July...

• Collusion
  Author: Abott, Jeff
  Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780525950288 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Collision is the story of two men living very different lives -one, a successful corporate consultant who is mourning the murder of his new bride; the other, a former CIA agent known only as Pilgrim, a whose current assignment for a fringe espionage agency is so treacherous he doesn't trust even his own boss. When they are thrown together in a violent, unexpected event, the two men realize that theyave been framed in an elaborate setup. Unsure who to trust and who may just be trying to draw them into the open, the unlikely partners have no choice but to work together. But with everything at stake, Ben has no idea that Pilgrim is harboring some shocking secrets of his ownasecrets that will soon force Ben to confront just how blurred the line has become between best friends and bitter enemies. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• Lemur
  Author: Black, Benjamin
  Publisher: Picador $ 13 ISBN: 9780312428082 Date: 2008
  PW
  An Irish journalist in New York finds himself in the center of a murder case that may lead back to his billionaire father-in-law, in the first stand-alone thriller from the Booker Prize-wining author of The Sea and Christine Falls.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Deceived
  Author: Battles, Brett
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 24 ISBN: 9780385341578 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Jonathan Quinn returns in this new suspense novel that takes readers on a thrilling, pulse-pounding journey from the author who draws comparisons to Robert Ludlum and Raymond Chandler.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Hit and Run: Keller
  Author: Block, Lawrence
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780060840907 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Fingered for a murder he didn't commit, a hit man goes on the run to save his life in this stunning new work from the "New York Times"-bestselling master of mystery.
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• Singularity
  Author: Casey, Kathryn
  Publisher: Minotuar $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312379506 Date: 2008
  Booklist PW
  Profiler Sarah Armstrong knows what it's like to be in a sticky situation. As a single mother and one of the few female Rangers in Texas history, she has had to work twice as hard to rank among the best cops in the Lone Star State. But when megawealthy businessman Edward Lucas III is found murdered along with his mistress, their bodies posed in grotesque ways, Sara quickly senses that this will be the deadliest case of her career. While others focus the investigation on Lucas's estranged wife, Sarah disagrees and hunts a suspect only she believes in. Yet nothing in her career could have prepared her for the horror of a young man who believes he has been sent from heaven to massacre innocent people. When Sarah picks up on the killer's elusive trail, following his scent all over Texas, the psychopath makes her his next target. And as Sarah closes in, the madman sets his sights on all she holds dear. Singularity features a feisty, funny, and tough heroine and a truly creepy killer, as it races along to a chilling and unexpected climax. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• The Palace
  Author: Carter, Stephen H.
  Publisher: Random $ 26.95 ISBN: 9780307266583 Date: 2008
  Booklist PW Kirkus
  "USA Today" hailed Carter's last novel as the perfect summer read. Now the bestselling author of New England White is back with a gripping political thriller set in the era of Watergate and Vietnam.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• The Paths of the AIr
  Author: Clare, Alys
  Publisher: Severn $ 28.95 ISBN: 9780727866363 Date: 2008
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  Updated 6.18.08
  
• The Legal Limit
  Author: Clark, Martin
  Publisher: Knopf $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780307268358 Date: 2008
  Kirkus Booklist
  Clark's most remarkable novel yet is the gripping, complex story of a murder cover-up that wreaks widespread havoc even as it redefines the concept of justice--a relentlessly entertaining saga that delves deeply into matters at once ambiguous and essential.
  Updated 4.28.08
  
• The Drifter's Wheel: Fever Devilin
  Author: Depoy, Phillip
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312362034 Date: 2008
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  Fever Devilin, a folklorist by trade, has returned to his hometown in the Georgia Appalachians seeking peace of mind. But oddness follows Fever wherever he goes, and he finds himself attempting to unravel a most perplexing case before death comes to his door.
  Updated 4.28.08
  
