Fiction/Mystery & Suspense
AKASHIC BOOKS
Cold Havana Ground (Nov., $23.95) by Arnaldo Correa. Three Afro-Cuban religions and a missing corpse figure in a plot based on actual events. Ad/promo.
ALLISON & BUSBY
(dist. by IPM)
Practise to Deceive (Oct., $24.95) by David Williams. When a male nurse is murdered, friends hush up details of his life.
The Best British Mysteries (Dec., $25.95), edited by Maxim Jacubowski, includes tales by Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Anne Perry.
Limestone Cowboy (Dec., $25.95) by Stuart Pawson. DI Charlie Priest probes two supermarket deaths as well as his new girlfriend's dark secret.
ATLANTIC MONTHLY PRESS
Uniform Justice (Sept., $24) by Donna Leon. Venetian detective Commissario Guido Brunetti looks into the death of a young military cadet. 50,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo.
ATRIA
The Good House (Sept., $25) by Tananarive Due. A woman seeks to save her small Washington State town from an evil force that drives locals to murder and suicide. Ad/promo. 6-city author tour.
The Valley of Light (Oct., $24) by Terry Kay. Haunted by the Nazi evils he witnessed, Noah Locke arrives in a North Carolina town in 1948, where a healing miracle awaits. Ad/promo. 7-city author tour.
State of the Union (Jan., $25) by Brad Thor. After U.S. agents in Prague are murdered, Secret Service agent Scot Harvath uncovers a conspiracy threatening civilization. Ad/promo. 5-city author tour.
The Intelligencer (Feb., $24) by Leslie Silbert entwines two stories involving Christopher Marlowe in the 16th-century world of espionage and Kate Morgan, a beautiful modern-day spy.
BALLANTINE
A Christmas Journey (Nov., $15.95) by Anne Perry is a yuletide novella. Advertising.
Hate Crime (Feb., $TBA) by William Bernhardt. Attorney Ben Kincaid returns in a sequel to Death Row. Advertising. Author publicity.
BANTAM
Fatal Tide (Sept., $24.95) by Iris Johansen. Legendary treasure, cutthroat mercenaries and secrets from the past send a woman onto the open seas in a deadly race. 300,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
The Murder Stone (Nov., $24.95) by Charles Todd. Secrets bound up in the Great War trouble a bereaved granddaughter in this story of retribution. 35,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Peril (Feb., $23.95) by Thomas H. Cook. Attempting to reinvent herself on the streets of New York City, Sara Labriola is pursued by six desperate men with the power to destroy her. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
BERKLEY PRIME CRIME
Killing Raven (Sept., $22.95) by Margaret Coel. On the Wind River reservation, Father John O'Malley and Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden are in a deadly struggle over virtue and murder.
Letter from Home (Oct., $22.95) by Carolyn Hart. In 1944, a newspaper reporter tells the story of the murder of her best friend's mother.
Sky Woman Falling (Nov., $22.95) by Kirk Mitchell. A dispute breaks out between Native Americans and white settlers.
Good Blood (Feb., $TBA) by Aaron Elkins. Professor Gideon Oliver is back in a new mystery of forensic anthropology.
BRIDGE WORKS
Dirty Divots (Sept., $23.95) by Gene Breaznell. A golf-loving detective tees up on murder at a country club golf course.
Lawyered to Death: A Karen Hayes Mystery (Oct., $23.95) by Michael Biehl. An attorney uncovers deadly corruption as she investigates the death of a hospital CEO's wife from a drug to which she was known to be allergic.
BROADMAN & HOLMAN
The Jericho Sanction (Sept., $24.99) by Oliver North. The sequel to Mission Compromised focuses on Iraq's nuclear weapons. Advertising. Author tour.
CARROLL & GRAF
Ragtime in Simla (Oct., $24) by Barbara Cleverly is the second Joe Sandilands mystery set in 1920s India.
Sherlock Holmes and the Hapsburg Tiara (Feb., $25) by Alan Vanneman. Winston Churchill calls in Holmes and Watson, charging that Archduke Josef of Austria is an imposter.
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do (Feb., $24) by Ed Gorman. Murders occur during the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.
DELACORTE
The Devil's Banker (Sept., $25.95) by Christopher Reich. The CIA and British intelligence follow the money trail to a terrorist plot of awesome dimensions. 125,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Blinded (Feb., $24.95) by Stephen White. A shocking confession forces psychologist Alan Gregory to choose between saving himself and preventing a serial killer's reign of terror. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
DO-NOT PRESS
(dist. by Dufour Editions)
Grief (Nov.; $29.95, paper $16.95) by John B. Spencer is the final novel from the writer, who died last year.
DUTTON
Everyone Dies: A Kevin Kerney Novel (Sept., $23.95) by Michael McGarrity. The murder of a prominent gay attorney sends Santa Fe police chief Kerney on a chase for a seemingly unstoppable killer. Ad/promo. Author tour.
FORGE
Femme Fatale (Sept., $25.95) by Carole Nelson Douglas. Irene Adler's back to confront a dangerous facet of her past. Advertising.
