ACE
A Touch of Dead: Sookie Stackhouse—The Complete Series (Oct., $23.95) by Charlaine Harris gathers all Stackhouse stories into one volume.
ALLISON & BUSBY
(dist. by IPM)
The Silver Locomotive Mystery (Sept., $29.95) by Edward Marston. When a dead boy is discovered at the Cardiff Railway Hotel, Detective Colbeck and Sergeant Leeming are brought in to investigate.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
The Hidden Oasis (Oct., $24) by Paul Sussman. Attending her sister's funeral in Egypt, an American sets out with a British professor to solve a murder and locate a mythical paradise.
ATRIA BOOKS
Pursuit of Honor (Oct., $27.95) by Vince Flynn. Counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp returns in this political thriller about men and women risking their lives in a covert war.
BANTAM
Fear the Worst (Sept., $23) by Linwood Barclay. When a 17-year-old hotel clerk disappears, her father goes to extreme lengths to find her.
BERKLEY PRIME CRIME
The Silent Spirit (Sept., $24.95) by Margaret Coel returns to Wind River with a new mystery featuring Vicky Holden and Fr. John O'Malley.
The Tale of Appleback Orchard: The Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter (Sept., $23.95) by Susan Wittig Albert incorporates events from Potter's life and profiles of her animals.
Grave Secret: A Harper Connelly Mystery (Nov., $24.95) by Charlaine Harris delivers the latest installment in the series.
CHEOPS BOOKS
(dist. by BCH)
The Seven-Pillared House (Jan., $26.95) by Linda and Gary Cargill. Hitler plots to kidnap the Wares' daughter to force them to turn over military secrets.
FORGE
The Hadrian Memorandum (Oct., $25.99) by Allan Folsom. An ocean of oil is discovered off equatorial Guinea's coast 125,000 first printing.
Crater (Jan., $24.99) by Douglas Preston. A meteorite passes straight through the Earth, and Wyman Ford must find a way to destroy the alien weapon that did the damage. 300,000 first printing. 8-city author tour.
Last Snow (Feb., $25.99) by Eric Van Lustbader. ATF agent Jack McClure finds himself at war with the Russian mob when he becomes the president's special adviser. 200,000 first printing.
HEADLINE
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No Law in the Land (Sept., $24.95) by Michael Jecks follows King Edward II as he learns that Queen Isabella has defied him to remain in France with their son.
KENSINGTON
Elvis and the Grateful Dead (Oct., $22) by Peggy Webb. When Callie Valentine and her pooch, Elvis, arrive at Tupelo's annual Elvis Festival, one of the wannabes turns up dead.
Dusted to Death (Jan., $22) by Barbara Colley. Working on a movie set, Charlotte LaRue finds there's more drama offscreen than on.
LITTLE, BROWN
Nine Dragons (Oct., $27.99) by Michael Connelly. Harry Bosch finds himself in the midst of two cases: the murder of a liquor store owner and the disappearance of his own daughter.
I, Alex Cross (Nov., $27.99) by James Patterson. Cross uncovers his niece's dangerous connections when he searches for her murderer.
Worst Case (Feb., $27.99) by James Patterson and Michael Ledwidge. Det. Michael Bennett sets out to find the murderer targeting the kids of New York City's wealthiest citizens.
MINOTAUR BOOKS
Evil at Heart (Sept., $24.99) by Chelsea Cain. Serial killer Gretchen Lowell and journalist Archie Sheridan return in the sequel to Sweetheart and Heartsick. 200,000 first printing.
Tears of Pearl (Sept., $24.99) by Tasha Alexander. In 19th-century Constantinople, newlyweds put their honeymoon on hold to find a killer.
Top Producer (Sept., $24.99) by Norb Vonnegut. A high-powered stockbroker helps his friend's widow and uncovers a dark secret in the process.
Rizzo's War (Oct., $24.99) by Lou Manfredo. Over the course of a year, two NYPD detectives—a rookie and a seasoned veteran—work on increasingly compromising cases.
MORROW
Altar of Eden (Nov., $27.99) by James Rollins combines science, history and suspense. 350,000 first printing.
OBSIDIAN MYSTERIES
The Chocolate Cupid Killings (Oct., $21.95) by JoAnna Carl is the ninth book in the Chocoholic Mystery series.