• Findings
  Author: Evans, Mary Anna
  Publisher: Poisoned Pen $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781590584835 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Faye Longchamp is overjoyed to be paid to do archaeological work she would have done anyway, excavating a site that was once her family's. That joy ends abruptly when intruders kill a dear friend, and steal Faye's field notes. How is her fieldwork connected to her friend's death?
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• The Trophy Exchange: Lucinda Pierce
  Author: Fanning, Diane
  Publisher: Severn 27.95 $ ISBN: 9780727866356 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  A fast-paced thriller introducing an unforgettable heroine - Homicide Investigator Lucinda Pierce is physically and emotionally scarred by her job. She is angry and bitter, but her life is her work. Lucinda gets sent to investigate the brutal killing of Dr Kathleen Spencer. There seem to be links with other dead women: could it be the work of a serial killer? And will Lucinda be able to solve it or has she become too emotionally involved this time?
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Black Seconds
  Author: Fossum, Karin
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 24 ISBN: 9780151015276 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  When a young girl disappears, suspicion immediately falls on a local character who lives alone and hasn't spoken since childhood. As the media frenzy surrounding the case begins, Inspector Konrad Sejer steps in. But he's puzzled--this is the strangest case he's seen in years.
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• The Likeness
  Author: French, Tana
  Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780670018864 Date: 2008
  Booklist PW
  The eagerly anticipated follow-up to the New York Times bestselling psychological thriller In the Woods. Six months after the events of In the Woods, Detective Cassie Maddox is still trying to recover. Another gripping psychological thriller featuring the headstrong protagonist weave come to love, from an author who has proven that she can deliver. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Separate from the World: An Ohio Amish Mystery
  Author: Gaus, P.L.
  Publisher: Ohio Univ $ 24.95/12.95 ISBN: 978082141847/8154 Date: 2008
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  Updated 7.14.08
  
• Siren of the Waters
  Author: Genelin, Michael
  Publisher: Soho $ 24 ISBN: 9781569474846 Date: 2008
  LJ
  "A terrific novel by a man who knows crime, knows Europe, and knows how to write. Siren of the Waters is a genuine pleasure."--Thomas Perry, author of Silence
  Jana Matinova entered the Czechoslovak police force as a young woman, married an actor, and became a mother. The regime destroyed her husband, their love for one another, and her daughter's respect for her. But she has never stopped being a seeker of justice. Now, as a commander in the Slovak police force, she liaises with colleagues across Europe as they track the mastermind of an international criminal operation involved in, among other crimes, human trafficking. Her investigation takes her from Ukraine to Strasbourg, from Vienna to Nice, in a hunt for a ruthless killer and the beautiful young Russian woman he is determined either to capture or destroy. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 6.2.08
• A Patent Lie
  Author: Goldstein, Paul
  Publisher: Doubleday $ I24.95 SBN: 9780385517188 Date: 2008
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  Michael Seeley (Errors and Omissions) is asked by his estranged brother, a doctor in California, to take on a suit for patent infringement on an AIDS vaccine, Seeley soon finds out the financial stakes are so staggering that murder can scarcely be ruled out as a hardball tactic.
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• Rock & Roll Never Forgets
  Author: Grabien, Deborah
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312379995 Date: 2008
  LJ
  The last thing the members of Hall of Fame rock & roll band Blacklight need to hear is that ruthless tabloid biographer Perry Dillon is planning a tell-all history of their group. The issue hits hardest for English ex-pat guitarist JP Kinkaid; with his history of heroin addiction and deportation, his estranged wife, and his long-term relationship with a girl he met when she was a teenager, JP has the most to lose. Dealing with his multiple sclerosis doesn't make things any easier.
  When he sits down with Dillon, JP's main concern is to preserve both his own privacy and that of Bree Godwin, his fiercely protective longtime girlfriend. But it's obvious from the first question that Dillon is digging deep. And he's not planning to stop until he hits rock bottom. Dillon's looking for trouble, the kind of trouble that garners publicity and sells books. What he finds is the kind of trouble someone will go to any length to cover up, and that includes murder.
  Opening night at Madison Square Garden encores with a corpse in JP's dressing room, leaving Blacklight in the middle of a media frenzy---and Bree as homicide lieutenant Patrick Ormand's prime suspect. Rock & Roll Never Forgets, the first JP Kinkaid mystery, offers an all-access pass to how musicians work, live, and love. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 6.2.08
  
