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Adams, Will Lost Labyrinth ($32.95 Trade) Twenty years after vanishing without a trace, French archaeologist Roland Petitier makes a dramatic reappearance at a major Athens conference, promising an astonishing find - the legendary Golden Fleece. But before he can give his talk, he's found dead in a hotel room; and an out-of-control policeman puts Petitier's onetime protégé Augustin Pascal into intensive care, then later accuses him of Petitier's murder. Only Augustin's two closest friends, Daniel Knox and Gaille Bonnard can prove his innocence. However, rumours of the fleece's rediscovery have spread, and ambitious Georgian oligarch Nergadze is determined to get it first. He sends his psychopathic grandson Mikhail to Athens with orders to bring it back. Mikhail quickly becomes convinced that Knox Dan has it, and slowly moves in for the kill

Ashton, David Inspector McLevy Mysteries (CD) ($19.95) James McLevy prowls the dark streets of 1860s Edinburgh bringing criminals to justice. Two radio plays. Brian Cox as McLevy. (2 x CDs)

Atherton, Nancy Aunt Dimity Down Under ($24.95 US Cloth) Devastated to learn that her beloved neighbours, Ruth and Louise Pym, are dying, Lori Shepherd agrees to their request that she find their long-lost brother in New Zealand, a search that unravels complicated family secrets.

Ault, Sandi Wild Penance ($24.95 US Cloth) After witnessing a dramatic death in the Gorge, Jamaica Wild examines a secret, ancient religious group that re-enacts Jesus' crucifixion and practices excessive penance, but is warned not to investigate too closely when someone makes an attempt on her life.

Bartulin, Lenny Black Russian: a Jack Susko Mystery ($27.95) After yet another slow week at the cash register, that fine purveyor of second-hand literature, Susko Books, is facing financial ruin. Jack Susko sets off to a gallery in Woollahra to scrape up some coin with the sale of an old art catalogue. With his usual panache and exquisite timing, he arrives just as De Groot Galleries is being done over by masked thieves. Along with a mysterious object from the safe, the robbers seize a valuable first edition from Jack's bag, too. When the owner of the gallery doesn't want to call the cops, Jack is offered a sizeable sum to keep silent: but when de Groot arrives at the bookshop with his heavy to renege on the deal, all bets are off. With an ease that almost constitutes a gift, Jack Susko finds himself at the centre of a world full of duplicity, lies and art theft. (Australian author)

Berenson, Alex Midnight House ($25.95 US Cloth) Summoned to Langley in the aftermath of two murders, CIA agent John Wells learns that the victims were part of a secret interrogation team that used brutal methods to break tough jihadis, a case with ties to unexpected places

Brown, Graham Black Rain ($7.99 US ) While searching the far reaches of the Amazon for a legendary Mayan city, covert government operative Danielle Laidlaw and her team, stalked by an unseen enemy and threatened by a violent indigenous tribe, soon realize that they are not seeking just an artefact, but a breakthrough discovery that could change the world

Carlisle, Kate If Books Could Kill: a Bibliophile Mystery ($6.99 US ) While attending the world-renowned Edinburgh Book Fair, book restoration expert Brooklyn Wainwright must investigate the murder of her ex, Kyle McVee, who had an original copy of a scandalous text that could change history and destroy the British monarchy

Carver, Tania Surrogate ($32.95 Trade) A shocking double-murder scene greets Detective Inspector Philip Brennan when he is called to a flat in Colchester. Two women are viciously cut open and laying spreadeagled, one tied to the bed, one on the floor. The woman on the bed has had her stomach cut into and her unborn child is missing. But this is the third time Phil and his team have seen such an atrocity. Two other pregnant women have been killed in this way and their babies taken from them. No-one can imagine what sort of person would want to commit such evil acts. When psychologist Marina Esposito is brought in, Phil has to put aside his feelings about their shared past and get on with the job. But can they find the killer before another woman is targeted?

Casey, Jane Missing ($19.95) Jenny Shepherd is twelve years old and missing. Her teacher, Sarah Finch, knows better than most that the chances of finding her alive are diminishing with every day she is gone. As a little girl her older brother had gone out to play one day and never returned. The strain of never knowing what has happened to Charlie had ripped Sarah’s family apart. Now in her early twenties, she is back living at home, trapped with a mother who drinks too much and keeps her brother’s bedroom as a shrine to his memory. Then, horrifically, it is Sarah who finds Jenny’s body, beaten and abandoned in the woods near her home. As she’s drawn into the police investigation and the heart of a media storm, Sarah’s presence arouses suspicion too. But it not just the police who are watching her

Christie, Agatha Akhnaton (Facsimilie Edition) ($29.95 Cloth) Set in 1350 BC, the legend of Akhnaton tells of the Pharaoh’s attempt to convince his nation to abandon their old 'pagan' god Amon and to turn to the worship of a new deity, the monotheistic sun god, Aton. Introduced to the legend by Howard Carter, discoverer of Tutankhamun's tomb, when she met him in Luxor in 1931, Agatha Christie became fascinated by both the story and the society in which it took place. Her painstaking researches led to this retelling of the story in the form of a highly readable and dramatic two-hour play. Akhnaton was written by Agatha Christie in 1937, when her interest in Egyptology from her travels with her archaeologist husband was at its height. Probably her most serious play, it was deemed too ambitious to be performed, and it went unknown and unpublished until Collins released a hardback edition in 1973. Never in paperback or published subsequently, this rare edition has become the Holy Grail for Agatha Christie collectors, keen to learn more about this unique drama and to discover its relevance alongside her other Egyptian books such as Death Comes As the End, Death on the Nile, Appointment With Death and Come, Tell Me How You Live.

