledge and firepower to take out entire tactical teams, evade security cordons, and change identity at will. Who do you send after a killer like that? The man who trained him; Signed copies) Willingham, Bill et al The End $17.99 (Jack of Fables #9: PBO; Full color graphic novel; reprints issues 46-50 of the comic book series.) Wilson, E.O. Anthill $14.95 (Campbell Memorial Award finalist. An Alabama boy tries to save a sacred forest from developers.) Yolen, Jane Sister Light, Sister Dark $9.99 (Books of Great Alta #1: Reissue; YA; Raised on a mountainside, Jenna learned the arts of the warrior, and from the mountain woman the magic of the ancient lore. But the greatest magic of all was her ability to call forth her dark sister from the depths of the mirror of the land of light and shadow. Skada was the dark one, able to exist only when the moonlight cast a shadow or lamplight flickered in a darkened room.) Yoshinaga, Fumi Ooku: The Inner Chambers #6 $12.99 (The aging shogun Tsunayoshi must name an heir, but her senile father is blocking the ascendance of the most likely candidate in favor of a young, untried lord. Politics and the shogun's unpopularity may soon take the choice out of her hands.) Adams, CT /Clamp, C Siren Song $7.99 (Blood Singer #2: Celia is summoned to the Sirens' island to justify her existence - and possibly fight for her life - in front of the Siren Queen, but she's not sure she'll survive to make the trip - the demon she defeated left her suffering from a powerful curse.)

Early September

Aguirre, Ann Aftermath $7.99 (Sirantha Jax #5: PBO; Sirantha is on trial for dereliction of duty, desertion, mass murder, high treason - and her life.) Aiken, G.A. The Dragon Who Loved Me $6.99 (Dragon Kin #5: PBO; Rhona, the first daughter of a warrior family, raised for battle alongside Northland dragons, meets her match in incorrigible - and hot - barbarian Vigholf the Abhorrent.) Anderson, Kevin J. Captain Nemo $12.95 (Reissue; The life story of the intrepid adventurer, as told by his quiet friend Jules Verne.) Anderson, Poul Young Flandry: Ensign Flandry / A Circus of Hells / The Rebel Worlds (Commander Flandry) $7.99 (Technic Civilization #4: Omnibus reprint; 3 space adventure novels) Bardsley, Michele Must Love Lycans $7.99 (Broken Heart #8: PBO; Kelsey is having a hard time keeping her relationship with the clinic's latest patient strictly professional. Falling for a patient is bad enough, but falling for one who thinks he's a werewolf?) Base, Graeme The Jewel Fish of Karnak $19.95 (Kids; Full color picture book. Two thieves are brought before the Cat Pharaoh, who agrees to pardon them if they bring back a treasure that was stolen from her, without taking anything else and without getting the precious Jewel Fish wet.) Bemis, John Claude The Wolf Tree $7.99 (Clockwork Dark #2: Kids; Ray and his friends learn that the evil Gog's devilish machine has survived and is growing stronger. Now a full-fledged Rambler, Ray leads his friends on a mission to track down the Wolf Tree. Only with one of the tree's limbs can they repair the Nine Pound Hammer and destroy the machine.) Benson, Amber Among the Ghosts $6.99 (Kids; On the gothic campus of the New Newbridge Academy, Noh meets several other kids while investigating an old burned-out dormitory. Then she discovers the kids are ghosts, and she's the only one who can see them - and, when they begin disappearing, the only one who can save them.) Bierce, Ambrose The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoir $35.00 (Collection; two classic collections (stories of the American Civil War, and horror stories), his lexicon of slyly subversive definitions, memoirs of his war experiences, and additional short fiction.) Blake, Kendare Anna Dressed in Blood $17.99 (YA; Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, armed with his father's athame. His job is to kill murderous ghosts. Since her death in 1958, Anna has killed every person who stepped into the deserted house she used to call home. But for some reason, she doesn't kill Cas.) Brennan, Marie With Fate Conspire $27.99 (Onyx Court #4: Three centuries of the Onyx Court are about to come to an end. Without the palace's protection, the fae have little choice but to flee. Those who stay have one goal: to find safety in a city that does not welcome them. But what price will the mortals of Victorian London pay for that safety?) Brook, Meljean Demon Marked $7.99 (Guardian #7: PBO; Nicholas was raised by a demon, and he knows his 'mother' is responsible when the woman he loves disappears. But he'll find her, even if he has to go to Hell and back.) Brooks, Terry The Measure of the Magic $27.00 (Legends of Shannara #2: Panterra Qu, the newly anointed Knight of the Word, must take up the battle against evil wherever it threatens: from without, where an army of bloodthirsty trolls is massing for invasion; and from within, where the Elf king of Arborlon has been murdered, and a heinous conspiracy is poised to subjugate the kingdom. But even these will pale beside the most harrowing menace: a nameless, merciless figure who wanders the land on a mission to claim the last black staff - and the life of he who wields it.) Buchanan, Col Farlander $7.99 (Heart of the World #1: After their ruler's son murders a woman under their protection, an assassin and his apprentice set out to kill the man, and find themselves in the heart of the conflict between the Holy Empire of Mann and the Free Ports.) Buehlmann, Christopher Those Across the River $24.95 (When Frank Nichols returns to his Georgia hometown to write a history of his family's plantation, he soon learns there is a presence there that demands sacrifice - and has been waiting for Frank's homecoming.) Chabon, Michael The Astonishing Secret of Awesome Man $17.99 ( Kids; Picture book; Awesome Man can shoot positronic rays out of his eyeballs, fly straight as an arrow, and hug mutant Jell-O! Villains are no match for this hero. But Awesome Man also has a secret. Can you guess what it is?) Chan, Kylie White Tiger $7.99 (Dark Heavens #1: Emma went to Hong Kong to become a nanny. When she falls in love with her employer, she discovers that all the gods, demons, and dragons in hell want him dead. And Emma may be the only one who can save him.) Chima, Cinda Williams The Gray Wolf Throne $17.99 (Seven Realms #3: YA; Thief-turned-wizard Han Alister joins forces with Raisa ana'Marianna, heir to the Queendom of the Fells, to defend her right to the Gray Wolf Throne.) Chong, Stephanie Where Demons Fear to Tread $7.99 (PBO; To save her wayward charge, fledgling guardian angel Serena St. Clair must accept a dangerous wager from a seductive archdemon.) Cody, Christine Blood Rules $7.99 (Bloodlands #2: PBO; Forced to face her true nature and the horrible things she had done, Mariah sets out to find a rumored cure for were-creatures, hoping to recover her own humanity - and Gabriel's love.) Connolly, Harry Circle of Enemies $7.99 (Twenty Palaces #3: PBO; A mysterious spell is killing Ray's former gang associates, and they blame him. Worse yet, the spell was cast by Wally King, the sorcerer who first dragged Ray into the brutal world of the Twenty Palaces Society. Now Ray will have to choose between the ties of the past and the responsibilities of the present, as he and the Society face not only Wally King but a bizarre new predator.) Connor, Ellen Midnight $15.00 (Dark Age Dawning #2: PBO; 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.) Dann,J/Gevers, N (ed) Ghosts by Gaslight $14.99 (Anthology; original stories of steampunk and supernatural suspense) Davidson, MJ/Alongi, A Evangelina $7.99 (Jennifer Scales #6: PBO; A fatal incident at a medical facility sends US government agents on the trail of Jennifer's sister Evangelina. But not everything is as it seems.) Davis, Jim Lard of the Jungle $14.00 (Garfield #52: Full color collection of comic strips.) Dickens, C/Erwin, S Grave Expectations $15.00 (A mash-up of the classic novel, with Pip as a werewolf and Estella as a vampire slayer.) Donaldson, Stephen R. Against All Things Ending $16.00 (Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant #3: The thunderclap of power that restored Thomas Covenant to his mortal body has also awakened the Worm of the World's End, and all of them, and the Land itself, are forfeit to its devouring. Any chance of saving the Land will come from unlikely sources, including Linden's adopted son Jeremiah, whose secrets are just beginning to come to light.) Drake, D/Lambshead, J Into the Hinterlands $25.00 (Sent to clear the power-hungry Terrans from a star sector where they're encroaching, greenhorn commander Allen Allenson must also overcome the machinations of the alien Riders.) Due, Tananarive My Soul to Take $13.00 (African Immortals #4: Fana is supposed to marry Michel, but the mortal man who is in love with her believes she must stay away from Michel, or they will become the Witnesses to the Apocalypse described in the Book of Revelation.) Duvall, Karen Knight's Curse $14.95 (PBO; Desperate to break the curse that enslaves her, Chalice agrees to use her superhuman senses to steal a magical artifact for an evil sorcerer. But it is only with the help of her warrior-protector Aydin that she will venture beyond the veil to discover the origins of her power.) Elrod, P.N. The Vampire Files Volume 4: Lady Crymsyn / Cold Streets $16.00 (Vampire Files #09 / #10: Omnibus reprint; 2 novels featuring vampire Jack Fleming, a PI in 1930s Chicago.) Epstein, A/Jacobson, A Secrets of the Crown $16.99 (Familiars #2: Kids; Hiding in the Shifting Fortress, Paksahara is wreaking havoc on Vastia. When a curse makes human magic disappear, it's up to the familiars - cat Aldwyn, blue jay Skylar, and tree frog Gilbert - to save the kingdom.) Feehan, Christine Dark Predator $26.95 (Carpathian #19: When he leaves his life as master executioner behind, Zacarias wonders who he really is. The answer awaits him back home in Peru, where he will face old enemies and a bloody family legacy - and find his lifemate.) Fisher, Catherine Sapphique $9.99 (Incarceron #2: YA; Finn has escaped Incarceron, only to find he must defend his right to the throne from another claimant. Inside Incarceron, Keiro and Attia are on the hunt for Sapphique's glove, which legend says he used to escape.) Flanagan, John Erak's Ransom $7.99 (Ranger's Apprentice #07: Kids; When the Skandian leader is captured by a dangerous desert tribe, the Rangers are sent to free him.) Flanagan, John The Kings of Clonmel $7.99 (Ranger's Apprentice #08: Kids; People flock to neighboring Clonmel when a cult there promises to quell attacks by marauders. But Halt is all too familiar with this group, which has a less than charitable agenda.) Friedman, C.S. Legacy of Kings $25.95 (Magister #3: With the Magisters hunting her for killing one of their own, Kamala's only hope of survival lies in the northern Protectorates. There spells are warped by a curse, originally intended to protect the lands of men from the souleaters. But the curse appears to be weakening - and the threat of the souleaters is once more falling across the land.) Frost, Jeaniene One Grave at a Time $7.99 (Night Huntress #6: PBO; Cat grapples with her temporary ability to commune with the dead, and takes on a phantom murderer.) Funke, Cornelia Reckless $8.99 (Kids; For years Jacob has been secretly disappearing into the world behind the mirror. One day his younger brother Will follows him, with disastrous consequences - the brothers must race to find the cure for a curse that is turning Will to stone.) Gay, Kelly Hour of Dust and Ashes $7.99 (PBO; Desperate to help her addicted sister, Charlie, Hank, and Rex embark on a journey into hellish Charbydon to save Bryn. But one of them isn't coming home.) Gear, W.M. & Kathleen Fire the Sky $7.99 (Contact: The Battle for America #2: 1540: Black Shell and Pearl Hand continue their pursuit of Hernando de Soto, and help wage war against the invading Spaniards.) Green, Simon R. Ghost of a Smile $7.99 (Ghost Finders #2: PBO; When a team of police enforcement agents vanishes, the Ghost Finders are summoned to a pharmaceutical company's research center. They have no idea what they're facing - except a deadline that threatens to remove the entire building from existence if they don't get to the bottom of the mystery.) Habel, Lia Dearly, Departed $16.99 (2195: The place is New Victoria, a high-tech nation modeled on the manners, mores, and fashions of an antique era. Can a proper young Victorian lady find true love in the arms of a dashing zombie? ) Haley, Guy Reality 36 $7.99 (Something is amiss in the renegade digital realm of Reality 36. Richards - a Level 5 AI with a PI fetish - and his partner, a decommissioned German military cyborg, are on the trail of a murderer, but the killer has hidden inside an artificial reality. Richards and Klein must stop him before he becomes a god.) Harris, Charlaine The Sookie Stackhouse Companion $30.00 (Southern Vampire: Tour Bon Temps, Louisiana, prowl around the werewolf and werepanther communities, visit Tara's dress shop, and belly up to the bar at Merlotte's in this guide to Sookie's family, friends, enemies, lovers, and adventures. Includes an original Sookie novella, recipes, and more.) Hartley, A.J. Will Power $8.99 (Will Hawthorne #2: On the run from Empire guards, Will Hawthorne and his band of thieves are transported to a mysterious land, right into the middle of a battle between goblins and humans. The humans seem all too perfect - but are they right to wage war on the goblins?) Haskell, Merrie The Princess Curse $16.99 (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.) Huff, Tanya The Truth of Valor $7.99 (Confederation #5: Torin Kerr is attempting to adjust to civilian life with space salvage operator Craig Ryder. When they're attacked by pirates, Craig is captured and Torin left for dead. When she finds out why they needed Craig, she calls in the Marines to get him back - and stop the pirates from changing the balance of power in known space.) Jamieson, Trent Roil $7.99 ( A vast, chaotic, monster-bearing storm known only as the Roil is expanding, consuming the land of Shale. The last humans are fighting back with ever more bizarre new machines. But one by one the defenses are failing. And the Roil continues to grow. It's up to a decadent wastrel, a 4000-year-old man, and a young woman intent on revenge to try to save their city - and the world.) Jemisin, N.K. The Broken Kingdoms $7.99 (Inheritance #2: In the city of Shadow, godlings live hidden among mortalkind. Blind artist Oree takes in a homeless man who glows like a living sun to her strange sight, an act of kindness that engulfs her in a conspiracy. Someone, somehow, is murdering godlings and leaving their desecrated bodies around the city. Oree's peculiar guest puts her in mortal danger - but do the killers want him, or Oree? And is the power of the Arameri king the ultimate goal, or have they set their sights on the Lord of Night himself?) Joyce, William The Man in the Moon $17.99 (Guardians of Childhood #1: Kids; Picture book; The Man in the Moon (or MiM) was once a happy little boy. But when Pitch, the King of Nightmares, learns that MiM has never had a bad dream, he vows to capture the lad and turn him into a prince of nightmares.) Keene, B/Mamatas, N The Damned Highway: Fear and Loathing in Arkham $14.99 (On a freaked-out bus journey to Arkham, Massachusetts, and a 1972 Presidential primary, evidence mounts that sinister forces are on the rise, led by the Cult of Cthulhu and its most prominent member, Richard M. Nixon.) Kittredge, Caitlin Devil's Business $7.99 (Black London #4: PBO; In Los Angeles to help a friend track a sorcerous serial killer, Pete and Jack must navigate a landscape teeming with hostile magic users - and track and eliminate an evil older than the Black itself.) Kohler, Sharie Night Falls on the Wicked $7.99 (Moon Chasers #5: A seductive witch stalked by demons finds protection in the arms of a lycan on a mission of blood vengeance.) Kratman, Tom M Day $7.99 (Countdown #2: PBO; While leading his crack mercenary outfit on another mission, Colonel Wes Stauer must harness and direct the brute within himself in order to destroy an intelligent, implacable enemy. (Military thriller, not sf.)) Lazellari, Edward Awakenings $24.99 (Cal MacDonnell and Seth Raincrest have nothing in common - except they both suffer from retrograde amnesia. It's as if they just appeared out of thin air thirteen years ago. Now their forgotten past has caught up with them.) Lee, Sharon/Miller, Steve The Crystal Variation: Crystal Soldier / Crystal Dragon / Balance of Trade $13.00 (Liaden: Omnibus reprint) Lima, Maria Blood Sacrifice $7.99 (Blood Lines #5: PBO; As the fae declare war on the Kelly clan, the ranch and all clan lands are in contention. As Keira and her allies try to figure out how to reclaim their land, strange things begin to happen back in Rio Seco.) Lindqvist, John Ajvide Handling the Undead $14.99 (In the city morgue, the newly dead are waking. Across the city, grieving families find themselves able to see their loved ones one last time. But are these creatures really them? How long can this last? And what deadly price will they have to pay for the chance to see their spouses and children just one more time?) Lore, Pittacus I Am Number Four $9.99 (Lorien Legacies #1: YA; We may be walking past you right now. We are watching as you read this. We may be in your town. We are living anonymously, waiting for the day when we will find each other and make our last stand together against those who destroyed our world. If we win, we are saved - and you are saved as well.) Lore, Pittacus The Power of Six $17.99 (Lorien Legacies #2: YA; When the planet Lorien was attacked by the Mogadorians, nine aliens escaped to hide on Earth. The Mogadorians killed three of them. John Smith is Number Four, he has just met Number Six, and he knows the survival of Lorien and Earth depends on them.) Love, Kathy My Sister Is a Werewolf $6.99 (PBO; Werewolf Elizabeth Young wants a normal life. Unfortunately, the vaccine she's researched isn't working. Worse, she's in heat - and soon every wolf pack for miles around will be at her door. To buy time, she needs to to have sex, and often, with the first human male she can find - veterinarian Jensen Adler.) Magary, Drew The Postmortal $15.00 (When a cure for aging is discovered and made available worldwide, immortality proves to bring its own problems, including evil green people, government euthanasia programs, and a disturbing new religious cult.) Maltin, Leonard Leonard Maltin's 2012 Movie Guide $9.99 (PBO; Revised and updated) Marillier, Juliet Seer of Sevenwaters $7.99 (Sevenwaters #5: Young seer Sibeal accompanies Viking Felix on a perilous mission, but the dangers they face are nothing compared to her inner turmoil as she struggles to choose between her druid calling and her feelings for Felix.) Mazzanoble, Shelly Everything I Need to Know I Learned from Dungeons & Dragons $12.95 (Nonfiction; humorously explores issues surrounding careers, romance, spirituality, and more using insights she's gained from playing Dungeons & Dragons.) McCarthy, Tom C $15.00 (Serge's father experiments with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his troubled older sister Sophie, a relationship that haunts him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world. As Serge goes from a Bohemian spa to the skies of the Great War, and from a German prison camp into the tombs of Egypt, we follow his life through the tumultuous course of the nascent modern era.) McGuire, Seanan One Salt Sea $7.99 (October Daye #5: PBO; Someone has kidnapped the sons of the regent of the Undersea Duchy of Saltmist. To prevent a war between land and sea, Toby has just three days to find the missing boys and prove the Queen of the Mists was not behind their abduction.) McNeill, Graham Defenders of Ulthuan $8.99 (Warhammer: Ulthuan #1: Reissue; When Ulthuan comes under attack from the forces of Chaos and dark elves led by the Witch King and the hag sorceress Morathi, the high elves must hold firm or face disastrous consequences.) McNeill, Graham Sons of Ellyrion $8.99 (Warhammer: Ulthuan #2: Ulthuan is a land at the brink of destruction. At Lothern, a fell army marches against the elven defenders of Prince Imrik and Prince Tyrion. In Averlorn, two brothers fight for forgiveness and their right to defend their people. But at Tor Elyr, the conflict will be lost or won.) Mead, Richelle Succubus Revealed $15.00 (Georgina Kincaid #6: PBO; Georgina's transfer to Las Vegas makes her allies supicious. Why are the powers-that-be so eager to get her away from Seattle - and her boyfriend Seth?) Meloy, Colin Wildwood $17.99 (Wildwood Chronicles #1: Kids; After her brother is abducted, Prue and her friend Curtis head into the Impassable Wilderness to find him. There they find warring creatures, peaceable mystics, and powerful figures with dark intentions, and their rescue mission turns into a struggle for the freedom of Wildwood.) Moning, Karen Marie Shadowfever $7.99 (Fever #5: The Sinsar Dubh turns on MacKayla Lane and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves. Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? Who is Mac herself, and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card?) Murphy, C.E. Wayfinder $15.00 (Lara Jansen #2: With Daffyd missing, perhaps dead, and the Barrow- lands closer than ever to a final conflagration, Lara must harness the perilous magic of the staff and her own truthseeking talents, and bring to light to a long-forgotten truth that may save the Barrow-lands, or destroy them.) Pearce, Kate Mark of the Rose $7.99 (Tudor Vampire #3: PBO; Hearing that the new queen is in danger, Rhys Williams engages the help of a lady-in-waiting eager to prove her vampire-hunting abilities.) Powell, Gareth L. The Recollection $7.99 (In modern-day London, the search for his missing brother reveals terrifying glimpses of alien worlds and the far future to Ed Emery. 400 years in the future, Katherine Abdulov must travel to a remote planet to regain her family's trust. And in the unforgiving depths of space, an ancient evil stirs.) Priest, Cherie Hellbent $15.00 (Cheshire Red #2: Vampire Raylene Pendle has been hired to steal a magical artifact. But a powerful witch also wants it - and plans to use it to unmake the world as we know it.) Quinn, Erin Haunting Beauty $7.99 (Mists of Ireland #1: Danni Jones didn't believe in destiny - until the seductive Sean lured her back to Ireland, to a moment in her past when her life was destroyed, and gave her the chance to change everything. Now Danni must fight the forces that threaten to rip her and Sean apart and rewrite history.) Reed, David Bobby Singer's Guide to Hunting $14.99 (Supernatural: Nonfiction; everything he's learned in over twenty years of hunting monsters, spirits, and demons.) Roane, Caris Wings of Fire $7.99 (Guardians of Ascension #3: PBO; A winged warrior battles death vampires, rogue vampires - and his passion for the mortal woman he is sworn to protect.) Rockwell, Marshiela Shard Axe $7.99 (Eberron Unlimited: Assigned to defend the heir of Frostmantle during his murder trial, Sentinel Marshal Sabira has questions. Is the dreaded Nightshard still alive and taunting her? Or is there a serial killer loose in the Mror Holds?) Royle, Nicholas Regicide $7.99 (When he finds part of a map, Carl becomes convinced it represents the city of his dreams, where the woman he loves will agree to see him again. But if he ever finds himself in the streets on his map, will they turn out to be the land of his dreams, or the world of his worst nightmares?) Ruditis, Paul The Walking Dead Chronicles $19.95 (Authorized guide to season 1 of the TV series) Sagara, Michelle Cast in Fury $7.99 (Elantra #4: Summoned to Court, Kaylin Neva is once again drawn into a world of politics and murders when a minority race of telepaths is wrongly suspected of causing a near-devastating tidal wave.) Sagara, Michelle Cast in Silence $7.99 (Elantra #5: When the city's oracles warn of brewing unrest in the outer fiefdoms, a mysterious visitor from Kaylin's dark childhood puts her under a cloud of suspicion.) Sawyer, Robert J. Terminal Experiment $7.99 (Reissue; Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. But they have all escaped from his computer into the web - and one of them is a killer.) Schuster, M/Mollman, S A Choice of Catastrophes $7.99 (Star Trek: PBO; Returning from a mission to deliver medical supplies to one of the Federation's most distant installations, the Enterprise falls victim to a mysterious series of engine problems and inexplicable medical problems.) Scott, M.J. Shadow Kin $7.99 (Half-Light City #1: On one side, the Night World, ruled by the Blood Lords and Beast Kind. On the other, the fae and the humans, protected by their mages. Lily is a wraith who slips between worlds, raised by a Blood Lord to be his assassin. Sent to kill Simon, she develops a bond with him that threatens to disrupt the uneasy peace in the city.) Silver, Eve Body of Sin $7.99 (Otherkin #4: PBO; To escape imprisonment in purgatory, immortal Lokan Krayl must place his fate - and that of the mortal and immortal worlds - in the hands of the one woman he can never trust.) Singh, Nalini Archangel's Blade $7.99 (Guild Hunter #4: PBO; The search for a murder victim's identity brings together the vampire Dmitri and Guild hunter Honor. As the gruesome murders continue, a lethal sensuality explodes between them.) Smith, Sherwood Coronets and Steel $7.99 (Kim Murray #1: California girl Kim Murray is unsatisfied with grad school, and finds modern times unromantic. When she travels to Europe to find her family's roots there, she is swept up in an adventure of fantastic deceptions and passionate intrigue - and makes a shocking discovery about her bloodline.) Smith, Sherwood Blood Spirits $24.95 (Kim Murray #2: With the man she loves set to marry a look-alike princess, Kim returns to California to heal her broken heart. But family politics send her to London, where she winds up in a duel with a Dobrenican nobleman, and learns that her great sacrifice, leaving Alex, was a disaster. She returns to Dobrenica, where she finds ghosts, magic, and murder awaiting her.) Solomon/Panetta (ed) Vampires, Zombies, Werewolves, and Ghosts $7.95 (Anthology; reprints classic horror stories) Stein, Jeanne C. Crossroads $7.99 (Anna Strong #7: PBO; When Max - an FBI agent and ex-flame - comes to her with reports that bodies are showing up on the Mexican border drained of blood, Anna has no choice but to get involved.) Stirling, S.M. The High King of Montival $9.99 (Change #7: Rudi returns to Montival, where he will face the legions of the Prophet. He must assemble a coalition of those who had been his enemies a few months before, and forge them into an army to rescue his homeland. Only then will he be able to come to terms with how the sword has changed him - and the world - and assume his place as High King Artos.) Stirling, S.M. The Tears of the Sun $26.95 (Change #8: Rudi McKenzie - now Artos, the High King of Montival - must stand against the forces of the Church Universal and Triumphant, knowing he may lose his life in the final battle.) Thorpe, Gav The Crown of the Conquerer $7.99 (Crown of the Blood #2: Ullsaard has won the crown. But when he is confronted with a truth too shocking to contemplate, he has to make the impossible choice between power and honor. And now the real battle has begun.) Thorpe, Gav Path of the Seer $8.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Eldar Path #2: After unleashing her psychic powers in battle and communing with the spirits of her craft world, Thirianna turns her skills to discerning the future amidst the myriad strands of fate. Her visions reveal a great threat descending on Alaitoc, and both the living and the dead will march to war to defend it.) Twain, M/Borchert, D The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Undead $7.99 (Tom and his friends face a Zombie epidemic.) Vanner, Patrick A. Ragnarok $7.99 (Humanity is locked in a war with the alien Xan-Sskarn. And as the battles take on an eerily familiar pattern of no-win scenarios, Captain Alexandra McLaughlin realizes that humanity has a traitor) Vincent, Rachel Blood Bound $7.99 (PBO; Bound by blood oath to track down a friend's missing daughter, paranormal tracker Liv Warren turns to her ex-lover Cam Caballero for help.) Ward, J.R. Envy $7.99 (Fallen Angels #3: PBO; Officers DelVecchio and Reilly are aided in their hunt for a serial killer by a mysterious stranger enlisted to save the soul of the killer's latest victim, which is hovering between heaven and hell.) Webb, Philip Six Days $17.99 (Kids; For Cass and Wilbur, life as scavengers is all they've ever known - rummaging the ruins of London in search of a powerful relic no one, not even their new Russian masters, has ever seen. But when Erin and Peyto, two strangers from a faraway place, show up and claim they hold the key to locating the missing artifact, the treasure hunt takes on a lethal urgency.) Weber, David Out of the Dark $7.99 (The Shongairi have conquered Earth. Cities are radioactive ruins, and over half the population is dead. Master Sergeant Stephen Buchevsky finds himself in the back country of the Balkans, dodging alien patrols, and trying to organize the scattered survivors. And unexpected allies present themselves to the ragtag human resistance, as Earth's vampires emerge from the mountains and forests of Eastern Europe.) Weeks, Brent The Black Prism $7.99 (Black Prism #1: Gavin Guile is the Prism, high priest and emperor, whose power, wit, and charm are all that preserves a tenuous peace. When he discovers he has a son, born in a far kingdom after the war that put him in power, he must decide how much he's willing to pay to protect a secret that could tear apart his world.) Weis, M/Hickman, T Dragonlance Legends: Time of the Twins / War of the Twins / Test of the Twins $15.95 (Omnibus; three novels featuring Raistlin and Caramon.) Williams, Sean The Force Unleashed II $7.99 (Star Wars: Novelization of the video game.) York, Rebecca Dark Warrior $7.99 (PBO; Centuries ago, Ionian priestesses made an agreement with cursed warriors called the Minot, but the truce fell apart. In modern-day Arizona, Jason Tyrone, son of a Minot and an outcast Ionian, has come to reclaim his heritage at the Seven Sisters Spa, where the Ionian women live and hide their true identity. He falls in love with the beautiful Sophia Thalia, but their passion will reignite a conflict that could destroy the Ionians.) Yovanoff, Brenna The Replacement $8.99 (YA; Left in the crib of a human baby 16 years ago, Mackie has been raised among us, but he is not one of us. Now he must face the dark creatures of the slag heaps from which he came, and find his rightful place - in our world or theirs.)

