Uncle Hugo's Science Fiction Bookstore Uncle Edgar's Mystery Bookstore 2864 Chicago Avenue, Minneapolis, MN 55407
Newsletter #97 March - May 2012
Hours: M-F 10 am to 8 pm Sat. 10 am to 6 pm Sun. Noon to 5 pm Uncle Hugo's 612-824-6347 Uncle Edgar's 612-824-9984 Fax 612-827-6394 E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.UncleHugo.com
Sales
The 38th Anniversary Sale runs Friday, March 2, through Sunday, March 11, giving you two weekends to take advantage of the sale. Uncle Hugo's is the oldest surviving science fiction bookstore in the United States. We opened for business on March 2, 1974. To encourage you to help us celebrate Uncle Hugo's 38th Anniversary, we're having a sale. Come into either Uncle Hugo's or Uncle Edgar's and get 10% off everything except gift certificates. A discount card will save you even more - you'll get both the 10% savings from the sale and the 10% savings from the discount card. (Sale prices apply to in-store sales, but not to mail orders.)
Author Events (at Uncle Hugo's)
Sunday, March 11, 1-2pm: William Alexander - Goblin Secrets (a fantasy novel for kids)
Holiday Schedule
Sunday, April 8: Closed Monday, May 28: Closed
Award News
The World Fantasy Award for best novel went to Who Fears Death? by Nnedi Okorafor ($15.00).
The William L. Crawford Fantasy Award for best first fantasy novel went to Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti by Genevieve Valentine ($14.95).
The finalists for the Philip K. Dick Award (for best sf published as a paperback original in the U.S.) are The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett ($13.99), Deadline by Mina Grant ($9.99), The Other by Matthew Hughes ($14.95), A Soldier's Duty by Jean Johnson ($7.99), The Postmortal by Drew Magary ($15.00), After the Apocalypse by Maureen F. McHugh ($16.00), and the Samuel Petrovich Trilogy by Simon Morden (Equations of Life ($7.99), Theories of Flight ($7.99), and Degrees of Freedom ($7.99)).
The Mystery Writers of America have announced the nominees for the Edgar Allan Poe Awards. The winners will be announced April 26.
The nominees for Best Novel are The Ranger by Ace Atkins ($25.95, $15.00 trade pb due early May), Gone by Mo Hayder ($14.00 trade pb), The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino ($24.99, $14.99 trade pb due early March), 1222 by Anne Holt ($25.00), and Field Gray by Philip Kerr ($26.95, $16.00 trade pb due early March).
The nominees for Best First Novel by an American Author are Red on Red by Edward Conlon ($26.00, $15.00 trade pb due late March), Last to Fold by David Duffy ($25.99), All Cry Chaos by Leonard Rosen ($29.00), Bent Road by Lori Roy ($15.00 trade pb due early March), and Purgatory Chasm by Steve Ulfelder ($23.99, $14.99 trade pb due early May).
The nominees for Best Paperback Original are The Company Man by Robert Jackson Bennett ($13.99), The Faces of Angels by Lucretia Grindle ($14.95), The Dog Sox by Russell Hill, Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley ($14.99), and Vienna Twilight by Frank Tallis ($15.00)
The nominees for the Simon & Schuster Mary Higgins Clark Award (presented at the same ceremony as the Edgars, for the novel in style of Mary Higgins Clark) are Now You See Me by S. J. Bolton ($25.99, $14.99 trade pb due mid- April), Come and Find Me by Hallie Ephron ($24.99, $13.99 trade pb due early March), Death on Tour by Janice Hamrick ($24.99, $7.99 pb mid May), Learning to Swim by Sara J. Henry ($15.00), and Murder Most Persuasive by Tracy Kiely ($24.99).
The nominees for the Dilys Award, given by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association to the mystery title they have most enjoyed selling, are When Elves Attack by Tim Dorsey ($16.99), Wicked Autumn by G. M. Malliet ($23.99), Tag Man by Archer Mayor ($25.99 signed), A Trick of the Light by Louise Penny ($25.99), and Ghost Hero by S. J. Rozan ($25.99).
The nominees for the Lefty Award, for the most humorous mystery, are The Real Macaw by Donna Andrews ($24.99, $7.99 pb mid May), Getting Old Can Kill You by Rita Lakin ($7.99), October Fest by Jess Lourey ($14.95), Magical Alienation by Kris Neri ($15.95), Dying for a Dance by Cindy Sample ($16.95), and The Albuquerque Turkey by John Vorhaus ($23.00).
The nominees for the Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award are Naughty in Nice by Rhys Bowen ($24.95), A Game of Lies by Rebecca Cantrell ($24.99, $14.99 trade pb early May), Mercury's Rise by Ann Parker ($24.95 hc or $14.95 trade pb), A Killing Season by Priscilla Royal ($24.95 hc or $14.95 trade pb), Troubled Bones by Jeri Westerson ($25.99), and A Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear ($25.99, $14.99 trade pb due early March).
The nominees for the Golden Nugget Award (best mystery novel set in California) are Disturbance by Jan Burke ($25.00), The Drop by Michael Connelly ($27.99 signed), Bit Player by Janet Dawson ($14.95), V Is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton ($27.95), and City of Secrets by Kelli Stanley ($24.99).
The nominees for the Eureka! Award (best first mystery novel) are The Baffled Beatlemaniac Caper by Sally Carpenter ($14.95), Nazareth Child by Darrell James ($14.95), Dead Man's Switch by Tammy Kaehler ($14.95), and Who Do, Voodoo? by Rochelle Staab ($7.99). The Minnesota Book Award finalists in the Genre Fiction category are Big Wheat by Richard A. Thompson ($24.95 hc or $14.95 trade pb), The Bone House by Brian Freeman ($24.99), Death of the Mantis by Michael Stanley ($14.99), and Northwest Angle by William Kent Kruger ($24.99).
How's Business by Don Blyly
We had a very good December, partly due to the lack of blizzard, ice storms, snow drifts, etc., that we had to endure the year before. But it was a very good December even compared to a normal year. January and February continued to be good compared to last year, but were nothing to brag about compared to an average year. Heating costs being down about 1/3 from last year helped. Monday, January 9, I was in the store early when I heard somebody walking around on my roof around 8:30 a.m. I went out to see what was going on, and saw the dentist from next door on my roof. I asked him what he was doing on my roof, and he said 'Photographing the evidence– come on up and take a look.' Overnight somebody had gotten onto the roof and cut out the cooling coils from his two rooftop heating/air conditioning units and my two rooftop units. His units had been cut up in such a way that his heat also was not working, but both of my units were still putting out heat. When the repair guy showed up, he said that there's been a lot of this going on all over the metro area. When I called my insurance company, I was told that this has been going on all over the country. The police say that 10 properties in the immediate area have been hit with the same problem. The police have some not-very-good security camera photos of a suspect and have been trying to identify the guy, but no luck yet. The dentist's insurance company replaced his 17-year-old units with new units at no cost to him. My insurance company will be repairing my 2 units (one of which was only 4 months old when it was damaged) with $1000 coming out of my pocket, and they sent a letter that if I have another claim within a year they will probably refuse to insure me again.
On the morning of January 25 I received a call from the management of the apartment complex for the elderly where my mother had lived for the last 14 years, telling me that my mother had just been found to have died overnight. I was told that the police would have to come and look over the scene to see if there was anything suspicious, and when the police were done management would call the funeral home–so I should wait until the afternoon to come over. My mother had shown me where she kept her cash in the apartment and told me to come over immediately when she died before things started disappearing. When I got to the apartment about an hour and a half after the phone call, her cash, her keys, and her credit card were all missing, but mountains of other stuff had not disappeared. At work, I often feel like a horde of ducks are trying to nibble me to death, and now the horde of ducks has received massive re- inforcements. I've been very busy dealing with the funeral home, family, the social security administration, her credit card company, bank accounts, etc., and especially with sorting through all her stuff and trying to clear her apartment. I can feel myself falling farther and farther behind on things that should be done at the store.
Last issue I mentioned one publisher that wanted to start charging an extra $8.00 for signed copies of some new hardcovers. They decided to instead charge an extra $1.00, which I think is justifiable because of the added expense of binding in the signature sheet and using a different ISBN and barcode on the dust jacket for the signed copies (instead of using the same ISBN and barcode on the dust jacket, and just sticking a 'Signed Copy' sticker on the front, like everybody else does). Of course, using a different ISBN for the signed copies means that sales of the signed copies won't combine with sales of the unsigned copies for best seller charts, which has some authors unhappy even though they will make a few cents more per book in royalties from the signed copies.
For many years there was a Blockbuster Video about 3 blocks from my home, and often on a Saturday evening after I got home from work I'd walk over to Blockbuster and look for something to rent. A few years ago I noticed that I seldom found anything I was interested in watching. While some of the problem was Blockbuster's buying, most of the problem was that Hollywood was not producing much that I was interested in watching. Now, the publishers are complaining about how much sales have dropped for mass market paperbacks, but when I look at the new release section at The Uncles, I notice how many of the mass market books on the shelf I'm not interested in reading. I can remember when most of the mass market new releases at Uncle Hugo's would have an initial order of at least 15 copies, and would sell out. Now, half the spaces on the new release shelf is taken up with titles that I only ordered 3 to 5 copies, and many of those will only sell 1 copy. There are still some titles that I'll order 20 to 30 copies initially and I'll sell all of them, but there are a lot fewer such titles being published. What's especially painful is when a publisher has a series with a substantial following at Uncle Hugo's (such as Lyda Morehouse's series or Kristine Kathryn Rusch's Retrieval Artist series) and the publisher kills the series even though the author and the readers want the series to continue. It seems that the publishers are so obsessed with hitting a home run with a title that will sell like crazy at Target, Walmart, and Sam's Club that they don't care about supporting moderately popular mid-list authors.
There are now hundreds of thousands of self- published titles available. A few are very good, some are okay, and most are dreadful. In many cases the authors got suckered by unscrupulous publishers, who took the authors' money knowing that the book would never be able to sell more than a few cases to the authors, which the authors will have to store in their closets for the rest of their lives. Many of these books have never been edited, spell-checked, grammar- checked, etc., and are offered at high prices and low discounts that guarantee that a bookstore will never buy a copy. For an extreme example of this, check out http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/20 12/01/31/the-worst-book-ever-is-moon-people/ About 150 people switched from the paper newsletter to the electronic version in the last 3 months, saving us about $500 per year.
Short Recommendations by Don Blyly
Before I started reading A Madness of Angels by Kate Griffin ($7.99) I had heard several very favorable comments, which is fortunate because otherwise I would have given up on it after about 20 pages. It's about 50 pages into the book before the reader gets a clue as to what's going on, and finally on page 238 the reader is provided with the background needed to understand what has been happening up to that point. (Most readers don't find this as irritating as I found it.) This is the first of a series of urban fantasies unlike any other urban fantasy series. Magic exists everywhere, but it is different in urban settings than in rural settings, and the urban magics featured in this series are extremely interesting. Among the magical elements are the blue electric angels, which evolved in the telephone lines and then extended to all electric media. They feed on all telephone conversations, all e-mails, and all of the internet. They thought they understood humans until they became part of a human sorcerer in modern London. The sorcerer, now partly human and partly electric angels, is the main character for the series, but there are lots of other very interesting urban magical characters in the series. Although I was irritated about some of the writing early in the first book, by the time I finished the book I was completely hooked and immediately moved on to The Midnight Mayor (#2, $7.99) and The Neon Court (#3, $7.99) and I'm now impatiently waiting for The Minority Council (#4, $7.99, early March). Each book tells a complete story, but they should be read in order.
Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey ($15.99) is the most satisfying space opera I've read in a few years. Humans have spread through the solar system, and are preparing the first generation ship to go to the stars. Mars is independent of Earth and has it's own military fleet. The asteroid belt and outer planets are to some extent controlled by Mars, to some extend by Earth, and to some extent by huge corporations, but there is a revolutionary group that wants independence for the outer planets (including the asteroid belt). The story is told from the point of view of two very different characters: Jim Holder, who was sent with a few other crew members in a shuttle on an ill-fated rescue mission by the captain of a freighter hauling ice from the rings of Saturn to the belt, and Detective Miller, a burned-out cop on Ceres who was assigned the task of searching for a missing girl and then was fired when he took the assignment too seriously. As war breaks out, Holder believes that he should broadcast everything he knows and let other people figure out what's really going on. Miller is great at figuring out clues nobody else notices, but likes to keep everything to himself until he has the entire puzzle figured out. And then there is the two- billion-year-old alien artifact that a huge corporation secretly found orbiting Saturn, which could dictate the fate of the human race. The first book comes to a satisfactory conclusion (no cliff-hangers), but at least two more books are promised in the series.
I finally got around to reading The Native Star by M.K. Hobson, which appeared on several best of the year lists for 2010 and was a Nebula Award nominee, and I enjoyed it very much. This alternate history fantasy is set in a world where the Union used Warlocks to help win the Civil War, and after the war continued to use Warlocks to advance the country's Manifest Destiny. In 1876 Emily Edwards, a small town witch in California, acquires an enchanted artifact (or perhaps the artifact acquires her) and suddenly she has to flee for her life from evil government Warlocks, with the assistance of Dreadnought Stanton, a pompous and abrasive non- government Warlock from New York City. Much of the book is an entertaining flight across the country by horse, train, and biomechanical flying device. Most of the bad guys are dealt with by the end of the book, but there's still that pesky blood-thirsty Aztec goddess that wants to destroy the world, who gets dealt with in The Hidden Goddess ($7.99). Both books have more romance that I'd prefer, but they are both so entertaining that I'm happy to recommend them.
Christopher Moore has written many humorous books, but Sacre Bleu ($26.99, due early April, signed copies expected) feels a bit different than his other books. It feels more like a historical novel set mainly in the Parisian art world of the late 1800's, with some fantasy elements and some funny bits (including some laugh-out-loud funny bits) mixed into the historical novel. There are many colors of paint available to artists, most available from multiple sources, but there is a very special color of blue paint, sacre bleu, which is superior to all other shades of blue, and it is only available from one source. And the price (not in the monetary sense) of using sacre bleu is very high to any artist who uses it. Baker- turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec try to solve the mystery of sacre bleu, and it is a very strange mystery.
A Rising Thunder by David Weber ($26.00, due early March) is the latest in the Honor Harrington series, #17 in the universe. Although this is one that supposedly features Honor as the main character, she doesn't show up until about 1/4 of the way through the book, and much of the book follows other characters. The Solarian League and Manticore are at war, battles are fought, secrets are revealed, new alliances are forged. The only disappointment is when you reach the end of the book and realize you have to wait for the next installment to find out what happens next.
Mystery Reviews by Gerri Balter
Glazed Murder by Jessica Beck ($7.99) begins when Suzanne Hart comes to work at Donut Hearts coffee shop only to see someone dump a dead body in front of her shop. The murdered man is a friend. Angry that someone would kill a man and dump the body at her shop, she decides to find out who is responsible. She ignores the advice of George Morris, a friend and retired police officer, to stay out of it. In spite of her increased business, she begins to investigate the case. Her friends help her find out more than she cares to know about the suspects in the case. Then there's Jake Bishop, a state police inspector, who is also investigating the case and becomes interested in her. By the time Suzanne finds out the truth, it's too late. The killer has seriously wounded Jake and is now going to finish the job by killing her.
In Red Delicious Death by Sheila Connolly ($7.99), Meg Corey, new owner of an apple orchard, is getting ready to have her first apple crop picked. It constitutes more work than she realizes. She needs to find pickers to pick the apples, places to sell the apples, and has to figure out when to pick the apples. Lucky for her, she has help. When her friend, Lauren, calls and asks her to help some young chefs who want to open a restaurant, she agrees, not realizing what that would mean. She calls her real estate friend and they find the young chefs a place they could turn into a restaurant. She brings in Seth, a local plumber, to help them. She assumes that will be enough. When one of the chefs is murdered, she finds herself drawn into the case. The young man didn't know anyone in town. He was friendly and outgoing. Who would want to kill him? She finds out that only a local could have committed the crime, something she would rather not think about. The remaining chefs find they are running out of money. Meg finds a way to help them find a way to open the restaurant. While she drums up support for her idea, she figures out who the murderer is, too late to avoid another tragedy.
In A Fatal Waltz by Tasha Alexander ($13.99), Lady Emily Ashton wants nothing more than to marry Colin Hargreaves. Unfortunately, her mother and the Queen of England as well as his job as a spy keep pushing back the date. When a man who threatens her future with Colin is murdered, she doesn't shed any tears. When her best friend's husband is arrested for the crime, she is determined to prove his innocence. The trail brings her to Venice where Colin is on a mission with a beautiful woman who warns Emily that she wants Colin and will do what's necessary to keep her from marrying him. It's hard for her to remember why she's in Venice when both her life and Colin's are in danger from people who want to stop Colin from doing his job and try to use her to do it. In spite of everything, she finds the killer and learn more than she wants to know about Colin.
In Necessary as Blood by Deborah Crombie ($13.99), Scotland Yard detective Gemma Jones wants to be married to detective superintendent Duncan Kincaid. She just doesn't want a wedding, not the wedding her mother who is suffering from leukemia, wants her to have. So when her best friend's estranged husband calls her about a missing person, she becomes involved even though the case is given to Duncan. The missing man is a Pakistani lawyer. His wife disappeared three months earlier. They leave behind a beautiful child named Charlotte who is less than three years old. Gemma bonds with Charlotte and wants to make sure the right person gets custody. The child's father has no living relatives. The child's maternal grandmother and uncles are undesirable as guardians. While Gemma tries to get help from the suspects in the case to keep Charlotte from going with her grandmother, Duncan investigates the murder. Their investigations come together on the happiest day of their lives and they find the truth which leads to finding the murderer.
Do you believe that there are those who commune with the dead? Sarah Brandt doesn't in Murder on Waverly Place by Victoria Thompson ($7.99). She reluctantly goes to a seance with her mother because her mother asks her to. Both Sarah and her mother feel guilt over the death of Sarah's older sister. Sarah's mother needs to feel that her older daughter will forgive her for not helping her when she was alive. Nothing at the seance makes a believer out of her. Her mother does believe. In spite of promising Sarah she won't go back, she does and someone at the seance is murdered. Sarah's mother draws Sarah into the investigation when the medium is accused of committing the crime. There are plenty of suspects. The woman who was killed had been the one who employed the medium. She took what she found out about the others and blackmailed them.
RECENTLY RECEIVED AND FORTHCOMING SCIENCE FICTION Already received
Doctor Who Magazine #440 $9.99 (Christmas Special news; memories of Elisabeth Sladen; more.)
Doctor Who Magazine #441 $8.99 (Celebrate Christmas with the Doctor; David Troughton, Patrick's son, takes on his dad's role; more.)
Doctor Who Magazine #442 $10.99 (Preview of 'The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe'; 3 exclusive art cards; more.)
Fantasy & Science Fiction January / February 2012 $7.50 (New fiction, reviews, more) Locus #611 December 2011 $6.95 (Interviews with Charles Stross and Gemma Files; World Fantasy award and convention report; forthcoming books; industry news, reviews, more.)
Locus #612 January 2012 $6.95 (Interviews with Lois McMaster Bujold and Claude Lalumiere; Anne McCaffrey obituary; industry news, reviews, more.)
Locus #613 February 2012 $6.95 (Interview with Joe Haldeman; the year in review; Locus recommended reading list; industry news, reviews, more.)
Beard, Matthew -- The Last Garrison $7.99 (Dungeons & Dragons: PBO; A dark figure controls the forest, served by crowlike humanoids that menace the village of Haven. If the Old Stargazer cannot or will not protect the villagers, they will have to find someone who can. Nergei knows they must venture beyond the safety of Haven to find the help they need. With little to offer mercenaries, and a ragged band at his side, he sets forth in search of heroes.)
Carlson, J.P. -- Rex Riders $16.95 (YA; Near his uncle's broken-down Texas ranch, 14- year-old Zeke Calhoun finds a stranger lying face down in the dirt, and a juvenile T-Rex keeping a pack of wolves at bay. While Zeke saves the stranger, he notices a bridle on the T-Rex. His actions plunge him into an incredible adventure.)
Collins, S/Seife, E -- Hunger Games Tribute Guide $7.99 (YA; Movie tie-in; full color guide to the 24 tributes participating in Panem's 74th annual Hunger Games.)
Crumb, R. -- The Life and Death of Fritz the Cat $19.99 (Reissue; Adults only. Black & white graphic novel; underground comix featuring the freewheeling feline chiseler.)
Duchamp, L. Timmel -- Never at Home $18.00 (PBO; Collection; 7 works of short sf, 2 original to this volume)
Durbin, Frederic -- The Star Shard $16.99 (Kids; 12-year-old Cymbril is a slave on a gigantic wagon city. The wagon's master purchases Loric, a new slave who is one of the magical Fey. Cymbril and Loric join forces to plan their escape, threading their way through a series of increasing dangers as their one chance for freedom draws nearer.)
Ellis/Caceres -- Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island $17.99 (Full color graphic novel. London, 1830: with the coming of Captain Swing and his Electrical Pirates, history shall never be the same!)
Ellison, Harlan -- Bugf#ck: The Worthless Wit & Wisdom of Harlan Ellison $10.00 (A 4x5 inch hardcover of outrageous, wise, and humorous quotes, anecdotes, and commentary about writing, culture, people, and more)
Fenner, Cathy&Arnie (ed) -- Spectrum 18 $35.00 (PBO; Annual full-color retrospective of science fiction and fantasy art)
Fulbright, C/Hawkes, A -- Scavengers $14.95 (PBO; In a zombie-ravaged city, Dejah Corliss discovers she has regenerative powers, and joins forces with an ex-Marine to rescue her daughter, who has been enslaved in a zombie camp.)
Grant, Maxwell -- The Green Hoods / Silver Skull $14.95 (Shadow #55: Pulp reprints)
Grant, Maxwell -- The Embassy Murders / Hills of Death $14.95 (Shadow #56: Pulp reprints)
Hendee, Barb & J.C. -- Between Their Worlds $26.95 (Noble Dead #7: Dhampir Magiere and half-elf Leesil must rescue Wynn from her captivity in the Guild of Sagecraft. But Wynn doesn't want to give up access to the scrolls that may help locate the last of the magical Orbs coveted by the Ancient Enemy. ) Kelly, Walt -- Through the Wild Blue Wonder $39.99 (Pogo: The Complete Syndicated Comic Strips Vol. 1: Reprints the first 2 years, with daily strips in black & white, Sunday strips in color.)
Knaak, Richard A. -- Dragon Mound $24.95 (Knight in Shadow #1: Evan, a knight, returns to the scene of the long-ago climactic battle against Novaris, where he uncovers the sorcerer-king's long-dreamt plot of vengeance - and learns that the dead - even dragons - may not rest easy.)
Krengel, Matthew John -- Staff of Elements $14.95 (Elemental #1: Haunted by a pack of supernatural wolves which follow the will of a terrible evil, Nathel runs for his life. In the midst of this trial, his destiny will be revealed and he must decide if he will embrace his calling; Signed copies)
Lassen, J.M. (ed) -- Z: Zombie Stories $12.99 (PBO; Anthology; 11 stories, 1 original to this volume, about coming of age during the zombie apocalypse.)
Lewis, J.F. -- Burned $7.99 (Void City #4: PBO; Eric has taken control of the city's supernatural hierarchy, putting all the deals and contracts that allow Void City to function up for renegotiation. When he installs his insane vampire daughter Greta as Void City's sheriff of the supernatural, mayhem ensues.)
Liu, Marjorie -- Within the Flames $7.99 (Dirk & Steele #11: PBO; Eddie, a pyrokinetic and former car thief, accepts an assignment from the Dirk & Steele agency to rescue Lyssa, a shapeshifter and the last of her kind.)
Martiniere, Stephan -- Velocity $24.95 (Full color collection of his sf and fantasy art.)
Mayo, E/Brown, C (ed) -- Three Messages and a Warning $16.00 (Anthology; 34 original sf and fantasy stories by Mexican authors)
Monchinski, Tony -- Eden $15.00 (Reissue; Hordes of undead pound relentlessly against the barriers of the humans' last sanctuary; inside the walls, Harris faces deceit and treachery as he tries to solve a murder.)
Moorcock, Michael -- London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction $23.95 (Nonfiction; Moorcock selected the best of his published, unpublished, and uncensored essays, articles, reviews and opinions on a wide range of subjects: books, films, politics, reminiscences of old friends, and attacks on new foes. Plus bibliography.) Ochse, Weston -- Blood Ocean $9.99 (Afterblight Chronicles: PBO; As a conspiracy of murder unfolds in a floating city, Kavika strives to overcome his low status and the condemnation of his peers in order to save them all from an enemy living within.)
Peake, Mervyn -- The Illustrated Gormenghast Trilogy: Titus Groan / Gormenghast / Titus Alone $40.00 (Omnibus reprint of the classic fantasy trilogy, with black & white illustrations by the author.)
Pratchett, T/Jones, J -- Going Postal DVD $39.99 (Discworld Movie: Lord Vetinari (Charles Dance) offers con man Moist von Lipwig (Richard Coyle) a choice: suffer a painful death, or take over Ankh-Morpork's derelict post office; full color, live action, 185 minutes, widescreen.)
Professor Happycat -- How 2 Be Awsum: A LOLcat Guide 2 Life $12.00 (125 all-new photos with misspelled captions, showing kittehs and their hoomins how to apply the tenets of awsumness to their own lives.)
Robeson, Kenneth -- The River of Ice / The Flame Breathers $14.95 (Avenger #06: Pulp reprints) Robeson, Kenneth -- Ost / According to Plan of a One-eyed Mystic $14.95 (Doc Savage #53: Pulp reprints)
Robeson, Kenneth -- The Yellow Cloud / Men of Fear $14.95 (Doc Savage #54: Pulp reprints)
Rucker, Rudy -- Surfing the Gnarl $12.00 (PBO; Collection; 3 short stories plus an outspoken interview and a bibliography.)
Russell, Gary -- Doctor Who Encyclopedia $39.99 (Nonfiction; revised and updated guide to the TV series. Full color photos throughout.)
Saintcrow, Lilith -- Angel Town $7.99 (Jill Kismet #6: PBO; Jill Kismet wakes up in her own grave. She doesn't know who put her there, she doesn't know where she is, and she has no friends or family. She does know she has a job to do: cleansing the night of evil.)
Shawl, Nisi (ed) -- The Wiscon Chronicles Vol. 5: Writing and Racial Identity $15.00 (PBO; WisCon is the world's largest feminist science fiction convention, held annually in Madison, Wisconsin. This volume explores some of the issues of interest at WisCon 2010 through essays, interviews, and more.) Sutter, James L. -- Death's Heretic $9.99 (Pathfinder Tales: PBO; Salim Ghadafar serves as a problem-solver for a church he hates, bound by the goddess of death to hunt down those who would rob her of her due. A powerful merchant, on the verge of achieving eternal youth via a magical elixir, has been murdered, and his soul kidnapped on its path to the afterlife. But who would have the power to steal a soul from the boneyard of Death herself?)
Expected Early March
Aaron, Rachel -- The Legend of Eli Monpress Vol. 1: The Spirit Thief / The Spirit Rebellion / The Spirit Eater $15.99 (Eli Monpress #1 / #2 / #3: Omnibus reprint of 3 fantasy novels; Eli is a wizard and the greatest thief of the age, out to increase the bounty on his head. And if he can irritate the rule-bound wizards of the Spirit Court in the process, all the better!)
Abnett, Dan -- Know No Fear $8.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Horus Heresy #19: Mustering for war against the orks, the Ultramarines Legion is attacked by their supposed allies of the Word Bearers Legion as the forces of Chaos openly reveal their part in the Heresy.)
Alexander, William -- Goblin Secrets $16.99 (Kids; Humans are forbidden to wear masks or perform plays. Months ago, the Mayor's Guard raided an illegal play, and Rownie's actor brother Rowan disappeared. Hoping to find him, young Rownie joins a theatrical troupe of goblins. The goblins welcome Rownie; they also want to find Rowan, who might be the only person who can stop the mighty River from flooding the town; Signing at Uncle Hugo's on Sunday, March 11th, from 1-2pm)
Anderson, Poul -- Sir Dominic Flandry: The Last Knight of Terra $7.99 (Technic Civilization #6: Omnibus reprint; 2 novellas, a short story, and a novel)
Archer, Alex -- Fury's Goddess $6.99 (Rogue Angel #35: PBO; Searching for the truth behind a series of murders in Hyderabad, India, rumored to be the work of the servants of Hindu death goddess Kali, Annja is taken prisoner by a cult of thieves. She is to be sacrificed - unless she can channel the vengeance of Kali herself.)
Axler, James -- Hell Road Warriors $6.99 (Deathlands #103: PBO; Ryan Cawdor and his companions agree to ride with a convoy heading west to retrieve four portable nuclear reactors - enough power to light up a ville for years. But they have death on their tail.)
Ballard, J.G. -- The Drought (alternate title: The Burning World) $14.95 (Reissue; Violence erupts and insanity reigns after a global drought brought on by industrial waste sends mankind into a life-or-death struggle for water. )
Ballard, J.G. -- High Rise $14.95 (Reissue; In this visionary tale, class war erupts inside a luxurious apartment block, elevators become battlegrounds, and cocktail parties degenerate into marauding attacks on 'enemy' floors.)
Ballard, J.G. -- Kingdom Come $24.95 (Richard Pearson's father is gunned down by a deranged mental patient in a vast shopping mall outside Heathrow Airport. When the prime suspect is released without charge, Richard investigates, and uncovers a neo-fascist world at the mall, with a charismatic spokesperson who is inciting the masses: riots frequently terrorize the complex, immigrant communities are attacked by hooligans, and sports events mushroom into jingoistic political rallies.)
Benson, Amber -- How to Be Death $7.99 (Calliope Reaper-Jones #4: PBO; With the Board breathing down her neck, and her dad's guide book to handling the job still unopened, Callie's feeling tense about being the new President of Death, Inc. And when the guide is stolen, Callie has to figure out how to be the boss - before the powers within the book get out and destroy humanity.)
Bishop, Anne -- Twilight's Dawn $7.99 (Black Jewels #9: Collection; four original novellas.)
Bishop, Anne -- Bridge of Dreams $26.95 (Ephemera #3: When wizards threaten Glorianna Belladonna and her work to keep Ephemera balanced, her brother Lee sacrifices himself to save her, and ends up an asylum inmate in the city of Vision. A darkness is spreading through Vision, perplexing the Shamans who protect it, and Lee is the only one who can shed any light on its mysteries.)
Bledsoe, Alex -- Burn Me Deadly $7.99 (Eddie LaCrosse #2: When a young woman he's protecting is killed, freelance sword-jockey Eddie LaCrosse follows the trail to a crime lord, a dragon cult, royal scandal, and a duplicitous femme fatale who has trouble keeping her clothes on.)
Brandon, Paula -- The Ruined City $15.00 (Jianna Belandor #2: Jianna convinces Rione to return her to the city of her birth, but her father has left the city, and Rione seems reluctant to associate with the daughter of a man he still sees as a traitor. And as reality continues to unravel around them, Jianna soon finds her love imprisoned for the crime of rebellion and sentenced to death.)
Briggs, Patricia -- Fair Game $26.95 (Alpha & Omega #3: When the FBI requests the werewolf pack's help on a serial killer case, Charles and Anna are sent to Boston. They quickly realize that all the victims were werewolves - and the investigation puts the two of them right in the killer's sights.)
Buckell, Tobias -- Arctic Rising $24.99 (The Gaia Corp plans to roll back global warming with a giant sunshade - tech that could also be used as a superweapon. Anika Duncan of the UN Polar Guard has risked her life to recover a nuclear weapon that was smuggled into the Arctic. But when the wrong people get their hands on the sunshade, that nuke is the only thing that can take it out - and Anika will have to decide the future of the world.)
Buckner, M.M. -- The Gravity Pilot $7.99 (Orr is determined to rescue his girlfriend Dyce, who has become addicted to virtual reality. But is he strong enough to get through to her, and break them both out of hell?) Buettner, Robert -- Overkill $7.99 (Orphan's Legacy #1: At 23, Jazen Parker completed his Legion hitch a hero. 4 months later, he has a price on his head, he's lost his past, he can't find his future - and he's chosen to search for them on the deadliest planet in the universe.)
Burroughs, E/Moore, S -- John Carter $9.99 (YA; Novelization of the film, plus the original text of A Princess of Mars.)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- The Collected John Carter of Mars Volume 1: A Princess of Mars / The Gods of Mars / The Warlord of Mars $16.99 (John Carter #01 / #02 / #03: YA; Omnibus; reprints 3 classic space fantasy novels.)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- The Collected John Carter of Mars Volume 2: Thuvia, Maid of Mars / The Chessmen of Mars / The Master Mind of Mars / A Fighting Man of Mars $16.99 (John Carter #04 / #05 / #06 / #07: YA; Omnibus; reprints 4 classic space fantasy novels.)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- The Collected John Carter of Mars Volume 3: Swords of Mars / Synthetic Men of Mars / Llana of Gathol / John Carter of Mars $16.99 (John Carter #08 / #09 / #10 / #11: YA; Omnibus; reprints 4 classic space fantasy novels.) Cameron, Stella -- Darkness Bound $7.99 (PBO; Women have been disappearing, and Leigh can't shake the feeling that she's being watched, especially at night. She's having visions she can't explain, and fighting her attraction to a handsome stranger who seems to know her most intimate desires - Niles, ex- Special Ops, and leader of a pack of werehounds.)
Carriger, Gail -- Timeless $7.99 (Parasol Protectorate #5: PBO; Alexia Tarabotti's domestic bliss is interrupted by an urgent summons, so with husband, child, and Tunstells in tow, she sets off for Egypt. What does the vampire Queen of the Alexandria Hive really wants from her? And how has Ivy Tunstell suddenly become the most popular actress in the British Empire?)
Chadbourn, Mark -- Jack of Ravens $17.95 (Kingdom of the Serpent #1: Jack Churchill, archaeologist and dreamer, walks out of the mist and into Celtic Britain more than 2000 years before he was born, with no knowledge of how he got there.)
Chambers, Andy -- Path of the Renegade $8.99 (Warhammer 40,000: In the dark eldar city of Commorragh, the ambitious archon Yllithian joins forces with a twisted haemonculus in an attempt to revive a long-dead warrior and challenge the might of the overlord Asdrubael Vect.)
Cherryh, C.J. -- Betrayer $7.99 (Foreigner #12: The civil war among the alien atevi has ended. Tabini-aiji, his son and heir Cajeiri, and his human paidhi Bren Cameron have returned to the Bujavid, their seat of power. But the danger from rebel factions is far from over.)
Cherryh, C.J. -- Intruder $25.95 (Foreigner #13: Human diplomat Bren Cameron's mission is to persuade the rebel leader, a young atevi lord who has never seen a human, to cease his hostile actions against the west. Is Bren a shrewd enough negotiator to stay alive, and not alienate his allies, while also representing the interests of their enemies?)
Constantine, David -- Pillars of Hercules $14.99 (As Alexander the Great and his magicians plot to destroy the Athenian Empire, philosopher-scientist Aristotle makes a discovery that could change the course of the war: the location of magical artifacts, sunk in the lost city of Atlantis.)
Cooper, Elspeth -- Songs of the Earth $24.99 (Wild Hunt #1: Gair can hear music no one else can, music with power. In the Holy City, that means death. With the Church Knights and their witchfinder hot on his heels, Gair's only hope is the Order of Guardians of the Veil. But the Veil between worlds is weakening, and behind it, the Hidden Kingdom, hungry for dominion over the daylight realm, is stirring.)