Church, James Bamboo and Blood: an Inspector O Novel ($13.99 US Trade) In 1997 North Korea, Inspector O is working in Pyongyang as the country's nuclear missile program begins to escalate and as the wife of a North Korean diplomat turns up dead in Pakistan under suspicious circumstances.

Clark, Cassandra Red Velvet Turnshoe: an Abbess of Meaux Mystery ($24.95) Black February in the year 1383: rain started to fall before Martinmas, sweeping through France, Flanders and Tuscany, and barely ceased all year. Floods brought famine. Famine brought disease. The Black Death bestowed its grace on town after town. Bodies were piled in open pits. The lime was spread. Paris shut its gates; Cologne and Florence followed suit. Into this watery world, against a background of plague and the political turmoil of the Hundred Years War, the nun Hildegard is sent across Europe in search of a precious relic, the Cross of Constantine. Strong-willed and independent, she will need remarkable skills to survive such a dangerous quest. For with the English Crown at stake there are many who want her mission to fail - and one, above all, who plans a deadly revenge

Coben, Harlan Long Lost ($22.95) Myron hasn't heard from Terese Collins in years. Not since their affair ended without explanation. There had been no contact since, so her call catches him off guard. She's in Paris, she says, in trouble and only Myron can help. She tells him a sad story she's never before revealed: a good marriage, her struggles to get pregnant, the happiest moment of her life when her only child was born and the day everything she'd ever loved was taken from her. In the years since, Terese has had no contact with her ex-husband, until the phone call that brought her to Paris. When she gets there he's been murdered and she's a suspect. But then comes a startling piece of evidence that turns the entire case upside down, laying bare Terese's long-buried family secrets in a most shocking way and leaving Myron nowhere to turn for help

Collins, Kate Sleeping with Anemone: a Flower Shop Mystery ($6.99 US ) When a brick is thrown through her flower shop's window after she protested Uniworld Food's harmful farming practices, and then an attempt is made on her life, florist Abby Knight calls in the big guns--her ex-Army Ranger boyfriend Marco, to help her weed out the truth.

Compton, Julie Rescuing Olivia ($25.99 US Cloth) Contentedly spending time with a secretive woman until a motorcycle crash ends her life, Anders is wrongly blamed for the accident and resolves to expose hidden truths from her past, an effort that rekindles his own troubles and places his life in danger

Connolly, John Black Angel ($22.95) A young woman goes missing from the streets of New York. Those who have taken her believe that nobody cares about her, and that no one will come looking for her. They are wrong. She is 'blood' to the killer Louis, the man who stands at the right hand of private detective Charlie Parker, and Louis will tear apart anyone who stands in the way of his attempts to find her. But as Louis's violent search progresses, Parker comes to realize that the disappearance is part of an older mystery, one that is linked to an ornate church of bones in Eastern Europe, to the slaughter at a French monastery in 1944, and to the quest for a mythical prize that has been sought for centuries by evil men: the Black Angel. Yet the Black Angel is more than a myth. It is conscious. It dreams. It is alive. And men are not the only creatures that seek it

Connolly, John Lovers ($22.95) When Charlie Parker was still a boy, his father, an NYPD cop, killed a young couple, a boy and a girl barely older than his son, then took his own life. There was no explanation for his actions. Stripped of his private investigator's license, and watched by the police, Parker is working in a Portland bar, holding down a job and staying out of trouble. But in the background, he is working on his most personal case yet, an investigation into his own origins and the circumstances surrounding the death of his father, Will. It is an investigation that will reveal a life haunted by lies, by his mother's loss and his father's betrayal, by secrets kept and loyalties compromised. And by two figures in the shadows, a man and a woman, with only one purpose: to bring an end to Charlie Parker's existence

Crais, Robert First Rule ($32.95 Trade) The team thought that Frank Meyer had got out of the 'life' safely. He had put an end to his mercenary days, turned over a new leaf and settled down with his wife and children. It had been a hard decision but, encouraged by his boss and friend Joe Pike, he had walked away. But ten years later, a group of armed men break into his Los Angeles home and brutally gun him and his family down. It's a vicious, cold and professional job. The crew leave no trace behind except the bodies. But they have made one catastrophic and almost certainly terminal, mistake - Joe Pike. Because Pike is now determined to hunt down and eliminate everyone involved in the attack one by one

