ALGONQUIN
Stealing with Style (June, $22.95) by Emyl Jenkins, a professional antiques appraiser, introduces a reluctant sleuth who uncovers antique treasures in unlikely places. 7-city author tour.
ALLISON & BUSBY
The Best British Mysteries 2005 (Apr., $25.95) by Maxim Jakubowski gathers tales of crime and treachery featuring British sleuths and writers.
The Excursion Train (June, $25.95) by Edward Marston has Det. Insp. Robert Colbeck investigating two deaths on the rails.
Flowers Stained with Moonlight (June, $25.95) by Catherine Shaw. Schoolteacher Vanessa Duncan wonders if weak-willed Sylvia really killed her unaffectionate husband?
ARTE PÚBLICO PRESS
Desert Blood: The Juárez Murders (Mar., $23.95) by Alicia Gaspar de Alba. The bodies of murdered women turn up in the Chihuahua desert along the U.S./Mexico border.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
Delicious (Apr., $23) by Mark Haskell Smith is a comic crime novel set in Hawaii. 35,000 first printing. Author tour.
Blood from a Stone: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (May, $24) by Donna Leon continues the series set in Venice. 50,000 first printing.
AURUM PRESS (dist. by Trafalgar Square)
Agatha Christie: A Reader's Companion (Mar., $25) by Vanessa Wagstaff and Stephen Poole is an illustrated compendium of Christie data.
BALLANTINE
Mr. Lucky: A Tony Valentine Novel (Mar., $19.95) by James Swain. Casino owners beg ex-cop Tony Valentine to prove a gambler's million-dollar winning streak isn't on the square. Ad/promo.8-city author tour.
Slow Burn (Mar., $25.95) by Julie Garwood creates romantic suspense when a woman returning to her hometown is implicated in a decades-old murder. Ad/promo.
Long Spoon Lane (Apr., $25.95) by Anne Perry. In a sequel to Seven Dials, sleuth Thomas Pitt is on the trail of anarchists in Victorian London. Ad/promo.12-city author tour.
The Third Secret (June, $24.95) by Steve Berry. A Romanian priest connected to the secrets of Fatima is murdered. Ad/promo. 10-city author tour.
Vanish (Aug., $24.95) by Tess Gerritsen. An FBI agent's pregnant wife is taken hostage by a black ops agent who has snapped.
BANTAM
Blown (May, $24) by Francine Mathews. A CIA operative believed dead in the carnage of Sarajevo resurfaces. 27,500 first printing. Advertising. Author publicity.
Countdown: An Eve Duncan Forensics Thriller (June, $25) by Iris Johansen brings back the forensic sculptor and her husband when a kidnapping attempt goes wrong. 300,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Locked Rooms: A Novel of Suspense Featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes (July, $24) by Laurie R. King. In 1924, Mary and hubby Sherlock intend to settle in San Francisco, despite her nightmares. 65,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Chill of Fear: A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel (Aug., $25) by Kay Hooper is the second helping of the Fear trilogy featuring FBI agent Noah Bishop. 225,000 first printing.Ad/promo. Author publicity.
BERKLEY PRIME CRIME
Dead Man's Bones (Apr., $23.95) by Susan Wittig. Bones discovered by a teenage boy contain a clue to a mystery.
Where There's a Will (Apr., $23.95) by Aaron Elkins presents the 12th installment in the Gideon Oliver series.
Delectable Mountains (May, $23.95) by Earlene Fowler. Amateur sleuth Benni Harper returns for the 12th time.
Embroidered Truths (June, $22.95) by Monica Ferris is the ninth in the needlework series with Betsy on another case.
JOHN F. BLAIR
Marsh Madness (June; $22.95, paper $16.95) by Caroline Cousins. An ex-beauty queen is murdered, and three cousins from South Carolina investigate.
BRIDGE WORKS
Red Mass: An Ellis Portal Mystery (July; $23.95, paper $15.95) by Rosemary Aubert is the final episode in the series about a disgraced former judge in Toronto.
CARROLL & GRAF
No Corners for the Devil (May, $25) by Olive Etchells. The body of a murdered teenage girl washes up on the beach in a farming village on the Cornish seaside.
The Palace Tiger (Aug., $25) by Barbara Cleverly is the fourth entry in the Joe Sandilands series set in 1920s India.