• The Fourth Watcher
  Author: Hallinan, Timothy
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780061257254 Date: 2008
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  Travel writer Poke Rafferty is ready to let go of his "Looking for Trouble" series of travel books and the dangerous lifestyle that goes with it, and settle down in Bangkok with his fiancee, Rose, and his newly adopted daughter, Miaow. But trouble isn't ready to let go of Poke. Enter the one person Poke least wants to see in the entire world--a person whose emotional hold on Poke is absolute. With him come a box of rubies, a wad of fraudulent identity papers, and--in pursuit of those things--one of the most dangerous gangsters in China.
  Add to that Rose's innocent involvement in a North Korean counterfeiting operation and an off-the-tracks agent of the American Secret Service who's dying to put Poke behind bars, and Poke and his family find themselves in a complicated and potentially deadly situation. Getting them all out alive will take every skill Poke has.
  Once again, Hallinan has created a complex, emotionally satisfying thriller with edge-of-your-seat suspense and a cast of characters so real you'll feel you know them. Sharp as a razor and full of heart-pounding surprises, The Fourth Watcher firmly establishes Hallinan as a brilliant new voice in the world of suspense. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 5.12.08
• The Silver Bear
  Author: Haas, Derek
  Publisher: Norton $ 24 ISBN: 9781933648446 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  The Silver Bear offers an intense psychological portrait of a hitman--the anti-Jason Bourne--as he stalks his prey from Boston to LA.
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• Easy Innocence
  Author: Hellman, Libby Fischer
  Publisher: Big Earth $ 24.95/14.95 ISBN: 9781932557664/7671 Date: 2008
  LJ
  When pretty, smart Sara Long is found bludgeoned to death, it's easy to blame the man with the bat. But Georgia Davis, former cop and newly-minted PI, is hired to look into the incident at the behest of the accused's sister, and what she finds hints at a much different, much darker answer. It seems the privileged, preppy schoolgirls on Chicago's North Shore have learned just how much their innocence is worth to hot-under-the-collar businessmen. But while these girls can pay for Prada pricetags, they don't realize that their new business venture may end up costing them more than they can afford.
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• Handbags and Homicide: Haley Randolph
  Author: Howell, Dorothy
  Publisher: Kensington $ 22 ISBN: 9780758223746 Date: 2008
  PW
  Fashionistas take note: Dorothy Howell's delightful Handbags and Homicide dangles shopping to die for and a murder in store in a breezy debut mystery as sure to please as a Notorious handbag--Carolyn Hart.
  Updated 5.12.08
  
• The DIrty Secrets
  Author: Gardiner, Meg
  Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780525950660 Date: 2008
  LJ
  The writer Stephen King trumpets as the next suspense superstar presents this new series that features heroine Jo Beckett. Investigating a series of suicides, Jo finds they are all part of the Dirty Secrets Club, a group of A-listers with nothing but money and plenty to hide.
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• Volk's Shadow
  Author: Ghelfi, Brent
  Publisher: Holt $ 25 ISBN: 9780805082555 Date: 2008
  LJ
  An international cabal drives Volk back to blood-soaked Chechnya, where he confronts an old nemesis and reunites with his lost love, in this gripping sequel to the acclaimed series debut.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Another Man's Mocassins
  Author: Johnson, Craig
  Publisher: Viking $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780670018611 Date: 2008
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  Walt Longmire unravels a mystery that connects two murders across forty years When the body of a young Vietnamese woman is found alongside the interstate in Absaroka County, Wyoming, Sherriff Walt Longmire is determined to discover the identity of the victim and is forced to confront the horrible similarities of this murder to that of his first homicide investigation as a marine in Vietnam.
  To complicate matters, Virgil White Buffalo, a homeless Crow Indian, is found living in a nearby culvert and in possession of the young womanas purse. There are only two problems with what appears to be an open-and-shut case. One, the sheriff doesnat think Virgil White Buffaloaa Vietnam vet with a troubling pastais a murderer. And two, the photo that is found in the womanas purse looks hauntingly familiar to Walt.
  In the fourth book in Craig Johnsonas awardwinning Walt Longmire series, the tough yet tender sheriff solves two murders tied in blood but separated by nearly forty years. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• The Shadow of Reichenbach Falls
  Author: King, John R.
  Publisher: Forge$ 25.95 ISBN: 9780765318015 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  One of the most infamous stories in the Sherlock Holmes canon is The Final Problem as it relates the facts of the death/murder of the master detective at Reichenbach Falls. King's work explores what really happened that infamous day and why Holmes disappeared in its aftermath.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Stalking Susan
  Author: Kramer, Julie
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 22.95 ISBN: 9780385524766 Date: 2008
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  Television reporter Riley Spartz is recovering from a heart-breaking, headline-making catastrophe of her own when a longtime police source drops two homicide files in her lap. Riley suspects a possible serial killer and stages a bold on-air stunt to draw him out.
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Still Waters
  Author: McCrery, Nigel
  Publisher: Random $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780307377036 Date: 2008
  Kirkus LJ
  Razor-sharp and mesmerizingly eerie--and with one of the most clever, ruthless, and sympathetic villains to appear in ages--Still Waters is a stunning start to an exciting new series.
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
  Author: Mcfetridge, John
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 25 ISBN: 9780151014422 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  Sharon MacDonald has a problem. It's not being under house arrest. It's not the Iranian guy who just fell from the twenty-fifth floor of her apartment building. It's not even the police surveillance that's preventing her from getting to her marijuana grow rooms. Sharon's problem is a stranger named Ray: He's too good looking, and his business proposal sounds too good to be true.
  Detective Gord Bergeron has problems, too. There's his new, hard-to-read partner, Detective Armstrong; a missing ten-year-old girl; an unidentified torso dumped in an alley; and what looks like corruption deep within the police force.
  In a city where the drug, immigration, and sex industries are all inextricably intertwined, it's only a matter of time until Sharon's and Gord's paths cross and all hell breaks loose in this pitch-perfect second installment of John McFetridge's rollicking noir series. - Publisher Marketing
  Updated 4.28.08
  