Cregan, Sean Levels ($32.95 Trade) On the outskirts of Newport, on the US East Coast, lies an abandoned, feral housing project: the Levels. Inhabited by Newport's forgotten homeless population, the Levels are run as a personal fiefdom by the all-powerful Sorrow. As THE LEVELS opens, ex-CIA agent Nate Turner, who is in the Levels to find out who has just tried to kill him, meets a 14-year-old girl Ghost. Ghost is a Fury, one of Sorrow's trained, drug-addicted assassins looking for a way back to her normal life. Also in the Levels is Kate, a suspended cop, who has been told that she has only days to live after being attacked, and infected, by the Beast, a serial killer working the streets. The Beast is out for revenge on Kate's new employer, who he believes created the infection that's killing him, an infection that has also been released into the Levels. Now Ghost is trying to escape Sorrow, Kate is looking for the Beast and Turner is looking for answers. One thing's for sure, some people aren't going to survive the fallout

Damsgaard, Shirley Seventh Witch (Orphelia and Abby) ($7.99 US ) Gifted psychic and small-town librarian Ophelia Jensen and her grandmother Abby, a talented witch, are confronted with dark family secrets when, during a relative's 100th birthday celebration, someone tries to kill Abby, forcing Ophelia to use all of her talents to save her loved ones.

Davis, Krista Diva Paints the Town (Domestic Diva) ($6.99 US ) When she is hired to redecorate the family room of her reclusive late neighbor Professor Mordecai Artemus, Sophie Winston uncovers a body, which then mysteriously disappears, forcing her to hammer out the truth before she gets nailed for murder

Dean, Anna Bellfield Hall ($23.99 US Cloth) Visiting Bellfield Hall to comfort her niece, who has been seemingly abandoned by her wealthy fiance, Miss Dido Kent investigates the possibly related death of a young woman, a situation that is complicated by surprising secrets.

Deaver, Jeffery Roadside Crosses: a Kathryn Dance Novel ($22.95) When a troubled teenager is pushed over the edge by cyber-bullies, he plots a violent revenge for which he plants roadside crosses throughout the Monterey peninsula, a situation for which body-language expert Kathryn Dance and Monterey County Sheriff's Senior Deputy Michael O'Neil race against the clock to stop the youth from acting on his rage

Dekker, Ted Bone Man's Daughters ($19.95) US Navy intelligence analyst Ryan Evans is used to treating life like a code to be deciphered. But a brutal kidnapping in the Iraqi desert presents him with an excruciating dilemma that turns his whole world upside down. Back home in Texas, the serial killer dubbed 'Bone Man' is about to be released, amid allegations that the wrong man was put behind bars. When Bone Man strikes again, hunter becomes hunted and Evans must risk everything he has to win a cruel game - and protect everything he loves. A tense psychological puzzle that explores the complexity and compromises of relationships, this is a dark and frightening thriller that drills into the ultimate battleground between good and evil - the human heart

Devlin, Barry & Simon Brett Father Paolo Baldi Nmysteries (CD) ($19.95) On sabbatical from the Franciscan order, Father Paolo is working as a philosophy lecturer in Dublin when he finds himself helping the police to solve crimes. Two radio plays. David Threlfall as Father Paolo (2 x CDs)

Disher, Garry Wyatt ($32.95 Trade) Wyatt's been away. Now he's back. That's as much as anyone really knows about him. The rest is rumour, the kind that makes people wary. And that's fine with Wyatt. Eddie Oberin thinks he knows enough about Wyatt to make him an offer. A jewel heist - inside information courtesy of Lydia Stark, Eddie's much smarter ex-wife. The target is an intentional courier of stolen items: Alain Le Page. Wyatt doesn't know the name Le Page and he doesn't know Lydia. He will (Australian author)

Durbridge, Francis Paul Temple: East of Algiers (CD) ($29.95) How could Paul Temple, or anyone else, have foreseen that a request to take a pair of glasses to a friend on a trip to Tunis would be a prelude to a body in a Paris rubbish bin and a succession of mysterious killings. BBC Audio 2xCD

Eccles, Marjorie Last Nocturne ($24.99 US Cloth) Investigating the questionable suicides of a happily married man and a young artist on the brink of fame, Chief Inspector Lamb and his sergeant, Cogan, tap the scientific resources of bustling early 20th century Europe to identify a calculating killer.

Ellis, Kate Playing With Bones ($19.95) Is the Doll Strangler back? Or is a copycat killer on the loose...? Singmass Close has a sinister past. Reputedly haunted by the ghosts of children, in the 50s it was the hunting ground of the Doll Strangler, a ruthless killer who was never brought to justice. Now DI Joe Plantagenet wonders whether a copycat killer is at work when the strangled body of teenager Natalie Parkes is found in the same close, a mutilated doll lying by her side.

Emerson, Earl W. Cape Disappointment ($7.99 US ) As Thomas Black and his partner, Kathy Birchfield, work opposite sides of a charged political campaign, a plane crash claims the life of an incumbent senator, Kathy vanishes, and Thomas finds himself working solo to investigate a crime against the American people and a political conspiracy that has been rigging elections for years

Fielding, Joy Wild Zone ($25.00 US Cloth) Competing to seduce a mysterious young woman who has appeared near their favourite South Beach bar, playboys Will, Jeff, and Tom find their endeavour turning nightmarish when the young woman reveals that she is looking for someone to kill her husband

Fluke, Joanne Cream Puff Murder: a Hannah Swensen Mystery ($7.99 US ) When bakery owner Hannah Swensen stumbles upon a dead body floating in the new health club's jacuzzi with a plate of her very own cream puffs - purchased by her boyfriend, Detective Mike Kingston--decorating the crime scene, she suddenly has a lot on her plate