Davidson, MaryJanice -- Yours, Mine, and Ours $24.99 (Cadence Jones #2: FBI agent Cadence Jones must adjust to the foibles of a new co- worker (who speaks 7 languages and has a doctorate from Harvard) while searching for a serial killer who kills one perfectly ordinary 14-year-old each June.)
Dietz, William C. -- The Flood (definitive edition) $7.99 (Halo: Novelization of the Halo: Combat Evolved game.)
Douglas, Ian -- Singularity $7.99 (Star Carrier #3: PBO; In the wake of the near destruction of the solar system,Earth seeks a separate peace with an alien life form that no one has ever seen. But Admiral Alexander Koenig has gone rogue, launching his fabled battlegroup beyond the boundaries of Human Space against all orders. With Confederation warships in hot pursuit, Koenig is taking the war for humankind's survival directly to a mysterious omnipotent enemy.)
Downum, Amanda -- Kingdoms of Dust $7.99 (Necromancer Chronicles #3: Isyllt and an outcast jinn must travel through warring armies into the heart of the desert and lay an ancient darkness to rest once more. But first they must stop an order of mages that will do anything to keep the Empire safe - even raze it to dust.)
Dyachenko, Sergey & Marina -- The Scar $24.99 (Egert is a member of the elite guards. But after he kills an innocent student in a duel, a mysterious man challenges him, scarring his face and leaving him cursed. Egert embarks on an odyssey to undo the curse and the horrible damage he has caused. Saddened by her love's death, Toria hates Egert - but may be the one to save him.)
Elrod, P.N. -- The Vampire Files Volume 5: Song in the Dark / Dark Road Rising $16.00 (Vampire Files #11 / #12: Omnibus reprint; 2 novels featuring vampire nightclub owner and PI Jack Fleming in 1930s Chicago)
Estep, Jennifer -- By a Thread $7.99 (Elemental Assassin #6: PBO; Gin and her sister Bria head for a weekend at the seashore, but Gin has to dig her silverstone knives out of her suitcase when a friend of Bria's is threatened by a powerful vampire.)
Feist, Raymond E. -- A Kingdom Besieged $7.99 (Chaoswar #1: As the Chaoswar begins, a magical apocalypse will force Pug to question everything he's ever held true and dear - including the loyalty of his beloved son Magnus.)
Forbeck, Matt -- Carpathia $12.99 (When a handful of survivors from the Titanic are plucked out of the ocean by the steamship Carpathia, they think their troubles are over. But something old and hungry is sleeping on board - and dinner has just been pulled out of the ocean.)
Ford, Michael Thomas -- Jane Vows Vengeance $15.00 (Vampire Jane Austen #3: PBO; Jane and her new love Walter have planned a European wedding, but the ceremony is interrupted by an unlikely objector - a husband from Jane's past, now a vampire himself.)
Gill, David Macinnis -- Black Hole Sun $8.99 (YA; On a terraformed Mars, Durango and his crew of teenage mercenaries will take on any mission, as long as it pays enough.)
Golden, C/Lebbon, T -- The Wild $6.99 (Secret Journeys of Jack London #1: Kids; 17- year-old Jack London heads into the Yukon in search of gold and adventure. What he finds is more sinister: kidnapping and slavery, murderous men, and supernatural beasts that prey on the weakness in men's hearts.) Golden, Christie -- Thrall: Twilight of the Aspects $8.99 (World of Warcraft: Thrall undertakes a seemingly menial task for the mysterious green Dragon Aspect. This humble endeavor soon becomes a journey spanning the lands of Azeroth and the timeways of history itself.)
Harper, Molly -- Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors $7.99 (PBO; The plans for Jane and Gabriel's wedding are going smoothly, until she turns a fatally wounded acquaintance, and the Council pronounces her responsible for the new vamp until he can control his thirst.)
Harrison, Michelle -- 13 Treasures $6.99 (Elvesden Manor #1: Kids; Tanya can see fairies - evil fairies who cast spells on her - and is sent to live with her grandmother near Hangman's Wood. Years ago a girl vanished in the woods, a girl Tanya's grandmother will not speak of. As Tanya learns more about this girl, she finds herself dangerously close to vanishing into the fairy realm forever.)
Harrison, Thea -- Oracle's Moon $7.99 (Elder Races #4: PBO; When her sister is killed, Grace inherits the Power and responsibilities of the Oracle of Louisville as well as her sister's two young kids. Then Khalil, the Djinn Prince of House Madrid, decides to make himself part of the household as her guardian.)
Heinlein, Robert A. -- The Star Beast (alternate title: The Star Lummox) $13.00 (Reissue; Lummox has been a family pet for generations, but - with eight legs, a thick hide and huge size - is nobody's idea of man's best friend. Nevertheless, John Stuart XI, descendant of the starman who brought Lummox back to Earth, loves him. But when Lummox eats a neighbor's car and begins to grow again, the Feds decide enough is enough. John isn't about to let the authorities take his pet away, even if it means Earth forever.)
Henry, Christina -- Black Howl $7.99 (Maddy Black #3: PBO; Ghosts are walking the Chicago streets, and Maddy's boss wants her to figure out why.)
Holm, Chris F. -- Dead Harvest $7.99 (Sam's job is to collect the souls of the damned. Sent for the soul of a young woman accused of slaying her family, Sam believes her to be innocent, and refuses to collect. Now he has to keep her safe while trying to find out who's behind the setup.)
Irwin, Stephen M. -- The Dead Path $15.00 (Nicholas is being haunted, by ghosts doomed to repeat their final violent moments in an endless loop. Fearing for his sanity, he returns to his childhood home seeking a fresh start. But he soon finds himself a suspect in a series of disappearances and murders. As the evidence mounts against him, Nicholas will need to confront the origin of his troubles - the woods that surround his hometown, where a malign force may be lurking.)
Jacka, Benedict -- Fated $7.99 (Alex Verus #1: PBO; Alex Verus runs a magic shop in London, and while his powers aren't as showy as some mages, he can foresee the possible future. When he's approached to crack open a relic from a long-ago mage war, he knows that whatever is inside must be beyond powerful. And he can foresee that if he takes the job, his odds of survival will go from slim to none.)
Kazimer, J.A. -- Curses! $15.00 (When Cinderella is run over by a bus, her stepsister Asia suspects murder, and hires RJ to investigate. While searching for the culprit, RJ meets the flamboyant Prince Charming, Cinderella's crazy stepmother, and a seriously twisted version of Hansel and Gretel, and dodges bullets, explosions, fires, and his ex- wife.)
Kearney, Paul -- Kings of Morning $7.99 (Macht #3: For the first time in recorded history, the Macht have a High King: Corvus. And Corvus has a plan. The preparations will take years, but when they are complete, the Macht will undertake the overthrow of the Asurian Empire.)
Kiernan, Caitlin R. -- The Drowning Girl $16.00 (India Morgan Phelps - Imp to her friends - is schizophrenic. Struggling with her perceptions of reality, she must uncover the truth about her encounters with creatures out of myth - or from something far stranger.)
Knight, E.E. -- Dragon Strike $7.99 (Age of Fire #4: Three dragon siblings find themselves at odds over the coming human war: AuRon believes that dragons should remain out of human affairs; Wistala hopes for peaceful coexistence; and Copper is seizing the opportunity to fulfill his own plans.)
Kratman, Tom -- The Amazon Legion $7.99 (Carrera #4: When the Tauran Union refuses to relinquish control of the Transitway between Terra Nova and Earth, the entire Balboan population will be needed in the fight to finish freeing the country, and, if possible, the planet.)
Long, Nathan -- Jane Carver of Waar $14.99 (On the run from the cops after accidentally killing a pervert outside her favorite bar, Jane finds herself transported to another planet by a weird glowing gadget she found in a cave. What's a biker girl to do on a planet rife with slavery, feudalism, monsters, pirates, and priests? Kick a little butt, of course!)
Mallory, H.P. -- Witchful Thinking $7.99 (Jolie Wilkins #3: PBO; Jolie is startled to be crowned Queen of the Underworld. She may be a witch with a rare gift, but governing fractious factions of supernatural creatures? She's having enough trouble managing her personal life - and the sexy warlock and seductive vampire vying for her affections.)
Martinez, A. Lee -- Emperor Mollusk vs. the Sinister Brain $19.99 (Emperor Mollusk is a supervillain from Neptune who wants to retire on Earth, but a death cult has marked him for assassination. To stay alive, he'll have to use his feared intellect and superior technology to unravel a mystery that could be more important than he ever suspected.)
McCarthy, T.C. -- Exogene $7.99 (Subterrene War #2: Catherine is a soldier, bred by scientists. She and her sisters will win this war, no matter the cost. And the costs are high: on their 18th birthday, they will be discharged, lined up, and shot like cattle. They may not be strictly human, but they're not animals. Catherine dreams of life, and she will get it at any cost.)
McGuire, Seanan -- Discount Armageddon $7.99 (InCryptid #1: PBO; She's been trained from birth to be a cryptozoologist, but Verity Price is spending a year in Manhattan to pursue a career in professional ballroom dance. A simple enough plan, if it weren't for the talking mice, telepathic mathematicians, and asbestos supermodels. Oh, and the trained monster-hunter sent by the Covenant of St. George, old enemies of the Price family. Worse still, local cryptids are disappearing, strange lizard-men are appearing in the sewers, and someone's spreading rumors about a dragon sleeping under the city.)
McKenna, Juliet E. -- Darkening Skies $8.99 (Hadrumal Crisis #2: As a once in a lifetime conjunction of the stars approaches, the Aldabreshin warlords and the Hadrumal mages vie for power.)
McNeill, Graham -- Iron Warriors: The Omnibus $15.00 (Warhammer 40,000: Reprints a novel, a novella, and 3 stories; the embittered Warsmith Honsou struggles against the Space Marines of the Imperium) Murphy, C.E. -- Raven Calls $14.95 (Walker Papers #7: PBO; Joanne's magic has called her to Ireland. The woman Joanne has come to rescue is the woman who died a year ago, sacrificing everything for Joanne. Now, through a slip in time, she's in thrall to a dark power, and Joanne must battle to save her.)
Niven, Larry -- Playgrounds of the Mind $7.99 (Reissue; Collection; stories spanning the second half of his career, essays, and more.)
Norton, Andre -- The Forerunner Factor: Forerunner / Forerunner: The Second Venture $12.00 (Omnibus reprint; 2 sf novels)
Novik, Naomi -- Crucible of Gold $25.00 (Temeraire #7: Captain Will Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire are sent to South America to negotiate with the Incas. If they fail, Napoleon may conquer that continent in his campaign for world domination.)
O'Bannon, Rockne et al -- War for the Uncharted Territories Part 1 $12.99 (Farscape #7: Full color graphic novel. Newly installed as leader of the Peacekeepers, Aeryn Sun must do the impossible: unite all the races of the Uncharted Territories to battle the Kkore.)
Palmatier/Bray (eds) -- The Modern Fae's Guide to Surviving Humanity $7.99 (PBO; Anthology; original stories about being fae in the modern world.)
Pehov, Alexey -- Shadow Chaser $7.99 (Siala #2: Harold and his companions continue their journey to the dreaded underground palace of Hrad Spein, on their quest for the magic horn that will save their land from the Nameless One.)
Pratt, Tim -- Venom in Her Veins $7.99 (Forgotten Realms: PBO; A pathway to the Underdark promises Zaltys the answers her family never gave. Venturing forth in search of truth, she finds betrayal to be a much easier quarry. But it will take more than lies to quell the venom in her veins.)
Quinn, Erin -- Haunting Warrior $7.99 (Mists of Ireland #2: PBO; Lured to the castle ruins where his father disappeared, Rory McGrath is plunged back in time, and into the body of another man - who is betrothed to the woman of Rory's dreams.)
Rawn, Melanie -- Touchstone $25.99 (Glass Thorns #1: Cade is elven, fae, and human wizard. His aristocratic mother wants him to join the Royal Court, living off the scraps of kings. But Cade lives and breathes for the theater. He's very good, and very determined to become an honored artist - or die trying.) Reese, Jenn -- Above World $16.99 (Kids; In a future of high tech and genetic modification, the Coral Kampii, like legendary mermaids, live isolated from the Above World. But when the devices that allow them to breathe underwater start to fail, 13-year-old Aluna and her friend Hoku go to that forbidden place to find help.)
Remic, Andy -- The Clockwork Vampire Chronicles: Kell's Legend / Soul Stealers / Vampire Warlords $15.99 (Omnibus reprint of 3 fantasy novels)
Rendahl, Eileen -- Don't Kill the Messenger $7.99 (Messenger #1: Melina Markowitz, a go- between for paranormal forces and supernatural creatures, must find an envelope that was stolen from her, or watch Chinese vampires take down rival gang members in an all-out street war.)
Reynolds, Josh -- Knight of the Blazing Sun $8.99 (Warhammer: Hector Goetz and his battle brothers fight to protect the Empire and Marienburg from an onslaught of Norscans.)
Rice, Anne -- The Wolf Gift $25.95 (A young man is bitten by a beast he cannot see in the forest, setting in motion a terrifying yet seductive transformation. And throughout it all, the search for salvation for a soul tormented by a new realm of temptations, and the fraught, exhilarating journey of being and becoming, fully, both wolf and man.)
Rothfuss, Patrick -- The Wise Man's Fear $19.00 (Kingkiller #2: My name is Kvothe. I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to Gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep. You may have heard of me . . .)
Russell, Mary Doria -- Doc $15.00 (American frontier legend Doc Holliday and his girlfriend Kate take center stage in this novel that chronicles their lives one summer in Dodge City, KS, when Doc's life was ripe with possibility and hope, rather than the violence and illness that would besiege him later on.)
Sargent, Pamela -- Earthseed $9.99 (Seed #1: Reissue; YA; Ship's mission is to find a habitable world for 15-year-old Zoheret and her shipmates, created from its genetic banks. Ship has been mother, father, and teacher, preparing them to survive on their own. But are they ready? Ship devises a test. As instincts take over, Zoheret watches friends become strangers - and enemies. Can the children overcome the biggest obstacle to the survival of the human race - themselves?)
Schreiber, Joe -- Red Harvest $7.99 (Star Wars: Sith and Jedi alike come face to face with the undead in the dark times of the Old Republic.)
Showalter/Deutsch (eds) -- If the Allies Had Fallen $14.95 (Anthology; historians propose 60 alternate outcomes for key events in WWII)
Singh, Nalini -- Angels' Flight $7.99 (Guild Hunter: PBO; Collection; 4 paranormal novellas, 1 original to this volume)
Skelton, Matthew -- The Story of Cirrus Flux $6.99 (Kids; London, 1783: Cirrus is being pursued by a sinister mesmerist, a tiny man with an all-seeing eye, and a skull-collecting scoundrel. They're conniving to steal the world's most divine power, which they believe Cirrus has inherited. To escape them, Cirrus will need to trust some unlikely allies.)
Snyder, Maria V. -- Inside: Inside Out / Outside In $8.99 (Trella #1 / #2: Omnibus reprint of 2 sf novels) Strahan, Jonathan (ed) -- The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 6 $19.99 (Anthology; some of the best works of short fiction published in 2011)
Swirsky, Rachel (ed) -- Robots: The Recent A.I. $14.95 (Anthology; robot stories published over the last decade)
Thurman, Rob -- Doubletake $7.99 (Cal Leandros #7: PBO; Niko's shady father is in town, and he needs a big favor. And the reunion being held by the devious Puck race - including Cal's friend Robin - features a lottery no Puck wants to win. As Cal tries to keep both Niko and Robin from paying the ultimate price for their kin, trouble from his own past arrives.)
Tyler, Stephanie -- Dire Needs $7.99 (Eternal Wolf Pack #1: PBO; The Dire Wolves are immortal shifters, obeying no laws but their own. Pack leader Rifter has claimed Gwen, a woman seeking solace from chronic pain, but their future together is threatened by an enemy of both humanity and the Dire Wolves.)
Vance, Jack -- Dream Castles $45.00 (Early Jack Vance #2: Collection; 10 tales of sf and fantasy)
Viehl, Lynn -- Nightborn $7.99 (Lords of the Darkyn #1: PBO; Sent to retrieve a scroll rumored to contain maps to Templar treasures and the secrets to eternal life, Darkyn warrior Korvel teams up with Simone, daughter of the scroll's guardian and a woman with deadly secrets.)
Ward, D/Dilmore, K -- That Which Divides $7.99 (Star Trek: When a science vessel is severely damaged during a mission to the Xondaii system, Captain Kirk and his crew are dispatched to investigate and render assistance.)
Weber, David -- A Rising Thunder $26.00 (Honor Harrington #13: To thwart the Mesan Alignment's next devastating strike, the Star Kingdom's wormhole network must be shut down and secured - an act that the Solarian League takes as a declaration of war. Honor must counter the League's massive attack, and survive to take the fight to the Mesans.)
Wells, Dan -- Partials $17.99 (YA; The human race is all but extinct, devastated by war with the Partials - engineered organic beings identical to humans - and by RM, a weaponized virus. No baby has been born immune to RM in more than a decade. As RM ravages the community and mandatory pregnancy laws push what's left of humanity to the brink of civil war, Kira, a 16-year-old medic-in-training, makes a desperate decision to save the last of her race. She will find that the survival of humans and Partials alike rests in her attempts to uncover the connections between them.)
Wilson, Robert Charles -- Vortex $7.99 (Transported ten thousand years into the future, Turk Findley must unravel the true nature and purpose of the mysterious entities known as 'the Hypotheticals' before they carry him on a journey through warped time to the end of the universe itself.)
Expected Mid March
Adams, Scott -- Teamwork Means You Can't Pick the Side That's Right $12.99 (Dilbert: More office mayhem and madness from Dilbert and his coworkers.)
Bell, Hilari -- Traitor's Son $16.99 (Raven Duet #2: YA; Kesla has passed the pouch and the quest on to Jason, a native boy she thinks will be able to finish the job. But a family feud has cut Jason off from his traditional heritage, and he is even more doubtful than Kesla was. Still, Raven manages to convince Jason that this is something that he can do - and must do if he wants to heal his family and the earth.)
Boos, Ben -- Swords: An Artist's Devotion $12.99 (Kids; Full color picture book; a celebration of swords and swordsmen, from ancient warriors such as Beowulf to medieval knights; from stealthy ninjas and samurai to legendary maidens of war.)
Bransford, Nathan -- Jacob Wonderbar and the Cosmic Space Kapow $7.99 (Kids; When a spaceship crashes near his house, Jacob swaps a corn dog for the ship, and with his best friends Sarah Daisy and Dexter takes off on a madcap adventure.)
Carey, Mike et al -- The Steel Seraglio $15.95 (A religious zealot has deposed the sultan, and condemned the sultan's 365 concubines, first to exile and then to death. Cast into the desert, the women's goals go beyond survival: they intend to topple the usurper.)
Coates, Deborah -- Wide Open $24.99 (Hallie returns from Afghanistan to find her sister Dell's ghost waiting. The sheriff says Dell committed suicide, but Hallie doesn't believe it. She discovers more ghosts, of women who disappeared without a trace. Now someone's trying to stop her investigation.) Denning, Troy -- Apocalypse $27.00 (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi #9: Luke Skywalker leads a desperate assault against the Lost Tribe of the Sith. The future of Coruscant, and of the Galactic Alliance, hangs in the balance.)
Feist, Raymond E. -- A Crown Imperiled $27.99 (Chaoswar #2: The Kesh's invading hordes have descended upon Krondor, but the Conclave and its followers face an even more powerful enemy. Treachery and betrayal threaten the alliance from within, and Pug's magic and wisdom may not be enough to save them.)
Flanagan, John -- Halt's Peril $7.99 (Ranger's Apprentice #09: Kids; Rangers Halt and Will, along with the young warrior Horace, pursue a renegade outlaw group that has divided the kingdom into factions and is looking to take over Araluen.)
Flanagan, John -- The Emperor of Nihon-Ja $7.99 (Ranger's Apprentice #10: Kids; After months with no communication from Horace, his friends follow him to Nihon-Ja, where they must help him and his new allies thwart the Senji warriors trying to overthrow the emperor.)
Harkaway, Nick -- Angelmaker $26.95 (After he accidentally triggers a 1950s doomsday machine, Joe Spork's once-quiet world is suddenly overrun by mad monks, serial killers, scientific geniuses, and threats to the future of conscious life in the universe. The only way to survive is to muster the courage to fight, and help a retired international secret agent complete a mission she abandoned years ago.)
Ikezawa, Natsuki -- The Navidad Incident: The Downfall of Matias Guili $24.99 (Japanese war veterans pay an official visit to a former WWII island colony, only to see the Japanese flag burst into flames. Later, the tour bus and its passengers vanish. There are absurd rumors - the bus was last seen attending Catholic Mass, the bus must have skipped across the lagoon - but the island's president suspects guerrillas are trying to undermine his connections with Japan. Can the real answer to the mystery be found? Or will the president have to be content with the surreal answers?)
Joshi, S.T. (ed) -- Black Wings of Cthulhu $14.95 (Anthology; original tales of Lovecraftian horror)
Kosmatka, Ted -- The Games $25.00 (The US Olympic Committee has used AI to create its greatest warrior for this year's games. But the gladiator shows signs of hyper-intelligence and a vicious streak, and may be capable of destroying more than just its opponents.) Kowalski, David -- The Company of the Dead $15.95 (A mysterious man appeared aboard the Titanic, and saved the ship. As a result, the US never entered WWI. Now it's 2012, the US is occupied by Germany and Japan, and Joseph Kennedy is one of six people who can restore history to its rightful order. )
Mack, David -- Destiny Omnibus: Gods of Night / Mere Mortals / Lost Souls $19.00 (Star Trek: Omnibus reprint; the shocking origin and final fate of the Borg.)
Meynard, Yves -- Chrysanthe $15.99 (Kidnapped as a child by a powerful magician and tricked into believing that her parents abused her, at 17 Christine learns this is a lie, and returns to take her place as heir to Chysanthe. But war begins when the magical standoff caused by her exile is broken.)
Perro, Bryan -- The Mask Wearer $6.99 (Amos Daragon #1: Kids; Amos receives a mask capable of harnessing the strength of the wind, and a task: he must find the other elemental masks, and use them to stop the evil forces trying to destroy the balance of nature and plunge the world into darkness.)
Powers, Tim -- Hide Me Among the Graves $25.99 (London, 1862: John Polidori's ghost has been serving as muse to his niece and nephew, poet Christina Rossetti and painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. But Polidori's spirit has grown debauched and malevolent. He has resurrected Dante's wife and transformed her into a vampire, and now he is determined to possess the life and soul of an innocent girl. To stop him, the Rossettis join forces with the girl's parents, and plunge into a supernatural London underworld they never knew existed.)
Ryan, Carrie -- The Dark and Hollow Places $8.99 (Forest of Hands and Teeth #3: YA; Can Annah continue to live in a world drenched in the blood of the living? Or is death the only way to save herself from the Return's destruction?)
Schlozman, Steven C. (MD) -- Zombie Autopsies: Secret Notebooks from the Apocalypse $14.99 (The first authoritative medical study of zombies, as seen through a doctor's notebook, medical diagrams, and illustrations.)
Townley, Roderick -- The Door in the Forest $6.99 (Kids; In the heart of a forest lies an island, impenetrable to all but the snakes patrolling its waters. But Daniel is determined to get there, along with his friend Emily, whose mother was taken away by government troops, and whose grandmother reads the future in her bubble bath. Enter the soldiers. Are they searching for something? A treasure map? The island? The girl?)
Vaughn, Carrie -- Steel $8.99 (YA; A rusty sword tip transports Jill to the deck of a pirate ship. Will a dark enchantment, salty kisses, and a duel with an evil pirate captain leave her stranded forever in the 18th century?)
Walsh, Jill Paton -- The Green Book (alternate title: Shine) $6.99 (Reissue; Kids; Pattie and her family are among the last refugees to flee a dying Earth. But when the group finally lands on the distant planet which is to be their new home, they discover that the colony is in jeopardy. Nothing on this planet is edible, and they may not be able to grow food. With supplies dwindling, Pattie and her sister decide to take the one chance that might make life possible on Shine.)
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn -- Commedia della Morte $29.99 (Saint-Germain #25: Madelaine de Montalia - now a vampire - has been arrested by France's Revolutionary Tribunal. To rescue her, Saint-Germain sneaks into France with a troupe of actors. But he soon finds himself betrayed, his own life as well as Madelaine's in danger.)
Expected Early April Adams, John Joseph (ed) -- Armored $7.99 (Anthology; original stories featuring armored battle-suits and battle-mechs)
Aguirre, Ann -- Devil's Punch $7.99 (Corine Solomon #4: PBO; Corine is trying to rebuild her pawnshop and her life when demons from her past kidnap her best friend.)
Arthur, A.C. -- Temptation Rising $7.99 (Shadow Shifters #1: PBO; Roman is a seductively charming attorney, and a criminal suspect with suspicious connections to the Amazon jungle. And cop Kalina has just discovered his link to a secret race of shapeshifting jaguars, sworn to defend humanity from the most savage of their kind.)
Ballantyne, Tony -- Twisted Metal $9.99 (Robot Wars #1: In a world of intelligent robots who have forgotten their own distant past, all metal is a valuable resource to be fought over. When the soldiers of Artemis sweep across Shull, only the robots of Turing City stand in their way, robots who believe they are something more than metal.)
Banks, Dakota -- Deliverance $7.99 (Mortal Path #3: A beautiful Renaissance murderess is recruiting Maliha as her new assassin. Maliha is turning into a lethal puppet, forced to kill innocents or see her missing friends die horribly.)
Banks, Iain -- Walking on Glass $13.95 (Reissue; Graham Park is in love, but Sara Fitch is an enigma to him. Steven Grout knows that They are out to get him, and They are. Quiss, insecure in his ramshackle castle, is forced to play interminable impossible games. The solution to the oldest of all paradoxical riddles will release him, but he must find an answer before he knows the question. Park, Grout, Quiss - no trio could be further apart, but their separate courses are set for collision.)
Barant, D.D. -- Back from the Undead $7.99 (Bloodhound Files #5: PBO; Jace has a new case, but how is she, a mere human, supposed to penetrate a child-trafficking ring of pire orphans - one that turns out to be part of a blood-farm operation?)
Bassingthwaite, Don -- The Eye of the Chained God $7.99 (Dungeons & Dragons: Abyssal Plague: PBO; With Vestapalk growing ever stronger and plague demons on the rise, Roghar and Albanon know they will have to act soon. They gain an unexpected ally when Kri resurfaces, with wisdom garnered from the Chained God. It seems even Tharizdun himself opposes Vestapalk.)
Bear, Elizabeth -- Ad Eternum $25.00 (New Amsterdam: Novella. 1962: The wampyr has returned to New Amsterdam for the first time since he fled it on pain of death years before. On the eve of social revolution, he's surrounded by inescapable reminders of who he used to be. For a thousand years he's chosen to change rather than to die. Now, at last, he faces a different future.)
Bear, Elizabeth -- Range of Ghosts $25.99 (Temur is heir to the throne of the Great Khan, in exile to escape his cousin's attempts to kill him. Samarkar is a princess who has renounced her worldly power to become a wizard. These two will come together to stand against a cult that has used deceit and sorcerous power to bring all the empires of the Celadon Highway to strife and civil war.)
Beckett, Galen -- The Master of Heathcrest Hall $16.00 (Mrs. Quent #3: With war looming and turmoil sweeping the nation, Ivy dares an alliance with a brilliant illusionist and a dangerous lord as she races to master her forbidden talents and unravel the terrible truth at the heart of her land's unrest - even as an inhuman darkness rises to claim Altania eternally for its own.)
Black, Holly -- Red Glove $8.99 (Curse Workers #2: YA; Cassel Sharpe is the most powerful curse worker around, recruited by the Feds to help solve his brother's murder, but the mob is after him too. To survive, Cassel will have to stay one step ahead of both sides.)
Black, Holly -- Black Heart $17.99 (Curse Workers #3: YA; Cassel's mother is on the lam, the girl he loves is about to join the Mob, and new secrets are coming to light. When the Feds ask him to do the one thing he said he would never do again, he needs to sort out what's a con and what's truth - and make his biggest gamble yet.)
Black/Larbalestier (ed) -- Zombies vs. Unicorns $9.99 (YA; Anthology; which is better, the zombie or the unicorn? These 12 original stories answer that question.)
Bobet, Leah -- Above $17.99 (YA; Matthew and Ariel live in Safe, an underground refuge for those fleeing the city Above - like Whisper, who speaks to ghosts, and Jack Flash, who can shoot lightning from his fingers. When an old enemy invades Safe, only Matthew, Ariel, and a few friends escape Above. As Matthew unravels the mystery of Safe's history and the attack, he realizes he must find a way to remake his home.)
Buckell, Tobias S. -- Sly Mongoose $7.99 (Xenowealth #3: Settlers live in floating cities high above the surface of Chilo. When a man crash-lands on a city, bringing news of an approaching alien invasion, 14-year-old Timas tries to help him convince the city government to prepare for war. As the other floating cities fall silent, they must discover how to defeat an enemy that turns humans into monsters.)
Burgis, Stephanie -- Kat, Incorrigible $6.99 (Kat Stephenson #1: Kids; 19th-century England: Kat's sisters have entered Society, her brother has gambled the family into debt, and Stepmama wants nothing to do with them at all. Luckily, Kat has inherited her mother's magical talents, and the courage to use them - if only she can learn how.)
Burgis, Stephanie -- Renegade Magic $16.99 (Kat Stephenson #2: Kids; Regency England: The powerful Lord Ravenscroft has expelled Kat from the Order of Guardians, citing her utter lack of ladylike propriety. But when Kat's foolish brother Charles unwittingly invokes the furious force of Sulis Minerva in Bath, it's up to Kat to rescue her family.)
Burk, G/Smith, R -- Who Is the Doctor $19.95 (An unofficial guide to Doctor Who, combining episode guides and essays, and exploring all facets of the six most recent seasons.)
Burt, Marissa -- Storybound $18.99 (Kids; 12-year-old Una opens a mysterious book, and finds herself transported to the land of Story, where children go to school to learn to be characters, and adults search for full-time character work in stories written just for them. There the devious Tale Keeper watches Una's every move, and there are whispers of a deadly secret that seems to revolve around Una herself.)
Caine, Rachel -- Last Breath $9.99 (Morganville Vampires #11: YA; After three vampires vanish without a trace, Claire discovers that the last person seen with one of the missing vampires is someone new to town. After an uneasy encounter with him, Claire is certain Magnus isn't merely human. But is he a vampire, or something else entirely? )
Campbell, J (Hemry, J) -- A Just Determination $7.99 (Paul Sinclair #1: Reissue; Ensign Paul Sinclair has been posted to a warship assigned to stop foreign vessels from violating US sovereign space. When his captain mistakenly destroys a civilian science ship, Sinclair must testify against him at a court-martial. But Sinclair believes the severe charges are unjust, and becomes a witness for the defense.)
Canavan, Trudi -- The Rogue $7.99 (Traitor Spy #2: Lorkin lives among the Sachakan rebels, doing his best to learn their unique magic, but the Traitors are reluctant to trade their knowledge, and Lorkin comes to suspect something sinister. Sonea searches for the rogue magician, whose influence over the city's underworld is greater than she feared.)
Chadbourn, Mark -- The Burning Man $17.95 (Kingdom of the Serpent #2: After a long journey across the ages, Jack Churchill has returned to the modern world to find it in the grip of a terrible dark force. With his trusted allies, Jack sets out to find the two keys that can shatter the spell. But the keys are people, hidden among the world's billions.)
Chandler, A. Bertram -- To the Galactic Rim: The Road to the Rim / To Prime the Pump / The Hard Way Up / The Broken Cycle $7.99 (John Grimes Vol. 1: Omnibus reprint; 3 novels and a short story collection of space adventure)
Chandler, A. Bertram -- Ride the Star Winds: The Anarch Lords / The Last Amazon / The Wild Ones / Catch the Star Winds $12.00 (John Grimes Vol. 4: Omnibus reprint; 4 novels and 6 short stories of space adventure)
Counter, Ben -- Phalanx $8.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Soul Drinkers #6: Captured by the Imperial Fists, the Soul Drinkers are brought to the Phalanx, the Fists' great space fortress. Interrogation reveals the location of a hidden vault where the Fists find Daenyathos, kept alive in his dreadnought body. They bring him to the Phalanx to face trial with the rest of the Soul Drinkers.)
Dawson, Delilah S. -- Wicked As They Come $7.99 (PBO; When Tish opens a locket she finds at an estate sale, she wakes up in a surreal world, where the dashing proprietor of a magical traveling circus waits. At Criminy's electric touch, Tish glimpses a tantalizing future, but she also foresees her ultimate doom. Before she can decide whether to risk her fate with the charming daredevil, the locket disappears, and with it, her only chance to return home.)
Defoe, Gideon -- The Pirates! Band of Misfits: An Adventure with Scientists / An Adventure with Ahab $14.95 (Omnibus reprint; 2 of the humorous novels the animated film is based on) Denning, Troy -- Vortex $7.99 (Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi #6: The Skywalkers and their Sith allies race to discover the origins of the Force-entity known as the Abeloth; the investigation leads to the home of the Fallanassi.)
Drake, David -- The Road of Danger $25.00 (RCN #9: Captain Daniel Leary and spy-officer Adele Mundy have been sent to a quiet sector to help a local admiral put down a coup before it takes place. But the admiral doesn't want their help, and sends them on a wild goose chase to another sector, where they must stop a pirate plot - and once again save the Republic of Cinnabar despite itself.)
Duncan, J.N. (Jim) -- The Lingering Dead $7.99 (Jackie Rutledge #3: PBO; An insidious power holding helpless ghosts in thrall is using any means available to discredit Jackie and split up her paranormal investigation team for good.)
Dunn, Christian (ed) -- Gotrek and Felix: The Anthology $8.99 (Warhammer: Anthology; stories featuring dwarf Gotrek Gurnisson and poet turned adventurer Felix Jaeger.)
Farnsworth, Christopher -- The President's Vampire $9.99 (Nathaniel Cade #2: For 140 years, vampire Nathaniel Cade has been sworn to protect and serve his country. Now he and his human handler Zach Barrows must track down the source of a new outbreak of an ancient evil.)
Flint, Eric -- 1636: The Saxon Uprising $7.99 (Ring of Fire: Gretchen has been arrested in Saxony and is likely to be executed. When the revolutionary groups she's been working with there begin to riot, General Baner is determined to wipe out the protesters. Gustavus sends Mike Stearns to restore order - and Mike decides to take his troops along on the mission.)
Foglio, Phil & Kaja -- Agatha H. and the Clockwork Princess $24.99 (Girl Genius Novel #2: Agatha and Krosp hide in plain sight as part of Master Payne's Circus of Adventure, traveling towards Mechanicsburg and the ancestral home of the Heterodynes. But with many perils standing in her way, it will take more than a spark of Mad Science for Agatha to get there.)
Foster, Alan Dean -- Body, Inc. $15.00 (Tipping Point #2: Dr. Ingrid Seastrom and Whispr's quest to learn the secrets of the implant and the thread leads them to the South African Economic Combine. Hot on their trail is Napun Mole, a cold-blooded assassin whose genetic enhancements make him the equivalent of a small army.)
Fredsti, Dana -- Plague Town $7.99 (Ashley Parker #1: When a pandemic turns its victims to zombies, Ashley discovers she is immune, and is recruited to fight back and try to control the outbreak.)
Freer, Dave -- Dog and Dragon $14.00 (Dragon's Ring #2: Flung from her homeland into the world of Lyonesse, will Meb prove to be the prophesied Defender, able to put things right? And will the Dragon Fionn and Meb's magical sheep dog Dileas be able to track her across time and space in time to help?)