DELACORTE
Sympathy Between Humans (Mar., $22) by Jodi Compton. Det. Sarah Pribek is back, this time protecting the identity of a killer. 60,000 first printing. Advertising. DBC, LG, MG selections. Author publicity.
Case of Lies (July, $25) by Perri O'Shaughnessy. Attorney Nina Reilly tracks reluctant witnesses to a killing during a casino robbery. 125,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
The Patriots Club (Aug., $26) by Christopher Reich crosses a secret rooted among the founding fathers with a deadly contemporary conspiracy. 70,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
DOUBLEDAY
The Inside Ring (May, $24.95) by Michael Lawson. The secretary of Homeland Security miscalculates when he passes a dire warning to the Secret Service director.
Double Cross Blind (July, $24.95) by Joel N. Ross. On December 1, 1941, an American masquerading as an earl matches wits with a Nazi spy.
DUTTON
Bubbles Betrothed (Apr., $19.95) by Sarah Strohmeyer. Bleached-blonde sleuth Bubbles Yablonsky's notes from an exclusive interview become a hot commodity after her subject, a murder suspect, keels over.
The Death Collectors (June, $23.95) by Jack Kerley brings back Carson Ryder and Harry Nautilus in the grips of a 30-year conspiracy.
FORGE
Nightcrawlers (Mar., $24.95) by Bill Pronzini. A group of investigators seek reasons for violent attacks against homosexuals and children in San Francisco. Advertising.
Denial (June, $23.95) by Stuart M. Kaminsky. Lew Fonesca is back in the saddle in this fourth installment. Advertising.
Sophie Metropolis (June, $21.95) by Tori Carrington features a Greek-American woman breaking into the PI life in Astoria, Queens, N.Y. Advertising.
HARCOURT
Last Call for Blackford Oakes (May, $25) by William F. Buckley Jr. Oakes and Soviet spy Kim Philby meet again in this 11th espionage thriller. 50,000 first printing. Advertising. Author publicity.
Red Leaves (June, $23) by Thomas H. Cook. Launching the Otto Penzler Book imprint, a man's teenage son is a suspect in the case of a missing child. Advertising.
The Enemy of God (July, $23) by Robert Daley combines a mystery, a love story and a quest for meaning. An Otto Penzler Book. Advertising.
He Who Fears the Wolf (July, $23) by Karin Fossum brings back Inspector Sejer to investigate the brutal murder of a woman living alone in the woods.
HARPERCOLLINS
Lost Lake (Mar., $25.95) by Phillip Margolin. Might the young tabloid reporter's paranoid theories be true? 200,000 first printing.
With No One as Witness (Mar., $26.95) by Elizabeth George. Surprising plot twists keep recurring characters jumping. 300,000 first printing.
Hunter Killer (May, $25.95) by Patrick Robinson is a technothriller that speeds across the Middle East, France, Morocco and the U.S. 100,000 first printing.
The Icon (May, $24.95) by Neil Olson. Believed destroyed during WWII, a religious icon shows up in present-day New York City. 100,000 first printing.
Devil's Corner (June, $25.95) by Lisa Scottoline has a young federal prosecutor intent on bringing down a lethal West Philly kingpin. 300,000 first printing.
Homefront (July, $24.95) by Chuck Logan. Phil and Nina discover that surviving the vicious attack of a psychopath was the easy part compared to the threatening consequences of their newfound notoriety. 60,000 first printing.
HEADLINE (dist. by Trafalgar Square)
The Chapel of Bones: A Medieval West Country Mystery (Mar., $25; June, paper $9.95) by Michael Jecks. Simon Puttock and Baldwin Furnshill are pulled into a murky world of murder in the religious community of 14th-century Devon.
HENRY HOLT
Alibi (May, $26) by Joseph Kanon is set in 1946 Venice, where a U.S. Army war crimes investigator falls in love with a Jewish woman.
Close Case: A Samantha Kincaid Mystery (July, $22) by Alafair Burke. Kincaid investigates when a hotshot journalist is bludgeoned to death.
HYPERION
Cut and Run (Apr., $23.95) by Ridley Pearson pits a federal marshal against the mob's cleverest killer. 100,000 first printing.