Forman, Steven M. Boca Mournings ($24.99 US Cloth) Boston police force retiree Eddie Perlmutter finds himself busy with a series of cases involving a mysterious haunted elevator, a double kidnapping, and his determination to bring a local crime lord to justice

Granger, Ann Mud, Muck and Dead Things ($19.95) Lucas Burton hates the countryside. To him it's nothing but mud, muck and dead things. And he's right. When he turns up at a deserted farm in the middle of nowhere hoping to conduct a lucrative business deal he stumbles across the body of a dead girl. And that's just the start of his problems. Penny Gower, from the local stables, spots his silver Mercedes leaving the scene of the crime and when her friend Andrew Ferris calls the police it's only a matter of time before Lucas gets a visit from someone he'd rather not see... Inspector Jess Campbell is on the case, but with very few leads and a new superintendent breathing down her neck, the pressure's on. Then another dead body is found

Green, Tim False Convictions ($25.99 US Cloth) Working with a charity organization dedicated to freeing wrongly convicted prisoners, defence attorney Casey Jordan assists an indigent man who was victimized by a corrupt small-town court, a case that turns unexpectedly violent.

Gregory, Susanna Westminster Poisoner ($22.95) Christopher Vine, a Treasury clerk working in solitary piety in the Painted Chamber of the Palace of Westminster, is not alone. A killer waits in the draughty hall to ensure Vine will not live to see in the New Year. And Vine is not the only government official to die that season. The Lord Chancellor fears his enemies will skew any investigation to cause him maximum damage, so he decides to commission his own inquiries into the murders and, with his suspicions centred on Greene, another clerk, he instructs Thomas Chaloner to prove that Greene is the killer. Chaloner can prove otherwise, but unravelling the reasons behind his employer's suspicions is as complex as discovering the motives for the killings. His search for the real murderer plunges him into a stinking seam of corruption that leads towards the Royal apartments and to people determined to make Christmas 1663 Chaloner's last

Grippando, James Money to Burn ($25.99 US Cloth) A story of greed and murder set in the high-stakes atmosphere of New York's Wall Street

Guttentag, Bill Boulevard ($25.00 US Cloth) After a high-profile lawyer is murdered, lacklustre detective Jimmy McCann takes to the streets and finds himself on Hollywood's Sunset Boulevard--amid a complex web of teenage runaways, prostitution and drugs--where he learns that the killer, a young girl named Casey, is a victim in her own right. A first novel

Hale, Rebecca M. How to Wash a Cat ($6.99 US ) Set in modern day San Francisco--the tale of a Gold Rush legend, a pair of tulip-shaped cufflinks, an enigmatic uncle, a persistently obnoxious neighbour, and, of course, the washing of a cat.

Hall, Elliott First Stone ($22.95) Private eye Felix Strange doesn't work homicide cases. He saw enough dead bodies fighting in Iran, a war that left him with a crippling disease that has no name and no cure. So when Strange is summoned to a Manhattan hotel room to investigate the dead body of America's most-loved preacher, he'd rather not get involved. Strange has a week to find the killer, and even less time to get the black-market medicine he needs to stay alive. In an America where biblical prophecy is foreign policy, Strange knows that his hiring is no accident. He can't see all the angles, and he knows he's being watched. In a race against time Strange must face religious police, organized crime and a dame with very particular ideas, while uncovering a conspiracy that reaches the very heart of his newly fundamentalist nation (Debut novel)

Hand, Dana Deep Creek ($25.00 US Cloth) Investigating the discovery of more than 40 murdered Chinese gold miners in a 19th-century Idaho territory lake, lawman Joe Vincent teams up with an ambitious company researcher and a mountain guide to track the killers across the Pacific Northwest.

Hechtman, Betty Stitch in Crime: a Crochet Mystery ($7.99 US ) While on the Monterey Peninsula for a creative retreat--a weekend filled with crocheting and campfires--Molly Pink stumbles over the dead body of crochet teacher Izabelle Landers and must unravel the truth surrounding this murder with the help of her crochet group, the Tarzana Hookers

Holt, Anne Death in Oslo ($22.95) When Helen Barclay becomes the first female US president, the whole world takes notice. And unfortunately for President Barclay, one man takes very particular notice. He knows her dark secret, buried for over twenty years. And not only does he have the power to destroy everything she's worked for, but he also has the ultimate motive. Revenge. Unfortunately for the FBI and the Norwegian police, nobody knows about this when Helen Barclay chooses to visit Norway for her first state visit. But when she goes missing from a locked, heavily secured bedroom, they are forced - unwillingly - to work together to find her. Has she been kidnapped? Murdered? Can the US president really just disappear into thin air...?

Jardine, Quintin Blood Red ($32.95 Trade) Primavera is enjoying the quiet life in an idyllic village on the Catalan coast of Spain. The attractive single mother and eight-year-old Tom, son of the late and still lamented Oz Blackstone, are popular figures in the tiny community. But her close friendship with the parish priest has eyebrows rising and tongues wagging. Then a dispute explodes with a powerful councillor who refuses to allow the village wine fair to go ahead. When his body is found, head caved in, some ominous questions are asked.

