Anderson, Lin. Dark Flight (15.95) May. A forensic scientist must find answers quickly when the mother and grandmother of a vanished  six-year-old boy are found brutally murdered and an African talisman made from the bones of a child is found by the bodies.

Bateman, Colin. Horse with my Name (17.95) May. Dan Starkey agrees to help a fellow journalist investigate nefarious dealings at a Belfast racetrack.

Bonnet, Xavier-Marie. First Fingerprint (32.95) May. The discovery of a prehistoric handprint of a person with only three fingers in a cave outside of Marseilles inspires a horric present-day killer, and when Michel de Palma of the Murder Squad tries to get help from the archaeologists at the university he finds a closed door.

Campbell, Karen. Twilight Time (30.95) Apr. A newly minted Glasgow police officer is faced with murdered prostitutes and racial violence—but worse she assigned to work with an ex-lover.

Cameron, Ken. Frightened Man (32.95) Apr. An American Civil War veteran living in turn-of-the-century London begins an investigation when a seeming madman turns up at his door claiming to have seen Jack the Ripper.

Charles, Paul. The Dust of Death: An Inspector Starrett Mystery (15.95) May. The beginning of a new police procedural series set in Ireland.

Cleeves, Ann. White Nights (36.95) Apr.  Shetland policeman Jimmy Perez is suspicious that the death of an Englishman during an art gallery show has its roots on the islands, suspicions t confirmed when an islander is found murdered.

Collett, Chris. Blood Money (15.95) May. DI Tom Mariner’ plans are put on hold when a child is kidnapped from a day care center and it turns out that her father is a scientist working for a company targetted by animal rights activists.

Doherty, Paul. Murder’s Immortal Mask (44.95) Apr. The Empress Helena has turned to Claudia to find a murderer stalking the streets of fourth-century Rome who preys on the prostitutes of the Temple of Isis.

_____. Templar (17.95) Apr. A novel about the founding of the Knights Templar. in twefth-century France and then in the Holy Land.

Ferraris, Zoe. Night of the Mi’raj (32.95) Apr. When the daughter o a wealthy Saudi family disappears in the desert before her wedding, a Palestinian desert guide is called in to find her, but the discovery of her murdered body sends him to the city of Jeddah to investigate her death.

Galbraith, Gillian. Blood in the Water (15.95) Apr. The first in a police procedural series featuring Alice Rice, an Edinburgh homicide detective, who investigates a series of murders among the city’s professional elite.

_____. Where the Shadow Falls (30.95) Apr. Edinburgh’s DS Rice investigates the death of a retired sheriff who was involved with controversial wind-farm developers.

Joensuu, Matti. Priest of Evil (17.95) Apr. A new police procedural series set in Helsinki.

_____. To Steal Her Love (23.95) Apr. Helsinki police are baffled by a criminal who breaks into women’s houses when they are sleeping, but does nothing and takes nothing.

Joseph, Alison.Shadow of Death (15.95) May. Preparing some antiquarian books and manuscripts for sale, Sister Agnes comes across a seventeenth-century journal written by a woman whose situation is eerily like that of a contemporary young mother she has come to know.

Knight, Bernard. Manor of Death (42.95) Apr. When the body of a murdered man is found inthe harbor town of Axmuth, Crowner John finds a wall of silence from the townspeople.

Lackberg, Camilla. Ice Princess (40.95) Apr. The first appearance in English of an award-winning Swedish novel of psychological suspense about a woman who returns to her hometown and discovers its deeply disturbing past.

Martinez, Guillermo. Book of Murder (25.95) May. Set in Buenos Aires, a fascinating look at the relationship between life and art as a former assistant to a bestselling crime novelist claims that the crimes in his books have all been committed against her friends and family.

Robb, Candace. Guilt of Innocents (15.95) Apr. Owen Archer is called in when a humble river pilot has been found murdered on the River Ouse.

_____. Vigil of Spies (27.95) Apr. Owen Archer is called to investigate when a political murder takes place while the Archbishop of York is on his death bed.

Simms, Chris. Hell’s Fire (23.95) May. Manchester DI Jon Spicer has a case involving satanists that begins with the burning of a church and ends in his own backyard.

Wingfield, R. D. A Killing Frost (32.95) Apr. DI Jack Frost must discover who is killing young girls in Denton before his superiors can fire him. A great series.

January/February/March 2008

Adair, Gilbert. The Mysterious Affair of Style (27.95) Jan. Mystery writer Evadne Mount investigates in 1946 when an actress is murdered on the set and the six people who could have poisoned her have no motive.

Aird, Catherine. Losing Ground (4299) Jan. The return of the queen of crime with another police procedural.

Billingham, Mark. Death Message (29.99) Jan. DI Thorne receives a photo of a dead man on his cell phone, and then another. When he identifies them, it gives him a clue to the killer--a convicted murderer who's in prison.

Blake, Victoria. Jumping the Cracks (23.99) Jan. PI Sam Falconer is opening a branch of her detective agency in Oxford and her first case there is set in a strange museum filled with tribal masks and shrunken heads.

Brett, Simon. Blood at the Bookies (36.95) Mar. Jude and Carole investigate when Jude walks into the Fethering betting establishment and finds the body of a Polish immigrant.

Cleeves, Ann. Hidden Depths (15.95) Jan. In a police procedural set in Northumberland, DI Vera Stanhope and her murder team investigate two deaths with the corpses covered in flowers.

Cleverly, Barbara. Folly du Jour (40.99) Jan. Joe Sandilands rushes to help a friend in Paris who is accused of murdering a man at the Folies Bergere, and receives unexpected help from a young usherette.

Corley, Elizabeth. Innocent Blood (23.95) Jan. DCI Fenwick is hunting for the members of a pedophile ring, but discovers that the case may have ties to the murder of a child twenty years ago.

De Cataldo, Giancarlo, ed. Crimini: The Bitter Lemon Book of Italian Crime Fiction (19.95) Feb. A collection of nine short stories by Italian writers. If you like Dibdin and Leon, it's time to take a look at Italians writing about crime in Italy.

Dickinson, David. Death on the Holy Mountain (40.95) Feb. Powerscourt is sent to Ireland to investigate the theft of art masterpieces from stately homes belonging to Protestant families in a case of political murder during the late Victorian period.

Ellis, Kate. Blood Pit (44.95) Mar. Wesley Peterson is investigating the case of three bodies found drained of all their blood, while his archaeologist friend is receiving anonymous letters filled with the gory details of satanic rituals being performed at a medieval abbey.

_____. Shining Skull (15.95) Jan. Wesley Peterson investigates when a child, kidnapped thirty years ago returns home in a case that has curious links to his archaeologist friend's discovery of a second body in a grave from the Regency period.

Francis, Clare. Unforgotten (36.95) Mar. An attorney handling the case of a man suing for damages after his daughter was killed in an automobile accident, receives an anonymous letter that puts him in a terrible professional dilemma.

French, Nicci. Until It's Over (36.95) Mar. A London bicycle courier brings bad luck to others, and after two murders both the police and her flat-mates are wondering if her presence isn't more than a coincidence.

Gray, Clio. The Guardians of the Key (17.95) Jan. Set during the period of the Napoleonic Wars, the Italian city of Lucca sends a missive to England as the French armies are arriving at the gates of the city, but the bearer of the letter kills himself in a London church, and a young woman who witnesses the death holds the key to save the city.

