Beautiful Books
Read by Dawn, Vol. II (Sept., $16.95), edited by Adèle Hartley. The newest entry in the Bloody Books series gathers horror tales from around the world.
Berkley Prime Crime
Shrouds of Holly (Nov., $14) by Kate Kingsbury presents the third Pennyfoot Hotel Christmas reunion special.
Bitter Lemon
Reasonable Doubts (Oct., $14.95) by Gianrico Carofiglio. Attorney Guerrieri beds the wife of his neo-Fascist thug client in the final book of this legal thriller trilogy.
Bleak House
Head Games (Sept.; $14.95, cloth $24.95) by Craig McDonald evokes a lost America rooted in the mythology surrounding the lost skull of Pancho Villa.
Bloody Brits Press
Foreign Body: A Fizz and Buchanan Mystery (Jan., $13.95) by Joyce Holms. Buchanan’s convalescence is cut short by Fizz’s search for a killer.
John Daniel/Perseverance Press
Deadly Vintage: A Molly Doyle Mystery (Sept., $14.95) by Elaine Flinn. Molly becomes enmeshed in a family squabble that leads to murder.
Houghton Mifflin
The Best American Mystery Stories 2007 (Oct.; $14, cloth $28), edited by Carl Hiaasen, collects works by veterans and talented newcomers. 75,000 first printing (paper).
Midnight Ink
Murder at the Universe: A Five-Star Mystery (Sept. $14.95) by Daniel Edward Craig depicts a murder at a posh Manhattan hotel.
On the Ropes: A Duffy Dombrowski Mystery, Round 1 (Sept., $13.95) by Tom Schreck fictionalizes the author’s experience as an inner city drug clinic director and professional boxing judge.
Mira
Silent in the Sanctuary (Jan., $13.95) by Deanna Raybourn. Lady Julia returns home to her father’s Sussex estate to discover that dark deeds are afoot.
Multnomah
Nobody (Sept., $12.99) by Creston Mapes. A reporter races against time when he discovers that a dead homeless man had a bank account.
Thomas Nelson
Dudleytown (Sept., $14.99) by Bodie Ingelvie explores a cursed town and one teen’s crusade to front the battle between good and evil.
Orion
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Wycliffe and the House of Fear (Oct., $7.95) by W.J. Burley finds the detective drawn into the troubles of an ancient Cornish family.
Penguin
Fatal Remedies (Oct., $7.99) by Donna Leon continues the travails of Commissario Guido Brunetti, embroiling his family in a terrible crime. Ad/promo.
Revell
The Pawn (Sept., $13.99) by Steven James plunges Special Agent Patrick Bowers into deadly doings in the first installment of the Bowers Files series.
Serpent’s Tail
Crossing the Dark (Sept., $14.95) by Heidi W. Boehringer explores what happens when a rescued sex slave seeks revenge.
Simon & Schuster
Who Is Conrad Hirst? (Nov., $14) by Kevin Wignall. A hired assassin questions whether he is the hunter or the hunted. Ad/promo.
Steeple Hill
Double Blind (Jan., $13.95) by Hannah Alexander. A nurse attempts to thwart a pharmaceutical company’s scurrilous plan.
Tor Books
Take Two (Nov., $14.95) by Elsa Klensch thrusts a TV producer into the internecine battles of a late publishing magnate’s family.
Touchstone
Calumet City (Feb., $14) by Charlie Newton. A series of cases threatens to reveal the traumatic past of ghetto street officer Patti Black.
Vintage
The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps: The Best Crime Stories from the Pulps During Their Golden Age—the'20s, the'30s, &'40s (Nov., $25), edited by Otto Penzler, celebrates 45 tales that popularized the genre.