Kernick, Simon Last 10 Seconds ($32.95 Trade) When ex-police officer John Cone is found lying wounded in a room full of dead bodies, he has a terrifying story to tell. Three days earlier he was hired by a mysterious client to snatch a suspected serial killer, Andrew Kent (aka the Penthouse Predator) from custody while he’s being transferred between prisons. But having seized Kent, things immediately go badly wrong. People start dying, Kent goes missing, and Cone begins to realize that the case against Kent may not be so cut and dried as he was led to believe. Someone else who shares that suspicion is newly promoted, DI Tina Boyd. She was one of the Murder Squad team who’d arrested and charged Kent several months earlier. A few hours before he was snatched, Kent had called Tina claiming he had highly important information about a murder, but refusing to divulge what it was on the phone. And now he’s gone, and Tina has to find him. And find him fast

Krentz, Jayne Ann Running Hot ($7.99 US ) Paired for a murder investigation by the paranormal Arcane Society, former cop Luther Malone and aura-reading librarian Grace Renquist find their mutual disgust dissolving into a powerful attraction, during a case that is complicated by ruthless underground psychics.

Kurland, Michael (ed) Sherlock Holmes: The American Years ($24.99 US Cloth) Ten original tales set during the eminent detective's early career visit to America includes contributions by such writers as Marta Randall, Rhys Bowen and Peter Beagle

Lennon, Patrick Cut Out ($22.95) Afghanistan. Every year, an assignment for thousands of British personnel. Some of them bring back more than memories. TV producer Dan Simmons wants to film it all. He finds a regiment about to be deployed to the Afghan war on a radical anti-heroin operation. He gets himself embedded. He shoots some film. Then he shoots himself. The Ministry of Defence spin machine goes into motion and puts Military Police captain Stef Maguire under pressure to file it all away. But Maguire has heard the TV man's dying words and they lead her to someone called Tom Fletcher. Ex-cop, ex-PI, now Fletcher is living the perfect life in a house in the country. A very isolated house. Fletcher doesn't know why the TV man shot himself. But some very dangerous people think otherwise. And when they begin to threaten Fletcher's family, it's time for him to act

Lippman, Laura Life Sentences ($19.95) The New York Times best-selling author of Another Thing to Fall and What the Dead Know raises difficult and illuminating questions about the nature of memory and truth, in a stand-alone novel of twisting suspense

Lustbader, Eric Last Snow ($25.99 US Cloth) In the aftermath of an American senator's death on a political trip, presidential Special Advisor Jack McClure is dispatched to investigate a perilous trail throughout Eastern Europe, an assignment that is complicated by his efforts to protect two unlikely companions

Lutz, Lisa Curse of the Spellmans ($7.99 US ) A follow-up to The Spellman Files finds Izzy struggling to retain her private investigator's license after a pseudo engagement and her fourth arrest, a challenge that is further complicated by David's marriage to Petra and Rae's teenage angst

Mankell, Henning Man From Beijing ($34.95Trade) One cold January day the police are called to a sleepy little hamlet in the north of Sweden where they discover a savagely murdered man lying in the snow. As they begin their investigation they notice that the village seems eerily quiet and deserted. Going from house to house, looking for witnesses, they uncover a crime unprecedented in Swedish history. When Judge Birgitta Roslin reads about the massacre, she realises that she has a family connection to one of the couples involved and decides to investigate. A nineteenth-century diary and a red silk ribbon found in the forest nearby are the only clues. What Birgitta eventually uncovers leads her into an international web of corruption and a story of vengeance that stretches back over a hundred years, linking China and the USA of the 1860s with modern-day Beijing, Zimbabwe and Mozambique, and coming to a shocking climax in London’s Chinatown.

Margolin, Phillip M. Fugitive ($9.99 US Premium size) Defending Charlie, a former fugitive who hid in Africa for twelve years after being falsely implicated in the murder of a congressman, criminal lawyer Amanda Jaffe struggles to prove the man's innocence while protecting him from a vengeful African dictator

McCrery, Nigel Tooth and Claw ($24.95 US Cloth) Working at home for a year to control his synesthesia, Detective Chief Inspector Mark Lapslie is summoned back to active duty to investigate the murder of a high-profile reporter, a case that is quickly complicated by the bombing death of a second victim

McDonald, Craig Print the Legend ($24.99 US Cloth) Questioning the widow of the late Ernest Hemingway, crime novelist Hector Lassiter fears that a surviving Hemingway manuscript may compromise his own reputation; while Professor Richard Paulson harbours suspicions that the author's daughter murdered him

McFetridge, John Let it Ride ($24.99 US Cloth) Hoping to network with an Ontario drug-trafficking biker gang, returned soldier Get McGetty teams up with ambitious small-time robber Sunitha, a situation that pits Toronto detectives Price and McKeon against a formidable series of challenges.

