Fall 2001 Hardcovers: Fiction/Mystery & Suspense

ACADEMY CHICAGO
Murder at the Panionic Games (Nov., $23.50) by Michael B. Edwards is set in the Greek city-state of Prirene in 650 B.C.

AKASHIC BOOKS
The Eye of Cybele (Feb., $27) by Daniel Chavarría. In ancient Greece, at the time of Pericles, a mad priest and a whore join Socrates on a quest for a lost jewel.

ALLISON & BUSBY
Killing the Fatted Calf (Sept., $26.95) by Susan Kelly. After 30 years, a man discovers his real mother and unraveling secrets.
Homage (Oct., $24.95) by Julian Rathbone. A murder in the U.S. attracts the attention of a British PI.

AMISTAD PRESS
Phat Death: A Nina Halligan Mystey (Feb., $22) by Norman Kelley. PI Nina Halligan investigates the murders of hip-hop artists. 26,000 first printing.

BALLANTINE
The Surgeon (Sept., $24.95) by Tess Gerritsen. Only one woman can nab a sadistic killer terrorizing Boston. Advertising. Author publicity.
Funeral in Blue (Oct., $25) by Anne Perry. Investigator William Monk and his wife, Hester, try to save a distinguished Viennese surgeon from hanging. Advertising. MG selection.
Dr. Stark's Last Vacation (Feb., $25) by John Katzenbach. A New York City psychiatrist must uncover the identity of a former patient who is threatening his life.

BANTAM
The Next Accident (Sept., $23.95) by Lisa Gardner. An FBI agent's daughter dies, and an investigator turns up evidence suggesting it was no accident. 50,000 first printing. Ad/promo. LG, DBC, MG selections. Author publicity.
Puzzled to Death (Nov., $23.95) by Parnell Hall. Murder provides one of the clues in a crossword puzzle tournament. 25,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Watchers of Time: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery (Nov., $24.95) by Charles Todd. An honorable man dies in 1919, and then so does the priest he asked to see. 25,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Jane and the Prisoner of Wool House: Being the Sixth Jane Austen Mystery (Dec., $23.95) by Stephanie Barron. Jane joins her brother Frank in the British port of Southampton, where she encounters a killer. 27,500 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.

BERKLEY PRIME CRIME
Brothers of Cain (Sept., $22.95) by Miriam Grace Monfredo is based on actual events during the Civil War.
The Thunder Keeper (Sept., $22.95) by Margaret Coel is the seventh in the Native-American series featuring Arapaho lawyer Vicky Holden and Father John O'Malley.
Bloodroot (Oct., $22.95) by Susan Wittig Albert is number 10 in the series starring herbalist China Bayles.

CARROLL & GRAF
Murder in Baker Street: New Tales of Sherlock Holmes (Oct., $25), edited by Martin Greenberg et al., collects stories by Anne Perry and 10 other mystery writers.
Art Kills (Jan., $12) by Eric van Lustbader is a sexy, unpredictable novella. 35,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo.

DELL/DELACORTE
Dialogues of the Dead (Jan., $TBA) by Reginald Hill. Dalziel and Pascoe become embroiled in a duel of wits with a brilliant sociopath. Ad/promo. Author publicity.

FORGE
Bone Walker (Nov., $26.95) by Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear is the third of the Anasazi mysteries in which the mysterious Wolf Witch draws the archeologists into a personal trap. Ad/promo.
Retribution (Dec., $24.95) by Stuart M. Kaminsky. PI Lew Fonesca and her reclusive author boyfriend are drawn into the disappearance of valuable manuscripts. Ad/promo.

DAVID R. GODINE
Champagne Kisses, Cyanide Dreams (Sept., $23.95) by Ralph Graves. Rich and famous Mildred Silk is murdered before her memoirs can be published.
Night Shadows: Twentieth-Century Stories of the Uncanny (Oct., $24.95), edited by Joan Kessler. Reality turns harrowingly strange in these 15 stories by Truman Capote, Edith Wharton and others.

HARVILL PRESS
(dist. by FSG)
The Stone Council (Jan., $25) by Jean-Christophe Grangé has a plot bridging horror and detection with telepathy and state secrets.

HYPERION
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red (Jan., $22.95), edited by Joyce Reardon. At the turn of the 20th century, a young bride in Seattle encounters horrific tragedies. 150,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo.

INTRIGUE PRESS
Death's Domain: The Sixth Cassidy McCabe Mystery (Oct., $23.95) by Alex Matthews. An Internet stalker targets the psychotherapist sleuth's husband for revenge. Ad/promo. Author tour.

INTRIGUE PRESS/WORLDKRIME
The Viper's Kiss (Nov., $23.95) by Paris Aristides. Hardboiled PI Chrisostomos Zaras is hired to find a missing fortune on ethnically torn Cyprus.
Study in Lilac (Nov., $23.95) by Maria-Antònia Oliver. A female PI in Barcelona looks for three men who may have defrauded a mysterious antiques dealer.

KENSINGTON
Once Bitten (Sept., $22) by Laurien Berenson. Melanie Travis investigates murder while dealing with the departure of her fiancé and the reappearance of her ex-husband. Ad/promo. Author publicity.
Peaches and Screams (Jan., $22) by G.A. McKevett. In Georgia for her sister's wedding, Savannah Reid finds herself trying to clear her baby brother who's been accused of murder.