Fry, Jason -- The Essential Guide to Warfare $30.00 (Star Wars: Nonfiction; full color illustrations. Looks at all aspects of the various military forces and major battles, including material from the films, TV series, books, comics, and video games.)
Golden, Christie -- Devils' Due $8.99 (Starcraft II: 2494: Jim Raynor descends into the Koprulu sector's criminal underworld alongside the street-savvy Tychus Findlay. Here, far from his humble upbringing on the fringe world of Shiloh, Raynor will face some of the most trying challenges of his life. The decisions he makes will alter his destiny forever.)
Goodman, Alison -- Eona $9.99 (Dragoneye #2: YA; On the run from the usurping High Lord Sethon's army, Eona, Ryko, and Lady Dela are searching for the black folio, and for Kygo, the young Pearl Emperor, who needs the folio and Eona's power to regain his throne.)
Grahame-Smith, Seth -- Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter $7.99 (The knowledge that his mother was killed by a supernatural predator fuels Lincoln's lifelong war against vampires and their slave-owning allies.)
Grimwood, Jon Courtenay -- The Outcast Blade $14.99 (Assassini #2: Venice's future rests in the hands of three unwilling people: the newly knighted Sir Tycho, vampire and assassin; Lady Giulietta, whose hand in marriage is sought by both emperors for their sons; and a naked girl, who crawls from an island grave and begins killing the men who buried her.)
Groening, Matt -- Simpsons Comics Confidential $15.99 (Full color graphic novel)
Haley, Guy -- Omega Point $7.99 (Richards & Klein #2: Powerful AI k52 has a plan: an artificial reality based on our own universe would theoretically give him enough data to be able to alter reality itself, direct the destiny of humankind, and make himself a god. It's down to Richards and Klein to stop it from happening.)
Hallaway, Tate -- Tall, Dark & Dead $7.99 (Garnet Lacey #1: Recovering witch Garnet Lacey manages Wisconsin's premier occult bookstore. And customers like Sebastian are a fringe benefit - piercing brown eyes, a sexy accent, and a killer body. The only thing missing is an aura. Which mean's he's dead. And that means trouble - something Garnet's a sucker for.)
Harris, Charlaine -- Dead Reckoning $7.99 (Southern Vampire #11: When Merlotte's bar is firebombed, suspicion falls on the anti- shifters. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she learns that Eric and his 'child' Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master.)
Hornshaw/Hurwitch -- So You Created a Wormhole $15.00 (A time travel survival guide, offering essential knowledge for visiting the past, or the future.)
Hughes, Matthew -- Costume Not Included $7.99 (To Hell & Back #2: Chesney's efforts to Save The Day and Win the Girl make slow progress. Meanwhile, Boss Greeley's deal with the Devil makes him ever stronger, and untouchable, while the Reverend Hardacre digs deeper and finds that not everything in reality is quite what it seems.)
Hunt, Stephen -- Secrets of the Fire Sea $27.99 (Jackelian World #4: On the isolated island of Jago, someone has murdered Archbishop Alice Grey, and tried to kill Alice's ward Hannah. Hannah must unravel a chain of ancient riddles to save her own life and put an end to a deadly power struggle.)
Hunter, Erin -- Sign of the Moon $6.99 (Warriors: Omen of the Stars #4: Kids; Jayfeather receives a desperate plea from an ancient mountain tribe that is struggling to survive. With the summons comes an omen that suggests a perilous fate may await the warrior Clans.)
Hunter, Erin -- The Last Hope $16.99 (Warriors: Omen of the Stars #6: Kids; Jayfeather, Dovewing, and Lionblaze have struggled to unravel the prophecy that unites them. As the final battle against the Dark Forest approaches, they turn to Firestar, ThunderClan, and StarClan for help. Will they be able to save the warrior Clans from destruction?)
Irvine, Ian -- Vengeance $14.99 (Tainted Realm #1: 12 years ago, two children witnessed a murder. Tali watched as her mother was killed. Rix watched as his parents murdered a woman. When a chance meeting brings these two together, the secrets of an entire kingdom are uncovered, and a villain out of legend returns to throw the realm into chaos. Tali and Rix must find a way to save the realm - and themselves.)
Jay, Stacey -- Blood on the Bayou $7.99 (Annabelle Lee #2: PBO; Hitch, an FBI agent and Annabelle's ex, arrives in town to hunt for the illegal lab producing a controversial fairy- killing spray that could harm every living thing in the Delta.)
Jemisin, N.K. -- The Kingdom of Gods $7.99 (Inheritance #3: 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?)
Kane, Stacia -- Sacrificial Magic $7.99 (Downside #4: PBO; An infamous crime boss - who is also her drug dealer - orders Chess to use her powers as a witch to solve a grisly murder involving dark magic.) Kenyon, Sherrilyn -- Retribution $7.99 (Dark-Hunter #20: Brought together by an angry god, Jess, a hired gun turned Dark-Hunter, and Abigail, who has been slaying Dark-Hunters, must overcome their mutual hatred, or watch as one of the darkest powers rises and kills both the human and the vampire races.)
Koch, Gini -- Alien Diplomacy $7.99 (Alien #5: PBO; While trying to master the political landscape as new heads of Centaurion's diplomatic corps, Jeff and Kitty must deal with an assassination plot and a new set of anti- alien conspirators.)
Krentz, J/Quick, A -- Quicksilver $7.99 (Arcane Society: Looking Glass #2: A Victorian glass-reader and a psychic investigator play a cat-and-mouse game with a killer.)
Kress, Nancy -- After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall $14.95 (2035: After ecological disasters nearly destroyed the Earth, the last 26 survivors of humanity have been trapped by an alien race inside a sterile enclosure. As they grow sick and die, their only hope lies with 15-year-old Pete, who makes brief forays into the recent past, bringing back children to replenish the gene pool. In 2013, brilliant mathematician Julie Kahn works with the FBI to solve a series of inexplicable kidnappings - but her predictive algorithms are beginning to reveal something other than criminal activity. As she closes in on the truth, she and Pete are converging in time upon the future of humanity - a future which might never unfold.)
LaFevers, R.L. -- The Wyvern's Treasure $5.99 (Nathaniel Fludd, Beastologist #3: Kids; Nate and Aunt Phil are called to the Welsh countryside, where the wyverns are in an uproar. Could the same man who ransacked the Fludd house be behind this? And just what does he want with The Book of Beasts?)
Lasky, Kathryn -- Watch Wolf $6.99 (Wolves of the Beyond #3: Kids; When a bear cub is stolen, the bears blame the wolves. War is coming, unless Faolan can track down a traitor and rescue the bear cub in time.)
Lifton, Betty Jean -- Taka-Chan and I: A Dog's Journey to Japan $16.95 (Reissue; Kids; Runcible, a Weimeraner, digs a hole from his home on Cape Cod all the way to Japan, where he meets Taka-chan, a little girl imprisoned by a sea-dragon. Determined to free her, Runcible takes up the dragon's challenge to find the most loyal creature in Japan. Black & white photos throughout.) Little, Bentley -- The Haunted $7.99 (PBO; The Perry family's new house is perfect - except for the strange neighbors, the dreadful nightmares, the obscene messages, and that odd smell coming from a dark corner in the basement.)
Lovegrove, James -- Age of Aztec $8.99 (Pantheon #4: The date is 4 Jaguar 1 Monkey 1 House - November 25th, 2012, by the old reckoning - and the Aztec Empire rules the world. In the jungle-infested city of London, a masked vigilante known as the Conquistador defies them. Recruited to spearhead an uprising, he discovers a terrible truth about the Aztec and their gods. Apocalypse looms, unless the Conquistador can help assassinate the immortal Aztec emperor.)
Lowe, Helen -- The Gathering of the Lost $7.99 (Wall of Night #2: In Haarth's southern realms, rumors of dark forces and darker magics are growing. As the great Midsummer tournament at Caer Argent approaches, Haarth will have one opportunity to band together against an enemy in which few believe, or be lost forever. )
Lyle, Anne -- The Alchemist of Souls $7.99 (Night's Masque #1: Tudor explorers return to London from the New World, followed by ships bringing Native American goods - and a skrayling ambassador. But what do these seeming magical beings really want? Mal, a down-at- heels swordsman, is assigned as a bodyguard. What he learns about the skraylings and their unholy powers could cost England her new ally - and Mal his soul.)
Mack, David -- Storming Heaven $7.99 (Star Trek Vanguard: PBO; Vanguard is under siege. Admiral Nogura sends a scout ship to find an ancient weapon that might be the Federation's only hope of stopping the alien Shedai.)
MacLeod, Ken -- The Night Sessions $17.95 (In the enlightened near-future, there is no persecution or terrorism, but the millions who still believe and worship are a mistrusted minority. Now a bishop is dead, in a tiny church that was deliberately bombed. At first, suspicion falls on militant atheists. But when the target list expands to include the godless, it becomes evident that something very old - and very, very dangerous - has risen from the ashes.)
Marques, Sarah -- Sword & Blood $14.95 (Vampire Musketeers #1: Athos has spent a decade fighting vampires in the king's musketeers. Now his treacherous wife has turned him into a vampire, but despite his craving for blood, he remains human enough to fight vampires. His commitment and loyalty to his comrades allow him to keep his soul through an adventure that tests the heights of his heroism and the depths of his darkest desires.)
Martin, George R.R. et al -- A Game of Thrones Vol. 1 graphic novel $25.00 (Song of Fire and Ice #1 GN: Full color. Collects issues 1-6 of the adaptation of the fantasy novel.)
McMahon, Gary -- Silent Voices $8.99 (Concrete Grove #2: When Simon returns to the Concrete Grove to see his old friends, he unearths painful memories from his childhood. Things once buried begin to claw their way back to the surface as a hideously patient dark entity calls once again from the shadows.)
Meyers, Theresa -- The Slayer $6.99 (Legend Chronicles #2: PBO; Convinced that his family's demon-hunting legacy is the only hope to save her people, vampire Alexandra Porter travels from Transylvania to the Wild West to ask for sheriff Winchester Jackson's help. And while she's at it, she plans to change his opinions about vampires.)
Mignola, M/Golden, C -- Joe Golem and the Drowning City $25.99 (Illustrated novel. In 1925, earthquakes and a rising sea level left Lower Manhattan submerged under 30 feet of water. 50 years have passed since then, and the city is home to scavengers, poor people, and those too stubborn to be defeated by circumstance. Among them are 14-year-old Molly and her friend and employer Felix, once a celebrated stage magician, now a psychic medium. When a seance goes horribly wrong, Felix is abducted, and Molly finds herself on the run. Her flight will lead her into the company of a mysterious man, and his stalwart sidekick, Joe Golem, whose own past is a mystery to him, but who walks his own dreams as a man of stone and clay, brought to life for the sole purpose of hunting witches.)
Modesitt Jr., L.E. -- Lady-Protector $7.99 (Corean Chronicles #8: Mykella is faced with rebuilding her nation while trying to prevent an invasion. Fortunately, an old magic power has awakened in her - but that might herald the return of an ancient enemy.)
Monk Devon -- Magic Without Mercy $7.99 (Allie Beckstrom #8: PBO; Magic itself has been poisoned, and Allie's undead father may have left the only cure in the hands of a madman.)
Moore, Christopher -- Sacre Bleu $26.99 (1890: Baker-turned-painter Lucien Lessard and bon vivant Henri Toulouse-Lautrec vow to discover the truth behind Vincent van Gogh's untimely death, leading them on a surreal odyssey and brothel-crawl through the Parisian art world; Signed copies expected)
Morrissey, Thomas -- Faustus Resurrectus $14.99 (Occult scholar Donovan Graham is helping the New York Police Department investigate gruesome murders in which the victims have been artfully arranged to resemble the signs of the Zodiac. Are they pursuing a serial killer, or is something more sinister taking place?)
Nimmo, Jenny -- The Secret Kingdom $6.99 (Red King #1: Kids; When their peaceful land is attacked, Prince Timoken and his sister Zobayda take his magical gifts and a talking camel, and set off to find a new kingdom to call home.)
Parsons, Zack -- Liminal States $14.95 (1874: Gideon Long is dying. On the brink of madness, he discovers a place best left forgotten and makes an insidious bargain: escape his fate and incur a debt too great for one man. His country will pay the price over the twisting course of more than a century.)
Patton, Fiona -- The Shining City $7.99 (Warriors of Estavia #3: Only if seers Spar and Graize, sworn enemies, can come together as his priests will the young God Hisar stand any chance of surviving the coming battles with both the hungry spirits seeking to devour him and the mortal invasion fleet sailing toward Anavatan.)
Pfeifer, W/Torres, G -- The Advance Team $15.99 (Graphic novel; pizza delivery guy Zack learns that his pop culture idols are actually the advance team of an alien invasion, and sets out to kill them before the invasion can begin.)
Pinkwater, Daniel -- Mrs. Noodlekugel $14.99 (Kids; Welcome to the world of Mrs. Noodlekugel, where felines converse and serve cookies and tea, vision-impaired mice join the party (but may put crumbs up their noses), and children in search of funny adventures are drawn by the warm smell of gingerbread and the promise of magical surprises.)
Poitevin, Linda -- Sins of the Son $7.99 (Grigori Legacy #2: PBO; When Alex sees a photo of Seth Benjamin on a police bulletin, she realizes that Heaven's plan to halt Armageddon has gone terribly wrong. As the only mortal who knows of Seth's true nature, it's up to her to save him.)
Sanders, Rob -- Legion of the Damned $12.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Battles #8: As the Excoriators Chapter struggles to protect the cemetery world of Certus Minor from the berserk World Eaters, salvation arrives when spectral warriors descend upon this planet of the dead, bringing the enemies of the Imperium face to face with those who have already traveled beyond the realm of the living.)
Sawyer, Robert J. -- Triggers $25.95 (When an experimental device for modifying memories is accidentally amplified, one of those affected is the US president. Now he has someone else's memories, and someone else has his - including the plans for a secret military operation)
Sawyer, Robert J. -- Wonder $7.99 (WWW #3: Webmind has helped with everything from curing cancer to easing international tensions, but the Pentagon still sees it as a threat to eliminate. If Caitlin Decter can't protect Webmind, everything may come crashing down.)
Scalzi, John -- Fuzzy Nation $7.99 (Authorized by H. Beam Piper's estate. Jack Holloway is doing independent prospecting and surveying on a planet controlled by ZaraCorp. Then a small furry biped - trusting and appealing - shows up at Jack's home. Followed by its family. As it dawns on Jack that these creatures are people, he realizes that they threaten ZaraCorp's legal right to exploit the planet - and that ZaraCorp may be planning to exterminate the fuzzys.) Shinn, Sharon -- The Shape of Desire $25.95 (Every month, Dante shifts shape and becomes a wild animal. For fifteen years, Maria has kept his secret, knowing their love is worth the danger. But brutal attacks have been occurring during the times when Dante is in animal form, and Maria may be forced to reconsider.)
Smith, Sherwood -- Banner of the Damned $25.95 (Set in the Inda universe, four hundred years later. Princess Lasva leaves Colend and becomes deeply involved with the Marlovens and their magic, marrying their Prince Ivandred. But the Marloven king's mage is in league with Norsunder, an enemy of Colend. As war wages on, all are forced to redefine love, loyalty, and power)
Stover, Matthew -- Caine's Law $16.00 (Caine #4: Caine returns to Overworld. There, in a violent odyssey through time and space, he will face the demons of his past, find true love, and just possibly destroy the universe.)
Sylvan, Dianne -- Shadow's Fall $7.99 (Shadow World #3: PBO; The Signet Council is in Austin for its ten-year summit, including Prime James Hart, a sworn enemy come to take his revenge on those who defied him. But Miranda and David receive an unexpected offer of help from David's sire, an ancient and powerful vampire whose knowledge may be their salvation - or their doom)
Thompson, Vicki Lewis -- Werewolf in Seattle $7.99 (Wild About #3: PBO; After inheriting his aunt's mansion in the San Juan islands, the leader of a Scottish werewolf pack is intrigued by his aunt's secretary. Not only does she have clever plans for converting the estate into a resort, but she's gorgeous. But she's a half- breed. Can a pack leader mate with a woman who's part human?)
Tyler, J.D. -- Savage Awakening $7.99 (Alpha Pack #2: PBO; When one of their own is captured, the Alpha Pack must rescue him, aided by his sister, Psy Dreamwalker Rowan Chase. She wasn't expecting a scorching affair with a wolf shifter.)
Viguie, Debbie -- The Thirteenth Sacrifice $7.99 (Witch Hunt #1: PBO; When young women start dying, Boston cop Samantha Ryan investigates. Raised as a witch, she knows what the arcane symbol carved into their flesh means - bad witches have returned to Salem.)
Washington, George R.R. -- A Game of Groans $9.99 (Parody of the epic fantasy A Game of Thrones.) Wells, Dan -- Mr. Monster $7.99 (John Cleaver #2: The disappearance of the demon John killed brings another to town. Soon there are new victims for John to work on at the mortuary, and a new mystery to solve. But the dark nature he used as a weapon might now be using him. No one is Clayton is safe unless John can vanquish both the new arrival and his inner demon.)
Willett, Edward -- The Helix War: Marseguro / Terra Insegura $8.99 (Omnibus reprints; 2 post-apocalyptic sf novels, about an Earth ruled by religious zealots, and a distant world that is humanity's last, best hope.)
Wolverton, Barry -- Neversink $16.99 (Kids; With famine on the mainland of Tytonia, the king of the Owl Parliament has his eye on the small Arctic island of Neversink, home to a colony of auks enjoying ocean views and a plentiful supply of fish. An owl invasion is imminent, unless Lockley Puffin and his friends Egbert, a know-it-all walrus, and Ruby, a sharp-witted hummingbird, can somehow prevent it.)
Yolen, J/Snyder, M -- Except the Queen $7.99 (When they anger the Fairy Queen, sisters Serana and Meteora are separated and banished to the mortal realm of Earth. There they find signs that point to a rising power that threatens both realms)
Zettel, Sarah -- Let Them Eat Stake $7.99 (Vampire Chef #2: PBO; Why did celebrity chef Oscar Simmons walk away from his gig catering the high-profile wedding of a 200-year-old vampire and a wealthy witch? Charlotte agrees to take his place - but then Simmons turns up dead, the groom's family starts vanishing, and the police start asking pointed questions.)
Zito, V.M. -- The Return Man $9.99 (The outbreak tore the US in two: the east a safe haven, the west a ravaged wilderness where, hired by grieving relatives, Henry Marco tracks down the dead and delivers peace. Now Homeland Security wants Marco to return to California. Where the apocalypse began. Where a secret is hidden.)
Expected Mid April
Armstrong, Kelley -- The Gathering $8.99 (Darkness Rising #1: YA; Mountain lions are showing up around Maya's home, and her reactions to them are unexpected. Her best friend Daniel has been having premonitions. And Rafe, the new bad boy in town, has a strong interest in Maya's paw-print birthmark.)
Ballard, J.G. -- Millennium People $15.95 (After his ex-wife is killed by a bomb near a Heathrow airport baggage carousel, psychologist David Markham infiltrates the shadowy protest group responsible for her death - then finds himself succumbing to the charismatic charms of the group's leader.)
Barnes, John -- Losers in Space $18.99 (YA; 2129: Fame is all that matters. So Susan and Derlock cook up a plan: they (and Susan's celebutante friends) will stow away on a Mars- bound spaceship. Their survival will be a media sensation. Just one problem: Derlock is a sociopath.)
Baxter, Stephen -- The Science of Avatar $14.99 (Engineer and sf novelist Baxter takes a look at the scientific underpinnings of the popular film.)
Birmingham, John -- Angels of Vengeance $26.00 (Without Warning #3: While leading the battle to rebuild America in the face of predation by pirates and freebooters, President Kipper faces a challenge to his leadership from a rogue governor who has proclaimed himself a sovereign power in Texas.) Black/Datlow (ed) -- Welcome to Bordertown $10.99 (Anthology; original urban fantasy stories set in Terri Windling's city on the border between human civilization and the elven world.)
Brooks, Albert -- 2030 $14.99 (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.)
Brown, Palmer -- The Silver Nutmeg $15.95 (Anna Lavinia #2: Reissue; Kids; Anna Lavinia tosses acorns into Dew Pond, and finds them being tossed back to her by a boy named Toby, who invites her to join him in his looking- glass world. He introduces her to an uncanny fortuneteller, and to his aunt, whose beloved has disappeared into Anna Lavinia's world.) Browne, S.G. -- Lucky Bastard $23.00 (PI Nick Monday can steal other people's luck with just a handshake. Offered big bucks to find the stolen luck of the mayor of San Francisco, Nick soon winds up blackmailed by the Feds, kidnapped by the Chinese mob, and accosted by vegans and angry naked women with knives - all while trying to save a ten-year-old kid with the purest luck he's ever seen.)
Brust, Steven -- Tiassa $14.99 (Vlad Taltos #13: In the distant past, one of the gods fashioned a silver tiassa. To Devera the Wanderer, it's a pretty toy. To Vlad, it's a prop for a con he's running. To the Empire, it's a tool to use against the Jenoine. And to the Jhereg, it's a trap to kill Vlad. As it happens, however, the tiassa has its own agenda.)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- A Princess of Mars $20.00 (John Carter #01: Reissue; Keepsake HC edition of the classic space fantasy)
Burroughs, Edgar Rice -- Tarzan of the Apes $20.00 (Tarzan #01: Reissue; Centenary HC edition of the classic jungle adventure)
Dellamonica, A.M. -- Blue Magic $14.99 (Indigo Springs #2: The secret of Vitagua - the underground river of blue magic - is out. Everything it touches is changed, pitting friend against friend, magic against magic, and the power of nations against a small cult of zealots.)
Duncan, Glen -- The Last Werewolf $14.95 (Jake is a bit elderly, 201 in March, but otherwise in the pink of health. Lots of sex, lot of exercise, lots of flesh and blood in his diet. He's also the last remaining werewolf, which depresses him to the point of suicide. But there are powerful forces who - for very different reasons - want and have the power to keep Jake alive.)
Evenson, Brian -- Immobility $24.99 (Josef Horkai opens his eyes, remembers nothing. He finds out that a catastrophe has destroyed life as we know it. Someone claiming to be his friend tells him something crucial has been stolen. He can't be told what, or why, but he's got to get it back, or something bad is going to happen.)
Ewing, Al -- Pax Omega $9.99 (Pax Britannia: Collection; 11 tales from the past, present, and distant future combine into a star-spanning saga set to shake the universe to its foundations - or destroy it.)
Gilman, Carolyn Ives -- Ison of the Isles $15.95 (Forsaken Isles #2: The islanders have risen up to drive out the Inning Empire, but still they have no one to unite them. Only an Ison can do that - and the power to create an Ison lies in the hands of Spaeth, Harg, and Nathaway. But for an Ison to arise, each of them must betray one of the others.)
Groening, Matt -- Bart Simpson: Out to Lunch $15.99 (Full color graphic novel.)
Hand, Elizabeth -- Radiant Days $17.99 (YA; 1978: Merle is a painter, catapulted from her impoverished upbringing into a sophisticated, dissipated art scene. 1870: Arthur Rimbaud is on the verge of making his name as a poet. The meshed power of words and art bridges time, allowing these two troubled, brilliant artists to enter each other's worlds.)
Harland, Richard -- Liberator $17.99 (Juggernauts #2: YA; A saboteur seems determined to promote anti-Swank sentiment, and the Swanks are finding that their best efforts to work with the Filthies are being tossed aside. As tensions run high and coal supplies run low, can Col and Riff unify their divided people?)
Hautman, Pete -- The Obsidian Blade $16.99 (Klaatu Diskos #1: YA; When his parents disappear, 13-year-old Tucker suspects that the disks of shimmering air he keeps seeing hold the answer. So he steps into one, and is launched on a time-twisting journey from his small Midwestern town to a futuristic hospital run by digitally augmented healers, from the death of an ancient prophet to a forest at the end of time.)
Hopkinson, Nalo -- Chaos $16.99 (YA; 16- year-old Scotch's brother has disappeared, swallowed up by a bubble of light. Soon the Chaos that claimed her brother affects the city at large. Scotch needs to get to the bottom of this ASAP - and she knows that the shadowy entity that's begun trailing her every move is probably not going to help.)
Johnson, Suzanne -- Royal Street $14.99 (After Hurricane Katrina crumbles the borders between New Orleans and the Otherworld, junior wizard sentinel Drusilla Jaco searches for her missing mentor while trying to stop a serial killer with ties to voodoo.)
Jones, Diana Wynne -- Dogsbody $9.99 (Reissue; YA; Found guilty of a murder he didn't commit, the Dog Star Sirius is sentenced to live on Earth until he can carry out a mission: recover the Zoi, a deadly weapon. In his lowly earthly form, Sirius learns that humans have all the power, that his young mistress loves him but can't protect either of them, and that someone will do anything to keep him from finding the Zoi.)
Jones, Diana Wynne -- Fire and Hemlock $9.99 (Reissue; YA; Polly has two sets of memories, one boringly normal, the other entangled with the mysterious cellist Tom. Someone has been trying to make her forget Tom - whose life, she realizes, is at supernatural risk.)
Jones, Diana Wynne -- A Tale of Time City $9.99 (Reissue; YA; London, 1939: Vivian Smith is kidnapped by two boys from Time City, designed to oversee history. History is going critical, and the boys are convinced impending doom can only be averted by a 20th-century girl named Vivian Smith. Too bad they have the wrong girl.)
Kowal, Mary Robinette -- Glamour in Glass $24.99 (Jane #2: The deposed Napoleon has escaped from exile, throwing Europe into turmoil. Jane and Vincent's Continental honeymoon is interrupted when Vincent is arrested as an English spy. Jane must use the glamour at her disposal to rescue him from prison.)
Mihaley, James -- You Can't Have My Planet, But Take My Brother, Please $16.99 (Kids; 13- year-old Giles is not as charming as his sister, and not as brainy as his goody-goody brother. But when Giles witnesses an alien realtor showing Earth to possible new tenants, he knows he'd better do something. With the help of an alien 'attorney' and the maddest scientist ever, Giles just might save humans from eviction from Earth.)
Newman, Kim -- Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron $14.95 (Reissue; Includes a brand- new novella bridging the gap between Anno Dracula and this story. 1918: Dracula commands the armies of Germany and Austria-Hungary, and the war of the Great Powers in Europe is also a pitched battle between the living and the undead.)
Nicholls, Stan -- Orcs: Inferno $15.99 (Orcs: Bad Blood #3: With the fate of worlds at stake and fresh adversaries blocking their path, Stryke and his band are facing the greatest battle of their lives.)
Nylund, Eric -- The Resisters $6.99 (Resisters #1: Kids; Madison and Felix claim that 50 years ago, aliens took over Earth, and everyone past puberty is under their mind control. 12-year-old Ethan doesn't believe them, until he sees the aliens' robots. Now Ethan has a choice: he can go back to his normal, safe lie of a life, or he can become a Resister.) Nylund, Eric -- Sterling Squadron $6.99 (Resisters #2: Kids; With the Ch'zar armies growing, the Resisters need more kids to train. And 12-year-old Ethan knows where to find them: Sterling Reform School, where the Ch'zar send 'troublemakers' who think for themselves.)
Pierce, Tamora -- Tortall and Other Lands $9.99 (YA; Collection; reprints plus three original stories)
Reese, James -- The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll & Mademoiselle Odile $17.99 (YA; Paris, 1870: 16-year-old Odile's ancestors were reputed to be witches. Were they? Odile seeks the answer to this question while she uses her talents to help a young Londoner, Doctor Jekyll - who seems to be abusing the salts that she gave him in a most disconcerting way.)
Slattery, Brian Francis -- Lost Everything $14.99 (In an America that's been torn apart by inexplicable war and horrendous climate change, a man takes a boat trip up the Susquehanna River to search for his wife and son.)
Stockbridge/Cormack -- Slaughter, Inc. $14.95 (Spider: A criminal genius has created an organization to perform murder-for-hire, with innocents being fingered for the crimes. When Nita Van Sloan is framed for a killing, the Spider must infiltrate the cartel.)
Stockbridge/Henderson -- Shadow of Evil $6.99 (Spider: Richard Wentworth wonders if his long struggle against the forces of evil has been worth it. Should he continue, or grab for personal happiness while he can? Just as he makes his decision, fate unleashes the most hellish horrors of all time against NYC.)
Tem, Steve Rasnic -- Deadfall Hotel $9.99 (The Deadfall Hotel is where our nightmares go, where the dead pause to rest between worlds. And it's where Richard Carter and his daughter Serena go to rediscover life - if the things at the hotel don't kill them first.)
Whedon, J/Lebbon, T -- The Cabin in the Woods $7.99 (Novelization of the film. The terrifying story of five college friends who are tricked into staying in a mysterious cabin for the weekend.)
Wilson, Daniel H. -- Robopocalypse $15.95 (Roughly twenty years from now, humanity battles a robot uprising.)
Expected Early May Alexander, Lloyd -- The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio $7.99 (Kids; A beautiful Kirkassi girl, villains and killers, bandits, slave traders, a bazaar merchant peddling slightly used dreams - Carlo Chuchio encounters them all while seeking hidden treasure on the legendary Road.)
Anderson, Poul -- The High Crusade $7.99 (Reissue; After defeating an invading alien force, a 14th-century English army expects the surviving alien pilot to fly them to the aid of their king in France. Instead, they're taken to the alien home world, where the pilot believes they'll have no choice but to surrender. That's not what the English plan to do.)
Archer, Alex -- Magic Lantern $6.99 (Rogue Angel #36: PBO; In London, Annja is pulled toward a mystery concerning the origin of an old-fashioned projector once used by 18th- century illusionists. Someone wants to harness the power of this cursed artifact.)
Axelrod, J/Walker, S -- The Battle of Blood and Ink $25.99 (Graphic novel; Ashe publishes a newsletter revealing the hidden treasures and secrets of the flying city of Amperstam - including many that the government doesn't want known. When she uncovers the horror of exactly how the city travels the skies, she finds herself on the run from thugs and assassins.)
Axler, James -- Palaces of Light $6.99 (Deathlands #103: PBO; Hired to track a group of missing children, Ryan Cawdor and his band track them to the canyons of Mesa Verde, to a legendary city inhabited by masters of mind games.)
Axler, James -- Dragon City $6.99 (Outlanders #61: PBO; Enlil, cruelest of the Annunaki, is set to revive a sadistic pantheon to rule the Earth. Can the Cerberus team stop his twisted plan?)
Bacigalupi, Paolo -- The Drowned Cities $17.99 (YA; In the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, when refugees Mahlia and Mouse are confronted by soldiers from the United Patriotic Front, Mahlia must make a decision - risk everything to save Mouse, the boy who once saved her, or flee on her own to safety.)
Baker, Kage -- The Best of Kage Baker $40.00 (Collection; 20 stories and novellas, 11 of them previously uncollected, including sf, fantasy, and horror.)
Barron, Laird -- The Croning $24.99 (Strange things exist on the periphery of our existence: black magic, weird cults, and worse. For 80 years, academic Donald Miller has walked along the edge of a chasm, leading a charmed life between endearing absent-mindedness and sanity-shattering realization. Now he is about to discover the dark secrets along the edges.)
Bast, Anya -- Embrace of the Damned $7.99 (Brotherhood #1: PBO; Trickster god Loki has romance in mind for Broder Grimsson. But Jessamine Hamilton is not an ordinary woman, and the truth of who - and what - she is could have devastating consequences, not just for Broder, but for humanity.)
Benedict, Lyn -- Lies & Omens $7.99 (Shadow Inquiries #4: PBO; Sylvie's trying to lay low - which gets easier when a magical force starts taking out her enemies. But when the war threatens her assistant, her sister, and her lover, Sylvie has no choice but to get involved.)
Bennett, Christopher -- Forgotten History $7.99 (Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations: PBO; When a series of temporal incursions threatens to open a new front of the Temporal Cold War in the 24th century, DTI agents Lucsly and Dulmur must put an end to it)
Bennett, Jenn -- Summoning the Night $7.99 (Arcadia Bell #2: PBO; To stop a vengeful kidnapper, Cady and Lon will need some metaphysical help from Cady's loyal tiki bar patrons, as well as Cady's potent new Moonchild powers.)
Bernobich, Beth -- Passion Play $7.99 (Ilse Zhalina #1: Fleeing marriage to a man even crueler and more deadly than her father, Ilse finds her way to Raul Kosenmark, master of a notorious pleasure house - and a puppetmaster of a different sort altogether, in a world where there are more levels of magic and intrigue than she had ever imagined.)
Black, Jenna -- Deadly Descendant $7.99 (Nikki Glass #2: PBO; A rash of wild dog attacks are terrorizing Washington, DC, and the Olympian Oracle has had a vision leading her to think the killings are the work of a descendant of the Egyptian god of death. It's up to Nikki and the rest of Anderson's team to stop this killer before the authorities do.)
Blaine, Jack -- The Nightworld $8.99 (YA; A strange cloud appeared over the city, and kept growing. And Nick's dad, a DoD physicist, might have something to do with it. Night is never- ending; the temperature is falling as heat leaves the world. Plants and animals are dying, and people are turning into predators. But Nick is determined not to disappear like the fading light. Desperate to glimpse a familiar face in the shadows, Nick races to find his friends - and the one clue that's his glimmer of hope.)
Cabell, Craig -- The Doctor: Who's Who $12.95 (Updated from the HC edition. Detailed biographies of the actors who have played the Time Lord, up through Matt Smith.)
Caine, Rachel -- Black Dawn $17.99 (Morganville Vampires #12: YA; Unless Claire and her friends figure out how to cure Amelie - who has been infected by the master draug's bite - and defeat the draug, Morganville will become little more than a ghost town.)
Campbell, J (Hemry, J) -- Dreadnaught $7.99 (Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier #1: Black Jack Geary knows that members of the high command and the government question his loyalty to the Alliance and fear he'll stage a coup, so he can't help wondering if the newly christened First Fleet's assignment to the far side of space is supposed to be a suicide mission.)
Campbell, Jack -- Invincible $26.95 (Lost Fleet: Beyond the Frontier #2: Admiral Black Jack Geary and the First Fleet are tasked with exploring the frontier beyond Syndic space - a mission Jack suspects is intended to put the fleet, and himself, in harm's way.) Carey, Jacqueline -- Naamah's Blessing $7.99 (Kushiel #9: A vision is revealed by the spirit of Queen Jehanne: Prince Thierry is alive. Moirin sets out on a quest to bring the heir home to rule.)
Chase, Max -- Alien Attack $5.99 (Star Fighters #1: Kids; Peri is being trained for an elite young team sworn to defend the galaxy. He and his half-Martian copilot Diesel are performing a training exercise when they see Earth being bombarded by Xion spaceships and are drawn into the fray.)
Chase, Max -- Deadly Mission $5.99 (Star Fighters #2: Kids; When Peri and Diesel side with the Meigworians in the new intergalactic conflict, they are sent to rescue a Meigworian prince being held captive by the Xions.)
Claiborne, Paulina -- Rose of Sarifal $7.99 (Forgotten Realms: PBO; Sensing a threat to her power, a fey queen tries to murder her niece, but the girl escapes. After years of exile, she asks to return. The search party her aunt sends after her falls under her spell, and plans to return her to her aunt, not as a prisoner, but as a returning ruler.)
Colfer, Eoin -- The Atlantis Complex $8.99 (Artemis Fowl #7: Kids; An army of fairy space probes have returned to Earth. Problem is, they've been reprogrammed to destroy Atlantis. Artemis Fowl must race to save the subaquatic city.)