Murder, She Wrote: A Fatal Feast (Oct., $22.95) by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain. Jessica and her Cabot Cove friends investigate a mystery during Thanksgiving.
Mr. Monk in Trouble (Dec., $22.95) by Lee Goldberg is the ninth book in the tie-in series to the USA Network's Monk.
OCEANVIEW PUBLISHING
(dist. by Midpoint Trade)
In Their Blood (Sept., $25.95) by Sharon Potts. A privileged, free-spirited drifter crashes back to reality when his parents are murdered.
ORION PUBLISHING
(dist. by Trafalgar Square/IPG)
Fatal Cut (Sept., $24.95) by June Hampson. Daisy Lane oversees her former lover's criminal empire while continuing her relationship with a straight-dealing cop.
PINEAPPLE PRESS
Seven-Mile Bridge (Sept., $19.95) by Michael Biehl. Jonathan Bruckner returns home to Wisconsin after his mother dies and solves the years-old mystery surrounding his father's death.
POCKET BOOKS
Dreams of the Dead (Jan., $25) by Perri O'Shaughnessy. Nina Reilly attempts to locate a man who disappeared 10 years earlier and who might implicate her former lover in a murder.
POISONED PEN PRESS
Desert Lost (Dec., $24.95) by Betty Webb. PI Lena Jones once again investigates a polygamous sect in northern Arizona, where someone will kill to hide the truth.
Predators (Dec., $24.95) by Frederick Ramsay demonstrates the parallels between businessman Leo Painter and the male lion Sekoa, both living in Botswana.
Assassins of Athens (Jan., $24.95) by Jeffrey Siger. Why would a boy from one of Greece's most prominent families be found dead in one of Athens's worst neighborhoods?
PUTNAM
Hardball (Sept., $26.95) by Sara Paretsky marks the return of VI Warshawski. 150,000 first printing.
The Professional (Oct., $26.95) by Robert B. Parker. Spenser is back. 300,000 first printing.
The Midnight House (Feb., $TBA) by Alex Berenson presents the latest John Wells adventure. 150,000 first printing.
SEVERN HOUSE
From the Grounds Up (Feb., $27.95) by Sandra Balzo. Sparky coffee-shop owner Maggy Thorsen finds herself caught up in another mystery.
Rude Awakening (Oct., $27.95) by Susan Rogers Cooper. Milt Kovak investigates a spate of missing persons.
SIMON & SCHUSTER
I, Sniper (Oct., $26) by Stephen Hunter. Bob Lee Swagger returns to clear the name of a fellow soldier by facing off against a ruthless sniper. 200,000 first printing.
The Golden Mile (Dec., $25.95) by Martin Cruz Smith. Arkado Renko returns in this Moscow-set tale of a kidnapped baby, a dead prostitute and police corruption. 200,000 first printing.
The Five Greatest Warriors (Jan., $25) by Matthew Reilly. In this follow-up to The Six Sacred Stones, Jack West Jr. and his team search for the warriors' secrets that may save the world. 150,000 first printing.
SOHO CONSTABLE
(dist. by Consortium)
A Dead Man in Naples (Dec., $25) by Michael Pearce. After the murder of the British consul in Naples, the Foreign Office in London sets out to find the political motive—and the culprit.
SOHO CRIME
(dist. by Consortium)
Skeleton Hill (Sept., $24) by Peter Lovesey. The 10th Inspector Diamond case centers on a headless female skeleton and the body of a war re-enactor.
The Ghosts of Belfast (Oct., $24) by Stuart Neville. An IRA hit man haunted by the ghosts of his victims plans to appease them by killing his former bosses. 30,000 first printing.
The Fourth Assassin (Feb., $24) by Matt Beynon Rees. The latest Omar Yussef mystery finds him investigating the murder of his son's roommate.
SOHO PRESS
(dist. by Consortium)
Evil for Evil (Sept., $25) by James R. Benn. Rifles stolen from a U.S. army base in Northern Ireland launch an investigation of a German-sponsored IRA uprising. 25,000 first printing.
TOUCHSTONE
Trial by Fire (Dec., $27) by J.A. Jance. Ali Reynolds seeks out the people who tried to save a dying woman—and those who tried to kill her.
VANGUARD PRESS
13½ (Oct., $25.95) by Nevada Barr. Polly Deschamps suspects there might be a connection between her beau and a series of decades-old murders. 125,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.
