ALLISON & BUSBY
As Bad As It Gets (Mar., $10.95) by Julian Rathbone. PI Chris Shovelin's vacation in Kenya goes sour.
ALYSON
The Kookaburra Gambit: A Kylie Kendall Mystery (Apr., $13.95) by Claire McNab. Hosts of an Australian TV show hire Kylie to crack a smuggling ring. Advertising.
BEHLER
Angels Fallen (July, $15.95) by Frank Smith hinges on $15 million in Polish gold reserves stolen in 1944. Advertising.
BERKLEY PRIME CRIME
Another Word for Murder (July, $14) by Nero Blanc is installment seven in the Crosswords Mystery series.
Bloodless Shadow (July, $14) by Victoria Blake introduces PI Samantha Falconer.
BRAVA
Murder in the Hamptons: A "Wicked" Woman Whodunit Mystery (May, $14) by Amy Garvey. Before Maggie can enjoy a second round with a past one-night-stand, she has to find the killer of a bad-boy actor.
BURD STREET PRESS
Bark of the Tree: A Lazy Dog Mystery (Mar., $14.95) by Mike Silvestri. A romp in the woods unearths a murder.
DAFINA
A Landlord's Tale (Mar., $15) by Gammy L. Singer. In 1970's Harlem, a smooth-talking man is presented with a chance to go legit.
JOHN DANIEL & CO.
Face Down in the Banqueting House: A Lady Appleton Mystery (Apr., $13.95) by Kathy Lynn Emerson takes place during a royal visit to the home of the 16th-century sleuth.
HEADLINE (dist. by Trafalgar Square)
The Ghosts of Glevum: The Libertus Mysteries of Roman Britain (Apr., $9.99) by Rosemary Rowe continues the series with the former slave and amateur sleuth set in the 2nd century, where the guest of honor is found dead in the vomitorium.
LOST COAST PRESS
Graven Images: The Averillan Chronicles, Book II (Mar., $16.95) by Barbara Reichmuth Geisler. In 1141, murder disturbs the nuns of the Benedictine Abbey at Shaftesbury. Advertising. Author tour.
MCCLELLAND & STEWART
Night's Child: A Detective Murdoch Mystery (May, $18.95) by Maureen Jennings. Murdoch goes after a photographer who has sexually exploited a young girl.
PENGUIN
The Dragon Scroll (Aug., $12) by I.J. Parker presents Sugawara Akitada, an impoverished nobleman and Ministry of Justice clerk in 11th-century Japan on a mission to discover why tax convoys keep disappearing.
POCKET BOOKS
Died in the Wool (June, $12) by Mary Krueger starts a cozy knitting-themed series set on the coast of Massachusetts.
Shadows on the Ivy (July, $12) by Lea Wait. A female college professor/antique dealer investigates the poisonings of two single parents living on campus.
From Here to Reality (Aug., $14) by Steve Schindler is a confection about a New York Yankee in King Hollywood's Court.
RANDOM HOUSE
Transgressions (June, $13.95) by Sarah Dunant. A woman is stalked inside her own townhouse.
SERPENT'S TAIL
Antwerp (May, $15) by Nicholas Royle. An English film critic arrives in town to interview a cult film maker and turns investigative journalist when two prostitutes are murdered.
S&S/TOUCHSTONE
The Traitor (Aug., $14) by Guy Walters. During WWII, a British secret agent captured on Crete by the Nazis agrees to lead a band of traitors in order to save his wife, interned in a concentration camp.
THOMSON/FIVE STAR
Bombshell (June, $13.95) by Barbara and Max Allan Collins is a comic espionage thriller that takes place in 1959, when Nikita Khrushchev is determined to meet Marilyn Monroe.
TOBY PRESS
The Cybelene Conspiracy (May, $14.95) by Albert Noyer continues the Getorius and Arcadia Mystery series where a eunuch archpriest is up to no good. Author tour.
TRANSWORLD (dist. by Trafalgar Square)
Post Mortem (Apr., $17) by Ben Elton inaugurates a new series that is both a thriller and comic romance.
TYNDALE HOUSE
Paid in Blood (May, $14.99) by Mel Odom begins a new series involving Naval Criminal Investigative Services.
UNIV. OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESS
Tar Heel Dead: Tales of Mystery and Mayhem from North Carolina (Apr., $15.95), edited by Sarah R. Shaber, anthologizes 18 short stories set in North Carolina or written by Tar Heel authors.
VILLARD
14 Degrees Below Zero: A Novel of Psychological Suspense (June, $13.95) by Quinton Skinner. During a harsh Minnesota winter, a woman is torn by conflicting loyalties when an encounter between her father and her boyfriend ends with the latter comatose.
VINTAGE
Self's Punishment (Mar., $12) by Bernhard Schlink and Walter Popp. PI Gerhard Self investigates fishy alterations to computer files. Advertising.
WATERBROOK PRESS
Self Incrimination (May, $12.99) by Randy Singer. A defense attorney grapples with her client's self-destructive behavior.
WESTBOW PRESS
The Lazarus Trap (Mar., $14.99) by Davis Bunn. Could waking up dead be the chance of a lifetime?
ZONDERVAN
Breaker's Reef (Mar., $12.99) by Terri Blackstock. The scene of a murdered teenage girl matches one in a book by a mystery writer who has moved to the island; the Cape Refuge series.
Dead of Night (May, $12.99) by Brandilyn Collins. A serial killer has a unique MO; the Hidden Faces series.