Mid September

Archer, Alex The Oracle's Message $6.99 (Rogue Angel #32: PBO; While vacationing in the Philippines, Annja finds herself drawn to German treasure hunters searching for the legendary Pearl of Palawan, which is rumored to grant immortality.) Axler, James Prodigal's Return $6.99 (Deathlands #100: PBO; Searching for an operational redoubt, Ryan and his companions go up against a ruthless band of coldhearts - and discover that Ryan's long-lost son Dean is the point man.) Bear, Greg Cryptum $15.99 (Halo: Forerunner #1: Delves deep into the time of the ancient race of the Forerunners, revealing who they are, how they harnessed technology and engineering, and what caused them to disappear.) Bell, Hilari The Goblin Gate $8.99 (Goblin #2: YA; To save his brother from certain death in the Otherworld, 15-year-old Jeriah must find the spell that opens the magical gate between the realms - and to do that he'll need the help of creatures he's been taught to hate: the mischievous goblins.) Charlton, Blake Spellbound $24.99 (Nicodemus #2: The demon behind his curse has hatched a plot to force Nicodemus to change language and ultimately use it to destroy all human life. Nico faces challenges from all sides as he struggles to thwart the demon's plan.) Cox, Richard Thomas World $14.99 (Thomas Phillips knows he's losing his mind. What if you realized every person in your life had been scripted to be there? What if you were haunted by the idea that you'd lived all these encounters before? And what if the person who seems to be following you, watching you all the time, was you?) Crilley, Paul Rise of the Darklings $7.99 (Invisible Order #1: Kids; In a dark alley in Victorian London, Emily witnessed a battle between fierce, tiny creatures no taller than her knee. Now Emily's life will never be the same, for she can see the world of Faerie. And once seen, she cannot turn away; she must join in the latest battle in a war that has been waged for centuries.) Datlow, Ellen (ed) Blood and Other Cravings $25.99 (Anthology; original vampire stories) Durst, Sarah Beth Enchanted Ivy $9.99 (YA; 16-year-old Lily is delighted when a group of powerful Princeton alumni, the Old Boys, guarantee her admission if she finds the Princeton Key. In her search she learns of a magical alternate Princeton, and discovers that the Key, which opens the door between the two worlds, is a person - her. Now she's caught in a power struggle between the Old Boys and the leaders of the magical realm.) Erikson, Steven Crack'd Pot Trail $12.99 Trade PB, $24.99 HC (Malazan Empire: Bauchelain & Korbal Broach #3: The intrepid (and villainous) necromancers find themselves pursued by a variety of self-professed defenders of decency, sanity, and civilization, along a stretch of harsh wasteland between the Gates of Nowhere and the Shrine of the Indifferent God.) Fleischman, Sid The Dream Stealer $5.99 (Kids; 8-year-old Susana is determined to finish her dream, but it just won't come back to her. Her grandmother tells her it was whisked away by the Dream Stealer. Susana vows to track him down and get it back.) Hamilton, Laurell et al Circus of the Damned Vol. 2: The Ingenue $19.99 (Anita Blake Vampire Hunter #03: Full color graphic novel; collects issues 1-5 of the comic.) Jamieson, Trent The Business of Death: Death Most Definite / Managing Death / The Business of Death $15.99 (Death Works #1 / #2 / #3: Omnibus; reprints 2 urban fantasy novels, plus the previously unpublished 3rd) Johansen, K.V. Blackdog $17.00 (Caravan-guard Holla-Sayan, escaping the conquest of a town, stops to help an abandoned child and a dying dog. But the girl is the incarnation of the goddess Attalissa, and the dog a shape-changing guardian spirit. Possessed and nearly driven mad by the Blackdog, Holla-Sayan flees to the desert road, taking the powerless avatar with him. Necromancy, treachery, massacres, rebellions, and gods follow hard on the their heels. But it is Attalissa herself who may be the Blackdog's - and Holla-Sayan's - doom. ) Jones, A/Chalk, G Trundle's Quest $5.99 (Six Crowns #1: Kids; Trundle the lamplighter likes everything safe and cozy. Princess Esmerelda has a knack for magic - and for finding trouble. The two hedgehogs set out to find six lost crowns that could reunite the Sundered Lands.) Jordan/Dixon/Conley The Eye of the World Vol. 1 $24.99 (Wheel of Time GN #01: Full color graphic novel; adaptation of the fantasy novel.) King, Stephen Full Dark, No Stars: Stories $9.99 (Collection; four original horror tales.) Knaak, Richard A. Wolfheart $26.00 (World of Warcraft: Novel based on the game. As the Horde, led by ambitious new warchief Garrosh Hellscream, moves forward with its plans of conquest, a vision reveals that Varian Wynn is the Alliance's best hope against the incursion. But the Alliance may be consumed by internal strife before its forces even face the enemy.) Lampligher, L. Jagi Prospero Regained $26.99 (Prospero's Daughter #3: After Prospero is kidnapped by demons, Miranda and her siblings follow him to hell to save him.) Lewis, Paul The Savage Knight $9.99 (Malory's Knights of Albion #2: Sir Dodinal the Savage, keenly attuned to the natural world but burdened with a terrible rage, turns his back on Camelot. In a quiet Welsh village, he believes he may have finally found a home, but he must take up arms once again as the terrible secret hidden in the nearby hills comes to light.) Ness, Patrick Monsters of Men $9.99 (Chaos Walking #3: YA; Clarke Award finalist. The indigenous Spackle have mobilized to avenge their murdered people. Ruthless human leaders prepare to defend their factions at all costs. And as the Noise lays all thoughts bare, the projected will of the few threatens to overwhelm the desperate desire of the many. Becoming adults amid the turmoil, Todd and Viola question all they have known.) Passarella, John Night Terror $7.99 (Supernatural: PBO; A speeding car with no driver, a homeless man pursued by a massive Gila monster, a little boy chased by uprooted trees - it all sounds like the stuff of nightmares. The boys fight to survive a series of terrifying nighttimes, realizing that sometimes the nightmares don't go away - even when you're awake.) Roche, Thomas The Panama Laugh $14.99 (He handed one of his shady employers a bioweapon that makes the dead rise from their graves, laugh like hyenas, and feast upon the living. When Dante wakes up in the jungle with the five intervening years missing from his memory, he sets out to do something about the laughing sickness, and winds up in San Francisco, where a crew of survivalist hackers holed up in a porn studio are leading the fight against the laughing corpses and the corporate stooges who have tried to profit from the slaughter.) Scarrow, Alex TimeRiders $9.99 (YA; Maddy should have died in a plane crash. Liam should have died when the Titanic sank. Sal should have died in a fire. But a mysterious man whisked them away to safety - to join an agency created to stop time travel from destroying the world.) Slonczewski, Joan The Highest Frontier $26.99 (On an Earth altered by global warming, with an invasive alien species threatening the surviving ecosystems, Jennifer Ramos Kennedy, daughter of a rich and influential family, is headed for the college of the future, in orbit.) Starmer, Aaron The Only Ones $17.99 (Kids; Martin arrives at the village of Xibalba. Like the other children who've journeyed there, he faces an awful truth. When families and friends all disappeared one afternoon, he and these other children were forgotten. Inspired by the prophesies of a mysterious boy who talks to animals, Martin believes he can reunite them with their loved ones - but believing and knowing are two different things.) Stephenson, Neal Reamde $35.00 (Richard Forthrast is a wealthy high-tech entrepreneur with a shady past, whose company owns a wildly popular online role-playing game. The line between fantasy and reality becomes dangerously blurred when a young gold farmer accidentally triggers a virtual war for dominance - and Richard is caught in the crossfire.) Ueda, Sayuri The Cage of Zeus $14.99 (On a space station orbiting Jupiter, the 'rounds', artificially created humans with the sex organs of both genders, have created their own society with a radically different view of gender and of life itself. Security chief Shirosaki keeps the peace between the rounds and the single-gendered humans, but after a terrorist attack disturbs the balance of power and tolerance, an entire people is targeted for genocide.) Weber, David How Firm a Foundation $27.99 (Safehold #5: If Charis is to survive, it must defeat the Church of God Awaiting on its own ground. But how to invade the mainland when the foe has numerical superiority? And how to prevent the Church from rebuilding its fleets and attacking yet again?) Westerfeld, Scott Goliath $19.99 (Leviathan #3: YA; Alek and Deryn are on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end the Great War and reclaim Alek's throne, as the Leviathan steams toward New York City with a homicidal lunatic on board.) Weston, Robert Paul Dust City $8.99 (YA; Ever since his father's arrest for the murder of Little Red Riding Hood, Henry Whelp has kept a low profile at a Home for Wayward Wolves - until a murder at the Home leads Henry to believe his father was framed.) Willingham, Bill Down the Mysterly River $15.99 (YA; Sean, Jimm, and Dave were boyhood friends. Then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. 25 years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. Dave is trying to keep his demons at bay - demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy's daughter is murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who is inclined to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood.) Yancey, Rick The Curse of the Wendigo $9.99 (Monstrumologist #2: YA; While attempting to disprove the existence of the vampire, Dr. Warthrop is asked by an old flame to rescue her husband from a Wendigo. Warthrop thinks the Wendigo is fictitious, but he rescues her husband in the Canadian wilderness. When the husband transforms into a Wendigo, can the doctor and Will Henry hunt down this vicious predator?)

Early October

Abbott/Lavery (ed) TV Goes to Hell: An Unofficial Road Map of Supernatural $14.95 (Nonfiction; essays examining the TV series' cultural footprint, covering folklore, religion, gender and sexuality, music, and more. Plus a brief episode guide.) Abnett, Dan Salvation's Reach $24.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Gaunt's Ghosts: The Tanith First is deployed into the line again, their first combat since Jago. Under secret orders from Crusade High Command, they undertake a covert mission into the space hulk debris belts of Salvation's Reach. But can Gaunt trust everyone around them?) Adams, CT /Clamp, C Demon Song $7.99 (Blood Singer #3: A long-sealed pathway to the demonic dimension begins to open, and only Celia has the combination of abilities needed to close it again.) Anderson, Kevin (ed) Blood Lite II: Overbite $7.99 (Anthology; 31 humorous horror stories) Anderson, Taylor Rising Tides $7.99 (Destroyermen #5: As Reddy and the crew of the USS Walker continue their battle for freedom and survival in a parallel universe, the stakes become much more personal, and much more perilous) Anderson, Taylor Firestorm $25.95 (Destroyermen #6: Even as the Allies and the Empire of New Britain Isles stand united against the Grik and the Japanese, the Holy Dominion - a warped, power-hungry mix of human cultures - threatens destruction with a devastating weapon neither Allies nor Empire can withstand.) Anderton, Jo Debris $7.99 (In a far future where technology is all but indistinguishable from magic, Tanyana was one of the elite, able to control pions, the building blocks of matter. Now, stripped of her powers, she finds herself cast down to the very lowest level of society, where she must adjust to a new life collecting 'debris', the stuff left behind by pions. But as she tries to find who has done all of this to her, she also starts to realize that debris is more important than anyone could guess.) Andrews/Singh/Brook/Shinn Angels of Darkness $15.00 (PBO; Anthology; 4 urban fantasy/paranormal romance novellas) Anthony, Piers Knot Gneiss $7.99 (Xanth #34: Wenda Woodwife seeks a cure for her mood swings from the Good Magician Humphrey, only to discover that he also has a problem, and that only Wenda can help him. But she'll need Companions.) Arthur, Keri Darkness Unbound $7.99 (Dark Angels #1: PBO; Spin-off from the Riley Jenson series. Half werewolf and half Aedh, Risa Jones can see the reapers who collect the souls of the dead. She learns that a sinister force is stealing souls, preventing the dead from ever knowing the afterlife. With the help of an Aedh named Lucian - who has lost his wings, but not his sex appeal - Risa must put a stop to whoever is seizing souls.) Asaro, Catherine Carnelians $25.00 (Skolian Empire #14: Skolian Imperator Kelric and his Eubian Trade Empire counterpart finally meet to sign a treaty that will end the millennium-long war. But assassins lurk everywhere, and intrigue is afoot as the old order has no intention of giving up its war-bought privilege and power without a fight to the death.) Asprin, Robert Myth-Interpretations $7.99 (Collection; all the Myth short fiction, plus other short works and previously unpublished stories) Bacigalupi, Paolo Ship Breaker $9.99 (YA; Printz Award winner, finalist for the National Book Award. Near a future shanty town on the Gulf Coast, where grounded tankers are disassembled for parts, a teenage boy finds a clipper ship that was beached by a recent hurricane, a beautiful and wealthy girl the only survivor. Should he strip the ship and live a life of relative wealth, or rescue the girl and hope she'll lead him to a better life?) Balogh/Krinard/etc Bespelling Jane Austen $7.99 (Anthology; 4 paranormal romance novellas.) Banks, L.A. Conquer the Dark $7.99 (Celeste Jackson #2: PBO; The conquered members of the fallen have found a key to rebirth within the sacred tombs of Egypt. Unless Celeste can sway the balance of the upcoming war, evil will eclipse the Earth.) Barant, D.D. Better Off Undead $7.99 (Bloodhound Files #4: PBO; FBI agent Jace Valchek was sent to track down the rogue don of a Mafia werewolf family. She wasn't counting on being bitten. Now she's fighting the growing wolf inside with a startling antidote - vampirism - while trying to stop a gangland war.) Barker, Clive Absolute Midnight $24.99 (Abarat #3: YA; Mater Motley plans to create a darkness so complete that it vanquishes the sun, moon, and stars from the Abarat, ending all hope and happiness. Only one person can stop her: Candy Quackenbush from Chickentown, USA.) Bear, Greg Hull Zero Three $13.99 (Campbell Memorial Award finalist. A man wakes up from a dream of a new planet to find himself wet, naked, and freezing on a starship hurtling through space. The dark halls are full of monsters, but trusting other survivors he meets might be the greater danger.) Betts, Heidi The Bite Before Christmas $6.99 (Collection; 3 novellas involving a top-secret vampire dating agency.) Bledsoe, Alex The Hum and the Shiver $15.99 (Wounded in body and spirit, Bronwyn Hyatt returns from Iraq to the Smoky Mountains. Cryptic omens warn of tragedy, and a restless 'haint' has followed her home from the war. With death stalking her family, will she ever again join in the song of her people, and let it lift her onto the night winds?) Bourne, J.L. Day by Day Armageddon Omnibus: Day by Day Armageddon / Beyond Exile $18.00 (Day by Day Armageddon #1 / #2: Omnibus reprint of 2 zombie novels) Bova, Ben Leviathans of Jupiter $7.99 (Grand Tour #13: Physicist Grant Archer prepares a new expedition to prove that the city-sized creatures of Jupiter's ocean are intelligent. The team faces danger from the environment, and from humans who want the mission to fail.) Brandon, Paula The Traitor's Daughter $15.00 (Jianna Belandor #1: The polarity of magic is wavering, heralding an upheaval poised to alter the very balance of nature. Blissfully unaware, Jianna Belandor, the privileged daughter of a powerful overlord, has only one concern: the journey to meet her prospective husband. But revolution is stirring as her own conquered people rise up against their oppressors. When Jianna is kidnapped and held captive at a rebel stronghold, the resistance movement opens her eyes.) Brooks, Max World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War $7.99 (Reissue; 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.) Bujold, Lois McMaster Cryoburn $7.99 (Vorkosigan #13: Hugo Award finalist. Kibou-daini is a planet obsessed with cheating death. When one of their cryocorps - a company whose job it is to shepherd its frozen patrons into an unknown future - attempts to expand into the Barrayaran Empire, the emperor sends Miles Vorkosigan to check things out.) Burroughs, Rick Alan Wake $7.99 (Novel based on the video game. A bestselling crime novelist searches desperately for his missing wife. His journey will lead him to the edge of madness, bringing him face to face with a story he doesn't remember writing.) Caine, Rachel Bite Club $9.99 (Morganville Vampires #10: YA; The new extreme sport on the internet - fights pitting captured vampires against each other or humans - soon threatens everyone in Morganville.) Campbell/Prepolec (ed) Gaslight Arcanum $15.95 (Anthology; Holmes faces the bizarre, the uncanny, and the arcane in these original stories) Card, Orson & Emily Laddertop #1 $10.99 (Graphic novel. The alien Givers came, built the Ladders - four giant towers rising 36,000 miles into space to four space stations that power the entire Earth - then disappeared. A skilled crew of children perform the maintenance to keep the stations running. Robbi and Azure, two candidates for Laddertop Academy, become entangled in a dangerous mystery that may help them solve the riddle of the Givers - if it doesn't destroy the Earth first!) Card, Orson Scott Pathfinder $10.99 (Serpent World #1: YA; Rigg has a talent for seeing the paths of people's pasts. When his father dies, Rigg learns the secrets his father had kept from him - about Rigg's past, his identity, and his destiny. Then Rigg discovers that he also has the power to change the past.) Chan, Kylie Red Phoenix $7.99 (Dark Heavens #2: Emma finds a demonic circle of death closing around her and the people she loves: Xuan Wu, the powerful god she is bound to, and his young daughter Simone, whom Emma has sworn to protect. ) Chandler, David A Thief in the Night $7.99 (Ancient Blades #2: Malden fears accompanying Croy and the barbarian Morget on their quest to dispatch a foul creature of nightmare, nor does he want to disturb the vengeful dead. But with an assassin on his heels, the young cutpurse is left with no choice.) Chane, Lee Arthur Magebane $7.99 (400 years ago, war drove the MageLords to a distant place, separated from those they had ruled by a magical barrier. They became legend, and people turned to science to improve their lives. But if one man has his way, all that is about to change.) Clare, Cassandra Clockwork Angel $10.99 (Infernal Devices #1: YA; 1878: Searching London's underworld for her missing brother, Tessa soon finds that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters. They find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures - and plans to rule the British Empire.) Cody, Christine In Blood We Trust $7.99 (Bloodlands #3: PBO; Mariah and Gabriel return to the Bloodlands to face the horrors of Mariah's past and the uncertainties of Gabriel's future - and to make a final stand for their lives and their love.) Correia, L/Kupari, M Dead Six $7.99 (PBO; Michael Valentine, veteran and former elite mercenary, is recruited by the government to conduct a secret counter-terror operation in the Persian Gulf. He runs afoul of assassin/thief Lorenzo, whose team has infiltrated the terrorist network to pull off a heist. Now Lorenzo has a new object: kill Valentine. (Military thriller, not sf.); Bookplates signed by both authors expected) Crowther, Peter Darkness Falling $12.99 (Forever Twilight #1: A predawn flash of unearthly light cuts off Jesman's Bend from communication with the outside world. When four employees of the local radio station investigate, they find the town depopulated. Then familiar folk reappear, all wearing concealing sunglasses and gloves, and driven by malignant alien motives revealed when they descend en masse upon the terrified foursome.) Czerneda, Julie (ed) Tesseracts 15: A Case of Quite Curious Tales $15.95 (YA; Anthology; original sf, fantasy and horror stories that engage the imagination, inspire dreams, and leave hope in their wake) Davidson, MaryJanice Wolf at the Door $15.00 (Wyndham Werewolves #4: PBO; Rachel, a werewolf/accountant, is asked to keep one eye on Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor and the other peeled for a rogue werewolf who's itching to start a war. But her attention is mostly on a sexy, mysterious stranger she wishes she could trust. ) Day, Sylvia A Touch of Crimson $7.99 (Renegade Angels #1: PBO; The leader of a Seraphim Special Ops unit finds the soul of his lost mortal love inhabiting a new body - and this time, he doesn't mean to let her go.) Deck, J/Herson, B The Great Typo Hunt $14.00 (Nonfiction; armed with permanent markers, correction fluid, and other tools, the authors spent several months circumnavigating the US on a quest to right the wrongs of poor punctuation.) Dickens/Gray, Sarah A Vampire Christmas Carol $15.00 (With three spirits to guide him, Ebenezer rediscovers his lost love Belle - seamstress by day, vampire hunter by night. His nephew Fred and his clerk Bob Cratchit are her loyal soldiers. And an attack is planned against them, beginning with the sacrifice of Tiny Tim.) Dietz, William C. Bones of Empire $7.99 (Jak Cato #2: The Uman Empire's reign is now fragile, as alien subjects and enemies conspire against it. Cop Jak Cato gets a glimpse of the Emperor, and realizes he's looking at a shapeshifter he thought was dead - his mortal enemy is still alive, and the fate of the Empire , as well as Cato's honor, are at stake.) Duncan, J.N. (Jim) The Vengeful Dead $7.99 (Jackie Rutledge #2: PBO; A merciless force capable of possessing humans is on a killing spree. When Jackie becomes a suspect, she has to struggle to stay ahead of her savvy new partner, as well as her undead PI paramour Nick, until she can clear her name.) Dunn, Christian (ed) Sabbat Worlds $8.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Anthology; stories of the bitter conflict being fought across the Sabbat Worlds, which can only end in victory or annihilation.) Durham, David Anthony The Sacred Band $28.95 (Acacia #3: Queen Corinn bestrides the world as a result of her mastery of the spells in the ancient Book of Elenet. Her brother Daniel has been sent on a perilous mission to the Other Lands, while her sister Mena travels to the far north to face an invasion by the Auldek. Their separate trajectories will converge in a series of world-shaping battles.) Elliott, Kate Cold Fire $14.99 (Spiritwalker #2: PBO; Cat and Bee are caught in an intricate web of subterfuge and politics. Everyone seems to want something from them: the warlord who wants to conquer Europa, the Cold Mages who stand against him, and the dangerous Master of the Wild Hunt.) Estep, Jennnifer Spider's Revenge $7.99 (Elemental Assassin #5: PBO; Mab Monroe wants Gin dead - and now she's put a bounty on Gin's baby sister. Keeping Bria safe is Gin's first priority - and taking out Mab is a close second.) Feehan, Christine Dark Peril $7.99 (Carpathian #18: On a desperate mission in the heart of enemy territory, Dominic of the Dragonseeker Carpathians meets Solange, a jaguar shifter who has been fighting to save shifter women from the man who slaughtered everyone she loved - her own father.) Flanagan, John The Lost Stories $17.99 (Ranger's Apprentice: Kids; Stories that fill in the gaps between the novels, including the truth behind how Will came to be orphaned, and what his real relationship to Halt is.) Fletcher, Susan Ancient, Strange, and Lovely $7.99 (Dragon Chronicles #4: Kids; When 14-year-old Bryn watches an ancient egg hatch, and realizes that the hatchling is a baby dragon, she must flee to protect him from those who wish him harm. But will she be able to keep him safe?) Friesner, Esther Sphinx's Queen $9.99 (Nefertiti #2: YA; Chased after by the prince and his soldiers for a crime she did not commit, Nefertiti finds temporary refuge in the wild hills along the Nile's west bank. But she is determined to plead her case and set things right. And she begins to question long-held sacred beliefs - which could alter the fabric of Egyptian society.) Gelb/Garrett (ed) Dark Passions $6.99 (Hot Blood XIII: Anthology; erotic horror stories) Gilman, Laura Anne Weight of Stone $9.99 (Vineart War #2: Vineart student Jerzy and his companions must find the source of the magic taint plaguing the Lands Vin.) Golden, Christopher The Monster's Corner $14.99 (Anthology; original stories from the monster's viewpoint) Golden, Christopher The Fourth Labyrinth $15.00 (Uncharted: Novel based on the game. Adventurer Nathan Drake sets out to uncover ancient secrets, recover priceless artifacts, and unravel some of the world's greatest mysteries.) Hamilton, Kiki The Faerie Ring $17.99 (YA; 1871: Pickpocket Tiki steals a ring that could lead to all-out war. For the ring belongs to Queen Victoria, and binds the rulers of England and Faerie to peace. A group of faerie rebels hopes to break the treaty with dark magic - and Tiki's blood.) Hamilton, Peter F. The Evolutionary Void $8.99 (Void #3: Araminta, the Second Dreamer, has become the target of a galaxy-wide search by those determined to prevent - or facilitate - the pilgrimage of the Living Dream cult into the heart of the Void. Meanwhile, the parallel story of Edeard, the Waterwalker - as told through a series of addictive dreams communicated via Inigo, the First Dreamer - continues to unfold, but his tale takes a darker and more troubling turn. With time running out, Inigo must decide whether to release Edeard's final dream, whose message is scarcely less dangerous than the pilgrimage promises to be.) Harrison, Thea Serpent's Kiss $7.99 (Elder Races #2: PBO; Wyr sentinel Rune is drawn to Vampire Queen Carling, and sets out to find a cure for the vampyric disease that's killing her.) Hawes/Wilson/Waggoner Ghost Trackers $7.99 (On the eve of their fifteen-year reunion, three friends reunite to deal with the sinister force they unleashed when they explored a haunted house in their hometown back in high school.) Heinlein, Robert A. Starman Jones $13.00 (Reissue; Max Jones discovers that his uncle Chet's astrogation manuals, which Max has memorized, are a ticket to the stars. On a spaceship, duty is everything, and a mistake can mean you and all aboard are lost forever. When disaster strikes, it's going to take every trick Max ever learned from his tough life and his uncle's manuals to save himself and the ship.) Hendee, Barb In Memories We Fear $7.99 (Vampire Memories #4: PBO; When a series of killings in England point to a new feral vampire, Eleisha and Philip travel to London to offer the terrified creature sanctuary and stop the bloodshed. But the vampire they find is not what they expect.) Holzner, Nancy Bloodstone $7.99 (Deadtown #3: PBO; When mutilated human bodies begin turning up in Boston's Back Bay district, demon-hunter Vicky Vaughn discovers that the creature behind the carnage is after much more than just blood.) Irvine, Alex Exiles $7.99 (Transformers: PBO; Optimus is determined to defeat Megatron, bring the AllSpark home, and restore Cybertron to its former glory. But a saboteur lurks aboard Optimus' spaceship, and ahead lie lost colonies, some of them hostile. Optimus needs help of the highest caliber, but from whom?) Jordan, R/Sanderson, B Towers of Midnight $9.99 (Wheel of Time #13: The sun has begun to set upon the Third Age. Perrin Aybara, hunted by specters from his past, must seek answers, and find a way at long last to master the wolf within him, or lose himself to it forever. And the time is coming when Matrim Cauthon will again have to dance with the Snakes and the Foxes, playing a game that cannot be won. The Tower of Ghenjei awaits, and its secrets will reveal the fate of a friend long lost.) Joyce, W/Geringer, L Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King $14.99 (Guardians of Childhood Novel #1: Kids; Before he was Santa, Nicholas was a daredevil swordsman, seeking adventure. He arrives at a village said to be home to the greatest treasure in the East and a mighty wizard. But the Nightmare King and his Fearlings are sending waves of terror through the village, and NIcholas must battle to save it.) Kenyon, Nate Ghost: Spectres $8.99 (StarCraft: PBO; Nova, an elite stealth operative, embarks on a mission that pits her against her own kind and her tragic past.) Kenyon, S/Love, D Alterant $7.99 (PBO; Saving mankind from total destruction should have cleared Evalle's name. But when words uttered in the heat of combat are twisted against her, she's blamed for the prison break of three dangerous Alterants. To clear the cloud of suspicion hanging over her, she must recapture the escapees.) Keyes, Greg Lord of Souls $15.00 (Elder Scrolls #2: Novel based on the game. A sinister floating city and an army of undead warriors have laid waste to much of the world, and it is now up to the emperor's son and a group of mages, thieves, and warriors to put things right. But are they strong enough to overcome the ancient evil in Tamriel?) Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody Crossing Over $5.99 (Suddenly Supernatural #4: Kids; On a class trip to Old Montreal, medium-in-training Kat Roberts must deal with French-Canadian ghosts while trying to win the heart of her secret crush.) Lackey, Mercedes Intrigues $7.99 (Valdemar: Collegium #2: When he's recognized by foreign operatives, Mags comes under suspicion. Who are Magpie's parents - who is he really? Can he solve the riddle of his parentage and prove his loyalty before he's banished as a traitor?) Lackey, Mercedes Changes $25.95 (Valdemar: Collegium #3: Magpie pursues his quest for his parent's identity, while being trained as an undercover agent for Valdemar. Bardic Trainee Lena has to face her uncaring father, a famous Bard. And Healing Trainee Bear struggles with his parents, who are pressuring him to quit the Collegium because he lacks the magical Healing Gift.) Lackey/Sagara/Haley Harvest Moon $7.99 (Anthology; 3 original tales - a Five Hundred Kingdoms novella by Mercedes Lackey, an Elantra novella by P.C. Cast, and an Underworld Cycle novella by Cameron Haley.) Laumer, Keith (creator) The Best of the Bolos: Their Finest Hour $7.99 (Anthology; reprints military sf stories about the Bolos, gigantic robot tanks with AI, designed to serve and protect humanity throughout the galaxy) Lesser, Frank Sad Monsters: Growling on the Outside, Crying on the Inside $13.00 (Besides being deeply misunderstood, monsters suffer from very real problems. Mummies have body image issues, Godzilla is going through an existential crisis, and creatures from the black lagoon face discrimination from creatures from the white lagoon. At heart, these monsters are human; after all, you are what you eat. Learn about the trials and tribulations of all the undead creatures you have grown to love, from vampires and werewolves, to chupacabras and sphinxes, and even claw-footed bathtubs.) Lockhart, Ross E. The Book of Cthulhu $15.99 (Anthology; reprints horror stories featuring the Great Old Ones) Lovegrove, James Redlaw $7.99 (John Redlaw is London's most respected officer, in charge of policing the despised vampire community. But when vampires start rioting in their ghettos, and angry humans respond with violence, even he may not be able to keep the peace. Especially with politicians planning to resolve the problem once and for all.) MacAlister, Katie Much Ado about Vampires $7.99 (Dark Ones #10: PBO; Corazon Ferreira was a vampire's mate in a past life. But she just can't get the image of his killing someone out of her head - until her life depends on him, and she has to start trusting her heart.) Mann, George The Immortality Engine $24.99 (Newbury & Hobbes Investigations #2: Queen Victoria's special agents investigate when the body of a well-known criminal is discovered, and then a crime occurs that bears all the dead man's hallmarks. The details are too perfect for it to be the work of a copycat. But how can a dead man commit a crime?) Martin, G/Dozois, G (ed) Down These Strange Streets $26.95 (Anthology; original urban fantasy stories) Martin, Mark (ed) I'm with the Bears $14.95 (Anthology; speculative fiction about the global climate crisis) Matheson, Richard Steel and Other Stories $7.99 (Collection; reprints sf, fantasy, and horror stories) McDonald, Ian Dervish House $16.00 (Campbell and BSFA Award winner, Hugo and Clakre Award finalist. Seven days, six characters, and three interconnected story strands with a common core - the dervish house, a character in itself - set in 2027 Istanbul.) McMahon, Gary Dead Bad Things $7.99 (Thomas Usher #2: When Thomas Usher hears a clockwork voice on the phone and sees ever-more disturbing visions in a derelict warehouse, he realizes that he has to return home for the sake of his sanity. Meanwhile, a deadly figure from Usher's past threatens to undermine the very fabric of reality.) Moriarty, Chris The Inquisitor's Apprentice $16.99 (Kids; Early 20th century: Sacha's ability to see witches earns him an apprenticeship with the NYPD's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf, to help stop magical crime. With fellow apprentice Lily, Sacha investigates who is trying to kill Thomas Edison, whose mechanical witch detector could unleash the worst witch-hunt in American history.) Morrissey, Dean The Wizard Mouse $16.99 (Kids; Picture book; a field mouse's place is in the field, but Rollie wants more, and sets off for a distant kingdom. He finds many wonderful things, from a talking fish and floating cows to the kingdom's official Wizard. But what the kingdom needs most might just be the skills of one small field mouse.) Ness, Patrick A Monster Calls $16.99 (YA; 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.) Oliver, Jonathan (ed) House of Fear $7.99 (Anthology; haunted house stories by top horror writers) Painter, Kristen Blood Rights $7.99 (House of Comarre #1: Born into a life of secrets and service, Chrysabelle is one of a special race of humans bred to feed vampire nobility. Suspected of murdering her patron, she flees into the mortal world - and into the arms of Malkolm, an outcast vampire cursed to kill every being from whom he drinks. They must work together to stop a plot to merge the mortal and supernatural worlds.) Peake, Mervyn A Book of Nonsense $16.95 (Collection; nonsense verse ranging from the offbeat to the macabre) Peake, Mervyn Boy in Darkness and Other Stories $14.95 (Collection; stories and illustrations, including a Gormenghast novella) Petrucha, Stefan Dead Mann Walking $7.99 (Hessius Mann #1: PBO; Now that he's joined the ranks of Fort Hammer's pulse-challenged population, Hessius Mann works as a PI. When a missing persons case leads to a few zombies cut to pieces, he starts to think someone is giving him the run- around.) Poitevin, Linda Sins of the Angels $7.99 (Grigori Legacy #1: Homicide detective Alexandra Jarvis and her new partner Aramael, a guardian angel who doubles as a hitman, must work together to stop a fallen angel hell-bent on triggering the apocalypse.) Pratchett, Terry I Shall Wear Midnight $8.99 (Discworld YA: Tiffany Aching #4: YA; Young witch Tiffany Aching faces an insidious new foe who whispers threats of violence and quietly unleashes havoc. Along with her allies, the Nac Mac Feegle, Tiffany may know evil when she sees it, but where does evil start, and where - and how - does it end?) Priest, Cherie Ganymede $14.99 (Clockwork Century #3: On a supply run for the Seattle Underground, Andan Cly is offered a peculiar piloting job once he arrives in New Orleans. Hidden in Lake Pontchartrain is an immense submersible. It could end the war, if anyone could figure out how to operate it and sneak it past the Southern forces at the mouth of the Mississippi. So far it's killed most of the men who have set foot inside it. Will Cly and his crew end up in the history books, or at the bottom of the sea?) Reeve, Philip A Web of Air $17.99 (Fever Crumb #2: YA; 2 years ago, Fever Crumb escaped the war-torn city of London. Now, she arrives in the city of Mayda, where a mysterious recluse is building a machine that can fly. Fever is the engineer he needs - but ruthless enemies will kill to possess their secrets.) Resnick, Laura Vamparazzi $7.99 (Esther Diamond #4: PBO; Playing a scantily-clad vampire victim in an off- Broadway play, Esther may now be the target of someone who claims to be a genuine bloodsucker.) Riordan, Rick The Son of Neptune $19.99 (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.) Rosen, Lev Ac All Men of Genius $24.99 (A steampunk retelling of Twelfth Night and The Importance of Being Earnest) Sagara, Michelle Cast in Ruin $14.95 (Elantra #7: Seven corpses are discovered in the streets of a Dragon's fief, all identical, down to their clothing. Kaylin Neya is assigned to discover who they were, who killed them, and why. Is the evil lurking at Elantra's borders preparing to cross over?) Salvatore, R.A. Neverwinter Wood $27.95 (Forgotten Realms: Neverwinter #2: With the last of his trusted companions fallen, Drizzt and his newest companion Dahlia seek revenge on the one responsible for leveling Neverwinter.) Shinn, Sharon Troubled Waters $7.99 (Unwilling to be the king's fifth wife, Zoe hides on the river shore, where she discovers she is the coru prime, ruled by the elemental sign of water. She returns to the palace as a woman of power, and must decide how to use her power to rise above the intrigues of the court.) Sladen, Elisabeth Elisabeth Sladen: The Autobiography $26.95 (Doctor Who: Nonfiction; an insider's view of the world's longest running science fiction series, from one of the fans' favorite companions - Sarah Jane herself.) Stuart, Sarah Clarke Into the Looking Glass: Exploring the Worlds of Fringe $14.95 (Nonfiction; examines the TV series' mythology and mysteries, as well as the significant cultural issues addressed in each episode.) Sullivan, Laura L. Under the Green Hill $7.99 (Kids; A trip to the English countryside lands four siblings in the middle of a fairy war that is fought to the death - with a human champion. When her brother Rowan is chosen, Meg is desperate to save him.) Taylor, Laini Daughter of Smoke and Bone $18.99 (YA; Karou leads two lives, one as an orphan and art student in Prague, the other in the clandestine workshop of the ram-horned magician Brimstone, who is like family to her. When she meets haunted Akiva, she finds a love rooted deep in a violent past, and an ancient war that is far from over.) Thompson, Vicki Lewis Werewolf in the North Woods $7.99 (Wild About You #2: PBO; When Abby's grandfather swears he saw Bigfoot in the woods behind his Oregon home, his neighbors decide to bring in a prominent anthropologist to prove him wrong. Abby sets out to send the professor packing - until she sees how hot Roark is. Sparks fly - but can Roark pursue this fiery redhead without compromising his werewolf pack?) Treanor, Marie Blood Eternal $7.99 (Awakened by Blood #3: PBO; Despite the growing passion that unites them, all is not well between vampire-hunter Elizabeth and vampire overlord Saloman. As he builds his influence, can she become a conduit between humanity and the undead?) Tsouras, Peter G. Dixie Victorious $14.95 (Reissue; Collection; alternate history stories) Tsouras, Peter G. (ed) Hitler Triumphant $14.95 (Anthology; alternate history stories) Turner, Joan Frances Dust $15.00 (Nine years ago, Jessie died. Now she's part of a zombie gang. They fight, hunt, and dance together. But when an illness threatens both zombies and humans, Jessie must choose between looking away, or staring down the madness - and hanging onto everything she now knows as life.) Turner, Joan Frances Frail $24.95 (Sequel to Dust. Now that the Feeding Plague has swept through human and zombie societies, Amy is the only human survivor from her town - a frail. And if the feral dogs, the flesh-eaters, and the elements don't get her, she just may discover how this all began.) Ursu, Anne Breadcrumbs $16.99 (Kids; Hazel and Jack have been best friends for years, through hot Minneapolis summers and cold Minneapolis winters, dreaming of Hogwarts and Oz. Now they're eleven. When Jack stops talking to Hazel, she discovers that his heart has been frozen, and he's been taken into the woods by a mysterious woman made of ice. It's up to Hazel to go in after him.) Ward, D/Dilmore, K What Judgments Come $7.99 (Star Trek: Vanguard: PBO; The Starfleet officers and civilians of Vanguard find their lives forever altered as they explore the layers of mystery surrounding the Taurus Reach.) Weber, David A Beautiful Friendship $18.99 (Stephanie Harrington #1: YA; On the pioneer planet Sphinx, young Stephanie Harrington discovers an intelligent alien species, treecats, and forms the first telepathic bond with one. But a lot of powerful people are determined to make sure that Sphinx remains entirely in human hands - even if it means the extermination of a thinking species.) Werner, C.L. Thanquol's Doom $8.99 (Warhammer: Thanquol & Boneripper #3: In the depths of Karak Angkul rests a scroll of incredible power. With it, Thanquol's ascension to the Council of Thirteen is assured. All that remains is to defeat Ikit Claw, overcome the dwarf defenses, and regain control of the skaven army.)