McKevett, G. A. Wicked Craving: a Savannah Reid Mystery ($22.00 US Cloth) Helping out her friend Detective Sergeant Dirk Coulter, voluptuous P.I. Savannah Reid is on the trail of a shady weight loss therapist who tricked his patients into losing their money instead of their weight, and who supposedly killed his wife

Mercer, Ken Slow Fire ($24.99 US Cloth) Reluctantly accepting an offer to become a police chief in rural Northern California after emerging from rehab, disgraced narcotics detective Will Magowan learns that his new town is being threatened by a depraved criminal influence. A first novel

Meyer, Deon Blood Safari ($19.95) Lemmer is a freelance bodyguard for Body Armor, a personal security company in South Africa. Lean, angry, violent, he is way down on the price list where the bargains are to be found. Emma le Roux wants to find her missing brother, who supposedly died twenty years ago, but whom she is convinced she's seen on the news as a suspect in the recent killing of a witch doctor and four poachers. She hires Lemmer to watch her back when she goes looking for answers. As le Roux and Lemmer look for clues in the Lowveld, it becomes clear someone wants to keep them in the dark. Someone who will go to any lengths to stop them asking questions. When they are attacked and almost killed, Lemmer decides to go after whoever is hunting them - against all odds

Myers, Tamar Batter Off Dead: a Pennsylvania Dutch Mystery with Recipes ($6.99 US ) When Minerva J. Jay, a local lady known for her prodigious appetite, collapses after consuming pancakes at a church breakfast, Police Chief Chris Ackerman enlists the aid of a pregnant Magdalena Yoder to investigate the case.

Myers, Tamar Butter Safe Than Sorry ($14.00 US Trade) Mennonite innkeeper Magdalena Yoder springs into action after she and her son witness a bank robbery by armed bandits posing as Amish men in this Pennsylvania Dutch mystery

Nadel, Barbara Death by Design ($32.95 Trade) When the Istanbul police raid a counterfeit goods factory in the run-down district of Tarlabasi, a young man with explosives strapped to his chest blows himself up in front of them. In the process, Istanbul's Inpsector etin Ikmen is injured. Documents found in the factory lead the authorities in both Istanbul and London to believe that a terrorist attack, in part orchestrated from the Tarlabasi factory, is about to be enacted in the British capital. Ikmen goes undercover amongst the Turkish community of North London, although what he uncovers there is certainly not what his British colleagues were expecting

Nadel, Barbara Sure and Certain Death ($19.95) London, 1940: Francis Hancock finds the brutally eviscerated body of a woman in a derelict house in Plaistow. Francis' sister, Nancy, knew the victim. Then, shockingly, two more murders follow; again, the victims are female and also eviscerated. Rumours start to spread through the East End about a modern day Jack the Ripper. When a fourth woman is murdered, Nancy finally admits that she knew all of the victims. They were all White Feather Girls during the First World War; women who spent their time giving any man out of uniform a white feather as a sign of cowardice. Francis is appalled, but also terrified that now his sister might be murdered too. He sets out to find the killer and discovers a trail of murderous resentment that goes back decades

Nasaw, Jonathan Boys From Santa Cruz ($25.00 US Cloth) A latest work by the author of Fear Itself finds unlikely hero and former FBI agent E. L. Pender recovering from the events of When She Was Bad only to find himself pitted against the most formidable adversary of his career.

Olsen, Gregg Victim Six ($7.99 US ) A serial killer terrorizes the surrounding cities of Puget Sound, carefully selecting, capturing and torturing his victims, the latest of which will be the most shocking of all

Palmer, Michael Last Surgeon ($26.99 US Cloth) Working in a mobile clinic while struggling with the challenges of PTSD, veteran doctor Nick Garrity searches for a missing war buddy and finds himself pitted against a terrifying psychopath who is disguising some of his kills as suicides

Parker, Robert B. Night and Day: a Jesse Stone Novel ($9.99 US Premium size) Investigating allegations of lewd conduct on the part of the local junior high principal, police chief Jesse Stone finds efforts to bring the woman to justice thwarted by a high-powered attorney, a case that is further complicated by the activities of a twisted voyeur.

Parker, Robert B. Split Image: a Jessie Stone Mystery ($25.95 US Cloth) Overwhelmed by a double homicide involving a mob hit, a high-ranking crime figure and twin mafia wives, Jesse Stone increasingly succumbs to alcoholism before agreeing to assist fellow investigator Sunny Randall on a seemingly unrelated case

Parker, T. Jefferson Renegades ($9.99 US Premium size) Patrolling a section of America's West that he finds just as untamed as those depicted in early pulp novels, Charlie Hood finds his preference for working alone overruled when he is assigned to partner with a popular county veteran whose subsequent murder reveals sinister truths behind the man's stellar reputation.

Parris, S.J. Heresy ($25.95 US Cloth) Condemned for his heretical belief that the Earth orbits the sun, scientist and occult researcher Giordano Bruno is unexpectedly recruited by Elizabeth I, who dispatches him to Oxford University to investigate a Catholic plot against the crown.

Patterson, James & Michael Ledwidge Worst Case ($27.99 US Cloth) Investigating a kidnapper who is murdering the children of wealthy New York families, Detective Michael Bennett and FBI agent Emily Parker discover that the killer has hatched an elaborate plot to decimate the entire city

Pineiro, R. J. Havoc ($7.99 US ) Pulled out of early retirement to investigate a high-tech robbery at a government nanoweapons development agency, CIA officer Tom Grant initiates an investigation that leads him to the head of a ruthless German conglomerate.

