June Publications
Quiller fans will welcome the reissue of Adam Hall's The Quiller Memorandum, which won an Edgar Award for Best Novel in 1966. In this first in a series of 19 spy thrillers, secret agent Quiller uncovers a plot in Berlin to revive Nazi Germany. (Forge, $24.95 224p ISBN 0-765-30967-X; $13.95 paper ISBN -30968-8)
Edgar nominee Jeffrey Marks (Derby Rotten Scoundrels) gathers 14 tales of culinary skullduggery with recipes from the likes of Nancy Pickard, Anne Perry and Tamar Myers in Criminal Appetites. (Silver Dagger, $23.95 206p ISBN 1-57072-260-9; $9.95 paper ISBN -261-7) The same publisher also offers Laura Young's Otherwise Engaged, her second novel (after Killer Looks) to feature reporter Kate Kelly. This mix of murder and romance also provides an inside look at a glamorous Kentucky horse farm. ($23.95 204p ISBN 1-57072-280-3; $9.95 paper -281-1)
Allison & Busby presents two historicals from British writers: Catherine Shaw's epistolary puzzler, The Three Body Problem: A Cambridge Mystery, in which a young schoolmistress must solve the murders of three mathematics professors at Cambridge University in 1888 ($25.95 288p ISBN 0-7490-0692-7); and Jonathan Aycliffe's M.R. Jamesian A Garden Lost in Time, in which a 15-year-old boy encounters some peculiar mysteries at his uncle's Cornwall estate, Trevelyan Priors, in 1917 ($25.95 288p ISBN -0687-0).