Cook, Glen -- Winter's Dreams $45.00 (Collection; 14 standalone tales, including vignettes, short stories, and a novella)
Correia, Larry -- Hard Magic $7.99 (Grimnoir Chronicles #1: Jake Sullivan is a war hero, a PI - and an ex-con, free only because the Feds need his magical talent to help apprehend magic-using criminals. But the last operation he was sent on went badly wrong - Delilah Jones, a friend of Jake's in happier times, had too much magical muscle with her. Now Jake has learned that the Feds have been lying to him, and that a secret war is being waged by opposing groups of magic-users. Worse, one side's ruthless leaders are of the opinion that Jake is far too dangerous to be permitted to live.)
Cross, Kady -- The Girl in the Steel Corset $9.99 (Steampunk Chronicles #1: YA; Finley Jayne knows that no normal girl has a darker side that lets her knock out a man with one punch. Then she meets Griffin King and his friends, all of whom are far from ordinary. She joins their investigation of The Machinist, the mastermind behind several recent crimes by automatons - and a plot against Queen Victoria.)
Datlow, Ellen (ed) -- The Best Horror of the Year Volume 4 $15.99 (Anthology; some of the best stories of 2011)
David, Peter -- Battleship $7.99 (PBO; Novelization of the film.)
Davidson, MaryJanice -- Undead and Undermined $7.99 (Betsy Taylor #11: What's Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor doing in the morgue? It could have something to do with a time-travel trip she made, and a foe with an agenda that could be the real death of Betsy.)
Dembski-Bowden, Aaron -- Void Stalker $8.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Night Lords #3: Talos and the First Claw continue down their dark path, until it crosses that of the alien eldar. The Farseers of the Ulthwe craftworld divine a great threat posed by the Night Lords, and seek to bring the myriad skeins of fate back into alignment. With the wrath of the ancients upon them, Talos reluctantly leads his warriors into battle once more.)
DiTerlizzi, Tony -- The Search for WondLa $8.99 (WondLa #1: Kids; When the marauder Besteel destroys the sanctuary where she was raised by the robot Muthr, 12-year-old Eva Nine flees aboveground, where she befriends a curmudgeonly wanderer, and goes in search of other humans - pursued by Besteel, who wants to capture her.)
Dunn, Christian (ed) -- Architect of Fate $12.99 (Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Battles #9: Anthology)
Erikson, Steven -- The Crippled God $9.99 (Malazan Book of the Fallen #10: Final volume in the epic fantasy series, recommended for fans of George R.R. Martin)
Farmer, PJ/Carey,CP -- Gods of Opar: Tales of Lost Khokarsa: Hadon of Ancient Opar / Flight to Opar / The Song of Kwasin $45.00 (Omnibus; reprints 2 fantasy novels and the previously unpublished conclusion of the trilogy (written with Christopher Paul Carey))
Funke, Cornelia -- Ghost Knight $16.99 (Kids; 11-year-old Jon and his quirky new friend Ella must uncover the secrets of a centuries-old murder, but they are being haunted by terrifying spirits bent on revenge. So Jon summons the ghost of Knight Longspee to protect them. But can Longspee truly be trusted?)
Gentle, Mary -- The Black Opera $15.99 (19th-century Naples: Under the auspices of the Church, the Sung Mass can bring about actual miracles. But some believe that grand opera can also work magic. Now a secret society hopes to stage a black opera to empower the Devil - and Conrad Scalese finds himself recruited to write and stage a counter-opera to neutralize their plans.)
Gleason, Colleen -- The Vampire Voss $7.99 (Regency Draculia #1: Voss, Viscount Dewhurst, is a member of a cabal of powerful noblemen marked with a talisman that reveals their bartered souls. He hungers for Angelica Woodmore's body and blood, but is unprepared for the new desire that overcomes him - to protect her.)
Gorey/Levine -- He Was There From the Day We Moved In $12.95 (Reissue; Kids; The sheepdog was sitting patiently in the back yard when the family moved in. He seemed to be waiting for something, and the family, especially young Ogden, is determined to find out what it is.)
Griffin, Kate -- The Minority Council $7.99 (Matthew Swift #4: Matthew Swift is in charge, and London is having some issues. The new drug on the market is fairy dust, which turns humans into walking drug labs. Teenage vandals are being hunted by a mystical creature. And criminals are dying by magical means.)
Grubb, Jeff -- Scourge $7.99 (Star Wars: PBO; Searching for the truth behind a novice Jedi's murder, his former Master, archivist Mander Zuma, is plunged into the perilous underworld of the criminal Hutts.)
Gustainis, Justin -- Evil Dark $7.99 (Occult Crimes Unit #2: A series of seemingly motiveless murders points to a vigilante targeting the supernatural community. Scranton cop Stan Markowski wouldn't normally have much of a problem with that, but his daughter may be next on the killer's list.)
Haley, Guy -- Champion of Mars $8.99 (In the far future, Mars dies a second time. The final war between man and the spirits is beginning. In a last bid for peace, disgraced champion Yoechakanon and his spirit lover Cybele are set free to find the long-missing Librarian of Mars, the only hope for the remnants of mankind. In the near future, Dr. Holland joins the Mars colonization effort. The discovery of an artifact in a cavern leads to tragedy, with consequences that affect Holland's present, Yoechakanon's future, and the eras in between.) Harper, Steven -- The Impossible Cube $7.99 (Clockwork Empire #2: PBO; Declared enemies of the Crown, Alice and Gavin flee in search of a cure for the clockwork plague ravaging Gavin's mind. Accompanying them is Dr. Clef, a mad genius driven to find the greatest and most destructive force the world has ever seen. But if he gets his hands on it, the entire universe will face annihilation.)
Harper, Suzanne -- A Gaggle of Goblins $6.99 (Unseen World of Poppy Malone #1: Kids; 11- year-old Poppy's parents are paranormal investigators who have never actually found anything, but that may change when they move to Austin, TX, and Poppy meets a goblin in the attic of their new house.)
Harris, Charlaine -- Deadlocked $27.95 (Southern Vampire #12: A body has shown up in Eric Northman's front yard - the body of a woman whose blood he just drank. It's up to Sookie and Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks the dead girl's fate has nothing to do with her, but she's wrong - a devious enemy is out to make Sookie's world come crashing down.)
Harrison, Michelle -- 13 Curses $6.99 (Elvesden Manor #2: Kids; The fairy court has agreed to return Red's stolen brother, if Red can find all 13 charms from Tanya's bracelet. The fairies have hidden the charms - and placed twisted enchantments on them. And the longer they are missing, the more dangerous they become.)
Headley, Maria Dahvana -- Queen of Kings $15.00 (To save her kingdom and resurrect her husband Antony, Cleopatra strikes a bargain with the goddess Sekhmet, and is transformed into an immortal shapeshifter with an insatiable hunger for human blood.)
Healy, Christopher -- The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom $16.99 (Kids; Rejected by their princesses and cast out of their castles, Liam, Frederic, Duncan, and Gustav stumble upon an evil plot that could endanger all of their kingdoms. Now it's up to them to triumph over their various shortcomings, face off against bandits, trolls, witches, and dragons, and become the heroes no one ever thought they could be.)
Hearne, Kevin -- Tricked $7.99 (Iron Druid #4: PBO; When vengeful thunder gods come looking for payback, Atticus, with a little help from the Navajo trickster god Coyote, lets them think that they've chopped up his body in the Arizona desert. But Coyote is not above a little sleight of paw, and Atticus soon finds that he's been duped into battling bloodthirsty desert shapeshifters. Just when the Druid thinks he's got a handle on all the duplicity, betrayal comes from an unlikely source.)
Hunter, Erin -- Crookedstar's Promise $7.99 (Warriors Super Edition #4: Kids; RiverClan leader Crookedstar watches, helpless, as those closest to him begin to betray him - and as the delicate balance between the four warrior Clans is threatened. Plus an exclusive manga adventure.)
Jacques, Brian -- The Rogue Crew $7.99 (Redwall #22: YA; The brave hares of the Long Patrol team up with the fearless sea otters of the Rogue Crew to defend Redwall Abbey from the terrifying Razzid Wearat.)
Jemisin, N.K. -- The Killing Moon $14.99 (Dreamblood #1: In the city-state of Gujaareh, peace is the only law, and there is no crime or violence. Priests of the dream-goddess harvest the wild power of the sleeping mind as magic, using it to heal, soothe - and kill. Ehiru, most famous of the city's Gatherers, must thwart a conspiracy and prevent the unleashing of deadly forbidden magic. He must also defeat a Gatherer's most terrifying nemesis: the Reaper.) Jerome, Celia -- Life Guards in the Hamptons $7.99 (Willow Tate #4: PBO; Willow never wanted supernatural powers, but if you're from her Long Island hometown, you don't always have a choice. Now a creature from Unity needs her help - and it doesn't hurt that handsome Matt Spenser is ready and willing to assist Willow in her efforts.)
Jones, Darynda -- Second Grave on the Left $7.99 (Charley Davidson #2: Charley and her friend Cookie hunt for a missing woman who had been acting strange since hearing about the murder of a high school friend. Meanwhile, Reyes (aka the Son of Satan) has left his corporeal body and is haunting Charley.)
Joyce, Graham -- The Silent Land $15.00 (Shirley Jackson Award finalist. Buried under an avalanche, a young couple dig their way out, only to find a world of absolute silence, their hotel empty, cell phones and land lines cut off. Trapped by a storm, they begin to witness unsettling events they cannot ignore, and must confront a frightening truth.)
Kelly/Kessel (eds) -- Nebula Awards Showcase 2012 $17.95 (Anthology; short fiction nominated for the award)
King, Stephen -- The Wind Through the Keyhole $27.00 (Dark Tower: In the guilt-ridden year following his mother's death, Roland Deschain is sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shapeshifter. Taking charge of Bill Streeter, the brave but terrified boy who is the sole surviving witness of the recent slaughter, Roland calms him by reciting a story from the Book of Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime.)
Klimo, Kate -- The Dragon in the Volcano $6.99 (Dragon Keepers #4: Kids; When their dragon Emmy disappears, she leaves a trail of socks, which Jesse and Daisy follow to the entrance to the Fiery Realm, where fire fairies have started mysteriously disappearing.)
Kozlowsky, M.P. -- Juniper Berry $5.99 (Kids; 11-year-old Juniper feels her parents haven't been quite right lately. She follows them as they sneak out of the house, to an underworld lorded over by a creature both sinister and seductive, who can sell you all the world's secrets bound in a balloon. For the first time, Juniper and her friend Giles have a choice to make. And it will be up to them to confront their own fears in order to save the ones who couldn't.)
MacAlister, Katie -- Sparks Fly $7.99 (Light Dragons #3: PBO; The First Dragon is demanding that Ysolde right past wrongs. So, with the help of some familiar friends, Ysolde sets in motion a plan that will have repercussions throughout the mortal and immortal worlds.)
Madison, Shawntelle -- Coveted $7.99 (PBO; Her ex is back in town, and there's still a spark between them. But Natalya's New Jersey werewolf pack is under attack by the vicious Long Island pack - and she's their first target.)
Martin, George (ed) -- Fort Freak $7.99 (Wild Cards #21: Mosaic novel set in the hardbitten world of Manhattan's Fifth Precinct)
Miller, Karen -- A Blight of Mages $7.99 (Morgan is one of Dorana's ruling elite, fanatically devoted to enforcing the caste system and maintaining the purity of mage bloodlines. When he falls in love with Barl, a woman of inferior breeding but astonishing mage powers, he sets himself upon a perilous course that will shake the world.)
Mills, K.E. -- Wizard Undercover $7.99 (Rogue Agent #4: When a fellow janitor goes missing in the field, Gerald embarks on a dangerous mission to find him and retrieve information vital to averting a major thaumaturgical conflict. But going undercover isn't as easy as it looks, even with Melissande and Emmerabiblia for camouflage.)
Mosley, Walter -- The Gift of Fire / On the Head of a Pin $24.99 (Two speculative tales, bound Ace Double-style. The Gift of Fire: The Titan Prometheus is unchained and walks into present-day South Central Los Angeles. On the Head of a Pin: Thanks to advanced animatronic editing techniques, long-dead stars can now share the screen with today's A-list. But one night two animators discover something lingering in the rendered footage: an entity that will lead them beyond the reality they know.)
Nassise, Joseph -- By the Blood of Heroes $14.99 (Great Undead War #1: When the German high command employs a new chemical weapon that reanimates the dead, Allied forces must take on the Kaiser's zombie army in order to rescue a downed American flier.)
Niven, Larry (creator) -- Max-Kzin Wars XIII $14.00 (Anthology; the catlike kzin, formerly invincible conquerors, must learn to compromise with humans if they wish to survive and prosper once again as a species.)
Nylund, Eric -- First Strike (definitive edition) $7.99 (Halo: After destroying the first Halo, Master Chief and Cortana attempt a voyage back home among a myriad of deadly Covenant attacks. Plus 32 bonus pages of new content.)
Oldale, John -- A World of Curiosities $16.00 (Nonfiction; surprising, interesting, and unbelievable facts from every nation on the planet, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.)
Parker, Lara -- Angelique's Descent $14.99 (Dark Shadows: Reissue; Barnabas Collins and Angelique were eternally bound by love and hate. This is the story of how it all began.)
Pehov, Alexey -- Shadow Blizzard $25.99 (Siala #3: Before he can complete his quest - stealing the magic Rainbow Horn that will restore peace to his world - Harold will have to brave the most fearsome obstacles yet, and face them alone.)
Pineiro, Caridad -- The Claimed $7.99 (Sin Hunters #2: PBO; It's Victoria's duty to restore her clan of Light Hunters to their former glory by choosing the perfect mate. But murderous factions on both sides will oppose her union with Shadow Hunter Christopher.)
Pratchett, T/Cabell, C -- Terry Pratchett: The Spirit of Fantasy $27.95 (A detailed biography of the beloved writer, including his battle with Alzheimers, over forty years of irreverent artistic achievements, and a note about cats.)
Radford, Irene -- Chicory Up $7.99 (Pixie Chronicles #2: PBO; The battle for the Ten Acre Wood continues. Can Thistle, her human friends, and a Pixie named Chicory avert disaster?)
Ringo, John -- The Hot Gate $7.99 (Troy Rising #3: Tyler Vernon and his troops face a desperate battle with the forces of galactic tyranny.)
Riordan, Rick -- The Serpent's Shadow $19.99 (Kane Chronicles #3: Kids; Apophis the chaos snake is threatening to plunge the world into eternal darkness, and the Kanes are faced with the impossible task of destroying him once and for all. Their only hope is an ancient spell that has been lost for a millennia.)
Rubino-Bradway, Caitlen -- Ordinary Magic $16.99 (Kids; Magic is a part of everyday life, but Abby has zero magical ability. Her family enrolls her in a school that teaches ordinary kids how to get by in a magical world, but with kidnappers and carnivorous goblins lurking around every corner, Abby's not sure she's going to survive the school year.)
Sagara, Michelle -- Silence $17.99 (Queen of the Dead #1: YA; Ever since her boyfriend died, Emma has been coming to the graveyard at night. But tonight Emma and her dog are not alone - there are two others in the cemetery: Eric, a new student at Emma's school; and an ancient woman who looks as though she is made of rags, who reaches out to Emma with a grip as chilling as death.)
Sage, Angie -- Darke $7.99 (Septimus Heap #6: Kids; To save the Castle and the Wizard Tower from destruction, Septimus must enter the Darke. But he will need his companions' help to battle the spreading Darknesse.)
Schroeder, Karl -- The Sunless Countries $15.99 (Virga #4: Somewhere in the abyss of wind and twisted cloud through which Pacquaea falls, a great voice has begun speaking. Only Leal has the courage to try to understand the message.)
Scott, Michael -- The Warlock $9.99 (Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #5: YA; Sophie is on her own with the ever- weakening Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel. She must depend on Niten to help her find an immortal to teach her Earth Magic. The surprise is that she will find her teacher in the most ordinary of places.) Sheckley, Robert -- Store of the Worlds $17.95 (Collection; blackly humorous sf stories)
Sinclair, Alison -- Shadowborn $7.99 (Darkborn #3: To escape a death sentence, Lady Telmaine, with her mageborn allies, is now bound for the Borders and war. Meanwhile, Balthasar has learned of his family connection to the Shadowborn, and is fighting for survival and sanity as magic turns him against everything he holds dear.)
Smith, Clete Barrett -- Aliens on Vacation $6.99 (Kids; At his grandmother's inn, each room is a portal to another planet, allowing aliens to vacation on Earth. David helps out by taking alien kids camping in the woods. But the suspicious town sheriff is camping nearby. Will Granny's cover be blown, forcing the Intergalactic Bed & Breakfast to shut down forever?)
Starr, Jason -- The Pack $9.99 (Pack #1: After a guys' night out with some new acquaintances gets frighteningly out of hand, Simon experiences disturbing changes, and suspects that when the men welcomed him to their 'pack', they meant more than male bonding.) Steele, Allen -- Hex $7.99 (Coyote Universe #3: The reclusive danui, the galaxy's finest engineers, initiate trade negotiations with the Coyote Federation, offering the coordinates for an unoccupied habitable world. But when the Federation's recon mission goes wrong, the humans realize how little they know about their new partners.)
Stirling, S.M. -- The Council of Shadows $9.99 (Shadowspawn #2: To stop the Council of Shadows from launching an apocalypse, Adrian and Ellen ally with the Brotherhood resistance group. Adrian must fight members of the Council, his own Shadowspawn nature - and possibly traitors within the Brotherhood itself.)
Strugatsky, Arkady & Boris -- Roadside Picnic $15.95 (Reissue; Despite extreme danger, Red ventures illegally into the Zone to collect alien artifacts. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together, something goes wrong. And the news Red receives from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he'll keep going to the Zone again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems.)
Traviss, Karen -- Coalition's End $9.99 (Gears of War: When Vectes is assaulted by the Lambent, Marcus Fenix and the Gears struggle to hold back the invasion. The Coalition must choose - fight to the last human, or flee to the wastelands to take their chances there.)
Tregillis, Ian -- Bitter Seeds $7.99 (Raybould Marsh #1: 1939:The Nazis are running missions with people who have unnatural abilities, and British secret agent Raybould Marsh is the man who has to face them - with some help from the secret warlocks of Britain.)
Valente, Catherynne M. -- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making $6.99 (YA; Andre Norton Award winner. A Green Wind arrives in Omaha to tell 12-year-old September that only she can retrieve a talisman the Marquess wants from the enchanted woods. If she doesn't, the Marquess will make life impossible for the inhabitants of Fairyland. Winner of the 2009 Andre Norton Award)
Valtat, Jean-Christophe -- Aurorarama $16.95 (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.)
Van Name, Mark L. -- No Going Back $22.00 (Jon & Lobo #5: Hired to retrieve stolen artifacts from Jon's quarantined home world, Jon and Lobo must deal with the formidable forces protecting their targets, the even more dangerous assault team pursuing them, and the hidden agenda of the scientist they need for their mission)
VanderMeer, Ann & Jeff -- The Weird: A Compendium of Strange and Dark Stories $29.99 (Anthology; reprints over 100 stories)
Vinge, Vernor -- The Children of the Sky $7.99 (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.) Vonnegut, Kurt -- Novels & Stories 1950-1962 $35.00 (Omnibus; 3 novels and 6 sf stories)
Wallenfels, Stephen -- POD $7.99 (The spheres announced their arrival in the sky with a shriek. Anyone caught beneath them vanished in a flash of light. The survivors are trapped indoors, not knowing if the attacks are worldwide - and they are running out of food, water, and time. For hovering patiently above them is an extraterrestrial enemy that has inexplicably declared war against humanity.)
Warren, Christine -- On the Prowl $7.99 (Others #13: PBO; As head of a global corporation, Tiguri alpha male Nic and his fiancee Saskia must take their places in the jungles of Manhattan - where the local Others Council seems to blame the weretigers for all their problems.)
Weeks, Brent -- Night Angel Trilogy: The Way of Shadows / Shadow's Edge / Beyond the Shadows $19.99 (Night Angel #1 / #2 / #3: Omnibus reprint; 3 fantasy novels featuring assassins)
Weis, M/Krammes, R -- Shadow Raiders $8.99 (Dragon Brigade #1: In the rival empires of Freya and Rosia, magic is intrinsic to society, even incorporated in the technology. But now a scientific discovery threatens to destroy the balance of power, and change the empires forever.)
Wellington, David -- 32 Fangs $14.00 (Laura Caxton #5: Laura has a plan that will force her nemesis, vampire Justinia Malvern, to come to her. Malvern has plans of her own - involving Laura's few remaining friends, a battalion of cops, and an army of half-dead slaves.)
Wendig, Chuck -- Blackbirds $7.99 (Miriam can see how someone will die just by touching them, allowing her to solve murders before they happen. But what will happen when she's tasked with solving a death she's unknowingly going to cause?)
Werner, C.L. -- Dead Winter $8.99 (Warhammer Time of Legends: Black Plague #1: More than a thousand years after the Age of Sigmar, his Empire faces destruction at the hands of a greedy and incompetent Emperor. As plague devastates the land, the survivors struggle to maintain order. But the foul skaven intend to lay claim to the land of men.)
Whedon, Joss et al -- Dollhouse: Epitaphs $18.99 (Full color graphic novel continuing where the TV show left off.)
White, S/Gannon, C -- Extremis $7.99 (Starfire #6: A new race of aliens arrives, seeking a new homeworld. They regard the planet's human colonists as a mere inconvenience, and the entire inhabited region of the galaxy as fair game - unless the old alliance of humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, and Gorm can stop them.)
Wilce, Ysabeau S. -- Flora's Fury $17.99 (Girl of Spirit #3: YA; Everyone believes that Flora's birth mother, Tiny Doom, was killed years ago by the Huitzils. But Flora is convinced Tiny Doom is alive. Determined to find her, she and her red dog Flynn journey from pirate ship to lawless island to deadly desert - and to ever greater danger, because the Huitzils desperately want Tiny Doom, and Flora herself, dead.)
Wilson, Geoffrey -- Land of Hope and Glory $12.95 (The Indian Rebellion of 1857 takes place in a very different world: in England, magic rules, and the only hope for the future lies in the story of King Arthur.)
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Abraham, Daniel -- The King's Blood $15.99 (Dagger & Coin #2: When an act of harrowing betrayal threatens to set the cities afire, only the courage of a young woman stands between hope and universal darkness. And quietly, almost beneath the notice of anyone, an old warrior and an apostate priest journey towards an impossible goal: to destroy a Goddess before she eats the world.)
Ballard, J.G. -- The Day of Creation $15.95 (Reissue; In arid war-plagued central Africa, a manic doctor is consumed with transforming the Sahara into a land of abundance, but his obsession quickly spirals dangerously out of control.)
Bledsoe, Alex -- Dark Jenny $7.99 (Eddie LaCrosse #3: Accused of killing one of Queen Jennifer's guards, freelance Sword Jockey Eddie LaCrosse tries to clear his name, becomes embroiled in a political scandal, and finds himself caught between two opposing armies.)
Drake, David -- Out of the Waters $7.99 (Books of the Elements #2: During a theatrical event, the illusion of a tentacled horror appears and devastates an on-stage city. The crowd is delighted, but a few in the audience realize the illusion was not mere stagecraft but an intrusion of dreadful supernatural powers into the real world.)
Esslemont, Ian -- Orb Scepter Throne $18.99 Trade PB, $29.99 HC (Malazan Empire #4: Darujhistan is peaceful at last, but there are those who will not allow the past to remain buried. Far to the south, the rush to claim the Spawn's treasures leads to chaos and bloodshed, as powers from across the world search for the legendary Throne of Night. And the ex-Claw of the Malazan Empire now walks the uttermost edge of creation, his mission destined to shape far more than anyone imagines.)
Harrison, Kim -- Something Deadly This Way Comes $8.99 (Madison #3: YA; When Madison has the opportunity to get her body back, she faces her most difficult decision yet. Does she want to return to being a normal teen? Or become heaven's dark timekeeper forever?)
Klimo, Kate -- The Dragon in the Sea $15.99 (Dragon Keepers #5: Kids; Jesse and Daisy try to help their dragon Emmy protect the egg holding Emmy's baby brother. Their adventures take them into the Watery Realms, home to merpeople, selkies, and water zombies.)
Melko, Paul -- The Walls of the Universe $7.99 (Trapped in another universe with a broken travel device, Ohio farm boy John Rayburn inadvertently disrupts the balance of power by introducing the game of pinball, while on earth his doppelganger attempts to sell the Rubik's cube for profit.) Mieville, China -- Railsea $18.00 (YA; Young doctor's assistant Sham is in search of life's purpose aboard a locomotive on the hunt for the great elusive moldywarpe Mocker-Jack. But in an old train wreck at the outskirts of the world, Sham discovers a secret: astonishing evidence, of an impossible journey left unfinished. Sham decides to complete it - but the decision might cost him his life.)
Modesitt Jr., L.E. -- Princeps $27.99 (Imager #5: When a volcano devastates the old capital of Telaryn, Quaeryt and his wife Vaelora are dispatched to replace the governor killed in the eruption. They must restore order to a city filled with chaos and corruption, and do it quickly, before the regiment assisting them departs to bolster Telaryn's border defenses.)
Nix, Garth -- A Confusion of Princes $17.99 (YA; Prince Khemri is training to become a Prince of the Empire, enhanced with biological and technological improvements that make him faster, stronger and smarter. And should he die, and be deemed worthy, he will be reborn. Which is just as well, because when he graduates to full Princehood, he learns that there are a million princes, and all of them want each other dead, because there can only be one Emperor.) Parker, Lara -- The Salem Branch $12.99 (Dark Shadows: Reissue; When another vampire invades his domain, the fight to protect his family will take Barnabas Collins back through time to the corrupt witch trials of Salem, Massachusetts.)
Pitts, J.A. -- Honeyed Words $7.99 (Sarah Beauhall #2: Sarah has managed to reforge an ancient sword. Lots of people want it. Those who don't, want Sarah to fulfill her destiny. Odin appears, offering cryptic advice. Plus Sarah's girlfriend is from a family that has been fighting this battle for generations - and they think Sarah is their last, best hope. Apparently the powers of the world have decided it's her job to clean up the magical mess.)
Robinson, Kim Stanley -- 2312 $25.99 (Earth and Mars are locked in conflict over the things people always fight about: air, water, power. And there's a weapon loose in the solar system that could end humanity once and for all. Can two diplomats from rival factions find out who controls the weapon, and stop it from being used?)
Stephenson, Neal -- Reamde $18.99 (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.)
Swain, James -- Dark Magic $24.99 (Every night, stage magician Peter Warlock amazes audiences in NYC. But his real work is with a group of psychics who gaze into the future to help prevent crimes. But now, as they struggle to avert tragedy, they are being hunted by evil psychics determined to silence them forever.)
Vance, J/Ibrahim, H -- The Moon Moth $17.99 (The classic sf tale, adapted as a full color graphic novel.)
Yep, Laurence -- City of Ice $5.99 (City #2: Kids; Determined to stop Mr. Roland from getting his hands of the second of the Five Lost Treasures, Scirye and her companions pursue him to the Arctic Circle and into the Wastes, where Scirye must call on the wild and unpredictable Spirit of the North for help.)
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Mystery Scene #122 $7.50 (Articles about Stephen Hunter, Marcia Muller, more.) Barnes, Alan -- Sherlock Holmes On Screen $19.95 (Nonfiction; black & white photos. Surveys over a century of the great detective's exploits in film and television, from the silent era through 2010.)
Beatty, Jack -- The Lost History of 1914 $30.00 (Nonfiction; offers a different view of WWI, testing the long-dominant assumption that it was inevitable. Chronicling largely forgotten events faced by each of the belligerent countries in the months before the war started in August, Beatty shows how any one of them might have derailed the war or brought it to a different end.)
Bilyeau, Nancy -- The Crown $24.99 (When she learns that her cousin has been condemned by Henry VIII, Joanna Stafford leaves her priory to stand by her family. The ruthless Bishop of Winchester pressures her into agreeing to search for an ancient crown that may be powerful enough to end the Reformation. When at last she finds it, she must decide who she can trust with the secrets it reveals.)
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?)
Brod, D.C. -- Getting Lucky $15.95 (Robyn Guthrie #2: PBO; When a young reporter is killed in a hit and run accident, freelance writer Robyn Guthrie agrees to finish one of the stories the reporter had been working on. The seemingly simple assignment leads to shady land deals, an old high school nemesis, and Robyn's aging mother.)
Brown, Virginia -- Dixie Diva Blues $15.95 (Divas #3: Trinket and the gang will stop at nothing to clear a diva's husband of murder charges.)
Carpenter, Sally -- The Baffled Beatlemaniac Caper $14.95 (Sandy Fairfax #1: Years ago teen idol Sandy Fairfax recorded ten gold albums and starred as a boy sleuth in a hit TV series. Now he's desperate for a comeback. A guest appearance at a Beatles fan convention turns deadly when a member of the tribute band is shot. When police suspect Sandy, the former schoolboy shamus must find the killer.)
Carr, John Dickson -- The Peacock Feather Murders (alternate title: Ten Teacups) $14.95 (Sir Henry Merrivale #06: Reissue; 'There will be ten teacups at Number 4, Berwick Terrace, W.8., on Wednesday, July 31, at 5 p.m. precisely. The presence of the metropolitan police is respectfully requested.' So goes the note received by Chief Inspector Masters. Scotland Yard faced the same situation two years earlier, when William Dartley was murdered. The killer escaped justice then. Now the police are out in force, but once again the killer succeeds. Masters turns to old friend Sir Henry Merrivale, who can always find the key to any locked room. Six people could have killed Vance Keating, but motive alone won't send the killer to the gallows. If H.M. can't figure out how it was done, the who will go free.)
Challinor, C.S. -- Murder of the Bride $14.95 (Rex Graves #5: PBO; In Derbyshire with his fiancee Helen to attend a wedding, Scottish barrister Rex Graves must find a killer when guests start falling faster than the gloomy May rain.) Clare, Alys -- The Rose of the World $15.95 (Hawkenlye #13: 1210: The excommunicated King John's men have come to Hawkenlye Abbey to take it over. Abbess Caliste worries how she is to feed the nuns under her care. Meanwhile, Helewise has moved into Hawkenlye Manor with Josse. But after a visit to St Edmund's Chapel, Helewise's 11-year-old granddaughter goes missing - and soon all that they hold dear is threatened.)
Clason, Clyde B. -- The Purple Parrot $14.95 (Theocritus Westborough #04: Reissue; The only door open to Hezekiah Morse's study was under observation when someone slipped in and stabbed the bibliophile to death. To the police, it looked like only his granddaughter could have done the deed, especially since she was to be disinherited if she defied Morse in her choice of a marriage partner. To find the real killer, professor-sleuth Westborough must determine what is so important about a seemingly worthless parrot statue, and how bottles of rare wine and expensive first editions figure into the case.)
Coleman, Reed Farrel -- Hurt Machine $15.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (Moe Prager #7: PBO; PI Moe Prager's ex-wife comes to him for help after her sister Alta is murdered.) Connor, Alex -- The Other Rembrandt (UK title: The Rembrandt Secret) $14.95 (Gallery owner Owen Ziegler believes he has uncovered evidence of secrets about Rembrandt that could turn the art world on its head. When Owen is found murdered in the gallery, his son Marshall sets out to solve the vicious crime and to uncover the centuries-old secrets.)
Corris, Peter -- Follow the Money $19.95 (Cliff Hardy: PBO; When PI Cliff Hardy loses all his dough to an unscrupulous financial adviser, he has to follow the money trail deep into Sydney's underbelly to get himself back in the black.)
Crane, Frances -- The Amethyst Spectacles $14.95 (Pat & Jean Abbott #06: Reissue; 1944: Pat and Jean are back home in New Mexico, where Pat is supposed to be taking it easy as he recovers from war wounds. When he learns that while they were away one of their friends died under mysterious circumstances, he decides to investigate.)
Daniel, John M. -- Vanity Fire $14.95 (Guy Mallon #2: Publisher Guy Mallon learns his book warehouse has burned to the ground. Rushing to the scene, he and arson inspector Rosa Macdonald see a total loss. And a burned body.) David, Saul -- Hart of Empire $10.95 (George Hart #2: 1879: Sent to Afghanistan - where his mixed race makes it easy for him to go undercover - to steal the iconic Prophet's Cloak, Hart has misgivings about Whitehall's meddling. When the British Resident ignores his warnings, a massacre results, and Hart finds himself on the run with an Afghan princess, racing to prevent an uprising and head off a British invasion.)
Davies, J.D. -- The Mountain of Gold $25.00 (Matthew Quinton #2: 1663: Beset by pirates, Knights of Malta, and saboteurs, Captain Matthew Quinton sails to Africa at the behest of King Charles II to lay claim to a fabled mountain of gold.)
Doherty, Paul -- Bloodstone $28.95 (Brother Athelstan #11: 1380: When the corpse of Sir Robert Kilverby is discovered in a locked room, Brother Athelstan accompanies the King's coroner to investigate. Sir Robert had in his possession a priceless sacred bloodstone, which has now disappeared. Was he murdered?)
Eccles, Marjorie -- Cuckoo's Child $15.95 (Yorkshire, 1909: Laura Harcourt accepts a position in Wainthrope, and arrives to find the Beaumont family still torn apart by the death of Theo, Ainsley's son, in a disastrous fire twenty years ago. And the Beaumonts have secrets - secrets that DI Charlie Womersely, investigating a body found floating in the mill dam, must uncover if he is to find the truth.)
Edwards, Martin (editor) -- Guilty Consciences $15.95 (Anthology; 17 original stories by members of the Crime Writers' Association)
Grant, Barry -- Sherlock Holmes and the Swedish Enigma $27.95 (Holmes & Wilson #3: A corpse in a sarcophagus, a headless macaw, and a stolen slice of Black Forest gateau alert Sherlock Holmes to a macabre international crime in progress, and lead him through London's back streets to the moors of Cornwall. Holmes is in top form, fully recovered from his journey through ice to the 21st century, and ready to reveal a multitude of secrets.)
Grant, Maxwell -- The Green Hoods / Silver Skull $14.95 (Shadow #55: Pulp reprints)
Grant, Maxwell -- The Embassy Murders / Hills of Death $14.95 (Shadow #56: Pulp reprints)
Greener, Richard -- The Knowland Retribution $14.95 (Locator #1: Reissue; Walter's new assignment: find a man no one knows. It's a complex case involving a meat-packing operation and a series of deaths from e-coli. Now the men involved in the cover-up are being systematically murder.)
Guillou, Jan -- The Road to Jerusalem $14.99 (Crusades #1: Born in 1150 to a noble family and schooled at a monastery by a Cistercian monk and a former Knight Templar, young Arn Magnusson is sent to fulfill his destiny beyond the cloister walls. As the murder of a king engulfs western Gotaland in a whirlwind of ruthless power plays, Arn is sent to take up arms to battle infidels in the Holy Land. )
Guillou, Jan -- The Templar Knight $14.99 (Crusades #2: Arn Magnusson of the Knights Templar is renowned as a man of compassion, strength, and faith, even among the enemy Saracens. Yet neither time nor distance can lessen Arn's pain of separation from his betrothed in western Gotaland, who is a pawn in a war between clans. When fate brings together Arn and Saracen leader Saladin, an unlikely friendship is forged that will alter the course of Arn's life, and the history of Jerusalem itself.)
Gunn, Elizabeth -- Magic Line $28.95 (Sarah Burke #4: Detective Burke is called to a mass shooting in a quiet residential street. It looks like a home invasion gone very wrong, but the crime scene just doesn't make sense - until one of the 'victims' suddenly escapes, and another man is seen running from the house.)