_____. The Roaring of the Labyrinth (17.95) Jan. The owner of Astonishment Hall, a museum of strange and wondrous exhibitions sends for an investigator from London when a valuable exhibit is stolen in a case of vengeance and murder.

Hayder, Mo. Ritual (34.95) Mar. When a Bristol police diver finds an unattached hand the realizes that it is part of the abduction case of a young man being handled by DI Jack Caffery.

Hurley, Graham. One Under (15.95) Jan. DI Farraday's most gruesome case is that of a man who dies chained in a railway tunnel on the London-Portsmouth line whose identity remains a mystery.

Kerr, Peter. Cruise Connection: Bob Burns Investigates (15.95) Feb. Scottish police detective Bob Burns and his sidekicks must fly to Mallorca to join a cruise ship after a severed finger is found in a quiche lorraine.

Krajewski, Marek. Death in Breslau (27.95) Mar. The first of  quartet of novels set in a city that has been on the crossroads of 20th century Europe, this is set in 1933 when the horribly mutilated body of an aristocratic lady is found in a railway carriage in a case that takes the police into the macabre rituals of the aristocracy dating back to the Crusades.

Liang, Diane Wei. The Eye of Jade (17.95) Mar. A Beijing PI is asked  is asked by a friend of her mother's to find a Han dynasty artifact that was stolen from a museum during the excesses of the cultural revolution.

McIntosh, Pat. The Merchant's Mark (15.95) Mar. A Glasgow merchant is expecting a load of books from the Low Countries, but instead he receives a severed head and treasure. When he is arrested, he appeals to attorrney Gil Cunningham to solve the mystery in the latest in this medieval Scottish series.

Morris, R.M. Gentle Ax (15.95) Mar. A new series set in St. Petersburg in the 1860's finds Porfiry Petrovich, the detective from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, on a case of murder when two bodies are found frozen in a park.

Nesbo, Jo, Nemesis (27.95) Mar. Inspector Harry Hole is faced with an armed bank robber who does not hesitate to shoot his victims if they do not follow his instructions.

Rankin, Ian. Exit Music (40.99) Jan. Just as he is tying up the loose ends before he retires, Rebus is assigned to a murder case and he suspects a connection when the death of a dissident Russian poet occurs at the same time a Russian trade delegation is in town.

Tremayne, Peter. Dancing with Demons (42.99) Jan. Sister Fidelma is asked to investigate when the High King is murdered and the threat of civil war looms over the five kingdoms of Ireland.

Upson, Nicola. An Expert in Murder (27.95) Mar. The first of a new series featuring mystery writer Josephine Tey as the sleuth set in the world of the 1930's theatre, where Tey is threatened personally and pofessionally when a murder takes place during the premiere of her latest play.

Vargas, Fred. This Night's Foul Work (25.95) Feb. Paris police commissaire Adamsberg teams up with a pathologist to solve the case that Adamsberg feels may be the work of a killer with split personalities. Highly recommended.

Walters, Michael. Adversary (15.95) Mar. When the head of Mongolia's crime empire is arrested, it appears that the Serious Crime Team has succeeded, but when the trial collapses, the policemen realize that they will be the targets of murderous revenge.

Wilson, Laura. Stratton's War (23.95) Feb. The discovery of the body of an actress in London in 1940 leads Scotland Yard DI Ted Stratton to case that involves both the Underworld and espionage--worlds of intrigue that are disturbingly similar.

I'm going to list books that are on order from the UK for the next month of two--some may have been mentioned in the newsletter and some not.
 

Adair, Gilbert. Act of Roger Murgatroyd (17.95).
Black, Ingrid. The Judas Heart (15.95).
Blake, Victoria.  Jumping the Cracks (21.95).
Dickinson, David. Death on the Nevskii Prospekt (15.95).
Doherty, Paul. Templar (42.95).
Eastman, Brian. And No Bird Sings : "Rosemary & Thyme" (15.95).
_____.  Memory of Water (15.95).
_____. The Tree of Death (15.95).
Eccles, Marjorie. The Inspector Mayo  Mysteries (21.95).
Evans, Penelope. My Perfect Silence (15.95).
Fox, James. White Mischief  (19.95).
Granger, Ann. Rattling the Bones (15.95).
Knight, Bernard. The Elixir of Death (15.95).
_____. The Noble Outlaw (15.95).
Markaris, Petros.  Zone Defence (17.95)
Nadel, Barbara. A Passion for Killing (17.95).
_____. Pretty Dead Things (42.95).
Russell, Craig. Eternal (15.95).
Smith, Carol. Unfinished Business (15.95).
Stallwood,Veronica. Oxford Double (15.95).
_____. Oxford Letters (15.95).
_____.Oxford Proof (15.95).
Taylor, Andrew. Naked to the Hangman (15.95).
Temple, Peter. A Peter Temple Omnibus : "The Broken Shore", "In the
   Evil Day", "An Iron Rose". (27.95).
Todd, Marilyn.  Blind Eye (40.95).
Wishart, David. In At the Death (17.95).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

October/November 2007

Corley, Elizabeth. Requiem Mass (15.95). DCI Andrew Fenwick is faced with a case of serial murder that has ties to the death of a young woman  years before.

Curzon, Claire. Payback (40.95). When a man’s brother is severely injured in a hit-and-run that was intended for him, he hides out in his brother’s apartment, leaving Thames Valley DS Mike Yeadings to unravel a web of deceit.

Doherty, Paul. The Poison Maiden (27.95). Set at the court of Edward II in the fourteenth century, Mathilde of Westminster must battle the French spy known as the “Poison Maiden.”

Lawton, John. Second Violin (38.95). Set in London in 1938, DS Troy is assigned to finding enemy aliens who have arrived from Europe, including his own brother, and meanwhile someone is murdering rabbis in London’s East End.

McDermid, Val. Beneath the Bleeding (38.95). Tony Hill is faced with first the murder of a football player and then a bomb in the stadium as a madman targets Bradford.

Rendell, Ruth. Not in the Flesh (38.95) Wexford must search the missing persons records when a human body is found after lying in the woods for over ten years.

Smith, Carol. Unfinished Business (15.95) A woman with a perfect life is murdered, and when police realize that she was killed in error, they know that the murderer will kill again.

Taylor, Andrew. Naked to the Hangman (15.95). When a fellow policeman is found murdered at Lydmouth Castle, DI Thornhill worries that he may have done it, even as his wife and mistress join forces to prove his innocence.

Zouroudi, Anne. Messenger of Athens (25.95) When a stranger from Athens arrives on a remote Greek Islander to investigate the death of a young woman, mysteries abound--including who sent him and why.
 

June/July 2007

Bateman, Colin. I Predict a Riot (40.95) June. A Belfast security guard meets a woman through an Internet dating service, and she unfortunately forgets to mention her violent husband. A novel of love, murder, and carrot cake.

Boswell, Joan. Cut to the Quick (20.95). June. A Toronto artist is looking forward to studying with her best friend’s husband, but the death of the man’s son changes her plans.

Carter, Maureen. Hard Time (19.95) June. A police procedural featuring DS Bev Moriss, who is still recovering from an assault when another policeman is murdered.

Charles, Paul. Sweetwater (15.95) June. Another in the series of London police procedurals featuring Ulsterman Christy Kennedy who works in Camden Town.

Cole, Emma. Every Secret Thing (15.95) June. A journalist is plunged into danger when a man is killed after telling her about a long-ago murder and her grandmother in a debut that moves from London and Canada and from WWII to the present.