Mid October

Abercrombie, Joe The Heroes $14.99 (War: where the blood and dirt of the battlefield hides the dark deeds committed in the name of glory. Curnden Craw is a ruthless fighter who wants nothing more than to see his crew survive. Prince Calder is a liar and a coward who will use any means necessary to regain his crown. Bremer dan Gorst is a master swordsman, but a failed bodyguard; his honor will be restored in the blood of his enemies. Over three days, the fates of these men will be sealed. ) Anthony, Piers Well-Tempered Clavicle $25.99 (Xanth #35: Picka Bones and his sister Joy'nt are off in search of adventure with three creatures newly arrived from Mundania - and not the sort of creatures you might expect!) Atwood, Margaret In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination $24.95 (Essays about her lifelong relationship with sf, from her childhood reading in the 1940s, to her graduate studies at Harvard, to her work as a writer and reviewer.) Bell, Hilari The Goblin War $17.99 (Goblin #3: YA; Barbarians are out to take over the Realm. Can hedgewitch Makenna, ex-knight Tobin, his brother Jeriah, and a whole lot of goblins work together and save the Realm?) Bernobich, Beth Fox and Phoenix $17.99 (Kids; The king of Long City is dying. The majestic ruler of the ghost dragons orders Kai, a magician's apprentice and former street tough, to travel to the Phoenix Empire, where his friend Princess Lian is learning statecraft. In a court filled with intrigue, Kai and his friend Yun must help the princess escape and return to Long City before her father dies.) Bradbury, Ray The Illustrated Man $14.99 (Reissue; Collection; classic sf stories) Bradbury, Ray The Martian Chronicles $14.99 (Reissue; Collection; classic sf tales of colonizing Mars) Bradbury, Ray The October Country $14.99 (Reissue; Collection; classic sf stories) Brust, Steven The Book of Dzur: Dzur / Jhegaala $15.99 (Vlad Taltos #10 / #11: Omnibus reprint) Connolly, John The Infernals $22.00 (Samuel Johnson #2: The demon Mrs. Abernathy is seeking revenge on Samuel for his part in foiling the invasion of Earth by the forces of evil. When Samuel and his dachshund Boswell are pulled through a portal into the dark realm, she gets her chance. But she hasn't reckoned on the courage and cleverness of the boy and his dog, or the loyalty of Samuel's demon friend Nurd. Most of all she hasn't planned on the intervention of Mr. Merryweather's Elves.) Cook, Glen Reap the East Wind $14.99 (Dread Empire #6: In Kavelin, Lady Nepanthe's new life with Varthlokkur is disturbed by visions of her lost son, while King Bragi Ragnarson and Michael Trebilcock scheme to help the exiled Princess Mist re-usurp her throne as their puppet. In Shinsan, a pig-farmer's son takes command of Eastern Army, while Lord Kuo faces plots in his council and a suicide attack of two million Matayangans on his border. And in the desert beyond the Dread Empire, a young victim of the Great War becomes the Deliverer of an eons-forgotten god, chosen to lead the legions of the dead.) Dempsey, Michael Necropolis $14.99 (NYPD detective Paul Donner was killed in a holdup gone wrong. Fifty years later, he's back, revived by the Shift, which jumpstarts dead DNA and throws the life cycle into reverse. He is slowly youthing towards childhood, part of quarantined New York City's most hated minority. And obsessed with solving his own murder.) Doctorow, Cory Context $14.95 (Nonfiction; essays and polemics from one of the internet's most celebrated high-tech culture mavens.) Duncan, Dave When the Saints $27.99 (Brothers Magnus #2: To defend Cardice from a more powerful neighboring state, the Magnus clan is relying on Wulf's ability to request favors from the devil- saints. But Wulf is realizing that he doesn't know all the rules of the magical battle he's involved in.) Evans, Chris Ashes of a Black Frost $25.99 (Iron Elves #3: As the human-dominated Calahrian Empire struggles to maintain its hold on power in the face of armed rebellion, the Iron Elves' perilous quest to defeat the power-hungry elf witch, the Shadow Monarch, takes on greater urgency.) Geillor, Harrison The Twilight of Lake Woebegotten $14.99 (When Bonnie arrives in town to live with her estranged father, she gets involved with brooding, beautiful Edwin. He's a vampire, but that's OK. Because while Bonnie seems to be an ordinary, slightly clumsy, easily distracted girl, she's really manipulative, power-hungry, and not above committing murder to get her way - or just amuse herself. In this love store, the vampire isn't the monster.) Gilman, Laura Anne The Shattered Vine $26.00 (Vineart War #3: As conditions worsen throughout the Lands, Jerzy returns to the Berengia to delve into the magic that has been growing within him, knowing that his god-forbidden knowledge may be the only thing that can save the Lands Vin.) Guilin, Peadar O. The Inferior $9.99 (YA; Stopmouth and his family know only the daily battle to survive. To live, they must hunt rival species, or negotiate flesh-trade with those who crave meat of the freshest human kind. For Stopmouth, considered slow-witted hunt-fodder by his tribe, the future looks bleak. But then a strange and beautiful woman falls from the sky. It is a moment that will change his destiny, and that of all humanity, forever.) Hurley, Kameron Infidel $14.99 (Nyx #2: While protecting a diplomat's daughter, Nyx is attacked. She survives, but begins to suffer from a debilitating condition nobody can identify. With Bel Dam assassins plotting against the Queen, Nyx must learn who the rogue Bel Dam is, and find a cure for her illness.) Kadrey, Richard Aloha from Hell $23.99 (Sandman Slim #3: With God on vacation, Lucifer nosing around in Heaven, and an insane serial killer doing serious damage on Earth, there's only one thing Stark can do: go back to Hell, the first step in a sure-to-be-suicidal plan that includes rescuing his long-lost love, stopping the serial killer, and preventing Heaven and Hell from completely destroying each other - or being destroyed by the demonic Kissi.) Link, K/Grant, G (ed) Steampunk! $22.99 (YA; Anthology; original stories) McKinley, R/Dickinson, P Fire: Tales of Elemental Spirits $9.99 (Reissue; YA; 5 fantasy tales incorporating the element of fire) Morgan, Richard K. The Cold Commands $26.00 (Land Fit for Heroes #2: Aging warrior Ringil Eskiath is growing more comfortable with his return to the hero's life. But the stakes against him are being raised - a major threat is gathering on the horizon, one that Ringil cannot defeat by himself.) Pratchett, Terry Snuff $25.99 (Discworld #33: Sam Vimes is going to take a vacation - at least, that was the plan.) Robinson, Martin The Great Journey $29.95 (Halo: Full color art book; the best of the art from the game, from characters to weapons, sketches to concept art by acclaimed artists, and more.) Stewart, Jon et al Earth (The Book): A Visitor's Guide to the Human Race $16.99 (Stewart and his team from The Daily Show provide a witty, irreverent guide to our species. Full color illustrations throughout.) Tatulli, Mark Reheated Lio $12.99 (Lio #4: Wordless comic strips detailing the adventures of young mad scientist Lio; perfect for fans of Charles Addams, Gahan Wilson, and Gary Larson) Vinge, Vernor The Children of the Sky $25.99 (Direct sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep. Ten years have passed on Tines World. Ravna and the pack animals have survived a war, and Ravna has saved more than one hundred children who were in cold-sleep aboard the vessel that brought them. But there are those among the Tines - and the humans - who seek power, and these malcontents are determined to overturn the fledgling civilization that has taken root since the humans landed.) Walker, Stephen James End of Ten: The Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who 2009 $29.95 (Nonfiction; comprehensive guide to all the Doctor Who specials, culminating in the dramatic regeneration of the tenth Doctor (David Tennant) into the eleventh and current Doctor (Matt Smith).) Windham, R/Vilmur, P The Complete Vader $60.00 (Star Wars: Nonfiction; a comprehensive, in-depth, fully illustrated look at Darth Vader.)

Early November

The Onion Presents: Christmas Exposed $12.95 (Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without impulse-priced holiday gift books - and now 'The Onion' has unleashed its award-winning team of investigative journalists upon the genre, featuring more than one hundred shocking tales of Secret Santas, shopping mall mayhem, dysfunctional family dinners, and more.) Anvil, Christopher The Power of Illusion $7.99 (Includes the novel The Day the Machines Stopped, his stories of Richard Verner, who is called in to solve apparently insoluble problems, and more) Arthur, Keri Darkness Rising $7.99 (Dark Angels #2: PBO; Half werewolf and half Aedh, Risa Jones will go to any lengths to avenge her mother's murder - even if it means making a pact with the most evil vampire she's ever met.) Asher, Neal Brass Man $8.99 (Agent Cormac #3: Reissue; On the primitive world of Cull, a knight errant called Anderson is hunting a dragon. Someone (now more technology than flesh) has resurrected a brass killing machine to assist in a similar hunt encompassing star systems. When agent Cormac learns that this old enemy still lives, he sets out in pursuit, while scientist Mika searches for the truth about that ancient technology, ostensibly produced by the alien Jain. Meanwhile the people of Cull struggle to survive on a planet roamed by monsters, while they slowly construct the industrial base that may enable them to escape to their forefathers' starship orbiting far above them. An entity with questionable motives, calling itself Dragon, assists them with genetic by-blows created out of humans and the local monsters.) Barry, C.J. Body Thief $15.00 (PBO; Shapeshifter Camille Solomon and XCEL agent Griffin Mercer learn to trust each other as they infiltrate a shifter faction in Las Vegas - only to find that their growing passion for each other puts their hearts and their lives in danger. ) Baxter, Stephen Stone Spring $25.95 (Northland #1: 10,000 years ago: A vast plain links the British Isles to Europe, home to simple hunter-gatherers. But the air is warming, the ice is melting, and the seas are rising. Then 14-year-old Ana meets a traveler from distant Jericho, a city protected by a wall. And she starts to imagine the impossible.) Bear, Elizabeth The Sea Thy Mistress $7.99 (Edda of Burdens #2: Set fifty years after All the Windwracked Stars. Heythe has traveled forward in time, expecting to gloat over a dead world, but finds the land renewed by Muire's sacrifice. She will seek revenge against this new Bearer of Burdens, but Mingan, the gray wolf, has seen his old enemy's return, and does not plan to let Heythe succeed.) Bell, Hilari Trickster's Girl $8.99 (Raven Duet #1: YA; 2098: In a high-tech, high-security world, a boy appears and tells young Kelsa that magic is responsible for the health of the Earth, but human damage disrupts its flow. Kelsa has the power to reverse the damage - but first she must accept that magic exists.) Brennan, C (Tarr, J) House of the Star $5.99 (Kids; Sent to Earth, to the Arizona ranch where the the magical horses used to travel the Faerie worldroads are bred, Princess Elen must face her worst enemy to end the war that has been tearing apart the worldroads.) Broaddus, Marcus King's War $7.99 (Knights of Breton Court #3: King has been betrayed, but he has no time to lick his wounds - he has to draw his people together to fight the ultimate foe.) Brook, Meljean Heart of Steel $15.00 (Iron Seas #2: PBO; Ruthless and cunning, airship captain Yasmeen's only loyalty is to her ship and her crew - until treasure hunter Archimedes Fox comes along.) Campbell, J (Hemry, J) Stark's Command $7.99 (Ethan Stark #2: Reissue; US military forces on the moon have overthrown their officers and placed Sgt. Ethan Stark in command. In addition to fighting a merciless enemy on the moon's surface, Stark must contend with the US government's reaction to his mutiny.) Cassidy, Dakota The Accidental Werewolf $7.99 (Accidentally Paranormal #1: First Marty gets bitten by a mutt. Then a man shows up at her door claiming that he accidentally bit her - and since he's a werewolf, that means she is now, too.) Chan, Kylie Blue Dragon $7.99 (Dark Heavens #3: The demons grow stronger as Xuan Wu becomes weaker. When Simone is kidnapped, Xuan Wu and Emma must make the ultimate sacrifice, although even that might not be enough.) Cook, Glen Surrender to the Will of the Night $7.99 (Instrumentalities of the Night #3: His sister Heris and Cloven Februaren have made Piper Hecht part of their fight against the return of the dark god Kharoulke. Now Empress Katrin wants Piper to lead the armies of the Grail Empire on a crusade against the Praman.) Correia, Larry Spellbound $25.00 (Grimnoir Chronicles #2: When a magical assassin makes an attempt on the life of President Franklin Roosevelt, the crime is pinned on the Grimnoir, and the knights become fugitives while they attempt to discover who framed them. Things get worse when Jake learns that the Power jumped universes because it was fleeing a magic-eating predator - a predator that has just landed on Earth; Signed copies expected) Crusie, Jennifer Maybe This Time $7.99 (Andie agrees to do a favor for her ex: take care of his late cousin's kids. But it seems their house is haunted - and her ex-husband shows up on the doorstep, making her wonder if maybe this time things could be different between them.) Dane, Lauren Heart of Darkness $7.99 (Bound by Magick #1: PBO; Someone is illegally siphoning magic from the font of the Clan. When Meriel Owen, next in line to control the largest organization of witches in the country, discovers that it's the hot owner of a notorious underground club, she strikes an unusual deal that may plunge them all into the heart of darkness.) David, Peter Blood Ties $9.99 (Fable: PBO; There is a darkness about to be unleashed against the defenders of Blackholm that no mortal can withstand. And it holds a secret that is bound to Ben Finn's very blood.) de Bodard, Aliette Master of the House of Darts $7.99 (Obsidian & Blood #3: Year Three Rabbit: The coronation war for the new Aztec Emperor has just ended in a failure, the armies retreating with a mere forty prisoners of war - not nearly enough sacrifices to ensure the favor of the gods. When one of those prisoners of war dies of a magical illness, Acatl, High Priest for the Dead, is summoned to investigate.) Dietz, William C. A Fighting Chance $24.95 (Legion of the Damned #9: Earth has fallen, and the men, women, and cyborgs of the Confederacy must dig deep within their warrior hearts to make one final stand against the alien aggressors.) Drake, David Birds of Prey $7.99 (Reissue; Rome, AD 262: The Empire is in crisis. Barbarian hordes have broken across the borders, and fear reigns in the Eternal City. A mysterious force draws many into dark rites of blood and death. Another brings strange technology and warns of peril to ages yet to come. One man can hold the dark at bay, now and in mankind's distant future: shrewd, cynical Imperial Agent Aulus Perennius must choose his ground and fight an inhuman enemy with alien weapons.) Evans, Erin M. Brimstone Angels $7.99 (Forgotten Realms: PBO; In the ruins of Neverwinter, a succubus playing human pawns against an otherworldly foe sees twin tieflings Havilar and Farideh as obstacles in her path. And the devil Lorcan's monstrous sisters have their eyes on the city - and on Farideh. It will take every ounce of Farideh's newfound powers to get the twins out of Neverwinter alive.) Flanagan, John The Outcasts $18.99 (Brotherband #1: Kids; Skandians are known for their size and strength. Not Hal, Stig, and their friends. But that doesn't mean they don't have skills, or courage. And they'll need both to do battle at sea against the Wolves and the Sharks in the ultimate race.) Flint, Eric Worlds $7.99 (Collection; 10 stories ranging across Flint's various universes.) Ford, Richard Kultus $7.99 (Pressed into retrieving a mysterious key for his clandestine benefactors, demonist thug-for-hire Thaddeus Blaklok finds himself pursued by cultists, gangsters, mercenaries, and hell-spawned monsters across the length and breadth of the steam-powered city of Manufactory.) Galenorn, Yasmine Courting Darkness $7.99 (Otherworld #10: PBO; Her dragon father-in-law doesn't want her in the family. Captured and swept off to the Dragon Reaches, Camile D'Artigo must find a way to escape.) Greenberg/Davis (ed) Courts of the Fey $7.99 (PBO; Anthology; original tales of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts) Griffin, Kate The Neon Court, or, The Betrayal of Matthew Swift $7.99 (Matthew Swift #3: Matthew Swift has been summoned abruptly to the dead body of his friend Oda. Except she is still walking and talking, with a nasty habit of saying 'we' instead of 'I'. Strange things stalk the night: a rumored 'chosen one', a monster that burns out the eyes of its enemies, and a walking dead woman. Swift must stop a war between the Neon Court and The Tribe, protect his city, and save his friend - if she'll stop trying to kill him long enough for him to try.) Harper, Steven The Doomsday Vault $7.99 (Clockwork Empire #1: PBO; Alice's unladylike interest in automatons has made her an undesirable marriage prospect. Then a devastating plague leads her to a clandestine organization, mad inventors, life-altering secrets - and the arms of an intrepid airship pilot.) Harrison, Kim The Hollows Insider $25.99 (Rachel Morgan: Nonfiction; the definitive behind the scenes guide to the urban fantasy series, including new fiction.) Heitz, Markus The Revenge of the Dwarves $15.99 (Dwarves #3: Monstrous creatures, half orc and half alfar, are roaming Girdlegard, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake. Tungdil will have to resort to his trusty double ax, and risk everything to save the dwarves from annihilation.) Huff, Tanya The Wild Ways $24.95 (Gale Family #2: Charlotte, a Wild Power, has allied herself with a family of Selkies in a fight against offshore oil drilling. The oil company has hired Auntie Catherine, another Wild Power, to steal the Selkies' sealskins. To defeat her, Charlotte will have to learn what being born to be Wild really means in the Gale family.) Jayne, Hannah Under Attack $7.99 (Underworld Detection Agency #2: PBO; A string of killings and destruction strike San Francisco. The hunt for the cause reveals dangerous secrets about Sophie's past - and a malevolent power with plans to turn one irreverent human into the ultimate supernatural weapon.) Jemisin, N.K. The Kingdom of Gods $13.99 (Inheritance #3: PBO; The Arameri family has ruled the world by enslaving the very gods who created mortalkind. Now the gods are free. Shahar, last scion of the Arameri, must choose her loyalties. She yearns to trust Sieh, the godling she loves. When the Maelstrom is summoned forth, can Shahar and Sieh face it together?) Jerome, Celia Fire Works in the Hamptons $7.99 (Willow Tate #3: PBO; After she foolishly makes the hero of her next book a fire wizard, graphic novelist Willow Tate must contend with a rash of fire flies, a gorgeous firefighter, and an arsonist bent on setting East Hampton ablaze.) Jones, Frewin The Emerald Flame $8.99 (Branwen #3: YA; Branwen has accepted the role that the Shining Ones have bestowed upon her, and now faces a seemingly impossible mission to rescue the spirit of the wind.) Kakalios, James The Amazing Story of Quantum Mechanics $17.00 (The fundamental principles of quantum mechanics - making possible the world of lasers, laptop computers, DVDs, and cell phones we live in - are explained using illustrations and examples from science fiction, pulp magazines, and comic books.) Kemp, Paul S. Riptide $7.99 (Star Wars: PBO; Jedi Knight Jaden Korr pursues a group of clones that are flawed by genetic disease and violent madness. He's hoping to heal them but prepared to destroy them. And Sith agents are hot on his heels, hoping to recover the clones and capture Jaden.) Kent, Steven L. The Clone Redemption $7.99 (Clone #7: PBO; The Unified Authority has spread human colonies across the Milky Way, enforcing strict order with a mostly-clone military. But now the clones have formed their own empire, and they aim to keep it - no matter who they must defeat.) Kenyon, Sherrilyn The Guardian $7.99 (Dark-Hunter #21: PBO; Dream-Hunter Lydia must descend into the Nether Realm and find the missing god of dreams before he betrays the secrets that could kill all of them.) Kessel/Kelly (ed) Kafkaesque $15.95 (Anthology; reprints stories inspired by Franz Kafka) Killough-Walden, H Avenger's Angel $7.99 (Lost Angels #1: PBO; For millennia, Uriel, the former Archangel of vengeance, has been searching for his one true archess. When he finds her, can he protect her from the danger lying in wait for her, and win her heart?) Kyme, Nick Nocturne $8.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Tome of Fire #3: After decades of planning, Nihilan has mustered Dragon Warriors, dark eldar, and Chaos renegades, and launched an assault on the Salamanders on Nocturne.) Lackey, Mercedes Beauty and the Werewolf $24.95 (Five Hundred Kingdoms #6: Breaking curses is never easy. But a determined beauty, a wizard (who's only occasionally a werewolf), and a little godmotherly interference just might be able to bring about a happy ending.) Lee, Sharon/Miller, Steve Mouse & Dragon $7.99 (Liaden: After enduring much, Aelliana Caylon appears to have won all: a spaceship, comrades, friends. Her lover is arguably the most powerful person on Liad, and he's agreed to sit as her co-pilot and her partner in a courier business. But there are a few snags. Her home clan isn't as agreeable to letting her go as it first seemed. Someone is stealing pilots in the Low Port. The man she loves isn't entirely the man she thought he was. And she discovers that the lift from Liad she so fervently desires is part of a larger plan that requires her to be someone she never thought she was, or could be.) Leigh/Kantra/Wilks/etc Tied with a Bow $15.00 (PBO; Anthology; 4 paranormal novellas with a holiday theme.) Maguire, Gregory Out of Oz $26.99 (Wicked Years #4: The Emerald City plans to invade Munchkinland, Glinda is under house arrest, the Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law, and look who's knocking at the door: Dorothy. Amid the chaos, Elphaba's granddaughter Rain comes of age, and will now take up her broom in an Oz racked by war; Signed copies expected) Malory, T/Ackroyd, P The Death of King Arthur $26.95 (In this abridged retelling in modern prose) Martin, G/Dozois, G (ed) Songs of Love and Death: Tales of Star-Crossed Love $8.99 (Anthology; original stories that explore the borders of sf, fantasy, and romance) Martin, Michael A. To Brave the Storm $7.99 (Star Trek: Enterprise: Romulan War #2: PBO; As the Romulans engage in an all-out war against Earth, can the fragile Coalition alliance survive?) McDevitt, Jack Echo $7.99 (Alex Benedict #5: Antiquities dealer Alex Benedict sets out to discover the secrets of a stone tablet inscribed with cryptic symbols. It used to belong to an eccentric obsessed with finding alien life - and might prove that he found what he was looking for.) McDevitt, Jack Firebird $24.95 (Alex Benedict #6: Decades ago, renowned physicist Chris Robin, known for his theories about alternate universes, vanished. Alex and Chase discover that Robin had several interstellar yachts flown far outside the planetary system, where they too vanished. Now they're planning to follow Robin's trail into the unknown.) McNeill, Graham The Outcast Dead $8.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Horus Heresy #17: Astropath Kai Zulane was witness to a terrible secret that threatens to tip the balance of the war. Hunted by Rogal Dorn and his Imperial Fists and cornered on one of Saturn's moons, Kai must decide whether some truths are best left untold.) Meluch, R.M. The Ninth Circle $24.95 (USS Merrimack #5: On the distant world of Zoe, an expedition finds DNA-based life - and alien invaders. And it seems that the Ninth Circle and the Palatine Empire have also found Zoe. Glenn Hamilton calls on the USS Merrimack for help.) Meyer, Stephenie Breaking Dawn $7.99 (Twilight #4: Reissue; YA; Will the frayed strands of Bella's life heal and knit together? Or will they be destroyed - forever?) Meyers, Theresa The Hunter $6.99 (Legend Chronicles #1: Colt Jackson hunts supernaturals on the frontier. To close a rift in the worlds, he'll have to do the unthinkable - work with a demon. But instead of a horned monstrosity, his summoning brings Lilly, a curvy redheaded succubus.) Monk, Devon Magic on the Line $7.99 (Allie Beckstrom #7: PBO; A plague of dark magic is spreading through Portland. As dead magic users rise to feed upon the innocent and the people closest to her begin to fall, Allie is about to run out of options.) Neill, Chloe Drink Deep $15.00 (Chicagoland Vampires #5: PBO; The city is in turmoil over paranormals, and the state is talking about a paranormal registration act. Then magic rears its ugly head when Lake Michigan turns black. Merit will have to turn to friends old and new to find out who's behind it before panic sets in.) Northcutt, Wendy The Countdown to Extinction $14.00 (Darwin Awards #6: All-new stories chronicling human misadventures, including nine no's with power tools, eight ways to incinerate yourself, seven safety warnings you should not ignore, and much more.) Norton, Andre Moonsinger's Quest: Flight to Yiktor / Dare to Go A-Hunting $13.00 (Moonsinger #3 / #4: Omnibus reprint; 2 science fantasy novels) Painter, Kristen Flesh and Blood $7.99 (House of Comarre #2: With the ring of sorrows still missing, and the covenant between othernaturals and mortals broken, Chrysabelle and Malkolm's problems are just beginning. Chrysabelle still owes Malkolm for his help, but fulfilling that debt means returning to Corvinestri, the hidden vampire city neither of them is welcome in.) Pearson/Hattikudur Mental Floss: The Greatest Lists in the History of Listory $17.99 (A trivia-packed collection of funny, surprising, and informative lists.) Pierce, Tamora Mastiff $18.99 (Beka Cooper #3: Kids; Beka and her friends face their most important challenge ever when the young heir to the kingdom vanishes. They are sent out of Corus on a trail that appears and disappears, following a twisting road throughout Tortall. It will be her greatest Hunt - if she can survive the very powerful people who do not want her to succeed.) Reichert, Mickey Zucker I, Robot: To Protect $24.95 (2035: Susan Calvin is a resident at a Manhattan teaching hospital where select patients are being injected with nanobots that can unlock and map the human mind. She begins to notice an ominous chain of events surrounding the patients. Her superiors ignore her warning, wanting to keep the project far from scrutiny. But what no one knows is that the technology they have given life is now under the control of those who seek to spread death.) Ringo, John Citadel $7.99 (Troy Rising #2: Using the Solar Array Pumped Laser and the Troy battlestation, Earth has managed to recapture the Sol system from the Horvath invaders. But as Earth begins to enter the galactic milieu, the Rangora Empire crushes humanity's only ally, and it becomes clear that the war is just beginning.) Sass/Pearson/Hattikudur The Mental Floss History of the United States $15.99 (An accurate and humorous exploration of little-known truths and widely believed falsehoods, delivered in trademark smart- aleck style.) Shepherd, Mike Daring $7.99 (Kris Longknife #9: PBO; Leading a reconnaissance mission in uncharted space, Kris finds a hostile alien starship. Now she must figure out the extent of the alien threat - and whether to start an interstellar war.) Singh, Nalini Kiss of Snow $7.99 (Psy-Changeling #10: PBO; A deadly enemy is striking at everything the SnowDancer wolf pack holds dear - but Sienna's darkest secret may savage the pack that is her home, and alpha Hawke.) Suits, J. Ross The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions $15.95 (Nonfiction; a look at the curious early 20th-century world of the Demoulin Brothers catalog and their fraternal lodge prank machines - from laughing skeletons and revolving goats to electric-shock carpets and smoking camels.) Traviss, Karen Glasslands $15.99 (Halo: Novel based on the game. With the Human-Covenant war over, the UNSC must now lay claim to the universe. But new dangers, both alien and human, threaten. A group of old soldiers must penetrate what was once the heart of the Covenant empire in a desperate attempt to stop old foes from rising again.) Turtledove, Harry Atlantis and Other Places $7.99 (Collection; reprints 12 stories of ancient eras, historical figures, mysterious events, and out of this world adventures.) Van Allsburg, Chris (ed) The Chronicles of Harris Burdick $24.99 (Kids; Anthology; original stories, ranging from fantasy and sf to mystery and horror, inspired by Van Allsburg's illustrations in The Mysteries of Harris Burdick.) Viehl, Lynn Nightshine $7.99 (Kyndred #3: PBO; GenHance is after psychic Samuel Taske and the woman he's fallen for, paramedic Charlotte Marena. When Samuel's Takyn powers desert him, Charlie's secret telepathic ability is their only hope for survival.) Ward, J.R. Lover Unleashed $7.99 (Black Dagger Brotherhood #9: Badly injured while freeing herself from the Scribe Mother, vampire warrior Payne falls for the human surgeon who is drafted to save her.) Warren, Christine Not Your Ordinary Faerie Tale $7.99 (Others #12: PBO; When her editor asks her to investigate 'leprechaun' sightings, Corinne finds herself on the trail of the hottest story of the year - and Luc, sexy captain of the Fae Queen's guard.) Werner, C.L. The Red Duke $8.99 (Warhammer: A new reign of terror and death comes to the lands of Bretonnia when a vampiric witch resurrects the Red Duke, a bloodthirsty vampire lord.) Whates, Ian (ed) Solaris Rising $7.99 (Anthology; original sf stories by some of the field's top writers) White, Steve Wolf Among the Stars $25.00 (After flinging off the Lokaran invaders, Earth is flung into galactic intrigue and war as a cabal of ancient enemies hope to use Earth as a proxy to destroy the teetering Lokaran empire and rule over a new Galactic dark age.) Wilks, Eileen Death Magic $7.99 (World of the Lupi #8: PBO; Recovering from an attempt on his life by an FBI traitor, Lily Yu's boss forms a ghost unit that will operate in secret - and outside the law. Lily's conscience won't let her join, but her fiance Rule has no such reservations. But when a senator is killed, Lily's decision becomes a matter of life and death.) Williams, Sandy The Shadow Reader $7.99 (PBO; For years human McKenzie Lewis has been working for the fae King, tracking rebels who would claim the Realm. But when she's captured by the fierce rebel leader, she learns things are not as she thought. She must decide who to trust and where she stands in the civil war.) Williams, Tad Shadowrise $8.99 (Shadowmarch #3: Barrick and Briony must find a way to reclaim their kingdom and rescue their home from traitors, tyrants, a god-king, and even the angry gods themselves.) Williams, Tad Shadowheart $16.00 (Shadowmarch #4: Something powerful and terrible, that hasn't been seen for thousands of years, is awakening under Southmarch Castle. Can Barrick and Briony and their allies prevent the rise of a terrible new age of unending darkness?) Willis, Connie All Clear $16.00 (Hugo and Nebula Award winner. Sequel to Blackout. Small discrepancies in the historical record seem to indicate that one or all of the time travelers have somehow affected the past, changing the outcome of the war. The belief that the past can be observed but never altered, a core belief of time-travel theory, suddenly seems to be horribly, tragically wrong. Meanwhile, in 2060 Oxford, Mr. Dunworthy and 17-year-old Colin Templer are engaged in a seemingly impossible struggle of their own - to find three missing needles in the haystack of history.)