Hambly, Barbara -- Shirt on His Back $15.95 (Benjamin January #10: Seeking vengeance for his brother's murder, Lt. Shaw hires January to accompany him to the rendezvous of the mountain men in the Rocky Mountains. Once there, the discovery of a corpse opens the door to hints of a greater plot, of madness and wholesale murder.)
Harvey, John -- A Darker Shade of Blue: Stories $25.00 (Collection; 18 stories from a master of British crime fiction)
Heald, Tim -- Death in the Opening Chapter $15.95 (Simon Bognor #11: On the eve of the Flanagan Fludd Literary Festival, the Reverend Sebastian Fludd is discovered swinging from the end of a rope. While Sir Branwell Fludd is keen to wrap up the affair, Branwell's friend Sir Simon Bognor is more concerned with getting to the truth.)
Heley, Veronica -- False Money $15.95 (Abbot Agency #5: Bea Abbot runs a domestic agency that does not 'do' murder. But the disappearance of Tomi, the star of an award- winning short film, is a different matter, especially when charming but feckless Chris uses a bouquet of flowers to bribe Bea to investigate.)
Hoag, Tami -- Down the Darkest Road $26.95 (Oak Knoll #3: Four years after her older daughter disappeared, Lauren know exactly who took her, but there's not a shred of evidence. Looking for a fresh start, Lauren and her younger daughter move to Oak Knoll. Then Lauren's suspect turns up there. Tony Mendez and his team begin to close in, but as they sift through the murky circumstances of the case, a stunning question changes everything they thought they knew. )
Iliffe, Glyn -- The Armour of Achilles $12.95 (Odysseus #3: With the siege in its 10th year, Troy still stands. Threatened with mutiny by a disillusioned army, Agamemnon orders a series of attacks on Troy's allies, but even this doesn't draw the Trojans out. And when he angers the formidable Achilles, the war seems doomed to failure.)
Larsen, Karianne -- Sticks & Stones $14.95 (Cat DeLuca #2: PBO; When Cleo shoots her cheating husband Walter's bum full of buckshot, he disappears, taking her money, dog, and sister with him. PI Cat DeLuca promises to return the dog and money if her client stops shooting at Walter. Cleo agrees. Cat finds the dog, a mysterious bag of cash, and Walter, his very dead body is still warm.)
Larsson/Gabrielsson -- There Are Things I Want You to Know about Stieg Larsson and Me $14.95 (Nonfiction; an inside look at the best-selling writer's life, by his longtime companion.)
Lawton, John -- Old Flames $14.00 (Frederick Troy: Reissue; 1956: Soviet leaders Khrushchev and Bulganin are in Britain on an official visit. Chief Inspector Troy is assigned to be Khrushchev's bodyguard and to spy on him. Soon after, a Royal Navy diver is found mutilated beyond recognition. Troy's investigation takes him to the rotten heart of MI6, to the distant days of his childhood, and into the dangerous arms of an old flame. )
Leather, Stephen -- Fair Game $11.95 (Dan Shepherd #8: A yachting party, including the Prime Minister's goddaughter, is being held hostage by Somalian pirates. MI5 sends Shepherd undercover to track down the hostages, and investigate the pirates' links to terrorism in Britain.)
Locke, John -- Wish List $4.99 (Donovan Creed #5: Buddy and his pals jokingly posted 'impossible' wishes on the Wish List website - but they didn't read the fine print about the payment due if your wish is granted. In over his head, Buddy turns to his sister's friend, hit man Donovan Creed, for help.)
Lourey, Jess -- November Hunt $14.95 (Murder by Month #7: PBO; When Tom Kicker is killed in a deer hunting accident, Mira James is hired to investigate, and uncovers nasty secrets incriminating Battle Lake's most prominent families.)
Ludlum/Garrison -- The Janson Command $27.99 (Paul Janson #2: Reformed covert operative Paul Janson takes a job rescuing a doctor who has been kidnapped by West African rebels. But when the mission goes haywire he realizes he's in the middle of something much bigger.)
Magson, Adrian -- Red Station $15.95 (Harry Tate #1: After being made the scapegoat for a botched operation, MI5 agent Harry Tate is sent to a remote outpost in the Balkans. But the outpost is thrust into the international spotlight when troops begin massing in the area. As the danger increases, Tate discovers the outpost's real purpose - and decides to fight back.)
Magson, Adrian -- Tracers $15.95 (Harry Tate #2: In Baghdad, a suicide bomber blows up a fortified house, killing everyone inside. In Norfolk, England, a runaway Libyan banker is killed. Former MI5 agent Harry Tate has been hired by a government fixer to find two runaways - then both are assassinated. He is persuaded into another assignment, but when he tracks down a supposed Israeli professor, things start to go very wrong.)
Mallory, Michael -- The Adventures of the Second Mrs. Watson $12.00 (Amelia Watson #1: Reissue; Collection; 12 stories featuring featuring Amelia Watson, the devoted, intrepid, and highly opinionated spouse of the good Dr. Watson)
Mallory, Michael -- Murder in the Bath $12.00 (Amelia Watson #2: Reissue; 1905: The city of Bath is stunned when the body of a prosperous businessman is found floating in the city's ancient Roman bath. It is up to Amelia to prove that a former student's husband is not responsible, despite the overwhelming evidence against him.)
Mallory, Michael -- The Exploits of the Second Mrs. Watson $14.95 (Amelia Watson #3: Collection; Amelia returns in 13 new adventures)
Mallory, Michael -- The Stratford Conspiracy $14.95 (Amelia Watson #4: Amelia's investigation of a Shakespearean scholar's murder puts her in the deadly sights of a killer determined to eliminate anyone standing in the way the revelation of William Shakespeare's true identity.)
Masters, Priscilla -- Frozen Charlotte $15.95 (Martha Gunn #3: A confused woman arrives at the hospital, clutching a child she calls Poppy wrapped in a pink blanket. The baby is dead, and mummified. The postmortem reveals that the child was a newborn boy, dead for over five years. Who is the woman, where did she get the long-dead infant, and why did she bring it to the hospital that night? It's up to Shrewsbury coroner Martha Gunn to uncover the truth.)
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 . . .)
McDonald, Craig -- El Gavilan $15.95 (PBO; New Austin, Ohio, is grappling with waves of undocumented workers, putting tremendous pressure on schools, police, and city services. Three very different cops scramble to maintain order, until the rape-murder of a Mexican- American woman triggers a brutal chain of events that threatens to leave no survivors.) Neri, Kris -- Magical Alienation $15.95 (Brennan & Haggerty #2: When fake psychic Samantha Brennan heads to Arizona as spiritual advisor to an aging bad boy of rock, she never expects to uncover the truth about the being in the spaceship that crashed in Roswell, NM, in 1947.)
O'Donnell, P/Romero, E -- Live Bait: Samantha and the Cherub / Milord / Live Bait $19.95 (Modesty Blaise: PBO; Reprints classic black & white comic strips featuring three adventures of detective Modesty Blaise and her trusty henchman Willie Garvin.)
O'Hara, Gerry -- My Dear Watson $18.95 (The greatest mystery surrounding Sherlock Holmes comes to light: he was actually a woman! The master - or rather, mistress - of disguise puts pen to paper to reveal this deception, and to chronicle a new case involving Dr. Watson and Constance Moriarty, the beguiling daughter of Holmes' nemesis.)
Olsen, Jimmy -- Poison Makers $19.95 (1970s: Edgar Espinosa-Jones accepts an assignment to investigate the seemingly innocent death of the US ambassador to the Dominican Republic. His first job is to interview one of the ambassador's daughters at a secret rendezvous in Haiti. He is drawn to her with an uncanny intensity as they travel toward a forbidden voodoo ceremony, but before long he is in terror for his life, running and hiding until he is forced to make his last stand.)
Penzler, Otto (ed) -- Mark Twain's 'Medieval Romance' and Other Classic Mystery Stories $25.95 (Anthology; 18 stories that leave it to the reader to speculate how they end)
Pyne, Daniel -- Twentynine Palms $14.95 (PBO; Fleeing LA after an affair with his best friend's wife, Jack plans to lay low for a few days at a motel in a sleepy desert town. When a family disappears from the motel, leaving behind signs of a gruesome struggle, the local police decide Jack is the only logical suspect.)
Ramsay, Frederick -- The Eighth Veil $14.95 (PBO; AD 28: When a servant girl is murdered in the palace of King Herod Antipas, prefect Pontius Pilate insists on an investigation. The two men don't trust each other, so Gamaliel, a Talmudic scholar, is chosen to do the detective work. )
Randisi, Robert J. -- Fly Me to the Morgue $15.95 (Rat Pack #6: Bing Crosby wants to buy a horse, but his trainer fails to show up in Vegas, and then he finds the horse's owner dead. Time for Eddie G and Jerry to come to the rescue.)
Robeson, Kenneth -- The River of Ice / The Flame Breathers $14.95 (Avenger #06: Pulp reprints)
Robins, Madeleine E. -- The Sleeping Partner $18.95 (Sarah Tolerance #3: Regency England: Miss Sarah Tolerance, fallen woman and agent of inquiry, looks for a young gentlewoman who has vanished from under her wealthy family's roof, apparently bent on a scandalous elopement with a mysterious man.)
Rohmer, Sax -- The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (alternate title: The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu) $9.95 (Fu-Manchu #1: Reissue; Fu-Manchu, an agent for the Si-Fan league of assassins, seeks to climb the ladder of the secret society's hierarchy and pave the way for conquest by his native land of China. Commissioner Sir Denis Nayland Smith and his compatriot Dr. Petrie intend to thwart him.)
Rohmer, Sax -- The Return of Dr. Fu- Manchu (alternate title: The Devil Doctor) $9.95 (Fu-Manchu #2: Reissue; Fu-Manchu is once again in London, seeking to further his goals of subverting the British government and preparing for the rise of China as the greatest global power; all under his control. As his secrets begin to be unveiled, a trail of bodies reveals his progress.)
Rosen, Leonard -- All Cry Chaos $29.00 (Henri Poincare #1: Shortly before he is due to address a World Trade Organization conference, math genius James Fenster is blown up in his Amsterdam hotel room. Aging Interpol agent Henri Poincare pursues a long list of suspects.)
Roslund/Hellstrom -- Three Seconds $14.95 (Ewert Grens #5: A botched prison drug deal involving an undercover Swedish police operative results in a murder. Detective Inspector Ewert Grens' determination to find the killer threatens to expose the operative's true identity - and may reveal even bigger crimes involving the highest levels of power.)
Rudolph, Penny -- Lifeblood $14.95 (Rachel Chavez #2: When Rachel Chavez discovers two unconscious Mexican boys locked in a van in her parking garage, she rushes them to the emergency room. But when she checks back the next day, the Medical Center has no record of either child. Rachel's determination to find an explanation - an obsession that meshes with a search for her Mexican roots - leads to danger.) Rustad, Phil -- Dart $14.95 (Dan Neumann #1: PBO; Minneapolis homicide detective Dan Neumann was looking forward to retirement. But his leisure plans go up in smoke when law enforcement calls on his expertise to investigate a murder involving a weapon so sophisticated, so lethal, it's never been seen before.)
Rustad, Phil -- Alamo North Dakota $14.95 (Dan Neumann #2: PBO; Semi-retired Minneapolis detective Dan Neumann is happy to hear his best friend's voice, until Pete says, 'I need your help, buddy. Grams is dead.' Dan's shock turns to outrage when he learns it was murder. When Pete's entire family is targeted, finding out who and why becomes Dan's mission.)
Sample, Cindy -- Dying for a Date $16.95 (Laurel McKay #1: Recently divorced, Laurel tries a dating service. When Bachelor #1 decides he wants her for dessert, Laurel dispatches him with her cell phone. The next day she discovers her drop-dead gorgeous date has literally dropped dead, and Laurel's only alibi is a friendly bottle of Dom Perignon. The investigating detective has to decide if the sassy soccer mom is a killer, or the next target.) Sample, Cindy -- Dying for a Dance $16.95 (Laurel McKay #2: Laurel agrees to learn a foxtrot routine for her best friend's wedding. After she trips her instructor, crashes into a pair of dancers, and breaks a heel off her new shoes, she thinks her evening can't get any worse. Then she stumbles over another dancer, dead, with her broken heel stuffed in his mouth.)
Scarrow, Simon -- Eagle in the Sand $17.95 (Macro & Cato #07: Trouble is brewing in Syria, on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire, and the troops are in a deplorable state. Centurions Macro and Cato are dispatched to stamp out corruption in the cohort and restore it to fighting fitness. But another challenge faces them as a local tribesman calls for violent opposition to Rome.)
Scarrow, Simon -- Centurion $17.95 (Macro & Cato #08: Parthia is vying with Rome for control of Palmyra, an officially neutral kingdom whose royal household is on the brink of open revolt. A task force under the command of experienced soldiers Macro and Cato is dispatched to defend its king and guard its borders. When Parthia hears of the Roman army's presence, it starts amassing its troops for war.) Scarrow, Simon -- The Gladiator $17.95 (Macro & Cato #09: Centurions Macro and Cato are bound for Rome when their ship is almost capsized by a tidal wave. They barely make it to a Cretan port, where they learn that an earthquake has devastated the island. In the chaotic aftermath, rebellion is in the air, and the governor calls on the centurions for help. )
Scarrow, Simon -- The Legion $17.95 (Macro & Cato #10: When the actions of a rebel gladiator in Egypt threaten the stability of the Roman Empire, Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro are tasked with tracking and defeating the renegade.)
Schow, David J. -- Upgunned $26.99 (Kidnapped by a hitman and forced to take blackmail photos of a politician, when the night is over, Elias McCabe is scared to death, and ten thousands dollars richer. If he keeps his mouth shut. But he doesn't, and now the hitman is targeting him.)
Smith, Alexander Gordon -- Death Sentence $9.99 (Escape from Furnace #3: YA; When Alex's second attempt to break out of Furnace Penitentiary fails, he is sent to the laboratories beneath the prison to be made into a monster - a superhuman minion of Furnace.) Southey, Roz -- Ladder Dancer $15.95 (Charles Patterson #5: Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, 1736: When a child is ridden down and killed by an unknown horseman, musician/sleuth Charles Patterson, the only witness close enough to see that the collision was no accident, vows to hunt down the rider.)
Stacey, Lyndon -- No Holds Barred $28.95 (Daniel Whelan #2: After agreeing to help a woman who is struggling to run a haulage company while her husband recovers from a vicious attack, Daniel and his German shepherd Taz find themselves attracting the wrong sort of attention. Daniel soon finds evidence of some very nasty business.)
Starr, Melvin R. -- Unhallowed Ground $14.99 (Hugh de Singleton #4: PBO; 1366: When Thomas atte Bridge is found hanging from a tree, everyone assumes he took his own life, but Master Hugh and Kate find evidence that this may not be so. Now Hugh must discover which of his friends has murdered his enemy.)
Stashower, Daniel -- The Dime Museum Murders $12.95 (Harry Houdini #1: Reissue; NYC, 1897: When Branford Wintour is found murdered in his mansion, detectives call upon young escapologist Harry Houdini to help solve the crime. When Harry and his brother Dash reach the scene of the murder, they discover that Wintour seems to have been killed by a magic trick.)
Stashower, Daniel -- The Floating Lady Murder $12.95 (Harry Houdini #2: Reissue; When his mentor's astonishing Floating Lady illusion goes fatally wrong, Harry Houdini, his wife Bess, and his brother Dash must figure out how the young lady died from drowning rather than from a fatal fall.)
Talley, Marcia -- A Quiet Death $15.95 (Hannah Ives #10: When Hannah's train is involved in a horrific crash, although her arm is broken, she remains at the side of her critically injured seatmate until help arrives. When she is discharged from the hospital, she finds herself in possession of the man's distinctive bag. Her efforts to return it set in motion a chain of events that puts her life in grave danger.)
Tapply, William G. -- The Nomination $14.95 (Judge Thomas Larrigan is a Vietnam war hero, and seems like the perfect Supreme Court candidate. But he has some skeletons in his closet, and calls on an old Marine buddy, now a hitman, to clean them up.)
Theroux, Paul -- Murder in Mount Holly $22.00 (1960s: A patriotic veteran of three wars convinces his girlfriend and his landlady that they should do something for the nation - like robbing the Mount Holly Trust Company, because it is managed by a small dark man who is probably a communist. There are some complications.)
Thompson, Brian -- The Player's Curse $13.95 (Bella Wallis #3: Bella's decision to get to the bottom of Westland's secrets takes her to the Yorkshire moors, on the trail of some decidedly dangerous women and a surprisingly chatty hermit. When Bella is taken hostage, and Westland is kidnapped abroad, it falls to Urmiston, Quigley, and Murch to save them.)
Thompson, E.V. -- Though the Heavens May Fall $12.95 (Amos Hawke #1: 1856: When three men are murdered in Cornwall, Amos Hawke, a Cornish detective working from London's Scotland Yard, is sent to investigate. He finds lodgings with one of the widows, whose daughter Talwyn proves crucial in helping him bring the killers to justice.)
Topol, Allan -- The China Gambit $14.95 (Craig Page #1: PBO; When his reporter daughter is murdered to stop her from publishing an explosive story, former CIA agent Craig Page is determined to find the killer, and uncovers a conspiracy involving the CIA director who forced him out of the agency and a ruthless Chinese general.)
Trent, Gayle -- Killer Sweet Tooth $15.00 (Daphne Martin #2: Cake decorator Daphne Martin is the prime suspect when the police find her wielding an oversized plastic toothbrush over a dentist's dead body.)
Vyleta, Dan -- The Quiet Twin $16.00 (Vienna, 1939: Professor Speckstein's dog has been killed, the latest victim in a string of unsolved murders, and Speckstein wants answers. When an unexpected house call leads Dr. Beer to Speckstein's apartment, the professor's niece leads the doctor to her window and opens up a view of their apartment block that Beer has never known. Does one of these enigmatic neighbors have blood on their hands? Beer, who has his own reasons for keeping his private life hidden, reluctantly becomes embroiled in an inquiry that forces him to face the dark realities of Nazi rule.)
Walker, Shiloh -- If You See Her $7.99 (PBO; Hope Carson has escaped an abusive ex- husband and recovered from a vicious assault. Now she endures rumors surrounding her involvement in the attack. Her ex is a cop, so she doesn't trust law enforcement - and she certainly doesn't trust her attraction to DA Remy Jennings.)
Webb, Betty -- Desert Wind $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (Lena Jones #7: PBO; When her partner Jimmy is arrested in a remote Arizona town, Lena rushes to his aid, and finds the town up in arms over a new uranium mine. A protester has been murdered, as well as the mine's PR man. Lena's investigation reveals a community damaged by dangerous mining practices, and a connection to a decades-old tragedy that no one wants to talk about.)
Expected Early March
Abbott, Tony -- The Crazy Case of Missing Thunder $4.99 (Goofballs #1: Kids; Jeff, Mara, Kelly, and Brian are self-proclaimed goofballs who have been deciphering clues together since first grade. When a rich kid's scaredy-cat pony goes missing, they use outrageous disguises, crazy inventions, and off-the-wall antics to crack the case.)
Abbott, Tony -- The Startling Story of the Stolen Statue $4.99 (Goofballs #2: Kids; Badger Point Elementary School's new statue has disappeared. The Goofballs will go to any lengths to figure out the clues - which include a word too long to say, wearing towel disguises, and Brian losing his pants - and solve the mystery.)
Albert, Susan Wittig -- Cat's Claw $25.95 (Pecan Springs #1: Pecan Spring's computer guru has been shot dead in his kitchen. At first police chief Sheila Dawson believes it's suicide, but further investigation reveals the wound wasn't self-inflicted. When a man who broke into the computer shop before the murder goes missing, she's sure the two crimes are connected.)
Alden, Jami -- Run from Fear $7.99 (PBO; Talia Vega moved hundreds of miles to escape her past. Now, a twisted madman plans on resurrecting it - but ex-Green Beret Jack Brooks is determined to keep her safe.)
Allen, Grant -- An African Millionaire $15.00 (Reissue; Posing alternately as a seer, a curate, and a German professor, gentleman rogue Colonel Clay repeatedly swindles millionaire Sir Charles Van Drift.)
Atherton, Nancy -- Aunt Dimity and the Family Tree $7.99 (Aunt Dimity #16: William Sr. has moved to Finch, and is renovating Fairworth House. But the estate has a shadowy past, and it'll take Aunt Dimity's otherworldly guidance to put an end to the strange occurrences there.)
Baer, Robert & Dayna -- The Company We Keep: A Husband-and-Wife Spy Story $15.00 (Nonfiction; the story of the unlikely romance between a top CIA operative and an up-and- coming CIA shooter, and their attempt to leave the spy life behind.)
Bain, D/Fletcher, J -- Skating on Thin Ice $7.99 (Murder, She Wrote #35: A series of 'accidents' have been ruining a figure skater's practice with her pairs partner and coach; Jessica Fletcher investigates when one of them is found dead at the arena.)
Baldacci, David -- The Sixth Man $9.99 (King & Maxwell #5: As they attempt to uncover the truth about an alleged serial killer, PIs Sean King and Michelle Maxwell find obstacles, half-truths, and dead ends that push their partnership to the limit.)
Bayard, Louis -- The School of Night $14.99 (A disgraced scholar is hired to find a stolen letter from the 1600s. It may be the clue to a hidden treasure; it may contain the formula for alchemy; it most certainly will prove the existence of a group of brilliant scholars about whom little is known. But he's not the only one hunting for the letter.) Benson, Michael -- A Knife in the Heart $6.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; two teenage girls both fall for a cocky criminal, resulting in a fight that ends with one girl dead and the other charged with murder.)
Black, Cara -- Murder in Passy $14.00 (Aimee Leduc #11: When Aimee's godfather, a Paris police captain, becomes prime suspect in the strangling death of his Basque girlfriend, Aimee's search for the real killer leads her to police corruption, a Basque terrorist group, and a kidnapped Spanish princess.)
Black, Cara -- Murder at the Lanterne Rouge $25.00 (Aimee Leduc #12: First Rene's new girlfriend Meizi leaves a Chinatown dinner to take a phone call, and doesn't return. Then a science prodigy's dead body is found, with Meizi's photo in his wallet. Aimee doesn't like this scenario one bit, but she can't figure out how the murder is connected to the disappearance.)
Blake, Daniel -- Thou Shalt Kill (UK title: Soul Murder) $7.99 (Franco Patrese #1: Pittsburgh homicide detective Franco Patrese and his partner Mark Beradino track a serial killer intent on killing according to the Bible to punish the sinful.) Bowen, Rhys -- Bless the Bride $7.99 (Molly Murphy #10: 1903: With her own wedding to NYPD Captain Daniel Sullivan approaching, Molly decides to squeeze in one last case: a wealthy Chinese immigrant wants her to find his missing bride.)
Box, C.J. -- Cold Wind $9.99 (Joe Pickett #11: When Joe's mother-in-law is arrested for killing her husband, the early evidence points to her being guilty as sin, but later developments make Joe wonder if she's being set up.)
Brown, Rita&Sneaky Pie -- Hiss of Death $7.99 (Mrs. Murphy #19: When Harry falls ill, it's up to her cats Mrs. Murphy and Pewter, along with corgi Tee Tucker, to save the day and sleuth out the villain behind a vicious murder.)
Burton, Milton T. -- The Devil's Odds $25.99 (1942: Texas Ranger Virgil Tucker finds himself up against the New Orleans Mafia as they try to take over Galveston's gambling empire.)
Caldwell, Laura -- Question of Trust $7.99 (Izzy McNeil #5: PBO; When Izzy's home is broken into right after her boyfriend Theo moves in, she thinks it's coincidence. When he's arrested on fraud charges, she wants to believe he's innocent. But when a neighbor turns up dead in their home, she has to admit that something is very wrong.)
Canadeo, Anne -- Till Death Do Us Purl $15.00 (Black Sheep #4: The Black Sheep knitters help a bride-to-be finish knitting her wedding gown, but wedding bouquets are quickly exchanged for funeral wreaths when the groom is killed by an explosion at his family's chemical company. The knitters must unravel the clues before the killer strikes again.)
Carter, Maureen -- A Question of Despair $15.95 (Sarah Quinn #1: When a baby is snatched from outside a Birmingham newsagent's, DI Sarah Quinn and TV reporter Caroline King clash head-on in the desperate search to find her. But as the investigation stalls, it becomes clear that the two will have to work together if the police are to have any chance of success.)
Childs, Laura -- Scones & Bones $7.99 (Tea Shop #12: At the Heritage Society's pirate- themed soiree, a history intern is killed and an antique diamond skull ring is stolen; tea shop owner Theodosia Browning investigates.)
Childs, Laura -- Agony of the Leaves $25.95 (Tea Shop #13: At a party celebrating the opening of Charleston's aquarium, Theodosia's former boyfriend turns up drowned in one of the exhibits. The EMTs think it was an accident, but Theodosia decides to investigate what she's sure is a murder.)
Clark, Marcia -- Guilt by Association $14.99 (When a colleague is found dead at a crime scene, Los Angeles DA Rachel Knight takes over his toughest case: the assault of a young woman from a prominent family.)
Coben, Harlan -- Live Wire $9.99 (Myron Bolitar #10: Former tennis star Suzze T and her rock star husband Lex have been Myron's clients for years. When Lex disappears, a very pregnant Suzze fears that rumors about the baby's paternity may be the cause, and turns to Myron for help.)
Connolly, Sheila -- Fire Engine Dead $7.99 (Nell Pratt #3: PBO; When the Fireman's Museum ironically goes up in flames, Nell discovers that one of the charred pictures isn't the one that was originally exhibited. But getting to the bottom of the mystery is likely to get Nell burned.)
Coonts, Deborah -- So Damn Lucky $24.99 (Lucky O'Toole #3: A magician pulls a disappearing act at a Las Vegas resort. Is it a stunt? Or something worse? Lucky chases leads, but someone is trying to put her off the scent.) Cussler, C/Du Brul, J -- The Jungle $9.99 (Oregon Files #8: A devastating weapon unleashed in 13th-century China; a daring rescue in the Afghanistan mountains; a woman gone missing in the jungles of southeast Asia. These events come together to put Juan Cabrillo and his crew on the track of a serious threat to US security.)
Cussler, C/Scott, J -- The Thief $27.95 (Isaac Bell #5: A pair of European scientists have a new invention that will revolutionize business and popular culture; Bell must stop an agent intent on stealing it for the Germans.)
D'Amato, Barbara -- Other Eyes $15.99 (An international organization that trafficks in drugs sends an enforcer to eliminate a forensic anthropologist who is trying to prove that psilocybin can prevent or cure drug addiction.)
Daly, Elizabeth -- Somewhere in the House $14.95 (Henry Gamadge #09: Reissue; The Clayborn clan has been waiting twenty-five years to divvy up Grandmama's fortune, locked up by her will in a small room in the Clayborn mansion. Tomorrow the room is to be opened, and the Clayborns can't wait to get their fingers on the old lady's reportedly priceless button collection. Harriet Clayborn, who doesn't quite trust her family, invites gentleman-sleuth Henry Gamadge as a witness to make sure there's no funny business. And it's a good thing, because the room has been hiding something grislier than buttons.)
Dekker, Ted -- The Priest's Graveyard $7.99 (A self-proclaimed avenging angel - a priest who has been killing those who do not abide by religious and statutory laws - crosses paths with a girl seeking vengeance on her protector's murderer.)
Eastland, Sam -- Archive 17 $25.00 (Pekkala #3: 1939: Stalin must prepare his country for war. When a rumor comes from the Gulag that a prisoner there knows where the Tsar's gold is buried, Pekkala, a former Tsarist guard turned detective, is sent undercover to the Gulag - where he was once imprisoned - to learn the truth.)
Ellis, Kate -- Kissing the Demons $15.95 (Joe Plantagenet #3: Thirteen Torland Place is a house with a disturbing past. When a student living there is found murdered, DI Joe Plantagenet wonders whether her death has anything to do with its grim history. Then other, similar deaths come to light and he fears that a serial killer is at work.)
Ephron, Hallie -- Come and Find Me $13.99 (Diana Banks hasn't stepped outside her home since her husband's accidental death two years ago. But when her sister goes missing, Diana must brave the outside world to find her.)
Evans, Geraldine -- Deadly Reunion $15.95 (Rafferty & Llewellyn #14: After a reunion at the Griffin School culminates in the death of a high-profile alumnus, DI Rafferty and Sergeant Llewellyn are called in to unearth the truth behind the school's picturesque facade.)
Evans, Mary Anna -- Plunder $14.95 (Faye Longchamp #7: Faye and her husband are researching archaeological sites near the mouth of the Mississippi, hampered by a looming oil slick, and by their toddler underfoot. Their babysitter is unavailable, first because of an injury, and then because her grandmother and uncle have been murdered.)
Fesperman, Dan -- Lie in the Dark $14.00 (Vlado Petric #1: Reissue; Chasing murderers in the middle of a civil war might seem absurd, but that is Investigator Petric's job as one of the few homicide detectives left in Sarajevo.)
Fiedler, Chrystle -- Death Drops $15.00 (PBO; When her aunt is murdered and the valuable recipe for her new age-defying skin cream is stolen, holistic healer Dr. Willow McQuade turns to cop Jackson Spade for help finding the culprit.) Fielder, Donna -- Ladykiller $9.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; a Texas cop kills his wife and tries to cover up the murder.)
Fifield, Christy -- Murder Buys a T-shirt $7.99 (Haunted Souvenir Shop #1: PBO; Glory has inherited her uncle's Florida shop, stuffed with collectibles, mementos, and ghosts. Things take an unexpected turn when a local football hero dies suddenly and suspiciously.)
Fluke, Joanne -- Cinnamon Roll Murder $24.00 (Hannah Swensen #17: The Cinnamon Roll Six jazz band are headed for Lake Eden when their tour bus overturns near town. The keyboard player's minor injuries turn deadly when someone plunges surgical scissors into his chest.)
Fredrickson, Jack -- Hunting Sweetie Rose $25.99 (Dek Elstrom #3: Dek Elstrom is hired by a mysterious man in a limousine to investigate the death of a clown. Was it suicide, or murder? And how was the clown connected to Sweetie Fairbairn, the doyenne of Chicago society?)
Gardner, Lisa -- Love You More $7.99 (D.D. Warren #5: A state trooper claims to have shot her husband in self-defense. As authorities mount a search for the couple's missing child, detective D.D. Warren partners with Bobby Gold to investigate the killing.) Gaylin, Alison -- And She Was $5.99 (When a local woman disappears, missing persons investigator Brenna Spector uncovers bizarre connections between the woman, a long-missing little girl, and her own past.)
Goldman, Joel -- Final Judgment $6.99 (Lou Mason #5: PBO; Attorney Lou Mason is defending a client on trial for mail fraud - neither of them knows how a decapitated body ended up in the trunk of the client's car in the courthouse parking lot.)
Goodwin, Jason -- An Evil Eye $15.00 (Yashim the Eunuch #4: 1839: What dark secret led the admiral of the Ottoman fleet to defect to the Egyptians? As Yashim unravels his former mentor's curious history, the investigation leads to the sultan's seraglio - where the members of the ladies' orchestra are inexplicably growing ill and dying.)
Greener, Richard -- The Lacey Confession $14.95 (Locator #2: When a celebrity begs Walter to locate her nephew, he can't refuse. Walter discovers that others are looking for the man, and are willing to kill for what he has: a written confession by the mastermind behind the JFK assassination.)
Greenwood, Kerry -- Cooking the Books $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (Corinna Chapman #6: Corinna accepts an offer from a caterer friend to do the baking for the set of a new soap opera. On the other side of town, a young woman is being unmercifully bullied by her corporate employers - employers who spend a lot of time cooking the books.)
Grossman, Paul -- Children of Wrath $25.99 (Willi Kraus: 1929: Jewish detective Willi Kraus investigates when floodwaters cause the Berlin sewer system to disgorge a burlap sack - full of children's bones with teeth marks on them, and a Bible with a single phrase circled in red.)
Hale, Rebecca M. -- Adrift on St. John $7.99 (In the Islands #1: PBO; When Hannah Sheridan disappears off the island of St. John, the locals point out her resemblance to the Amina Slave Princess of the 1733 slave revolt, whose ghost is believed to haunt the island. Everyone is happy to blame the spirit - except for resort manager Pen Hofstra.)
Harris, C.S. -- Where Shadows Dance $7.99 (Sebastian St. Cyr #6: London, 1812: Sebastian's reluctant bride-to-be Hero knows something about the murder of a foreign office diplomat. Sebastian will have to catch the killer to protect Hero - and their unborn child.) Harris, C.S. -- When Maidens Mourn $24.95 (Sebastian St. Cyr #7: When Gabrielle Tennyson is murdered, aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his wife Hero Jarvis find themselves involved in an intrigue concerning the myth of King Arthur, Camelot, and a future poet laureate.)
Hayder, Mo -- Gone $14.00 (Jack Caffery #5: The police face a nightmare when they realize an apparent carjacker was actually after the 11-year-old girl in the back seat; DI Jack Caffery and Sgt. Flea Marley race to put the pieces together before the twisted attacker strikes again.)
Hiaasen, Carl -- Scat $7.99 (Reissue; YA; Mrs. Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, has supposedly been called away on a family emergency. But Nick and Marta just don't buy it. They figure the class delinquent has something to do with her disappearance. And he does! But not in the way they think.)
Higashino, Keigo -- The Devotion of Suspect X $14.99 (A man who plotted to cover up the killing of his neighbor's abusive ex-husband matches wits with a police consultant, nicknamed Professor Galileo, who is convinced he was involved.) Higgins, George V. -- The Digger's Game $14.95 (Reissue; On a trip to Vegas, the Digger finds himself eighteen grand in the hole, and the Greek is gonna break Digger's legs if he can't pay up. Luckily, the Digger's friends have a little job that can turn his gambling debt into profit for everyone - at least everyone who survives.)
Higgins, George V. -- The Rat on Fire $14.95 (Reissue; Jerry Fein owns a run-down building where the tenants refuse to pay their rent because of rats. Jerry knows just how to fix that: a professional arsonist, and a fire marshal paid to look the other way. The only problem: tough cop John Roscommon, who is out to nail the dirty fire marshal.)
Hollis, Lee -- Death of a Kitchen Diva $7.99 (Hayley Powell #1: PBO; Small town food and wine columnist Hayley Powell finds herself the main suspect when a rival food writer is found dead, face-down in a bowl of Hayley's clam chowder.)
Horowitz, Anthony -- Scorpia Rising $8.99 (Alex Rider #9: Kids; Scorpia, the world's most dangerous terrorist organization, is up to no good in the Middle East, and it's up to Alex to stop them. ) Jackson, Lisa -- Devious $7.99 (New Orleans #9: Detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya must stop a serial killer who is targeting nuns.)
Kazinski, A.J. -- The Last Good Man $26.99 (Around the world, humanitarians are dying, each with the same strange mark on their back. When the news reaches Copenhagen, veteran detective Niels Bentzon is assigned to find Denmark's 'good people' and warn them. But Bentzon is a man who is trained to see the worst in humanity, and one by one, candidates are crossed off his list. He's about to give up when a brilliant astrophysicist helps him find the pattern to the killings. There are two more to come. They will occur in Venice and Copenhagen. And the time is now.)
Kellerman, Jonathan -- Victims $28.00 (Alex Delaware #27: When acid-tongue Vita Berlin is murdered, psychologist Alex Delaware doubts the grisly act was one of revenge, despite the woman's many enemies. LAPD Lt. Milo Sturgis is skeptical, until another body turns up, dispatched identically but with no apparent connection to Vita. Is the killer selecting victims at random?)