Cork, Verna. Green Eye (15.95) July. A novel of psychological suspense featuring a University student who is caught up when a rapist targets women students.

Dibdin, Michael. End Games (23.95) July. Aurelio Zen is sent to Calabria in a case involving lost treasure and murder.

Disher, Gary. The Dragon Man (19.95) June. Melbourne Detective Inspector Hal Challis must face Christmas with a killer murdering women.

Evans, Penelope. My Perfect Silence (15.95) June. A woman who killed her younger brother as a child has always been protected by her older brother, but when he decides to marry his fiancee is in danger.

Fesperman, Dan. The Amateur Spy (36.95) July. A wife spys on her husband, a brilliant doctor crushed by the death of their daughter which he blames on anti-Arab sentiment after 9/11, because he may be plotting revenge.

Fordes, Elena. Die With Me (27.95) July. A police procedural set in London, where the suicide of a young woman in a church is actually a murder.

Fossum, Karin. Black Seconds (25.95) July. Sejer investigates the disappearance of a ten-year-old girl.

Hill, Susan. The Risk of Darkness (15.95) June. Simon Serrailler is faced with a case involving a missing child and a widower whose obsessional grief has turned to violence. Hill is great.

Holt, Anne. Final Murder (23.95) July. The murder of a talk show host and then a right-wing spokesman leads DI Vik to suspect a pattern.

______.Punishment (15.95) July. first in a police priocedural series set in Norway.

Hunt, Arlene. Missing Presumed Dead (25.95) June. An Irish novel of revenge and murder.

James, Peter. Not Dead Enough (27.95) June. When a Brighton socialite is murdered, the main suspect--her husband--apears to have an unbreakable alibi, but DS Grace knows he wasn’t in two places at once.

Jardine, Quintin. Death’s Door (25.95) June. DCC Skinner is after the killer of two young artists, taking him into Edinburgh’s art world.

Kelly, Jim. The Coldest Blood (15.95) July. Three decades after his suicide a man’s body is found frozen in the ice in Ely and journalist Philip Dryden investigates.

_____. Skeleton Man (27.95) July. A village that has been requisitioned for military training has been famous for never having a single crime, but that changes when a military shell reveals a body.

Kernick, Simon. Severed (27.95) June. Former soldier Sean Tyler wakes up next to the headless corpse of a woman and with no memory of the past 24 hours.

McCarthy, Keith. Final Analysis (15.95) June. With the convicted murderer of five identical murders dying in prison, it is a shock to the police when a sixth identical murder occurs.

_____. The Rest is Silence (40.95) June. A forensic pathologist is called in to investigate the murder of a young boy in a small bucolic village.

Mills, Jenni. Crow Stone (21.95) June. An engineer working in Bath finds that the secrets of her past are haunting her.

Mina, Denise. Dead Hour (15.95) July. Glasgow journalist Paddy Meehan investigates a murder in the second in the series.

O’Brien, Martin. Jacquot and the Fifteen (25.95) July. DCI Jacquot hunts a killer at a rugby team reunion in Provence.

______. Jacquot and the Master (15.95) July. Jacquot investigates murder at an artist’s retreat in the south of France.

April/May 2007

Alvtegen, Karin. Betrayal (15.95) May. A woman who is enraged at discovering her husband’s affair becomes involved with a man who has been keeping vigil at the side of his comatose girlfriend in a novel of psychological suspense.

_____. Shame (15.95)May Sweden’s best-selling novelist of psychological suspense returns with the story of two women who are trapped when a letter and a tragic accident bring the past back to life.

Brookmyre, Christopher. Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil (17.95) Apr. A comic look at criminal nature vs. criminal nurture by Scotland’s funniest writer.

Bruen, Ken. Cross (25.95) Apr. While his surrogate son is lying in a coma, Jack Taylor agrees to take on the case of a teenager crucified in Galway.

Charles, Paul. Sweetwater (15.95) May. A London based police procedural.

Curzon, Clare. The Edge (15.95) Apr. The Thames Valley PD has a case of murder in a manor house.

Hewson, David. The Promised Land (27.95) May. A former cop in prison for having killed his family has no recollection why he would kill them.

Kernick, Simon. Relentless (15.95) May. A thriller about a man who hears his friend being murdered, and before he dies, giving the killers his address.

Lennon, Patrick. Corn Dolls (15.95) Apr. A stunning debut set in farming country.

McGilloway, Brian. Borderlands (27.95) Apr. A new Irish police procedural series.

Mulgray,Helena and Morna. No Suspicious Circumstances (40.95) May. The first in a new funny series featuring D.J. Smith, an under cover agent for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, and her trained sniffer cat, Gorgonzola.

Quigley, Sheila. Every Breath You Take (23.95) May. A new police procedural.

Templeton, Aline. Lying Dead (25.95) May. DI Marjory Fleming is faced with two bodies in the remote Scottish highlands.

Walters, Michael. The Shadow Walkers (15.95) May. First in a series, where the discovery of the mutilated body of a British geologist appears to be the work of a serial killer, a job for the chief of the Mongolian Serious Crimes squad.
 
 
 

February/March 2007

Barnard, Robert. Dying Flames (15.95) Feb. The CWA Diamond Dagger Winners latest mystery.

_____. Fall From Grace (40.95) Feb. The latest from the best.

_____. Sheer Torture (15.95) Feb. The first to feature DI Perry Trethowan and one of my personal favorites.

Booth, Stephen. Scared to Live (15.95) Feb. A new mystery with two seemingly unrelated crimes coming together for Peak District detectives Diane Fry and Ben Cooper.

Brett, Simon. Death Under the Dryer (36.95) Mar. Carole expects to get a haircut when she goes to Connie’s Clip Joint, but what she gets is another murder when the body of Connie’s assistant is found in the back room.

Cleeves, Ann. Hidden Depths (29.95) Feb. DI Vera Stanhope has to find a murderer who poses his victims in water covered with flowers.

Connor, John. Child’s Game (15.95) Feb. DC Karen Sharpe investigates when a wealthy developer is found dead and his girlfriend and her child are missing.

Dahl, K.O. The Fourth Man (25.95) Mar. An Oslo police detective saves a woman in a shootout and falls in love with her, only to discover that she is the sister of a notorious gang leader. A hardboiled novel of psychological suspense.

Ellis, Kate. Shining Skull (42.95) Mar. The abduction of a young girl appears to be similar to the abduction of a young boy in 1976, but when the boy reappears, DI Wesley Peterson finds his investigation has changed.

French, Tana. In the Woods (21.95) Mar. A Dublin policeman has a hidden past in a novel of psychological suspense. For fans of Minette Walters.

Hall, Patricia. Death in a Far Country (42.95) Mar. Another police procedural featuring DI Thackeray.

Harvey, John. Gone to Ground (29.95) Feb. Police detectives called in to investigate the killing of a gay Cambridge don find that the murder had to do with the biography he was writing of a fifties’ film star.

Jardine, Quintin. Dead and Buried (15.95) Feb. DCC Bob Skinner returns in a case that has him treading the corridors of power, even going to the Prime Minister.

Kerr, Peter. The Sporran Connection (15.95) Mar. Another funny mystery featuring Scottish detective Bob Burns, investigating skullduggery in a small Highland village.

Lawrence, David. Down into Darkness (25.95) Feb. Notting Hill DS Stella Mooney realizes that the killer of two is motivated by vengeance, but for what?

