FICTION/MYSTERY & SUSPENSE
AKASHIC
Brooklyn Noir (July, $15.95), edited by Tim McLoughlin, includes such contributors as Pete Hamill and Nelson George.
ALLISON & BUSBY
Lifestory (Mar., $15.95) by Alison Habens. Stretching across centuries and continents, a couple is destined to be together if only they could stop killing each other.
ALYSON
The Wombat Strategy: A Kylie Kendall Mystery (May, $13.95) by Claire McNab launches a series featuring an Australian lesbian trying to run her late father's detective business in L.A. Author tour.
ARTE PÚBLICO PRESS
Crimson Moon (Mar., $12.95) by Lucha Corpi. The student movement at Berkeley in the late 1960s collides with international conspiracy and rape.
BALLANTINE
Reprint: Dragon Bones (Mar., $12.95) by Lisa See.
BERKLEY PRIME CRIME
Anatomy of a Crossword (July, $13) by Nero Blanc. Crossword editor Belle Graham and her husband solve a mystery set in Hollywood's television industry.
JOHN DANIEL
A Fugue in Hell's Kitchen: A Katy Green Mystery (Mar., $13.95) by Hal Glatzer. In 1939, swing musician Katy Green encounters manuscript theft and New York gangs.
The Affair of the Incognito Tenant: A Mystery with Sherlock Holmes (Mar., $13.95) by Lora Roberts. Sherlock falls in love with a passionate young widow who saves his life.
DENLINGER'S
The Girl in Blackmaer Lake: A Bertan Crane Novel (Apr., $9.95) by R.J. Gillens. In the first in a series, Bertan solves the mystery of a local girl's murder.
DO-NOT PRESS(dist. by Dufour Editions)
Kiss It Away (Mar., $14.95) by Carol Anne Davis. Mistaken identities roil this grim noir.
HARCOURT/HARVEST
Blood Is Dirt: A Bruce Medway Mystery and A Darkening Stain:... (both July, $14 each) by Robert Wilson are the third and fourth entries in this series.
HAWORTH PRESS
Shadows of the Night: Queer Tales of the Uncanny and Unusual (Mar., $16.95), edited by Greg Herren, anthologizes gay and lesbian horror stories.
JUSTIN, CHARLES & Co.
Blood Red Blues: A Devil Barnett Novel (June, $12.99) by Teddy Hayes debuts a hard-boiled Harlem noir series. Ad/promo. Author tour.
LITTLE, BROWN UK (dist. by Trafalgar Square)
Mysterious Pleasures: A Celebration of the Crime Writers' Association's 50th Anniversary (Mar., $17.95), edited by Martin Edwards, includes pieces by Dick Francis and Ruth Rendell.
MODERN LIBRARY
Reprint: The Book of Spies: An Anthology of Literary Espionage (June, $14.95), edited by Alan Furst.
MOODY PUBLISHERS
Gun Lake (Apr., $12.99) by Travis Thrasher. Seven prisoners escape from a Georgia prison. 15,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.
PENGUIN
Reprint: Uniform Justice (May, $7.99) by Donna Leon, 200,000 first printing.
PLUME
Reprint: Moon over Manhattan (June, $7.99) by Larry King and Thomas H. Cook.
POISONED PEN PRESS
Deal to Die For (Apr., $14.95) by Les Standiford. Investigating the supposed suicide of his wife's best friend, Deal is pulled into the orbit of Chinese gangsters in the porn business.
POLYGON(dist. by Interlink)
Damage Land: New Scottish Gothic Fiction (Mar., $15), edited by Alan Bissett, creates new demons for the modern age.
REVELL
Invisible (Aug., $12.99) by Lorena McCourtney introduces a trilogy starring a quirky female sleuth.
RUNNING PRESS
Utterly Ingenious Five-Minute Mysteriesand Absolutely Amazing Five-Minute Mysteries (both Mar., $8.95 each) by Ken Weber serve up a variety of succinct whodunits.
ST. MARTIN'S/MINOTAUR
Blitz (June, $12.95) by Ken Bruen is an edgy cop novel set in London.
I Love My Smith & Wesson (Aug., $12.95) by David Bowker. Billy's childhood friend turned assassin falls in with the Manchester underworld.
SERPENT'S TAIL
Nineteen Eighty (Apr., $16) by David Peace. After the Ripper murders his 13th victim, an assistant chief constable is really on the spot.
STERLING
100 Crooked Little Crime Stories and 100 Malicious Little Mysteries (both May, $12.95 each), selected by Martin H. Greenberg et al., encompass a broad world of mayhem.
THREE RIVERS PRESS
Gargantuan: A Ruby Murphy Mystery (May, $12.95) by Maggie Estep. Ruby learns that the apprentice jockey she's been hanging out with has a price on his head. Author publicity.
UNIV. OF NEW MEXICO PRESS
Accustomed to the Dark: A Joshua Croft Mystery (Mar., $13.95) by Walter Satterthwait. When PI Joshua Croft's partner, Rita, is shot, he pursues the attacker from New Mexico to the Everglades.
VINTAGE
Reprints: Samaritan (June, $14) by Richard Price, 60,000 first printing; Bangkok 8 (July, $12.95) by John Burdett, 100,000 first printing.