ALLEN A. KNOLL
She Died for Her Sins: A Bomber Hanson Mystery (Feb., $23) by David Champion. An abrasive self-styled communist is accused of shooting an eccentric widow.

LIGHTHOUSE PUBLISHING
Business to Kill For (Sept., $19.95) by Mike Brogan. Luke Tanner overhears men conspiring to gain control of a $1-billion business, then learns that it is his own. $35,000 ad/promo. Author tour.

LITTLE, BROWN
The Harry Bosch Mysteries: The Black Echo, The Black Ice and The Concrete Blonde (Oct., $21.95) by Michael Connelly collects in one volume for the first time the trio of novels that introduced LAPD's Bosch. 75,000 first printing. Ad/promo.
Violets Are Blue (Nov., $27.95) by James Patterson. Alex Cross investigates unsolved killings in the world of ritual role playing, where people believe they are vampires. 1.25 million first printing. Ad/promo. 10-city author tour.
Hell to Pay (Feb., $24.95) by George P. Pelecanos. Derek Strange and Terry Quinn seek a 14-year-old runaway working as a prostitute. 60,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 20-city author tour.

MIRA
Trouble Becomes Her (Nov., $22.95) by Laura Van Wormer. A body is discovered in the trunk of journalist Sally Harrington's rental car. Ad/promo. Author tour.
Deadly Grace (Dec., $22.95) by Taylor Smith. The wartime heist of still-missing Nazi gold helps fuel this tale of murder. Ad/promo.

MORROW
In a Strange City (Sept., $24) by Laura Lippman. PI Tess Monaghan witnesses murder at the grave of Edgar Allan Poe. 35,000 first printing. Ad/promo. 6-city author tour.
Aftermath (Oct., $25) by Peter Robinson. In Yorkshire, Inspector Banks uncovers the darkest side of human nature after several girls are killed. 40,000 first printing. Ad/promo. Author publicity.

MYSTERIOUS PRESS
The Earthquake Bird (Sept., $22.95) by Susanna Jones. A young English woman working in Tokyo as a translator is suspected of murder. Advertising.
The Final Country (Oct., $24.95) by James Crumley. Milo Milodragovitch is back in Crumley's first novel since 1996. Ad/promo. 5-city author tour.
Tucker Peak (Nov., $23.95) by Archer Mayor. Vermont detective Joe Gunther investigates murder at a posh ski resort. Ad/promo. Author publicity.

NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY
Gruel and Unusual Punishment (Feb., $TBA) by Tamar Myers is a Pennsylvania Dutch sequel to Crepes of Wrath.

NEW PRESS
One Step Behind (Feb., $24.95) by Henning Mankell is the latest in the Kurt Wallander series.

POCKET BOOKS
Separation of Power (Oct., $25) by Vince Flynn. The director of the CIA is dead, and the president faces a Middle East teetering on the brink of WW III. Ad/promo. 9-city author tour.
The Honored Society (Nov., $25) by Michael Gambino. The former crime boss unveils an authentic portrait of the world of organized crime. Ad/promo. 5-city author tour.
Dream of the Broken Horses (Feb., $25) by William Bayer. A forensic artist learns that his psychiatrist father was somehow connected to a woman's murder. Author publicity. 5-city author tour.

POISONED PEN PRESS
Lazarus Arise (Sept., $24.95) by Nicholas Kilmer. Who is the rightful owner of a smuggled work of medieval art that everyone is after? Ad/promo.
Screen Scam (Oct., $24.95) by Michael Bowen. A film director contends that the Oscar balloting was sabotaged against him. Ad/promo.
Chasing the Devil's Tail: A Storyville Mystery (Nov., $24.95) by David Fulmer. It's 1907, and each murdered prostitute in New Orleans is found with a black rose. Ad/promo.

PUTNAM
Death in Paradise (Oct., $23.95) by Robert B. Parker. Police chief Jesse Stone investigates the murder of a troubled teen in bucolic New England. Advertising. Author tour.
Orchid Blues (Nov., $24.95) by Stuart Woods. Police chief Holly Barker and her trusted Doberman track an unusual band of thieves. Advertising.
The Cat Who Went Up the Creek (Jan., $23.95) by Lilian Jackson Braun. Jim Qwilleran's vacation at Nutcracker Inn is marred when the body of a fellow guest floats by in the creek. Advertising.

RANDOM HOUSE
Flesh and Blood: An Alex Delaware Novel (Dec., $26.95) by Jonathan Kellerman. The murder of a troubled young woman forces Delaware to face his own fallibility. Ad/promo.

ST. MARTIN'S/MINOTAUR
Killing the Shadows (Oct., $24.95) by Val McDermid is the latest from the Gold Dagger winner.
Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos (Oct., $23.95) by Donna Andrews. Blacksmith and amateur sleuth Meg Langslow returns in her third adventure.
The Falls (Nov., $24.95) by Ian Rankin. Detective John Rebus probes the disappearance of an Edinburgh student who is the daughter of a wealthy banker.

SERPENT'S TAIL
(dist. by Consortium)
Nineteen Eighty (Nov., $24) by David Peace. A serial killer sets up shop in 1980s England.

VIKING
The Blue Last: A Richard Jury Mystery (Sept., $24.95) by Martha Grimes. Jury is asked to prove that the granddaughter of a brewing magnate is an imposter. Advertising. Publicity. 8-city author tour.

WALKER
Ghost of a Flea: A Lew Griffin Novel (Nov., $23.95) by James Sallis concludes the series.