Lindsay, Frederic. Tremor of Demons (40.95) Feb. Edinburgh DI Jim Meldrum returns in a case where the victim has been clinically mutilated.

Lovesey, Peter. The Secret Hangman (38.95) Feb. The latest novel of murder most foul.

Macken, John. Dirty Little Lies (27.95) Mar. The first in a new series featuring the forensic scientists of Genecode, Britain’s foremost CSI group.

O’Brien, Martin. Jacquot and the Master (25.95) Feb. The latest in the French police procedural series, this time set in Provence.

Pawson, Stuart. Shooting Elvis (15.95) Feb. A new Charlie Priest police procedural set in Yorkshire.

Roe, Graeme. Dangerous Outsider (40.95) Feb. When a new horse trainer appears in England, unexplained things start to happen, including the abduction of his horses.

Stallwood, Veronica. Oxford Menace (40.95) Feb. The latest Kate Ivory mystery set, of course, in Oxford, postponed from the fall.

Templeton, Aline. Darkness and the Deep (15.95) Feb. DS Tam MacNee is disturbed when he discovers that the wreck of the Knockhaven lifeboat was deliberate sabotage.
 

December 2006/January 2007

Burke, Richard. Redemption (15.95) Dec.A chilling psychological thriller of abduction and revenge.

Collet, Chris. Written in Blood (15.95) Dec. DI Mariner must find a killer when an explosion rocks a holiday carol service in Birmingham in the third in this proceduralseries.

Cumming, Charles. The Spanish Game (15.95) Jan. An elegantly-written spy novel by a new author compared to LeCarre, set in Madrid, where an agent who has been abandoned by MI5 is lured into a new operation.

Cutler, Judith. Life Sentence (15.95) Jan. First in a new police procedural series featuring Chief Superintendent Fran Harmon.

Gibbins, David. Crusader Gold (15.95) Jan. An adventure story about the search for the gold menorah stolen during the sack of the Temple in Jersusalem in AD70.

Hewson, David. The Seventh Sacrament (27.95) Jan. Nic Costa is back in Rome investigating the disappearance of a young boy, whose tee shirst shows miraculous signs of fresh blood.

Horton, Leslie. The Hollow Core (27.95) Jan. DI Hansford and DS Ali investigate the death of a woman after a family outing.

Hunt, Arlene. Black Sheep (15.95) Jan. A gripping Irish novel of suspense that begins with the discovery of the body of an unknown girl in the Wicklow Mountains.

James, Peter. Looking Good Dead (15.95) Dec. DS Grace helps a man who innocently picks up a CD left on a train and while trying to give it back to its owner, witnesses a murder, and brings the threat of violence on his family.

Jungstedt, Mari. Unseen (25.95) Jan. The discovery of a murdered woman on the holiday island of Gotland causes consternation because it may affect the tourist trade.

Nadel, Barbara. A Passion For Killing (42.95) Jan. A serial killer is targetting gay men in Istanbul.

Quigley, Sheila. Living on a Prayer (14.95) Dec. When her son is found dead, a woman refuses to accept the police verdict of suicide and decides to investigate herself.

Wright, Edwards. Red Sky Lament (15.95) Dec. Horn investigates when a friend is targetted by the HUAC and someone among the rich and powerful of Hollywood will kill to keep his secrets.

October/November 2006
Allingham, Marjorie. Coroner’s Pidgin (15.95) and Flowers for the Judge (15.95) Sept. Two classic detective stories from the 1930’s by a master.

Black, Benjamin. Christine Falls (27.95) Nov. The first in a new series written by Booker Prize-winning author John Banville, set in Dublin, featuring forensic pathologist Quirke, who finds an unknown body in the Pathology Department and his physician brother-in-law altering the files to cover up the cause of death.

Blake, Victoria. Skin and Blister (23.95) Nov. When her brother disappears from his Oxford College, leaving a desperate message on her phone, Sam Falconer finds that his disappearance is tied to the hanging of a student at the college.

Carver, Caroline. Beneath the Snow (15.95) Nov. When a woman disappears during a snowstorm in Alaska her sister flies from England to help search for her.

Charles, Paul. Sweetwater (36.95) Oct. A new DI Christy Kennedy police procedural.

Clark, Candida. The Chase (17.95) Oct. A fascinating look at class, love, betrayal, and vengeance set in rural England after the outlawing of foxhunting.

Cleeves, Ann. Raven Black (15.95) Oct. Set in a rural village in Shetland where a woman comes across the body of her teenaged neighbor.

Cole, Emma. Every Secret Thing (25.95) Oct. A debut mystery that moves between present-day England and Canada and war-time Lisbon as a secret murder must be uncovered.

Cordy, Michael. The Venus Connection (15.95) Nov. The discovery of a drug that causes emotions indistinguishable from the real emotion can’t be bad, can it? Especially if it makes people think that they are falling in love.

Ellis, Kate. The Wedding Hearse (15.95) Nov. The murder of a young woman preparing for her wedding day reveals that all was not perfect, including an obsessed stalker and some secrets she kept from the bridegroom in the latest archaeological police procedural.

Emerson, C.J. Objects of Desire (25.95) Nov. A debut mystery about a social worker who discovers that her move from London to Wales is not the rural fantasy she had imagined.

Francome, John. Cover Up (15.95) Sept. The head girl in a stable with a stakes winning racer cannot enjoy the success when her sadistic former boyfriend shows up.

Goddard, Robert. Never Go Back (15.95) Nov. When a group of army buddies get together for a reunion in the Scottish castle where they were all guinea pigs in a psychological experiment, things turn very ugly when one of them commits suicide.

Hall, Patricia. Sins of the Fathers (15.95) Nov. Another police procedural featuring DS Michael thackeray.

John, Katherine. Murder of a Dead Man (15.95) Nov. When a corpse is found in an area of town peopled by addicts and vagrants, police officers are shocked to find that it is of a man who died two years earlier.

Kerr, Paul. Bob Burns Investigates: The Mallorca Connection (15.95) Sept. The first in a new Scottish police procedural series with a hero who is more concerned to solve crimes than to play office politics.

Markaris, Petros. Zone Defense (23.95) Nov. Having agreed to take a vacation, Athens Inspector Costas Haritos is forced back to work when a minor earthquake spits up a corpse on the beach.

Neel, Janet. Ticket to Ride (15.95) Nov. When a solicitor takes on the case of an illegal immigrant whose brother is found dead on the shore, she discovers that she is in over her head.

Rankin, Ian. Naming of the Dead (38.95) Nov. Set during the G8 Conference, Rebus has been sidelined hunting for a serial killer, but when the apparent suicide of an MP reveals clues to the serial killer, he is drawn into the action.

Rendell, Ruth. The Water’s Lovely (38.95) Nov. A young woman has a recurring dream about a strange room in her house in the latest creepy psychological thriller.

Rickman, Phil. The Remains of an Alter (30.95) Nov. Merrily Watkins, parish priest and Deliverence Consultant for the Diocese of Hereford is called in on a case in the Malvern Hills, where a spate of road accidents appear to have a paranormal dimension.

Taylor, Andrew. Naked to the Hangman (38.95) Nov. A man is still haunted by his service in Palestine during the Mandate—the beginning of terrorism in the Middle East. Taylor is one of the best British crime writers.
 

August/September 2006
Corley, Elizabeth. Grave Doubts (25.95) Aug. A police procedural featuring DS Louise Nightingale who finds a link between a series of sexual attacks and an online game.