• What Was Lost
  Author: O'flynn, Catherine
  Publisher: Holt $ 14 ISBN: 9780805088335 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  Long-listed for the Booker Prize, the Orange Prize, and "The Guardian" First Book Award, What Was Lost is a tender and sharply observant debut novel about a missing young girl.
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Killer View
  Author: Pearson, Ridley
  Publisher: Putnam $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780399155055 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming returns in a stunning new thriller from the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of Killer Weekend. A terrific villain, an appealing protagonist, and breakneck pacing. . . . Ridley Pearson writes thrillers, the kind that try to yank you to the edge of your seat and keep you there.--"Boston Sunday Globe."
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Fidelity
  Author: Perry, Thomas
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 25 ISBN: 9780151012923 Date: 2008
  Booklist LJ
  When Phil Kramer is shot dead in the middle of the night, his wife is left with an emptied bank account and a lot of questions. Jerry Hobart has some questions of his own. Now that he's been ordered to take out Kramer's widow, he figures there's a bigger secret at work--and a bigger payoff.
  Updated 4.24.08
  
• Rules of Deception
  Author: Reich, Christopher
  Publisher: Bantam $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780805082555 Date: 2008
  LJ
  An international cabal drives Volk back to blood-soaked Chechnya, where he confronts an old nemesis and reunites with his lost love, in this gripping sequel to the acclaimed series debut.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Illegal Action
  Author: Rimington, Stella
  Publisher: Random $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780307268853 Date: 2008
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  The new installment in Rimington's series of frighteningly authentic ("Chicago Tribune") espionage thrillers features the fiercely intelligent, ambitious MI5 officer Liz Carlyle.
  Updated 5.12.08
  
• The Last Oracle
  Author: Rollins, James
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 26.95 ISBN: 9780061230943 Date: 2008
  LJ
  Sigma Force must battle a group of rogue scientists who've unleashed a diabolical project that could mean the extinction of mankind, in this superb new thriller from the "New York Times"-bestselling author of Black Order and The Judas Strain.
  Suggested Reading: Adrenaline
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Don't Tell a Soul
  Author: Rosenfelt, David
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312373955 Date: 2008
  LJ Booklist PW
  The popular author of six Andy Carpenter mysteries, including the recent hit Play Dead, delivers his first stand alone with this gripping suspense novel.
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Fractured
  Author: Slaughter, Karin
  Publisher: Doubleday $ 25 ISBN: 9780385341950 Date: 2008
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  Slaughter, one of the best crime novelists in America ("Washington Post"), brings back the characters from her "New York Times"-bestselling work Triptych for a shocking showdown of heart-stopping suspense.
  Updated 5.12.08
  

August...

