AKASHIC
Manhattan Noir (Apr., $14.95), edited by Lawrence Block, traverses the borough with crime stories from Jeffery Deaver, S.J. Rozan et al.
BERKLEY PRIME CRIME
Death by Design (July, $14) by Laura Childs collects the first three entries in the Scrapbooking mystery series into one volume.
BITTER LEMON
Havana Black (June, $14.95) by Leonardo Padura, trans. by Peter Bush, investigates the murder of a Cuban exile with a secret life.
BROADMAN HOLMAN
Walk Back the Cat (May, $16.99) by Pamela Binnings Ewen investigates the reason behind a corrupt clergyman's mission to destroy the church.
CDS BOOKS
Mexican Booty: A Lucy Ripken Mystery (May, $11.95) by J.J. Henderson. Lucy discovers a double murder while on the trail of an art forgery.
JOHN DANIEL CO.
Face Down Beside St. Anne's Well (Apr., $13.95) by Kathy Lynn Emerson. It's 1575, and sleuth Susanna Appleton's foster daughter believes her tutor has been murdered.
HARVEST HOUSE
Blind Dates Can Be Murder (Mar., $11.99) by Mindy Starns Clark finds Jo wondering who her date was and why he's dead, and what's wrong with her love life.
LUNA
Thunderbird Falls (May, $14.95) by C.E. Murphy. The follow-up to Urban Shaman follows Joanne Walker as she hones her shamanic abilities and detective skills.
MCCLELLAND STEWART
Vices of My Blood (Mar., $18.95) by Maureen Jennings plunges Det. Murdoch into the investigation of a minister's murder.
MIDNIGHT INK
The Knowland Retribution (Mar., $15.95) by Richard Greener launches a series featuring the Locator, Walter Sherman.
Dot Dead (July, $14.95) by Keith Raffel. A Silicon Valley hotshot tries to find his housekeeper's murderer.
OHIO UNIV. PRESS/SWALLOW PRESS
A Prayer for the Night: An Ohio Amish Mystery (June; $12.95, cloth $38.95) by P.L. Gaus centers on the kidnapping and murder of Amish teens on their Rumschpringe.
ORION (dist. by Trafalgar Square)
Cue the Easter Bunny: A PI Grace Smith Investigation (Mar., $15.95) by Liz Evans. Grace ditches her Tourist Board bunny suit to discover who's sending threatening letters.
PEGASUS
The Angel's Promise (July, $15.95) by Frédéric Lenoir and Violette Cabesos. At Mont-Saint-Michel, an archeologist discovers one monk's treachery and another's forbidden love affair.
RANDOM HOUSE
The Death of Achilles: An Erast Fandorin Mystery (Apr., $12.95) by Boris Akunin. The author of The Winter Queen pits Fandorin against a new nemesis in 1882 Moscow. Ad/promo.
WATERBROOK
The Cross Examination of Oliver Finney (Mar., $13.99) by Randy Singer is released simultaneously with The Cross Examination of Jesus Christ.