Hannah, Sophie. Little Face (15.95) Aug. A new mother leaves her baby for a short time and when she returns, she swears the baby is not her baby, and no one—not even her husband--will believe her.

Indridason, Arnaldur. Voices (27.95) Aug. A new mystery from Iceland’s bestselling mystery novelist, where a hotel doorman is found murdered during the busy Christmas season causing Inspector Eriendur memories of his troubled past.

Johnstone, Doug. Tombstoning (15.95) Aug. A comic mystery set in Scotland about a man who leaves home when his best friend suffers a mysterious fall off a cliff and doesn’t return for 15 years until he becomes involved with a girl from his hometown.

Jungersen, Christian. The Exception (27.95) Aug. When two of the four woman working in the Danish Center for Genocide Studies receive death threats they assume it is the work of a Bosnian war criminal, but if it’s not he, who is it?

Lennon, Patrick. Corn Dolls (40.95) Sept. What appears to be an accident in a farm machinery showroom in Cambridge is only the beginning of a nightmare for the police that harks back to the past and an obsession with vengeance.

Lindsay, Douglas. The Last Fish Supper (17.95) Sept. A comic mystery about a man looking for peace who moves to a small village on the Isle of Cumbrae, but the body on the stairs and the ghost condemned to nocturnal visits to the bathroom upset his plans.

Magson, Adrian. No Sleep for the Dead (17.95) Aug. An investigative journalist’s desire to help an old friend puts him and his partner in serious jeopardy from art thieves, black gangstas, British Intelligence, and a little old lady out for revenge. The early ones in the series are also available in paper.

Rankin, Ian. The Flood (15.95) Aug. The first novel ever published by Rankin has been reissued after being unavailable for 20 years.

Rimington, Stella. Secret Asset (27.95) Aug. MI5 Agent Liz Carlyle discovers secret meetings at an Islamic bookstore that point to a terror cell, but the Director of Counter-terrorism assigns her to check on a tip that an IRA sleeper has been placed in the ranks.

Smith, Carol. Without Warning (40.95) Aug. When a young woman falls under a subway train, the police assume it was an accident, until they find a knife. Smith is one of my favorite writers of cozy violence.

Smith, Scott B. The Ruins (27.95) Aug. A German tourist has disappeared after going off to see the Mayan ruins with a beautiful archaeologist, and his brother and some friendly Americans decide to go to find them—only to find themselves in the midst of the jungle with someone trying to kill them.

Booth, Stephen. Scared to Live (29.95) June. A house fire where a mother and her two children turns out to be murder for the Peak District detectives, in the latest in this strong police procedural series.

Collett, Chris. Written in Blood (40.95) June. DI Tom Mariner is thrust into the unofficial investigation of a violent double murder after meeting up with an old friend.

Edwardson, Ake. Never End (25.95) June. In the second Eric Winter police procedural the rape of a girl in Gothenberg is made more difficult for the police because of middle-class shame about the crime.

Fullerton, John. White Boys Don’t Cry (36.95) June. When a former South African politician is murdered, his son disappears as well, and a journalist vows to find him.

Fyfield, Frances. The Art of Drowning (27.95) July. Barrister Sarah Fortune returns in another intriguing mystery of psychological suspense, when a shy accountant is taken up by a charismatic woman from her evening class.

Gibbins, David. Crusader’s Gold (27.95) July. The gold menorah that disappeared when the Romans sacked the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD is thought by Jewish scholars to be hidden in the Vatican in a suspenseful thriller.

Hill, Susan. Pure in Heart (15.95) June. A kidnapping, a possible mercy killing, and an x-con who can’t stay straight are all part of DS Serrailler’s work.

______. Risk of Darkness (29.95) June. The third in this brilliant police procedural series set in an English cathedral town finds DS Serrailler falling in love while he works on the case of a widower whose grief leads him to madness and violence.

Holt, Anne. Punishment (23.95) July. A debut mystery featuring a Norwegian police superintendent who must find out who is murdering children and then sending the bodies to the parents with a note saying “You deserved this.”

Hunt, Arlene. Black Sheep (23.95) June. An Irish thriller that begins with the discovery of a body in the Wicklow Mountains.

Kelly, Jim. The Coldest Blood (36.95) July. Ely journalist Philip Dryden finds the body of a man frozen to death on his doorstep in a mystery that has its roots in the past.

_____. Moon Tunnel (15.95) July. Philip Dryden investigates when a skeleton is found at the excavation site of a WWII Italian POW camp.

James, Peter. Looking Good Dead (29.95) June. The second in the Sussex police procedural series featuring DS Grace who must protect a young man whose family is threatened after he witnesses a murder.

Kernick, Simon. Relentless (21.95) June. A respectable London businessman is plunged into the London underworld when a friend is murdered.

Maloney, Shane. Nice Try (15.95) July. Sydney political minder Murray Whelan is chosen to help with Australia’s bid for the Olympic Games. When an Aboriginal athlete is killed, he realizes that murder is also a contact sport.

McCarthy, Kevin. Silent Sleep of the Dying (15.95) June. A consulting  pathologist with personal problems is shocked when his autopsy of a young woman reveals suspicious cancers and a pharmaceutical company cover-up.

Mosby, Steve. The Cutting Room (15.95) June. The murder of an identified girl affects the lives of the small group of policemen assigned to the case.

Nadel, Barbara. Dance with Death (15.95) June. Istanbul homicide inspector Iskamen is called to Cappadocia when the body of a woman is found having been hidden in a cave for over twenty years.

Rickman, Phil. Smile of a Ghost (15.95) June. When a teenager dies from a fall from a ruined castle in the medieval village of Ludlow, parish priest Merilee Watkins wants to find out if it was an accident, suicide or worse.

Simms, Chris.Shifting Skin (23.95) July. First in a new police procedural series set in Manchester.

Sussman, Paul. Last Secret of the Temple (15.95) June. Luxor Inspector Khalifa investigates the death of a hotelkeeper at a seldom-visited archaeological site.

_____. Lost Army of Cambyses (15.95) June. Inspector Khalifa sees a connection between a mutilated corpse in Luxor, a murdered Cairo antiquities dealer, and a dead archaeologist in Saqqara.

Swann, Leonie. Three Bags Full (29.95) June. When their shepherd is killed, Miss Maple and the other sheep decide to stop ruminating on the clues and solve the murder, which takes them from their pasture to the neighboring village where they learn more than they ever knew about baaaad people.

Theroux, Marcel. Blow to the Heart (25.95) July. A young widow whose husband was killed is struggling to make a new life, but when she accidentally meets her husband’s killer she is overcome by obsessive hatred in a brilliant literary thriller.

Wilson, Robert. The Hidden Assassins (30.95) July. Spanish Police Inspector Javier Falcon is investigating the case of a body found in the municipal garbage dump when Seville is terrorized by an explosion that devastates an apartment building and a nearby kindergarten,  and. when a mosque is found in the basement, everyone is quick to put the blame on Muslim extremists.
 
 
 

April/May 2006

Aird, Catherine. Hole in One (15.95) Apr. DI Sloan and DC Crosby are called in when a body is found on the course by two lady golfers in a case as twisty as a championship course.

Alvtegen, Karin. Betrayal (15.95) May. One of Sweden’s top crime writers with a novel of psychological suspense.

Billingham, Mark. Buried (29.95) May. DI Thorne is called in when a high-ranking police official’s son is missing and presumed kidnapped, but it appears that the father is keeping something back.