Mid November

Archer, Alex Cradle of Solitude $6.99 (Rogue Angel #33: PBO; A Confederate soldier's skeleton turns up in a Paris catacomb, putting archaeologist Annja Creed on the trail of a 150-year-old mystery that may lead to a long-lost treasure.) Axler, James Lost Gates $6.99 (Deathlands #101: PBO; Baron Crabbe believes rumors of a weapons stockpile, and wants his prisoners, Ryan Cawdor and his band, to use the redoubt's matter- transfer units to secure the cache.) Axler, James Infestation Cubed $6.99 (Outlanders #59: PBO; Ullikummis uses Brigid Baptiste to lure Kane and Grant into the Louisiana swamps, where the alliance scrambles to regroup before humankind loses its last hope.) Buchanan, Col Stands a Shadow $24.99 (Heart of the World #2: Driven by grief and anger, aging master assassin Ash renounces the order of the Roshun, and disguises himself as a soldier, determined to go to any lengths to have his revenge on the Matriarch.) Carey, Jacqueline Saints Astray $14.99 (Loup Garron #2: PBO; Miguel Garza has escaped from Outpost 12, and is testifying on behalf of its forgotten citizens - until he disappears from protective custody. Loup and Pilar plan a daring and absurd caper to extricate Miguel from the mess he's created.) Dick, Philip K. The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick $40.00 (Based on thousands of pages of typed and handwritten notes, journal entries, letters, and story sketches, this is the magnificent and imaginative final work of an author who dedicated his life to questioning the nature of reality and perception, the malleability of space and time, and the relationship between the human and the divine. In this abridgment, Pamela Jackson and Jonathan Lethem serve as guides, taking the reader through the Exegesis and establishing connections with moments in Dick's life and work.) Karpyshyn, Drew Revan $27.00 (Star Wars: The Old Republic #3: Novel based on the online game.) King, Stephen 11/22/63 $35.00 (On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Al reveals that the storeroom of his diner is a portal to 1958, and enlists his friend Jack on a mission to try to prevent the Kennedy assassination.) Knaak, Richard A. Legends of the Dragonrealm Volume 3: The Crystal Dragon / The Dragon Crown $18.99 (Omnibus; 2 fantasy novels plus short fiction) Lake, Jay Endurance $26.99 (Green Universe #2: Godslayers have come to the Stone Coast, a cult dedicated to destroying the many gods of Green's world. Green is back in Copper Downs, and the gods turn to her to protect them from the Slayers.) Miyabe, Miyuki The Book of Heroes $14.99 (When her brother disappears, a magical book leads Yuriko to another world, where she learns he has been possessed by a spirit. Accompanied by a young monk, she returns to Earth to solve the mystery and save him.) Modesitt Jr., L.E. Scholar $27.99 (Imager #4: Begins a new story arc set hundreds of years earlier. Quaeryt is a scholar, concealing the fact that he's an imager. To escape the intrigues of the capital city, he convinces his ruler to send him on a reconnaissance mission. On the journey, he must face pirates, storms, poisonings, and attempted murder, as well as discovering that he is not quite who he thought he was.) Neumeier, Rachel The Griffin Mage: Lord of the Changing Winds / The Land of Burning Sands / Law of the Broken Earth $15.99 (Griffin Mage #1 / #2 / #3: Omnibus reprint of 3 fantasy novels) Sanderson, Brandon The Alloy of Law $24.99 (Mistborn #4: 300 years have passed, and Scadrial now has railroads and electricity, but Allomancy and Feruchemy continue to play a role. Wax Ladrian is a rare Twinborn who can use both. After 20 years in the Roughs, he is summoned back to Elendel, where he's about to learn that the mansions and streets of the city can be even more dangerous than the dusty plains of the Roughs.) Shirley, John The Fallen $16.00 (Borderlands: Novel based on the game.) Yolen, Jane Snow in Summer $16.99 (Kids; When her baby brother and her mother die, Summer's happy life in the mountains of West Virginia turns grim, and things get even worse when her father's new wife arrives with poisons and magical mirrors. Is Stepmama up to no good? And can Summer do anything to stop her?) RECENTLY RECEIVED AND FORTHCOMING MYSTERY Already Received