The Third Translation (Apr., $22.95) by Matt Bondurant. An ancient mystery and a hidden language contribute to conspiracy and betrayal in modern-day London. 75,000 first printing.
JUSTIN, CHARLES & CO.
Dead by Popular Demand: A Harlem Noir Featuring Devil Barnett (May, $21.95) by Teddy Hayes. Drugs, murder and backstabbing enliven the music business. Advertising.
KENSINGTON
Peach Cobbler Murder (Mar., $22) by Joanne Fluke. This time, Hannah Swenson is a prime suspect in the murder of rival Shawna Lee.
Shoes to Die For (June, $22) by Laura Levine. Jaine Austen looks into the murder of a bitchy boutique owner beaten to death by a pair of stilettos.
ALLEN A. KNOLL
To Die For: A Bomber Hanson Mystery (July, $23) by David Champion. Bomber's son, Tod, doubts the guilt of a college student charged with murdering her sleazy landlord.
LITTLE, BROWN
Drama City (Mar., $24.95) by George Pelecanos. Back in D.C. after eight years in prison, Lorenzo Brown wants to stay straight, but his ex-pals have other ideas. Ad/promo.7-city author tour.
The Closers (May, $26.95) by Michael Connelly. Harry Bosch returns to the Los Angles Police Department as a new DNA match provides a lead in the death of a teenage girl in 1988. Ad/promo.11-city author tour.
4th of July (May, $27.95) by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro is the latest case for Lt. Lindsay Boxer, now facing charges for police brutality. Ad/promo.
White (July, $24.95) by Christopher Whitcomb. Fierce enemies have infiltrated America's highest offices, and FBI special agent Jeremy Waller must find them. Ad/promo.6-city author tour.
LYONS PRESS
Blood Atonement: A Dahlgren Wallace Mystery (June, $21.95) by Jim Tenuto begins a new Montana series.
MIRA
Killing Kelly (Mar., $24.95) by Heather Graham. On hiatus from her role as a man-hating advice diva on a daytime soap, actress Kelly Trent becomes the target of a deranged fan.
Killer Takes All (June, $19.95) by Erica Spindler. While tracking down the killer of her friend, Stacy Killian enters the world of White Rabbit, a risky fantasy role-playing game.
Mr. Murder (Aug., $23.95) by Laura Van Wormer. TV anchor Sally Harrington's most zealous fan is also a killer.
MORROW
All the Flowers Are Dying (Mar., $24.95) by Lawrence Block. PI Matt Scudder matches wits with a cunning killer. 100,000 first printing.
The Serpent on the Crown (Apr., $25.95) by Elizabeth Peters is a new tale of family, mystery and murder. 150,000 first printing.
Falls the Shadow (May, $24.95) by William Lashner. Trouble ensues when Philly attorney Victor Carl helps clear a client of a murder conviction. 100,000 first printing.
Map of Bones (May, $24.95) by James Rollins launches a new SIGMA series about a team of ex-Special Forces soldiers retrained in scientific disciplines. 60,000 first printing.
Act of War (June, $25.95) by Dale Brown. International terrorists plot to destabilize the global economy with attacks on oil refineries. 125,000 first printing.
Always Time to Die (June, $24.95) by Elizabeth Lowell. Some family secrets should remain secret. 200,000 first printing.
Long Time Gone (Aug., $24.95) by J.A. Jance. Investigator J.P. Beaumont is in Seattle to dig up a long-buried case of murder. 200,000 first printing.
MYSTERIOUS PRESS
See Isabelle Run (Mar., $22.95) by Elizabeth Bloom. A gutsy jilted bride thinks she has landed the job of her dreams, until she learns her predecessor was murdered. Advertising.4-city author tour.
Sudden Death (May, $23.95) by David Rosenfelt. Defense attorney Andy Carpenter finds murder has intercepted professional football. Ad/promo. 4-city author tour.
Forcing Amaryllis (June, $23.95) by Louise Ure. A trial consultant discovers unnerving parallels between the trial of a wealthy landowner's son on charges of rape and circumstances surrounding her sister's brutal assault. Advertising. 4-city author tour.
Cape Perdido (July, $24.95) by Marcia Muller. A sniper's bullet stuns the residents of a former lumber town turned tourist haven. Ad/promo. 4-city author tour.