• Lie Down with the Devil
  Author: Barnes, Linda
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312332891 Date: 2008
  PW
  Boston P.I. Carlotta Carlyle turns to the mystery in her own life--Sam Gianelli--in this latest installment in one of the best private-eye series ever (Harlan Coben).
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Folly Du Jour
  Author: Cleverly, Barbara
  Publisher: Consortium $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781569475133 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  "A historical mystery that has just about everything ("Denver Post"), this seventh book in the Joe Sandilands murder mystery series is set at the Folies-Bergre, Paris, in December 1926.
  Updated 5.2.08
  
• Black and White and Dead All Over
  Author: Darnton, John
  Publisher: Random $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780307267528 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  A keenly intelligent, delightfully mordant novel, this mystery blends fact and fiction with the same deft hand that was at work in Darnton's bestselling Neanderthal.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Skeleton Lake
  Author: Doogan, Mike
  Publisher: Putnam $ 25.95 ISBN: 9780399154928 Date: 2008
  Kirkus PW
  Nik Kane struggles with a killer from his past in this latest entry in the Shamus Award-nominated series.
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• No Human Enemy
  Author: Gardner, John
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312376703 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  Exactly a week after the D-Day landings came the vengeance weapons. When one of these new weapons lands on a Camberwell convent, the Reserve Squad is called in. Together with her boss and secret lover Tommy Livermore, Suzie Mountford is drawn into a complex investigation.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• The Garden of Evil
  Author: Hewson, David
  Publisher: Delacorte $ 24 ISBN: 9780385339575 Date: 2008
  PW Booklist
  The internationally acclaimed author of smart, literate thrillers ("Publishers Weekly") delivers a heart-stopping crime novel steeped in richly atmospheric modern-day suspense and Rome's treacherous history.
  Updated 6.19.08
  
• The Rook
  Author: James, Steven
  Publisher: Revell 19.99 ISBN: 9780800718978 Date: 2008
  PW
  Full of fast-paced action and mind-bending plot twists, The Rook is an adrenaline-laced page-turner that will keep readers up all night.
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• Leather Maiden
  Author: Lansdale, Joe R.
  Publisher: Knopf $ 25 ISBN: 9780375414527 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  A masterly new thriller from the Edgar Award-winning writer who has "a folklorist's eye for telling detail and a front-porch raconteur's sense of pace" ("The New York Times Book Review").
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• The Black Path
  Author: Larson, Asa
  Publisher: Delta $ 12 ISBN: 9780385341011 Date: 2008
  Booklist PW
  From the internationally bestselling author of The Blood Spilt and Sun Storm--winner of Sweden's Best Crime Novel Award--comes a searing tale of darkness beyond imagination.
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• The Turnaround
  Author: Pelecanos, George
  Publisher: Little Brown $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780316156479 Date: 2008
  Booklist Kirkus
  One afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever. Thirty-five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another. But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it.
  Updated 5.29.08
  
• Forsaken Soul
  Author: Royal, Priscillia
  Publisher: Poisoned Pen $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781590585214 Date: 2008
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  The summer of 1273 is peaceful for most of England--except in the village of Tyndal where Martin the cooper has been poisoned at the local inn. Martin had many enemies, and the killer could be anyone, in this fifth novel in the Medeival Mystery series.
  Updated 6.2.08
  
• Good People
  Author: Sakey, Marcus
  Publisher: Penguin $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780525950844 Date: 2008
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  The author of the critically acclaimed The Blade Itself returns with this dazzling thriller in which a couple in search of the American Dream is drawn into a world of criminals, double-crossing, and unspeakable revenge.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Sweeping Up Glass
  Author: Wall, Carolyn D.
  Publisher: Poisoned Pen $ 24.95 ISBN: 9781590585122 Date: 2008
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  This may be the coldest winter on record in Kentucky, but that doesn't keep the elusive Hunt Club from tracking silver-faced wolves on Olivia's strip of mountain. It falls to her and Will'm to figure out why as the hunters turn their sights on them, too, in this searing and surprising debut novel.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• The Shadow Walker
  Author: Walters, Michael
  Publisher: Berkley $ 14 ISBN: 9780425222331 Date: 2008
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  A serial killer is loose on the streets of Ulan Bataar, Mongolia, and Nergui, the former head of the Serious Crimes squad, is no closer to catching the killer and will accept any help he can get. Drew McLeish, a senior British CID officer, is sent out to lend his expertise to the investigation.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• The Highly Effective Detective Goes to the Dogs
  Author: Yancey, Richard
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312347536 Date: 2008
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  From the critically acclaimed author of The Highly Effective Detective comes a deliciously funny follow-up featuringing the lovable but bumbling P.I. Teddy Ruzak.
  Updated 7.14.08
  

September...