_____. Lifeless (15.95) May. DI Thorne’s fifth case is an exploration of London, and crime on all levels of society.

Bond, Michael. M. Pamplemousse and the Militant Midwives (40.95) Apr. M. Pamplemousse and Pomme Frites become entangled with an undercover CIA agent with an unfortunate penchant for Krispy Kremes and a dog translator.

Chavarria, Daniel. Tango for a Torturer (19.95) Apr. A former Argentine revolutionary finds a notorious Uruguayan military torturer hiding out in Havana in a bawdy, funny book about military dictatorships.

Cookman, Lesley. Murder in Steeple Martin (15.95) May. When the people of a small Kentish village decide to start a theatrical troupe it rouses up the past with murderous consequences.

Curzon, Clare. The Edge (40.95) Apr. When a body is found in a stable in Buckinghamshire, Yeadings and the Thames Valley Police investigate.

_____. The Glass Wall (15.95) Apr. The death of a frail elderly lady is investigated by Yeadings and his team.

Davidson, Doris. Jam and Jeopardy (15.95) May. A busybody spinster decides to test her nephews’ devotion when she is given some arsenic to kill rats.

Dibdin, Michael. Back to Bologna (15.95) May. Still recovering from his wounds, Aurelio Zen is sent to Bologna to investigate the murder of a wealthy industrialist.

Ellis, Kate. Armada Boy (15.95) and The Merchant’s House (15.95) Apr. Reissues of the early mysteries in the archaeological police procedural series.

Evans, Penelope. Fatal Reunion (15.95) Apr. A scary psychological thriller about a wife who hooks up with a former lover on the Internet.

Fossum, Karin. Calling Out to You (15.95) May. A man is horrified when his Indian bride fails to arrive in Norway, and an Indian woman is found murdered near his village.

Goddard, Robert. Never Go Back (29.95) May. A Canadian returning to England  meets up with some former army buddies, leading to violence and death that is tied to their army service in an experimental unit fifty years ago.

Gray, Alex. Shadows of Sounds (15.95) May. DCI Lorimer investigates murder at the Glasgow Symphony Orchestra, where tangled relationships lead to the murder of the director.

Hayder, Mo. Pig Island (29.95) Apr. A journalist who exposes supernatural hoaxes goes to a remote Scottish island to investigate a secretive religious community.

Hill, Reginald. The Stranger House (15.95) Apr. A stand-alone thriller set in Cumbria. Highly recommended.

Horton, Lesley. Devils in the Mirror (15.95) May. Another gritty police procedural set in Bradford.

Mathews, Adrian. The Apothecary’s House (17.95) Apr. When an archivist at the Rijks Museum begins to investigate a painting that was looted by the Nazis, she is warned to back off of the project.

Rayne, Sarah. Roots of Evil (15.95) Apr. Scandals from the past cause murder in the present when the granddaughter of an actress who died in a in a murder-suicide at a film studio in 1952 finds the affair resurrected yet again.

Stallwood, Veronica. Oxford Letters (15.95) Apr. Oxford writer Kate Ivory hears that her mother is ill, but when she goes to visit, her mother assures her that she is well taken care of by her somewhat sinister neighbors.

Taylor, Andrew. A Stain on the Silence (29.95) Apr. A former lover, now dying, reveals to a man that not only is he the father of a 24 year-old woman, but that she is wanted by the police.
 

February/March 2006

Anderson, Louise. Death’s Sister (25.95) Feb. A barrister discovers that a murder in the US has all the earmarks of the crimes committed by her homicidal brother, who is supposed to be incarcerated.

Allingham, Marjorie. The Fashion in Shrouds and Traitor’s Purse (15.95) Mar. More classic mysteries from a master.

Banks, Carla. Forest of Souls (15.95) Mar. An  historian’s research into the WWII atrocities in Eastern Europe appears to have nothing to do with her murder, but when a friend begins to investigate, she finds that the past can still affect the present.

Beckett, Simon. Chemistry of Death (23.95) Mar. In the first in a new series, a forensic pathologist who has been working as a country doctor is called in when a grotesquely mutilated body is found in an insular village in the Norfolk marshlands.

Bento, Caroline. Path of the Dead (38.95) Mar. In the first in a new series set in Dartmoor, a Fire Brigade photographer is asked for help by her friend whose aunt has recently died, supposedly of an accidental fall into a quarry.

Blake, Victoria. Cutting Blades (15.95) Mar. PI Sam Falconer, owner of London’s fattest cat, returns to help her bother, an Oxford don. Highly recommended.

Brett, Simon. A Stabbing in the Stables (36.95) Mar. Visiting Long Bamber Stables, Jude stumbles over the body of the co-owner, so she and Carole decide to investigate further.

Cleeves, Ann. Raven Black (23.95) Feb. A woman discovers the body of her teenaged neighbor in a mystery that is told from various points of view.

_____. Telling Tales (15.95) Feb. When new evidence exonerates a woman convicted of killing a teenager, the Yorkshire villagers are upset and become more upset when the killer resurfaces.

Connor, John. Child’s Game (23.95) Feb. DC Karen Sharpe and DS Pete Bains have a case involving arson and murder in the killing of a wealthy property developer, but they do not realize immediately that his lover and her daughter have been kidnapped and are being held at gunpoint as well.

Ellis, Kate. The Marriage Hearse (40.95) Mar. In the latest in the Wesley Peterson archaeological police procedurals, a body is found at an Elizabethan manor house in the family of a playwright whose bloodthirsty play is being performed for the first time in four hundred years.

Hewson, David. The Lizard’s Bite (29.95) Mar. Roman policemen Nic and Giani are sent to investigate a fire in a glass-making factory that claimed two lives, but what appears an open and shut case is anything but.

_____. The Sacred Cut (15.95) Mar. A fantastic Roman police procedural set on Christmas Eve, with a wonderfully twisty plot and well-drawn characters.

Hines, Joanna. The Murder Bird (25.95) Mar. When a poet is found dead in her bath, her daughter insists that it was murder because there is no trace of the poem she was writing.

Leon, Donna. Blood from a Stone (15.95) Mar. Brunetti investigates the death of an African street vendor in Venice’s Campo San Stefano.

Lovesey, Peter. Circle (15.95) Mar. When a publisher is murdered after speaking to their writer’s circle, the unpublished writers fall under police suspicion.

McDermid, Val. The Grave Tattoo (38.95) Feb. When torrential rains in the Lake District uncover a bizarrely tattooed body, old wives’ tales surface tied to the  18th century and the mutiny on the HMS Bounty.

McDowall, Iain. Killing for England (15.95) Mar. DI Jacobson and DS Kerr are urged to investigate the death by drowning of a young black man as a racial killing. All the mysteries in this wonderful police procedural series are being reissued in mass market this month and Clues will have them all.

Penny, Louise. Still Life (15.95) Feb. A charming, well-written debut set in the small Canadian village of Three Pines, where a beloved inhabitant is found dead, shot by an arrow, on Thanksgiving Day.

Sherez, Stav. The Devil’s Playground (15.95) Feb. When he is asked to identify the body of a mysterious friend who died in Europe, Jon Reed vows to find out what happened, leading him to a horrific history of terror and mass-murder in Europe’s murky past and a killer who is still waiting to be brought to justice.