Quinn, Spencer Thereby Hangs a Tail: a Chet and Bernie Mystery ($23.95) Bernie Little and his canine companion, Chet, are private investigators. Both have had some setbacks in life - Bernie in combat, Chet in K-9 dog-training school - but together they make up a team like no other. In Thereby Hangs a Tail, Bernie and Chet are hired to investigate threats made against an unlikely target - a pretty, pampered show dog named Princess. What seems like a joke turns serious when Princess and her owner are abducted. And to make matters worse, Bernie's on-again, off-again girlfriend, reporter Susie Sanchez, disappears too. When Chet gets separated from Bernie, he tries to put the pieces together, find his way home, and save the day

Ramirez, Misa Hasta La Vista, Lola! ($24.99 US Cloth) Astonished to discover that she has been reported murdered, private investigator Lola Cruz endeavours to learn which victim was the killer's intended target, a case that is complicated by her identity theft and her on-again, off-again relationship with Jack Callagan

Rice, Christopher Blind Fall ($7.99 US ) Disgraced after a split-second decision nearly kills his marine captain, Iraq war veteran John Houck struggles to redeem himself in his captain's eyes and stumbles on a horrifying murder scene that wrongfully implicates the captain's partner

Robards, Karen Pursuit ($7.99 US ) Directed by her inebriated boss to meet with the First Lady in Washington, D.D., rookie lawyer Jessica Monaghan barely survives a high-speed car crash in which the First Lady is killed, after which amnesia-stricken Jessica begins to suspect that the crash was not an accident.

Robb, J. D. Fantasy in Death (Eve Dallas, Book 30) ($32.95 Trade) They were best friends, driven by one shared vision - to rule the world of virtual reality games. Cill, hard-edged and beautiful, Var and Benny, brains and business acumen, and Bart, the genius behind the idea. Their newest invention, developed to transport the player into a fantastical virtual world, is just about to be launched. Then, suddenly, Bart is found brutally killed, defeated by their own game. Their close-knit group is torn apart. Who could have engineered a virtual death with such devastating consequences? Even Eve Dallas, New York City's most cunning investigator, is hard-pressed for an answer. But as she digs deeper, peeling back layers of secrets, revenge and misplaced allegiances, she realises with growing dread the depth of the killer's master plan. And she knows his game is far from over

Roberts, John Maddox Year of Confusion (SPQR XIII) ($24.99 US Cloth) When Dictator Caius Julius Caesar rankles the public by bringing in foreign astronomers and astrologers to revise the Roman calendar, overseer Decius finds himself investigating the murders of two of the foreign consultants, which are linked to an Indian fortune teller

Rollins, David A. Hard Rain ($26.00 US Cloth) Investigating the murder of a U.S. attaché to Turkey, Special Agent Vin Cooper teams up with former lover, Anna Masters, to uncover a shadowy organization dedicated to toppling world governments.

Ryan, Hank Phillips Drive Time ($7.99 US ) While working on an expose of a counterfeit car scam, investigative reporter Charlotte McNally finds her professional life crashing into her personal life when her fiancé is privy to information about a new case that plunges into a world of revenge, extortion and murder

Sexton Blake Adventures of Sexton Blake (CD) ($29.95) Battling diabolical masterminds, beautiful jewel thieves and mechanical assassins and encountering peril at every turn - accompanied in his breakneck hurtle to justice by doughty assistant Tinker - only Blake can save the day and solve the case! Sexton Blake is an icon, a contemporary of Sherlock Holmes - known as 'the other Baker Street detective' - who became hugely popular between the 1930s and the 1960s. BBC Audio. 2 x CD

Shea, Michael Extra ($22.99 US Cloth) Sparking a wildly popular new trend with a series of "live-death" films whose villains use sophisticated electronic monsters, producer Val Margolian legally contracts large numbers of extras who are handsomely compensated if they survive his shoots.

Sims, Michael (ed) Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime ($19.95) Take a trip back in time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Authors include Sinclair Lewis, Arnold Bennett, Grant Allen, Guy Boothby, O. Henry, William Hope Hodgson, Edgar Wallace and others

Smith, Alexander McCall Double Comfort Safari Club ($34.95 Cloth) Mma Ramotswe and Mma Makutsi are called to a safari lodge in Botswana's Okavango Delta to carry out a delicate mission on behalf of a former guest. The Okavango makes Precious appreciate once again the beauty of her homeland: it is a paradise of teeming wildlife, majestic grasslands and sparkling water. However, it is also home to rival safari operators, fearsome crocodiles and disgruntled hippopotamuses. What's more, Mma Makutsi still does not have a date for her wedding to Phuti Radiphuti and is feeling rather tetchy herself. But Precious knows that with a little patience, just as the wide river will gently make its way round any obstacle, so will everything work out for the best in the end

