Spring Hardcovers: Fiction/Mystery & Suspense

Allison & Busby

(dist. by IPM)

Soldier of Fortune (Mar., $25.95) by Edward Marston kicks off a historical series of derring-do featuring career soldier and bon vivant Captain Rawson.

Arte Público Press

The Case Runner (Mar., $24.95) by Carlos Cisneros. On his first case, South Texas lawyer Alejandro del Fuerte becomes embroiled in a complex wrongful death case.

Atlantic Monthly Press

The Girl of His Dreams (May, $24) by Donna Leon. In his 17th appearance, Commissario Guido Brunetti explores the people and cultures at the margins of Italian life.

Baldini Castoldi Dalai Editore

(dist. by IPG)

I Kill (June, $24.95) by Giorgio Faletti. A detective and an FBI agent attempt to track down an enigmatic killer. $40,000 ad/promo. Author tour.

Bantam

Say Goodbye (July, $25) by Lisa Gardner plunges FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy into a case involving young women who disappear. 300,000 first printing

Berkley Prime Crime

The Silver Needle Murder: A Tea Shop Mystery (Mar., $23.95) by Laura Childs demonstrates that the price of fame can be murderously steep.

Dyer Consequences: A Knitting Mystery (June, $23.95) by Maggie Sefton. Kelly Flynn and her eclectic knitting circle are once again on the case.

Bethany House

The Warriors (Apr., $19.99) by Mark Andrew Olsen ponders the results of combining the spiritual world with the physical world. 29,000 first printing.

Bleak House

Easy Innocence (Apr., $24.96) by Libby Fischer Hellmann weaves murder, teen prostitution and scandal into a story that shocks Chicago’s tony North Shore.

Delacorte

Nothing to Lose (June, $27) by Lee Child sets Jack Reacher on another search for justice, this time involving military corruption in Despair, Colo. 400,000 first printing.

Fractured (July, $25) by Karin Slaughter revisits her Triptych characters in a domestic crime showdown. 140,000 first printing.

Del Rey

Indiana Jones IV (May, $24.95) by James Rollins. The indomitable archeologist-adventurer returns in his latest caper. Ad/promo. 10-city author tour. Movie tie-in.

Doubleday

Killer Heat (Mar., $26) by Linda Fair-stein. ADA Alex Cooper juggles a string of murders, a French lover and a death threat. 150,000 first printing. Author tour.

Devil May Care (May, $24.95) by Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming celebrates Fleming’s 100th birthday with another James Bond caper. 250,000 first printing. Author tour.

Rules of Deception (July, $24.95) by Christopher Reich tracks a conspiracy replete with international intrigue. 150,000 first printing. Author tour.

Dufour Editions

The Dust of Death: An Inspector Starrett Mystery (Apr., $34.95) by Paul Charles. A new series begins with an unsavory murder that forces Starrett to delve into a small town’s secrets.

Dutton

Dead Time (Mar., $25.95) by Stephen White. Psychologist Alan Gregory struggles to deal with a newly adopted son and a shaky marriage.

Five Star

The Case of the Deceiving Don (Aug., $25.95) by Carl Brookins. Feisty detective Sean Sean once again hits the mean streets of Minneapolis and St. Paul.

The Hotel Dick (Aug., $25.95) by Axel Brand leaves 1940s cop Joe Sonntag baffled by a witness who claims that Spencer Tracy murdered a hotel dick.

Grand Central Publishing

Scream for Me (May, $16.99) by Karen Rose. Special Agent Daniel Vartanian has sworn to track down the perpetrator of multiple killings.

Harcourt

The Calling (May, $24) by Inger Wolfe. A terminally ill woman’s murder delays D.I. Hazel Micallef’s retirement. 50,000 first printing. Ad/promo.

Master of the Delta (June, $24) by Thomas H. Cook unveils the dark side of smalltown lives in 1954 Mississippi. 50,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author tour.

Harper

Careless in Red (May, $26.95) by Elizabeth George brings back intrepid Insp. Thomas Lynley to solve what looks to be the perfect crime. 300,000 first printing.

Henry Holt

The Silver Swan (Mar., $25) by Benjamin Black. Dublin pathologist Quirke investigates a woman’s suspicious suicide.

Volk’s Shadow (July, $23) by Brent Ghelfi takes Volk back to Chechnya to confront an old enemy and reconnect with a lost love.

Kensington

Carrot Cake Murder (Mar., $22) by Joanne Fluke uncovers the mystery behind Hannah Swenson’s possibly poisonous cake.

Künati

MADicine (May, $24.95) by Derek Armstrong. Det. Alban Bane’s second outing takes a satiric look at genetics research companies, zombie films and more.

Little, Brown

Sail (June, $27.99) by James Patterson and Howard Roughan turns a family adventure into a life-or-death nightmare. 1.25 million first printing.

MacAdam/Cage

Judgment Day (May, $26) by Sheldon Siegel follows Mike Daley and Rosie Fernandez as they race to stop a former mob lawyer’s execution. Ad/promo. Author tour.

Mira

The Death Dealer (Apr., $24.95) by Heather Graham sets PI Joe Connolly on a hunt for a killer, with help from beyond the grave.

The Angel (May, $24.95) by Carla Neggers. A passion for myth and magic steers a woman into the heart of evil.

Morrow

The Dark Tide (Mar., $25.95) by Andrew Gross examines a woman’s quest to uncover her dead husband’s secrets. 200,000 first printing.

Blue Smoke and Murder (June, $24.95) by Elizabeth Lowell is the bestselling author’s latest romantic suspense opus. 200,000 first printing.

The Mercedes Coffin (Aug., $25.95) by Faye Kellerman marks the return of LAPD Lt. Peter Decker and his wife, Rina Lazarus. 250,000 first printing.