• Takeover
  Author: Black, Lisa
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780061544453 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  In the tradition of Kathy Reichs and Jeffrey Deaver, Black's promising new novel introduces a sharp and gutsy forensic investigator in a stunning thriller.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Oscar Wiolde and a Game Called Murder
  Author: Brandeth, Gyles
  Publisher: Touchstone $ 14 ISBN: 9781416534846 Date: 2008
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  Brandreth pens the second witty installment in an astonishingly authentic historical murder mystery series featuring detective Oscar Wilde and his partner-in-crime, Arthur Conan Doyle.
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• The Max
  Author: Bruen, Ken and Jason Starr
  Publisher: Hard Case $ 6.99 ISBN: 9780843959666 Date: 2008
  Booklist
  In prisons half a world apart, Max Fisher improbably rises to the top of the pecking order at Attica, while on the Greek island of Lesbos, Angela Pretrakos tries to escape a murder charge. Now both are headed for eye-opening encounters with the law.
  Updated 5.23.08
  
• Angel's Tip
  Author: Burke, Alafair
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780061561023 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  In her breakout book, the acclaimed thriller writer delves into the underworld of the Manhattan nightclub scene to deliver another work of first rate, suspenseful entertainment ("Washington Post Book World").
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• Blood Memory
  Author: Coel, Margaret
  Publisher: Berkely $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780425223451 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  Catherine McLeod's recent investigation of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes' lawsuit has made her the target for assassination. As she unravels the truth, she discovers some startling facts about her own heritage, making the would-be killer all the more desperate to find her.
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• Cold in Hand
  Author: Harvey, John
  Publisher: Harcourt $ 24 ISBN: 9780151014620 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  It's Valentine's Day, and a dispute between rival gangs turns bloody. One teenage girl is left dead, another injured, and a police officer is caught in the crossfire. Detective Inspector Charlie Resnick, nearing retirement, is hauled back to the front line to help deal with the fallout.
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• The Fifth Floor
  Author: Harvey, Michael
  Publisher: Random $ 23.95 ISBN: 9780307266873 Date: 2008
  PW Kirkus Booklist
  A fast-stepping, intricately woven narrative, rich with the history and atmosphere of a great city, The Fifth Floor is a worthy successor to Harvey's critically acclaimed debut, The Chicago Way.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• Ritual
  Author: Hayer, Mo
  Publisher: PGW $ 24 ISBN: 9780871139924 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  The author of The Devil of Nanking delivers a taut, chilling tale of clandestine occult practices, New Age medicine, and the drug underground, set in a hypermodern urban landscape challenged by colliding immigrant cultures.
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• Death's Half Acre
  Author: Maron, Margaret
  Publisher: Grand Central $ 24.99 ISBN: 9780446196109 Date: 2008
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  Unchecked urbanization has begun to eclipse the North Carolina countryside. In the shadows, corrupt county commissioners make profitable deals with new developers. A murder will pull Judge Deborah Knott and Dwight Bryant into the middle of this bitter dispute and force them to confront some dark realities.
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• The Killing Circle
  Author: Pyper, Andrew
  Publisher: Minotaur $ 24.95 ISBN: 9780312384760 Date: 2008
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  A newspaper critic joins a local writing circle only to discover that a fellow classmate may be involved in a series of murders.
  Updated 7.14.08
  
• Pyramid: And Four Other Kurt Wallander Mysteries
  Author: Mankell, Henning
  Publisher: Norton $ 26.95 ISBN: 9781565849945 Date: 2008
  Kirkus
  Filling in the missing pieces of the internationally bestselling Kurt Wallander mystery series, The Pyramid tells the story of Wallander's beginnings through five gripping short mysteries.
  Updated 7.14.08
  

October...

• The Wettest County in the World
  Author: Bondurant, Matt
  Publisher: Simon & Schuster $ 25 ISBN: 9781416561392 Date: 2008
  PW
  Updated 6.18.08
  
• The Archangel Project
  Author: Graham, C.S.
  Publisher: HarperCollins $ 7.99 ISBN: 9780061351204 Date: 2008
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  Updated 7.14.08
  

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