ARCADIA BOOKS
The Heart of the Forest (June, $14.95) by Eugenio Fuentes. A pair of murders disrupts the calm of a nature preserve.
AVOCET PRESS
Daredevil's Apprentice (Apr., $12.95) by Letha Albright. A smalltown reporter is troubled after her best friend says she killed a man.
BALLANTINE/ONE WORLD
Reprint: Stormy Weather (Aug., $14) by Paula L. Woods.
BERKLEY PRIME CRIME
A Crossword to Die For (July, $TBA) by Nero Blanc. Six crossword puzzles accompany an exploration of Belle's father's suspicious death.
Reprint: The Titian Committee (Aug., $12) by Iain Pears.
BROADMAN & HOLMAN
The Third Dragon (Apr., $12.99) by Frank Simon. The first bomb dropped on Tokyo in 1945 never detonated and remains unrecovered.
CARROLL & GRAF
The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction (June, $11.95), edited by Mike Ashley, gathers more than 500 stories by such writers as Patricia Cornwell and Elmore Leonard.
CHECKER BOOK PUBLISHING
(dist. by Seven Hills)
Best of Clive Barker's Hellraiser (June, $22.95) by Clive Barker et al. collects the best of the comic book series spawned by the film.
CHRONICLE
Knockout Mouse (June, $11.95) by James Calder. Murder comes to the high-stakes world of biotechnology in Silicon Valley.
CINCO PUNTOS PRESS
Frontera Dreams: A Hector Balascoran Shayne Detective Novel (May, $13.95) by Paco Ignacio Taibo II. An actress disappears amid border anarchy.
CUMBERLAND HOUSE
White House Pet Detectives (June, $16.95), edited by Carole Nelson Douglas, features mysteries solved by the likes of Ronald Reagan's Rex, FDR's Fala and the Bushes' Millie.
DENLINGER'S
The Power of the Shadow (Apr., $12.95) by Darrel Pruett. An almost supernatural Turkish mercenary poses a threat in this Jungian psychological thriller.
Sentinel Event on the High Seas (July, $11.95) by Jules M. Seletz, M.D. The captain of a luxury liner dies mysteriously in the medical facility of his ship.
FITHIAN PRESS
The Teed-Off Ghost: A Hawai'ian Golf Mystery (Apr., $12.95) by Lee Tyler. Someone--or something--objects to golf course construction at the new Mauna Makai resort.
FORGE
World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories (Aug., $18.95), edited by Ed Gorman, is the third annual collection.
HARCOURT/HARVEST
Reprint: Where Is Joe Merchant?: A Novel Tale (July, $14) by Jimmy Buffett.
HEADLINE
(dist. by Trafalgar Square)
The Sticklepath Strangler: The Medieval West Country Mysteries (May, $9.95) by Michael Jecks. Murder may involve cannibalism--or a vampire.
MULTNOMAH
The Healer--O'Malley Series #5 (June, $11.99) by Dee Henderson. A children's trauma psychologist faces the aftermath of a school shooting.
MYSTERIOUS PRESS
Flesh & Blood: Dark Desires--Erotic Tales of Crime and Passion (May, $12.95), edited by Max Allan Collins and Jeff Gelb, is a heady blend of sex and suspense. Ad/promo.
NBM
A Treasury of Victorian Murder, Vol. 1 (Mar., $8.95) by Rick Geary. Three murders from Victorian newspapers are depicted in comics.
PERENNIAL
Dorothy L. Sayers: The Complete Stories (July, $16.95) collects all the tales in one volume for the first time.
RANDOM HOUSE
Reprints: Dark Star and Night Soldiers (both July, $11.95 each) by Alan Furst.
RIVER OAK
Murder in the Mummy's Tomb (Mar., $12.99) by Kel Richardson. Can murder on the Nile be stopped before it happens again? 20,000 first printing.
RUNNING PRESS
Clue Mysteries: 15 Whodunits to Solve in Minutes (Apr., $9.95) by Nigel Tappin stars characters from the game of Clue.
TOBY PRESS
The Crime of Writing (Aug., $14.95) by Haim Lapid. An intimate triangle of man, woman and child also involves sexual identity.
Lennie & Vance & Benji (Aug., $14.95) by I.I. Magdalen. Murder in a small Texas town draws in a crime scholar.
WALKER
Reprint: In an Evil Time (June, $8.95) by Bill Pronzini.
ZONDERVAN
Cape Refuge (Apr., $12.99) by Terri Blackstock. In the first book of the Cape Refuge suspense series, a man is accused of murdering his in-laws.
