AKASHIC BOOKS

Tango for a Torturer (Apr., $15.95) by Daniel Chavarria is a follow-up to the author's Edgar Award—winning Adios Muchachos.

Los Angeles Noir (May, $14.95), edited by Denise Hamilton, is the latest installment in the publisher's city Noir series.

BERKLEY PRIME CRIME

A Killing in Comics (May, $14) by Max Allan Collins combines Terry Beatty's comic art with a mystery featuring war vet Jack Starr.

BITTER LEMON PRESS

The Dinner Club (Apr., $14.95) by Saskia Noort, trans. by Paul Vincent. Gruesome serial murders disturb a suburban women's dinner group.

JOHN F. BLAIR

Way Down Dead in Dixie (June, $16.95) by Caroline Cousins. The discovery of skeletal remains casts a chill on July 4 festivities. Author tour.

COOK/RIVER OAK

Night Rain: A Mike Connolly Mystery (Apr., $13.99) by Joe Hilley. A thief wrongly accused of murder in a hurricane's aftermath turns to Mike Connolly for help.

DELTA

The Bee's Kiss: A Joe Sandilands Mystery (Mar., $13) by Barbara Cleverly. It's 1926, and Joe leaves India for England to pursue Dame Beatrice Joliffe's killer. 30,000 first printing. Ad/promo.

HARCOURT/HARVEST

Learning to Kill (June, $14) by Ed McBain collects stories that inspired the author to write his 87th Precinct novel series.

HEYDAY BOOKS

Woman of Ill Fame (Mar., $13.95) by Erika Mailman. A prostitute in gold rush San Francisco becomes involved in a series of murders targeting ladies of the night. Author tour.

MCCLELLAND STEWART

A Journeyman to Grief (May, $16.95) by Maureen Jennings stars Toronto's Detective Murdoch in the abduction of a young woman in 1858.

MIDNIGHT INK

Stealing the Dragon: A Cape Weathers Investigation (Mar., $14.95) by Tim Maleeny. A female assassin raised by a Chinese secret society has gone missing.

The Lost (May, $13.95) by Michelle Hancock. An ancient language scholar's Dead Sea Scroll reveals that Christ and the Antichrist are one and the same.

MULTNOMAH

Ever Present Danger (Apr., $12.99) by Kathy Herman. Ivy Griffith wants to bury the past—right next to Joe's murdered body.

NEW YORK REVIEW BOOKS

The Engagement (Mar., $14.95) by Georges Simenon reprints the classic psychological novel about a murdered prostitute and the one suspect, a convicted pornographer, who is innocent.

ORION (dist. by Trafalgar Sq./IPG)

Red Sky Lament: A John Ray Horn Crime Thriller (Apr., $12.50) by Edward Wright. The third book in this series is set during the 1940s Hollywood HUAC witch hunts.

SUSPECT THOUGHTS PRESS

Dying for a Change (May, $16.95) by Sean Reynolds. A boyish girl and a girlish boy solve the murder of a boy who wanted to change genders. Author tour.

ZONDERVAN

True Light (July, $14.99) by Terri Blackstock. Book Three in the Restoration series features a young man wrongly accused of murder and the family that stands by him. 100,000 first printing.