Wagner, Jan Costin. Ice Moon (25.95) Feb. The means of killing his victims, leaving them as if they are sleeping peacefully, creates a sense of affinity with the “humane killer” on the part of the young policeman investigating the deaths.

Walsh, Jill Paton. Debts of Dishonour (40.95) Feb. After a long absence, Cambridge sleuth Imogen Quy returns in the case of a murdered financier whose death casts suspicions on her one-time lover.

Weisman, Francesca. Shape of a Stranger (15.95) Feb. A criminal barrister feels fortunate when he is attacked but still alive, until he realizes that the attack was only the beginning of a campaign of malice by someone from his past.
 
 

December2005/January 2006

Allingham, Marjory. Tiger in the Smoke (17.95) Jan. A reissue of one of my favorite of the Albert Campion mysteries. This is as eerie a depiction of London as you’ll find outside of Dickens.

Bruen, Ken. Priest (25.95) Jan. The decapitation of a Galway priest appears to be tied to the sexual scandals surrounding the Catholic Church.

Collett, Chris. Blood of the Innocents (15.95) Jan. A police procedural set in Birmingham featuring DI Tom Mariner.

Davies, Freda. Let Heaven Fall (36.95) Jan. When her husband falls under a train and is killed, journalist Sue Bennett begins to investigate his life in the months before the accident and discovers that his death may have been no accident.

Heller, Mandasue.  Charmer (23.95) Dec. A young woman who left Manchester after the murder of her mother is set to spend a year traveling after University, but she receives a letter saying she has inherited property changing her plans.

Hurley, Graham. Blood and Honey (23.95) Jan. The sixth in the police procedural series featuring Joe Faraday. Highly recommended.

James, Peter. Dead Simple (15.95) Jan. The first in a new series featuring DS Grace who is faced with four bodies, a missing man, and a distraught fiancée after a stag prank goes horribly wrong.

Jardine, Quintin. For the Death of Me (25.95) Dec. In the latest to feature crime investigator Oz Blackstone, he is relaxing in Monaco, thinking how great things are little knowing what’s in his future….

MacBride, Stuart. Cold Granite (15.95) First in a new police procedural series set in Aberdeen. Highly recommended.

Martinez, Guillermo. The Oxford Murders (15.95) Jan. A fascinating thriller about a mathematician who begins receiving coded notes after discovering the body of an elderly woman who had worked on the Enigma project during WWII.

Nadel, Barbara. Dance with Death (42.95) Jan. Istanbul Inspector Ikmen is called in when the body of a woman, killed twenty years ago is found in cappadocia.

Parsons, Julie. The Hourglass (36.95) Jan. A psychological thriller for fans of Margaret Yorke or Nicci French. An elderly woman is befriended by a young man whom she sends to Belfast to look for her estranged daughter.

Porter, Henry. Three Great Novels (29.95) Dec. If you like intelligent and well-written spy novels, you’ll love Porter. Highly recommended.

Quigley, Shiela. Bad Moon Rising (10.95) Jan. First in a new police procedural series, featuring DI Lorraine Hunt, who must search for a killer who’s targeting woman during festival week in Houghton-le-Spring.

Van Mil, Ilona. Sugarmilk Falls (17.95) Jan. A Canadian thriller, winner of the CWA Silver Dagger set in a small rural village where the uneasy relationship with Native Americans led to a tragedy years ago.

Vargas, Fred. Seeking Whom He May Devour (15.95) Jan. Set in the Swiss Alps, a creepy story about a wolf who is preying on sheep, but this is a wolf of unusual strength and savagery. Is it a normal wolf???

Wentworth, Priscilla. The Gazebo (15.95) Jan. The return of the Miss Silver series, a classic golden-age cozy, is good news for those who like village mysteries. Check for additional titles.
 

October/November 2005
Astbury, Margaret. The Devil’s Own Daughter (40.95) Nov. When a young journalist is assigned a story on “old wives’ tales” little does she know that her research will dig up clues to a string of arsons and murders.

Atkins, Meg Elizabeth. Suburban Death (40.95) Nov. Atkins is one of my favorite writers of civilized and ironic English village mysteries.

Bateman, Colin. Belfast Confidential (38.95) Nov. Dan Starkey is in the midst of moving when his best friend is murdered in the latest in this very funny series.

_____. Murphy’s Revenge (15.95) Nov. Second in the Irish police procedural series with Martin Murphy who decides to take the law into his own hands when he finds the murderer of a loved one
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Carver, Caroline. Black Tide (15.95) Oct. A new thriller set in the Australian Outback.

Cutler, Judith. Drawing the Line (15.95) Oct. The discovery of an antiquarian book sends a young woman on a search for her father
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Davis, Margaret T. Deadly Deception (34.95) Oct. A fast-moving thriller set in Glasgow.

Eastman, Brian. Tree of Death (40.95) Nov. The first in a new, very funny crime series
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Fox, Katherine. Malicious Intent (15.95) First in a new series featuring a forensic pathologist who discovers that the death of a teenager may be linked to other deaths being investigated by the police.

Fyfield, Frances. Safer Than Houses (25.95) Oct. London attorney Sarah Fortune investigates another mystery.

Gash, Jonathon. Year of the Woman (15.95) Oct. A thriller set in Hong Kong at the time of the Chinese takeover
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Goddard, Robert. Sight Unseen (6.99) Nov. A graduate student studying the eighteenth-century satirist Junius is present at the prehistoric site in Avebury when a child is abducted and her sister killed. Highly recommended.

James, Bill. Wolves of Memory (38.95) Nov. When a sting operation is disrupted by a police raid, Harpur and Iles fear that a traitor is in their midst.

Masters, Priscilla. Plea of Insanity (15.95) Nov. A chilling crime novel set in a locked psychiatric facility in the Midlands.

McGill, Robert. The Mysteries (15.95) Nov. A compelling literary mystery
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Murphy, Margaret. Now You See Me (40.95) Nov. When a woman disappears leaving only discarded computer files, the police decide she was murdered by a stalker, but a computer hacker destroying people’s lives my be tied to the disappearance.

Nesbo, Jo. Devil’s Star (25.95) An award-winning Scandinavian crime novel.

O’Brien, Maureen. Every Breath You Take (15.95) Oct. Another police procedural featuring DI John Bright.

Penny, Louise. Still Life (40.95) Oct. The first in a new cozy village series set in Canada’s northern provinces. The discovery of a body in the woods over Thanksgiving weekend brings DCI Armand Gamache from the Surete du Quebec to investigate.

Pitman, Richard. Bet Your Life (15.95) Oct. A mystery set in the world of horse racing.

Walters, Minette. The Devil’s Feather (38.95) Oct. Set in war-ravaged Sierra Leone, this is a timely novel where the use of private security firms provides a refuge for a psychopathic killer in the midst of the mercenaries, and the murder of five women is hidden by the violence of war.

August/September 2005

Adams, Jane.A Kiss Goodbye (40.95) Aug. A new thriller by a master of the psychological thriller mixed with supernatural elements.

Barnard, Robert. Dying Flames (40.95) Sept. The latest from a master.

Carter, Maureen. Dead Old (17.95) Aug. When an elderly doctor is murdered in Birmingham, everyone assumes that she was the victim of a gang that has been preying on elderly woman, everyone except DS Bev Morriss, who thinks that the motive was revenge.

Connor, John. The Playroom (14.95) Sept. The second in the Yorkshire police procedural featuring DC Karen Sharpe.