Rituals of the Season (Aug., $23.95) by Margaret Maron brings back sleuth Judge Deborah Knott, whose wedding is only days away when murder jolts her plans. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY
Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die: A Blackbird Sisters Mystery (Mar., $19.95) by Nancy Martin is the fourth in the series and the first in hardcover.
OVERLOOK PRESS
The Hour of the Cat (May, $25.95) by Peter Quinn. On the eve of WWII, a common New York City homicide turns out to be anything but simple. 50,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
Legends: A Novel of Dissimulation (June, $25.95) by Robert Littell. Is the former CIA field agent Martin Odum suffering from a multiple personality disorder, brainwashing or exhaustion? 150,000first printing. $150,000 ad/promo.
PANTHEON
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies (Apr., $19.95) by Alexander McCall Smith. A baffling pumpkin appears in the yard of Precious Ramotswe in the latest installment of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. Advertising. 12-city author tour.
Two Trains Running (June, $25) by Andrew Vachss. In 1959, Altonville is a thriving center of tourist vice with agitation coming from many quarters.
PLEXUS
A Fear of (Seaside) Heights (May, $22.95) by Jane Kelly is the fourth title in the series of cozies set in southern New Jersey.
POISONED PEN PRESS
Scare the Light Away (Mar., $24.95) by Vicki Delany. A businesswoman returns home after 30 years for her mother's funeral, then must clear her charming brother from suspicions regarding a young girl's disappearance.
The Point in the Market: A Mamur Zapt Mystery (Apr., $24.95) by Michael Pearce. The Mamur Zapt is the head of the secret police in Egypt during World War I.
The Poet's Funeral (May, $24.95) by John M. Daniel. Over the four scorching days of the 1990 American Booksellers Association convention in Las Vegas, a poet is found dead and a PW photographer is kidnapped.
Tears of the Dragon (May, $24.95) by Holly Baxter inaugurates a new cozy series set in Chicago where a mother with four daughters struggles to make ends meet during the Depression.
PUTNAM
In the Company of Liars (Apr., $24.95) by David Ellis. In this tale of suspense, the story of a woman arrested for murder is told in reverse chronology. Advertising. BOMC, MG selections.
Out of Range (May, $24.95) by C.J. Box brings back game warden Joe Pickett to deal with greed, power and murder. Author tour.
PUTNAM/MARIAN WOOD
Prince of Darkness (Apr., $24.95) by Sharon Kay Penman. This medieval mystery finds our hero in an unwelcome alliance with a sworn enemy to thwart an insidious conspiracy. Author tour.
Hitler's Peace (May, $26.95) by Philip Kerr is a "what-if" thriller dealing with the fate of Europe and its Jews during WWII.
Blackfly Season (June, $24.95) by Giles Blunt. Homicide detectives John Cardinal and Lisa Delorme return to righting more wrongs in northern Ontario.
RANDOM HOUSE
Swing: A Mystery (Mar., $24.95) by Rupert Holmes. The creator of Broadway's The Mystery of Edwin Drood offers a historical thriller and musical murder mystery, including a CD of original music within which crucial clues are found. Advertising. 4-city author tour.
The Franklin Affair: A Novel (May, $23.95) by Jim Lehrer. Set in the publishing world, a historian's orderly existence is rocked by personal and professional crises. Advertising. 6-city author tour.
REGANBOOKS
Citizen Vince (Apr., $24.95) by Jess Walter. The cynical antihero of Over Tumbled Graves is years younger and not yet disillusioned in this outing set back in Spokane.
ST. MARTIN'S/MINOTAUR
In Like Flynn: A Molly Murphy Mystery (Mar., $23.95) by Rhys Bowen brings the tally to four in this cozy series set in turn-of-the-century New York City. Author tour.
The Magdalen Martyrs (Mar., $22.95) by Ken Bruen. The third Jack Taylor novel focuses on the scandalous Magdalen laundry. 10-city author tour.
The Torment of Others (May, $24.95) by Val McDermid. Herself a survivor of assault, a detective chief inspector must solve the grotesque murder of a prostitute. Advertising. Author tour.
36 Yalta Boulevard (June, $23.95) by Olen Steinhauer keeps the series rolling. Advertising. Author tour.
To Darkness and to Death: A Clare Fergusson/Russ Van Alstyne Mystery (June, $23.95) by Julia Spencer-Fleming reunites the female priest and chief of police for the fourth in the series. Advertising. Author tour.