Kelly, Diane -- Death, Taxes, and a Skinny No- Whip Latte $7.99 (Tara Holloway #2: PBO; Tara and her IRS partner Eddie are going after a suspected loan shark, whose business associates tend to disappear - and then resurface in body bags.)
Kerr, Philip -- Field Gray (UK title: Field Grey) $16.00 (Bernie Gunther #7: 1954: Bernie is in Berlin to greet POWs returning from Germany - and help catch a French war criminal who has been posing as a Wehrmacht officer. But Bernie's past as a POW in Russia is about to catch up with him.)
Lansdale, Joe R. -- Devil Red $14.95 (Hap & Leonard #8: A cold-case double murder leads Hap Collins and Leonard Pine to a vampire cult, the Dixie Mafia, and the deadliest assassin they've ever encountered.)
Lawson, Mike -- The Second Perimeter (alternate title: The Payback) $7.99 (Joe DeMarco #2: Reissue; When the Secretary of the Navy's nephew tells him that two colleagues at a naval base are committing fraud, he is skeptical and reluctant to start an official investigation. So he asks Speaker of the House John Mahoney to send his fixer Joe DeMarco to check out the situation.)
Lelic, Simon -- The Child Who $15.00 (The biggest murder case in southern England lands in the hands of provincial attorney Leo Curtice. 12-year-old Daniel Blake stands accused of murdering an 11-year-old girl. As Curtice sets out to defend the indefensible, he finds himself pitted against an enraged community calling for blood.)
Lutz, Lisa -- Trail of the Spellmans $25.00 (Spellmans #5: When parents hire Spellman Investigations to follow their daughter, Rae is assigned to the case, but fakes the surveillance reports. A socialite has Izzy follow her husband, despite a conspicuous lack of suspicion. Then a man hires the firm to follow his sister, who turns out to be the socialite.)
Madison, Ada -- The Probability of Murder $7.99 (Professor Sophie Knowles #2: PBO; When the school's beloved librarian is shot to death in the stacks, Sophie learns that her friend was more complex than she ever knew. Now Sophie must do some rigorous deduction before the chances for another campus murder increase exponentially.)
Marcinko, R/DeFelice, J -- Domino Theory $9.99 (Rogue Warrior #16: On a trip to India to supervise security arrangements for the Commonwealth Games, Demolition Dick and his team uncover a plot to steal India's nuclear warheads.) Mariani, Scott -- The Hope Vendetta (UK title: The Doomsday Prophecy) $25.00 (Ben Hope #3: Ben has decided to return to his theology studies. A friend asks Ben to find his missing daughter, but Ben declines, and puts his buddy Charlie Palmer on the case. When Charlie runs into trouble, Ben reluctantly joins him.)
Marshall, Michael -- Killer Move $7.99 (Bill already has a lot, but he wants much more. He has a plan for super-success. Then one morning he arrives at work to find an anonymous message waiting for him: MODIFIED. And when people around him begin to die, it becomes clear that someone has a very different plan for Bill's future.)
Marston, Edward -- The Railway Detective Omnibus Vol. 1: The Railway Detective / The Excursion Train / The Railway Viaduct $20.00 (Robert Colbeck #1 / #2 / #3: Omnibus reprint; 3 Victorian mysteries)
Martin, Kat -- Against the Night $7.99 (Raines #5: PBO; Former army ranger John Riggs is on the trail of a human trafficking ring when exotic dancer Kitty asks for his help finding her missing sister.)
Masello, Robert -- The Medusa Amulet $7.99 (Centuries ago, Benvenuto Cellini was considered one of the world's greatest minds. Much of his knowledge was lost - except for rumors of a mirror with amazing powers. It falls to a young scholar to track down the mirror, and reclaim its power.)
McCleary, Carol -- The Illusion of Murder $7.99 (Nellie Bly #2: While traveling around the world, attempting to beat the 80 days it took Jules Verne's fictional hero, reporter Nellie Bly witnesses a mysterious death in Port Said, and is targeted by a killer.)
McCoy, Judi -- Fashion Faux Paw $7.99 (Dog Walker #6: PBO; Ellie is in charge of the dogs' modeling outfits that match their human models' outfits for a Fashion Week competition. When a designer drops dead of anaphylactic shock, Ellie and her dog Rudy must comb through the victim's rivals and enemies to find the killer.)
McEvoy, C/Olanoff, L -- Love Me or Else $7.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; an older woman is charged with the murder of a younger woman she believed to be her competitor for their pastor's attention.)
McKevett, G.A. -- A Decadent Way to Die $7.99 (Savannah Reid #16: When the 80-year-old creator of the world-famous Helene doll has several suspicious brushes with death, she hires plus-sized sleuth Savannah Reid to investigate.)
McKinlay, Jenn -- Due or Die $7.99 (Library Lover's #2: PBO; When a murder is committed in her hometown of Briar Creek, CT, library director Lindsey Norris must answer the question of who did it before anyone else is checked out for good.)
Meyer, Deon -- Heart of the Hunter $7.99 (Reissue; Once an assassin and freedom fighter, in post-apartheid South Africa 'Tiny' Mpayipheli is happily working in a garage. But when he learns that an old friend is being held hostage after taking an incriminating hard drive, Tiny's old training kicks in. As he races to the rendezvous point, he is pursued by several interested and hostile forces - none of whom have a clue what they're up against. )
Miller, Madeline -- The Song of Achilles $25.99 (Patroclus, a small, awkward prince, has been exiled to Phthia, to be raised in the shadow of Achilles, child of the king and a goddess. Despite their differences, the boys become steadfast companions as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine. When the men of Greece lay siege to Troy, Achilles joins their cause. Fearful for his friend, Patroclus joins him.) Morrison, Boyd -- The Vault $7.99 (Tyler Locke #2: Industrial engineer Tyler Locke races against time to save his father from a terrorist organization bent on unearthing the truth about the fabled touch of King Midas and using it for their own deadly purposes.)
Myers, Amy -- Classic in the Barn $15.95 (Jack Colby #1: When Jack glimpses a 1938 Lagonda V12 in a Kentish barn, he has to have a closer look - which brings him face to face with its owner Polly. Is it the car or Polly that captivates his heart? He decides to find out more about both, but his enquiries are cut short when Polly is murdered.)
Nevala-Lee, Alec -- The Icon Thief $9.99 (PBO; A controversial masterpiece resurfaces in Budapest. A ballerina's corpse is found beneath the Brighton Beach boardwalk. And New York's Russian Mafiya is about to collide with the equally ruthless art world.)
Ohlsson, Kristina -- Unwanted $25.00 (Fredrika Bergman #1: When a little girl was abducted from a crowded train, no one noticed. Apparently by coincidence, her mother had been left behind at the previous station. Inspector Bergman and her team are called in to investigate what looks like a custody dispute, but then the girl turns up dead in northern Sweden, with the word 'unwanted' scribbled on her forehead.)
Pape, Sharon -- Sketch a Falling Star $7.99 (Portrait of Crime #3: PBO; While investigating the 'accidental' death of a con artist, Rory finds herself on the verge of solving a cold case: the murder of her ghostly partner Zeke.)
Patterson, J/Rust, N -- The Gift $7.99 (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.)
Pavone, Chris -- The Expats $26.00 (When her husband is offered a job in Luxembourg, Kate Moore jumps at the chance to leave her own double life behind. But when another American couple arrives, she grows to suspect that they are not who they claim to be. Is her own past catching up with her? Kate begins to dig, and uncovers a mind-boggling long-play con that threatens her family and her life.)
Pendleton, Don (creator) -- Blind Justice $5.99 (Executioner #400: PBO; An undercover Seattle cop turns to Bolan after discovering that a US senator and a Russian mob boss are in business together.) Pendleton, Don (creator) -- Decision Point $6.99 (SuperBolan #148: PBO; Bolan heads to Singapore on the trail of the Pacific Rim's most vicious human predators.)
Perry, Thomas -- Poison Flower $24.00 (Jane Whitefield #7: After Jane spirits James Shelby, a man unjustly convicted of his wife's murder, out of the criminal court building in downtown LA, men posing as cops kidnap her. Her captors work for the real murderer, who believes he won't be safe until Shelby is dead. But Jane is willing to die rather than betray Shelby's location.)
Pintoff, Stefanie -- Secret of the White Rose $14.99 (Simon Ziele #3: NYC, 1906: When the judge presiding over a notorious anarchist bomber's trial is murdered on the eve of jury deliberations, criminologist Alistair Sinclair and police detective Simon Ziele investigate.)
Randisi, Robert (ed) -- Crime Square $15.95 (Anthology; crime stories set in New York City's Times Square.)
Reed, Mary/Mayer, Eric -- Nine for the Devil $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (John the Eunuch #9: 548: Empress Theodora is dead, the victim of cancer. Or so everyone in Constantinople believes, except Emperor Justinian, who orders John to find her murderer or suffer the consequences.)
Renner, James -- The Man from Primrose Lane $26.00 (In West Akron, Ohio, there lived an elderly recluse who always wore mittens, even in July. He had no friends and no family - and on a summer day, someone murdered him. Four years later, heartbroken by his wife's suicide, true-crime author David Neff decides to investigate the murder.)
Riches, Anthony -- Fortress of Spears $11.95 (Empire #3: The new Roman leader takes the legions deep into north Britannia - where the survivors of the rebellion still plot revenge - hoping to capture the Selgovaes' fortress and return it to the hands of a trusted ally. Marcus Aquila is part of the infantry chosen to go - but he is just a few days ahead of the emperor's agents sent to kill him.)
Robb, J.D. -- New York to Dallas $7.99 (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.)
Robotham, Michael -- Bleed for Me $25.99 (Joe O'Loughlin #4: Sienna Hegarty turns up at psychologist Joe O'Loughlin's home one night, traumatized and covered in blood. Turns out her father, a retired cop, has been murdered, and the blood is his. But Sienna can't remember what happened.)
Smith, Alexander McCall -- The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party $14.95 (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #12: When one of Phuti Radiphuti's apprentices gets a girl pregnant and runs away, it's up to Precious and Grace to help the couple work things out. Also, Mma Ramotswe investigates a case of rural jealousy and cattle poisoning, and once again hunts for her little white van.)
Spindler, Erica -- Watch Me Die $7.99 (Suspected of murdering her assistant, with evidence against her mounting, stained glass restoration artist Mira Gallier races to prove that she's not a killer.)
Swanson, Denise -- Little Shop of Homicide $7.99 (Dime Store #1: PBO; Dev Sinclair is the new owner of the old-fashioned dime store in her Missouri town. But if she doesn't find the killer of her ex's fiancee, she may find herself serving 25 to life.)
Swierczynski, Duane -- Point & Shoot $14.99 (Charlie Hardie #3: Charlie finds himself trapped inside an orbiting satellite, with a year's supply of air, food, and water, and no way to communicate. He must complete his twelve months' duty, or his family will have an 'accident'. He discovers his prison contains the most dangerous secrets in the world - and to make his family safe, he'll have to use those secrets as leverage against his faceless captors.)
Thomson, Keith -- Twice a Spy $7.99 (Drummond Clark #2: Charlie and Drummond Clark are in Switzerland, hiding from criminal charges in the US and experimenting with treatments to retrieve Drummond's memory. When NSA operative Alice Rutherford is kidnapped, the Clarks must dodge a formidable CIA officer and his team to get her back.)
Vyleta, Dan -- Pavel & I $16.00 (In the winter of 1946-47, decommissioned GI Pavel Richter finds himself at odds with a rogue British army colonel and a Soviet general after a friend deposits the frozen body of a Russian spy in Pavel's Berlin apartment. So begins the race to take possession of the spy's secrets.)
Walker, Shiloh -- If You Know Her $7.99 (PBO; Nia Hollister has returned to Kentucky with a mission: find the killer who ended her cousin's life. What she didn't count on was trembling with desire every time she sees Law Reilly.)
White, Randy Wayne -- Chasing Midnight $25.95 (Doc Ford #19: At a reception on a private island, the guests are taken captive, with the perps threatening to kill one hostage an hour until their demands are met. But Doc was on a dive when they struck, and they don't know he's on the loose - or what he's capable of; Signed copies expected)
Whittle, Tina -- Darker Than Any Shadow $14.95 Trade PB, $24.95 HC (Tai Randolph #2: Tai's best friend is competing in a national poetry slam, and ends up prime suspect when one of the other poets is murdered.)
Wilson, F. Paul -- Aftershock & Others: 16 Oddities $16.99 (Collection; 16 short works of suspense and horror, including a Repairman Jack story. )
Wilson, Laura -- The Innocent Spy (UK title: Stratton's War) $14.95 (Ted Stratton #1: Ted Stratton is a cop investigating the death of an ordinary middle-aged woman. Diana Calthrop is a society beauty helping MI5 investigate pro-Nazi socialites. Both of them are running up against very peculiar roadblocks. When they start chatting in a London bomb shelter, they decide to collaborate to find ways around the obstacles.)
Winspear, Jacqueline -- A Lesson in Secrets $14.99 (Maisie Dobbs #8: 1932: Maisie's undercover assignment monitoring anti- government activities at a private college in Cambridge draws her into the murder investigation of the college's controversial pacifist founder.)
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Bell, Ted -- Phantom $27.99 (Alex Hawke #7: Counterspy Alex Hawke and his MI6 colleague Ambrose Congreve hunt a diabolical scientist who has developed an artificially intelligent superweapon.)
Blake, Richard -- The Sword of Damascus $12.95 (Aelric #4: When he arrives in Damascus just as the Muslim caliphate sweeps up from Arabia to threaten Constantinople, Aelric, who knows the secrets of Greek Fire, has little choice about sharing them with the city's new rulers. Or so they think - for Aelric has not lost any of the cunning and courage that have kept him alive so far.)
Bowen, Rhys -- Hush Now, Don't You Cry $24.99 (Molly Murphy #11: Molly's promise to stop sleuthing falls by the wayside when an ambitious New York City alderman is found dead at his Newport estate while Molly and her husband are honeymooning there.) Box, C.J. -- Force of Nature $25.95 (Joe Pickett #12: Trouble arrives from Nate Romanowski's past, and it may be the battle of his life - and Joe's. Nate was in a secret Special Forces unit abroad, and a colleague did something terrible. Now that man is high up in the government, and out to eliminate anyone with knowledge of his wrongdoing; Signed copies expected)
Campbell, Karen -- Proof of Life $12.95 (Anna Cameron #4: When a body is discovered in a Glasgow canal, there's an unexpected link to something Chief Inspector Anna Cameron wants desperately to forget. And with the threat of terrorist attack and growing civil discontent, she realizes that everything she holds dear is in danger.)
Christie, Agatha -- Death Comes as the End $12.99 (Reissue; Egypt, 2000 BC: At the foot of a cliff lies the twisted body of Nofret, concubine to a Ka-priest. Young, beautiful, and venomous, most agree that it was fate - she deserved to die like a snake. But the priest's daughter believes that the woman's death was suspicious. Convinced that the source of evil lurks within their household, she watches helplessly as the family's passions explode in murder.) Christie, Agatha -- Destination Unknown $12.99 (Reissue; When a number of leading scientists disappear without a trace, the one woman who appears to hold the key to the mystery is dying from injuries sustained in a plane crash. Meanwhile, in a Casablanca hotel room, Hilary Craven prepares to take her own life. But her suicide attempt is about to be interrupted by a man who will offer her a more thrilling way to die - an almost certain suicide mission to find a missing scientist.)
Christie, Agatha -- The Sittaford Mystery (alternate title: Murder at Hazelmoor) $12.99 (Reissue; In a house in the middle of Dartmoor, six shadowy figures huddle around a table for a seance. Tension rises as the spirits spell out a chilling message: 'Captain Trevelyan...dead...murder.' Is this magic, or simply a macabre joke? The only way to be certain is to locate Captain Trevelyan. Unfortunately, his home is six miles away, and, with snowdrifts blocking the roads, someone will have to make the journey on foot.)
Christie, Agatha -- The Secret of Chimneys $12.99 (Superintendent Battles #1: Reissue; Little did Anthony Cade suspect that an errand for a friend would place him at the center of a deadly conspiracy. Drawn into a web of intrigue, he begins to realize that the simple favor has placed him in serious danger. As events unfold, the combined forces of Scotland Yard and the French Surete gradually converge on Chimneys, a great country estate that hides a secret worth killing for.)
Christie, Agatha -- The Seven Dials Mystery $12.99 (Superintendent Battles #2: Reissue; Gerry Wade had proved himself to be a champion sleeper, so the other house guests decided to play a practical joke on him. Eight alarm clocks were set to go off, one after the other, starting at 6:30 a.m. But when morning arrived, one clock was missing, and the prank had backfired, with tragic consequences. For Jimmy Thesiger in particular, the words 'Seven Dials' were to take on a new and chilling significance.)
Christie, Agatha -- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (alternate title: The Boomerang Clue) $12.99 (Reissue; While playing a round of golf, Bobby Jones slices his ball over the edge of a cliff. The ball is lost, but on the rocks below he finds the body of a dying man, who with his last breath says, 'Why didn't they ask Evans?' Haunted by those words, Bobby and his vivacious companion Frankie set out to solve a mystery that will bring them into mortal danger.) Clark, Mary Higgins -- I'll Walk Alone $7.99 (An interior designer finds herself indicted for identity theft and suspected of the murder of a woman she barely knew - not realizing that she is the target of a vicious plot to destroy her sanity and her life)
Coben, Harlan -- Stay Close $27.95 (A soccer mom who once walked on the wild side, a documentary photographer turned paparazzo, and a detective who can't let go of a cold case will find that the past doesn't recede, as the terrible consequences of long-ago events crash into the present and threaten to ruin lives.)
Conlon, Edward -- Red on Red $15.00 (Two NYPD detectives - one drawn to cases of rough urban combat, the other to uncanny cases, suicides, and missing persons - find that their partnership alters their views of each other and the world around them.)
Cookman, Lesley -- Murder Imperfect $10.95 (Libby Sarjeant #7: Libby is distracted from the village pantomime by her friend Harry, who asks her to help a friend who has been receiving threatening letters.)
Cookman, Lesley -- Murder to Music $10.95 (Libby Sarjeant #8: Libby and her friend Fran are invited to investigate a house that is reputedly haunted. For once, Libby can be as nosy as she likes without ploughing straight into a murder investigation, for the only deaths here occurred over a hundred years ago. But perhaps someone alive today doesn't want Libby to continue?)
Cookman, Lesley -- Murder at the Manor $10.95 (Libby Sarjeant #9: Libby and her partner Ben are hosting a Writers' Weekend at Ben's family home. When a strange body turns up on the grounds of the manor, it seems that more than one of the delegates could have murderous intentions.)
Cumming, Charles -- The Trinity Six $14.99 (When academic Sam Gaddis sets out to discover the identity of the sixth man of the Cambridge Spy Ring, people begin dying, MI6 tries to throw Gaddis off the trail, and he finds himself in the crosshairs of a Russian plot.)
Dickinson, David -- Death at the Jesus Hospital $25.00 (Lord Powerscourt #11: When three men are found with their throats cut, all connected in some way to an ancient City of London livery company, Powerscourt has no shortage of suspects or suspicions.)
Draper, Sharon M. -- The Space Mission Adventure $4.99 (Clubhouse Mysteries #4: Reissue; Kids; Ziggy and his friends are excited to be going to Space Camp, but what Ziggy really wants is to meet up with aliens. When a mysterious shiny stone appears, Ziggy wonders if his dream has just come true.)
Edwardson, Ake -- Sail of Stone $15.00 (Erik Winter #6: A missing man might have gone to Scotland in search of his father, presumed to have died in WWII; Chief Inspector Erik Winter sets off for Scotland in search of the truth. Meanwhile, detective Aneta Djanali searches Gothenburg for an abused wife, and receives threats from someone who clearly doesn't want the woman found.)
Faye, Lyndsay -- The Gods of Gotham $25.95 (1845: Timothy Wilde is a member of the brand- new NYC PD, his beat at the edge of the world's most notorious slum. As he's making his rounds one night, he finds a young girl covered in blood, who claims that dozens of bodies are buried in the forest north of 23rd Street.)
Geraghty, Tony -- Black Ops: The Rise of Special Forces in the CIA, the SAS, and Mossad $17.95 (Nonfiction; the evolution of unorthodox soldiers who work outside of traditional military forces)
Halliday, Gemma -- Play Nice $24.99 (Anna faked her death to escape life as an assassin. She's haunted by her past. Now her enemies have sent hired gun Nick after her. He's ready to pull the trigger when someone else beats him to the punch - and misses. Who hired the second hit? Nick and Anna find themselves embroiled in a web of deceit - and desire.)
Henry, April -- Girl, Stolen $9.99 (YA; 16- year-old Cheyenne is sleeping in the back of her mom's car when it's stolen. The thief hadn't meant to kidnap her, but her dad is president of a corporation, so ransom is demanded. Blind, and sick with pneumonia, Cheyenne must outwit her captors to survive.)
Marsh, Ngaio -- Death in Ecstasy $14.95 (Roderick Alleyn #04: Reissue; Ahhh, prussic acid. Did lovely Cara Quoyne get a whiff of the bitter almonds as she raised the goblet to her lips? She was a deeply spiritual young woman, a novice with the House of the Sacred Flame. Inspector Alleyn, however, suspects that the killer was operating from very unspiritual motivations.)
Marsh, Ngaio -- Vintage Murder $14.95 (Roderick Alleyn #05: Reissue; Inspector Alleyn is journeying to New Zealand, along with the members of a comedy troupe. The actors' operatic intrigues offer an amusing diversion, until they unexpectedly turn deadly. Alleyn may have left his badge back in Blighty, but he's still a policeman, even on the other side of the world.)
Nakamura, Fuminori -- The Thief $23.00 (The Thief is a seasoned pickpocket whose past catches up with him when his original partner offers him an easy job: tie up an old man and steal the contents of his safe. Not until the next day does the Thief learn that the old man was a prominent politician, and that he was brutally killed after the theft.)
O'Donovan, Gerard -- Dublin Dead $26.00 (Mike Mulcahy #2: DI Mulcahy spots a possible link between the murder of a Dublin gangster in Spain and a shipment of cocaine abandoned off the coast of Ireland, putting him on the trail of an international drugs gang - and a remorseless killer.)
Parks, Brad -- The Girl Next Door $24.99 (Carter Ross #3: Planning to do a story about a woman killed by a hit-and-run while delivering newspapers, Ross heads to her wake to gather anecdotes, only to learn that the victim's sister thinks the death was murder.)
Pittman, Joseph -- California Scheming $14.95 (Todd Gleason #2: Craig's old flame Cindy wants Craig to locate her missing husband Patrick. Turns out Patrick is on the run from his own corrupt boss, hoping to cover the fortune he owes by locating the never-recovered loot from a series of LA bank robberies.)
Rendell, Ruth -- Tigerlily's Orchids $15.00 (When Stuart decides to throw a party in his new flat, he invites everyone in his building. The party will be remembered - but not in a good way. Living opposite is a young, beautiful, reclusive Asian woman. She emerges to exert a terrible spell on Stuart and his guests.)
Rollins, James -- Deep Fathom $22.99 (HC reprint of PB original.)
Seil, William -- The Titanic Tragedy $9.95 (Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Reissue; 1912: Holmes and Watson board the Titanic, where Holmes is to carry out a secret government mission. Soon after departure, highly important submarine plans for the US Navy are stolen.)
Skidmore, Chris -- Death and the Virgin Queen $16.99 (Nonfiction; historian Skidmore uses recently discovered forensic evidence from the original 1560 investigation to examine the death of Amy Robsart, wife of Queen Elizabeth I's favorite, Robert Dudley.)
Smith, Helen -- Alison Wonderland $13.95 (Reissue; After Alison discovers that her husband is cheating on her, she does what any self-respecting woman would do - spray-paints a nasty message for him on her wedding dress, and takes a job with the all-female London detective firm that found him out.)
Steinhauer, Olen -- An American Spy $25.99 (Milo Weaver #2: Weaver is unwillingly drawn into his CIA bosses' plans for revenge against a Chinese mole who orchestrated the death of 33 CIA-trained assassins.)
Thompson, James -- Helsinki White $25.95 (Kari Vaara #3: Vaara is picked to run a black ops unit, robbing Helsinki's mobsters of their cash, drugs, and firearms. But the team is too good, and their actions have unintended consequences. Then a prominent immigrants' rights advocate is assassinated, and Vaara is assigned to the murder.)
Tolkien, Simon -- The King of Diamonds $14.99 (Inspector Trave #2: 1960: The obvious culprit in a woman's murder is her ex-boyfriend, who has just escaped from prison; while heading the manhunt, Trave's suspicions lead him in another direction.)
Updale, Eleanor -- Johnny Swanson $7.99 (Kids; 11-year-old Johnny Swanson is raking in money with his advertising scams and his advice column. But his money-making schemes got him in too deep with the wrong people, and now his mother is in danger. Johnny will have to assume another role: undercover detective!)
Vachss, Andrew -- That's How I Roll $25.95 (After pleading guilty to a series of homicides, Esau Till sits on death row writing his life story, his one last chance to protect his brother Tory after he's gone. And when it comes to protecting his baby brother, Esau Till is a man without boundaries.)
Willis, Sam -- The Fighting Temeraire $15.95 (Nonfiction; the history of the illustrious fighting ship that inspired artist J.M.W. Turner's masterpiece, spanning the heyday of the age of sail, including both the Seven Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars.)
Expected Early April
Albert, Susan Wittig -- Mourning Gloria $7.99 (China Bayles #19: China stumbles upon the scene of an arson homicide; when the intern reporter covering the story disappears, China is determined to find her before she becomes a headline herself.)
Allan, Barbara -- Antiques Knock-Off $7.99 (Trash 'n' Treasures #5: When her mom decides to protect someone by confessing to a murder, Brandy goes digging for clues, and uncovers a scandal involving questionable antiques and family secrets.)
Alt, Madelyn -- Home for a Spell $7.99 (Bewitching #7: Apartment-hunting turns complicated when the manager turns up dead before Maggie can sign the lease, sending her on the trail of a clever killer.)
Babson, Marian -- No Cooperation from the Cat $24.99 (Aging actresses Trixie and Evangeline have been sharing their kitchen with Trixie's daughter Martha, who is testing recipes for a cookbook. Then a strange man bursts into the house, and they learn that the woman who originally worked on the cookbook died after eating one of the recipes. Japanese bobtail cat Cho-Cho-San joins in as Trixie and Evangeline become entangled in the mystery.)
Bailey, Elizabeth -- The Deathly Portent $15.00 (Lady Fan #2: PBO; When a Witherley villager is murdered, Ottilia uncovers a raft of suspects with grudges against the dead man - one of whom is determined to incriminate a young woman believed to be a witch.)
Barclay, Linwood -- The Accident $9.99 (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.)
Bass, Jefferson -- The Bone Yard $7.99 (Body Farm #6: Unidentified remains found in rural Florida lead Dr. Brockton's team to a series of shallow graves at a defunct reform school - and to skeletons in some very prominent closets.)
Belle, Josie -- 50% Off Murder $7.99 (Good Buy Girls #1: PBO; Claire Freemont has been behaving strangely. When Maggie Gerber goes to visit her at the library, she finds the body of a dead man, who turns out to be someone from Claire's past. As their Virginia town's new sheriff zeroes in on Claire, it's up to Maggie and her bargain-hunting friends to track down a killer.)
Bishop, Claudia -- Dread on Arrival $7.99 (Hemlock Falls #17: PBO; The rivalry between two employees of antique-collecting TV shows heats up when they come to Hemlock Falls to have it out in a cooking contest. Inn owners Meg and Sarah will need to use their expertise at appraising motives for murder when one of the competitors keels over on camera.)
Black, Benjamin -- A Death in Summer $15.00 (Quirke #4: When a newspaper tycoon is discovered with his head blown off by a shotgun blast, is it murder or suicide? DI Hackett calls in his old friend Quirke, who has unusual access to Dublin's elite.)
Blum, Howard -- The Floor of Heaven $16.00 (Nonfiction; sent to Alaska to solve a gold- mine robbery, a Pinkerton agent befriends the man whose discovery of history's richest gold deposit then sets off the 1896 gold rush, making him the richest man in Alaska - and the target of a notorious con man.)
Booth, Faye L. -- Trades of the Flesh $7.99 (Reissue; London, 1888: A young prostitute teams up with a young surgeon, first as a model for his pornographic photography sideline, and then as his assistant in procuring corpses for medical experimentation.)
Brown, Rita&Sneaky Pie -- The Big Cat Nap $26.00 (Mrs. Murphy #20: Inexplicable car accidents are being attributed to driver error, but Harry suspects that something is amiss, and begins to investigate, aided by her intrepid team of feline, canine, and equine helpers.)
Burke, James Lee -- Feast Day of Fools $15.00 (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.)
Casey, Elizabeth Lynn -- Reap What You Sew $7.99 (Southern Sewing Circle #6: PBO; A movie is filming in Sweet Briar, and Tori is cast as an extra. When the leading actress is murdered and suspicion falls on a member of the sewing circle, Tori must catch the killer.)
Castillo, Linda -- Breaking Silence $14.99 (Kate Burkholder #3: Three adult members of an Amish family are dead, apparently from accidental asphyxiation. But autopsy uncovers evidence of foul play. Is there a connection to a recent string of hate crimes against the Amish? Or was the killing personal?)
Cavender, Chris -- A Pizza to Die For $7.99 (Pizza Lovers #3: Eleanor and Maddy are suspects when an unpleasant rival with a wealthy backer opens up a pizzeria just down the promenade, then turns up dead.)
Chase, Erika -- A Killer Read $7.99 (Ashton Corners #1: PBO; For the first meeting of their mystery book club, members gather at Molly's old southern mansion. The meeting becomes the scene of an actual murder when a stranger is shot. Who is the victim? And how did Molly's antique gun become the murder weapon?) Child, Lee -- The Affair $9.99 (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.)
Child, Lee -- Hotwire $7.99 (Maggie O'Dell #9: The investigation into the deaths of three teenagers leads FBI agent Maggie O'Dell into the middle of a conspiracy involving biological warfare.)
Child, Lee (ed) -- Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance $25.99 (Anthology; original stories about crimes and those who avenge them.)
Clark, Carol Higgins -- Mobbed $7.99 (Regan Reilly #14: A case takes PI Regan Reilly and her cop husband to the Jersey Shore, where she runs into some old acquaintances. One of them she almost doesn't recognize - turns out there's more than a good reason for that.)
Clark, Carol Higgins -- Gypped $25.00 (Regan Reilly #15: In LA while Jack attends a conference, Regan is contacted by Zelda, an old friend who suspects she is being gypped by her business manager. Regan and Jack look into Zelda's business deals, and uncover a scam.) Clark, Mary Higgins -- The Lost Years $26.99 (A Biblical scholar finds a parchment, stolen from the Vatican library in the 15th century, that might be a letter written by Jesus Christ. When he's found shot to death in his New Jersey home, his wife is hiding in the closet, incoherent and clutching the murder weapon. The police suspect her, but the couple's daughter believes her father's death is tied to the parchment, now missing.)
Cleland, Jane K. -- Dolled Up for Murder $24.99 (Josie Prescott Antiques #7: Josie has acquired a stellar doll collection, but after she shows it to a potential customer, the woman is shot and killed, and Josie's employee Eric is kidnapped. The ransom demand is simple - the doll collection. Josie discovers the dolls hold secrets that will save Eric and uncover the truth behind the murder.)
Conant, Susan -- Brute Strength $15.95 (Dog Lovers #19: Lately, it seems wherever Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter turns, things go wrong: an anonymous call turns vicious, her husband is keeping secrets, and acquaintances are dying under mysterious circumstances. Then Holly's own life is threatened. Can the brute strength of her beloved malamutes Rowdy, Kimi, and Sammy protect her? ) Crum, Laura -- Barnstorming $14.95 (Gail McCarthy #12: PBO; Gail has turned 50, and is considering resuming her career as a horse veterinarian. Then she embarks on a solitary ride and finds a fellow equestrian shot dead. Gail's friend Jeri Ward heads up the investigation, and Gail is drawn into the escalating chain of events when a second rider is murdered.)
Dorgan, B/Hagberg, D -- Blowout $25.99 (The US President has created the Dakota District Initiative, a top-secret research team working to produce clean energy from coal. After powerful enemies order a brutal assault on the experimental power station, a war-hero sheriff and a brash journalist search for the attackers.)
Doudera, Vicki -- Deadly Offer $14.95 (Darby Farr #3: When her assistant's sister Selena dies suddenly, Darby travels to Selena's vineyard estate, where she discovers that Selena was entertaining offers from three overeager prospective buyers - and that the death was no accident.)
Epperson, Tom -- Sailor $24.99 (Gina turned in her mobster husband Joey. Now Joey's father wants revenge - and his grandson. Gina takes her son and runs to LA. There they meet Gray, who says he's a sailor, but seems to be hiding a lot. And soon he's the only thing standing between Gina and the grave.)
Ferenc, Mate -- Sea of Lost Dreams $14.95 (Dugger & Nello #2: 1921: Ne'er-do-well captain Dugger and his sardonic friend Nello set sail for Tahiti with two passengers, an escapee from an Irish convent looking for her twin brother, and a French spy dispatched to find the leader of an anti-colonial rebellion.)
Fowler, Christopher -- The Memory of Blood $25.00 (Bryant & May Peculiar Crimes Unit #9: A seemingly impossible locked-room murder at a theatrical cast party sends the PCU delving into the history of the London theater and the disturbing origins of Punch and Judy, as the detectives race to find a maniacal killer before he reaches his even deadlier final act.)
Gibb, David A. -- Camouflaged Killer $9.99 (Nonfiction; a trusted member of the Canadian Air Force turns out to be a rapist and murderer.)
Gibbon, Lewis Grassic -- Spartacus $14.95 (Reissue; Classic reprint. The gladiator Spartacus leads a slave revolt against the Romans in 73 BC.) Golightly, Walton -- AmaZulu $9.99 (Southeast Africa, 1818: On the summit of a low hill, encircled by a foe six times their number, 1500 men armed with cowhide shields and short stabbing spears sit and wait. A man surveys the troops. He is Shaka, his men are Zulu - the best-trained foot soldiers in Africa - and the coming battle will write the opening chapter of their empire.)
Grace, Margaret -- Mix-up in Miniature $15.95 (Miniature #6: PBO; Gerry is thrilled to meet bestselling author and miniatures enthusiast Varena Young. When Young is suddenly murdered, and Gerry is left to investigate the crime, she and her 11-year-old granddaughter delve for information on Young's mysterious past, and find a clue to her murder in a secret room - of a dollhouse.)
Gray, Alex -- The Riverman $8.99 (Lorimer #4: When a man's body is fished out of the river the morning after an office celebration, it looks like an accident. An anonymous phone call and a toxicology test, however, give Glasgow DCI Lorimer reason to think otherwise.)
Gregory, Susanna -- The Body in the Thames $13.95 (Thomas Chaloner #6: 1664: A delegation from the Netherlands is in London in a last-ditch attempt to secure peace between the two nations. When his former brother-in-law is found in the Thames, Chaloner discovers the dead man left clues to a motive for his murder. Was he involved in a plot to steal the crown jewels, or did he fall foul of someone who wants the peace talks to fail?)
Haddam, Jane -- Blood in the Water $25.99 (Gregor Demarkian #27: A pool-house fire in a gated Philadelphia suburb yields two bodies, presumed to be a wealthy man's wife and her lover. But DNA shows both bodies are male. With the wife nowhere to be found, the police turn to ex-FBI agent Demarkian for help.)