Mystery Scene #119 $7.50 (Articles about Karin Slaughter, Jeff Abbott, Mary Stewart; Lawrence Block remembers Mickey Spillane; sequels, prequels, and pastiches; more.) Adams, Jeanne Deadly Little Secrets $6.99 (PBO; Security expert Gates Bromley's number one priority is protecting art collector Dav Gianikopolis, but he finds himself distracted when he joins forces with CIA Agent Ana Burton. Which could be deadly when word gets out that she's reopened a case involving stolen art and five brutal murders.) Alden, Jami Beg for Mercy $7.99 (When Megan Flynn insinuates herself into the most shocking murder case Seattle detective Cole Williams has ever worked, Cole will do whatever it takes to bring down a madman who has made Megan his most coveted prey.) Alexander/Bruning How to Break a Terrorist $14.99 (Nonfiction; the first inside look at the US military's success in using brains instead of brutality to get the information needed to take down Abu Musab al Zarqawi.) Anderson, Lin The Reborn $12.95 (Rhona MacLeod #7: When the body of a pregnant teenager is found with the full-term fetus surgically removed, forensic scientist Rhona MacLeod is called in to assist the police. The investigation leads to a group of pregnant teenage girls; then a second girl from the group is found dead. ) Arjouni, Jakob Kismet $15.00 (Kemal Kayankaya #1: Reissue; Getting work isn't easy when you're a Turkish immigrant raised in Germany. So Kayankaya takes the job when his friend Romario asks for help with thugs demanding protection money. Turns out the thugs are Croatian nationalists looking to take over the Frankfurt rackets - and they don't take kindly to interference.) Arjouni, Jakob Happy Birthday, Turk! $14.95 (Kemal Kayankaya #2: Reissue; When a Turkish laborer is stabbed to death in Frankfurt's red light district, the local police see no need to work overtime. The laborer's wife turns to Turkish PI Kayankaya for help.) Arjouni, Jakob More Beer (alternate title: And Drink Still More!) $14.95 (Kemal Kayankaya #3: Reissue; Hired to defend four eco-terrorists charged with murdering a chemical plant owner, wise- cracking Turkish PI Kayankaya finds himself stuck in the middle of Germany's culture wars.) Arjouni, Jakob One Man, One Murder (alternate title: One Death to Die) $14.95 (Kemal Kayankaya #4: Reissue; To rescue a kidnapped prostitute, Turkish PI Kayankaya must face some of Germany's most depraved and dangerous criminals. Fortunately, some of them are his friends.) Aykol, Esmahan Hotel Bosphorus $14.95 (When the director of a film starring her old school friend Petra is found murdered in his Istanbul hotel room, mystery bookstore owner Kati Hirschel starts her own maverick investigation.) Banks, Ray Beast of Burden $25.00 (Cal Innes #4: Barely able to speak after a drug-related stroke, PI Cal Innes' life gets even worse: Manchester gangster Morris Tiernan's no-good son is missing, and Cal is the only one Morris trusts to conduct the search.) Bannister, Jo Death in High Places $25.99 (Two friends set out to climb treacherous Anarchy Ridge, but only one makes it down alive. Unjustly blamed for the death by his friend's grieving father, the survivor must run for his life.) Barclay, Linwood The Accident $25.00 (When his wife dies in a drunk-driving accident she caused, Glen Carver is left with a daughter to raise and a lot of questions. Because his wife wasn't a drinker, and she wasn't supposed to be on the road when she died.) Barrington, James Overkill $9.99 (Paul Richter #1: Reissue; The Cold War is over, but Russia's nukes are still in place. And when an emissary from a terrorist group makes a disaffected Russian minister an offer he can't refuse, maverick agent Paul Richter finds himself up against a mastermind determined to bomb America back into the Stone Age.) Barrington, James Pandemic $9.99 (Paul Richter #2: Reissue; The search for the source of a deadly bioweapon leads maverick British agent Paul Richter to a decades-old secret that the CIA is working hard to keep covered up.) Barrington, James Foxbat $9.99 (Paul Richter #3: Western intelligence agencies suspect that Algeria might be planning an attack on Libya or Morocco, and that they might be keeping new aircraft or weapon systems in a guarded hangar. Maverick British agent Paul Richter is assigned to get a look inside the building.) Beil, Michael The Ring of Rocamadour $6.99 (Red Blazer Girls #1: Kids; Three schoolgirls decide to help out a weird lady, and find themselves on a scavenger hunt set up for a girl they never met. 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The Wycliffe Novels: Wycliffe and the Three-Toed Pussy / Wycliffe and How to Kill a Cat / Wycliffe and the Guilt Edged Alibi / Wycliffe and Death in a Salubrious Place / Wycliffe and Death in Stanley Street $24.95 (Omnibus reprint; first 5 novels in the British police procedural series, originally published 1968-1974) Campbell, Karen The Twilight Time $12.95 (Anna Cameron #1: Someone is carving up the faces of Glasgow prostitutes, an old man has been brutally killed, and racist violence is on the rise. New sergeant Anna Cameron must deal with all this, as well as tensions and back-stabbing within her own team.) Campbell, Karen After the Fire $12.95 (Anna Cameron #2: Newly qualified as a firearms officer, Jamie Worth shoots and kills a teenage girl who appears to have been unarmed. Guilt-stricken and horrified, he finds himself accused of murder. Can his wife Cath and his cop ex-lover Anna Cameron come to terms with what has happened?) Carr, John Dickson Hag's Nook $14.95 (Dr. Gideon Fell #01: Reissue; A classic 1930s locked room/impossible crime mystery) Carr, Molly The Sign of Fear $19.95 (Watson-Fanshaw Agency #1: Bored with being at home while her husband is away helping Sherlock Holmes catch criminals, Mary Watson decides to have a go at detective work herself, ably assisted by her friend Emily Fanshaw.) Carr, Molly A Study in Crimson $19.95 (Watson-Fanshaw Agency #2: Mary and Emily tackle more cases, including the Long Island Cave mystery, solving the murder of an English woman found dead in Baden-Baden, and finding a Holy Grail for a Scottish laird.) Carter, Ally Heist Society $8.99 (Kids; When Kat turned fifteen, she scammed her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business - grand theft - behind. Then a mobster's art collection is stolen, and Kat's father is the only suspect. Caught between Interpol and the angry mobster, Kat's dad needs her help. Kat sees only one solution: track down the paintings, put together a teenage crew, and steal them back.) Cheshire, Simon The Curse of the Ancient Mask and Other Case Files $6.99 (Saxby Smart #1: Kids; Saxby Smart is no ordinary ten-year-old. He's the world's best detective who also happens to be in elementary school. With the help of his Thinking Chair and his two best friends, Saxby solves three of his most puzzling cases. The reader solves the mystery alongside him, getting peeks at pages of his casebook as the crimes unfold, and searching for clues.) Christie, Agatha The Pale Horse $12.99 (Reissue; When a priest is murdered, the killer searches the victim so roughly that his cassock is torn in the process. What was the killer looking for? And what had a dying woman confided to the priest only hours earlier? Mark Easterbrook and Ginger Corrigan are determined to find out. 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Now it's up to Dewey to stop him before he launches another assault on the US economic infrastructure.) Coles, Manning Among Those Absent $14.95 (Tommy Hambledon #09: Reissue; With the Nazis beaten and the Russians not yet up to much, British agent Tommy Hambledon agrees to do a bit of undercover work for the police by posing as an inmate to investigate a recent rash of prison escapes.) Cooper, Susan Rogers Full Circle $15.95 (E.J. Pugh #9: Someone is stalking romance novelist E.J. Pugh's 14-year- old adopted daughter Bessie. When she was a child, Bessie's entire family was murdered, so who is this person claiming to be her brother Aldon? And who seems to be willing to take out her entire new family to get to her?) Cornier, Vincent The Duel of Shadows: The Extraordinary Cases of Barnabas Hildreth $18.00 (Collection; Lost Classics #31. 11 Golden Age stories featuring an agent of the British Secret Service who solves some of the most bizarre cases ever to confront a sleuth.) Corris, Peter Torn Apart $12.95 (Cliff Hardy: When Hardy meets his second cousin Patrick Malloy, he's astonished - Malloy is his double. They become friends, and travel to attend a gathering of the Irish Travellers, the gypsy-like folk from whom they are descended. On their return, Malloy is brutally murdered - but perhaps the shotgun blast was intended for Hardy.) Crispin, Edmund The Moving Toyshop $14.95 (Gervase Fen #3: Reissue; Finding an Oxford toyshop unlocked, Richard Cadogan slips into the darkened store to inform the owner; instead he finds an old lady - murdered. But when Cadogan returns with the cops, the toyshop has disappeared. This, it seems, is a matter for Gervase Fen.) Crosby, Ellen The Sauvignon Secret $24.00 (Wine Country #6: Virginia vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery heads to the Napa Valley, where she teams up with winemaker and former flame Quinn Santori to solve two mysterious deaths.) Daheim, Mary All the Pretty Hearses $23.99 (Bed & Breakfast #26: Judith is trying to come up with a dinner menu that will suit a family of guests with endless allergies and aversions. The last thing she needs is another B&B guest who checks out - permanently. Or for her husband Joe to be arrested for murder when an insurance fraud suspect is killed with Joe's gun; Signed bookplate included) Dams, Jeanne M. Murder in Burnt Orange $15.95 (Hilda Johansson #7: PBO; In the summer of 1905, strikes, arson, and train wrecks threaten the fabric of civilized society in South Bend, Indiana. Swedish immigrant Hilda Johanssson recognizes a pattern to the disturbing events. No one thinks she'll actually be able to solve matters - but they reckon without Hilda's quick mind and stubborn determination to see the job through.) Davis, Lindsey The Iron Hand of Mars $15.99 (Falco #04: Reissue; Emperor Vespasian sends Marcus Didius Falco to Germania when Germanic troops in the service of the Empire begin to rebel, and a Roman general disappears.) Davis, Pierre Origin Unknown $7.99 (Lt. Elliot #2: PBO; With the assistance of neuroscientist Dr. Lydia South, Lt. Elliot pursues a brilliant but deranged sociopath with a destructive agenda and a knack for remaining anonymous.) Draper, Sharon M. The Buried Bones Mystery (original title: Ziggy and the Black Dinosaurs) $4.99 (Clubhouse Mysteries #1: Reissue; Kids; Ziggy, Rashawn, Jerome, and Rico decide to start a club with secret codes, meetings, and treasures. They build a clubhouse in Ziggy's backyard, but when they dig a hole to bury their treasures, they uncover a box of bones, and are swept up in a mystery.) Draper, Sharon M. Lost in the Tunnel of Time $4.99 (Clubhouse Mysteries #2: Reissue; Kids; Ziggy and his friends discover that their hometown was a stop on the Underground Railroad. An old map shows a secret passage under their school, but when they go to explore, they wind up trapped in the tunnel. Where will it lead them?) Dunn, Matthew Spycatcher $25.99 (Intelligence agent Will Cochrane - working on a joint mission for the CIA and MI6 - is out to capture a brilliant and ruthless Iranian spy.) Edwards, Martin (ed) Original Sins: A Crime Writers' Association Anthology $15.95 (18 original stories) Elias, Gerald Danse Macabre $14.99 (Daniel Jacobus #2: When a beloved violinist is murdered with a mysterious weapon, his young rival is spotted at the scene with blood on his hands. Reclusive blind violinist Daniel Jacobus follows the trail of broken violins and broken lives that lead to the truth.) Elias, Gerald Death and the Maiden $25.99 (Daniel Jacobus #3: As a famed but troubled string quartet prepares for a performance at Carnegie Hall, the musicians mysteriously vanish one by one. It's up to Jacobus, his old friend Nathaniel Williams, and Trotsky the bulldog to unravel the puzzle.) Ernst, Kathleen The Heirloom Murders $14.95 (Chloe Ellefson #2: PBO; Chloe investigates when an Old World Wisconsin museum volunteer is killed with a scythe. Is the killing related to the missing Eagle diamond? Or is a rich agribusiness executive responsible?) Estleman, Loren D. Valentino: Film Detective $17.00 (PBO; Collection; 14 stories featuring a film detective who locates lost movies for preservation - and often has to do some sleuthing as well.) Falconer, Duncan Pirate $15.95 (Stratton #7: PBO; SBS operative John Stratton discovers the dark truth behind a rash of pirate hijackings in the Gulf of Aden: a plot to bring down dozens of US and European commercial aircraft in a coordinated attack.) Finch, Charles A Stranger in Mayfair $14.99 (Charles Lenox #4: Victorian gentleman detective Charles Lenox tries to focus on his new career in Parliament, but is pulled back into his old life by a footman's murder.) Finnis, Jane Buried Too Deep $14.95 (Aurelia Marcella #3: AD 98: When a badly wounded farmer arrives at her inn on the York road, then dies, Aurelia and her twin brother Lucius head for the coast to return the man to his family. A band of sea-raiders led by a Gaul are suspected of stealing the valuable cargo from a shipwreck there, and of killing the farmer.) Gerst, Angela A Crack in Everything $14.95 (Susan Callisto #1: PBO; When political novice Charles Renfrow begs Susan to help him run for Mayor, she decides to investigate rumors about him. Instead of truth, she find the corpse of his beautiful assistant.) Giuttari, Michele A Florentine Death $12.95 (Michele Ferrara #1: Called in to investigate a series of brutal and apparently random murders, Chief Superintendent Michele Ferrara confronts the murky underbelly of Florence in an investigation that will put his career - and his life - on the line.) Grabenstein, Chris The Smoky Corridor $6.99 (Haunted #3: Kids; With the help of his stepmother, his dog Zipper, and his new friend Malik, Zack Jennings faces ghosts and zombies at his new middle school, which is said to house a lost Confederate treasure.) Grant, Helen The Glass Demon $15.00 (Teenager Lin Fox arrives in Germany with her father, who is searching for a medieval (or possibly mythical) stained glass artifact. 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Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia Body Line $15.95 (Bill Slider #13: Slider investigates the murder of a wealthy consulting doctor, and discovers that, although the man had plenty of girlfriends, none of them know anything about where he worked or exactly what he did.) Harvey, Michael We All Fall Down $24.95 (Michael Kelly #4: Chicago cop turned PI Michael Kelly races to save his city from a deadly new foe: a biological weapon unleashed in a subway tunnel.) Hayes, J.M. English Lessons $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (Mad Dog & Englishman #6: PBO; An incident involving a Christmas display leads to a rumor that Sheriff English is seizing citizen's weapons. A local militia turns out, locked and loaded, and ready to do what it takes to stop him. Meanwhile, in Arizona, Sewa Tribal Police Officer Heather English stumbles on the newly elected governor, newly murdered.) Henson, D.B. Deed to Death $14.00 (When her architect fiance plummets to his death at a construction site and the police rule it a suicide, realtor Toni Matthews decides to investigate on her own.) Heyer, G/Hodge, JA The Private World of Georgette Heyer $14.99 (Reissue; Nonfiction; biography tracking Heyer's career from teenage writer to household name, opening a window into her world and that of her most memorable characters.) Heywood, Joseph Death Roe $15.95 (Woods Cop #6: The search for the source of tainted caviar leads Grady Service to a ring of corruption in Michigan's government - and perhaps within his own beloved DNR) Heywood, Joseph Force of Blood $24.95 (Woods Cop #8: DNR detective Grady Service and his new partner, Conservation Officer Donna Sedge, become immersed in a centuries-old mystery they must solve in order to deal with a current problem: looting and destruction of a Native American archaeological site near Lake Superior.) Hill, Reginald Under World $14.95 (Dalziel & Pascoe #10: Reissue; The town of Burrthorpe is mistrustful of strangers - and cops. The return of Colin Farr, whose dead father was once implicated in a child murder case, seems to dig up all the old troubles and bring on some new ones. Farr quickly becomes a suspect himself in the murder of his nemesis, bringing Andy Dalziel to help Peter Pascoe out of the dark tunnels of the case.) Howard, Linda Veil of Night $7.99 (When a bridezilla is gruesomely murdered, there's too much evidence, and a lot of suspects. Top of the list is wedding planner Jaclyn Wilde, which is a problem for Eric Wilder, the detective in charge of the case - and Jaclyn's ex-lover.) Hunter, Stephen Hot Springs $9.99 (Earl Swagger #1: Reissue; 1946: Hot Springs, Arkansas, is the reigning capital of corruption. When the district attorney vows to bring down the mob, Earl is recruited to run the show. As casino raids erupt into nerve-shattering combat amid screaming prostitutes and fleeing johns, the body count mounts - along with the suspense.) Hunter, Stephen Havana $9.99 (Earl Swagger #3: Reissue; Cuba, 1953: The Mafia-run casinos are rolling, and it's just a 30-minute flight from Miami to a world of vice, gambling, sex, and drugs. The money is there for anyone who knows how to get it, including the Cuban government and the police, who want to keep their ally Uncle Sam happy. There's only one threat to this corrupt utopia: a young revolutionary named Fidel Castro. The CIA sends Earl to find Castro and kill him.) Iliffe, Glyn King of Ithaca $12.95 (Odysseus #1: Odysseus, Prince of Ithaca, travels to Sparta, armed with nothing but his wits, entering a treacherous world of warfare and politics as he competes for the greatest prize in Greece.) Jaffarian, Sue Ann Baited Blood $14.95 (Madison Rose #2: PBO; A series of murdered vampires, found in Doug Dedham's swimming pool, bear the distinctive mark of vampire Ann Hayes. Is she innocent as she claims, or is she planning to reclaim Dedham, whom she once loved?) James, Darrell Nazareth Child $14.95 (Del Shannon #1: PBO; Recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the Appalachian compound of a secretive religious sect, Del has a second agenda: hunt for information about her mother's past.) Jecks, Michael King's Gold $19.95 (Knights Templar #30: PBO; 1326: London is in flames, and Queen Isabella and her lover Sir Roger Mortimer are ascendant. Guarding the deposed King Edward II for Mortimer, Sir Baldwin and Simon find themselves tangled in a net of conspiracy, greed, betrayal, and murder.) Jenkins, Rebecca The Duke's Agent $12.95 (Raif Jarrett #1: Reissue; Regency England: Raif Jarrett, agent for the Duke of Penrith, is sent to the town of Woolbridge after the sudden death of one of the Duke's tenants. He begins to uncover a network of crime and corruption, but is thwarted at every turn by the town's powerful magistrate. Then a young woman dies, and Jarrett is accused of her murder.) Jennings, Maureen Season of Darkness $22.95 (PBO; 1940: Young women from all walks of life have joined the Land Army, to help English farmers keep the country fed. When one of these young women is found murdered on a Shropshire country road, DI Tom Tyler investigates.) Kelly, Gerard The Outstanding Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes $19.95 (Collection of 13 original stories.) Kilmer, Nicholas A Paradise for Fools $14.95 (Fred Taylor #8: PBO; A glimpse of a tattoo puts Fred on the trail of a painting that may prove to be both rare and valuable. He must proceed with caution when a potential informant is killed in a suspicious hit-and-run.) Kurkov, Andrey Death and the Penguin $14.95 (Penguin #1: Reissue; Viktor is out of work, and his only friend is Misha, a penguin that he rescued when the Kiev zoo started getting rid of animals. A local mobster has taken a shine to Misha. Viktor lands a job at the newspaper writing 'living obituaries' of local dignitaries, articles to be used when the time comes. The only thing is, it seems the time always comes as soon as Viktor writes the article. Slowly understanding that his own life may be in jeopardy, Viktor also realizes that his penguin might be the only thing keeping him alive.) Lavender, Will Dominance $25.00 (Prize student Alex Shipley uncovers information that acquits her mentor, literature professor Richard Aldiss, of two bizarre murders. Fifteen years later, the killings start again. Can Alex end the game once and for all?) Lee, Y.S. The Body at the Tower $7.99 (Agency #2: YA; Mary Quinn, now a trusted member of the all- female detective unit, is disguised as a poor boy and sent into the underbelly of Victorian London to insinuate herself into the confidence of several persons of interest.) Lehane, Dennis Mystic River $9.99 (Reissue; Sean, Jimmy, and Dave were boyhood friends. Then a strange car pulled up to their street. One boy got into the car, two did not, and something terrible happened that ended their friendship and changed all three boys forever. 25 years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. Dave is trying to keep his demons at bay - demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy's daughter is murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who is inclined to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood.) Lennon, David The Quarter Boys $17.95 (Doucette & Jones #1: When a tourist is discovered murdered in a guest house in New Orleans' French Quarter, homicide detective Michel Doucette and his partner Sassy Jones catch the case.) Lennon, David Echoes $18.95 (Doucette & Jones #2: Winner of the Lambda Award for Gay Mystery. 25 years ago, when three young girls went missing, rookie cop Sassy Jones was assigned to profile the abductor. Now her ex Carl has committed suicide, leaving behind photos linking him to the abductions. With Sassy on suspension, her former partner Michel Doucette is assigned to investigate Carl's possible connection to a string of similar cases.) Levien, David 13 Million Dollar Pop $24.95 (Frank Behr #3: Frank Behr is on an executive protection detail for a businessman with political aspirations. After a failed murder attempt on the client, Behr investigates - and wonders why the Indianapolis cops seem to be burying the incident.) 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At the Edge of Honor $12.95 (Peter Wake #1: 1863: Peter Wake joins the US Navy as a volunteer officer, and is assigned to the East Gulf Blockading Squadron, to command a tiny armed sloop used to seek and arrest Confederate blockade-runners. He has handled boats before, but he's new to the politics and illicit liaisons of the war. ) Macomber, Robert N. Point of Honor $12.95 (Peter Wake #2: 1864: In command of a naval schooner, Wake searches for Army deserters in the Dry Tortugas, encounters an old nemesis during a standoff with the French along the Mexican coast, and confronts incompetent Federal Army officers during an invasion of upper Florida.) Macomber, Robert N. Honorable Mention $12.95 (Peter Wake #3: 1864: Now in command of a steamer, Wake chases a strange vessel during a tropical storm off Cuba, confronts death to liberate an escaping slave ship, and encounters the enemy's most powerful oceangoing ship in Havana's harbor.) Malfi, Ronald Floating Staircase $14.95 (PBO; Travis Glasgow's new lakeshore house begins to lose its allure when strange noises awaken him at night, his dreams become plagued by ghosts, and a set of wooden stairs rises mysteriously out of the lake.) Martin, Kat Against the Wind $7.99 (Raines #1: PBO; Sarah Allen, the beautiful girl who humiliated Jackson Raines in high school, is back in town. Recently widowed, she has nowhere else to go and finds herself on Jackson's ranch. And despite everything, Jackson's finding himself reluctant to get rid of her.) Martin, Kat Against the Fire $7.99 (Raines #2: PBO; Someone is setting fires in Gabe Raines' new real estate development. The police suspect a local teen, but Mattie Baker is convinced he's innocent - and is determined to get close enough to Gabe to convince him.) Martin, Kat Against the Law $7.99 (Raines #3: PBO; Dev is mostly retired from Raines Investigations, content to run operations from his Arizona home. But he's never been able to say no to a beautiful woman, so when Lark Delaney comes to him for help, the former Army Ranger gets back in the game.) Martin, Tom Kingdom $9.99 (Journalist Nancy Kelly receives a mysterious parcel, and hears an account of a Westerner penetrating into a hidden kingdom in Tibet. Soon she embarks on a dangerous journey into an ancient land of myth and legend, in search of a secret older than time itself.) Matthews, Jeanne Bet Your Bones $14.95 (Dinah Pelerin #2: PBO; Dinah's best friend plans to get married on the lip of a Hawaiian volcano. But her groom is involved in a land deal that a group of Native Hawaiians are determined to stop, a series of earthquakes are rocking the island - and someone just shoved a member of the wedding into a molten lava flow.) McCaffrey, Vincent Hound $16.00 (Henry Sullivan #1: The murder of an ex-lover pulls book dealer Henry Sullivan out of his familiar circles, leading him to examine his past, and to investigate the murky depths of literary Boston.) McClure, James Snake $14.00 (Kramer & Zondi #4: Reissue; While investigating the death of an exotic dancer, South African cops Lieutenant Kramer and Sergeant Zondi also look into a series of neighborhood robberies where the shop owners were killed, uncovering evidence that the real motive was murder, not robbery.) McConkey, J (Damsgaard) Love Lies Bleeding $14.99 (PBO; Unconscious for two months, Samantha Moore awakens from her coma a different person: bitter, in constant pain, on medications that leave her paranoid and struggling to keep a grip on reality. Sent to a remote town to recuperate, Sam lashes out at the 'nice people' around her who claim to have only her best interests in mind. But strange things are happening here - and either Sam is losing her mind, or her friendly new neighbors are far more dangerous than they appear to be.) McDermid, Val Trick of the Dark $14.95 (Barred from practice, disgraced psychiatrist Charlie Flint receives a summons to Oxford from an old professor who wants her to look into the death of her daughter's husband. As Charlie delves deeper into the case and steps back into the arcane world of Oxford colleges, she realizes that there is much more to this crime than meets the eye.) McGrath, M.J. White Heat $25.95 (Half Inuit and half outsider, Edie Kiglatuk is the best guide in her corner of the Arctic. When a man is shot and killed while out on an 'authentic' Arctic adventure under her watch, Edie sets out to discover what these tourists were really after.) McMullen, Kieran Watson's Afghan Adventure $16.95 (The good doctor explains to Holmes how he chose to become an army doctor, serving with the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers, and how a treasure map brought him to the battle of Maiwand and on to 221B Baker Street.) McPherson, Catriona Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains $23.99 (Dandy Gilver #5: Scotland, 1926: After receiving a letter from a woman who thinks her husband is going to kill her, sleuthing socialite Dandy Gilver goes undercover as a maid in the woman's house to get to the truth.) Mitnick, K/Simon, W Ghost in the Wires $25.99 (Nonfiction; Mitnick recounts his career as a hacker and a fugitive from the FBI.) Morson, Ian Falconer and the Death of Kings $15.95 (Falconer #8: 1273: A cryptic message from an old friend, whose scientific ideas are considered heretical by the Church, takes Falconer to Paris, where he must work to ensure that the scientific theories are not lost forever. And King Edward also has a task for him - one that will test even the Regent Master's formidable powers of deduction.) Morton, Kate The Distant Hours $15.00 (A letter, lost for half a century, leads Edie to Milderhurst Castle, where the eccentric Blythe spinsters live, and where her mother was billeted during WWII. The Blythes have spent most of their lives caring for their younger sister, who hasn't been the same since her fiance jilted her in 1941. Inside the castle, Edie searches for her mother's past, but soon learns there are other secrets hidden in its walls.) Morton, Kate The House at Riverton (original title: The Shifting Fog) $16.00 (In the summer of 1924, at a glittering party held at Riverton House, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were two sisters - and young housemaid Grace. In 1999, a director making a film about the event visits Grace, taking her back to Riverton House, where memories that she had long ago consigned to the dark reaches of her mind begin to sneak back through the cracks.) Mosier, John Hitler vs. Stalin: The Eastern Front, 1941-1945 (HC title: Deathride) $16.00 (Nonfiction; historian Mosier argues that Hitler was defeated on the Eastern Front not by Soviet resources but by Western resources, and that most previous histories accepted Stalin's lies and distortions in claiming a Soviet triumph.) Myers, Amy Murder on the Old Road $15.95 (Marsh & Daughter #7: Georgia and Peter Marsh encounter a group of weirdly dressed pilgrims on the Old Road to Canterbury, who plan to reenact a pilgrimage and theatrical production that took place decades ago - an event ended in a murder that has never been solved.) Nadel, Barbara Sure and Certain Death $12.95 (Francis Hancock #4: 1940: Francis finds a woman's eviscerated body in a derelict house in East London. When two more murders follow, rumors start to spread about a modern-day Jack the Ripper. When a fourth woman is murdered, Francis' sister Nancy admits she knew all of the victims, and Francis sets out to find the killer.) Naslund, Sena Jeter Adam & Eve $15.99 (An ancient codex concerning the human authorship of the Book of Genesis is sure to threaten the foundations of three major world religions, and there are those who will stop at nothing to suppress it.) North, Mark Act of Treason: The Role of J. Edgar Hoover in the Assassination of President Kennedy $16.95 (Reissue; Nonfiction; argues that President Kennedy died as the result of a plot masterminded by Louisiana Mafia chieftain Carlos Marcello, and that FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover knew about the plan but did nothing to stop it.) North, Mark Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the Murder of President Kennedy $24.95 (Nonfiction; argues that President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas because both LBJ and the District Attorney were threatened by a covert investigation of the Dallas Mafia that the Kennedys had initiated.) Oldham, Nick Hidden Witness $15.95 (Henry Christie #15: Detective Superintendent Henry Christie's latest case, the brutal murder of an old man, reunites him with old friend and FBI agent Karl Donaldson, who is tracking a hit man believed to have entered the UK illegally. It's obvious the two cases are connected, and it soon becomes clear there's more to the old man's murder than underworld retribution.) Parshall, Sandra Under the Dog Star $14.95 (Rachel Goddard #4: PBO; Pet dogs are vanishing, a pack of feral canines is attacking livestock, and a physician has been found with his throat torn open, apparently by a trained attack dog. Could these incidents be connected to a resurgence in illegal dogfighting?) Patterson, J/Paetro, M The 8th Confession $9.99 (Women's Murder Club #08: Detective Lindsay Boxer investigates the murders of the city's most glamorous couple, and a preacher who wasn't as saintly as everyone thought.) Pawson, Stuart The Judas Sheep $16.95 (Charlie Priest #03: Reissue; DI Charlie Priest of the East Pennine force is officially on sick leave, until a chauffeur is found dead, shot in the head with a Kalashnikov. Meanwhile, big-time drug smugglers on the Hull to Rotterdam run demand his attention. Then Charlie discovers the connection between the two cases.) Pelecanos, George Shame the Devil $14.99 (DC Quartet #4: Reissue; At May's pizza parlor, two hitmen executed four people, then vanished. Collateral damage: a cop was shot, and a boy was killed. Three years later, PI Nick Stefanos has discovered the killers' identities. And learned that they're coming back to town, where they'll be greeted by at least one loaded gun.) Penny, Louise Bury Your Dead $14.99 (Inspector Gamache #6: Armand Gamache attends Winter Carnival in Quebec City. Although on leave, when an obsessed historian's quest for the remains of Quebec's founder ends in murder, Gamache cannot walk away from a crime that threatens to ignite long-smoldering tensions between the English and the French. Meanwhile, he receives disquieting letters from the village of Three Pines) Perry, Anne Belgrave Square $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #12: Reissue; When a moneylender is murdered, Inspector Pitt discovers the man was blackmailing some very distinguished Victorian gentlemen. Charlotte Pitt's insights into London high society prove invaluable to the investigation.) Perry, Anne Southampton Row $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #22: Reissue; With a divisive election enflaming passions in Victorian London, Pitt must not only solve a crime but prevent a national disaster. The Tory candidate Charles Voisey is Pitt's archenemy. The Liberal candidate is Aubrey Serracold, whose wife's interest in spiritualism threatens his chances - especially when, after a late-night seance at their house, a stylish clairvoyant is found brutally murdered the next morning.) Perry, Anne Slaves of Obsession $15.00 (William Monk #11: Reissue; 1861: At a dinner party at the home of a London arms dealer, tension grows between two American guests, each vying to buy armaments. A member of the party is murdered, and two others disappear, along with the entire inventory of weapons. The Monks track the man they believe to be the murderer all the way to Washington, DC, and to the bloody Civil War battlefield at Manassas.) Perry, Anne The Shifting Tide $15.00 (William Monk #14: Reissue; Although he's unfamiliar with the Thames docks, Victorian PI William Monk agrees to work for shipping magnate Clement Louvain, investigating the theft of a cargo of African ivory. But why didn't Louvain report the theft to the River Police? And is the desperately ill woman Louvain is sheltering connected to the theft?) Perry, Anne Acceptable Loss $26.00 (William Monk #17: When a dead man surfaces in the Thames, a case involving a child pornography ring returns to haunt Monk. He and his good friend Oliver Rathbone set out to unravel the truth.) Phelan, Twist False Fortune $14.95 (Pinnacle Peak #4: First a trip to an abandoned uranium mine with her sister Shelby turns into a daring lake rescue. Then Hannah is appointed lead counsel in Shelby's pollution case on behalf of the local Indian tribe against the Feds, a case that some people will do anything to keep out of the courtroom.) Pittman, Joseph London Frog $14.95 (Todd Gleason #1: Todd Gleason, amateur con artist and all-around charmer, can't stand it that the super-wealthy Procopios just won the lottery. So he does what any self-respecting crook would: schemes to bilk them of their undeserved winnings.) Randisi, Robert I'm a Fool to Kill You $15.95 (Rat Pack #6: When a rumor spreads that Frank Sinatra's ex- wife, Hollywood goddess Ava Gardner, was seen in the Sands Hotel and Casino in a state of distress, sleuth Eddie G. is asked to check it out.) Reece, Gordon Mice $24.95 (Traumatized by her parents' divorce and the bullying inflicted on her in school, Shelley moves with her timid mother to a cottage in the English countryside. All goes well, until an unwelcome guest disturbs their peace - and something inside Shelley snaps.) Revels, Tracy Shadowfall $16.95 (When the sacred relics and mystical objects of London begin disappearing, Sherlock Holmes must call on more than his powers of deduction to solve a mystery that threatens the safety of the British Empire and Dr. Watson's immortal soul.) Reynolds, Tony The Lost Stories of Sherlock Holmes $16.95 (Collection of 8 original stories.) Rhodes, Dan Little Hands Clapping $15.95 (Schmidt lives in a room above the bizarre German museum where he is caretaker. Along with the respectable Doctor Ernst Frolicher, his dog Hans, and a cast of grotesque and hilarious townsfolk, he finds himself involved in a crime so outrageous it will shock the world.) Riches, Anthony Wounds of Honour $8.99 (Empire #1: Marcus Valerius Aquila has barely landed in Brittania when he is condemned to death by the power-crazed emperor Commodus. Marcus flees, taking a new name, to serve on Hadrian's Wall. When a rebel army sweeps down from the north, he must prove he can lead a century in the front line of the brutal war.) Robinson, Cynthia The Dog Park Club $13.99 (Max Bravo #1: When Amy Carter, a regular at the local dog park, goes missing and the police can't find her, wise-cracking gay opera singer Max Bravo and her other friends from the park investigate.) Rotella, Sebastian Triple Crossing $24.99 (A volatile rookie Border Patrol agent is recruited to infiltrate a Mexican crime family.) Russell, Leigh Dead End $13.95 (Geraldine Steel #3: PBO; DI Steel learns that a murder victim's tongue was cut out while she lay dying. Then a witness is blinded and murdered.) Saylor, Steven A Mist of Prophecies $14.99 (Roma Sub Rosa #9: Reissue; 48 BC: As Pompey and Caesar fight for control of the Republic, Rome becomes a hotbed of intrigue. After the seeress Cassandra staggers across the Roman marketplace and dies in his arms, Gordianus the Finder investigates her murder, and discovers a web of conspiracy linking many of Rome's most powerful - and ruthless - women.) Sharp, Deborah Mama Sees Stars $14.95 (Mace Bauer #4: PBO; Mace is working as animal wrangler on the set of a cowboy film being shot in her Florida hometown when she discovers the executive producer dead. With a list of enemies a mile long, who didn't want to kill the man?) Sharp, Margery The Rescuers $14.95 (Reissue; Kids; We all know that mice are the friends of prisoners, tending to their needs in dungeons and oubliettes everywhere. The Prisoner's Aid Society dispatches diplomatic white mouse Miss Bianca and her trusty companion Bernard to rescue a Norwegian poet imprisoned in the dreadful Black Castle.) Sobol, Joshua Cut Throat Dog $15.00 (An enigmatic Israeli who calls himself Shakespeare - because he's got a way with words - spots someone on a sidewalk in Manhattan. Someone he thinks is one of the world's premier terrorists. Someone who murdered his partner. Someone Shakespeare's associates in Tel Aviv told him had been killed in the desert. So is Shakespeare cracking up, or cracking the case of a lifetime?) Solheim, Beth Outwitted $13.99 (Sadie Witt #2: After skeletal remains are discovered under Cabin 12 at the Witt's End Resort in northern Minnesota, Sadie Witt and her sister set out to solve the murder, and end up revealing a secret that ties a prominent community member to a notorious crime operation.) Stevenson, Richard Death Trick $14.99 (Donald Strachey #01: Reissue; Gay activist Billy Blount has been accused of murder, and now he's missing. Albany PI Donald Strachey doesn't think Billy's guilty.) Stevenson, Richard On the Other Hand, Death $14.99 (Donald Strachey #02: Reissue; Their neighbors have all decided to sell to the Millpond Corporation so it can build another blight on the landscape, but Dot and Edith love their home and don't want to sell. When a campaign of intimidation escalates to murder, it's up to Albany PI Donald Strachey to sort it all out.) Stevenson, Richard Ice Blues $19.99 (Donald Strachey #03: Reissue; Someone's left a man's body - the grandson of Albany's most connected political fixer - in PI Donald Strachey's car. A letter from the deceased asks Strachey to dismantle his grandfather's party machine. Like a chess master, Strachey moves ten suitcases, an army of colorful pawns (all of whom think they're king), and $2.5 million across the continent and around Albany.) Stevenson, Richard Third Man Out $14.99 (Donald Strachey #04: Reissue; When a gay activist's claims that men he's outed are stalking him don't ring true, PI Donald Strachey drops his protection detail. When the client winds up dead, Strachey peels back the layers of his client's double cross, only to find a triple cross.) Stevenson, Richard A Shock to the System $14.99 (Donald Strachey #05: Reissue; Finalist for the 8th Annual Lambda Literary Award for Gay Mystery. After hiring PI Donald Strachey, young Paul Haig dies. Despite his dislike of the boy's homophobic mother, who is in denial about her son's sexual orientation, Strachey agrees with her: Paul didn't commit suicide.) Stevenson, Richard Chain of Fools $14.99 (Donald Strachey #06: Reissue; Janet Osborne and her brother Eric were working hard to keep their family newspaper a beacon of liberal advocacy. Now attacks on Janet lend new significance to the earlier murder of her brother Eric, and a screwy plot to save the newspaper turns tragic and even screwier before PI Donald Strachey and a driven reporter can sort it all out.) Stevenson, Richard Strachey's Folly $14.99 (Donald Strachey #07: Reissue; Donald and his lover Timmy visit Washington to view the AIDS Memorial Quilt. A gay Lothario with designs on Strachey and stories about a disgraced conservative congresswoman are catalysts for an investigation into a memorial to a man who isn't quite as dead as he seems.) Stevenson, Richard Tongue Tied $14.99 (Donald Strachey #08: Reissue; PI Donald Strachey investigates when radio shock jock Jay Plankton, known for his hate-filled rants, receives threats that appear to come from a long-defunct gay activist group.) Stevenson, Richard Death Vows $14.99 (Donald Strachey #09: Gay marriage in Massachusetts is a fine institution - except when it leads to murder.) Stewart, Mary Rose Cottage $12.95 (Reissue; When Kate Herrick returns to her childhood home in the English countryside to retrieve some family papers, she uncovers a web of intrigue as tangled as the rambling roses in the garden. ) Stimmler, Gerry Dropped Dead in Kona $12.99 (When Joe and Margie discover a dead woman on the fairway outside their Hawaiian home, Margie is gung ho to solve the crime. So is her best friend Amanda. Joe doesn't stand a chance of talking them out of it; Signed copies) Swanson, James L. Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant for Lincoln's Corpse $16.99 (Nonfiction; Swanson recounts the April 1865 journey of Lincoln's funeral train through the North, intercut with Davis' flight from Richmond through a disintegrating Confederacy.) Thomas, Leslie Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective $14.95 (Dangerous Davies #1: Reissue; 'Dangerous' Davies is never his superiors' first choice for detecting crime, which leaves him plenty of time for picking through the cases that everyone else has forgotten.) Thompson, Brian The Widow's Secret $13.95 (Bella Wallis #1: Bella Wallis is a respectable Victorian widow with a secret identity: she writes sensationalist novels under a pen name, exposing the scoundrels that litter high society. So when a crested cigar case is found near the body of a murdered prostitute, Bella and her friends are determined to trace the murderer, and write a mystery that will avenge the poor girl's death. But the owner of the cigar case is a dangerous man.) Todd, Charles An Impartial Witness $14.99 (Bess Crawford #2: 1917: Bess realizes that the woman she sees bidding an emotional farewell to an officer is actually the wife of one of her patients, a badly burned young pilot. Learning later that the woman was murdered the very day she saw her, Bess becomes entangled in Scotland Yard's investigation.) Turnbull, Peter Deliver Us from Evil $15.95 (Hennessey & Yellich #20: When a woman's body is found frozen on a bench one winter's morning, marks on her neck and a piece of paper hidden inside her shoe point towards foul play; DCI Hennessey and DS Yellich investigate.) Wagner, Jan Costin Ice Moon $25.00 (Kimmo Joentaa #1: A woman is smothered in her sleep. Then a young man is found murdered in bed, in a hostel room with seven people asleep around him. Finnish detective Kimmo Joentaa suspects a serial killer is at work) Watson, Colin Hopjoy Was Here $14.95 (Flaxborough #3: Reissue; When a secret agent disappears suspiciously, two high-powered operatives arrive, but find the Flaxborough citizenry even more inscrutable than international espionage.) Williams, Charlie King of the Road $13.95 (Mangel #3: Reissue; Released after a long stretch at an asylum, Royston Blake finds that most of his old haunts are gone. Not everyone is happy seeing the old ways swept aside, and an opposition group - well known on the letters page of the local paper - sets about recruiting Blake as its agent of retribution. Meanwhile Blake just wants to settle down with Sal, get to know the son he has never met, and do the right thing.) Williams, Charlie One Dead Hen $13.95 (Mangel #4: Reissue; The town of Mangel turns nightmarish when headless corpses begin piling up. Desperate for a suspect, the police question Royston Blake, who suddenly realizes that, instead of hiding from the ills of the world, he should be fighting them. So begins Blake's quest to score the unlikeliest of jobs for a guy like him: becoming a cop in Mangel. And what better way to prove his worthiness than to catch the killer?) Williams, Gordon The Siege of Trencher's Farm (alternate title: Straw Dogs) $12.95 (Reissue; While renting an isolated house in Cornwall, George Magruder accidentally runs over a convicted child killer escaped from an asylum. When the brutal locals confront him, he sets off a chain of violence that threatens his family's survival.) Woodman, Richard A Ship for the King $28.95 (1618: Kit Faulkner is taken aboard a merchant ship to be trained for a life at sea. As he rises through the ranks, he must face pirates and French corsairs. Meanwhile, England edges closer to civil war - and Kit will have to choose sides.) Wortham, Reavis The Rock Hole $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (Red River #1: PBO; 1964: Farmer and part- time constable Ned Parker joins forces with John Washington, the black deputy sheriff from a nearby town, to track down a disturbed individual who is rapidly becoming a threat to the small Texas community of Center Springs.) Wright, Austin Tony and Susan $24.99 (Reissue; Susan Morrow is asked to read her ex-husband's unpublished novel. As the fictional family's ordinary lives are violently sent off course, Susan is plunged back into the past, forced to confront the darkness that inhabits her, and driven to name the fear that gnaws at her future.) Wright, Nancy Means The Nightmare $15.95 (Mary Wollstonecraft #2: PBO; Dismissed from her governess post in Ireland, Mary Wollstonecraft lands on her feet in London. After the 1792 publication of her groundbreaking Vindication of the Rights of Woman, she becomes part of a circle of celebrated artists and intellectuals. She grows infatuated with painter Henry Fuseli after his hauntingly erotic masterpiece The Nightmare is stolen. When a young artist is wrongfully accused and imprisoned, and a bluestocking friend is strangled, Mary's quest for the truth will lead her into personal notoriety, a trip to a madhouse, and confrontations with more than one possible murderer.) Yoshida, Shuichi Villain $15.95 (A woman is found strangled at Mitsuse Pass, which has an eerie history as home to robbers, murderers, and ghostly creatures. As the investigation unfolds, the events leading up to the murder reveal a troubled cast of characters.)