NAL/Obsidian

Murder, She Wrote: Murder on Parade (Apr., $19.95) by Jessica Fletcher and Donald Bain. A Fourth of July celebration ends in murder.

Mr. Monk Goes to Germany (Aug., $21.95) by Lee Goldberg presents the latest caper starring the popular TV show’s title character.

Thomas Nelson

Adam (Apr., $25.99) by Ted Dekker presents an obsessed psychologist on the trail of an elusive serial killer.

Oceanview Publishing

(dist. by Midpoint Trade)

St. Barts Breakdown (Mar., $24.95) by Don Bruns. A series of disappearances associated with music legend Danny Murtz puts an interviewer in danger.

Pantheon

The Miracle at Speedy Motors (Apr., $21.95) by Alexander McCall Smith. The ninth installment of the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series takes Mma Ramotswe to a game preserve in Botswana. Ad/promo. 9-city author tour.

Poisoned Pen Press

The Iron Tongue of Midnight (Mar., $24.95) by Beverle Graves Myers. Castrato Tito Amato must find out who’s killing the members of an opera cast.

Findings (May, $24.95) by Mary Ana Evans sets archeologist Faye Longchamp on the trail of burglars who murdered a friend hiding a precious emerald.

Quirk Books

Batman: Murder at Wayne Manor (July, $24.95) by Duane Swierczynski, illustrated by David Lapham. This interactive mystery allows readers to decide if Bruce Wayne’s father committed murder.

Random House

The Spies of Warsaw (June, $25.95) by Alan Furst views espionage intrigue in 1937 Warsaw through the eyes of a French embassy military attaché.

Scribner

Zapped: A Regan Reilly Mystery (Mar., $24) by Carol Higgins Clark. As newlyweds Regan and Jack Reilly renovate their apartment, can intrigue be far behind? 200,000 first printing.

Devil Bones (Aug., $25.95) by Kathy Reichs. Forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan encounters voodoo and witchcraft in her quest to identify two victims. 450,000 first printing.

Simon & Schuster

Where Are You Now? (Mar., $25.95) by Mary Higgins Clark. A young woman searches for her missing brother, who always leaves mom a cryptic Mother’s Day phone message. 1 million first printing.

The Broken Window (June, $26.95) by Jeffery Deaver. Lincoln Rhyme battles a masterful serial criminal who brings “identity theft” to new levels. 300,000 first printing.

Untitled (July, $26) by Robert Crais sets Elvis Cole and his sidekick, Joe Pike, on a mission to solve a rash of serial killings. 300,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 13-city tour.

Smoke Screen (Aug., $26.95) by Sandra Brown puts a firefighter’s and a news anchor’s lives on the line when they investigate a police headquarters fire. 650,000 first printing.

Simon & Schuster UK

(dist. by Trafalgar Square/IPG)

The Manor of Death: A Crowner John Mystery (June, $24.95) by Bernard Knight. County coroner Sir John De Wolfe faces a conspiracy of silence during a 12th-century murder investigation.

SoHo

Murder in the Rue de Paradis (Mar., $24) by Cara Black embroils Aimée LeDuc in Turkish and Kurdish politics as she attempts to solve her fiancé’s murder.

The Headhunters (Apr., $24) by Peter Lovesey turns a jokingly formed mutual murder society into a deadly reality.

Sphere

(dist. by Trafalgar Square/IPG)

Butcher of Smithfield: Chaloner’s Third Exploit in Restoration London (Apr., $24.95) by Susanna Gregory. Chaloner risks his life when he attempts to discover the butcher’s true identity.

Stephens Press

(dist. by Midpoint Trade)

Artist’s Proof (Apr., $24.95) by Lander Marks finds Vegas car dealer and art collector D.J. Singer searching for love and forged art aboard a luxury cruise.

St. Martin’s/Minotaur

The Killer’s Wife (Mar., $23.95) by Bill Floyd. A serial killer’s wife finds herself caught in the net of her husband’s past.

Quiver (May, $23.95) by Peter Leonard. Elmore Leonard’s son debuts with a tale of a man’s accidental death caused by his teenage son.

I Shall Not Want: A Rev. Clare Fergusson and Russ Van Alstyne Mystery (June, $24.95) by Julia Spencer-Fleming ratchets up the chemistry between Clare and Russ as they flee from danger.

Cockatiels at Seven (Aug., $23.95) by Donna Andrews. In the latest Meg Langslow mystery, the mother of Meg’s babysitting charge goes missing.

Tallfellow Press

(dist. by SCB)

From Crime to Crime: The Smart Guy’s Marching Society and Other Tales of Mystery and Murder (Mar., $24.95) by Dennis Palumbo collects whodunit tales featuring a group of “desperate husbands.”

Tyndale House

Dead Heat (Mar., $24.99) by Joel C. Rosenberg transforms the election of a new U.S. president into an international political nightmare.

Univ. of New Mexico Press

The Socorro Blast: A Sasha Solomon Mystery (Mar., $24.95) by Pari Noskin Taichert. New Mexico’s favorite PR maven learns that someone has rigged her niece’s mailbox with a bomb.

Univ. of Oklahoma Press

Mack to the Rescue (May, $24.95) by Jim Lehrer embroils fictional Oklahoma lieutenant governor Mack in a medical malpractice suit amid a nasty governor’s race.

Viking

The Likeness (July, $24.95) by Tana French. In the follow-up to In the Woods, a murder victim’s identity is the same as that previously used undercover by detective Cassie Maddox. 5-city author tour.

Waterbrook Press

Broken Angel (May, $19.99) by Sigmund Brouwer. After a near-future government schism, a young woman and her companions become fugitives in Appalachia.