The Bishop Goes to The University (Oct., $24.95) by Andrew M. Greeley. A baffling locked-room mystery takes Bishop Blackwood Ryan to Chicago's South Side. 100,000 first printing. Advertising.
Midnight Pass (Dec., $23.95) by Stuart M. Kaminsky. In the third Lew Fonesca mystery, Lew tracks down missing people who turn out to be dead. Advertising.
GREYCORE PRESS
Red Zone (Oct., $24) by Alan McTeer pits two well-intentioned characters against bad guys in South America's Guajira (Red Zone). Advertising.
HAMPTON ROADS
The Fifth Harmonic (Nov., $22.95) by F. Paul Wilson. Can the mysterious and beautiful Maya really heal a doctor's throat cancer—and at what cost?
HARPERCOLLINS
Mr. Timothy (Nov., $24.95) by Louis Bayard. In 1860 London, a grown-up Timothy Cratchit discovers the body of a 10-year-old girl. 50,000 first printing.
HEADLINE
(dist. by Trafalgar Square)
Fallen Gods: A Bob Skinner Crime Novel (Sept., $24.95) by Quintin Jardine. The wife of the revered Scottish cop is implicated in murder. Author tour.
The Templar's Penance: A Medieval West Country Mystery (Sept., $24.95) by Michael Jecks. Baldwin Furnshill and Simon Puttock investigate the rape and murder of a girl in Spain's holy city of Santiago de Compostela. Author tour.
HENRY HOLT
Flashback (Jan., $24) by Jenny Siler. Pursued by assassins in France and Morocco, a young American amnesiac suspects a devastating past. A John Macrae Book.
HOTHOUSE PRESS
(dist. by NBN)
Agent for Justice (Oct., $26) by Duke Southard is a psychological thriller featuring teachers, one of whom seeks to correct injustices as his mental instability worsens. Ad/promo. Author tour.
HYPERION
The Bone Parade (Feb., $24.95) by Mark Nykanen. A sculptor whose bronzes depict families in moments of great physical and emotional pain may employ savage means to achieve his gruesome results. 100,000 first printing. BOMC, DBC, Mystery Guild selections.
ICG-MUSE
(dist. by NBN)
No Reason for Murder (Nov., $24.95) by Ayako Sono. Fujio rapes and kills his victims until he meets Yukiko, a young pious woman who offers him a moral lifeline.
KENSINGTON
Highlights to Heaven (Dec., $20) by Nancy J. Cohen is hairdresser Marla's fifth Bad Hair Day mystery.
A Catered Murder (Dec., $22) by Isis Crawford introduces a series featuring the Simmons sisters, who are catering a high school reunion.
Polished Off (Feb., $22) by Barbara Colley. New Orleans maid Charlotte LaRue wonders whose bones are in the urn.
ALLEN A. KNOLL
Easy Come, Easy Go: A Bomber Hanson Mystery (Feb., $23) by David Champion. Hanson's son convinces him to defend Melissa McHagarty, who's charged with murdering her husband, Easy.
KODANSHA International
In the Miso Soup (Feb., $22.95) by Ryu Murakami. A Tokyo tour guide befriends an American tourist, who might be the serial killer terrorizing the city.
LITTLE, BROWN
The Big Bad Wolf (Nov., $27.95) by James Patterson. Alex Cross's new job with the FBI pits him against a team of kidnappers. Ad/promo. Author tour.
The Question of Blood: An Inspector Rebus Novel (Feb., $22.95) by Ian Rankin. A group of sinister teen goths emerges when two students are horribly murdered at an Edinburgh boarding school. Ad/promo. 15-city author tour.
LYONS PRESS
Chasing a Blond Moon: A Woods Cop Mystery (Sept., $19.95) by Joseph Heywood. Conservation officer Grady Service learns that strange events involving bears in Michigan's Upper Peninsula may be connected to the Asian black market.
MORROW
Every Secret Thing (Sept., $24.95) by Laura Lippman. This thriller examines the repercussions of crime on a community. 75,000 first printing.
A Faint Cold Fear (Oct., $24.95) by Karin Slaughter is the third entry in the Grant County series. 100,000 first printing.
Amelia Peabody's Egypt (Nov., $29.95) by Elizabeth Peters is a companion reference volume to all things Peabody. 50,000 first printing.
MYSTERIOUS PRESS
Confessions of a Deathmaiden (Sept., $23.95) by Ruth Francisco. A hospice worker discovers the truth behind the death of a young boy in her care. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
The Con Man's Daughter (Nov., $23.95) by Ed Dee. Ex-NYPD detective Eddie Dunne combs his past for clues when his 35-year-old daughter is kidnapped. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Aphrodite (Jan., $23.95) by Russell Andrews. A small-town Long Island cop is embroiled in a vast conspiracy. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
NBM PUBLISHING
The Beast of Chicago: The Murderous Career of H.H. Holmes (Sept., $15.95) by Rick Geary is a novel about the famous first serial killer.