Cork, Vena. Thorn (15.95) Aug. A stalker has discovered a new way to terrorize his victims in this novel of psychological suspense.

Diamond, Sarah. The Spider’s House (15.95) Sept. A psychological thriller for fans of Minette Walters.

Ellis, Kate. Cursed Inheritance (15.95) Sept. The latest archaeological police procedural set in the West Country.

Evans, Geraldine. Love Lies Bleeding (40.95) Aug. DI Rafferty’s murder investigation is made more difficult when the chief suspect is a beautiful woman.

Evans, Liz. Cue the Easter Bunny (40.95) Aug. PI Grace Smith returns in another comic investigation.

Francome, John. Back Hander (15.95) Sept. Written by a retired jockey, this is a more “horsy” Dick Francis.

Frasier, Antonia. Three Great Novels (29.95) Aug. The first three Jemima Shore mysteries in an omnibus edition.

Hall, Patricia. False Witness (15.95) Aug. DI Thackeray investigates a case that points up racial prejudice within the Liverpool police force.

_____. Sins of the Fathers (40.95) Aug. Another Liverpool police procedural.

Hines, Joanna. Angels of the Flood (15.95) Aug. A tense novel of art and mystery set in Venice.

Horton, Leslie. Devils in the Mirror (27.95) Sept. A gritty crime novel set in Bradford.

Joncour, Serge. UV (15.95) Sept. A bestseller in France, this is literary suspense set in the sultry summertime of the French bourgeois vacation.

Mankell, Henning. The Man Who Smiled (36.95) Sept. Kurt Wallander returns, still disillusioned, but now both the hunter and the hunted.

Markaris, Petrus. Late Night News (15.95) Aug. The first in the trilogy written by a Greek crime writer, featuring an investigative reporter.

McDowall, Iain. Killing for England (40.95) Aug. The fourth in the brilliant police procedural series featuring DI Jacobson. This is one of my favorite series because it hearkens back to the classic detective stories.

O’Brien, Martin. Jacquot and the Angel (25.95) Sept. DI Jacquot returns to investigate a crime in Provence that is tied to events from WWII.

Orczy, Baroness. The Old Man in the Corner (19.95) Sept. Twelve classic tales of detection written in the early twentieth century.

Purser, Ann. Fear on Fridays (40.95) Aug. The fifth in the delightfully cozy series featuring village house cleaner Lois Meade.

Rendell, Ruth. Thirteen Steps Down (15.95) Aug. A psychological thriller about a strange young man obsessed with 10 Rillington Place—the home of the famous murderer Christie--and his reclusive, and not entirely sane, landlady.

Smith, Carol. Vanishing Point (40.95) Sept. Five women are in love with the same man—a man who has a secret past they know nothing about. Smith is one of my favorite crime writers for her perceptive handling of the psychology of crime.

Stallwood, Veronica. Oxford Letters (40.95) Sept. Returning from vacation, Kate Ivory receives some alarming news in the latest in this first-rate series.

Taylor, Andrew. Call the Dying (15.95) Aug. A new edition of a classic police procedural featuring DI Richard Thornhill. These are GOOD!

Wentworth, Patricia. The Case is Closed (15.95), The Chinese Shawl (15.95), and The Case of William Smith (15.95) Sept. Classic mystery stories featuring the redoubtable Miss Silver reissued.

June/July 2005

Alvtegen, Karin. Betrayal (23.95) June. A woman discovers that her husband is having an affair, and her rage and grief drive her to vengeful action. A huge bestseller in Sweden.

Ambrose, David. Coincidence (15.95) June. A series of seemingly random events… are they simply coincidence or something much more sinister? Ambrose does creepy really well.

Billingham, Mark. Lifeless (27.95) June. London DI Tom Thorn returns in another first-rate police procedural.

Booth, Stephen. The Dead Place (27.95) June. A madman sends letters to the Peak District Police Force announcing a killing.

Edwardson, Ake. Sun and Shadow (25.95) June. First of police procedural series set in Sweden, featuring Inspector Winter.

Fossum, Karin. Calling Out for You (25.95) July. The latest in the brilliant Norwegian police procedural series.

Fyfield, Frances. Looking Down (15.95) June. Lawyer Sarah Fortune investigates the murder of a young girl.

Gray, Alex. Shadows of Sounds (25.95) June. While the Glasgow Orchestra is rehearsing, a murder takes place backstage in this Scottish police procedural.

Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia. The Second Bill Slider Omnibus (25.95) July. For those who have missed some of the early mysteries in this police procedural series, all six are now available in  reasonably-priced omnibus editions.

Hill, Jane. Grievous Angel (25.95) A debut novel of psychological suspense.

Hill, Susan. Pure in Heart (27.95) June. The second in the first-rate new Police procedural series has DCI Simon Serrailler dealing with a missing child and the death of a severely handicapped young woman.

_____. Various Haunts of Men (15.95) June. The first in a new police procedural series featuring the enigmatic DCI Simon Serrailler. Hill is a virtuoso at creating characters that come alive.

Jardine, Quintin. Alarm Call (15.95) June. The latest Oz Blackstone crime thriller.

_____. Lethal Intent (25.95) July. Albanian gangsters have arrived in Edinburgh undercover. When Skinner and his men realize it, they run up against MI5 agents who are trying to keep them from killing a member of the Royal Family.

Kelly, Jim. Fire Baby (15.95) June. A private duty nurse hears the disturbing confession of a dying woman and tells newspaperman Philip Dryden. I loved the first in this series.

______. Moon Tunnel (25.95) June. The third featuring Philip Dryden.

Kernick, Simon. Good Day to Die (27.95) June. The latest from the master of gritty urban noir, featuring London policeman Dennis Milne.

LaPlante, Linda. Above Suspicion (15.95) July. A conman who’s lost his money in the dotcom bubble and his possible Derby winner make for suspense.

McCarthy, Keith. Final Analysis (36.95) June. Third in a first-rate forensic series. The conviction of a madman who killed five people is called into question when a sixth body—identically murdered—appears, and Beverly Watkins’ former sergeant is determined to find the real killer at her expense.

McDowall, Iain. Killing for England (40.95) July. The latest in the police procedural series featuring DCI Jacobson. This is first-rate, old fashioned mystery that will remind you of Colin Dexter.

Neel, Janet. Ticket to Ride (40.95) July. A solicitor takes on the case of an illegal immigrant from the former Yugoslavia whose brother is one of eight asylum seekers found dead on the beach of King’s Lynn. Neel has been missing from the mystery scene for way too long.

Porter, Henry. Brandenburg (23.95) June. The master of the international thriller takes on the fall of communism in this suspenseful masterpiece.

Robinson, Peter. Strange Affair (15.95) June. The latest Inspector Banks mystery set in Yorkshire.

Robotham, Michael. Lost (27.95) June. A novel of psychological suspense where an amnesiac police inspector is suspected of a murder.

Somoza, Jose Carlos. The Art of Murder (17.95) June. A suspenseful and atmospheric thriller of high art and low morals.

Tope, Rebecca. A Cotswold Killing (15.95) June. First in a new series of cozy village mysteries set in the Cotswolds.

Verissimo, Luis Fernando. Borges and the Eternal Ourangutan (15.95) June. A hilarious spoof of academic conferences and a brilliant Borgesian mystery.

Wilson, Robert. The Silent and the Damned (15.95) July. The second in the brilliantly dark series featuring Spanish detective Javier Falcon, who investigates when a madrilena disappears from her apartment.