Haines, Carolyn -- Bones of a Feather $7.99 (Sarah Booth Delaney #11: PI Sarah Booth Delaney's hunt for a missing diamond necklace turns complicated when one of her clients disappears, and the kidnappers demand the necklace's insurance money as ransom.)
Hall, Patricia -- Dead Beat $15.95 (Kate O'Donnell #1: 1960s: When photographer Kate O'Donnell takes off for London from swinging Liverpool she has two things in mind: to make a career, and to track down her missing brother. But when she does find a trace of him, he's still missing - leaving behind a dead flatmate and some very suspicious cops.) Hart, Carolyn -- Dead by Midnight $7.99 (Death on Demand #21: A recent death appears to be suicide, but Annie suspects murder. To trap the killer, she must unravel the mysteries of a towel hidden in a gazebo, no fingerprints on a crystal mug, blood on a shirt, and a lovers' tryst.)
Hart, Carolyn -- Death Comes Silently $24.95 (Death on Demand #22: While hosting a book signing by a popular local writer, Annie gets several voice mails from Gretchen Burkholt, who has scandalous news she's eager to share. When Annie goes to see her, she finds Gretchen dead, with an ax by her side.)
Hart, John -- Iron House $14.99 (Twenty years ago, a pair of orphaned brothers were separated when Michael fled a murder accusation, eventually becoming an enforcer for an organized crime syndicate. Then he met Elena, and decided to leave that life behind. He takes her back to North Carolina, and his brother Julian. There he faces a thicket of deceit and violence that leads inexorably back to the orphanage he fled so long ago.)
Hayes, Jonathan -- A Hard Death $7.99 (Edward Jenner #2: When an anonymous call leads medical examiner Edward Jenner to four men hanged in the Everglades, he finds traces of a shadowy conspiracy, and learns he can trust no one.)
Hiassen, Carl -- Chomp $16.99 (Kids; When his animal-wrangler dad takes a job with reality TV show Expedition Survival!, Wahoo figures he'll also have to do some wrangling - to keep his unpredictable father from killing the show's boneheaded star, and to help Tuna hide from her abusive father. They've only been in the Everglades for a day when the star gets bitten by a bat and goes missing in a storm. Search parties head out and promptly get lost themselves. Then Tuna's dad shows up with a gun . . .)
Hoeg, Peter -- Smilla's Sense of Snow $17.00 (Reissue; Edgar Award finalist. When caustic Smilla Jaspersen discovers that her neighbor - a neglected 6-year-old boy who is possibly her only friend - has died falling off a roof, a peculiar intuition tells her it was murder.)
Hurley, Graham -- Borrowed Light $14.95 (Joe Faraday #11: Badly injured on holiday, DI Joe Faraday is dragged back to work early when a suspicious fire kills four; ex-cop Paul Winter has growing doubts about life as a criminal.)
Hurwitz, Gregg -- You're Next $9.99 (Shady characters are threatening Mike Wingate, and the police seem more interested in Mike's past - which he doesn't remember - than in protecting him. So Mike turns to Shep, his only friend from his days in foster care. Together they will do whatever it takes to protect Mike's family.)
Jardine, Quintin -- As Easy as Murder $24.95 (Primavera Blackstone #3: Shirley's new man, Patterson Cowling, seems to be a trouble magnet. A casual thief tries to pick his pocket and is found a few days later with his face blown off. Coincidence, or does Cowling have a past to protect? As the body count rises, can Primavera save the day?)
Johnston, Linda O. -- Hounds Abound $7.99 (Pet Rescue #3: PBO; Mixed up in a murder that may close a much-needed new animal shelter, Lauren has to keep herself and her rescued critters safe from a killer.)
Kadare, Ismail -- Spring Flowers, Spring Frost $14.95 (Reissue; In a small town at the foot of the northern highlands in Albania, a decade after the fall of the Communist regime, the harsh blood-for-blood law of the Kanun mountain folk is emerging from hibernation, like everything else that was forbidden under Communist rule. Mysterious happenings that are two thousand years old, two centuries old, or even just two years old reemerge in daily life.)
Kaplan, Andrew -- Scorpion Betrayal $9.99 (Scorpion #1: When the head of Egypt's State Internal Security is brutally murdered in a Cairo cafe, his assailant a faceless killer known only as the Palestinian, the CIA turns to a former Company operative code-named Scorpion.)
Knowles, Mike -- The Wilson Mystery Omnibus: Darwin's Nightmare / Grinder / In Plain Sight $12.95 (Wilson #1 / #2 / #3: Omnibus; the first three adventures of enigmatic gunman Wilson.)
Lackberg, Camilla -- The Preacher $7.99 (Patrik Hedstrom #2: The remains of two young campers who disappeared 20 years ago are found alongside those of a new victim, sending a tiny Swedish town into shock. When a second girl goes missing, local detective Patrik Hedstrom searches for clues among the dark secrets of a clan of misfits, religious fanatics, and criminals.)
Lansdale, Joe R. -- Edge of Dark Water $25.99 (May Lynn once dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star. Now she's dead. Sue Ellen, May Lynn's strong-willed teenage friend, sets out to dig up May Lynn's body, burn it to ash, and take those ashes to Hollywood to spread around. Only problem is, Sue Ellen has some stolen money that her enemies will do anything to get back.)
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.)
Laukkanen, Owen -- The Professionals $25.95 (Stevens & Windermere #1: In a terrible job market, four friends joke about turning to kidnapping to survive - then it's no joke. For two years, their strategy works beautifully. Until they kidnap the wrong man. Now they've got veteran investigator Kirk Stevens and FBI hotshot Carla Windermere after them - and an organized crime outfit looking for payback; Signed copies expected)
Lee, Amanda -- The Long Stitch Goodnight $7.99 (Seven Year Stitch #4: PBO; When handsome local brewer Todd is accused of murder, the murder weapon has fingerprints from both Todd and his friend Blake - and neither is talking about what happened. Marcy is determined to prove that Todd is not the culprit.)
Leon, Donna -- Drawing Conclusions $15.00 (Brunetti #20: Commissario Guido Brunetti is called to investigate the death of a widow in her modest Venice apartment. Despite some signs of a struggle, the medical examiner rules that she died of a heart attack, but Brunetti can't shake the feeling that someone, or something, may have triggered it.)
Leon, Donna -- Beastly Things $25.00 (Brunetti #21: The body of a man is found in a canal, damaged by tides, carrying no wallet, and wearing only one shoe. Commissario Guido Brunetti has little to work with: no locals have been reported missing, and no hotel guests have disappeared. The only clue comes from the autopsy: the man suffered from a rare disease.)
Leon, Donna -- Venetian Curiosities $25.00 (Nonfiction; Leon recounts some of Venice's most intriguing legends, and offers insights into Venetian customs past and present. Illustrated, and includes a CD of music by Antonio Vivaldi, with tracks for each section of the book.)
Leotta, Allison -- Law of Attraction $7.99 (When a battered woman lies on the witness stand to free her boyfriend, then turns up dead on a trash heap, Assistant US Attorney Anna Curtis is determined to bring the killer to justice.) Lutz, L/Hayward, D -- Heads You Lose $15.00 (A pair of pot-growing siblings become sleuths when a headless corpse appears on their northern California property. When collaborators Lutz and Hayward disagree about how the story should unfold, the body count rises, victims and suspects develop surprising characteristics, and sibling rivalry reaches homicidal intensity.)
MacBride, Stuart -- Shatter the Bones $19.95 (Logan McRae #7: When Aberdeen's own mother- daughter singing sensations, competitors in a reality TV show, are kidnapped, the public react with grief and rage, and the media demand action. But DS Logan McRae and his colleagues have no forensic evidence, and the investigation is going nowhere.)
MacNeal, Susan Elia -- Mr. Churchill's Secretary $15.00 (London, 1940: Maggie graduated at the top of her college class, but her gender qualifies her only to be the newest typist at No. 10 Downing Street. With a gift for codebreaking and access to the War Rooms, Maggie discovers the machinations of a menacing faction determined to do whatever it takes to change the course of history. Ensnared in a web of spies, murder, and intrigue, Maggie's wits are all that stand between an assassin and Churchill himself.) Mankell, Henning -- The Troubled Man $15.00 (Wallander #9: When his daughter's father-in- law, a retired naval officer, disappears during a walk in a forest near Stockholm, detective Kurt Wallander investigates unofficially, and uncovers information that hints at elaborate Cold War espionage.)
McGreevy, Brian -- Hemlock Grove $15.00 (When a girl's mangled body is found in the woods, some suspect an escapee from a biotech facility believed to be performing unethical experiments. Others suspect Peter, a teenager who claims he's a werewolf. Or maybe it's arrogant rich kid Roman. Peter and Roman decide to hunt for the killer themselves. Along the way they uncover local secrets and designs that are much bigger than a small-town murder.)
McKenna, Shannon -- Tasting Fear $7.99 (PBO; When their adored foster mother is murdered, the D'Onofrio sisters come together to hunt for her killer. The law can only do so much, and the three are on their own - until three mysterious men get involved.)
Mills, Mark -- House of the Hunted $26.00 (French Riviera, 1935: Former British intelligence operative Tom Nash lives quietly, seeking only peace. When an unknown hit man tries to kill him in his sleep, Tom is sure that somebody knows his secrets. He suspects everyone of double-dealing, and as he plunges further into his haunted past, he feels himself turning into the person he used to be - a dangerous man, capable of anything.)
Mitzner, Adam -- A Conflict of Interest $7.99 (Lawyer Alex Miller takes on the defense of an old family friend accused of crimes involving hundreds of millions of dollars, and uncovers secrets that make him wonder whether any of the people in his life are who they appear to be.)
Morrow, Bradford -- The Diviner's Tale $14.95 (Hired by a developer to dowse a lonely valley, Cassandra happens upon a girl hanged from a tree, but when she returns with the authorities, the body has vanished. The next day, a dazed, mute girl emerges from the woods, alive and giving credence to Cassandra's terrifying vision. Increasingly bizarre divinations ensue, leading to a past she'd thought was behind her, and a real-life killer who has returned to haunt her once more.)
Narea, H.T. -- The Fund $9.99 (A Middle Eastern hedge fund investor plots to destroy Wall Street and the West using financial terrorism.)
Nickson, Chris -- Cold Cruel Winter $15.95 (Richard Nottingham #2: 1732: Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds, investigates when the body of wealthy wool merchant Samuel Graves is discovered, his throat slit, the skin razed from his back. Why would the killer want Graves' skin?)
Norman, Michael -- Skeleton Picnic $14.95 (J.D. Books #2: When experienced pot hunters don't return from a weekend trip, sheriff Charley Sutter turns to BLM ranger J.D. Books for help. The trail leads into a remote part of the Utah wilderness.)
O'Brien, Kevin -- Terrified $7.99 (PBO; Years ago, pregnant Megan Keeler disappeared to escape her sadistic husband Glenn, who was then convicted of her murder. Now someone is sending her anonymous threats, Glenn has been released from prison - and someone has just abducted her son.)
Parker, Robert B. -- Sixkill $9.99 (Spenser #39: Boston PD asks Spenser to investigate when a bad-boy actor is accused of a rape/murder. Spenser forges an unlikely alliance, acting as mentor to the actor's young bodyguard, Sixkill. As the case grows darker and secrets come to light, it's Spenser and Sixkill who must put things right.)
Patterson, J/Ellis, D -- Guilty Wives $27.99 (A dream trip to a luxurious Monte Carlo resort for four days of pampering becomes a nightmare when Abbie and her three best friends are framed for a double murder. Who wants them locked away for life?)
Patterson, J/Ledwidge, M -- Now You See Her $14.99 (Nina would do anything to protect the life she's built in New York - including lying about her past. But when an innocent man is framed for murder, she must go back to Florida and confront the murderous evil she fled 18 years ago.)
Patterson, J/Marklund, L -- Postcard Killers $9.99 (After his daughter and her boyfriend are murdered in Rome - one of several young couples killed in European cities - an NYPD detective teams up with a Swedish reporter to track down the killers.)
Pendleton, Don (creator) -- Jungle Hunt $5.99 (Executioner #401: PBO; Bolan heads for the jungle to stop a series of village massacres along the Ecuadorian border.)
Pendleton, Don (creator) -- Terror Trail $6.99 (Stony Man #118: PBO; Stony Man goes after an extremist group planning to bring all- out destruction to US malls, schools, and streets.) Pendleton, Don (creator) -- Road of Bones $6.99 (SuperBolan #149: PBO; Bolan heads to Russia on a high-priority search and rescue mission.)
Perry, Anne -- Dorchester Terrace $26.00 (Thomas Pitt #27: Rumors reach Thomas Pitt of a plot to blow up connections on the Dover to London rail line, on which Austrian duke Alois Habsburg is soon to travel to visit his royal English kin. Why would anyone destroy an entire train to kill one obscure Austrian royal? Or are the rumors designed to distract Pitt from an even more devastating plot?)
Rollins, James -- The Devil Colony $9.99 (SIGMA Force #7: When his cousin is murdered in a ritualistic massacre, SIGMA director Painter Crowe's quest for answers will lay bare secrets hidden since the founding of America)
Ross, Ann B. -- Miss Julia Rocks the Cradle $15.00 (Miss Julia #12: Miss Julia has promised her husband she will mind her own business. But when a dead body is found six blocks from her house, who else can figure out why Thurlow Jones is trying to cast suspicion on someone who is certainly innocent?)
Ross, Ann B. -- Miss Julia to the Rescue $25.95 (Miss Julia #13: Hazel Marie's new husband has gone missing on his latest PI job, and police in West Virginia have detained an injured man fitting his description. Now it's up to Miss Julia and Etta Mae to free him before he cusses himself into a jail cell.)
Sallis, James -- Driven $11.95 Trade PB, $19.95 HC (Driver #2: Short novel. Seven years have passed. Driver has left the old life, becoming successful businessman Paul West. Until the day he and his fiancee are attacked, and his fiancee is killed. He sinks back into anonymity, but finds that his past stalks him and will not stop.)
Santora, Nick -- Slip and Fall $13.99 (Lawyer Robert Principe needs money fast, so he approaches his wiseguy cousin with a way for the Mob to make money, and Robert to make a few quick bucks. He thinks it'll be a one-time thing, but it works too well. Money flows, violence escalates, and Robert learns that getting out of a deal with the Mafia isn't easy.)
Scott, Cathy -- The Millionaire's Wife $7.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; a wealthy man's estranged wife is eventually charged with arranging to have him killed.)
Shields, Kieran -- The Truth of All Things $25.00 (1892: When a prostitute in Portland, Maine, is murdered by a method traditionally used to kill witches, deputy marshal Archie Lean enlists the help of a historian and an unconventional criminalist. Together they pursue the killer's trail through postmortems and opium dens, into the spiritualist societies and lunatic asylums of New England.)
Sigurdardottir, Yrsa -- Ashes to Dust $14.99 (Thora Gudmundsdottir #3: Attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir is hired to defend a man accused of murdering his childhood sweetheart. When bodies are discovered at a volcanic tourist attraction, her client has a most inventive tale to tell, but the locals seem oddly reluctant to back him up.)
Silverberg, Robert -- Blood on the Mink $9.95 (Reissue; Somewhere in Philadelphia, a master engraver is turning out brilliant forgeries of US currency plates for an organized crime gang. How can the government get close enough to bring down the criminal enterprise from the inside?)
Slan, Joanna Campbell -- Ready, Scrap, Shoot $14.95 (Kiki Lowenstein #5: In the midst of the May Day celebration, a sniper fires into the crowd, killing wealthy Edwina Fitzgerald. But was the intended target Kiki?)
Smith, Alexander McCall -- The Limpopo Academy of Private Detection $24.95 (No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency #13: The best apprentice at Speedy Motors is in trouble with the law and stuck with the worst lawyer in Gaborone. Grace Makutsi and Phuti Radiphuti are building the house of their dreams, but their builder is not completely on the up and up. And Mma Potokwane has been dismissed from her post as matron at the orphan farm. Can the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency help restore the beloved matron to her rightful position?)
Smith, Alexander McCall -- The Great Cake Mystery $6.99 (Young Precious Ramotswe #1: Kids; When a piece of cake goes missing, a traditionally built boy is tagged as the culprit. Precious is unconvinced, and sets out to uncover the truth behind the thefts that are causing so much trouble at the school playground.)
St. James, Dorothy -- The Scarlet Pepper $7.99 (White House Gardener #2: PBO; When someone starts tampering with the presidential organic vegetable garden, embarrassing the First Lady, and an investigative reporter turns up dead, gardener Casey Calhoun realizes that the next thing buried in the dirt just might be her.)
Stack, John -- Master of Rome $12.95 (Masters of the Sea #3: After narrowly escaping first the Carthaginians and then a terrible storm, young Greek captain Atticus and his crew are among the few survivors to reach Rome. Being the messenger of the legions' terrible defeat by Carthage brings Atticus into political troubles that make him wonder if he really wants to be a Roman.)
Sweeney, Leann -- The Cat, the Wife and the Weapon $7.99 (Cats in Trouble #4: PBO; When Jillian returns to her lake house, she learns that her friend Tom is missing, and his estranged brother has moved into Tom's house - and allowed Tom's diabetic cat to stray. When Tom's car turns up wrecked, with a dead stranger inside, Jillian is determined to find out what has happened to Tom.)
Trow, M.J. -- Dark Entry $15.95 (Kit Marlowe #1: Cambridge, 1583: Kit Marlowe spends his days studying and his nights carousing with friends. When one of them is discovered lying dead, mouth open in a silent scream, Marlowe refuses to accept the official verdict of suicide, and sets out to prove his friend was murdered.)
Whellams, David -- Walking into the Ocean $14.95 (Peter Cammon #1: Scotland Yard send Chief Inspector Peter Cammon to the Jurassic Coast to solve a seemingly ordinary domestic crime, but a broader series of murders has been unfolding along the cliffs. The overlapping cases take Cammon from London, Dorset, and Devon to the island of Malta.)
Wilhelm, Kate -- Death of an Artist $24.99 (When Stef, a brilliant artist who refuses to sell her work, turns up dead in her Oregon studio, her estranged husband shows up with a contract granting him the right to sell her work. Convinced that Stef was murdered for the artwork, her mother and daughter are determined to thwart him.)
Winslow, Don -- Satori $14.99 (Prequel to Shibumi by Trevanian. 1951: Nicholai Hel has the skills to be the world's most formidable assassin. After three years in captivity, the Americans offer him freedom in exchange for a service: go to Beijing and kill the Soviet Union's Commissioner to China.)
Winspear, Jacqueline -- Elegy for Eddie $25.99 (Maisie Dobbs #9: 1933: The costermongers of Covent Garden knew Eddie Pettit as a gentle soul with a gift for calming horses, and are shocked by his death in a violent accident. They believe he was the victim of foul play, but the police won't investigate. Maisie's search for answers leads to a powerful press baron, a has-been politician named Winston Churchill, and a writer who is also the husband of her dear friend Priscilla; Signed copies expected)
Wood, Simon -- Did Not Finish $15.95 (Aidy Westlake #1: When Derek Deacon threatens to kill Alex Fanning, his championship rival, rookie driver Aidy Westlake doesn't put much stock in it. But when Fanning dies after making contact with Deacon's car during a race, the TV coverage is edited and the police wind up the investigation without interviewing witnesses. Aidy feels compelled to prove Deacon is the murderer.)
Woods, Stuart -- Son of Stone $9.99 (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.)
Wright, Edward -- From Blood $14.95 (After the horrific murder of her parents, both respected academics, Shannon Fairchild learns that they were part of the radical anti-war movement of the 1960s, and comes to suspect that the killer's motive may lie in the past.)
Zettel, Sarah -- Let Them Eat Stake $7.99 (Vampire Chef #2: PBO; Why did celebrity chef Oscar Simmons walk away from his gig catering the high-profile wedding of a 200-year-old vampire and a wealthy witch? Charlotte agrees to take his place - but then Simmons turns up dead, the groom's family starts vanishing, and the police start asking pointed questions.)
Expected Mid April
Arthurson, Wayne -- A Killing Winter $24.99 (Leo Desroches #2: Undercover as a homeless man, Leo's news story turns into a crusade. A Native street kid he's befriended is missing. When the boy is found murdered, the trail leads Leo into the depths of Native street culture, delving into secrets that threaten not only the gang members, but Leo's life and sanity.)
Baldacci, David -- The Innocent $27.99 (America has enemies - ruthless people that the police, the FBI, even the military can't stop. That's when the US government calls on Will Robie, a hitman who never questions orders and always nails his target. But Will Robie may have just made the first - and last - mistake of his career.)
Beaufrand, Mary Jane -- Dark River (HC title: The River) $8.99 (YA; Edgar Award finalist. When Ronnie moves to rural Oregon, she feels isolated. But she becomes close to Karen, a young girl she babysits. So when she discovers Karen's body on the banks of the river, Ronnie feels compelled to uncover the truth.)
Bolton, S.J. -- Now You See Me $14.99 (Young DC Lacey Flint stumbles onto a woman who has been brutally stabbed. Alarming similarities raise the question: is the killer bent on recreating London's bloody Jack the Ripper slayings?)
Boyd, William -- Waiting for Sunrise $25.99 (Vienna, 1913: When the woman he's been having an affair with accuses him of rape, young English actor Lysander Rief escapes with the help of two mysterious British diplomats. Back in London, they recruit him for a lethal mission. And before he can understand where his new life is heading, he finds himself on the trail of a traitor with a bizarre connection to Lysander's family; Signed copies expected)
Christie, Agatha -- The Man in the Brown Suit $12.99 (Reissue; Anne came to London looking for adventure - which found her immediately at Hyde Park Corner tube station, where a thin man, reeking of mothballs, lost his balance and was electrocuted on the rails. The Scotland Yard verdict is accidental death. But Anne is not satisfied. After all, who was the man in the brown suit who examined the body? And why did he race off, leaving a cryptic message behind: '17-122 Kilmorden Castle'?)
Christie, Agatha -- Sparkling Cyanide (alternate title: Remembered Death) $12.99 (Reissue; Six people sit down to a sumptuous meal at a table laid for seven. In front of the empty place is a sprig of rosemary, for remembrance. But they are unlikely to forget the night, exactly a year ago, that heiress Rosemary Barton died at that same table, her beautiful face unrecognizable, convulsed with pain and horror.)
Christie, Agatha -- The Secret Adversary $12.99 (Tommy & Tuppence #1: Reissue; Tommy and Tuppence, two people flat broke and out of work, are restless for excitement. They embark on a daring business scheme: Young Adventurers Ltd., 'willing to do anything, go anywhere'. But their first assignment, for the sinister Mr. Whittington, draws them into a political conspiracy, and they find themselves plunged into more danger than they ever imagined.)
Christie, Agatha -- Partners in Crime $12.99 (Tommy & Tuppence #2: Reissue; In these short stories, when Tommy and Tuppence Beresford are asked to take over Blunt's International Detective Agency, they leap at the chance. Their first case is a success, the recovery of a pink pearl. Other cases soon follow: a stabbing on Sunningdale golf course; cryptic messages in the personal columns of newspapers; and a box of poisoned chocolates. But can they live up to their slogan of 'Any case solved in 24 hours'?)
Christie, Agatha -- N or M? $12.99 (Tommy & Tuppence #3: Reissue; During World War II, Britain faces threats from Nazis posing as ordinary citizens. With pressure mounting, the intelligence service appoints two unlikely spies, Tommy and Tuppence. Their mission: among the colorful guests at a seaside hotel, they are to seek out a man and a woman who have just murdered Britain's finest agent.)
Christie, Agatha -- By the Pricking of My Thumbs $12.99 (Tommy & Tuppence #4: Reissue; When Tommy and Tuppence visit an elderly aunt in her nursing home, they think nothing of her mistrust of the doctors. After all, Aunt Ada is a very difficult old lady. But when Mrs. Lockett mentions a poisoned mushroom stew and Mrs. Lancaster talks about 'something behind the fireplace', Tommy and Tuppence find themselves caught up in a spine-chilling adventure.) Christie, Agatha -- Postern of Fate $12.99 (Tommy & Tuppence #5: Reissue; Tommy and Tuppence have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited a collection of antique books. While rustling through one, Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings. However, when she writes down the letters, they spell out a very disturbing message: 'Mary Jordan did not die naturally.' And sixty years after their first murder, Mary Jordan's enemies are still ready to kill.)
Connolly, John -- The Infernals $15.00 (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.)
Dean, Anna -- A Woman of Consequence $24.99 (Dido Kent #3: On a visit to the ruins of an abbey, Penelope Lambe suffers a bad fall. Then a human skeleton is found at the abbey. Is Miss Lambe's accident connected to this? Everyone is relying on inquisitive spinster Dido Kent to find out.)
Doiron, Paul -- Trespasser $14.99 (Mike Bowditch #2: A brutal attack on a woman raises a question: was the wrong man convicted for a similar rape/murder seven years ago? Mike's investigation stirs up old hostilities between Maine locals and rich summer residents.)
Donachie, David -- Blown Off Course $16.95 (John Pearce #7: In London seeking protection for the Pelicans from a reluctant Admiralty, Pearce is offered employment by a smiling stranger: the very profitable but illegal task of fetching a ship laden with contraband back from France. But is the stranger all he appear to be?)
Donachie, David -- Enemies at Every Turn $29.95 (John Pearce #8: Pearce is out of jail, but the smugglers whose boat he stole want bloody revenge, and are prepared to chase him to the ends of the earth to get it. And two of his Pelicans are now back in the Navy and need his help - what fate put them on Ralph Barclay's new ship?)
Fickling, G.G. -- The Honey West Files Volume 1: This Girl for Hire / A Gun for Honey / Girl on the Loose $23.99 (Omnibus reprint; 3 novels featuring the female PI) Griffin, Laura -- Twisted $7.99 (Tracers #5: When a vicious murder sends shockwaves through her small Texas town, rookie detective Allison Doyle finds herself working with FBI profiler Mark Wolfe, who believes that the crime is the handiwork of a psychopath he's been hunting for over a decade.)
Kerr, Philip -- Prague Fatale $26.95 (Bernie Gunther #8: September 1941: Reinhard Heydrich is celebrating his appointment as Reichsprotector of Czechoslovakia. All his guests are high-ranking Party members and each is a suspect in a crime yet to be committed: the murder of Heydrich himself. A murder does occur, but the victim is Heydrich's young adjutant, found dead in his room, the door and windows bolted from the inside. Anticipating foul play, Heydrich had already ordered Bernie Gunther to Prague. Now, searching for the killer, Gunther must pick through the lives of some of the Reich's most odious officials; Signed copies expected)
King, Laurie R. -- The Pirate King $15.00 (Mary Russell #11: An investigation into criminal activities surrounding an English movie studio sends Russell to Lisbon and Morocco, where The Pirates of Penzance is being filmed. The set becomes downright dangerous when the director hires actual pirates.) Lilliefors, James -- Viral $25.00 (Charles & Jon Mallory #1: Can two brothers, a journalist and a rogue ex-CIA agent, stop a bioterrorist plot?)
Littlefield, Sophie -- A Bad Day for Scandal $14.99 (Stella Hardesty #3: When Priss Porter's body is found, along with two others, in Kansas City, Stella and her partner Chrissy head to the city, where they investigate a host of suspects, including a crooked and libidinous female judge and several jealous male escorts.)
MacKenzie, Jassy -- Stolen Lives $14.00 (Jade de Jong #2: A seemingly simple bodyguard job plunges PI Jade de Jong into a world of strip joints and sex workers, and leads to a human trafficking ring that stretches from Johannesburg to London.)
MacKenzie, Jassy -- The Fallen $25.00 (Jade de Jong #3: During their scuba diving holiday in St. Lucia, David Patel breaks up with Jade. But they put their differences aside when their diving instructor is found stabbed to death, the only clue a postcard from Johannesburg.)
Marklund, Liza -- Last Will $25.00 (Annika Bengtzon #6: When gunshots break out at the Nobel Prize dinner, Annika is pushed down by someone fleeing the scene. She only catches a glimpse of the suspect, but soon she is in the middle of an intricate drama with links to terrorists, pharmaceutical companies, and Alfred Nobel himself - only this time she's not just a reporter, she's a key witness.)
Marston, Edward -- Under Siege $16.95 (Daniel Rawson #4: 1708: After the victory at Oudenarde, Captain Daniel Rawson fights alongside the Duke of Marlborough, pushing further into French territories and laying siege to the fortress of Lille.)
Nesbo, Jo -- The Snowman $15.00 (Harry Hole #7: Irascible Oslo police investigator Harry Hole becomes a pawn in a serial killer's terrifying game.)
Olshan, Joseph -- Cloudland $24.99 (Near her Vermont home, ex-reporter Catherine Winslow discovers a woman's body leaning against a tree, the latest victim of a serial killer. With the help of a forensic psychiatrist neighbor and a local detective, Catherine starts to research the killings - and comes to realize that friends and acquaintances may be suspects.)
Parris, S.J. -- Sacrilege $26.95 (Giordano Bruno #3: London, 1584: Spy Giordano Bruno suspects he is being followed by an old enemy, but his pursuer is a young woman with whom he was once in love, who has been accused of murdering her magistrate husband. Bruno agrees to do anything he can to help clear her name.)
Pattison, Eliot -- Ashes of the Earth $15.95 (30 years after a global holocaust, the colony of Carthage still struggles to build its new world in post-apocalyptic America. When the colony's leading scientist is murdered, embittered survivor Hadrian Boone unearths chilling secrets.)
Perry, Anne -- Treason at Lisson Grove $15.00 (Thomas Pitt #26: When an informer in a potential treason plot turns up dead, Pitt follows the killer to France. Meanwhile, the head of London Special Branch needs Charlotte Pitt's help to uncover another plot that penetrates the Victorian government's inner circle.)
Pollero, Rhonda -- Slightly Irregular $15.00 (Finlay Anderson Tanner #4: Finlay faces two impossible tasks: track down a missing lawyer from her firm, and find a date for her sister's wedding. She discovers that the lawyer is not who she claimed to be, and may be implicated in the unsolved murder of a pageant queen.)
Raichev, R.T. -- The Murder of Gonzago $25.00 (Darcy & Payne #6: Antonia and Hugh investigate the murder of eccentric Lord Remnant, which seems to have been committed in full view of the man's wife and house guests.)
Ross, Kate -- Whom the Gods Love $14.95 (Julian Kestrel #3: Reissue; Dashing Regency gentleman-sleuth Julian Kestrel investigates when Alexander Falkland is murdered at his own party. The guests include the cream of London society - and every last one is a suspect.)
Spencer-Fleming, Julia -- One Was a Soldier $14.99 (Fergusson & Van Alstyne #7: Russ and Clare's investigation of a down-on-her-luck veteran's death uncovers a trail of deceit that leads to the upper ranks of the army and the unforgiving streets of Baghdad.)
Stewart, Trenton Lee -- The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict $17.99 (Mysterious Benedict Society Prequel: Kids; 9- year-old Nicholas is being sent to a new orphanage, where he will encounter vicious bullies, selfish adults, strange circumstances - and a mystery that could change his life forever.)
Stockbridge/Cormack -- Slaughter, Inc. $14.95 (Spider: A criminal genius has created an organization to perform murder-for-hire, with innocents being fingered for the crimes. When Nita Van Sloan is framed for a killing, the Spider must infiltrate the cartel.) Stockbridge/Henderson -- Shadow of Evil $6.99 (Spider: Richard Wentworth wonders if his long struggle against the forces of evil has been worth it. Should he continue, or grab for personal happiness while he can? Just as he makes his decision, fate unleashes the most hellish horrors of all time against NYC.)
West, Michael Lee -- A Teeny Bit of Trouble $24.99 (Teeny Templeton #2: Teeny witnesses a murder, and learns that her boyfriend may have fathered the victim's 10-year-old child. Now she's trying to gather DNA from a child genius and decode an encrypted diary. Clues in the murder point to trafficking in human organs, but after a suspect is arrested, bodies continue piling up.)
Woods, Stuart -- Unnatural Acts $26.95 (Stone Barrington #23: When a hedge-fund billionaire hires Stone Barrington and Holly Barker to track down his missing son, the case brings them face to face with a dangerous international criminal from their past.)
Zafon, Carlos Ruiz -- The Midnight Palace $8.99 (YA; 1930s: 16 years ago, an English lieutenant lost his life saving newborn twins Ben and Sheere from an unthinkable threat. Now the threat has returned, and the twins must face the the most frightening creature in the history of Calcutta)
Expected Early May
Atherton, Nancy -- Aunt Dimity and the Village Witch $24.95 (Aunt Dimity #17: Amelia Thistle moves to Finch to work on a riddle: a fragment of family diary hints that one of her ancestor's may have been Mistress Meg, the Mad Witch of Finch. Following the clue, Lori Shepherd hunts through Finch's darkest corners, and, with Aunt Dimity's otherworldly help, inches closer to the true story of Meg - and Amelia.)
Atkins, Ace -- The Ranger $15.00 (Quinn Colson #1: Army Ranger Quinn Colson returns from Afghanistan to the northeast Mississippi hill country he calls home, only to find it overrun by corruption, and his uncle, the county sheriff, dead. Is it suicide, or murder?)
Bass, Jefferson -- The Inquisitor's Key $25.99 (Body Farm #7: Dr. Brockton's protege Miranda is helping excavate a newly discovered chamber beneath the Palace of the Popes in Avignon, France. There she discovers a chest inscribed with a stunning claim: inside lie the bones of Jesus of Nazareth. Faced with the case of the millennium, Miranda summons Brockton for help proving or refuting the claim.)
Beck, Jessica -- Drop Dead Chocolate $7.99 (Donut Shop #7: PBO; Suzanne's mother is running for mayor - and what better way to lure in voters than with Suzanne's delicious donuts? But when Momma falls under suspicion after her opponent is murdered, Suzanne is determined to reveal the real killer.)
Brandreth, Gyles -- Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders $14.00 Trade PB, $24.00 HC (Oscar Wilde #5: 1892: Arthur Conan Doyle arrives at a spa with a suitcase of fan mail, and encounters Oscar Wilde. The two friends make a series of macabre discoveries among the letters - a finger, a lock of hair, and an entire severed hand. The trail leads to Rome. To discover why they have been summoned to the Vatican in this fashion, they must uncover the secrets of the men closest to the Pope.)
Brennan, Allison -- Silenced $7.99 (Lucy Kincaid #4: PBO; FBI trainee Lucy Kincaid and her PI boyfriend Sean Rogan investigate when prostitutes with high-profile clients start turning up dead all over Washington, DC.) Brightwell, Emily -- Mrs. Jeffries Defends Her Own $7.99 (Mrs. Jeffries #30: PBO; A general office manager has been murdered, and for once, the case does not go to Inspector Witherspoon. But when someone from her past shows up begging for help, Mrs. Jeffries must step into the fray to stop a terrible miscarriage of justice.)
Brown, Dale -- A Time for Patriots $9.99 (Patrick McLanahan #16: With the nation facing crippling recession and massive cuts in services, the volunteer citizen-soldiers of the Civil Air Patrol are determined to protect their fellow citizens from terrorists.)
Brown, Nick -- The Siege $12.95 (Agent of Rome #1: AD 270: The weakened empire faces a desperate threat from Palmyra's Roman-trained army. Cassius Corbulo, a 19-year-old fresh from officer training, is the only ranking Roman officer left in the line of the Palmyran advance. He must take command of the last stronghold still in Roman hands, and hold it until reinforcements arrive. )
Buckley, Christopher -- They Eat Puppies, Don't They? $25.99 (In an attempt to gain Congressional approval for a top-secret weapons system, lobbyist Bird McIntrye and Neo-Con wonkette Angel Templeton start a rumor that the Chinese secret service is trying to assassinate the Dalai Lama.)