POISONED PEN PRESS
The Cross Kisses Back: A Morgue Mama Mystery (Sept., $24.95) by C.R. Corwin. A televangelist is murdered in this series debut featuring Maddy Sprowls, a newspaper's head librarian.
Silver Lies (Sept., $24.95) by Ann Parker. Greed, lust and deception roil Leadville, Colo., in its heyday, as men and women strive to strike it rich.
FrostLine (Oct., $24.95) by Justin Scott. Ben is caught in a deadly land feud in the third book in the Ben Abbott series.
PUTNAM/MARIAN WOOD
Dragon's Lair: A Medieval Mystery (Oct., $23.95) by Sharon Kay Penman is her third tale set during the reign of Dowager Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Advertising. 10-city author tour.
QUALITY WORDS IN PRINT
(714-436-5700)
Grave Circle: An Ivory Tower Mystery (Sept., $21.95) by David D. Nolta. At an upstate Massachusetts college, professors Hiawatha and Antigone Musing unravel the murder of a notoriously unfaithful woman. Ad/promo.
RANDOM HOUSE
Lost Boy Lost Girl (Oct., $24.95) by Peter Straub. Following his mother's suicide, a teenager disappears, perhaps because of an abandoned house's hideous past. Ad/promo. 6-city author tour.
Pompeii (Dec., $24.95) by Robert Harris re-creates the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Ad/promo.
ST. MARTIN'S/MINOTAUR
The Fiend in Human: A Victorian Thriller (Sept., $24.95) by John Maclachlan Gray. In 1852 London, William Ryan awaits execution for murdering prostitutes, yet the killings continue.
A Grave Denied: A Kate Shugak Novel (Sept., $24.95) by Dana Stabenow. A mystery man is found dead as a glacier recedes.
The Distant Echo (Oct., $24.95) by Val McDermid. Four students stumble on a murdered rape victim, and when the case is reopened 25 years later, two die in suspicious circumstances.
The Empire of Shadows (Nov., $24.95) by Richard Edward Crabbe. Sergeant Detective Braddock trails a killer across the Adirondack wilderness in 1889 to clear his son of a murder charge.
SCRIBNER
Blind to the Bones (Oct., $24) by Stephen Booth. Detectives Diane Fry and Ben Cooper resolve a case of murder in an isolated community.
The Kills (Jan., $25) by Linda Fairstein. A valuable gold coin and courtroom drama figure in this novel steeped in New York City history. 125,000 first printing.
SILVER DAGGER
(800-992-2691)
Criminal Appetites (Jan.; $23.95, paper $13.95), edited by Jeffrey Marks, anthologizes 14 stories by Anne Perry, Nancy Pickard and others, each associated with a recipe.
Death by Dissertation (Feb.; $23.95, paper $13.95) by Dean James. Caught up in a murder investigation, Andy Carpenter must also work out his feelings for Rob Hayward, an old friend who has reappeared.
SIMON & SCHUSTER
Havana: A Swagger Family Novel (Oct., $25) by Stephen Hunter. Meyer Lansky, Ernest Hemingway and Castro play roles in this mystery set in 1953 Cuba. 125,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 7-city author tour.
Hello, Darkness (Oct., $25.95) by Sandra Brown. A late-night deejay helps the cops find one of her callers, who is holding a woman hostage. 600,000 first printing. Ad/promo. DBC, Mystery Guild selections. 6-city author tour.
Last Car to Elysian Fields: A Dave Robicheaux Novel (Oct., $25) by James Lee Burke. The Big Easy is the stage for an escalating tale of violence and murder. 175,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 15-city author tour.
The Frumious Bandersnatch: A Novel of the 87th Precinct (Jan., $25) by Ed McBain is the 53rd novel in the bestselling series. 100,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
STATE UNIV. OF NEW YORK PRESS
Ninochka (Sept., $26.50) by Svetlana Boym. A Russian woman living in New York City goes to Paris to reconstruct the life of a countrywoman friend, murdered there just prior to WWII.
TOR
The Dark (Oct., $25.95), edited by Ellen Datlow, collects original ghost stories. Advertising.
UGLYTOWN
(213-484-8334)
Burn (Sept., $25.95) by Sean Doolittle. A Southern California fitness guru is found murdered as wildfire rages across Los Angeles.
VIKING
Rumpole and the Primrose Path (Dec., $24.95) by John Mortimer contains six new stories featuring Horace Rumpole, who carries on despite his earlier heart attack.
The Well of Lost Plots: A Thursday Next Novel (Feb., $24.95) by Jasper Fforde. Plot devices are being sold on the black market.
WARNER
Split Second (Sept., $26.95) by David Baldacci. After failing to protect a third-party presidential candidate from death, former Secret Service agent Sean King finds history repeating itself eight years later. Ad/promo. Author tour.
The Zero Game (Jan., $25.95) by Brad Meltzer. An insider's game turns deadly in Washington, D.C. Ad/promo. 20-city author tour.
The First 48 (Feb., $24.95) by Tim Green. A father will do anything to rescue his missing daughter, even kidnap the U.S. senator he thinks abducted her. Ad/promo.