Early September

Abernethy, Mark Double Back $12.95 (Alan McQueen #3: Send to find a missing agent, superspy Alan McQueen discovers that a faction of the Indonesian army is planning genocide, using an ethno- bomb which kills only native East Timorese.) Adams, Jeanne Deadly Little Lies $6.99 (PBO; When a vengeful enemy traps billionaire security expert Dav Gianikopolis and gallery owner Carrie McCray in a ruthless battle of wits, each move seems to bring them closer to disaster. Dav will do whatever it takes to protect Carrie - even put their last chance at love on the line.) Adler-Olsen, Jussi The Keeper of Lost Causes (UK title: Mercy) $25.95 HC, $39.95 Unabridged Audiobook (Department Q #1: Carl Morck used to be a good homicide detective, until a bullet almost took his life. Now he's been put out to pasture with a stack of Copenhagen's coldest cases to keep him company. One case catches his interest. Five years ago, a politician vanished without a trace. The world assumes she's dead. Carl's colleagues snicker about the time he's wasting. But Carl may have the last laugh. Because she isn't dead - yet.) Albert, Susan Wittig The Tale of Oat Cake Crag $7.99 (Cottage Tales #7: Beatrix Potter's friend Grace has been receiving anonymous letters threatening her good name; Beatrix must investigate quietly, so as not to arouse village gossip.) Albert, Susan Wittig The Tale of Castle Cottage $24.95 (Cottage Tales #8: Summer, 1913: Beatrix Potter is eager to marry solicitor William Heelis. But there are a few obstacles blocking their path to the altar, including some mysterious problems with the remodeling of their future home.) Alten, Steve Grim Reaper: End of Days $9.99 (A biohazard scientist has injected herself with a swift- acting version of the Black Death, spreading the infection throughou Manhattan. On the sealed- off island, veteran Patrick Shepherd sets out to rescue his wife and child.) Anthony, Michael David Dark Provenance $14.95 (Canterbury Cathedral #3: Reissue; After spending most of his life as a spy, Richard Harrison wants nothing more than a quiet retirement in Canterbury. Then a young woman turns up on his doorstep, bearing a message from her late father. It's a message that Harrison doesn't want to hear. And he particularly doesn't want to believe it has anything to do with the recent suicide of an elderly, notoriously dithering parish priest.) Arffssen, Lars The Girl with the Sturgeon Tattoo $9.99 (A story of corruption and perversion that reaches to the highest echelons of the world's largest producer of inexpensive ready-to-assemble wooden bookcases.) Bailey, Elizabeth The Gilded Shroud $15.00 (When the marchioness is murdered at the Polbrook mansion, Ottilia Draycott, the Dowager Lady Polbrook's new companion, finds herself in a house of strangers, all of them suspect. 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Stanley, Kelli City of Dragons $14.99 (Miranda Corbie #1: Bruce Alexander Memorial Award finalist. San Francisco, 1940: During Chinese New Year, PI Miranda Corbie finds a man's body, fatally shot. The Chamber of Commerce wants to cover it up. Miranda wants justice.) Stanley, Michael Death of the Mantis $14.99 (Detective Kubu #3: In the southern Kalahari, a ranger is found dying of a head wound, surrounded by three Bushmen. Are they murderers, or were they trying to help the man? As Detective Kubu investigates, another man is murdered in similar circumstances.) Tinniswood, Adrian Pirates of Barbary $16.00 (Nonfiction; a look at the pirates of the 17th century, when the Mediterranean was the crossroads of the world, and pirates were the scourge of Europe.) Todd, Charles A Bitter Truth $24.99 (Bess Crawford #3: On leave from the Great War in France, battlefield nurse Bess Crawford arrives home to find a battered woman huddled in her doorway, and agrees to escort her home to Sussex. There the woman's family has gathered for a memorial service for the elder son, who died of war wounds. Her husband, home on compassionate leave, is tense, tormented by jealousy and his own guilty conscience. When a troubled guest is found dead, Bess becomes a prime suspect. This murder leads her to a dangerous quest in war-torn France.) Turnbull, Peter Aftermath $15.95 (Hennessey & Yellich #21: Five corpses in various states of decomposition are found chained to the walls of a kitchen garden. The victims appear to have little in common, but DCI Hennessey and DS Yellich know that the dead must hold the clues they need) Walker, Martin Black Diamond $24.95 (Bruno #3: Attacks on Vietnamese market vendors, arson at a local Asian restaurant, subpar Chinese truffles smuggled into outgoing shipments - all of it threatens the Dordogne's lucrative truffle trade, and spells trouble for Chief of Police Bruno, especially after one of his truffle-hunting partners is murdered.) Webb, Peggy Elvis and the Memphis Mambo Murders $7.99 (Southern Cousins #3: Callie, Lovie, and basset hound Elvis head to Memphis to keep Mama out of trouble at a dance competition. When someone starts knocking off dancers, the cousins go undercover to catch the killer.) Woods, Stuart Strategic Moves $9.99 (Stone Barrington #19: His undercover dealings with MI6 have brought a big new client to Woodman & Weld, but Stone gets a whiff of an impending scandal: the new client might be another Bernie Madoff.) Woods, Stuart Son of Stone $26.95 (Stone Barrington #21: Back in New York, Stone's looking to stay close to home and cash in on his partnership at Woodman & Weld, but his former love Arrington Calder has other plans, including introducing him to the child he fathered years ago.) Xiaolong, Qiu Don't Cry Tai Lake $24.99 (Inspector Chen #7: Shanghai's Inspector Chen has his vacation at Tai Lake interrupted by the murder of the director of one of the local factories responsible for polluting the lake. The local police suspect the leader of an ecological group, and Chen must tread carefully to uncover the truth.)

Mid September

Adams, Guy The Breath of God $12.95 (Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Matching wits with the legendary 'Great Beast' Aleister Crowley, Holmes is pitted against hordes of zombies in the streets of London.) Arsenault, Emily The Broken Teaglass $15.00 (While staving off the boredom of their jobs updating a dictionary, Billy and Mona find that someone has been lacing the dictionary files with clues to a long-unsolved murder.) Benn, James R. Rag and Bone $14.00 (Billy Boyle #5: Boston cop turned US Army detective Billy Boyle is sent to London to investigate the murder of a Soviet embassy official, who has been killed in exactly the same way that 20,000 Polish officers were recently executed in a hushed-up Soviet massacre.) Benn, James R. A Mortal Terror $25.00 (Billy Boyle #6: When two American officers stationed near Naples are murdered, Billy is sent to handle the investigation. As the invasion at Anzio begins, Billy needs to keep a cool head as the killer calculates his next moves.) Block, Lawrence Getting Off $25.99 (A beautiful and deadly female serial killer is working her way across the country, tracking down every man she's ever slept with, and ruthlessly murdering them.) Bond, Michael Monsieur Pamplemousse and the French Solution $16.95 (Pamplemousse #16: Awards for bed bugs and bad food have Pamplemousse trying to find out who is behind a smear campaign against France's premiere restaurant and hotel guide.) Bond, Michael Monsieur Pamplemousse and the Carbon Footprint $16.95 (Pamplemousse #17: In hopes of improving Le Guide's reputation in America, Pamplemousse and his faithful bloodhound Pommes Frites court a revered and feared food critic. But can they save him from the Mafia?) Castle, Richard Heat Rises $25.99 (Nikki Heat #3: NYPD homicide detective Nikki Heat and wise-cracking journalist Jameson Rook team up on another investigation.) Cleverly, Barbara The Blood Royal $25.00 (Joe Sandilands #9: 1922: Just back from his trip to India, Joe Sandilands learns that he is now responsible for running CID, and also expected to take up the reins of the Irish Special Branch. As he deals with Irish terrorism and assassination attempts on politicians, he locks horns with a Russian princess who is running a spy network out of Kensington.) Collins, Max Allan Quarry's Ex $9.95 (Quarry #9: The day Quarry returned stateside from Vietnam to find his young wife cheating, killing her lover was no big deal. And when he was recruited to use his skills as a contract killer, that transition was easy, too. What he wasn't expecting was ever running into his ex again.) Davis, Lindsey The Silver Pigs $16.99 (Falco #01: Reissue; Marcus Didius Falco, a private informer with a knack for trouble, offers to help a young woman who is fleeing for her life, and gets himself mixed up in a deadly plot in Roman Britannia involving stolen ingots, dangerous political machinations, and treason.) Fowler, Christopher Bryant & May Off the Rails $15.00 (Bryant & May Peculiar Crimes Unit #8: When a PCU detective is slain, Bryant and May must delve into the haunted history of the world's oldest subway, and follow a madman into the twisted tunnels that snake through London. ) Grossman, Paul The Sleepwalkers $14.99 (1932: During the final weeks of the Weimar Republic, a string of murders lead Jewish detective Willi Kraus through the German underworld, and bring him face to face with some of the leaders of the rising Nazi party.) Handler, David The Blood Red Indian Summer $24.99 (Berger & Mitry #8: The locals aren't happy when a suspended NFL player comes to Dorset, CT. When the man's sister-in-law washes up on Mitch Berger's beach, barely alive, officer Desiree Mitry is on the case.) Ice-T/Radcliff, Mal Kings of Vice $14.99 (After twenty years in prison, a former gang leader is back on the streets, determined to clean up the crime-infested neighborhoods that used to be his home, and guide his old gang to protect the city and its citizens.) James, Peter Dead Like You $14.99 (Roy Grace #6: After a pair of Brighton women are raped and their shoes taken, Det. Supt. Roy Grace realizes the new cases bear remarkable similarities to an unsolved series of attacks in 1997.) Johansen, Iris Bonnie $27.99 (With the help of her beloved Joe Quinn and CIA agent Catherine Ling, Eve has come closer than ever to the truth about her daughter's disappearance. But the deeper she digs, the more she realizes that Bonnie's father is a key player in solving this puzzle. And that Bonnie's disappearance was not as random as everyone had always believed.) Johansen, Iris Eve $7.99 (Eve Duncan #11: CIA agent Catherine Ling brings up a name from the past: John Gallo. He just might be the missing piece to the puzzle that has haunted Eve for years: the disappearance of her daughter.) Johnson, D.E. Motor City Shakedown $24.99 (Will Anderson #2: Detroit, 1911: When Will stumbles upon the body of crime boss Vito Adamo's driver, he sets out to find the killer. The trail leads to a vast underworld conspiracy, and places Will in the middle of Detroit's first mob war.) Jones, Solomon The Last Confession $14.99 (Coletti #1: South Philly detective Mike Coletti suddenly realizes that the priest he put away for the decade-old Confessional Murders is innocent. To stop the execution, Coletti must catch a killer who calls himself the Angel of Death.) Jurjevics, Juris Red Flags $26.00 (US Army CID officer Eric Rider is enjoying his war until he's sent to disrupt Vietcong opium fields in a remote Highland province, and discovers that someone close to home has a stake in the drug-smuggling ring .) Lansdale, Joe R. All the Earth, Thrown to the Sky $16.99 (YA; Three Oklahoma kids plan to use a dead neighbor's car to get to Texas, but a run-in with one of the Depression's most notorious gangsters puts a crimp in the plan, and the kids wind up riding the rails among hoboes, gangsters, and con men, racing to warn a carnival wrestler turned bank robber of the danger he faces.) Levine, Paul Lassiter $25.00 (Jake Lassiter #8: Amy Larkin seeks out attorney Jake Lassiter, who was the last person to see her sister Krista before she vanished years ago. Jake's investigation takes him to Miami's porn industry) Lewis, Mitchell Scott Murder in the 11th House $14.95 (David Lowell #1: Astrological detective David Lowell must use his charts and street smarts to solve the murder of a federal judge in a NYC parking garage.) Malliet, G.M. Wicked Autumn $23.99 (Max Tudor #1: After a harrowing past in MI5, Max has found peace as a village vicar. When the unpopular president of the Women's Institute turns up dead, it looks accidental, but before long Max comes to suspect foul play.) Marklund, Liza Red Wolf $15.00 (Annika Bengtzon #5: Crime reporter Annika Bengtzon suspects that a journalist's murder is linked to an attack against an isolated Swedish air base. A series of murders follows as she tries to discover the truth.) McCrumb, Sharyn The Ballad of Tom Dooley $24.99 (Laura Foster, a simple country girl, was murdered and her lover Tom Dula was hanged for the crime. With the help of historians, lawyers, and researchers, Sharyn McCrumb visited the actual sites, studied the legal evidence, and uncovered a missing piece of the story that will shock those who think they already know what happened - and may also bring belated justice to an innocent man.) Mina, Denise Still Midnight $14.99 (Alex Morrow #1: DI Alex Morrow is assigned a case that could make her career: three armed men invade a Glasgow home, demanding a man who has never been there, then shoot one family member and kidnap another.) Neville, Stuart Collusion $14.00 (Belfast #2: When Belfast DI Jack Lennon tries to track down his former lover Marie McKenna and their daughter, his superiors tell him to back off. As Lennon unravels a conspiracy that links his daughter to a killer named Fegan, the line between friend and enemy blurs.) Parker, R/Brandman, M Killing the Blues $25.95 HC, $32.00 Unabridged Audiobook (Jesse Stone #10: Chief of Police Jesse Stone has a lot to deal with: a string of car thefts that escalates to murder; his relationship with a young PR executive, whose plan to turn Paradise into a concert destination may run afoul of the law; and the arrival of a mysterious figure from his past, bringing memories of his last troubled days as a cop in Los Angeles.) Parker, T. Jefferson (ed) Hook, Line & Sinister $16.95 (Anthology; stories of mystery and fishing) Patterson, J/Roughan, H Don't Blink $14.99 (A New York reporter, investigating the gruesome murder of an infamous mob lawyer, receives a clear message as he closes in on the facts - back off, or die.) Pendleton, Don Trial by Fire $5.99 (Executioner #394: PBO; When a plane filled with American cadets is shot down in the Congo, Bolan is sent to find the group - but terrorists are tracking them through the jungle, too.) Pendleton, Don Grave Mercy $6.99 (SuperBolan #144: PBO; The Ton Ton Macoute, with a Haitian religious fanatic at its helm, plans a brutal invasion of a Caribbean island. They're about to experience Bolan's particular brand of hellfire.) Pyper, Andrew The Guardians $17.95 (Trevor, Randy, Ben, and Carl grew up together. Years later, Trevor learns that Ben has committed suicide, and returns to his hometown to pay his respects and reunite with Randy and Carl. But going home means going back to the memories of a sinister crime that occurred in the abandoned house at 321 Caledonia Street - a crime that claws its way into the present, leaving its mark on everyone.) Rendell, Ruth The Vault $26.00 (Inspector Wexford #23: In A Sight for Sore Eyes, three bodies - two dead, one living - were entombed beneath a London house. Twelve years later, the house's new owner opens the grisly chamber. Only now there are four bodies. How did someone else end up there? And who knew the chamber existed? Wexford is called out of retirement to assist with the case.) Ritter, Todd Bad Moon $25.99 (Kat Campbell #2: Eric Olmstead comes back to town to bury his mother and fulfill her last request: find the truth about his brother Charlie's disappearance forty years ago. He and police chief Kat Campbell find clues suggesting that Charlie wasn't the only victim.) Robb, J.D. New York to Dallas $27.95 (Eve Dallas #34: Eve's latest case takes her to the city she's named for, and plunges her into the nightmares of her childhood.) Rowland, Laura Joh The Ronin's Mistress $25.99 (Sano Ichiro #15: Japan, 1703: On a snowy night, forty-seven warriors murder a man responsible for the scandal that turned them from samurai into masterless ronin. Sano Ichiro investigates. Why did they wait two years to kill the man? And is there any reason they should not be immediately ordered to commit ritual suicide?) Stanley, Kelli City of Secrets $24.99 (Miranda Corbie #2: San Francisco, 1940: When Pandora Blake is murdered at the World's Fair, her body marked with an anti-Semitic slur, Miranda investigates.) wa Ngugi, Mukoma Nairobi Heat $14.95 (Reissue; At a midwestern university, a blonde girl is found murdered on an African professor's porch; the trail leads Detective Ishmael Fofona to Africa to hunt for clues in a case that seems to make no sense.) Webster, Jason Or the Bull Kills You $24.99 (Although he hates bullfighting, Chief Inspector Max Camara has to fill in for his boss, judging a festival corrida starring Spain's most famous young matador. That night, Camara is back in the bullring, investigating a grisly murder that shocks the city of Valencia to its core.) Winters, Ben H. The Secret Life of Ms. Finkleman $5.99 (Kids; It starts with a special project for history class: solve a mystery in your own life. Bethesda is convinced her music teacher is hiding something, but no one is quite prepared for what she learns. Could Ms. Finkelman really have been a rock star?) Zeltserman, Dave A Killer's Essence $23.95 (When a serial killer terrorizes New York City, jaded detective Stan Green finds just a single witness, a neurologically disabled recluse who sees through the souls of others as demonic hallucinations.)