Smith, Alexander McCall Tea Time for the Traditionally Built ($22.95) Mma Ramotswe is widely known for many things; for example, everybody knows about her kindness and her taste for redbush tea and cake - she is after all traditionally built. Everybody is familiar, too, with her tiny white van, which is beginning to feel its age. Are its difficulties to be terminal, or will Charlie, the feckless garage apprentice, be able to save the day? Mma Makutsi certainly thinks the van's days are numbered, but she can do little to help, as she is experiencing a crisis in her engagement to Phuti Radiphuti. A scheming woman - the pernicious Violet Sephotho - has obtained a job at Phuti's store, clearly intending to prise him away from Mma Makutsi. And Charlie has to deal with a young lady with a baby who she claims is his responsibility. Is all this enough to unsettle Mma Ramotswe? Certainly not! Calm reflection, and frequent cups of tea, will be enough to solve even the most trying of problems

Spindler, Erica Blood Vines ($32.95 Trade) Thirty-something Alex Owens knows very little about her childhood or who she really is, her only family an absent, emotionally fragile mother. Alex spent most of her adulthood searching for the missing link, drifting from job to job, relationship to relationship. But when an infant's remains are unearthed in her hometown in back-country California, Alex suddenly realises that she has a connection to the case. As if opening Pandora's box, long-lost memories start flooding in, dark and terrifying nightmares that haunt her every waking moment. When she arrives in Sonoma, the tight-knit community greets Alex with silence and suspicion, but Alex presses on, determined to get to the heart of a secret no one wants to see uncovered. As more violent deaths and a series of deadly rituals shock the small town, Alex is finally forced to confront the terrible truth about a single night that changed her family's lives forever

Spindler, Erica Breakneck ($19.95) Detective MC Riggio can't wait to get married. She is desperately in love with her fiancé Dan, and is counting down the days until the wedding. But MC never does marry. A few weeks before the wedding day Dan is shot dead - and MC's world crumbles into pieces. Detective Kitt Lundgren is there to support her colleague. She knows grief only too well - her only daughter has recently died - and she knows that MC's only concern now will be to find out who killed Dan. So the two women work day and night to discover what happened to Dan. But there is a ruthless killer on the loose, a killer who knows no fear. And Kitt and MC have put themselves right in the firing line

Stabenow, Dana Night Too Dark ($24.99 US Cloth) When a man believed to have committed suicide reappears from the wilderness, Aleut private investigator Kate Shugak and Trooper Jim Chopin struggle to identify the remains of a mysterious victim, a case that is complicated by political factors at the local gold mine.

Stanley, Kelli City of Dragons ($24.99 US Cloth) Discovering the body of a murder victim during San Francisco's 1940 Chinese New Year celebration, private investigator Miranda Corbie ignores an edict to cover up the case and pursues leads in Chinatown tenements and a high-class bordello.

Straub, Peter Dark Matter ($26.95 US Cloth) Years after a 1960s religious guru's clandestine activities with his most fervent acolytes results in a grisly murder, a man struggles to make sense of what happened to his wife and friends by writing a book for which he asks former followers to relive their experiences

Theroux, Paul Dead Hand: a Crime in Calcutta ($26.00 US Cloth) Struggling with perpetual writer's block, travel journalist Jerry Delfont is asked to help a religiously obsessive wealthy woman who tells him about a man on the run who has been wrongly accused of murdering a young boy.

Thurlo, Aimee & David Coyote's Wife: an Ella Clah Novel ($14.99 US Trade) Returning to her Navajo reservation after a stint with the FBI to oversee her family's struggles to balance their modern and traditional ways of life, Ella Clah investigates an attack on a powerful Navajo politician's son.

Todd, Charles Red Door ($32.95 Trade) Investigating the death of a Lancaster woman in the summer of 1920, Scotland Yard Detective Ian Rutledge links her demise to the disappearance of a man who was wrongly believed to have gone to serve in World War I.

Tremblay, Paul No Sleep Till Wonderland ($14.00 US Trade) When his friend, Gus, asks narcoleptic detective Mark Genevich to protect a friend who his being stalked, Mark finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation and soon becomes the target of the police, a sue-happy lawyer, and a violent local bouncer

Walker, Mike Dickens Confidential (two radio plays) (CD) ($19.95) The young Charles Dickens started his career in journalism, and these two plays take an imaginative look at how his desire to bring the news to the masses could have introduced him to a world of crime and corruption. Starring Jamie Glover

Wells, Melinda Proof is in the Pudding: a Della Cooks Mystery ($7.99 US ) Murder and mayhem are on the menu during the Celebrity Cook-Off Charity Gala when a gold-digging food columnist is found dead and Della Carmichael must serve up the killer on a platter when one of her closest friends stands accused of the crime

Wishnia, Kenneth Fifth Servant ($25.99 US Cloth) To save his Jewish community in 16th-century Prague during the Inquisition, a young Talmudic scholar has only three days to discover who really killed a Christian girl found in the store of a Jewish shopkeeper, whom the authorities have brought a blood libel charge against

Wolfe, Inger Ash Taken ($21.95) Detective Inspector Hazel Micallef is recovering from a bad year, and a traumatic back operation that has left her in the care of her ex husband and his new wife. But Hazel is lured back to work when a body is pulled from a nearby lake: a discovery that eerily mirrors a disturbing story printed in the local newspaper. The author of the tale can't be found, and when gruesome, taunting clues begin to arrive Hazel realizes she's dealing with a master manipulator, a crazed soul who knows her every move

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