Cantrell, Rebecca -- A Game of Lies $14.99 (Hannah Vogel #3: 1936: Posing as travel reporter Adelheid Zinsli, Hannah covers the Berlin Olympic Games while gathering Nazi secrets for the British. When her mentor dies at the Olympic Stadium, Hannah must discover who killed him and get his secret information out of Germany.)
Casey, Jane -- The Burning $14.99 (Maeve Kerrigan #1: Four women have been beaten to death and burned in London parks. A fifth murder is blamed on the same killer, but the investigation leaves DC Maeve Kerrigan with doubts. Serial killer or not, she's determined to find the culprit.)
Castle, Richard -- Heat Rises $9.99 (Nikki Heat #3: The murder of a parish priest at a NYC bondage club leads homicide detective Nikki Heat to a drug lord, a CIA contractor, and a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of the NYPD. There's no one she can trust - except reporter Jameson Rook.)
Cates, Bailey -- Brownies and Broomsticks $7.99 (Magical Bakery #1: PBO; Helping her aunt and uncle open a bakery in downtown Savannah is a great opportunity for Katie, but she soon learns that her aunt's peculiar recipes are actually witchcraft. And when her uncle becomes a murder suspect, it'll take a little investigative magic to clear his name.)
Ceder, Camilla -- Frozen Moment $14.95 (In a small town on the Swedish coast, Inspector Christian Tell investigates the brutal murder of a garage owner while trying to maintain a professional distance from an attractive reporter.)
Chambers, Clem -- Kusanagi $14.95 (The priceless coronation sword of the Japanese crown jewels is missing, sending three separate men on a quest for the sword and the riches that await the one who finds it.)
Coes, Ben -- Coup d'etat $9.99 (Dewey Andreas #2: With war threatening to engulf Pakistan and India, the White House has a mission for Dewey Andreas: remove the Pakistani president from power.)
Collins, Paul -- The Murder of the Century $16.00 (Nonfiction; 1897: A perplexing murder in NYC turned into a media circus, and an unlikely trio - a cop, a cub reporter, and a professor - raced to solve it. What emerged was a sensational love triangle and an even more sensational capital murder trial.) Connelly, Michael -- The Fifth Witness $9.99 (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.)
Delany, Vicki -- Gold Mountain $17.99 (Klondike #3: 1897: The villainous Paul Sheridan intends to marry Fiona McGillivray. Fiona wants no part of these plans. When Sheridan refuses to take no for an answer, Fiona must rely on Corporal Sterling, her son Angus, and an assortment of headstrong townsfolk to help thwart his scheme.)
DeMille, Nelson -- The Lion $9.99 (John Corey #5: Notorious Libyan terrorist Asad Khali has returned to the US; anti-terrorist agent John Corey will stop at nothing to find and kill him.)
Dietrich, William -- The Emerald Storm $25.99 (Ethan Gage #5: Swashbuckling hero Ethan Gage must race from the slopes of the Alps to the tropics of the Caribbean to pursue a mysterious Spanish treasure as the fate of England - and of the world's first successful slave revolt, in Haiti - hang in the balance.)
DiSilverio, Laura -- All Sales Fatal $7.99 (Mall Cop #2: PBO; When half the security cameras are sabotaged and a murdered teenager is found just outside the mall entrance, mall cop E.J. Ferris has to catch a killer, or get put on layaway for good.)
Doherty, P.C. -- The Mysterium $25.99 (Hugh Corbett #17: London, 1304: Accused of bribery and corruption, the Chief Justice of the Court of the King's Bench has sought sanctuary to atone for his sins. When he is found dead in his abbey cell, Sir Hugh Corbett investigates.)
Donally, Claire -- The Big Kitty $7.99 (Sunny & Shadow #1: PBO; Sunny left her NYC newspaper job to take care of her ailing father in Maine. Once there, she and her feline friend Shadow investigate the murder of the local cat lady, whose missing lottery ticked is worth millions.)
Downing, David -- Lehrter Station $25.00 (John Russell #5: Paris, November 1945: Soviet agent Yevgeny Shchepkin and John Russell are entangled in a Soviet intelligence net. Their only way out is to come up with something important enough to make a deal with the Americans.)
Dugoni, Robert -- Murder One $7.99 (David Sloane #4: Barclay Reid was opposing counsel in Sloane's most prominent case. When she's accused of murdering a Russian drug dealer she blamed for her daughter's overdose death, she chooses Sloane to defend her.)
Ellison, J.T. -- A Deeper Darkness $14.95 (PBO; Medical examiner Samantha Owens is asked by an old boyfriend's mother to provide a second forensic opinion on her son's death. Officially he's the victim of a vicious carjacking, but under Sam's sharp eye, the body tells a darker story.)
Fairstein, Linda -- Silent Mercy $9.99 (Alexandra Cooper #13: When young women are decapitated, set on fire, and left burning on the steps of two different Manhattan churches, prosecutor Alex Cooper investigates.)
Fowler, Earlene -- Spider Web $7.99 (Benni Harper #15: When the Memory Festival craft fair is disrupted by a mysterious sharpshooter who seems to be targeting the police, Benni is determined to make her hometown safe.)
Gibbins, David -- Atlantis God $9.99 (Marine archaeologist Jack Howard and his team return to the lost island of Atlantis, about to uncover a surprising link to the 1930s expeditions of the Nazis' Department of Cultural Heritage. But shadowy figures from Jack's past are joining forces, and they have their own ghastly vision for a new Atlantis.) Glatt, John -- Love Her to Death $7.99 (PBO; Nonfiction; enraged by the terms of his divorce, a Reno millionaire stabs his ex-wife, goes after the judge with a gun, and heads for Mexico.)
Goldberg, Lee -- Mr. Monk on Patrol $7.99 (Monk #13: When the local government of Summit, NJ, is hit by a string of arrests, Chief of Police Randy Disher finds himself acting as mayor, and calls on Adrian Monk to serve as a temporary policeman.)
Goldenbaum, Sally -- The Wedding Shawl $15.00 (Seaside Knitters #5: When the hair stylist for Izzy's wedding party misses appointments and then turns up dead, the Seaside Knitters rally to find some answers.)
Goldenbaum, Sally -- A Fatal Fleece $24.95 (Seaside Knitters #6: The death of a local fisherman has the Seaside Knitters casting their net for a killer, before knitter Cass Halloran ends up behind bars.)
Grabenstein, Chris -- Rolling Thunder $14.95 (John Ceepak #6: Straight-arrow cop John Ceepak and his wisecracking young partner Danny Boyle investigate the deaths of a prominent citizen and a young beach beauty in a seedy seaside New Jersey town.) Grabenstein, Chris -- Fun House $25.00 (John Ceepak #7: Straight-arrow cop John Ceepak and his wisecracking young partner Danny Boyle are assigned to babysit the cast of a TV reality show, and try to keep the rowdy kids from breaking the law. Then a cast member is murdered, and others are threatened with the same fate.)
Gran, Sara -- Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead $13.95 (Claire DeWitt #1: Brilliant, unconventional, pot-smoking PI Claire DeWitt arrives in post-Katrina New Orleans to search for missing prosecutor Vic Willing. Has an angry criminal exacted revenge? Or did Vic take advantage of the storm to disappear?)
Graves, Sarah -- Dead Level $26.00 (Home Repair is Homicide #15: Jake and her friend Ellie are headed for the woods to do some repairs at the cabin. But escaped convict Dewey Hooper has fled to the woods, and seeing Jake - whose testimony led to his murder conviction - has him looking for a way to make revenge look like an accident.)
Greaves, Chuck -- Hush Money $24.99 (Jack MacTaggart is assigned to handle an insurance claim on behalf of a wealthy socialite, whose champion show horse has died unexpectedly. The attending veterinarian confides that the horse's death was anything but natural, leading Jack into the high-stakes world of professional show-jumping, and down a path to romance, intrigue, and an old blackmail scheme that further implicates his client. Then another body turns up - and this one is human.)
Gross, Andrew -- The Dark Tide $9.99 (Ty Hauck #1: Reissue; A tragic death and a suspicious hit-and-run plunge a beautiful widow and determined detective Ty Hauck into a maelstrom of murder, missing money, and international conspiracy.)
Gross, Andrew -- Don't Look Twice $9.99 (Ty Hauck #2: Reissue; When a drive-by shooting rocks posh Greenwich, CT, leaving an innocent bystander dead, detective Ty Hauck follows the trail to an upstate casino then back to Greenwich's wealthy.)
Hamilton, Victoria -- A Deadly Grind $7.99 (Vintage Kitchen #1: PBO; Vintage cookware and cookbook collector Jaymie Leighton buys an original 1920s Hoosier brand kitchen cabinet at an auction. But that night, on the porch where she left the Hoosier, a man is murdered, struck on the head with part of the cabinet. Who is this stranger? And is his death connected to the Hoosier?) Harris, Charlaine -- Deadlocked $27.95 (Southern Vampire #12: A body has shown up in Eric Northman's front yard - the body of a woman whose blood he just drank. It's up to Sookie and Bill, the official Area Five investigator, to solve the murder. Sookie thinks the dead girl's fate has nothing to do with her, but she's wrong - a devious enemy is out to make Sookie's world come crashing down.)
Henshaw, Mark -- Red Cell $24.99 (Two CIA outcasts, rookie agent Kyra Stryker and unorthodox analyst Jonathan Burke, must race to stop a secret Chinese weapon that threatens to provoke a world war.)
Howard, Linda -- Prey $7.99 (In the Montana wilderness, rival hunting guides Angie Powell and Dare Callahan must deal with a blinding storm - and a growing attraction - while evading a cold-blooded killer and an angry bear.)
Indridason, Arnaldur -- Operation Napoleon $15.00 (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.)
Isaacs, Susan -- As Husbands Go $7.99 (When her plastic surgeon husband is found murdered in an escort's apartment, Susie Gersten sets out to prove that her wonderful marriage wasn't a lie. With help from her tough-talking grandma, she takes on her in-laws, her husband's partners, the NYPD, and the DA.)
Jacobson, Douglas W. -- The Katyn Order $16.95 (1944: During the Warsaw Uprising, a resistance fighter and a covert operative hunt for the 1940 Soviet order authorizing the murders of 20,000 Polish army officers and civilians. If they can find it before the Russians do, they just might change the fate of Poland.)
James, Bill -- Popular Crime: Reflections on the Celebration of Violence $15.00 (Nonfiction; a look at how crimes have been committed, investigated, prosecuted, and chronicled, and how that has influenced our culture, from the 1600s to the present day)
Jance, J.A. -- Betrayal of Trust $9.99 (J.P. Beaumont #20: When she discovers that her teenage grandson has a snuff film on his phone, the governor of Washington asks old friend J.P. Beaumont to investigate.)
Jecks, Michael -- King's Gold $8.99 (Knights Templar #30: 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.)
Johnson, Craig -- Hell Is Empty $14.00 (Walt Longmire #7: Longmire pursues a group of escaped murderers into the icy hell of Wyoming's Cloud Peak Wilderness Area.)
Kagen, Lesley -- Good Graces $15.00 (Sally & Troo #2: 1960: When a series of disquieting events unfold in their Milwaukee neighborhood - home burglaries, the escape of a nemesis from reform school, and the mysterious disappearance of an orphan - the crimes may involve the increasingly rebellious Troo. Sally must try once again, as she promised her daddy on his deathbed, to keep Troo safe.)
Kellerman, Jonathan -- Mystery $9.99 (Alex Delaware #26: LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis turns to Alex for psychological insight into a mutilation murder; Alex is shocked to discover he'd seen the victim not long before her death.)
Kelly, Sofie -- Copycat Killing $7.99 (Magical Cats #3: PBO; Too much rain has left the local artists' co-op on the verge of flooding. When a mask-maker is found drowned in the basement, Kathleen suspects it wasn't accidental. With the help of detective Marcus Gordon, and her cats' extraordinary powers, it's up to Kathleen to unmask the killer.)
Kennedy, Elle -- Midnight Rescue $7.99 (Killer Instincts #1: PBO; Abby Sinclair was raised by an Army Ranger. Now she's an assassin, assigned to snuff an arms dealer. When the sting goes wrong, merc Kane Woodland is recruited as backup. But their unexpected attraction could put them both at risk.)
Kleier, Glenn -- The Knowledge of Good & Evil $7.99 (A defrocked priest embarks on an epic odyssey through the afterlife in search of answers to life's Ultimate Question.)
Koomson, Dorothy -- The Ice Cream Girls $14.99 (Teenagers Poppy and Serena, the only witnesses to a teacher's murder, soon became suspects. Poppy was convicted and sent to prison; Serena was set free. Years later, Poppy is keen to set the record straight about what really happened. Meanwhile, Serena wants no one to discover the events of her past.)
Kramer, Julie -- Killing Kate $7.99 (Riley Spartz #4: A killer who draws chalk outlines of angels around his victims and a local legend lead investigative reporter Riley Spartz to the infamous Black Angel monument in an Iowa cemetery - and to a graveyard confrontation.) Kuhns, Eleanor -- A Simple Murder $24.99 (Winner of the Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel competition. 1796: The search for his runaway son leads traveling weaver Will Rees to a Shaker settlement in Maine, where one of the elders asks him to investigate a young woman's murder.)
Lackberg, Camilla -- The Stonecutter $25.95 (Patrik Hedstrom #3: In the Swedish resort town of Fjallbacka, a little girl's body is found in a fisherman's net. Detective Patrik Hedstrom has just become a father, and it's his grim task to find the killer of this child he knew well.)
Lane, Andrew -- Rebel Fire $16.99 (Young Sherlock #2: YA; 1868: 14-year-old Sherlock Holmes didn't expect to find assassin John Wilkes Booth alive and well in England, and Sherlock's American tutor somehow mixed up in it. The search for the truth will take Sherlock across the Atlantic, where a friend is in peril and a defeated army threatens to rise again. )
Larson, Erik -- In the Garden of Beasts $16.00 (Nonfiction; Berlin, 1933: An academic from Chicago becomes US ambassador to Germany, where he and his family observe the many changes - some horrifically violent - that signal Hitler's consolidation of power.) Lewis, Simon -- Border Run $22.00 (On the China-Burma border, two British backpackers discover their guide is a smuggler. A confrontation with a customs official escalates to murder, and trying to cover up the crime only leads to more trouble.)
Lin, Ed -- One Red Bastard $25.99 (Robert Chow #3: 1976: New York's Chinatown is in turmoil over the news that Mao's daughter is seeking asylum in the US. When his girlfriend Lonnie gets to interview the woman's Chinese representative, trainee detective Robert Chow is thrilled. But hours after the interview, the man is found dead, and Lonnie is the main suspect.)
Lippman, Laura -- The Most Dangerous Thing $14.99 (They were all the best of friends, but over the years they grew apart - and the memory of the terrible lie they shared faded as well. But when the ne'er-do-well of their little gang dies, they are suddenly thrown together again. And then the revelations start. Has their secret been discovered? And is one of the group out to destroy the others?)
Lupton, Rosamund -- Afterwards $25.00 (The school was on fire, and Grace's last memory is of trying to reach her daughter Jenny. When they awaken in the hospital, they learn that someone set the fire, and Jenny might still be in danger. Grace realizes she may be the only one who can discover the culprit.)
Mawer, Simon -- Trapeze $15.95 (WWII: A native speaker of French, 19-year-old Marian Sutro is eager to do her bit for the British war effort. Recruited by the SOE, given commando and espionage training, and parachuted into France, she is sent to Paris to ask a friend - a research physicist - to join the Allied war effort. The outcome could affect the whole course of the war.)
McGee, James -- Hawkwood $25.95 (1811: Ordered to investigate the double murder of a coachman and a naval courier, Bow Street Runner Matthew Hawkwood wonders about the high-level interest in this ordinary case. Then another body is discovered, revealing ties to a Napoleonic plot against Britain.)
McGill, Bernie -- The Butterfly Cabinet $14.00 (Maddie McGlade, a former nanny, realizes that the time has come to unburden herself of a decades-old secret: what really happened on the last day in the life of Charlotte Ormond, the 4-year-old only daughter of the house where Maddie worked.)
McPherson, Catriona -- Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains $14.99 (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.)
Meade, Amy Patricia -- Don't Die Under the Apple Tree $7.99 (Rosie the Riveter #1: PBO; Rosie Keefe can handle working in NYC's WWII shipyards - until her foreman ends up murdered just hours after Rosie had a fight with him. Police Lt. Jack Riordan believes Rosie is innocent, but his captain has given him just five days to produce another suspect, or arrest Rosie.)
Morson, Ian -- A Deadly Injustice $15.95 (Nick Zuliani #2: Cathay, 1268: Nick Zuliani, Venetian adventurer and newly appointed Investigator to the Mongol Emperor, is sent to investigate a murder in a remote town, but soon realizes that he has been sent on an impossible mission by a deadly rival. If Nick uncovers the truth, he risks undermining the local governor, with terrible diplomatic consequences. He will have to use all his wiles to escape the trap laid for him.)
Myers, Tamar -- The Boy Who Stole the Leopard's Spots $14.99 (Amanda Brown #3: Belgian Congo, 1950s: Once when his life was in danger, Monsignor Clemente participated in a native ritual whose evil still haunts him. One person knew of his secret shame. Now that person is dead and Monsignor Clemente is suspected of the crime. With help from young American missionary Amanda Brown, police chief Captain Pierre Jardin, and the local Witch Doctor and his wise-woman wife Cripple, the Monsignor must clear his name and identify the real killer.)
Nadel, Barbara -- Dead of Night $24.95 (Inspector Ikmen #14: Istanbul inspectors Ikmen and Suleyman are sent to a policing conference in Detroit. When an elderly man of Turkish descent approaches them to crack his son's long-unsolved murder, the pair find themselves immersed in a world of intergang drug wars and racial prejudice, and in mortal danger.)
O'Donohue, Clare -- Life Without Parole $15.00 (Kate Conway #2: Kate is working on a documentary about lifers in an Illinois prison, and a reality show about the opening of a new restaurant - one backed by her dead husband's mistress Vera. When Vera becomes the chief suspect in another investor's murder, Kate relies on the minds of death row killers to help her solve the case.)
O'Shaughnessy, Perri -- Dreams of the Dead $7.99 (Nina Reilly #13: A new client wants Nina to locate the remains of his son, who has been missing for nine years and is presumed dead. Nina suspects that her former investigator (and ex-lover) Paul van Wagoner may have had something to do with the disappearance - and possibly the death.)
Page, Katherine Hall -- The Body in the Gazebo $7.99 (Faith Fairchild #19: After she learns that an elderly woman's illness stems from concern and fear over a dark family secret, Faith can't help being drawn into solving the decades-old murder.)
Page, Katherine Hall -- The Body in the Boudoir $23.99 (Faith Fairchild Prequel: 1990: Faith Sibley prepares to wed the love of her life, Thomas Fairchild - if she can survive a malefactor who's trying to disrupt the ceremony by doing away with the bride.)
Parker, R/Atkins, A -- Lullaby $26.95 (Spenser #40: 14-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Boston PI Spenser to look into her mother's death, pointing him to two toughs who were overlooked in the original investigation. Neither the Boston PD nor the hardened residents of Southie's housing projects are keen on his dredging up the past, but Spenser starts to realize that Mattie may be on to something - and it could get a lot more dangerous.)
Parris, S.J. -- Prophecy $15.95 (Giordano Bruno #2: 1583: Rumors of black magic abound after the murder of one of Queen Elizabeth's young maids of honor, but Bruno suspects a link to Catholic conspirators at the French Embassy)
Patterson, J/Paetro, M -- 11th Hour $27.99 (Women's Murder Club #11: A vigilante is killing San Francisco's high-ranking criminals - using a gun from the police evidence locker. And a pair of severed heads have just been found, elaborately displayed in a movie star's garden.)
Pendleton, Don (creator) -- Rebel Trade $5.99 (Executioner #402: PBO; Bolan goes after an African rebel group behind a murderous pirate attack on a US merchant vessel.)
Perry, Thomas -- The Informant $14.95 (Butcher's Boy #3: Elizabeth Waring, now high up in the Justice Dept., receives a surprise visit from the Butcher's Boy - a professional killer who went to ground years ago - offering information in exchange for her help in finding out who sent a Mafia hit team after him.)
Price, Charlie -- The Interrogation of Gabriel James $9.99 (YA; Edgar Award winner. Eyewitness to two killings, 14-year-old Gabriel relates the story behind the murders in a police interrogation interspersed with flashbacks.)
Pullman, Philip -- Two Crafty Criminals! And How They Were Captured by the Daring Detectives of the New Cut Gang $16.99 (Kids; London, 1894: 11-year-old Benny leads a ragtag gang of neighborhood children who use improbable disguises and crazy ruses to investigate cases involving counterfeit coins and stolen silver.)
Purser, Ann -- The Wild Wood Enquiry $7.99 (Ivy Beasley #3: PBO; Things are quiet at the Springfields Home for the Elderly until Gus' ex-wife shows up looking for a place to hide. With jewels missing and evidence of foul play, it looks like another job for Ivy and her team of amateur sleuths.)
Puzo, M/Falco, Ed -- The Family Corleone $27.99 (A prequel to The Godfather, inspired by a Puzo screenplay and written by Falco.)
Racey, Ian C. -- A Traitor's Loyalty $14.95 (1971: 25 years after Germany's victory in WWII, Hitler has just died. MI6 blackmails former spy Simon Quinn into returning to Berlin to track down a missing spy who is suspected of defecting.) Robertson, Craig -- Snapshot $9.99 (With a vigilante sniper terrorizing Glasgow, photographer Tony Winter begins tracing connections between the shootings. Then a schoolboy is badly beaten, and Winter realizes the assailant may be connected to the shootings.)
Rodriguez, Linda -- Every Last Secret $24.99 (Winner of the Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery competition. Fleeing stress, Skeet Bannion left the Kansas City PD to be chief of campus police in a small town. But she must track down a killer when the student editor of the college newspaper is murdered)
Runcie, James -- Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death $16.00 (Grantchester #1: 1953: Sidney Chambers, vicar of Grantchester and honorary canon of Ely Cathedral, is an unconventional clerical detective who can go where the police cannot. Together with Inspector Geordie Keating, Sidney inquires into the suspect suicide of a Cambridge solicitor, a jewelry theft at a New Year's Eve dinner party, the unexplained death of a jazz promoter's daughter, and an art forgery that puts a close friend in danger.) Sakey, Marcus -- The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes $15.00 (A man wakes up cold and naked on an isolated beach, unable to remember anything except a woman's face. He finds an empty BMW nearby, puts on the clothes he finds in it - which fit him perfectly - and sets out to find out if he is actually the man listed on the car's registration.)
Sandford, John -- Buried Prey $9.99 (Lucas Davenport #21: A house demolition turns up the bodies of two girls. They've been missing since 1985, when Davenport was a young Minneapolis cop investigating their disappearance - until his bosses declared the case closed.)
Sandford, John -- Buried Prey audiobook $19.95 (Lucas Davenport #21: A house demolition turns up the bodies of two girls. They've been missing since 1985, when Davenport was a young Minneapolis cop investigating their disappearance - until his bosses declared the case closed.)
Schwartz, Stephen Jay -- Beat $7.99 (Hayden Glass #2: LAPD detective Hayden Glass has found a new obsession - the internet. Infatuated with a woman he found on a website, his addiction drags him to San Francisco, and to a massive sex slave trade, run by the Russian mob and protected by corrupt cops.) Shepherd, Lynn -- The Solitary House (UK title: Tom-All-Alone's) $26.00 (London, 1850: Powerful financier Sir Julius Cremorne has been receiving threatening letters, and his attorney wants Charles Maddox to discreetly find and stop whoever is responsible. But what starts as a simple, open-and-shut case swiftly escalates into something bigger and much darker.)
Stephens, Jeffrey S. -- Targets of Opportunity $7.99 (Jordan Sandor #2: Sandor faces off with a top terrorist agent from Iran's Revolutionary Guard, who is offering the CIA explosive information of a secret alliance between operatives in the Middle East, a ruthless South American, and North Korea.)
Strange, Marc -- Follow Me Down $14.95 (Orwell Brennan #1: Small-town police chief Orwell Brennan investigates the murder of a man found pinned to a tree trunk with arrows.)
Strange, Marc -- Woman Chased by Crows $24.95 (Orwell Brennan #2: A Toronto police officer, in Dockerty to investigate a murder, is killed in his hotel room. He was about to interview a dance teacher, a former Russian ballet star with dark secrets in her past. The investigation uncovers a ring of shady pawnbrokers, crooked cops, and Russian thugs, all searching for a ruby once owned by the Tsarina.)
Stratmann, Linda -- The Poisonous Seed $14.95 (Frances Doughty #1: Victorian London: When her chemist fathers is accused of murder, Frances sets out to clear his name, armed with wit, courage, and determination, and aided by some unconventional new friends.)
Tanenbaum, Robert K. -- Outrage $9.99 (Butch Karp #23: When his wife discovers that his office has indicted the wrong man for murder, New York DA Butch Karp must go up against the NYPD to catch and then successfully prosecute the real killer.)
Thompson, E.V. -- Churchyard and Hawke $12.95 (Amos Hawke #2: After he is badly beaten while undercover in a London slum, Constable Tom Churchyard takes himself to Cornwall, where he becomes right-hand man to senior Cornish policeman Amos Hawke. Tom's knowledge of London rogues proves invaluable as they try to foil an gang of city thieves and solve a murder.)
Thompson, Victoria -- Murder on Sisters' Row $7.99 (Gaslight #13: 1890s: With the help of a charitable lady of means, midwife Sarah Brandt rescues a young woman and her baby from a brothel. When the benefactor is murdered, Sarah and NYPD Sgt. Frank Malloy investigate.) Thompson, Victoria -- Murder on Fifth Avenue $24.95 (Gaslight #14: Upper-class Felix Decker opposes his daughter Sarah's involvement with an Irish Catholic policeman. But when a member of the exclusive Knickerbocker Club is killed, Decker forms an uneasy alliance with Detective Sergeant Frank Malloy to discreetly solve the murder.)
Todd, Charles -- A Bitter Truth $14.99 (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.)
Ulfelder, Steve -- Purgatory Chasm $14.99 (Conway Sax #1: Car mechanic Conway Sax owes everything to the AA group that saved him. When an obnoxious member calls him for help, then turns up dead, Conway needs to catch the killer, not just to clear his own name, but to keep his promise to the dead man.) Ulfelder, Steve -- The Whole Lie $24.99 (Conway Sax #2: 7 years ago, Conway helped Savvy Kane disappear - but not before they had a sizzling affair. Now she's back with a 6- year-old son, claiming his father is billionaire Bert Saginaw. Bert wants to get into politics. Savvy wants to get paid. Conway wants nothing to do with either of them, but when Savvy is murdered, he's got no choice but to find the truth among the lies.)
Viets, Elaine -- Pumped for Murder $7.99 (Dead-End Job #10: When they open their own PI agency, Helen and Phil's first client is Shelby, who thinks her husband might be unfaithful. Helen gets a job at the gym to keep track of the suspected cheater.)
Viets, Elaine -- Final Sail $23.95 (Dead- End Job #11: To catch a jewel smuggler, Helen goes undercover as a stewardess on a private yacht.)
Weisman, John -- KBL: Kill Bin Laden $7.99 (A fictionalized account of how US Navy SEALs hunted down and assassinated Osama Bin Laden.)
Weiss, Jan Merete -- These Dark Things $14.00 (Natalia Monte #1: When a college student's corpse is discovered in the catacombs below Naples, Captain Natalia Monte of the Carabinieri finds links to collection boxes of Catholic shrines, a lecherous professor, and the criminals of the Camorra.)
Woodman, Richard -- A Ship for the King $15.95 (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 which side to fight for.)
Woodrell, Daniel -- Tomato Red $14.99 (Reissue; A dark noir novel set in Missouri, featuring 19-year-old Jamalee, her gorgeous gay brother Jason, and Sammy Barlach, a young man passing through West Table, who just may be their ticket out.)
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.)
Young, Felicity -- The Anatomy of Death $15.00 (After a heated women's rights rally results in the suspicious death of a suffragette, Dody McCleland, England's first female autopsy surgeon, is determined to uncover the cause of the death, earn the trust of Chief Detective Inspector Pike, and find the killer.)
Expected Mid May
Andrews, Donna -- The Real Macaw $7.99 (Meg Langslow #13: Meg's living room is full of animals. Financial woes have led the local shelter to repeal its no-kill policy, and a group led by her dad and granddad have stolen the shelter's animals. But the volunteer who was to transport the animals to new homes has been murdered.)
Berry, Steve -- The Columbus Affair $27.00 (Desperate to save his daughter from a ruthless zealot, disgraced journalist Tom Sagan finds himself on a perilous quest from Florida to Prague to Jamaica in search of a treasure that will change everything we know about Christopher Columbus.)
Blake, Robin -- A Dark Anatomy $24.99 (1740: When a Lancashire squire's wife is found in the woods, her throat slashed, coroner Titus Craig enlists the help of astute young doctor Luke Fidelis to throw light on the case.) Bohman, Therese -- Drowned $14.95 (On a summertime visit to her older sister in the idyllic Swedish countryside, a young woman falls under the spell of her sister's husband, a writer who is both charismatic and violent.)
Casey, Jane -- The Reckoning $24.99 (Maeve Kerrigan #2: Two sex offenders who have served their time have been tortured and killed. Is someone trying his own hand at justice? DC Maeve Kerrigan and DI Josh Derwent have their doubts, until they learn that their killer might be a mobster searching for his missing teenaged daughter.)
Collins, Max Allan -- Bye Bye, Baby $7.99 (Nate Heller #15: 1962: Hired by Marilyn Monroe to tap her phone so she'll have a record of calls from her studio if they decide to sue her, PI Nate Heller ends up investigating when the movie star winds up dead of a convenient overdose.)
Cotterill, Colin -- Killed at the Whim of a Hat $14.99 (Jimm Juree #1: Crime reporter Jimm Juree thinks her career is over when her family relocates to a small village on the Thai coast. But when a van containing skeletal remains is found, and the abbot at a local Buddhist temple is murdered, she'll need luck and the help of her entire oddball family to unravel the mysteries.)
DeSilva, Bruce -- Cliff Walk $24.99 (Liam Mulligan #2: At first there appears to be no connection between the discovery of a child's severed arm in the garbage of a pig farm and the murder of an internet pornographer. But as investigative reporter Liam Mulligan digs into Rhode Island's thriving sex business, strange connections emerge. Promised free sex with hookers if he minds his own business - and a beating if he doesn't - Mulligan enlists Thanks-Dad, the newspaper publisher's son, and Attila the Nun, the state's colorful Attorney General, in his quest for the truth.)
Friedman, Daniel -- Don't Ever Get Old $24.99 (Buck Schatz #1: When Buck, an 87-year-old retired Memphis cop, learns that an old adversary may have escaped Germany with a fortune in stolen gold, he decides to hunt down the fugitive and claim the loot. His investigation quickly attracts unfriendly attention from a Mississippi loan shark, a 7' tall Hasidic Jew, and a bloodthirsty maniac)
Golemon, David L. -- Legacy $7.99 (Event Group #6: When NASA uncovers billion-year-old skeletal remains on the moon, the flames of fundamentalism threaten to engulf the world. The Event Group sets out to explain the ancient visitor, or at least keep the planet from descending into chaos.)
Haddam, Jane -- Flowering Judas $7.99 (Gregor Demarkian #26: 12 years ago, Chester Morton disappeared. His mother has kept the search alive - and now his corpse, recently killed, has turned up in his hometown. The local police turn to former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian to unravel the truth.)
Hamill, Pete -- Tabloid City $14.99 (In the 24 hours after a wealthy socialite and her secretary are murdered, an NYC tabloid stops the presses, a cop investigates the killings, a reporter chases the story, a disgraced financier flees the country, a veteran seeks revenge, and a young extremist plots catastrophe.)
Hamrick, Janice -- Death on Tour $7.99 (Jocelyn Shore #1: Winner of the Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel competition. After a member of their group takes a fatal fall off an Egyptian pyramid, Texas teacher Jocelyn Shore discovers her fellow travelers are not always what they claim to be - and one of them may be a murderer.)
Hughes, Dorothy B. -- The Expendable Man $16.95 (Reissue; Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother's Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is educated, civilized, and privileged. Why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him so? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why, when she is discovered dead in Arizona, is he the first person the police suspect? )
Jakubowski, Maxim (ed) -- The Mammoth Book of Best British Mysteries 9 $13.95 (Anthology; stories from leading UK crime writers, ranging from noir and hardboiled to ingenious puzzles and amateur sleuths.)
Johnson, Craig -- As the Crow Flies $25.95 (Walt Longmire #8: A trip to the Cheyenne Reservation to find a site for his daughter's wedding turns horrific when Wyoming sheriff Walt Longmire sees a young woman plummeting from Painted Warrior's cliffs. It's not Walt's turf, but newly appointed tribal police chief Lolo Long talks him into helping with the investigation.)
Land, Jon -- Strong at the Break $7.99 (Caitlin Strong #3: The search for a missing boy takes Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong to a militia compound run by a man whose father died in a gunfight with Strong's father.) McPherson, Catriona -- Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder $24.99 (Dandy Gilver #6: 1927: When a department store heiress goes missing, aristocratic amateur sleuth Dandy Gilver is summoned to Dunfermline, where two warring families run rival stores. As she starts to unravel family secrets, she finds disturbing connections.)
Patterson, James -- Kill Alex Cross $14.99 (Alex Cross #18: The US President's son and daughter have been abducted. Detective Alex Cross is one of the first on the scene, but someone very high up is using the FBI, Secret Service, and CIA to keep him off the case and in the dark.)
Pressfield, Steven -- The Profession $15.00 (2032: After the commander of the world's largest mercenary army launches a campaign to take over the US, his top commando faces the most challenging mission of his career: taking out his mentor.)
Robotham, Michael -- The Wreckage $13.99 (Someone is bombing the banks of Baghdad. An international financier has vanished. Ex-cop Vincent Ruiz has his briefcase stolen on a London street. As he tracks down the thieves, it becomes clear that he was mistaken for someone else. And that these seemingly unrelated events are connected.)
Rosenfelt, David -- One Dog Night $14.99 (Andy Carpenter #09: Five years ago, Matt Stark took a golden retriever puppy to a shelter, and Andy Carpenter adopted her. When Matt is accused of murder, his wife hires Andy to defend him.)
Rucka, Greg -- Alpha $24.99 (Jad Bell #1: When terrorists target a summer theme park, undercover Delta Force Master Sergeant Jad Bell scrambles to assess the threat and protect the visitors - and finds himself up against a villain whose training matches his in every way.)
Sandford, John -- Stolen Prey $27.95 (Lucas Davenport #22: In Deephaven, MN, an entire family has been killed - husband, wife, two daughters, dogs. It looks an awful lot like the kind of retribution Lucas has seen in drug killings, but the husband was a banker. It just doesn't seem to fit. Until it does - and leads Lucas into the darkest nightmare of his life.)
Stevens, Chevy -- Never Knowing $14.99 (34- year-old Sara Gallagher sets out to find her birth parents, only to learn that her biological father is a serial killer who has been hunting women for over 30 years. And now he's found out about her.)
Wilson, F. Paul -- Nightworld $24.99 (The holes appear, the first in Central Park, near the apartment where Repairman Jack and a man as old as time watch with growing dread. At sundown, the first unearthly, hungry creatures appear. Jack and Glaeken search the Secret History to gather a ragtag army for a last stand against the Otherness)