Early October

Alexander, Tasha Dangerous to Know $14.99 (Lady Emily #5: 1892: In Normandy, Lady Emily finds a murdered woman, a young French aristocrat who had been committed to an insane asylum, and had given birth to an illegitimate child there. Clues lead to a crumbling chateau in the country.) Atkinson, Kate Started Early, Took My Dog $14.99 (Jackson Brodie #4: Retired detective Tracy Waterhouse has impulsively taken responsibility for a repeat offender's small child. Former detective Jackson Brodie has rescued an abused dog. He's about to learn, along with Tracy, that no good deed goes unpunished.) Ballard, Mignon F. Miss Dimple Disappears $14.99 (Miss Dimple #1: 1942: Schoolteacher Charlie Carr and her best friend Annie set out to discover what's behind the disappearance of their Georgia hometown's longtime first-grade teacher.) Barton, Beverly 'Til Death Do Us Part: Blackwood's Woman / Roarke's Wife $7.99 (Omnibus reprint; two novels of romantic suspense) Beaton, M.C. Busy Body $7.99 (Agatha Raisin #21: When a Health and Safety Inspector, who had ruled that all of Carsely's traditional holiday decorations are unsafe, turns up stabbed to death with a kitchen knife, Agatha's detective agency is on the case.) Bebris, Carrie The Deception at Lyme, or, The Perils of Persuasion $22.99 (Mr. & Mrs. Darcy #6: Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy investigate the death of a woman whose scandalous past left her with a child whose existence threatens the inheritance of one of her paramours and the reputation of another. And Mr. Darcy allies with Captain Frederick Wentworth to probe the circumstances of his cousin's death.) Bell, David Cemetery Girl $14.00 (Four years after Tom and Abby's 12-year-old daughter vanished, she is found alive, but refuses to testify against the man connected to her disappearance. Tom decides to investigate on his own, but nothing can prepare him for what he's about to discover.) Benson, Michael A Killer's Touch $6.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; Michael King kidnapped, raped, and murdered 21- year-old Denise Amber Lee.) Bentley, Jennie Flipped Out $7.99 (Do-It-Yourself #5: PBO; A local news anchor is thrilled to have his home's renovation filmed for a TV show. But when the man is murdered, Avery will have to nail the killer fast.) Bishop, David The Complete Inspector Morse $16.95 (Nonfiction; a definitive guide, covering all 33 episodes of the TV show, the original Colin Dexter novels that inspired it, and related media such as radio plays; now updated to include spin-off TV series Inspector Lewis) Brokaw, Charles The Lucifer Code $9.99 (Thomas Lourds #2: Lourds is kidnapped by a ruthless group who are hunting a lost scroll authored by John of Patmos, which could bring about the end of the world - or stop it.) Brown, Rita Mae A Nose for Justice $7.99 (Mags & Baxter #1: A Wall Street has-been, 32-year-old Mags arrives at her great-aunt Jeep's ranch to reassemble her life. But with a pipe-bombing at the valley's water pumping station, a string of local murders, and the discovery of a 19th-century skeleton buried in Jeep's barn, Mags and Deputy Pete Meadows have a lot of mysteries to solve - and Mags' dachshund Baxter and Jeep's shepherd mix King will have to team up to protect their humans.) Brown, Rita Mae Murder Unleashed $25.00 (Mags & Baxter #2: To help a community of squatters living in a row of foreclosed homes, Mags, Jeep, and their friends (canine and human) do battle with Reno banks, the power company, and a ruthless politician. Then things turn deadly, and they have to stop a killer.) Bruen, Ken Headstone $24.00 (Jack Taylor #9: Taylor faces an evil coterie known as Headstone, who are committing a series of random, insane, violent crimes in Galway.) Burke, James Lee Feast Day of Fools $26.99 HC, $49.99 Unabridged Audiobook (Hackberry Holland #3: As sheriff Hack Holland and deputy Pam Tibbs look for the bandits who tortured a man to death in the desert, it becomes clear that serial murderer Preacher Jack Collins is also back in the area; Signed copies expected) Camilleri, Andrea The Potter's Field $15.00 (Inspector Montalbano #13: A corpse is found near Vigata, a town known for its soil rich with potter's clay. Meanwhile, a woman reports the disappearance of her husband, a Colombian of Sicilian origin related to a local mobster. Then Inspector Montalbano remembers a story from the Bible, and finds his way to the solution of the crime.) Campbell/Prepolec (ed) Gaslight Arcanum $15.95 (Anthology; Holmes faces the bizarre, the uncanny, and the arcane in these original stories) Cannell, Stephen J. The Prostitutes' Ball $9.99 (Shane Scully #10: A party at a Hollywood mansion, the scene of an infamous murder 25 years earlier, ends with a producer and two prostitutes all murdered with the same gun. An extra bullet casing that doesn't match leads Detective Scully to a story of love, murder, suicide, and one of the biggest financial frauds in LA history.) Carl, JoAnna The Chocolate Pirate Plot $7.99 (Chocoholic #10: When Lee and her husband take their boat out on Lake Michigan, they're boarded by a band of pirates. The town is amused by the mischievous buccaneers. But when a body washes up on shore, Lee has to figure out the truth behind the Warner Pier Pirates.) Carr, Carol K. India Black and the Widow of Windsor $14.00 (Madam of Espionage #2: PBO; Suspecting that Scottish nationalists plan to assassinate Queen Victoria at Balmoral, Prime Minister Disraeli sends along India Black, disguised as a servant in case the traitor is among the staff, and handsome spy French, who will watch for a traitor among the guests.) Carroll, Grace Shoe Done It $6.99 (Accessories #1: PBO; Rita Jewel has a dream job selling clothes and accessories to San Francisco socialites. But when a pair of heels becomes a clue in a murder, she finds herself involved in a high-end crime of fashion.) Castle, Richard et al Deadly Storm $19.99 (Derrick Storm #1: Graphic novel; this adventure takes our hero from the gritty world of the PI to the globe-hopping intrigue of the CIA.) Charbonneau, Jonelle Skating Over the Line $25.99 (Rebecca Robbins #2: Rebecca finally has a buyer for the roller rink. She can't wait to head back to Chicago, but her boyfriend wants her to stay, and the gang at the Senior Center wants her to track down a car thief. Then cars start exploding - with people in them.) Child, Lee The Affair $28.00 HC, $45.00 Unabridged Audiobook (Jack Reacher Prequel: Before he started walking and became a vigilante, there was a last case, a breaking point, a twist in Reacher's life that he never saw coming.) Childs, Laura Fiber & Brimstone $7.99 (Scrapbooking #8: Carmela and Ava overhear an argument between Jekyl Hardy and Brett Fowler. A few minutes later, they find Brett dead, but Carmela has known Jekyl for years; someone is framing him for murder, and she's determined to find the real killer.) Childs, Laura Skeleton Letters $25.95 (Scrapbooking #9: At St. Tristan's Church, Carmela and Ava witness the murder of a member of their scrapbooking circle, and the theft of an antique crucifix. The search for the culprit draws them deeper into New Orleans' French Quarter.) Christer, Sam The Stonehenge Legacy $24.95 (A cryptic letter leads a young archaeologist and an intrepid policewoman to a secret society, whose charismatic and ruthless new leader is performing human sacrifices in an attempt to unlock the secrets of Stonehenge.) Christie, Agatha Poirot Investigates $12.99 (Hercule Poirot #03: Reissue; Collection of classic short stories) Christie, Agatha The Mystery of the Blue Train $12.99 (Hercule Poirot #06: Reissue; When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. But a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition, and her rubies are missing. The prime suspect is Ruth's estranged husband Derek. But Poirot is not convinced, so he stages an eerie reenactment of the journey, complete with the murderer on board.) Christie, Agatha Murder in Mesopotamia $12.99 (Hercule Poirot #14: Reissue; It is clear to Amy Leatheran that something sinister is going on at the Hassanieh dig in Iraq; something associated with the presence of 'Lovely Louise', wife of celebrated archaeologist Dr. Leidner. In a few days' time, Hercule Poirot is due to drop in at the excavation site. But with Louise suffering from terrifying hallucinations, and tension within the group becoming almost unbearable, Poirot might just be too late.) Christie, Agatha Murder in the Mews $12.99 (Hercule Poirot #17: Reissue; Poirot is faced with four mystifying cases. How did a woman holding a pistol in her right hand manage to shoot herself in the left temple? What was the link between a ghost sighting and the disappearance of top secret military plans? How did the bullet that killed Sir Gervase shatter a mirror in another part of the room? And should the beautiful Valentine Chantry flee for her life from the holiday island of Rhodes?) Christie, Agatha Appointment with Death $12.99 (Hercule Poirot #18: Reissue; Among the towering red cliffs of Petra, like some monstrous swollen Buddha, sits the corpse of the detestable Mrs. Boynton. A tiny puncture mark on her wrist is the only sign of the fatal injection that killed her. Poirot has only twenty-four hours to solve the murder.) Christie, Agatha The Labors of Hercules $12.99 (Hercule Poirot #26: Reissue; In appearance Poirot hardly resembles an ancient Greek hero, but like Hercules he has been responsible for ridding society of some of its most unpleasant monsters. So, in the period leading up to his retirement, Poirot makes up his mind to accept just twelve more cases: his self-imposed Labors. Each will go down in the annals of crime as a heroic feat of deduction.) Christie, Agatha Hickory Dickory Dock $12.99 (Hercule Poirot #31: Reissue; Something is troubling Miss Lemon - she has made three mistakes in a simple letter. It seems an outbreak of theft at the student hostel where her sister works is distracting Poirot's usually efficient assistant. Deciding that desperate times call for desperate measures, the great detective agrees to investigate. Unknown to Poirot, however, desperation is a motive he shares with a killer.) Christie/Cade, Jared Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days (4th edition) $19.95 (Nonfiction; revised and expanded study revealing why Christie staged her own disappearance, and how it all went terribly wrong.) Clancy, T/Blackwood, G Dead or Alive $18.00 (Jack Ryan Jr. and his colleagues and recruits at the Campus are on the trail of the Emir, a sadistic terrorist who has masterminded vicious attacks and eluded law enforcement.) Coben, Harlan Miracle Cure $9.99 (Reissue; In a clinic on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well - then being targeted by a serial killer.) Connelly, Michael The Fifth Witness $14.99 (Mickey Haller #4: Mickey expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home.) Coover, Robert Noir $14.00 (You are a PI. A young widow hires you to find her husband's killer - if he was killed. The your client is killed and her body disappears - if she was your client. Your search for clues takes you from classy lounges to lowlife dives, from jazz bars to a rich sex kitten's bedroom, from yachts to the morgue.) Corby, Gary The Pericles Commission $14.99 (Nicolaos #1: Working as an agent for promising young politician Pericles, Nicolaos searches for the assassin responsible for the death of Ephialtes, the man who brought democracy to Athens, whose murder has thrown the city into uproar.) Dams, Jeanne M. A Dark and Stormy Night $15.95 (Dorothy Martin #10: When Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are invited to a country house weekend, they expect nothing more explosive than the Guy Fawkes fireworks. Having read every Agatha Christie story ever written, Dorothy should have known better.) Daneshvari, Gitty Class is NOT Dismissed! $6.99 (School of Fear #2: Kids; When she discovers that her former students have regressed, Mrs. Wellington brings Madeleine, Theo, Lulu, and Garrison back for summer school. Facing their fears is terrifying enough, but when they are joined by a fifth student (and another mysterious entity lurking in the woods), things get even scarier) Doetsch, Richard Half-Past Dawn $25.00 (DA Harper Keller awakens alone at home. He has a half-healed head wound, a hastily-stitched bullet wound in his shoulder, and a newspaper - with a headline reporting him dead in a car crash.) Douglas, Carole Nelson Cat in an Ultramarine Scheme $7.99 (Midnight Louie #22: Hired to publicize a new Las Vegas mob museum/casino, Temple's big event unveils a corpse. It's up to Louie and his cat crew to solve murders old and new that smack of mobs both vintage and all too recent.) Dunnett, Kaitlyn The Corpse Wore Tartan $7.99 (Liss MacCrimmon #4: At a supper in honor of Scotland's beloved poet Robert Burns, long-held grudges among the members of the Scottish Heritage Appreciation Society lead to murder.) Ellison, J.T. Where All the Dead Lie $14.95 (Taylor Jackson #7: PBO; The headshot didn't kill Taylor Jackson, but it left her mute and haunted. At first, a Scottish castle seems the perfect place for healing. But before long the house itself surrounds her like a menacing presence. PTSD. Pills. Ghosts. Grudges. Someone or something is coming after Taylor. But is she being haunted by the dead, or hunted by the living?) Ellory, R.J. The Anniversary Man $14.95 (No one in New Jersey knows more about serial killers than John Costello, who survived an attack by one twenty years ago. When a new spate of murders starts, John is the only one who discerns the pattern behind them. But could this dark knowledge threaten his life?) Ellroy, J/Penzler, O (ed) The Best American Noir of the Century $16.95 (Anthology; 39 hardboiled stories.) Emery, Anne Children in the Morning $14.95 (Monty Collins #5: When Beau Delaney is charged with murdering his wife Peggy, Halifax lawyer Monty Collins takes the case. But his client is keeping secrets, and Monty's daughter Normie is having visions involving Beau. Monty and Normie work together to discover the truth.) Emery, Anne Death at Christy Burke's $24.95 (Monty Collins #6: Monty Collins, Father Brennan Burke, and Father Michael O'Flaherty investigate when a dead body is found in Christy Burke's pub, and begin to uncover dark secrets in the lives of the pub regulars.) Enger, Thomas Burned $15.00 (When a woman is buried up to her neck and stoned to death in an Oslo park, her Pakistani boyfriend is arrested, but investigative reporter Henning Juul believes the man is innocent, and sets out to uncover the truth.) Faust, Christa Choke Hold $9.95 (Angel Dare #2: Angel Dare went into Witness Protection to escape her past - not as a porn star, but as a killer who took down the sex slavery ring that destroyed her life. But sometimes the past just won't stay buried.) Feldman, Jody The Seventh Level $6.99 (Kids; Seven blue envelopes. Seven puzzles. If Travis can solve them, he'll be accepted by his school's secret club. But can he do this in detention? With the principal watching him?) Fluke, Joanne Joanne Fluke's Lake Eden Cookbook $18.95 (Hannah Swensen: Nonfiction; all the recipes from the first ten books in the series, plus new recipes, interspersed with stories and anecdotes about some of the town's beloved characters.) Fluke/Levine/Meier Gingerbread Cookie Murder $7.99 (Hannah Swensen #15: Anthology; 3 original novellas; Hannah Swensen, Jaine Austin, and Lucy Stone must each solve a holiday murder.) Flynn, Kevin/Lavoie, R Legally Dead $9.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; an attorney murders his wife, then tries to frame their teenage son for the crime.) Freveletti, Jamie The Ninth Day $9.99 (Emma Caldridge #3: PBO; When biochemist Emma Caldridge finds herself a prisoner of a Mexican cartel, she sees marijuana plants rotting with a flesh-eating toxin that causes horrible death within nine days of exposure. Believing that US agents contaminated the plants, the cartel plans to spread their lethal product across the US. Emma searches for a cure, but time is running out more quickly than she anticipated - she's been infected.) Gordon-Smith, Dolores A Hundred Thousand Dragons $15.95 (Jack Haldean #4: 1920s: How do a few lines of poetry, a chance encounter in a London hotel, and a death in Sussex lead to a lost city of Arabia? Jack Haldean must find the answer.) Gordon, Howard Gideon's War $7.99 (Skilled negotiator Gideon Davis launches an unlikely one-man rescue operation after terrorists seize a southeast Asia oil rig where his brother is working undercover.) Greaney, Mark Ballistic $15.00 (Gray Man #3: PBO; On the run from a vengeful Russian crime lord, ex-CIA assassin Court Gentry seeks refuge with a friend, only to find the man has been murdered by a Mexican drug cartel, drawing Court into a war he never wanted.) Hamilton, Barbara (aka Hambly) The Ninth Daughter $7.99 (Abigail Adams #1: Boston, 1773: Abigail arrives at her friend Rebecca's house to find Rebecca missing, and an unknown woman brutally murdered in the kitchen. Abigail struggles to help a British Army lieutenant find the killer and the missing Rebecca without exposing any of the secrets of the Sons of Liberty.) Hamilton, Barbara (aka Hambly) Sup with the Devil $14.00 (Abigail Adams #3: PBO; Abigail's nephew Horace, hired by a mysterious woman to translate some Arabic, survives an attempt to kill him, and returns with a tale of pirate treasure. The Sons of Liberty want the rumored gold, but Abigail heads to Harvard to investigate the attempt on Horace's life, and the subsequent murder of a student loyal to the King.) Hammond, Gerald A Dog's Life $15.95 (When he comes across Ann, a disheveled young woman, camping in the woods, Tim offers her a place to stay. They hit it off, and she moves in. When a brutal attack leaves Tim hospitalized, Ann's relatives suddenly arrive, as does an unexpected inheritance - making Ann and Tim wonder about the motivation for the attack.) Harris, Charlaine The Julius House $25.95 (Aurora Teagarden #4: Reissue; Hardcover reissue) Hart, Ellen The Lost Women of Lost Lake $25.99 (Jane Lawless #19: While caring for an injured friend, Jane discovers her friend is actually more troubled by a tragic accident that took place years ago - and the reporter snooping around it.) Haynes, Dana Crashers $9.99 (Crashers #1: Investigators must figure out what caused the deliberate crash of a passenger plane near Portland; in LA, a former foreign agent attaches herself to a suspicious group, and learns they are the terrorists responsible) Hill, Susan The Shadows in the Street $15.00 (Simon Serrailler #5: CI Serrailler investigates when two local prostitutes are strangled; unrest grows in the town when the wife of the Dean of St. Michael's Cathedral and a respectable woman on her way to work go missing.) Indridason, Arnaldur Operation Napoleon $24.99 (When her brother, a rescue volunteer, vanishes, a young woman sets out to discover his fate, which is connected to a WWII German bomber that the US Army is secretly trying to remove from an Icelandic glacier.) Indridason, Arnaldur Hypothermia $15.00 (Reykjavik #6: When a woman is found hanging from a beam in her summer cottage, it appears to be suicide. Inspector Erlendur, also haunted by the unresolved cases of two young people who went missing 30 years before, embarks on an unofficial investigation. His discoveries raise ghosts from his own past.) Izner, Claude The Assassin in the Marais $25.99 (Victor Legris #4: 1890s: When his business partner's home is burgled, the only item stolen is a decorative goblet. Then Victor discovers that two people connected to the goblet have been murdered, and launches an investigation that takes him through the underbelly of Paris.) James, BIll World War Two Will Not Take Place $15.95 (In an alternate version of 1938 England, war looms, but the Prime minister's talks with Hitler in Munich seem to result in a pact of peace. Now Mount, a secret service officer, is sent on an undercover mission to Berlin. But with all this talk of peace, is there any point to his mission? Then a meeting with Toumlin and two good-time girls from the local bar results in a broken chair. Could this chair have been not only the key to his mission but also the key to peace?) Jance, J.A. Improbable Cause $9.99 (J.P. Beaumont #05: Reissue; Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont investigates when a dentist who enjoyed inflicting pain is murdered in his own chair. The question isn't who wanted the man dead, but rather who finally reached the breaking point.) Jance, J.A. A More Perfect Union $9.99 (J.P. Beaumont #06: Reissue; A photo showing a doomed woman's face, indicating that her fatal fall from an unfinished skyscraper was not suicide, sends Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont on a hunt for answers.) Jance, J.A. Dismissed with Prejudice $9.99 (J.P. Beaumont #07: Reissue; The death of a successful Japanese software magnate looks like ritual suicide, but Seattle homicide detective J.P. Beaumont finds small errors in the ritual that suggest murder.) Jance, J.A. Minor in Possession $9.99 (J.P. Beaumont #08: Reissue; Beau's stint at a rehab ranch in Arizona turns complicated when his roommate is shot dead - with Beau's gun.) Jeffery, Keith The Secret History of MI6 $20.00 (Nonfiction; the authorized history of Britain's foreign intelligence service from 1909-1949, drawing extensively on hitherto secret documents.) Jenkins, Rebecca Death of a Radical $12.95 (Raif Jarrett #2: The town of Woolbridge readies itself for upheaval: the mills are bringing in machinery, and jobs will be lost. As a group of radicals protests the plight of the workers, a local judge brings in the military as a precaution. Raif investigates when a salesman is found dead in bed and a radical is murdered outside of town.) Jinks, Catherine The Genius Wars $8.99 (Cadel Piggott #3: YA; Cadel has a new family and a new life - no more hacking, no more false identities, and, most of all, no more Prosper English. But when his best friend Sonja is attacked, it's up to him to figure out who was behind it.) Johnston, Linda O. The More the Terrier $7.99 (Pet Rescue #2: PBO; When she learns her old mentor Mamie has become an animal hoarder, shelter manager Lauren Vancouver helps find homes for the animals - and sets out to clear Mamie's name when she's accused of murder.) Knight, Bernard According to the Evidence $15.95 (Pryor & Bray #2: 1955: Forensic pathologist Richard Pryor and forensic biologist Angela Bray investigate an apparent suicide at a remote farm, receive an unusual request from the War Office, and work to clear a veterinarian accused of poisoning his ailing wife.) Kurkov, Andrey Penguin Lost $14.95 (Penguin #2: Viktor returns to Kiev incognito to launch a guilt-wracked search for his penguin Misha. It's a search that will take Viktor to Moscow and back, landing him in league with a series of criminals and corrupt officials, each of whom knows something of what happened to Misha, and each of whom is willing to pass that information along if Viktor will just help them with one more job.) Lake, Deryn The Mills of God $15.95 (Reverend Nick Lawrence #1: Newly arrived in the sleepy Sussex village of Lakehurst, young vicar Nick Lawrence helps Inspector Dominic Tennant hunt for a serial killer who leaves notes at the crime scenes signed 'The Acting Light of the World'.) Lipperman, Liz Liver Let Die $7.99 (Clueless Cook #1: PBO; Assigned to review a new steakhouse, fill-in culinary reporter Jordan McAllister ends up a murder suspect when her waiter turns up murdered outside her home, with her name and number in his pocket.) Ludlum/Mills The Ares Decision $27.99 (Covert-One #9: Colonel Jon Smith heads to Uganda to investigate when a US Special Forces team is wiped out; video of the attack shows villagers with supernatural speed and strength, consumed with rage that makes them immune to pain and fear.) Maclean, Anna Louisa and the Country Bachelor $14.00 (Louisa May Alcott #2: Reissue; While the Alcotts are visiting cousins in rural New Hampshire, a local bachelor is found dead in a ravine, the apparent victim of an accidental fall while hiking. But Louisa suspects foul play and sets out to uncover the murderer hiding among her family's new friends.) Maitland, Barry Dark Mirror $14.99 (Brock & Kolla #10: The death of a student in the Reading Room of the London Library appears to be a simple tragedy, until the autopsy reveals it was arsenic poisoning. The investigation leads DI Kathy Kolla and DCI David Brock to suspect that the woman's death was related to unexplained and unusual aspects of her recent life.) Mankell, Henning Daniel $15.00 (1875: On a scientific expedition in the Kalahari, Hans Bengler adopts a small boy whose tribe has been attacked by European raiders. When they arrive back in Sweden, he finds that raising a child across a vast cultural divide is more difficult than he'd imagined.) Marsh, Ngaio A Man Lay Dead $14.95 (Roderick Alleyn #01: Reissue; At a country-house party, the host, Sir Hubert Handesley, has invented a new and especially exciting version of that beloved parlor entertainment, The Murder Game.) Marsh, Ngaio The Nursing Home Murder $14.95 (Roderick Alleyn #03: Reissue; For one unlucky Member of Parliament, a simple visit to the hospital proves fatal. But as Inspector Alleyn will discover, any number of people had reason to help the gentleman to his just reward, including a sour surgeon, his besotted nurse, a resentful wife, and a cabinet full of political rivals.) Mayor, Archer Tag Man $25.99 (Joe Gunther #22: Joe Gunther and his VBI team are trying to find a burglar who specializes in rich people's alarm-equipped houses. The burglar, meanwhile, is on the run for his life: in one of those houses, he discovered what looks like proof of a string of murders; Signed copies expected) McDermott, Andy Empire of Gold $9.99 (Wilde & Chase #7: As one discovery unveils another, Nina realizes that a legendary Incan leader made a deal with his Spanish captors - and hid forever the real El Dorado. Now, Nina and Eddie face a maze of death traps and betrayals to reach an unfound wonder of the world.) McKinlay, Jenn Death by the Dozen $6.99 (Cupcake Bakery #3: PBO; Melanie and Angie are determined to win a cooking competition. When one of the judges turns up dead inside a freezer truck, they set out to find the cold-blooded killer.) McMahon, Neil L.A. Mental $24.99 (LA psychologist Tom Crandall traces a series of strange events to Gunnar Kelso, the head of Parallax Productions, who has odd theories about power and human behavior - and dark ambitions that extend beyond film-making.) Medieval Murderers Hill of Bones $16.95 (Anthology; after his brother is killed in an ambush there, a boy buries a miniature knife with an ivory bear hilt - the symbol of King Arthur - on Solsbury Hill. From that day forward, Solsbury Hill continues to be the scene of murder and theft, leaving a trail of corpses and treasure buried in the hill as an indication of its turbulent past.) Medieval Murderers The Sacred Stone $9.99 (Anthology; beginning in 1067, and continuing over the next 600 years, a mysterious meteor brings treachery, discord, and violent death to those who seek to possess it.) Melton, P/Dunstan, M Black Light $25.99 (PI Buck Carlsbad's psychic abilities place him in high demand among those with supernatural problems. But for Buck, each case is part of a lifelong obsession: locating the long-departed spirits of his murdered parents. Then Buck gets a call from a reclusive billionaire with a very strange request, and finds himself headed straight to hell. ) Meltzer, Brad The Inner Circle $9.99 (When a young archivist tries to impress an old friend by showing her the secret vault where the US President reviews classified documents, they happen upon a hidden artifact, and end up entangled in a web of conspiracy and murder.) Mina, Denise The End of the Wasp Season $25.99 (Alex Morrow #2: Heavily pregnant with twins, DI Alex Morrow investigates the savage murder of a young woman in a wealthy suburb of Glasgow.) Muller, Marcia Coming Back $7.99 (Sharon McCone #27: As Sharon struggles to regain control over her body, her friend from physical therapy goes missing. Sharon must rely on those closest to her to uncover the truth behind the disappearance when the investigation begins to point to issues of national security.) Neville, Stuart Stolen Souls $25.00 (Belfast #3: A Russian sex slave escapes from a Belfast brothel by killing one of her captors, and takes refuge with a man who offers his help. But she learns that she is not the first trafficked girl to cross his threshold, and she must fight to avoid their fate. When a war between rival gangs leaves bodies across the city, DI Jack Lennon discovers an escaped prostitute is the cause; soon he is locked in a race with two very different killers.) Newman, Kim The Hound of the D'Urbervilles $14.95 (Meet the twisted evil twins of Holmes and Watson: Professor James Moriarty - wily, fiercely intelligent, unpredictable; and Colonel Sebastian 'Basher' Moran - violent, politically incorrect, debauched. Together they run London crime, owning police and criminals alike, and unraveling mysteries for their own gain. ) O'Donohue, Clare The Devil's Puzzle $14.00 (Someday Quilts #4: PBO; The quilting ladies are preparing for the big Archers Rest anniversary celebration when plans are derailed by the discovery of a human skeleton in Nell's grandmother's backyard, making Eleanor the prime suspect in a murder.) Patterson, James Cross Fire $9.99 (Alex Cross #17: The Mastermind is back, and he's about to destroy everything and everyone Alex Cross loves.) Pilkey, Brent Lethal Rage $14.95 (A young cop, newly transferred from a virtually crime-free division, is thrown into a brutal war against a dealer intent on taking over Toronto's drug trade.) Raymond, Derek He Died with His Eyes Open $14.95 (Factory #1: Reissue; The brutal killing of a middle-aged alcoholic dumped outside of town is assigned to the never-named Detective Sergeant of the Dept. of Unexplained Deaths. With only a box of cassette-tape diaries as evidence, he has no choice but to listen to the haunting voice of the victim for clues.) Raymond, Derek The Devil's Home on Leave $14.95 (Factory #2: Reissue; A body abandoned in a warehouse by the Thames is obviously the work of a contract killer, but why would a pro leave the body to be discovered? The Detective Sergeant soon finds himself in a harrowing cat-and-mouse game with a killer who seems to have ties to the highest levels of the government.) Raymond, Derek How the Dead Live $14.95 (Factory #3: Reissue; The Detective Sergeant visits a decrepit country house to look into the disappearance of the lady of the manor, whose husband seems to love her, and yet seems reluctant to find her.) Raymond, Derek I Was Dora Suarez $14.95 (Factory #4: Reissue; The gentle Dora Suarez was dying of AIDS, so why kill her? The Detective Sergeant's investigation uncovers vile human exploitation and institutional corruption.) Robb, J.D. et al The Unquiet $7.99 (PBO; Anthology; 5 tales of supernatural romantic suspense, including a new Eve Dallas story) Roker, Al/Lochte, Dick The Midnight Show Murders $7.99 (Billy Blessing #2: Billy is on the West Coast, playing sidekick on a new late-night talk show. When the host is murdered, Billy's sleuthing takes him into Hollywood's back rooms, and into his own past.) Rosen, Delia One Foot in the Gravy $7.99 (Deadly Deli #2: PBO; Gwen gets her first catering gig, for an audience-participation mystery party. It's all good fun until the 'victim' comes crashing through the ceiling, literally smoked to perfection.) Rowlands, Betty Miss Minchin Dies $15.95 (Sukey Reynolds #11: Adelaide Minchin is found dead in her bathroom. The verdict is accidental death, which her GP has challenged. Sukey agrees to make some enquiries, but the case takes a back seat when the body of a teenage girl is found. As the two inquiries proceed, Sukey begins to suspect a link between the deaths.) Royes, Gillian The Goat Woman of Largo Bay $15.00 (Shadrack is a bartender, but also an amateur detective for his small Caribbean community. Eric is an American struggling to rebuild the hotel there. One night, Shad and Eric discover that the shadowy figure they see on a tiny island across the bay is not a goat as they'd thought, but a mysterious woman on the run.) Rozan, S.J. Ghost Hero $25.99 (Lydia Chin / Bill Smith #11: Hired to investigate rumors of newly discovered works by a Chinese artist killed in 1989, Lydia and Bill discover their client isn't who he claims to be, and that another PI is also looking for the paintings.) Sala, Sharon Blood Trails $7.99 (Searchers #3: PBO; In search of her past, Holly leaves her home and Bud, the ranch foreman she's afraid to love, horrified by the knowledge that she might have been fathered by a serial killer. Bud's determination to follow and protect her may not be enough when past terrors reappear in the present.) Sandford, John Bad Blood $9.99 (Virgil Flowers #4: Virgil's investigation into the murder of a farmer at a Minnesota grain elevator uncovers a multi-generation, multi-family conspiracy involving a series of monstrous crimes.) Sandford, John Shock Wave $27.95 (Virgil Flowers #5: When a superstore chain sets its sights on a Minnesota river town, local merchants and environmentalists both want to stop it, but their protests don't seem to be slowing the project down. When a bomb goes off on the top floor of the company's headquarters, and another at the construction site, Virgil must find out who's behind the bombs.) Sands, Stella The Dating Game Killer $7.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; Rodney Alcala is accused of seven murders, and the list may grow as new DNA evidence continues to be uncovered.) Schlink, Bernhard The Weekend $15.00 (After 24 years, Jorg, a convicted murderer and terrorist, is released from prison, and his friends - some of whom were Baader-Meinhof sympathizers - gather in a secluded country home for his first weekend of freedom.) Schwartz, Stephen Jay Boulevard $7.99 (Hayden Glass #1: LAPD detective and recovering sex addict Hayden Glass links a series of murders to a sadistic sexual predator - and finds he's being targeted by his quarry.) Shannon, John A Little Too Much $15.95 (Jack Liffey #13: The search for popular African-American actor Ty Bird, who has disappeared from the set of his new movie, takes PI Jack Liffey to some of the stranger suburbs of Los Angeles.) Spillane, M/Collins, M The Consummata $9.95 (A hard-as-nails criminal on the run agrees to help desperate members of Miami's Cuban-American community track down money that was stolen from them - and winds up neck-deep in murder.) Staub, Wendy Corsi Hell to Pay $7.99 (Live to Tell #3: PBO; Survivors of a serial killer who invaded their childhood, Lucy Walsh and Jeremy Cavalon are married now. Fiercely determined to protect the fragile balance of their lives, Lucy doesn't know that her new husband guards a deadly secret, or that a shadowy predator is still intent on completing his mission.) Stockwin, Julian Victory $16.00 (Thomas Kydd #11: When politics lead to the impeachment of the head of the Navy, Commander Thomas Kydd is forced to take sides, and decides to join Nelson's squadron. At the Battle of Trafalgar, the Royal Navy must prove once and for all that it rules the seas.) Stockwin, Julian Conquest $24.00 (Thomas Kydd #12: After victory at Trafalgar, England now rules the seas. Captain Kydd joins an expedition to take Dutch-held Cape Town, a strategic harbor that will give England a rich trade route to India.) Swanson, Denise Murder of a Creped Suzette $7.99 (Scumble River #14: PBO; Plans to build a country music theater in Scumble River fall flat when a singer is murdered, with motives and suspects stretching back decades.) Thurlo, Aimee & David Never-Ending-Snake $14.99 (Ella Clah #16: Gunfire at an airfield sends Navajo police officer Ella Clah and her companions diving for cover. But who is the target: alternative fuel lobbyist Adam Lonewolf, politician Kevin Tolino, or Ella herself?) Tremayne, Peter The Dove of Death $14.99 (Sister Fidelma #20: AD 670: Pirates attack the ship Sister Fidelma is sailing on, and kill the captain and an Irish prince after they surrender. Once safely ashore, she is determined to bring the killers to justice.) Walsh, Michael Shock Warning $7.99 (Devlin #3: PBO; A devastating biological attack in California threatens to plunge the country into panic and economic chaos just weeks before the presidential election. NSA undercover agent Devlin knows who's behind the mayhem - but can he stop it?) Warner, Penny How to Party with a Killer Vampire $7.99 (Presley Parker #4: PBO; Presley's latest gig is planning a horror film's star-studded wrap party. The graveyard location proves convenient when a tabloid journalist is murdered the night of the big bash.) Webb, Peggy Elvis and the Tropical Double Trouble $23.00 (Southern Cousins #4: When Lovie invites the whole clan to visit her new beau's worksite, Callie and her basset hound head straight for the airport. But the moment they arrive at the dig, Elvis sniffs out a skeleton too fresh to be archaeological.) Westerson, Jeri The Demon's Parchment $14.99 (Crispin Guest #3: Bruce Alexander Memorial Award finalist. A Jewish physician at the King's court wants Crispin to find stolen parchments that might be behind several recent gruesome murders of young boys - parchments that someone might have used to bring forth a demon which now stalks 14th-century London.) Wetta, Stephen If Jack's in Love $25.95 (1967: During the summer that he turns thirteen, Jack, a brilliant boy from a poor family, begins to think, as do most people in his Southern town, that his hippie older brother is responsible for the disappearance of the town's golden boy. To make matters worse, Jack is in love with the missing boy's sister Myra. Mr. Gladstein, the town's jeweler and solitary Jew, is Jack's only friend. Together, they scheme to win Jack Myra's love. But to do that, Jack must overcome the prejudices, both the town's and his own, about himself and his family.) Woodrell, Daniel The Outlaw Album $24.99 (Collection; noir tales of crime and psychological suspense set in the Ozarks) Zuiker/Swierczynski Dark Prophecy $9.99 (Level 26 #2: Steve Dark, who has a one-of-a-kind talent for hunting and catching serial killers, is now a man on a mission - one that no longer requires law enforcement support - as he takes justice to the next level.)

Mid October

Beaton, M.C. As the Pig Turns $24.99 (Agatha Raisin #22: It was supposed to be a pig roast in the village square, but an unpopular local policeman ended up on the spit. The man's ex-wife hires Agatha's detective agency to investigate - and then is murdered too.) Cole, Trevor Practical Jean $13.99 (Jean is an ordinary woman, with a group of close friends and a comfortable marriage. When she sees her mother devastated by cancer, Jean realizes that her fondest wish is to protect her friends from the indignities of aging and illness. That's when she decides to kill them) Connolly, John The Infernals $22.00 (Samuel Johnson #2: The demon Mrs. Abernathy is seeking revenge on Samuel for his part in foiling the invasion of Earth by the forces of evil. When Samuel and his dachshund Boswell are pulled through a portal into the dark realm, she gets her chance. But she hasn't reckoned on the courage and cleverness of the boy and his dog, or the loyalty of Samuel's demon friend Nurd. Most of all she hasn't planned on the intervention of Mr. Merryweather's Elves.) Craig, James London Calling $25.00 (John Carlyle #1: Metropolitan Police Inspector John Carlyle must navigate the treacherous realm of the British political system to protect the life of the Prime Minister.) Davis, Lindsey Shadows in Bronze $16.99 (Falco #02: Reissue; Disguised as an idle vacationer in the company of his best friend Petronius, Falco travels from the Isle of Capreae to Neapolis and then to Pompeii to uncover the conspiracy behind an act of treason.) de Castrique, Mark The Sandburg Connection $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (Sam Blackman #3: Hired to trail the plaintiff in a malpractice suit and catch her in physical activities that undercut her claim, Sam follows her to Carl Sandburg's home, where she climbs the arduous trail to the top of Glassy Mountain. Sam believes he has the evidence to wrap up the case, until he finds her bleeding on the mountain's granite outcropping. Did she stumble and fall, or did someone cause her death?) Gorman, Ed Ticket to Ride $14.95 (Sam McCain #7: 1965: Sam McCain is spending Labor Day weekend with some old friends. Some of their old grudges and rivalries seem silly - until two of them are murdered, and the motive seems buried in the past.) Gorman, Ed Bad Moon Rising $25.00 (Sam McCain #8: The murder of a wealthy young woman sparks a backlash against the hippie commune that has recently arrived in Black River Falls; PI Sam McCain finds himself in the middle of the controversy.) Hanson, Victor Davis The End of Sparta $28.00 (The battles of one of the greatest generals of ancient Greece, Epaminondas, are seen through the eyes of Melon, a farmer who leaves his fields to serve in the army and help spread democracy. ) Harlow, Jennifer Mind Over Monsters $14.95 (FREAKS Squad #1: When she joins a top-secret offshoot of the FBI that handles supernatural threats, Beatrice must learn to control her telekinetic powers while tracking down a cunning necromancer.) Koontz, Dean What the Night Knows $9.99 (After police officer Kirby Wayland finds a stray dog along the highway, he decides to take a road trip with the dog - a trip that brings a series of rapidly escalating adventures and turns into a hair-raising quest.) Lawton, John A Lily of the Field $14.95 (Frederick Troy: Moves from 1934 Vienna, where we meet young cellist Meret Voytek and her music teacher Viktor Rosen, by way of Auschwitz and Los Alamos, to 1948 London, where Voytek and Rosen become persons of interest in Inspector Troy's investigation into the murder of a painter suspected of being a Soviet sleeper agent.) Leonard, Elmore Djibouti $14.99 (In Djibouti to make a documentary, filmmaker Dara Barr finds more than she expected: pirates, a Saudi diplomat with dubious connections, a billionaire American who loves to fire his 600 caliber elephant gun, and an al Qaeda terrorist from Miami who wants to blow up something big.) Lindsay, Jeff Double Dexter $25.95 (Dexter #6: Not pleased to discover that someone is shadowing him, observing him, and copying his methods, Dexter plans to deal with the copycat in his own way.) O'Connell, Robert L. The Ghosts of Cannae $17.00 (Nonfiction; Carthage's triumph over Rome at Cannae in 216 BC has inspired reverence and awe. Military historian O'Connell tells the whole story of Cannae for the first time: the battle, its causes, and its consequences.) Palahniuk, Chuck Damned $24.95 (Abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over the holidays, Madison dies of an overdose, and finds herself in hell, sharing her cell with a cheerleader, a jock, a nerd, and a punk rocker. They set out to confront Satan in his citadel.) Pendleton, Don Hazard Zone $5.99 (Executioner #395: PBO; After a US senator's daughter is murdered at a Jamaican luxury resort, her body is used to unleash chemical warfare on the US. To get the operator behind the attack, Bolan may need to bring the battle back to Washington.) Pendleton, Don Extermination $6.99 (Stony Man #115: PBO; Stony Man must stop the spread of a plague that induces the ravages of starvation in less than a day.) Pendleton, Don Treason Play $6.99 (SuperBolan #145: PBO; After an American journalist disappears in Dubai, his tortured corpse turns up, and Bolan jumps into action to stop the launch of a nuke somewhere in the Middle East.) Reichs, Kathy Seizure $17.99 (Virals #2: YA; The Loggerhead Island Research Center is out of funding and might have to shut down. To save it, Tory and her friends go looking for Anne Bonney's pirate treasure - but they aren't the only ones, and this time, their special powers may not be enough to dig them out of trouble.) Royal, Priscilla Wine of Violence $14.95 (Prioress Eleanor #1: Reissue; 1270: Tyndal's inexperienced new prioress must struggle to gain the respect of her terrified and resentful flock when a monk's body is found murdered in the cloister gardens.) Stuart, Sebastian Dead by Any Other Name $14.95 (Janet's Planet #2: A singer sells her funky jewelry to Janet for some fast cash so she can move to Los Angeles. Hours later, the woman allegedly leaps to her death. Suspecting foul play, Janet investigates and discovers seamy secrets.) Tesh, Jane Stolen Hearts $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (David Randall #1: PI David Randall has a talent for finding things. Thrown out by his second wife, he reluctantly accepts his psychic friend Camden's invitation to stay at his boarding house. Melanie Gentry hires him to prove that her great-grandmother was killed by her lover over authorship of a song. Is there a connection to the murder of the director of a new documentary on early American music?) Thor, Brad The Athena Project $9.99 (A new US counter-terrorism unit recruits top-level female athletes to be trained and deployed as elite female warriors.) Westerson, Jeri Troubled Bones $25.99 (Crispin Guest #4: Dispatched to Canterbury, Guest finds himself surrounded by pilgrims, looking for a murderer, a hidden heretic, and the person who's been sending the archbishop letters threatening the bones of martyred saint Thomas a Beckett.) Wilson, F. Paul The Dark at the End $25.99 (Repairman Jack #15: The stage is set for Jack's massive assault. He knows he's got just one shot to take out Rasalom. But he must also safely retrieve Dawn Pickering's child and minimize collateral damage. Luckily, he has a foolproof plan.)