SCRIBNER
Burned (Mar., $23) by Carol Higgins Clark takes the series and Regan to Hawaii.
The Sign of the Book (Mar., $25) by John Dunning is a new Cliff Janeway "Bookman" crime novel about book collecting.
Cross Bones (June, $25) by Kathy Reichs. Biblical archeology is key to the plot about a present-day murder.
SIMON & SCHUSTER
Saving Cascadia (Mar., $25) by John J. Nance. A seismologist warns to deaf ears against the construction of a casino complex off the coast of Washington. 75,000 first printing. Advertising. 7-city author tour.
No Place Like Home (Apr., $25.95) by Mary Higgins Clark. Taking her deceased husband's advice, Celia tells nobody that at age 10 she accidentally shot and killed her mother. 1 million first printing. Ad/ promo. BOMC, LG, DBC selections. 8-city author tour.
Shadows (June, $23) by Edna Buchanan continues the series about a homicide unit committed to solving old cases, which now involves the 45-year-old murder of a former Miami mayor. 100,000 first printing. Advertising. 8-city author tour.
The Twelfth Card: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel (June, $25) by Jeffery Deaver. The quadriplegic detective is back with sidekick Amelia Sachs, trying to foil a killing machine that is after a Harlem teenager. 125,000 first printing.
S&S/TOUCHSTONE
Bleedout (Apr., $24.95) by Joan Brady is told by two characters, one a blind lawyer, the other a convicted, inner-city murderer. Ad/promo.
SOHO CRIME
Murder in Clichy (Mar., $24) by Cara Black renews the exploits of French PI Aimée Leduc as she delivers a letter to a Vietnamese nun who is then shot dead.
Thirty-Three Teeth (Aug., $24) by Colin Cotterill is the second installment in the series featuring 72-year-old Laotian coroner Siri Paiboun.
UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
Jemez Spring (Mar., $22.95) by Rudolfo Anaya. Sonny Baca struggles with al-Qaida, environmental activists and water rights in the Southwest.
VIKING
The Right Madness (May, $24.95) by James Crumley. Suspects start dying when Montana PI C.W. Sughrue agrees to track down stolen confidential files belonging to his close friend, a psychiatrist. Author tour.
Sun and Shadow: An Erik Winter Novel (June, $23.95) by Ake Edwardson. Launching a trilogy, a gourmet cook and snappy dresser is Sweden's youngest chief inspector with a bloody double murder on his doorstep.
The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime (July, $24.95) by Jasper Fforde. The Welsh author takes liberties with the crime genre when the detective inspector is Jack Spratt, and Mary Mary is his assistant. 10-city author tour.
The Blood-Dimmed Tide (July, $24.95) by Rennie Airth. In this sequel to River of Darkness, the 1932 murder of a young girl in his quiet English village brings former Insp. John Madden out of retirement.
WALKER & CO.
Disturbed Earth: An Artie Cohen Mystery (Apr., $24) by Reggie Nadelson finds the Russian-born detective investigating murders and missing children in post 9/11 New York City. Author publicity.
WARNER
Detour (Mar., $23.95) by James Siegel. When his newly adopted baby from Colombia is switched, an American man must transport a fortune in cocaine to save his wife and daughter. Ad/promo.
Exact Revenge (May, $24.95) by Tim Green. Released after 18 years in prison, a political candidate framed for murder has a plan for revenge. Ad/promo.Author tour.
Dance of Death (June, $25.95) by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. FBI Special Agent Pendergast returns, but he is framed for murder, on the run and pitted against his brother Diogenes. Ad/promo.10-city author tour.
Over Her Dead Body (July, $24.95) by Kate White. The editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan sets her latest mystery inside the treacherous milieu of fashion and celebrity magazines. Ad/promo.Author publicity.
Straight into Darkness (Aug., $25.95) by Faye Kellerman. A policeman is on the trail of the murderer of society women in 1920s Munich while Hitler is on the rise. Ad/promo.
WESTBOW PRESS
Monster (Apr., $24.99) by Frank Peretti. Having written about make-believe monsters, Peretti now conjures up a real one. 250,000 first printing.