Early November

Adams, Riley Hickory Smoked Homicide $7.99 (Memphis BBQ #3: PBO; Lulu doesn't like Tristan Pembroke, a snooty pageant coach with a mean streak. So when she finds his body stuffed in a closet at a party, the police are suspicious.) Alexander, Tasha A Crimson Warning $24.99 (Lady Emily #6: An audacious vandal is creating turmoil in London, splashing red paint on the homes of the elite and then revealing the inhabitants' scandalous secrets. Lady Emily and her husband Colin must track down the culprit.) Ash, Maureen A Deadly Penance $14.00 (Templar Knight #6: PBO; Bascot de Marins is summoned to Lincoln Castle to investigate the murder of a married woman's servant lover. The jealous husband had a motive, but Bascot discovers the victim had many more potential enemies.) Baldacci, David Zero Day $27.99 (John Puller #1: US Army investigator John Puller tackles the murders of an Army man and his wife, who worked for a Pentagon contractor, and discovers that nothing and no one in the remote small town are what they seem.) Benison, C.C. Twelve Drummers Drumming $22.00 (Tom Christmas #1: The new vicar in picturesque Thornford Regis, Tom Christmas thought he and his daughter had left violence behind in the city. Then, at the town fair, a woman is found murdered. Tom soon concludes that one of his parishioners must be the killer, and discovers that everyone in town has secrets.) Bond, L/DeFelice, J Edge of War $7.99 (Red Dragon Rising #2: A CIA officer struggles to get a scientist and a young witness to Chinese atrocities out of Hanoi, while a US Army Advisor is tasked with preventing the Chinese from landing on Vietnam's coast.) Brightwell, Emily Mrs. Jeffries and the Mistletoe Mix-up $23.95 (Mrs. Jeffries #29: Under a bundle of mistletoe, art collector Daniel McCourt lies with his throat slit by a sword. Inspector Witherspoon, ably assisted by sharp-witted housekeeper Mrs. Jeffries, is determined to solve the case before the eggnog is ladled out on Christmas Eve.) Burke, James Lee In the Electric Mist with the Confederate Dead $9.99 (Robicheaux #06: Reissue; The skeletal remains of a black man that have washed up in the Atchafalaya swamp take detective Dave Robicheaux back to an unsolved murder that he witnessed in 1957.) Burton, Jaci The Heart of a Killer $7.99 (PBO; After 12 years in the Special Forces, Dante Renaldi returns home only to find himself embroiled in a series of murders being investigated by his ex- girlfriend, detective Anna Pallino.) Cameron, Marc National Security $7.99 (Three Middle Eastern terrorists have been injected with a biological weapon, human time bombs unleashed on American soil. It's up to special agent Jericho Quinn - Air Force veteran, champion boxer, trained assassin - to stop them.) Casey, Elizabeth Lynn Dangerous Alterations $7.99 (Southern Sewing Circle #5: PBO; When Tori Sinclair's philandering ex turns up dead, the police chief believes it's murder, and that Tori may have been involved. It's up to the sewing circle girls to keep her life from coming apart at the seams.) Christie, Agatha Peril at End House $12.99 (Hercule Poirot #07: Reissue; On holiday on the Cornish Riviera, Poirot is alarmed to hear a pretty young woman describe her recent accidental brushes with death. The brakes on her car failed, a falling boulder missed her by inches, and an oil painting fell and almost crushed her in bed. Then Poirot finds a bullet hole in her sun hat. Can he find the would-be killer before he hits his target?) Christie, Agatha Hercule Poirot's Christmas (alternate title: A Holiday for Murder / Murder for Christmas) $12.99 (Hercule Poirot #19: Reissue; Tthe Lee family's Christmas Eve reunion is shattered by a crash of furniture and a wailing scream. Upstairs, the tyrannical Simeon Lee lies dead in a pool of blood, his throat slashed. When Poirot offers to assist, he finds an atmosphere of mutual suspicion. It seems everyone had a reason to hate the old man.) Christie, Agatha Mrs. McGinty's Dead (alternate title: Blood Will Tell) $12.99 (Hercule Poirot #28: Reissue; Mrs. McGinty died from a brutal blow to the back of her head. Suspicion falls on her lodger, yet James Bentley just doesn't seem like a murderer. Could the answer lie in an article clipped from a newspaper two days before the death? With a desperate killer still free, Poirot will have to stay alive long enough to find out.) Christie, Agatha Elephants Can Remember $12.99 (Hercule Poirot #37: Reissue; On a clifftop, many years earlier, there had been a fatal accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two bodies - a husband and wife who had been shot dead. But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves into the past to find answers.) Christie, Agatha Curtain: Poirot's Last Case $12.99 (Hercule Poirot #39: Reissue; Back at Great Styles, the rambling country house where they solved their first murder together, Poirot and Captain Hastings must stop one of the seemingly harmless guests, a five-time murderer, from claiming a sixth victim.) Christie, Agatha Star Over Bethlehem $12.99 (Collection; poems and holiday stories) Clark, Mary Jane To Have and to Kill $7.99 (Wedding Cake #1: After agreeing to create a wedding cake for the star of a daytime drama, Piper Donovan finds herself investigating - with the help of a handsome FBI agent - when someone close to the bride-to-be is murdered.) Cleeves, Ann Blue Lightning $14.99 (Shetland Island #4: Inspector Jimmy Perez takes his fiancee Fran home to Fair Isle to meet his parents. When a local married celebrity, who had an eye for the lads, is murdered, Perez discovers that the suspects are very close to him indeed.) Collins, Kate To Catch a Leaf $7.99 (Flower Shop #12: PBO; When wealthy dowager Virginia Newport is killed, Abby's assistant Grace is the prime suspect. The plot thickens when they stumble upon stolen art and a missing cat, all part of an elaborate heist.) Crawford, Isis A Catered Thanksgiving $7.99 (Simmons Sisters #7: Bernie and Libby must uncover a killer when they cater a wealthy clan's Thanksgiving dinner and the turkey explodes, killing the head of the family.) Cussler, Clive & Dirk Crescent Dawn $9.99 (Dirk Pitt #21: In AD 327, a Roman galley barely escapes a pirate attack with its extraordinary cargo. In 1916, a British warship mysteriously explodes in the North Sea. In the present day, important mosques in Turkey and Egypt are wracked by explosions. Does anything tie them together? Dirk Pitt is about to find out.) Dorsey, Tim When Elves Attack $16.99 (Serge Storms #14: The big-hearted Sunshine State psychopath delivers his own special brand of holiday cheer. And for his addled buddy Coleman, well, there's nothing like a white Christmas. Let it snow!) Doss, James D. A Dead Man's Tale $7.99 (Charlie Moon #15: A Wall Street whiz who claims he knows the future bets Chief of Police Scott Parish, Moon's best friend, that Parish can't keep him alive. Reed gives them the date and time, but even so, the Ute rancher ends up with not one but two homicides on his hands.) Duncan, Elizabeth J. A Killer's Christmas in Wales $24.99 (Penny Brannigan #3: A charming American stranger convinces widow Evelyn Lloyd to invest money with him. When he disappears, along with her money, then turns up dead with Mrs. Lloyd's letter opener in his back, Mrs. Lloyd asks Penny to help prove her innocence.) Dunnett, Kaitlyn Scotched $22.00 (Liss MacCrimmon #5: When Moosetookalook hosts a mystery conference, a hated reviewer takes a swan dive off a scenic lookout. The conference is brimming with potential suspects. Can Liss figure out which writer belongs in the true-crime section?) Ellis, Kate The Jackal Man $12.95 (Wesley Peterson #15: DI Wesley Peterson and his team look for a murderous attacker described as a man with a dog's head; hired to examine a collection of Egyptian artifacts, archaeologist Neil Watson uncovers secrets that someone is desperate to keep hidden.) Estleman, Loren D. Alone $15.99 (Valentino #2: Rankin tells Valentino he's being blackmailed by his assistant over a letter Greta Garbo wrote to his late wife; Valentino finds Rankin, gun in hand, by his assistant's dead body.) Ferey, Caryl Utu $15.00 (When a cop friend supposedly commits suicide, hard on the heels of the death of a Maori healer accused of orchestrating a series of murders, Paul Osborne heads to New Zealand in search of the truth. He suspects that truth is hidden in the healer's practices and mysterious demise, and retraces his dead friend's steps into a world of occult mystery.) Fleeman, Michael Love You Madly $7.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; the story of a small-town teenager, the young men who would do anything for her, and the murder of her mother.) Flint, Shamini A Most Peculiar Malaysian Murder $14.95 (Inspector Singh #1: A famous model is on death row for the murder of her ex-husband. She swears she didn't do it; Singh also thinks she didn't do it, and heads from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur to investigate.) Flynn, Vince Kill Shot $27.99 (Mitch Rapp Prequel #2: Sent to assassinate a Libyan diplomat in Paris, Rapp is wounded and must flee for his life. As publicity explodes around the incident, one of his handlers decides to make sure that Rapp won't be alive for the French authorities to capture.) Goldenbaum, Sally A Holiday Yarn $14.00 (Seaside Knitters #4: Mary Pisano converts her home into a B&B. Her first week is booked by her own family, in town to discuss their grandfather's will. When her cousin Pam is murdered, she relies on the Seaside Knitters to unravel the crime.) Gregory, Susanna Mystery in the Minster $26.95 (Matthew Bartholomew #17: 1358: Traveling to York with a deputation to claim a disputed legacy from the Archbishop, physician Matthew Bartholomew learns that several of the Archbishop's executors have died mysteriously, and that the codicil naming Michaelhouse as a beneficiary has disappeared.) Hart, Carolyn Ghost in Trouble $7.99 (Bailey Ruth #3: Bailey Ruth's latest mission for Heaven's Department of Good Intentions: save the woman who was one of her worst enemies.) Hechtman, Betty You Better Knot Die $7.99 (Crochet #5: When her neighbor's husband goes missing, and then a suicide note arrives, Molly smells something fishy and, despite the protests of her detective boyfriend, is determined to unravel the mystery.) Hechtman, Betty Behind the Seams $24.95 (Crochet #6: CeeCee Collins has a movie out, and is scheduled to appear on a talk show. Molly and the other Hookers tag along, and wind up investigating when CeeCee's niece Nell is accused of poisoning one of the show's producers.) Hillerman, Tony Finding Moon $9.99 (Reissue; 1975: A phone call tells Moon Mathais that his dead brother's baby daughter - a child Moon never knew existed - is waiting for him in Southeast Asia. In Vietnam, he finds a chilling world of mystery and silence, disguise and deception, but he'll risk everything for the child's sake.) Hillerman, Tony The Fly on the Wall $9.99 (Reissue; Ace reporter John Cotton finds his best friend's corpse sprawled in the central rotunda of the US Capitol. Suddenly Cotton knows too much about a scandal involving a senatorial candidate, a million-dollar scam, and a murder. And powerful people are willing to kill him to keep their secrets hidden.) Hillerman, Tony The Dark Wind $9.99 (Leaphorn & Chee #05: Reissue; A corpse with its palms and soles removed after death is the first of a string of disturbing occurrences: a nighttime plane crash, a vanished shipment of cocaine, and an attack on a windmill. Navajo Tribal Police sergeant Jim Chee must deal with an ill wind caused by Navajo sorcery and white man's greed.) Hillerman, Tony Skinwalkers $9.99 (Leaphorn & Chee #07: Reissue; When three shotgun blasts rip through Jim Chee's trailer, Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn wonders why Officer Chee was a target, and if there's a connection to a series of murders on the reservation. The investigation leads them to rumors of Navajo witchcraft.) Hillerman, Tony The Sinister Pig $9.99 (Leaphorn & Chee #16: Reissue; Sergeant Jim Chee is troubled by a nameless corpse discovered just inside his jurisdiction, especially when the FBI insists on taking over the case. Suspicion of the Feds brings Joe Leaphorn out of retirement, but it's Bernadette Manuelito, now working for the Border Patrol, who uncovers the link to a conspiracy of greed and murder.) Hilton, Matt Slash and Burn $9.99 (Joe Hunter #3: Kate Piers, the sister of a deceased comrade in arms, approaches Joe to help find her missing sister Imogen. The search takes them to Imogen's hometown, and to Robert Huffman, a local businessman with links to organized crime. He's also looking for Imogen - and kidnaps Kate to act as bait.) Hoag, Tami Secrets to the Grave $9.99 (Oak Knoll #2: Detective Tony Mendez and teacher turned child advocate Anne Leone investigate when a woman is found brutally murdered and the only witness is her young daughter.) Horowitz, Anthony The House of Silk $27.99 HC, $29.98 Unabridged Audiobook (Authorized by the Arthur Conan Doyle estate, details being kept under wraps until the release date.) Kelly, Diane Death, Taxes, and a French Manicure $7.99 (Tara Holloway #1: PBO; IRS agent Tara Holloway is on the trail of a con artist running a Ponzi scheme, apparently with the help of a banker whose home is being landscaped by Brett Ellington - who happens to be dating Tara.) King/Klinger (ed) A Study in Sherlock $15.00 Trade PB, $29.95 HC (PBO; Anthology; original stories inspired by the Holmes canon) Kingsbury, Kate Mistletoe and Mayhem $7.99 (Pennyfoot Hotel #18 / Pennyfoot Hotel Christmas #6: After a footman and a new maid are seen kissing under the hotel's holiday kissing bough, they turn up dead. Cecily must find the killer before everyone's cheer turns to fear.) Kingsbury, Kate Herald of Death $15.00 (Pennyfoot Hotel #19 / Pennyfoot Hotel Christmas #7: PBO; A killer is afoot in Badger's End, sticking a gold angel on his victims' foreheads. Cecily had promised her husband she'd take a hiatus from sleuthing, but with the killings hurting business at the hotel, she needs to stop the angel of death.) Lane, Andrew Death Cloud $9.99 (Young Sherlock #1: YA; 1868: 14-year-old Sherlock Holmes and his American tutor investigate when two people die from symptoms that resemble the plague. (Endorsed by the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Literary Estate)) Lapidus, Jens Easy Money $26.95 (As three men attempt to carve out niches in coke dealing and organized crime, they find that both the Stockholm police and the local gangs are closing in on them.) Lasseter, D/Bowers, R Date with the Devil $6.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; Hollywood attorney David Mahler shot aspiring actress Kristin Baldwin and dumped her body in the desert.) Ludlum, R/Lynds, G The Hades Factor $9.99 (Covert-One #1: Reissue; Lt. Colonel Jon Smith puts together a team to uncover the source of the doomsday virus that killed a research scientist, and prevent it from turning into a pandemic.) Maitland, Barry Chelsea Mansions $25.99 (Brock & Kolla #11: Scotland Yard believes the murder of an American tourist at the Chelsea Flower Show was a random act - until they discover that the killer somehow avoided all the closed circuit cameras. Another killing, at an estate garden near the hotel where the tourist was staying, leads the team to the US and back.) Markham, Q.R. Assassin of Secrets $14.99 (Jonathan Chase, the CIA's top field agent, risks his biggest asset to defeat an organization that's selling sensitive state secrets to the highest bidder.) Maron, Margaret Christmas Mourning $7.99 (Deborah Knott #16: When a cheerleader dies in a car crash, her North Carolina community is devastated. Deputy Bryant soon learns her death was no accident; more lives may be lost unless he and Deborah can uncover the truth.) Marsh, S/Pancevski, B I'm No Monster $9.99 (Nonfiction; Josef Fritzl held his daughter captive as a sex slave, and fathered seven children with her, creating a hidden family even Fritzl's wife didn't know about.) Martin, Kat Against the Storm $7.99 (Raines #4: PBO; Maggie O'Connell turns to Army Ranger turned PI Trace Rawlins for help. She's been receiving menacing calls and messages - but Trace's search for the source leads him to a secret no one was meant to uncover.) McNab, Andy Battlefield 3 $9.99 (Novel based on the video game.) Meredith, D.E. The Devil's Ribbon $25.99 (Hatton & Roumande #2: 1858: Forensic scientist Adolphus Hatton and his assistant Albert Roumande investigate a series of linked murders for Scotland Yard, and work to unravel a bombing campaign led by an Irish agitator.) Mortimer, John Forever Rumpole $30.00 (Collection; reprints 14 mystery stories plus a fragment) Mosley, Walter The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey $15.00 (An experimental drug guarantees that 91-year-old Ptolemy Grey won't live to see 92, but that he will spend his last days in feverish vigor and clarity. With his mind clear, what Ptolemy finds - in his own past, in his own apartment, and in the circumstances surrounding his grandnephew's death in a drive-by shooting - is shocking enough to spur an old man to action, and to ensure a legacy that no one will forget.) Muller, Marcia City of Whispers $25.99 (Sharon McCone #28: When her emotionally disturbed brother Darcy sends an email asking for help, then doesn't respond to her reply, PI Sharon McCone heads to San Francisco to search for him.) Novak, Brenda In Close $7.99 (In #3: PBO; Claire O'Toole and her ex Isaac Morgan look for answers behind the string of tragedies that have haunted the O'Toole family.) Patterson, J/Rust, N The Gift $9.99 (Witch & Wizard #2: Kids; After one of their best friends is executed by the ruthless leader of the New Order, teenagers Wisty and Whit Allgood resolve to end the evil regime's occupation and find their missing parents.) Perry, Anne A Christmas Vigil: A Christmas Promise / A Christmas Odyssey $15.00 (Christmas #7 / #8: Reprints two Victorian Christmas novellas full of holiday magic - and murder) Perry, Anne A Christmas Homecoming $18.00 (Christmas #9: Novella; Charlotte Pitt's mother Caroline travels up the Yorkshire coast with her husband and his troupe of actors. Their destination is Whitby, home to theatrical patron Charles Netheridge, whose daughter has written a stage adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula. But instead of theatrical triumph, there is a shocking murder.) Preston, D/Child, L Gideon's Sword $7.99 (Gideon Crew #1: Rogue operative Gideon Crew is assigned to tail a Chinese scientist and steal the plans for a new weapon of mass destruction. When the scientist is killed and the plans stolen, Gideon follows a trail of clues to an uninhabited island, where he comes face to face with his nemesis - and learns that what he thought was the ultimate weapon is something far more frightening.) Purser, Ann Threats at Three $7.99 (Lois Meade #10: Detective Cowgill believes a dead body found in the canal is connected to a suspicious fire and the heated dispute over saving the village hall; the ever reliable Lois Meade sorts out the culprits.) Rankin, Ian The Complaints $14.99 (Malcolm Fox #1: Nobody likes The Complaints - cops who investigate other cops. It's where Malcolm Fox works. Cop Jamie Breck is dirty, but no one can prove it. When Fox is given the case, he learns that there's more to Breck than anyone thinks - dangerous knowledge, especially when a vicious murder takes place far too close to home.) Rees, Matt Mozart's Last Aria $14.99 (Austria, 1791: While attempting to uncover the truth about her brother's suspicious death, Mozart's sister stumbles into a web of suspicion and intrigue involving rival composers, jealous lovers, and sinister creditors, where even Mozart's Masonic brothers harbor dark secrets.) Robinson, Gina The Spy Who Left Me $7.99 (Agent Ex #1: PBO; Being married to a spy isn't all it's cracked up to be. He's never home, and he's always keeping secrets. But when Treflee Miller runs into Ty, her gorgeous soon-to-be-ex, on vacation on Hawaii, they can't blow his cover.) Robinson, Peter Bad Boy $7.99 (Inspector Banks #19: When a woman reports that she found a loaded gun hidden in her daughter's bedroom, it turns out her daughter's best friend is DCI Banks' daughter Tracy - last seen racing off to warn the gun's owner, a very bad boy indeed. To save Tracy's life, Banks and his partner will have to outsmart this psychopath.) Sandford, John Mind Prey $9.99 (Lucas Davenport #7: Reissue; Detective Lucas Davenport is up against a wanton killer who knows more about mind games than Lucas does. And with a female psychiatrist in his trap, he's already one step ahead of Lucas.) Sidebottom, Harry King of Kings $15.95 (Warrior of Rome #2: In Rome, Christian fervor has taken root throughout the populace, creating new struggles for power. And the bloody expansion of the frontier continues as the Sassanid forces push eastward. General Ballista must keep his wits about him and his sword at his side as the emperor and Rome test his loyalty and courage.) Smith, Alexander McCall The Charming Quirks of Others $14.00 (Isabel Dalhousie #7: Bernie and Libby must uncover a killer when they cater a wealthy clan's Thanksgiving dinner and the turkey explodes, killing the head of the family. Includes recipes.) Staab, Rochelle Who Do, Voodoo? $7.99 (Mind for Murder #1: Clinical psychologist Liz Cooper doesn't believe in ghosts. But when her best friend is accused of murder after finding a tarot card tacked to her door, Liz will have to find a way to embrace the occult if she wants to outwit the real killer.) Stanton, Mary Angel Condemned $7.99 (Beaufort & Company #5: PBO; Representing her Aunt Cissy's fiance, museum curator Prosper White, in a case of fraud, Bree hopes to settle the matter out of court. But when Prosper is murdered and Cissy is arrested for the crime, Bree will have to solve the mystery of the Cross of Justinian - an artifact of interest in both Prosper's lawsuit and Bree's celestial case - to clear her aunt's name.) Starr, Douglas The Killer of Little Shepherds $16.00 (Edgar Award finalist. Nonfiction; in late 19th-century France, Emile Forquet's painstaking police work and Dr. Alexandre Lacassagne's forensic investigation lead to the arrest and conviction of serial murderer Joseph Vacher) Thurlo, Aimee & David Black Thunder $24.99 (Ella Clah #17: Navajo cop Ella Clah and her team work with the New Mexico police to identify a group of bodies found buried on both sides of the Reservation border; the investigators are frustrated when they can't find any connections between the victims.) Tremayne, Peter Chalice of Blood $25.99 (Sister Fidelma #21: Ireland, AD 670: When an eminent scholar is murdered in his cell at the Abbey of Lios Mor, Sister Fidelma and her companion Brother Eadulf are summoned to look for the killer, and for the manuscripts apparently stolen from the scholar's room.) Vachss, Andrew The Weight $15.00 (The cops offer Sugar, an old-school professional thief, a deal: give up his jewelry heist partners, or go away for a crime he didn't commit. For Sugar, that's not two options. When he finishes his time, his cut of the heist is waiting for him - along with a loose thread involving another member of the heist crew. And in Sugar's world, all loose threads must be cut.) Vargas, Fred An Uncertain Place $15.00 (Commissaire Adamsberg #6: To solve a ghastly and highly unusual murder, Adamsberg delves into the victim's disturbed psyche, and finds himself on a path that takes him deep into the haunted past of Eastern Europe, where a centuries-old horror has come to life and is claiming victims far and wide.) Viets, Elaine Death on a Platter $7.99 (Josie Marcus #7: PBO; When a customer at Tillie's Off the Hill Italian Restaurant is poisoned, was the victim the real target, or is someone trying to ruin Tillie's reputation? It's up to Josie to find the killer.) Washburn, Livia J. The Pumpkin Muffin Murder $7.99 (Fresh-Baked #5: Phyllis hopes to win the baking contest at a festival, but it's her sleuthing skills that are needed when the festival's decorative scarecrow turns out to be a disguised dead body.) Willig, Lauren The Mischief of the Mistletoe $15.00 (Pink Carnation #7: Arabella Dempsey accepts a position at a quiet girl's school in Regency Bath, never imagining that she and Reginald Fitzhugh will end up on a Yuletide adventure, with the fate of the British Empire resting in their hands in the form of a festive Christmas pudding.) Wilson, F. Paul Fatal Error $7.99 (Repairman Jack #14: Jack helps Munir Habib, whose family has been kidnapped. Meanwhile, the Septimus Order and the Kickers seem to be working in concert to open the way for the Otherness. And when Dawn Pickering delivers her baby, it's whisked away, but the glimpse she gets terrifies her. Later she's told the baby died, but she doesn't believe it, and neither do Weezy and Jack.)

Mid November

Brokaw, Charles The Temple Mount Code $25.99 (Thomas Lourds #3: Summoned to Jerusalem by an old friend, linguist Thomas Lourds must track down an ancient text rumored to contain a secret that will allow its owner to rule all of Islam.) Bruen, Ken The Devil $14.99 (Jack Taylor #8: Seven days, six characters, and three interconnected story strands with a common core - the dervish house, a character in itself - set in Istanbul. It's 2027, and Turkey is the largest, most populous, and most diverse nation in the EU, but also one of the poorest and most socially divided. It's a boom economy, the sweatshop of Europe, the bazaar of central Asia, the key to the immense gas wealth of Russia and central Asia - and it seems like everybody wants a piece of it.) Carter, Philip Altar of Bones $9.99 (A murdered homeless woman's cryptic dying words send a young woman across the globe, searching for an ancient religious icon housing a secret others will kill to possess.) Chang, Henry Red Jade $14.00 (Jack Yu #3: NYPD Detective Jack Yu's investigation of the deaths of a young man and woman in Chinatown reveals links to the criminal underworld, and leads him across the country to Seattle's Chinatown.) Corby, Gary The Ionia Sanction $24.99 (Nicolaos #2: Hired by Pericles to find out who murdered a diplomat, Nico finds himself on a mission to Ephesus to stop a plot to invade Athens.) Daheim, Mary The Alpine Vengeance $7.99 (Emma Lord #22: Emma and Sheriff Dodge look into a series of letters that claim to know the truth about a long-ago murder.) Davis, Lindsey Nemesis $14.99 (Falco #20: AD 77: When a mutilated corpse turns up in the marshes near Rome, Falco and Petronius investigate. Then Chief Spy Anacrites snatches the case from them - the violent Claudii, who live rough in the marshes, have acquired his corrupt protection. Encouraged by Anacrites' enemies, Falco and Petronius continue investigating as a killer keeps taking victims.) Doherty, P.C. Templar Magician $25.99 (Templars #2: Against the bloody background of the Crusades, Robert de Payens and Edward Sendal find themselves caught up in a murder mystery when Raymond, Count of Tripoli, is assassinated.) Doss, James D. Coffin Man $25.99 (Charlie Moon #16: Tribal investigator Charlie Moon looks for a pregnant teenager. Did she run away, or was she taken, or is she hiding out somewhere?) Eco, Umberto The Prague Cemetery $27.00 (Set in 19th-century Europe, the story of a secret agent who weaves plots, conspiracies, intrigues, and attacks, and helps determine the historical and political fate of the Continent. ) Evanovich, Janet Explosive Eighteen $28.00 (Stephanie Plum #18: What happens next? Details being kept under wraps until the release date.) Finch, Charles A Burial at Sea $24.99 (Charles Lenox #5: 1873: With English spies turning up dead on French soil, the government sends Charles Lenox on a secret mission to the Suez Canal. On the voyage there, a brutal murder puts him on the trail of a shipboard killer.) Grafton, Sue V Is for Vengeance $27.95 HC, $45.00 audiobook (Kinsey Millhone #22: An elegant but ruthless businessman, whose dealings are definitely outside the law, is the spider at the center of a web of apparently unrelated incidents.) Greenwood, Kerry Introducing the Honorable Phryne Fisher: Cocaine Blues / Flying Too High / Murder on the Ballarat Train $24.95 (Phryne Fisher #01 / #02 / #03: Omnibus reprint; three entertaining and action-packed adventures featuring the intrepid female PI in 1920s Australia.) Greenwood, Kerry A Question of Death $19.95 (Phryne Fisher: Collection; short stories and miscellany featuring the intrepid female PI in 1920s Australia.) Groundwater, Beth A Real Basket Case $14.95 (Claire Hanover #1: In a moment of weakness, Claire lets her aerobics instructor come to her house to give her a massage. When the man is killed in her bedroom and her husband Roger is arrested for murder, Claire is determined to clear his name and save her marriage.) Hautman, Pete Blank Confession $8.99 (YA; Minnesota Book Award winner. Shayne Blank is the new kid in town. He's not afraid of anything. His background doesn't add up. And when he goes to the police to confess to a murder, it becomes clear that there's more to Shayne and his story than meets the eye.) Iggulden, Conn Empire of Silver $16.00 (Khan Empire #4: Three sons of Genghis survive, but one misstep will mean the destruction of everything their father left them. They must build a legacy of their own - and a city in the wilderness.) Kaaberbol, L/Friis, A The Boy in the Suitcase $24.00 (Nina Borg #1: When an estranged friend leaves Red Cross nurse Nina Borg a key to a locker at the Copenhagen train station, begging her to take care of the contents, Nina discovers a suitcase with a three-year-old boy inside. Nina tries to figure out who the boy is, where he belongs, and exactly who is hunting him down.) Klavan, Andrew The Identity Man $14.95 (John Shannon is a thief on the run after being framed for murder. A foreigner who calls himself the Identity Man offers Shannon a chance to start again. Just as Shannon feels within sight of redemption, all hell breaks loose.) Maron, Margaret Three-Day Town $25.99 (Deborah Knott #17: Finally off for their honeymoon, complete with a stay at an Upper West Side apartment, Deborah and Dwight are supposed to deliver a package to Lt. Sigrid Harald of the NYPD. But when she comes to pick it up, the package is missing and the building's super has been murdered.) May, Peter Chinese Whispers $14.95 (China Thrillers #6: Uproar over the Beijing Ripper puts detective Li Yan in the spotlight; the results of Margaret Campbell's autopsy on one of the victims send shockwaves through the investigation. Then Yan starts receiving personal letters from the killer . . .) McManus, Patrick F. The Huckleberry Murders $16.00 (Bo Tully #4: Blight County, Idaho, Sheriff Bo Tully has his hands full when an elderly rancher's disappearance leads to the discovery of four dead bodies in a huckleberry patch.) Meade, Amy Patricia Well-Offed in Vermont $14.95 (Pret' Near Perfect #1: Having just moved from Manhattan to Vermont, Stella and Nick find a dead man in their well, and set out to question the quirky locals. They just might be able to help Sheriff Mills solve a murder.) Moore, Graham The Sherlockian $14.99 (When the world's leading expert on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle announces that he's found the author's fabled missing diary, then turns up dead, literary researcher and Holmes enthusiast Harold White takes up the search for the killer and the diary.) Patterson, J/Ledwidge, M Tick Tock $14.99 (Michael Bennett #4: A bomb set in one of New York City's busiest places is discovered before it explodes, but relief turns to terror when the police realize it is just a warning of greater devastation to come.) Pendleton, Don Fatal Combat $5.99 (Executioner #396: PBO; When civilians in Detroit start turning up dead from knife wounds, the President suspects low-tech domestic terrorism, and sends Bolan to bring down those responsible.) Rankin, Ian The Impossible Dead $25.99 (Malcolm Fox #2: In a major inquiry into a neighboring police force, an entire station-house looks to have been compromised. The trail leads Fox back in time to the suicide of a prominent politician and activist. There are secrets buried in the past, and reputations on the line.) Robinson, Cynthia The Barbary Dogs $24.99 (Max Bravo #2: When failed writer Frank Kelly takes a leap off the Golden Gate Bridge, gay opera singer Max Bravo acquires his old friend's journal, and is soon following the dead man through a foggy landscape of artistic manias and romantic intrigues. Along the way, he encounters a motley group of crackpots, bohemians, and wily ghosts who refuse to stay buried in the Barbary Coast past.) Springer, Nancy The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline $6.99 (Enola Holmes #5: Kids; Edgar Award finalist. 14- year-old Enola comes home to find her landlady Mrs. Tupper has been kidnapped. Who would take her, and why? And what does Florence Nightingale have to do with it?) Springer, Nancy The Case of the Gypsy Good-bye $6.99 (Enola Holmes #6: Kids; As Enola searches for the missing Lady Blanchefleur del Campo, she discovers that her brother Sherlock is looking for her - only Enola can decipher a message from their long-lost mother.) Waites, Martyn Speak No Evil $14.95 (Joe Donovan #4: When Anne Marie was eleven, she killed a little boy. Forty years later, she tries to make peace with her past by telling her story to journalist Joe Donovan. Then another boy is murdered . . .)